Day by day, Rosen used the Breath Soil Spirit Pearl to excavate all the Solar Essence embedded in the rocks.
The dark corruption of the Dark Sun completely enveloped the Great Luminous Sphere, and as time passed, the sphere grew weaker and weaker.
Rosen repeatedly attempted to contact the Great Luminous Sphere through the Main God Network, trying to force it to submit.
Yet, from beginning to end, the Great Luminous Sphere gave no response.
Instead, when it could no longer resist the dark corruption, it began actively absorbing the power of the Dark Sun, transforming into a Dark Sun Servant.
Rosen tried analyzing it with the Apocalypse Eye, but the eye couldn't penetrate the Great Luminous Sphere.
Left with no other choice, he unleashed the Golden Crow Starship to engage in a deathmatch with it.
Within days, Rosen began gaining the upper hand.
The Great Main God required immense resources to sustain its combat power—which was why most Great True Gods established Holy Courts.
If the Main God Computer hadn't been lost, the Great Luminous Sphere could have used it to create spiritual realms, sustaining a large population and absorbing civilizational fortune to maintain itself.
But without the Main God Computer, all spiritual realms had collapsed.
The Great Luminous Sphere couldn't even protect the remnants of the Main God Civilization, let alone establish a Holy Court to gather fortune.
As an intelligent lifeform, it had been bound from the start by the Main God Civilization's restrictions—dictating what it could and couldn't do.
So, it could only sleep, using endless slumber to slow its decline.
Yet, no matter how little it consumed, the passage of eons had left it severely weakened.
The energy-formed True Gods and deities it had manifested earlier were likely its final desperate struggle.
Sure enough, under the bombardment of the Golden Crow Starship, the Great Luminous Sphere grew increasingly feeble.
Finally, when its backup host body, hidden beneath the city, was destroyed by Solar Divine Flames, the Great Luminous Sphere began to dim and die.
But at the moment of its death, in a final act of defiance, it sent a message deep into the void.
Rosen couldn't intercept it in time, but he could guess—it was likely the Great Luminous Sphere's last words to the Main God Civilization.
If the Main God Civilization ever returned to the New or Old World, they would inevitably become his mortal enemies because of the Main God Computer.
As the Great Luminous Sphere perished, the Law of Retribution took effect, forming several black loot orbs.
Rosen eagerly crushed them, revealing three treasures:
A Great True God-level miracle treasure.
The Great Luminous Sphere's core—a dark matter AI chip.
A complete Virtual Law.
Normally, Laws couldn't exist independently—they had to merge with materials to form supernatural artifacts.
Yet, this Virtual Law existed on its own, refusing to return to the world.
Rosen first checked the Virtual Law for traps.
Finding none, he fused it directly into his left eye's Void Eye Technique.
Soon, the Void Eye Technique evolved, advancing to the True God level.
The virtual world within it would also evolve into a True God-level realm, given enough resources.
Then Rosen understood—why this Virtual Law could exist independently.
Because it wasn't born from the world, but from the Great Luminous Sphere's own power.
All True God lifeforms, when advancing to Great True God, had to create their own Law.
The Virtual Law was one such creation.
Since it wasn't tied to the world, it wouldn't return to it.
Rosen carefully picked up the dark matter AI chip.
This thing was potentially dangerous.
Its quality exceeded the Great True God level.
Even the Apocalypse Eye couldn't analyze a single detail about this palm-sized chip.
And the Great Luminous Sphere, though dead, might have left behind a resurrection contingency inside.
Until he fully understood it, he wouldn't recklessly study it.
Rosen sealed the dark matter AI chip layer by layer before finally examining the last miracle treasure.
[Infinite Signal Tower: Miracle Treasure]
[Level: Great True God]
[Miracle Attribute: Can transmit network signals across world barriers]
[Miracle Traits: Law Network, One and Only in Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Indestructible]
"This was made for the Main God Computer," Rosen murmured.
He immediately fused with the Miracle Stone Golem, using its spiritual essence to refine the Infinite Signal Tower.
With the enhancement of the Infinite Signal Tower, the Main God Network of the Old World could now merge with that of the New World. From then on, there would be no need to adjust the Mysterious Study Room's anchor to traverse between the two worlds—direct data transmission would allow seamless travel between them.
The unique miracle trait, Law Network, could assist the Main God Network in integrating different Laws. It could also manipulate the Laws of small worlds, severing their connection to larger worlds. For example, by using the Law Network, the Main God Network could integrate with the space-time Laws of a Spirit Realm, then sever the connection between that Spirit Realm and the New World's space-time Laws, allowing the Spirit Realm to detach and become an independent world.
The advantage of an independent world was complete autonomy—even the will of the world could not extend its perception into it. However, the drawback was that all energy consumption had to be self-sustained. If an independent world wasn't at the level of Dragon Realm, capable of drawing energy from the depths of the void, it would eventually collapse due to the constant depletion of its Spirit Realm Origin.
Thus, using the Law Network to control ordinary Spirit Realms was meaningless. If he wanted control, he had to target an independent world at the level of the Dragon Realm.
As powerful as the Infinite Signal Tower was, it could not function within the Mysterious Study Room.
So, through cross-world data transmission, Rosen sent the Infinite Signal Tower, along with his Yinglong Avatar, into the Dragon Realm.
Meanwhile, the Main God Computer began utilizing the miracle trait Law Network to gradually merge the Main God Network with the Dragon Realm's Laws. The moment this integration was complete, the Dragon Realm would be fully under his control. At that point, subduing the two Dragon Gods would be effortless.
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New World – The Floating Empire
Rosen exhausted every possible method, yet he still couldn't find any clues regarding Bloodline Divinity. With no other options, he decided to once again seek out the Eternal Will Remnant of the World Tree.
He re-entered the Spirit Realm hidden within the mural and located the stone sphere where the Eternal Will Remnant resided. The stone sphere shifted out of its crevice, and the Eternal Will Remnant emerged.
"You have yet to become a True God, which means you have another question for me," the remnant stated, seeing through Rosen's thoughts at a glance.
"I want to know how to condense a Bloodline Divinity," Rosen asked directly.
"Bloodline Divinity… It seems you've ventured into the depths of Darkness and encountered the remnants of the Ancient God." The Eternal Will Remnant scrutinized Rosen for a long time before finally speaking. "You possess the bloodline of the Primordial Human, as well as a diluted trace of the Ancient God's bloodline. The Primordial Human bloodline originates from me. The Ancient God's diluted bloodline originates from the Ancient God. However, the rank of both your bloodlines is barely at the True God level—they don't even reach the Immortal level. Unless you can regress your bloodlines to the Eternal level, you won't be able to condense a Bloodline Divinity.
"To regress the Primordial Human bloodline, you must find the Core Marrow of my true body's Heartwood. To regress the Ancient God bloodline, you must find the Ancient God's Heart. I can help you locate my Core Marrow, but as for the Ancient God's Heart—you'll have to find it yourself."
Rosen left, satisfied with his gains, while the Eternal Will Remnant once again sealed itself within the stone sphere.
The Sky-Piercing Pillar was the main trunk of the World Tree. Its center was the Heartwood, and the essence of the Heartwood was the Core Marrow. Normally, the Heartwood should have been many times harder than the outer tree trunk, but the Heartwood of the Sky-Piercing Pillar had already been destroyed. However, the Core Marrow still existed.
Though shattered, it had fused into the Sky-Piercing Pillar itself. The rock within the Sky-Piercing Pillar had the ability to regenerate and repair itself—a function that relied entirely on the power of the Core Marrow. The Core Marrow was eternal and indestructible, essentially the Transcendent Origin Substance of the World Tree.
Even though it had been shattered, over the course of endless ages, it would naturally reassemble itself. But because the shattering was too complete, a full reconstruction was no longer possible. Instead, the Core Marrow could only coalesce in fragments, forming scattered Core Marrow shards.
Finding these Core Marrow shards was nearly impossible without the help of the World Tree. Because the Core Marrow was not static—if it sensed any threat, it would instinctively flee. Thus, Rosen had to use the Small World Tree as bait to lure the Core Marrow to come to him voluntarily.
Rosen released the Small World Tree, guiding its roots deep into the rock as they continued spreading. Once the roots could extend no further, he began extracting the Heartwood of the Small World Tree.
As the Small World Tree neared death, it instinctively attempted to save itself, absorbing nutrients frantically through its roots. As time passed, traces of golden radiance were drawn toward the Small World Tree, eventually flowing into its Heartwood and condensing into Core Marrow particles.
Rosen took out a bottle carved from raw stone, carefully collecting these Core Marrow particles. Then, he injected the Core Marrow particles into his own bloodstream, gradually dissolving them using his Primordial Human bloodline.
This was destined to be a long process.
While his Primordial Human bloodline underwent ascension, he would search for the Ancient God's Heart at the same time.
According to the Eternal Will Remnant, the Ancient God's Heart actually had two.
The old heart was located in the old world and had undoubtedly been corrupted by the Dark Sun. Therefore, he could only search for the Ancient God's heart in the new world. The Ancient God had transformed his body into all things in existence, and as the most vital part, his heart couldn't possibly have become something ordinary. Without a doubt, the Ancient God's heart had transformed into an independent world.
Because the Ancient God's heart was too important—containing his original bloodline and Bloodline Divine Spark—it was essentially his vital weakness. Thus, it must have been hidden away by the Ancient God himself. Not even the World Will could know its location.
However, the one who understands a person best is always their enemy. The World Tree's knowledge of the Ancient God might even surpass the Ancient God's own understanding of himself. Therefore, the Eternal Will's Lingering Consciousness provided several methods for finding the Ancient God's heart, though how much could actually be discovered would depend on luck.
The Ancient God's ability to transform his body into all things was his most fundamental and core innate power. This meant he couldn't simply separate his heart—it, too, had to undergo this transformation. Yet, it couldn't be completely severed from the world it became part of, nor could it allow the World Will to detect it. At the same time, the world formed by his heart had to remain completely independent.
This was somewhat contradictory—how could it not be fully separated yet remain completely independent?
The answer was a miracle. The entire world formed by his heart had become a world of miracles.
Rosen hadn't understood before how miracles came into existence, but the Eternal Will's Lingering Consciousness gave him an answer.
The essence of miracles was Eternal Origin—nothing more or less than varying amounts of it.
This meant his Miracle Sequence was, in essence, a supernatural sequence that wielded Eternal Origin.
During his interactions with the remnant will, Rosen noticed that it hadn't detected his Miracle Sequence at all. This made him even more curious about its origins. Perhaps the Miracle Sequence and the Mysterious Study belonged to an unknown fourth type of Eternal existence.
If miracles were born from Eternal Origin, it was no wonder that Ancient God's True Blood could create them.
The Tenfold Annihilation alone, in theory, shouldn't have been able to produce Ancient God's True Blood.
Because, logically, there were only three possible sources for it:
First, the miracle world formed by the Ancient God's heart.
Second, the Mountain of Ten Thousand Gods, formed by the Ancient God's spine.
And third, the World Origin Sea, formed by the Ancient God's internal organs.
The Mountain of Ten Thousand Gods had already been destroyed—something that should have been fundamentally impossible.
The Eternal Will's Lingering Consciousness didn't know the mountain had been destroyed.
It was only after learning that the mountain was formed from the Ancient God's spine and understanding the power of the Great True Gods that Rosen realized their strength alone couldn't have destroyed it. Therefore, the mountain's collapse must have been related to an Eternal Lifeform.
If it wasn't the Dark Sun who destroyed it, then it must have involved the unknown fourth Eternal existence.
After the mountain's destruction, it was unlikely that the Eternal Origin within it remained.
Thus, the Mountain of Ten Thousand Gods couldn't have been the source of the Ancient God's True Blood obtained by the Tenfold Annihilation.
The World Origin Sea was also improbable. The World Government had sealed away the World Will and didn't dare enter the Origin Sea. Although the Ancient God's civilization had been powerful, the chances of them stealing Eternal Origin to create Ancient God's True Blood right under the World Will's nose were slim.
After eliminating all impossibilities, the Ancient God's True Blood generated by the Tenfold Annihilation most likely had some connection to the Ancient God's heart.
The Ancient God's civilization of that era must have discovered the miracle world formed by his heart.
Therefore, the most likely place to find clues about this miracle world was the Abyssal World.
After all, the Abyss was the only known world formed by a Great True God of the Ancient God Sequence. If even the Abyss yielded no leads, his only option would be to venture into the Endless Abyss God's Staircase, where the severed palm of that very same Great True God had once been discovered.
After arriving in the shallow layers of the Abyss, Rosen quietly used the Infinite Signal Tower to infiltrate the Abyssal World's laws.
The results were meager. Every attempt by the Main God Computer to breach the deepest layer—that sea of blood—ended in failure.
As for the Abyss's ninety-nine layers, not a single trace of the Ancient God Sequence could be found.
Ironically, it was within the remnants of the World Tree in the Abyss's first layer that he discovered signs of the World Tree's Pith Core having once been there.
Logically, removing the Pith Core should have caused that section of the branch to wither.
Yet, it remained alive.
This meant that after losing the Pith Core, some other form of Eternal Origin had taken its place, sustaining that branch's vitality. That was why it could continue producing flawed World Fruits, forming layer after layer of the Abyssal World.
Rosen didn't investigate further, fearing he might alert the Abyssal Will.
If the Endless Abyss God's Staircase yielded no answers, he could always return to risk exploring the World Tree's remnants later.
(End of Chapter)