Lord: Sequence Master

In the Reincarnation Great Realm, all Reincarnation Elect returned to their respective universes. They already knew that Rosen's immortal will, fused with pollution and corruption, was about to be planted within them. They even knew that their own self-consciousness would become nourishment for this pollution and corruption.

Naturally, no one would willingly seek death under normal circumstances, but they had no other choice. The lunatic, the Will of Reincarnation, had cut off all retreat for the Reincarnation Great Realm. The Reincarnation Great Realm was now a powder keg, liable to be completely destroyed by pollution and corruption at any moment. Should that happen, falling into the Vast Wasteland would mean facing even more terrifying pollution and corruption.

Rosen hadn't left them without a lifeline. Each person had a portion of their immortal will uploaded to the Destiny Network, integrated into the Emperor's Will as a backup. Even if their true selves ultimately became nourishment for Rosen's immortal will, they at least had a chance of resurrection through their backed-up immortal will. As long as they possessed existential and utilitarian value, they wouldn't have to worry about Rosen not resurrecting them in the future. If Rosen himself couldn't survive, at least they wouldn't have to fall into the Vast Wasteland and could die more swiftly in the Reincarnation Great Realm.

Of course, these were absolutely rational thoughts. Not all Reincarnation Elect could maintain such absolute rationality. Many Reincarnation Elect developed the idea that if they couldn't live, no one else should either, or even preferred death over benefiting Rosen. Some were unwilling to compromise and endure, preferring a glorious death to a prolonged, ignoble existence.

However, this segment of reincarnation life didn't manage to stir much trouble before their demise. Firstly, the Emperor's Will naturally suppressed the power of the Reincarnation Elect by more than half. Secondly, there was a crushing power gap between transcendent and ordinary reincarnation beings. Finally, Rosen gave them no opportunity to band together; all resistors were individually defeated by him and his several transcendent avatars. With examples made and logic laid bare, the remaining Reincarnation Elect had no choice but to accept their fate.

As each seed took root and sprouted, the original 0.1 intensity of pollution and corruption was further diluted by over two billion times. While it could still erode the self-consciousness of reincarnation life, these lives now possessed the ability to resist. Even the resigned reincarnation lifeforms found it hard to bear the torment of pollution and corruption on their self-consciousness. This pain surpassed all known suffering in the world. Watching their self-consciousness being eroded bit by bit, fear and despair would gradually accumulate. Even more terrifying was that in this slow, agonizing death, they had no right to commit suicide. This was because suicide would not provide enough nourishment, preventing the seeds from growing properly. Furthermore, the immortal will itself possessed terrifying regenerative and restorative abilities, which made countless Reincarnation Elect unable to live or die as they wished.

Time flew by like flowing water, and one reincarnation epoch passed. Of the over two billion Reincarnation Elect, fewer than a handful remained alive. All the rest had perished, and the fruits born from their immortal wills as nourishment became the sustenance for Rosen's immortal will to grow.

Deep within the void of the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, a vast ocean floated before Rosen's eyes. This was an ocean formed by the aggregation of countless immortal wills, and it was filled with immense power of pollution and corruption. If its intensity was originally 0.1, it had now reached 1. Although still insufficient to confront pollution and corruption at the level of the insect swarm, it was no longer a problem to interact with the three gu-raising grounds created by Yuanshi Tianwang and the others. Once the pollution and corruption power of the three gu-raising grounds was completely assimilated, he could finally attempt to devour the insect swarm and control its pollution and corruption.

With a thought from Rosen, the boundless ocean of immortal will before him condensed into a single droplet, floating before his eyes. The four forces within these immortal wills were still not entirely stable. However, they were no longer as unstable as they were initially, because the structure of the four forces had now changed. Since the power of pollution and corruption, when integrated, would disrupt the perfect balance of the other three, the solution was actually very simple: divide the pollution and corruption into three parts, and let each part separately fuse with self-consciousness, life origin, and spiritual origin. This would allow for the re-establishment of a perfect triangular balance. The sacrifice of countless reincarnation lives over these years was precisely to facilitate the fusion of pollution and corruption with self-consciousness.

Currently, life origin and divine origin have completely merged and coexisted with the power of pollution and corruption at intensity one. Only self-consciousness can still barely resist pollution and corruption, and can only barely coexist with it through the immortal will's trinity. As for achieving symbiotic fusion and mutual benefit, it remains impossible for now.

The symbiotic fusion of pollution and corruption with life origin successfully prompted the evolution of the Dark Sun Heavenly Eye. Then, the symbiotic fusion with spiritual origin brought about the transformation and evolution of the Eye of Nightfall. These two were originally products researched by the Will of Reincarnation based on the power of pollution and corruption. Now, with the integration of pollution and corruption, once the transformation and evolution are complete, it's even possible for extraordinary organs to emerge that transcend the known realm beyond reincarnation.

One reincarnation epoch ended, and it should have activated Space-Time Reincarnation to begin a new epoch. However, this time, Space-Time Reincarnation did not activate. This was because the inner, dark side and the outer, bright side of the Reincarnation Great Realm had developed repulsion due to immense karmic resentment. The Reincarnation Sovereign's authority originating from the dark side, whose core immune system was already tied up by the insect swarm, had insufficient remaining power to trigger Space-Time Reincarnation in the surface Reincarnation Great Realm. Thus, Space-Time Reincarnation, which had existed for over a hundred thousand reincarnation epochs, failed for the first time.

Each time Space-Time Reincarnation occurred, the Reincarnation Great Realm would become weaker, but this weakening was akin to "scraping bone to treat poison." Now that Space-Time Reincarnation has stopped, the Reincarnation Great Realm will not only not weaken further in the short term but will actually become stronger. However, correspondingly, the degree of pollution and corruption will gradually intensify, and in the long run, it will only accelerate its demise as the "poison reaches the bone marrow."

Rosen's gaze swept past the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, then directly crossed the surface of the Reincarnation Great Realm to its inner layer. Ever since the Will of Reincarnation merged Blue Star into the dark side of the Reincarnation Great Realm, using Blue Star to compensate for the dark side's loss after separating from the surface Reincarnation Great Realm, the Will of Reincarnation had been seizing the opportunity to strip away the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority. After one reincarnation epoch, she was close to succeeding.

However, the Will of Reincarnation's condition was very poor; the pollution and corruption within her body were becoming uncontrollable. The pollution and corruption, originally sealed within her body, had now spread to her surface. Half of the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority on the dark side of the Reincarnation Great Realm was inextricably fused with the great existence's self-consciousness. Even though the self-consciousness had weakened to mere instinct, stripping away the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority was no easy feat. The Will of Reincarnation could only succeed because her own spiritual origin was of the same root and origin as the great existence. But this also inevitably exposed her directly to pollution and corruption of intensity nine. Even the great existence's self-consciousness was eroded by this level of pollution and corruption, let alone the Will of Reincarnation's self-consciousness. Thus, the countdown to the Will of Reincarnation's death had begun. Rosen estimated that in a few tens of billions of years, the Will of Reincarnation's self-consciousness would inevitably be eroded by pollution and corruption of intensity nine.

The Will of Reincarnation played such a dangerous game, and as she claimed, it was to give him the other half of the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority. "When a man is about to die, his words are good." Sometimes, he suspected he was too suspicious.

Rosen took out three thousand portions of transcendent resources and integrated them into the immortal will that had fused with intensity one pollution and corruption. Under the nourishment and sublimation of these transcendent resources, the immortal will quickly transformed into a transcendent avatar. Although his own immortal will now controlled intensity one pollution and corruption, he had yet to integrate this part of the immortal will into his true body. This was because, until he was one hundred percent certain of its safety, his true body would absolutely not come into contact with pollution and corruption.

Rosen sent his avatar into the gu-raising ground formed by Pangu. Among the three gu-raising grounds, this was the weakest. In Blue Star's creation god system, Pangu was one of the few creation gods who perished during the creation of heaven and earth. Relatively speaking, Yuanshi Tianwang and Yinglong showed far greater power in their creation myths.

Since it was also intensity one pollution and corruption, Rosen's avatar thrived within the gu-raising ground. There was absolutely no danger; it simply rapidly absorbed the pollution and corruption power within it and Pangu's origin. During this absorption process, Rosen discovered that what Pangu controlled was not the immortal will system. Instead, it was the Heaven, Earth, and Man (天地人) system. The world formed by Pangu possessed three powers: Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, and Human Dao. Heavenly Dao was composed of the natural laws of all things in the world, Earthly Dao was the material foundation of the world, and Human Dao was the collective will of all sentient beings. The fusion of these three powers could form Pangu's Will, which was no less powerful than the immortal will. Pangu's Will did not possess the powerful regeneration and recovery capabilities of the immortal will but could significantly enhance control over the world.

As Rosen's avatar gradually devoured the world formed by Pangu, the power of pollution and corruption within his avatar grew stronger, quickly breaking through the intensity one limit to reach intensity two. This also prompted the immortal will to undergo further strengthening, using Pangu's Will as nourishment.

Millions of years later, the gu-raising ground that Pangu had transformed into was completely consumed by the avatar. Rosen's avatar immediately moved to the gu-raising ground that Yinglong had transformed into. Like Pangu, the world that Yinglong had transformed into also possessed a trinity of powers, and it was one he was very familiar with: the trinity of Creation, Transformation, and Annihilation.

Creation corresponded to the Heavenly Dao and spiritual origin, Transformation to the Earthly Dao and life origin, and Annihilation to pollution and corruption and self-consciousness. Rosen used these three powers as nourishment, successfully prompting a further transformation in the avatar's immortal will. Although Yinglong's world was even stronger than Pangu's, the avatar's pollution and corruption intensity was two. Consuming the intensity one pollution and corruption of Yinglong's gu-raising ground was almost effortless. Unconsciously, the transformation of the immortal will within the avatar entered a snowballing mode. In just a few hundred thousand years, the avatar had completely consumed Yinglong's world, increasing the intensity of pollution and corruption to three.

When the avatar finally entered the world that Yuanshi Tianwang had transformed into, as expected, this world also possessed a trinity of powers. Yuanshi Tianwang's most skilled power was "One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones" (一气化三清). Led by Yuanshi Tianzun, he separated into two avatars, Daode Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun. These three avatars could gather and disperse at will, merging perfectly while also being independent.

As Rosen's avatar consumed this world, he discovered that "One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones" was an extraordinary power that transcended even Reincarnation Sacred Arts. So far, including Space-Time Reincarnation and Karma Reincarnation, all had been Reincarnation Sacred Arts. It seemed that the entire Reincarnation Great Realm contained no extraordinary skills beyond the Reincarnation level. This was clearly abnormal. Transcendent beings existed, yet there were no extraordinary skills beyond the Transcendent level. The only explanation Rosen could think of was that the great existence intentionally set these restrictions because the birth of overly powerful existences within the Reincarnation Great Realm would threaten the great existence. However, it was evident that Yuanshi Tianwang's "One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones" broke this restriction. This was something that should be utterly impossible to achieve within the Reincarnation Great Realm. Therefore, Rosen suspected that Yuanshi Tianwang might have left the Reincarnation Great Realm and visited the Vast Wasteland.

As the avatar completely consumed the vast wasteland that Yuanshi Tianwang had transformed into, Rosen's avatar also mastered "One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones." He could now divide his immortal will into three, forming three completely independent yet perfectly merged avatars. Among them, the avatar formed by self-consciousness served as the main one, while the avatars formed by life origin and spiritual origin served as auxiliary. All three avatars had integrated the power of pollution and corruption, successfully dividing the pollution and corruption power within them into three as well.

After consuming the world transformed by Yuanshi Tianwang, the avatar's mastery of pollution and corruption had reached intensity 4. Although the immortal will was also growing, self-consciousness was finding it difficult to control pollution and corruption of this intensity. However, when "One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones" divided the immortal will into three, the pollution and corruption also split into three, greatly reducing the harm to self-consciousness. This allowed self-consciousness, whose growth rate couldn't keep up with the increase in pollution and corruption intensity, to easily merge and control intensity 4 pollution and corruption.

Rosen was originally worried that even after consuming the three gu-raising grounds, he wouldn't be able to directly face the insect swarm's intensity five pollution and corruption. After all, "swallowing the strong with the weak"—no one knew better than him how terrifyingly difficult it was. If he hadn't sacrificed all the Reincarnation Elect, it would have been impossible to increase the pollution and corruption from intensity 0.1 to one. The Reincarnation Great Realm had no more nourishment that could allow him to raise the intensity 4 pollution and corruption to intensity five. So, after facing the insect swarm directly, he could only use the "serpent swallowing the elephant" method—using intensity four pollution and corruption to consume intensity five pollution and corruption. The chance of success could not be called zero, but it was very close to zero.

However, with "One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones," Rosen's chance of "serpent swallowing the elephant" success skyrocketed to over ninety percent.

Seeing that the gu-raising ground formed by Yuanshi Tianwang had also disappeared, Haotian Shangdi unhesitatingly stepped into the insect swarm universe, which trapped the swarm. Haotian Shangdi was also one of the creation gods. After entering the insect swarm universe, he also unhesitatingly transformed his body into a world. The insect swarm universe, originally a starry cosmos, was forcefully reshaped by Haotian Shangdi into the Heaven, Earth, and Human Realms. All insect swarms were divided into three, reducing their overall threat by at least three times.

Rosen didn't know the exact relationship between the Will of Reincarnation and Haotian Shangdi and the others, but for them to unhesitatingly sacrifice themselves to pave the way for him was something he could absolutely not do. If he dared to ask Nightfall Sovereign to sacrifice himself, Nightfall Sovereign would rather die biting him.

While growing even more wary of the Will of Reincarnation, Rosen controlled his avatar to enter the insect swarm universe, starting to consume the swarm from the Heavenly Realm. The insect swarm originated from the great existence's corpse, and the sentient beings of the Reincarnation Great Realm originated from the great existence's spiritual origin. Both were fundamentally from the same root. As Rosen's avatar consumed the insect swarm, the intensity of the pollution and corruption within himself also began to increase. As the first wave of the insect swarm was swallowed, and as the pollution and corruption intensity rose from four to five, the transformation of the Dark Sun Heavenly Eye and the Eye of Nightfall, which the avatar controlled, finally crossed their last threshold.