On the Doomsday Ark, Rosen manipulated the structure of the deck to reconfigure it into a hot spring pool.
He released the Wisdom Relic and set it by the pool. From the Wisdom Bottle, a continuous stream of Wisdom Springwater flowed out.
But that wasn't all—Rosen also released the Eternal Sacred Flame to heat the Wisdom Springwater.
During the heating process, the purest essence of the Eternal Fire Source also fused into the Wisdom Springwater.
The Fire Source Seed governs all kinds of fate, with the most central aspect being the fate of civilization—and at the heart of civilization lies both wisdom and savagery. Thus, the Eternal Fire Source could greatly enhance the effect of the Wisdom Springwater in increasing one's wisdom.
Rosen lay in the hot spring pool, facing the statue of the Goddess of Wisdom, which was formed from the Wisdom Relic.
Since the time it had once smashed him with the Wisdom Bottle, this statue had gone back to playing dead, motionless.
In the past, he couldn't see through the illusion, but now, with mastery over Eternal Omniscience, he could perceive the true nature hidden within the Goddess of Wisdom.
This was also an Immortal Godfiend—an Immortal Godfiend who possessed the Wisdom Source Seed.
Within the Goddess of Wisdom's body was a terrifying curse that forcibly petrified her into a statue that could not move.
Even if the Goddess of Wisdom exerted all her strength, she could only momentarily suppress the curse and break free from the petrification.
To be forced into such a dire situation, it was almost certainly due to a curse originating from an Eternal Being.
Although the petrification curse was dreadful, the Goddess of Wisdom had resisted it for countless years, gradually wearing away most of it.
If Rosen were willing to help, it wouldn't be difficult for him to assist the Goddess of Wisdom in escaping the petrification in a short time.
The Eternal Radiance could incinerate all things, and the Eternal Fire could strengthen the power of her Wisdom Source Seed.
Furthermore, the Procreation Source Seed could target the petrification curse directly, continually giving birth to smaller sub-curses from it.
Any form of birth inevitably takes a toll on the "mother body."
Rosen only needed to cooperate with the Goddess of Wisdom from within and without—it would not be difficult to help her break free from the petrification curse.
The Eternal Radiance transformed into golden flames, enveloping the statue of the Goddess of Wisdom. The Eternal Immortal Vine coiled upward from her ankles, and the Eternal Procreation Source, through the transformation of the vine, penetrated her body, quickly forming countless densely packed serpent eggs inside her.
These serpent eggs were far smaller than subatomic particles—so small that even Rosen's immortal will could barely detect them.
This was the most unique trait of the Void Serpent Eggs born of the Eternal Serpent Mother: every egg innately contained a vast space within a speck. Not only did the eggs internally form their own space, the Void Serpents hatched from them naturally inherited void-related talents.
As the petrification curse inside her body came into contact with the Eternal Procreation Source, it instantly became nourishment for the Void Serpent Eggs.
Inside the eggs, one by one, Void Serpents carrying the petrification curse began to be born.
Once hatched, all the Void Serpents immediately returned to the Serpent Mother Gourd through the void, carrying the eggs with them.
The Goddess of Wisdom, gradually shedding the curse, slowly returned from petrification to a normal flesh-and-blood body.
When she slowly opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was Rosen, stark naked, soaking in the hot spring.
On instinct, the Goddess of Wisdom hurled the Wisdom Bottle at Rosen, but this time, he casually raised his hand and blocked it.
Watching the Goddess of Wisdom flee in a fluster, Rosen casually reclaimed the Wisdom Bottle—the core of the Wisdom Relic—back into the Miracle Sequence Extraordinary Source Essence.
Under the endless flow of wisdom energy within the hot spring, time began to silently accelerate.
Only after several years had passed in the accelerated zone and the power of wisdom had been fully consumed did Rosen reluctantly climb out of the spring.
Outside the time-accelerated area, however, only two days had passed.
The Goddess of Wisdom had already recovered from the extreme weakness that followed her de-petrification and gradually restored her strength to the level of a True God.
To fully recover, even with sufficient resources, would still take at least several hundred years.
When Rosen found the Goddess of Wisdom in the kitchen, she was holding a pile of fruits, cheeks puffed out as she devoured them.
You could tell she was truly famished—who knew how many years she had been sealed without eating anything. Though she wouldn't die from hunger, the craving alone could kill.
"I saved you." Rosen sat across from her at the table and spoke bluntly.
"I saved you too." The Goddess of Wisdom glared at Rosen and snapped back.
"And yet you ate my fruit. These are all divine, rare fruits imbued with godhood." Rosen pointed at the table full of fruit pits.
"So stingy. I know what you want to know." The Goddess of Wisdom bit her lip, and a few drops of blood flowed out. The golden-red blood formed characters in the air, which began to slowly fade. Only the power of the Wisdom Seed could allow such blood-script to briefly linger in the world.
Rosen recorded all of it in the Hidden Brass Tome. The origins of the Goddess of Wisdom were even grander than he had imagined.
Though the Goddess of Wisdom was merely an immortal godfiend, her mother deity was Wisdom.
The Eternal Being of Life named Wisdom—an eternal entity bearing the name of wisdom itself.
Though her combat prowess couldn't rival the First Tier like the Ancient Gods, when it came to intellect, there was none across the universe who could compare.
However, wisdom was no match for brute strength. Wisdom was hunted down by other Eternal Beings and eventually forced to flee into the world of the Ancient Gods. When the Ancient Gods awakened, they struck down both intruders. Before dying, Wisdom used the Eternal Procreation Source to give birth to the Goddess of Wisdom.
Then, Wisdom personally used the Eternal Petrification Source to seal the Goddess of Wisdom in stone.
Of course, such a seal shouldn't have been able to deceive the Ancient Gods.
Even the Goddess of Wisdom herself didn't know why, after slaying Wisdom, the Ancient God didn't completely eradicate her.
Rosen couldn't figure it out either, so he simply chose not to think about it. The more things I go through, the more I understand that many events defy logic.
Only the Ancient Gods themselves knew what they were thinking. Guessing someone else's mind is pointless unless you understand them deeply.
The more Rosen communicated with the Goddess of Wisdom, the more he realized she was a treasure trove.
The Eternal Being Wisdom was undoubtedly one of the Eternal Beings who understood the universe best.
The Goddess of Wisdom had inherited Wisdom's Wisdom Seed. And due to the unique properties of that seed, it had passed on Wisdom's memories to her. However, limited by her own strength, the majority of those memories were still sealed.
As the Goddess of Wisdom grew stronger, more of those memories would resurface.
Rosen placed the Goddess of Wisdom inside the Mysterious Study Room. She moved directly into a spiritual realm painting hanging on the wall.
The Goddess needed to fall into slumber to accelerate the digestion of the divine energy she had consumed.
But before sleeping, the Goddess of Wisdom gifted Rosen a Wisdom Seed.
Just like the Miracle Seed, the Wisdom Seed could also be divided.
According to her knowledge, the number of identical source seeds ranged from a minimum of one to a maximum of nine.
The source seeds condensed by immortal godfiends were unique and couldn't be split.
Those wielded by Eternal Beings could split into no fewer than three and no more than nine.
Both the Wisdom Seed and the Procreation Seed could be divided into up to six parts.
Rosen's Procreation Seed couldn't split because it had suffered devastating damage from an Ancient God. Over countless years, it had been constantly wearing away the Eternal Plunder Source left behind by the Ancient God. It had become so weakened that it could no longer be divided.
Though the Wisdom Seed had also sustained considerable damage, splitting it into two was still possible.
After Rosen refined the Wisdom Seed with his divine essence, he immediately felt a terrifying boost in his cognitive power.
Many problems that he had previously struggled with were now resolved in sudden flashes of insight.
A few days later, Rosen began experimenting with the application of different source seed combinations.
First was the Main God Computer. Relying on the miracle attribute of the Dark Matter Host, it could transform into any form of computer.
In the past, Rosen was accustomed to a regular computer form, so he always had it appear in the Mysterious Study Room as a standard computer.
But that wouldn't do anymore—Rosen needed the Main God Computer to transform into a biological computer.
This type of biological computer involved modifying a living brain, using human brain cells as computation units. At that moment, the Main God Computer transformed into a biological computer, began integrating into his brain cells, and eventually fused entirely with his brain.
After the fusion was complete, Rosen began integrating various plugins into the biological computer.
He first merged the Eye of the Creator—comprised of the Omniscient Devil Eye, Illusory Realm Eye Technique, Dark Sun Heavenly Eye, and countless other ocular techniques from various sequences. His original God-Hunting Devil Eye had already been formed by merging the Main God Computer's camera. Thus, transforming the Eye of the Creator into the biological computer's visual plugin posed no difficulty at all.
Rosen continued the integration, this time fusing the Wisdom Seed into the Main God Computer.
The Main God Computer had not previously fused with a source seed. The one that had fused with the Information Seed was the Dark Matter Smart Chip.
Although the two complemented each other, the core of the Information Seed was not the Main God Computer.
Now, with the Wisdom Seed fused into the Main God Computer, its divine level, which had already reached the limits of a great true god, began evolving toward that of an immortal godfiend.
Once the transformation was complete, the Main God Computer gained the miracle attribute of the Wisdom Seed.
At this moment, Rosen had already fused the powers of the Wisdom, Information, and Omniscience Seeds into the Main God Computer. If he added the Game Seed connected to the Virtual Source Realm, he would then possess the complementary power of four source seeds.
Now, the computing power of the Main God Computer had undergone a terrifying qualitative leap thanks to this four-in-one fusion of source seeds.
The transformation of his Root Laws also experienced a several-hundredfold increase as a result.
It had been less than half a year in reality, yet under the assistance of various external forces, Rosen's Root Laws had already gone through quantitative accumulation and achieved qualitative transformation.
During this period, with the help of the Miracle Seed, the Hell Rebirth Scroll also successfully evolved into a true god-level miracle painting.
Along with this, the Death God Avatar completed the final puzzle piece and successfully advanced to true god.
As for the Yinglong Avatar, it had finished absorbing the Destruction Power from countless destroyed Celestial Caves of the Old World and subsequently, together with the Death God Avatar, advanced to true god status. At this point, including the Root Ancient Tree, all four of Rosen's avatars had achieved true godhood.
They say, "When one attains the Dao, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven." That old saying couldn't be truer when it came to Rosen.
Compared to the avatars, who needed a solid foundation to ascend to true godhood, the pets didn't require as much preparation.
The Dark Sun Slime had spawned countless offspring in the King's Game. The Calamity Apostle had endured countless disasters in the King's Game. And Fara gained immense benefits from the Miracle Tarot Card "Immortal Emperor." These three pets had no difficulty ascending to true god status.
As for the Void Pufferfish, Rosen had fished up a batch of Void Worms and transformed them into game monsters.
After devouring all the Void Worms, the Void Pufferfish easily ascended to true god as well.
The remaining pets—Golden God Bull, Lamp Genie, and Virtual Butler—were already true gods to begin with and didn't require any further ascension.
The only pet Rosen had that remained at the divine rank was the Little Dragon Girl. As for Amy, she was still stuck at Sequence 1.
Even with the Lamp Genie's help, Amy remained in seclusion, perfecting her Dreamer sequence.
It wasn't due to a lack of talent on Amy's part—it was that the Dreamer sequence was just too difficult to perfect.
However, Amy was already close to advancing to Sequence 0. Both the Miracle Seed and Wisdom Seed could aid her in perfecting her Dreamer sequence. Once she ascended to deity level, her potential might even surpass that of the Little Dragon Girl.
Even though the ascension of pets to true god could boost Rosen's foundation slightly, he no longer relied on the contributions of Little Dragon Girl or Amy.
His own foundation had long since overflowed—his divine essence and life essence were almost impossible to suppress anymore.
Over the past few years, to relieve the pressure of his overwhelming foundation, he had frequently used abilities that consumed his essence to temporarily reduce its upper limit.
Thus, Rosen was now only one final piece away from ascending to Great True God.
Passing through the Gate Between Realms to the boundless void outside the new world, he released the Doomsday Ark and began distancing himself from the world.
When a true god ascends to a Great True God, their divine consciousness undergoes a qualitative change. Their divine kingdom, divinity, divine fire, and divine body all transform. But the most critical transformation was that of the laws—and the further from the new world this occurred, the better.
There had been a true god who attempted ascension within the new world, only for their self-created law to be absorbed into the world's shared laws.
Although he became a Great True God, he was undoubtedly the weakest among them—even weaker than the Kings from the King's Game.
The Doomsday Ark rampaged without restraint, and after a few months, it had nearly reached the edge of the void.
However, Rosen still didn't stop, continuing to steer the Doomsday Ark forward.
After ascending to True God, he had yet to use Tenfold Annihilation.
It was one of his most powerful trump cards. He had originally planned to use it during the King's Game, but never got the chance. Later, he intended to use it against the Immortal Godfiends of the New World—but again, it was never needed. Now, the only targets worthy of Tenfold Annihilation were the Primordial Beasts.
So this time, while ascending to Great True God, he decided to finally use Tenfold Annihilation.
As the Doomsday Ark crossed the final stretch of the New World's void, it entered the border between the New World and the Primordial Dark Sea—a transitional zone where the Ancient God World drew its world origin from the sea.
Because the Ancient God World was wildly absorbing world origin, even the nearby Primordial Beasts were caught in the pull.
Thus, the area surrounding the Ancient God World was far more dangerous than most regions of the Primordial Dark Sea.
The Doomsday Ark had barely moved forward before it encountered a Primordial Beast that looked like a piece of withered wood.
Rosen didn't strike immediately, instead commanding the Doomsday Ark to release a bolt of Judgment Lightning.
The Primordial Beast instantly gave chase, and the Ark began to flee in another direction.
Eventually, it drew the attention of five Primordial Beasts. The Doomsday Barrier surrounding the Ark was nearly at its breaking point.
Only then did Rosen reluctantly retract the Doomsday Ark. In the next moment, his body transformed into all things—becoming an Immortal World that enveloped the five Primordial Beasts. Then, he unleashed Tenfold Annihilation. The dimensional structure of the Immortal World collapsed instantly, annihilating the beasts in a single blow.
Once the Immortal World collapsed into a zero-dimensional state, it began to rebuild itself, ascending dimensions as it reformed.
This process required a vast amount of resources—resources beyond imagination.
So Rosen's immortal will took control of the reforming Immortal World, fully integrating the Root Law into it. With help from the Eternal Source, the reborn Immortal World grew countless tendrils that extended into the void, drawing in world origin from the Primordial Dark Sea.
Endless streams of world origin were drawn in, and along with them, Primordial Beasts from even farther away.
The bronze dragon clone, holding nine Beast Caskets at the level of Great True Gods, took the initiative to confront the Primordial Beasts of similar strength.
As for the Yinglong clone, it wielded an Immortal Godfiend-tier Beast Casket. Using the powers Devour the Sky and Seal the Sky, it captured the weaker Immortal-class Primordial Beasts. The stronger ones were all left to the Root Tree clone, which wielded the Serpent Mother Gourd.
Every captured Primordial Beast was torn apart, and the tendrils of the Immortal World absorbed their nutrients.
At last, once the Immortal World was completely satiated and had replenished the origin consumed by Tenfold Annihilation, the newly reborn Immortal World was more than twice as powerful as before. The Root Law, now the world's core law, had also strengthened more than twofold and undergone a qualitative transformation.
After the Immortal World reformed into Rosen's body once more, he launched an even more frenzied hunt for Primordial Beasts.
If he could win, he fought. If he couldn't, he escaped using the Doomsday Ark.
Primordial Beasts came in endless waves, and once parasitized by the Eternal Source, they became nourishment for the Ancient Divine Realm.
When even the Ancient Divine Realm was bursting at the seams, Rosen finally stopped suppressing the transformation of his Life Origin and Divinity Origin.
His Divinity Origin had already long since mastered the Immortal Will that only Great True Gods could comprehend.
So this time, it wasn't divine consciousness evolving into Immortal Will—it was Immortal Will evolving into Eternal Will.
Infinite streams of faith were burned by the Eternal Divine Fire, purifying them of all impurities. The purified faith was then burned again under the Eternal Radiance, and once more by the Eternal Spark. After these three burnings, the faith had become terrifyingly pure.
Even faith from ordinary believers, after undergoing this triple purification, rivaled that of saints.
Endless saint-level faith was drawn into the tendrils growing from the surface of the Eternal Divinity and underwent another purification in the process. In the end, the faith power surpassed the level of saints and nearly touched the threshold of Eternal Origin.
Faith of this quality merged into the Eternal Divinity, effortlessly triggering a qualitative transformation.
Rosen's Immortal Will followed suit, evolving into Eternal Will along with the transformation of the Eternal Divinity.
At the very moment the transformation concluded, Rosen ascended to become a Forbidden Godfiend.
[Eternal Divinity: Forbidden Divinity][True Name of Divinity: Rosen Saint-Howard][Divinity Origin: 168][Life Origin: 171][Attached Divine Fire: Eternal Divine Fire][Eternal Source Seeds: Root, Miracle, Genesis, Wisdom, Information, Spark, Fall, Game, Omniscience][Forbidden Sequence: True Creator][Innate Skills: Creator's Bloodline, Creator's Origin, Creator's Divine Brush, Creator's Palette, Creator's Sketchbook, Creator's Eye, Creator's Domain, Creator's Will, Creator's Scholar, Game Developer, Immortal Emperor, Root Broodmother]
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