Lord: Sequence Master

The World's Spine in the Vast Wasteland is home to the highest mountains. It's a place of towering ancient trees, clear mountains, and beautiful waters, yet it's also the first forbidden zone of the Vast Wasteland. "One man's trash is another man's treasure," and the reverse is true too. Rosen found the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance in the Vast Wasteland's natural environment unbearable. Conversely, the elements of the Vast Wasteland struggled to withstand the pollution and corruption originating from the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit. So, when he began to absorb the external Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, the desolate land formed by the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's corrupted corpse actually started to expand.

While the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree found it difficult to convert the external Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, Rosen gradually adapted and persisted. As the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree grew taller, the range of the polluted and corrupted desolate land also expanded. Rosen diligently worked on converting the intensity ten Other Shore's Sacred Radiance from outside, while simultaneously reassembling the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's memories.

The Reincarnation Sovereign's authority left by the Will of Reincarnation contained the whispers left by the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit. These whispers could scramble and reassemble the memories of all reincarnation lives, ultimately forming the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's memories and reshaping her self-consciousness. As each memory puzzle piece was successfully reassembled, Rosen began to gradually access the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's memories.

He learned that his current location was the World's Spine of the Vast Wasteland. He also discovered that the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit was the most powerful among all Ancestral Spirits, having once established a mighty Reincarnation Ancient Kingdom in the World's Spine. Through the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's memories, he even learned the origin of the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance.

The Vast Wasteland had Three Thousand Great Daos and Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits, all without exception being naturally born Ancestral Spirit lifeforms. After their birth, these Ancestral Spirit lifeforms possessed the immense power to create worlds and forge all things. Under the Three Thousand Ancient Kingdoms were Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, 129,600 Middle Thousand Worlds, and countless Small Thousand Worlds, with even the weakest Small Thousand World being equivalent to a universe.

Though the Vast Wasteland was infinitely vast and its countless worlds incredibly magnificent, after endless ages, the Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits grew weary of everything in the Vast Wasteland. Strong beings in Small Thousand Worlds could transcend to Middle Thousand Worlds, those in Middle Thousand Worlds could transcend to Great Thousand Worlds, and those in Great Thousand Worlds could transcend to the Ancestral Spirit Source Realm, the predecessor of the Vast Wasteland. But where could the most powerful Ancestral Spirits of the Ancestral Spirit Source Realm transcend to? Forget transcendence, even the combined power of the Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits couldn't glimpse the world beyond the Ancestral Spirit Source Realm.

Ultimately, the Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits conceived a terrifying plan: like raising Gu (poisonous insects), they gathered the power of all living beings to transcend, combining the power of the Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits to form the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, which would transcend Ancestral Spirits themselves. This plan plunged all Ancestral Spirits, all Ancient Kingdoms, and all worlds into a life-or-death war. The Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit successfully survived until the end, and the war transformed the entire Ancestral Spirit Source Realm into the Vast Wasteland. By devouring the Three Thousand Great Daos of the Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits, the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit successfully fused and created the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, transcending Ancestral Spirits and Great Daos.

However, the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance not only contained the Three Thousand Great Daos but also the grievances of the countless lives in the Vast Wasteland. While the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance allowed all things to transcend and sublimate, failed transcendence was accompanied by pollution and corruption. The Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit survived the war of the Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits but failed to survive the mutational evolution of the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance. The more powerful an existence, the harder it is to undergo mutational evolution. The weaker an existence, the easier it is to undergo mutational evolution.

Rosen's successfully mutated Reincarnation Heavenly Eye, though capable of controlling intensity nine Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, ultimately derived its Other Shore's Sacred Radiance from pollution and corruption. Thus, the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance he controlled was impure, with the power of pollution and corruption outweighing the power of mutational evolution. Conversely, in the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance spread throughout the Vast Wasteland, the power of mutational evolution far surpassed the power of pollution and corruption. Because as the final survivor and victor of the Reincarnation Great Realm, as the one who fused and created the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit naturally bore the grievances of all living beings. This also resulted in most of the pollution and corruption, which evolved from these grievances, being concentrated within the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit's body.

Rosen's only way to survive now was to successfully resolve these grievances originating from all living beings. Using the power of reincarnation, he began to manipulate the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree to grow various world fruits. Then, he gradually separated the grievances clinging to the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit and integrated them into each world fruit. He used his Other Shore's Will to control the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, enhancing Karma Reincarnation, reversing karma, and allowing the grievances of all living beings to cycle backward from death to life.

As living beings revived in one world after another, the grievances of all living beings began to resolve little by little. With the dissipation of these grievances, the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, which had been gradually polluted and corrupted, began to regain vitality bit by bit. And in this process, the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree also gradually absorbed the pure Other Shore's Sacred Radiance from outside, allowing the living beings within all the world fruits to achieve an evolution of their life essence. The evolution of living beings within the worlds gradually promoted the evolution of the world fruits.

Ultimately, the evolution of the world fruits successfully allowed the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree to gradually grow and evolve.

Rosen now realized that the Ancestral Spirit Source Realm had two known paths to transcendence. These two paths were the path of transcending by eliminating all sentient beings, and the path of transcending through the transcendence of all sentient beings.

The elimination of all sentient beings was the ultimate choice of the Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits. This path itself wasn't wrong; the mistake lay in the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit underestimating the "ants" that were sentient beings. While a single "ant" might be weak, the grievances of countless "ants" were enough to be the last straw that crushed the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit. If the Three Thousand Ancestors had been gentler and slower when eliminating sentient beings, allowing their grievances to dissipate bit by bit, as long as they didn't allow the grievances to accumulate, the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit would not have failed to transcend.

Rosen could not take this path. The gap between him and the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit at her peak was too vast. Moreover, in the current Vast Wasteland, it was impossible to find three thousand Ancestral Spirits. Therefore, he could only take the other path: using the power of the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance to allow sentient beings to evolve and transcend, then having these sentient beings become his subjects, leveraging their growth and transformation. He would gather the power of infinite sentient beings to achieve his own transcendence.

Strictly speaking, this path was actually more difficult than the first. The Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits, when they first created the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, also initially had the idea of transcending via this path. However, this path was too difficult, so difficult that the Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits simply couldn't persevere. Rosen could now take this path thanks to the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, which was born from the fusion of the Three Thousand Ancestral Spirits and the Three Thousand Great Daos.

However, even if this path was viable, he now needed to prioritize resolving the grievances of sentient beings. The Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree grew amidst pollution and decay, continuously integrating the grievances of sentient beings into the Vast Wasteland. The lush mountains and green waters were gradually swallowed, but the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree itself grew better and better. Over countless years, the Vast Wasteland gradually adapted to the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance and blossomed with new vitality. This superficial appearance of lush mountains and green waters looked very good, but in reality, the entire Vast Wasteland, apart from plants, had no intelligent life born within it. This was because while the environment had adapted to the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, the self-consciousness of intelligent life had not. The grievances of sentient beings still persisted, and if this continued for countless more eons, the Vast Wasteland would still struggle to support new life.

Therefore, Rosen chose to use the growth of the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree to absorb the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance while simultaneously collecting all the grievances of sentient beings scattered throughout the Vast Wasteland. He would then resurrect them all within the world fruits growing on the tree, thereby resolving the grievances of sentient beings to the greatest extent. Once the grievances of sentient beings were gone, pollution and corruption would naturally transform into Other Shore's Sacred Radiance. When the entire Vast Wasteland no longer had any pollution and corruption, only Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, Rosen would be able to ascend to the Other Shore.

Years passed. The Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree grew amidst pollution and decay, but the world fruits on its branches shone brightly, showing no signs of pollution or decay. Countless lives within the world fruits died and were reborn, beginning entirely new lives within their respective worlds. The Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree grew without cessation, and Rosen could only rely on slumber to endure the torment of endless ages.

After hundreds of billions of years, the canopy of the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree already shaded the entire Vast Wasteland. The last inch of lush mountains and green waters was polluted and corrupted, and all the grievances of sentient beings throughout the Vast Wasteland had been absorbed by the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree. As the last bit of sentient beings' grievances was reborn within the final world fruit, the grievances of sentient beings were finally completely purified. At this point, the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, which appeared to be rotten on the surface, had all the polluted Other Shore's Sacred Radiance within its body completely purified.

In just three days, the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree was completely revitalized from its polluted and decayed state. The Vast Wasteland, which had turned into a desolate land due to pollution and corruption, now also showed renewed vitality on its surface, growing countless plants. Even various intelligent life forms naturally emerged, bathed in the embrace of the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, their self-consciousness naturally born as ages passed. The Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, once polluted by the grievances of sentient beings and capable of destroying self-consciousness, now retained only the power to enable all beings and things to transcend.

Within the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, Rosen's self-consciousness, which had slumbered for countless years, now gradually awakened, perceiving the completely renewed Vast Wasteland. At this very moment, Rosen could, if he wished, use the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance to transcend from the Ancestral Spirit realm to the Other Shore. However, looking at the vibrant and completely renewed Vast Wasteland, and at the myriad beings within each world fruit on the tree, Rosen, after long contemplation, gave up on immediate transcendence. He chose to remain in the Vast Wasteland; he chose to transcend with the Vast Wasteland.

Beyond people, there are other people; beyond heavens, there are greater heavens. As long as a world exists, there must be a larger world beyond it. Transcendence is endless. To what height must one transcend for a world to be truly the end? Rosen transcended from the Ancient God World to face the threat of the Ancient Gods. He transcended from the Primal Universe to face the threat of the Dimensional Saint Gods and Chaos Saint Gods. Finally, he transcended from the Reincarnation Great Realm because of the threat of the Will of Reincarnation. If he didn't transcend, he would die.

He had no choice but to transcend or die, so he had to walk step by step, all the way to his current position in the Vast Wasteland.

But now, there's no one in the Vast Wasteland who can threaten him. He's free to choose whether to transcend or not. In the future, if a new threat emerges in the Vast Wasteland, or if he loses interest in everything here, perhaps he'll embark on the endless path of transcendence again. However, for now, he's decided to remain in the Vast Wasteland.

Of course, staying doesn't mean stopping. He can choose whether to transcend, but the prerequisite is having the ability to transcend at any time. Nevertheless, even if he decides to transcend later, Rosen will bring the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, its endless worlds, and all their sentient beings, even the entire Vast Wasteland, with him. Since he's chosen the second path of transcendence, he won't regret his decision.

The power of transcendence wielded by the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit and the Will of Reincarnation was too extreme, too solitary.

With a thought, Rosen's self-consciousness condensed its origin into an avatar, arriving at a picturesque valley in the Vast Wasteland. Deep within the valley, in its most beautiful part, lay a decayed and shattered skeleton beside a rock wall. This was the skeleton of the Will of Reincarnation. She couldn't resist the pollution and corruption imbued with the grievances of sentient beings, failed to seize that glimmer of hope to adapt to the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance and survive, and ultimately succumbed here, dying in silent solitude.

Rosen looked at the rock wall next to the skeleton, which was covered in powerful reincarnation essence. Because of this essence, the rock wall had not decayed even after hundreds of billions of years. Carved into the rock wall were individual names and lifelike portraits. These portraits depicted men, women, old, and young. For the Will of Reincarnation to have remembered them until her death, these must have been people who were once very important to her. Over the more than one hundred thousand reincarnation epochs in the Reincarnation Great Realm, the Will of Reincarnation must have experienced a lot and met many people. But no one could walk the path of transcendence with her, so gradually, these people were buried deep in her memories. As she reached this valley, perhaps her greatest regret was no longer failing to transcend, or the impending death, but these individuals who were once so important to her, now buried deep in her memory.

Rosen looked at the Will of Reincarnation before him, as if seeing his future self. If he also chose the path of transcending by eliminating and plundering sentient beings, he would undoubtedly become a new Will of Reincarnation in the future. But he didn't want to become the Will of Reincarnation, so he would take the second path.

Rosen suddenly thought of the Space-Time Reincarnation in the Reincarnation Great Realm. Why did every Space-Time Reincarnation reset return the memories of reincarnation lives to their very beginning? Perhaps the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit had regretted her actions when she perished. It's even possible that the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit wasn't truly killed by the grievances of sentient beings utilizing the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance. If he could detect the grievances of sentient beings within the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance, could the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit truly have been completely unaware? Did the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit genuinely not notice that the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance was contaminated by the grievances of sentient beings, or had she already sensed the danger and still chose to merge with the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance? The true answer is likely known only to the Reincarnation Ancestral Spirit herself. In the memories she left behind, only the period before her demise was absent.

Rosen buried the skeletal remains of the Will of Reincarnation and placed the valley under an eternal Space-Time Reincarnation. After returning to the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, he separated his main body, which had previously merged into the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree. The Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, now an avatar, would maintain the order of all things in the Vast Wasteland for him, and continue to evolve using the Other Shore's Sacred Radiance. Only when he decided to transcend would he choose to merge his main body and avatar once more.

As for now, Rosen had something else he wanted to do even more.

Within the heart of the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, there existed a Blue Star universe, unlike all the other world fruits. Within a tiny Blue Star in a corner of that universe, Rosen returned to the exact moment he had traveled to the Ancient God World. The Space-Time Reincarnation that had enveloped Blue Star no longer existed. Blue Star's timeline would not repeat, but would instead naturally continue from this point forward.

Rosen decided to begin his new life here.

With a thought, some lives from the various worlds within the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree responded to his call. Soon, one by one, his family members appeared beside him.

Rosen paused, then took out drawing paper and a brush, deciding to create an eternal, undying family portrait. He began by drawing Madam Rose Stephanie, then Countess Susan, Fara the Blood Kin, Life Elf Alicia, as well as Li Shiqing and Lucia, Wendy, Daisy, Annika, Sonya, Elysia, Goddess of Wisdom, Little Dragon Girl, and Amy. All were meticulously rendered in the painting.

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