Lord: Sequence Master

Within the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, Rosen felt his eyes slowly disappearing. Not just his eyes, but also the eyes of Nightfall Sovereign and Dark Sun Sovereign, and all beings who possessed the Eye of Nightfall and Dark Sun Heavenly Eye, all lost these two ocular techniques in that instant. This was because these two pairs of eyes now possessed an unshareable uniqueness.

Rosen instantly regenerated his eyes, then perceived his avatar, far away in the Insect Swarm Universe. At this moment, both of the avatar's eyes had completely transformed as the intensity of pollution and corruption reached five. The two powers, Nightfall and Dark Sun, researched by the Will of Reincarnation, inherently originated from the insect swarm. Therefore, after the avatar consumed one-third of the Heavenly Realm's insect swarm, the transformation of the two ocular techniques was a natural progression.

Reincarnation Heavenly Eye: Ancestral Spirit Organ

Attribute: Can control Other Shore's Sacred Radiance of intensity five.

Characteristics: Reincarnation Source Body, Nightfall Reincarnation, Other Shore's Will (incomplete).

Rosen hadn't expected the Eye of Nightfall and Dark Sun Heavenly Eye to merge. Simultaneously, he learned that after Reincarnation came Transcendent Reincarnation, after Transcendent Reincarnation came Ancestral Spirit, and finally, after Ancestral Spirit came the Other Shore. These were all the currently known extraordinary ranks. The great existence whose consciousness sea transformed into the Reincarnation Great Realm was only at the Ancestral Spirit realm during her lifetime. And the power that caused an Ancestral Spirit realm existence to be contaminated and corrupted was the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance of intensity ten. All Ancestral Spirits control the source of a power, the true source. If categorized by the source of power controlled, the great existence could perhaps be called a Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit.

Rosen had now, through consuming the insect swarm, successfully gained control of the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye, which originated from the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit. With this Ancestral Spirit organ, his body would gradually transform into a Reincarnation Source Body. The greatest benefit of controlling a Reincarnation Source Body is that everything about oneself possesses the power of infinite reincarnation, only increasing and never decreasing. Even an Other Shore existence, powerful enough to transcend Ancestral Spirits, used the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance to contaminate and corrupt everything about the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit. However, even after the long millennia of over a hundred thousand reincarnation epochs, nothing about the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit had increased or decreased, and this might even include the self-consciousness destroyed by the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance.

That's right, Rosen suspected that the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's self-consciousness was not destroyed at all. It merely transformed from one form to another. For example, if a person's hundred years of memories were divided into one hundred parts, each representing one year, then one hundred self-consciousnesses would form. But ultimately, these one hundred self-consciousnesses are all part of that person's original self-consciousness. The Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit might be similar, except that the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's self-consciousness was divided into countless portions. Every naturally born reincarnation life within every universe of the Reincarnation Great Realm might inherently inherit a dispersed portion of the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's memories. These memories constitute the self-consciousness of different reincarnation lives, allowing each reincarnation life to be born with innate knowledge.

If this were truly the case, both he and the Will of Reincarnation had underestimated the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit. They thought the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit was easily contaminated and corrupted, believing that the self-consciousness of the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit hidden in the inner layer of the Reincarnation Great Realm had collapsed, leaving only instinct. In reality, that might only be the portion of self-consciousness that was contaminated and corrupted, while another intact portion of self-consciousness was dispersed into the surface Reincarnation Great Realm, transforming into countless reincarnation lives.

If this were truly the case, wouldn't the Emperor's Will, by encompassing the wills of all lives, be indirectly reassembling the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's self-consciousness? Rosen didn't even have time to examine the subsequent characteristics of the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye and immediately cautiously inspected the Emperor's Will. After a careful check, ensuring that the Emperor's Will had not gone out of control, he breathed a sigh of relief. He realized he was being overly anxious. Even if everything was as he suspected, it wouldn't be that easy for the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit to reassemble its self-consciousness.

This is because self-consciousness originates from memory, and it must be coherent and orderly memory. If memories are fragmented and discontinuous, a being's self-consciousness will split. Some ordinary people seem like different individuals after losing their memory precisely because the memories that constituted their original self-consciousness became hidden. Even if the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit distributed its memories among all reincarnation lifeforms, these memories could not be complete; otherwise, reincarnation lifeforms would certainly have a quite clear understanding of the Vast Wasteland, yet the fact is that reincarnation lifeforms know nothing about the Vast Wasteland. Therefore, even if the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's self-consciousness was indeed fragmented, it must have been fragmented into countless pieces. Not by year, but by second, infinitely disassembling, scrambling, and reassembling the memories of its vast ages. To reassemble the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's self-consciousness, one must reassemble the scrambled memory puzzle.

Rosen temporarily put his mind at ease and continued to examine the remaining two characteristics of the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye. If the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye was an extraordinary organ inherently possessed by the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit, born after his avatar consumed one-third of the insect swarm and after the evolution of the true face of pollution and corruption—the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance—then Nightfall Reincarnation should be a characteristic not originally possessed by the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye. This is because this characteristic originated from the Will of Reincarnation, from her research into the power to resist pollution and corruption. 

Nightfall Reincarnation is simple: it ensures that self-consciousness isn't contaminated and corrupted by the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance. However, this protection isn't absolute. It depends on the intensity of the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance that the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye can control. Since it can only control intensity five for now, Nightfall Reincarnation can only resist the pollution and corruption caused by failed mutational evolution of Other Shore's Sacred Radiance at intensity five. If it's intensity six pollution and corruption, Nightfall Reincarnation can barely resist a bit. But against intensity seven, its effect is minimal.

Rosen finally examined the Other Shore's Will (incomplete) characteristic. Usually, the weakest characteristic isn't necessarily ranked first, but the last one is always the strongest, as the final miracle characteristic is often the core one. Originally, Reincarnation Source Body should have been the core characteristic of the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye. Now, Other Shore's Will (incomplete) has surpassed it, and the mere words "Other Shore" are enough for Rosen to take it seriously.

After a detailed understanding, Rosen gained a deeper insight into the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance. First, what exactly is the Other Shore? From the perspective of an extraordinary being, the world beyond the heavens is the Other Shore they yearn for. Similarly, higher realms are also the Other Shore for extraordinary beings. Finally, achieving a state of neither birth nor death, nirvana, and immortality is also the Other Shore. So, it's clear that the Other Shore isn't absolute, which is what makes the Other Shore realm so unique.

Rosen previously thought that pollution and corruption destroyed self-consciousness. Now he understands that's not the case. Even if the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance's mutational evolution fails, what's corrupted is the body, the life origin, and the spiritual origin. It causes no harm to self-consciousness. So the truth is that self-consciousness disappears, rather than being destroyed. All the disappeared self-consciousness is sent by the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance to the world beyond the heavens. Of course, this isn't a good thing. The Other Shore's Sacred Radiance can only send self-consciousness beyond the heavens. If the body successfully undergoes mutational evolution under the power of the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance and transcends the heavens with it, that's fine. But if the body's mutational evolution fails, then self-consciousness is left to go it alone.

However, it's obvious that the world beyond the heavens isn't a peaceful sanctuary. If only self-consciousness transcends to the Other Shore, it's essentially a gamble with uncertain life and death. That's why the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit would rather resist the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance at all costs than abandon everything and simply have her self-consciousness transcend. Rosen could understand the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's thinking because this is a common trait among all powerful extraordinary life. The more powerful an existence, the less it can tolerate leaving its future to chance; the more it desires to hold its own life and death in its own hands. The Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit likely viewed the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance as a whetstone, hoping to become an Other Shore realm existence in the Vast Wasteland. Then, with the strength gained from reaching the Other Shore, she would naturally and perfectly transcend the Vast Wasteland. But the result shows the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit failed.

The Other Shore's Will (incomplete) that Rosen now controls originates from the immortal will fused with pollution and corruption. The Other Shore's Sacred Radiance component within the pollution and corruption successfully caused the immortal will to undergo a transformation, making it possible to directly reach the Other Shore realm, surpassing the Ancestral Spirit realm. However, this is only a seed of the Other Shore's Will; whether it can truly form the complete Other Shore's Will in the future remains uncertain.

Rosen impatiently ordered his avatar to continue consuming the insect swarm, further strengthening the intensity of the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance within his immortal will. Although the Other Shore's Will was still just a seed, if he were to fully activate the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance within the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye at any cost, he could temporarily sublimate his immortal will into the Other Shore's Will, thereby gaining control of the Other Shore's Will's power for a very brief moment. This was currently his strongest trump card, and he hoped no one would force him to use it. Because it's a pyrrhic victory—harming himself significantly to defeat an enemy—which is somewhat unacceptable to him.

The avatar, having successfully mastered the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye, could temporarily mutate and evolve all things by controlling the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance. Directly mutating and evolving life origin and spiritual origin would be seeking death, with a success rate infinitesimally close to zero. However, using the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance to mutate and evolve Reincarnation Sacred Arts could easily allow them to jump up one level. This was also a minor trump card, with the drawback of consuming Other Shore's Sacred Radiance. Unlike the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's power, which can infinitely cycle with no increase or decrease, the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, while a higher-level power, does increase and decrease. Rosen doesn't have a second Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's corpse to serve as nourishment for the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance.

In just a few tens of thousands of years, Rosen's avatar swept through all the insect swarms. The intensity of the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance had reached nine, making him qualified to interact with the pollution and corruption on the dark side of the Reincarnation Great Realm. After his avatar returned, Rosen immediately completely dissolved it and thoroughly merged it with his main body. He had hesitated many times over the years about whether to completely retrieve the avatar.

Ultimately, he decided to completely integrate the avatar into his main body because if the avatar continued to grow, it would become too powerful for his main body to control. He didn't want to be killed by his avatar one day, and he could only feel secure if his main body controlled the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance. The fusion of the main body and the avatar should have been simple, but this time, the fusion was extremely difficult. This was because the avatar's immortal will had merged with the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, while Rosen's main body's immortal will had not. So, in the end, the avatar's immortal will actually swallowed the main body's immortal will. However, this doesn't mean the avatar replaced the main body, because, relative to the immortal will, the self-consciousness formed by memories is the key to determining who the main body is.

Rosen completely erased the avatar's memories and injected his main body's memories into it through the fusion of their immortal wills. He had finally completely merged with the avatar, simultaneously mastering the "One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones" at the Ancestral Spirit realm.

While everything proceeded smoothly for Rosen, things were not going well for the Will of Reincarnation. The Reincarnation Sovereign's authority within the inner layer of the Reincarnation Great Realm had almost been stripped away, but Rosen's avatar destroyed the insect swarm universe and annihilated the swarm too quickly. As a result, the immune system freed itself and locked onto the Will of Reincarnation.

However, the Will of Reincarnation had anticipated this situation. She directly used her prepared contingencies to destroy the World Crystal Wall's channel entrance, which Nüwa had sacrificed herself to repair. The surging insect swarm outside poured into the Reincarnation Great Realm through the newly reappeared gap. At its peak, the insect swarm formed from the pollution and corruption of the entire Reincarnation Source Body was in no way weaker than a Reincarnation Universe in overall power. If not for the power being dispersed among countless insects, the Reincarnation Great Realm might not have been able to withstand the swarm.

The strength of the individual insects within the swarm varied; the strongest batch had already been released into the Reincarnation Great Realm to become nourishment for the Other Shore's Will. The remaining weaker swarms, while of lower quality, were at least a hundred times more numerous and powerful than the swarm annihilated in the insect swarm universe. An ant queen can suppress an ant colony, but that doesn't mean she can withstand ten or a hundred times the number of ordinary ants. The same applied to the insect swarm. Although the second wave of pollution and corruption that entered generally had an intensity of only four, their numbers were truly astonishing. The endless influx of the swarm reactivated the immune system, buying the Will of Reincarnation more time.

Stripping away the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority was only the first step. This authority ultimately depended on the Reincarnation Great Realm. Without the Reincarnation Great Realm, the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority would be worthless. The Will of Reincarnation's true goal was actually to control the immune system through the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority.

Rosen, now controlling Other Shore's Sacred Radiance of intensity nine, faced the incoming pollution and corruption of intensity four. He continuously reversed the pollution and corruption into Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, and his Reincarnation Source Body also gradually transformed towards the Ancestral Spirit realm by devouring the insect swarm.

However, just as the transformation was about to be completed, Rosen stopped and inhibited the Reincarnation Source Body's transformation. Using the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority, he tore open the space-time barrier between the surface and inner worlds of the Reincarnation Great Realm. When Rosen saw the Will of Reincarnation, he immediately perceived her undisguised, crazed killing intent. Indeed, his guess was correct, and the Will of Reincarnation was no longer pretending.

"You are the self-consciousness of the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit," Rosen stated with certainty.

"Since you've already mastered the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye, you must also know my true purpose," the Will of Reincarnation said, smiling with satisfaction as she looked at Rosen's eyes.

"What you truly wanted was to use me to create a Reincarnation Source Body capable of controlling the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance," Rosen said, revealing his guess. "And you succeeded!"

Having mastered the characteristic of Other Shore's Will, he had gained a deep understanding of the will of Ancestral Spirits. Ancestral Spirits do not possess immortal will; they only have Ancestral Spirit will, which is fused with the power of reincarnation. Unlike the immortal will's trinity, Ancestral Spirit will, when separated from the Reincarnation Source Body, is probably like water without a source or a tree without roots. Precisely because it needs a reliance, the Will of Reincarnation created the immortal will, a trinity with no weaknesses. But making Ancestral Spirit will into a tripartite immortal will is easier said than done. Without a Reincarnation Source Body of the same level, how could it fuse? Therefore, to enable Ancestral Spirit will to successfully transform and master the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, a seed had to be cultivated.

He was that seed, the seed painstakingly cultivated by the Will of Reincarnation. Whether it could be successfully cultivated was completely unknown. His immortal will truly mastering the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance could be considered an unrepeatable miracle. Precisely because the Will of Reincarnation wasn't entirely confident, she chose to subtly lay out her plans without exerting too much influence. She merely created opportunities for him, leaving the rest entirely to him. If he succeeded, that would be great. If he failed, the Will of Reincarnation would simply cultivate a new seed.

Over a hundred thousand reincarnation epochs, he was probably not the first seed. However, he must have been the only successful one; otherwise, the Will of Reincarnation wouldn't be showing her true colors now.

The Will of Reincarnation desired everything he had, and he desired everything of the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit to become the new Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit. There was no room for compromise between them. The most terrifying thing was that the Will of Reincarnation didn't care who won or lost. Although Rosen concluded that the Will of Reincarnation was a manifestation of the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's self-consciousness, she certainly wasn't a manifestation of the complete self-consciousness. Therefore, there must be a significant difference between the Will of Reincarnation and the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit. The Will of Reincarnation's suicidal desire, born from having lived too long, was very likely real.