In the Old World, Rosen opened a Dimensional Gate and tracked the Apocalypse Bone Arrow into the Underground World.
Within a sealed underground cave, rays of sunlight poured down endlessly, enveloping a Cave-Heaven Immortal Artifact.
Inside it, a clone of the Sky Emperor was sealed—this was His final fallback plan.
As the Apocalypse Bone Arrow entered the cave-heaven, the seal was lifted, and the remnants of the Immortal Will within the arrow fused into the clone's body, gradually transforming it into the original body. However, even if resurrected, the most it could reach was the True God level.
The Sky Emperor was just about to retrieve the Apocalypse Bone Arrow when the person He hated most suddenly appeared before Him—the Holy Grail Emperor, Rosen.
He didn't resist—He knew that at this moment, any resistance would be self-humiliation.
Rosen sent the Sky Emperor into Horror Paradise, then retrieved the Apocalypse Bone Arrow and began sorting through all the spoils of war from the King's Game.
First among them was the Miracle Tarot Card of the Immortal Emperor, which had undergone a transformation after fusing with the source seed of the Eternal Game Origin.
[Immortal Emperor: Miracle Tarot Card]
[Rank: Immortal Godfiend]
[Miracle Attribute: The Immortal Emperor can wield imperial laws to create and control all Tarot Cards]
[Miracle Traits: Immortal Crown, Immortal Scepter, Immortal Holy Sword, Immortal Holy Grail, Immortal Star Coin, Immortal Dominion, King's Game]
The transformation from Emperor (帝王) to Imperial Sovereign (帝皇) represented the fusion of the Royal Authority Law and the Emperor Law, and finally, the integration of the Sovereign Rule Law—the core of the King's Game. These three laws merged and sublimated into a brand-new Imperial Law, something that had never existed in the new world before.
Besides mastering the Imperial Law, the greatest changes came with Immortal Dominion and King's Game.
The former Immortal Empire had now become Immortal Dominion, signifying that the emperor's domain now had no boundaries.
So long as humans existed—they were all under the Immortal Emperor's rule.
The Immortal Emperor was the sovereign of all kingdoms and empires. The entire New World—be it human nations or those of other races—had all become part of the Immortal Dominion. With the power of Imperial Law, Rosen could borrow strength from all humankind.
Of course, the degree to which he could borrow power wasn't as high as it was from citizens of the Radiant Kingdom.
From a person's full strength, he could only borrow at most one-tenth.
But the New World had so many nations—one-tenth from each, stacked together, allowed Rosen, by wielding the Imperial Law, to gain power on par with Immortal Godfiends.
That was the greatest benefit of the King's Game.
Lastly, the miracle trait King's Game came with its own miracle spiritual realm, which had now fused into Rosen's Ancient God Heart Aperture.
Rosen could drag any being into the King's Game realm located within his Heart Aperture.
There, he could modify game data, and the King's Continent would reshape itself into different game worlds according to his will, generating rules such as monster-killing for level-ups, resource refresh rates, and more.
Thus, the King's Game could not only train talents, but could also trap enemies to death within it.
More importantly, all those fallen kingdoms and empires that once perished in the King's Game would be reborn over long ages on the King's Continent.
However, even if they were resurrected, they would only be subsidiaries of the King's Game, and their lives could be snuffed out at Rosen's whim.
Had they known they could resurrect within the King's Game, would the Conviction Emperor and Blazing-Eyed Emperor still have fought to the death from the start?
Rosen continued taking stock of other loot.
From highest to lowest in value: there were extraordinary artifacts of Immortal Godfiend grade such as the Star-Piercing Crossbow and the Apocalypse Bone Arrow, as well as nearly ten other Great True God–level extraordinary artifacts—Skyfeather Bow, Wings That Shroud the Sky, Twilight Canopy, and so on.
This time in the King's Game, Rosen truly made a massive fortune.
During the twenty-some years Rosen spent inside the King's Game, the Main God Computer, via the wireless signal tower, never lost connection with the New World's Main God Network. So he was well aware of all the changes that had occurred in the New World over those years,
—even if knowing didn't allow him to exert much influence.
His decision to return to the Old World via Dimensional Gate wasn't just to retrieve the Apocalypse Bone Arrow—it was also to evade powerful enemies.
The moment he left the King's Game, Rosen felt a terrifying malicious intent.
He hadn't forgotten—behind the Sword Emperor and the others, hidden Immortal Godfiends were eyeing the King's Game with greedy ambition.
Especially the true master of the Starshooter Crossbow—he would never give up on reclaiming it. So, the moment he left the King's Game, he had already arrived in the Old World.
The danger had been temporarily evaded, but it couldn't be avoided forever.
Even the great True Gods had ways to travel between the New and Old Worlds, not to mention the Immortal Godfiends.
Before the Immortal Godfiends arrived in the Old World to hunt him down, Rosen had to quickly repair the Mysterious Study Room, which had been severely damaged by the Apocalypse Bone Arrow.
However, even if the Mysterious Study Room was fully repaired, he couldn't hide in it forever.
So, he still needed to quickly get familiar with and thoroughly master the power of the Immortal Emperor.
Rosen casually picked a place to go into seclusion for a while, taking advantage of time acceleration to help repair the Mysterious Study Room as well.
This time, besides familiarizing himself with the power of the Immortal Emperor, he also needed to truly master the power of several Eternal Source Seeds.
To maximize control over an Eternal Source, one must master the profession that matches that particular source.
The Fallen Scholar was a profession created to fully harness the Eternal Fall.
Rosen only needed to convert the Fallen Scholar into a potion-based Beyonder sequence to completely master the power of Eternal Fall.
As for the Eternal Game Source, he planned to elevate the Player Sequence to grasp its power.
Next was the Eternal Flame Source, which would require him to rely on the Immortal Emperor's strength to elevate the Noble Sequence.
Lastly, for the Eternal Root Source, Rosen would have to create a brand-new, exclusive Beyonder sequence.
He had long made plans in his heart for this new sequence. "True Creator" was the name he had chosen.
The task of converting the Fallen Scholar profession into a Beyonder sequence system was handed to the bronze dragon clone, who specialized in studying history.
The Player Sequence was given to the Yinglong clone, while the Immortal Emperor Sequence was handed to the Death God clone and the Root Tree.
Rosen had already retracted the Root Tree that had taken root in the Old World for many years and successfully harvested a substantial amount of Eternal Dark Sun Source.
Now, by integrating the complete Eternal Root into the Root Tree, the Root World Fruits growing on it underwent a qualitative transformation. It only lacked a sufficient accumulation of Eternal Root to naturally push the Root Tree to ascend as a True God.
With each clone occupied with their respective tasks, Rosen's true self began creating his True Creator Beyonder Sequence.
To meet the requirements of the True Creator, he needed to be able to perfectly command all Beyonder sequences.
This had essentially already been achieved with the Eternal Root, so what remained was to develop exclusive sequence skills that could further enhance the Eternal Root. For someone like him who had already mastered thousands of Beyonder sequences, this was only a matter of time.
In the blink of an eye, several decades passed, and the Mysterious Study Room had been fully repaired.
Rosen entered the Mysterious Study Room again to continue his secluded research and creation of Beyonder sequences.
At present, his progress had already pushed several core Beyonder sequences to the level of True Gods, but that still wasn't enough. To fully unleash the power of the Eternal Root, he needed to elevate the exclusive sequence skills to the Immortal Godfiend level.
That was extremely difficult—Rosen had the power but lacked the corresponding realm.
Another few decades passed in the real world, and the True Creator finally reached the doorstep of the great True God level.
Moving forward, he would need to create his own laws that were fully compatible with the Eternal Root and the True Creator.
Rosen had once believed that the Eternal Source was a superior form of law.
But after gaining deeper mastery, he realized that wasn't the case. The core trait of the Eternal Source was that it was energy with unique attributes.
If the Eternal Source was likened to fuel, then laws served as the engine.
Without fuel, the engine was nothing but scrap metal.
But without an engine, the value of the fuel also couldn't truly be expressed.
So Rosen needed to create laws of his own that perfectly matched the Eternal Root.
Looking back, Rosen began modifying the Root Sequence he had created years ago within the Transcendent Origin Substance. Using the Transcendent Origin Substance of the Root Sequence as material, he converted it into the True Creator Sequence, and then started from Sequence 9, cultivating it anew up to the level of a True God.
Everything fell into place naturally. With the time acceleration, he returned to the True God Sequence in less than ten days.
[True Creator: Eternal Sequence]
[Level: True God]
[Innate Skills: Creator's Bloodline, Creator's Source, 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]
There were a total of 11 innate skills, each corresponding to one of the 11 Sequence levels from Sequence 9 up to True God.
No additional acquired skills were needed, because these innate skills already encompassed all acquired skills.
Through the True Creator Sequence, Rosen had perfectly unified all the Beyonder sequences he had mastered.
On the surface of the Old World, Rosen silently stepped out of the dimensional gate.
He raised his right hand and extended his index finger. The tip split open, and a drop of brilliant, multicolored blood dripped out.
This was the blood born from the Creator's Bloodline, containing the bloodline-type powers of all known Beyonder sequences.
The moment the drop of blood touched the ground, it sprouted roots, grew, bloomed, and bore fruit.
As the fruit split open, a humanoid infant emerged—unlike any known race.
Now, Rosen could create entirely new lifeforms at will with just a drop of his blood.
However, this humanoid infant wasn't casually created. Though human in appearance, its natural talents were worlds apart from ordinary humans—so much so that even primitive humanity's innate potential couldn't compare. This infant would become a deity upon reaching adulthood.
After some thought, Rosen decided to name this new human species he created: Celestials.
He dropped another bead of blood—this time, a female Celestial was created to match the previously born male.
As drops of the Creator's Blood continued to fall, thousands of male and female Celestial infants soon crawled around him.
These Celestial infants were to become the purebloods of the future Celestial race.
Since Celestials matured into gods, their natural ability to reproduce was extremely low.
Thus, aside from pureblood Celestials, Rosen also planned to create large numbers of non-pureblood Celestials.
He began to gather the Creator's Source—an innate skill formed by merging divine attributes, psychic powers, and all energy-related abilities across Beyonder sequences—allowing him to command all known energies.
Mastering the Creator's Source was equivalent to mastering all known energy.
Rosen infused the Creator's Source into the Creator's Palette—an item also made from the Creator's Source—transforming it into Creator's Paint.
Then he opened the Creator's Sketchbook, formed by fusing skills like Void Album, Mind Canvas, Dimensional Seal, and more.
Finally, he lifted the Creator's Divine Brush and began painting one Celestial infant after another onto the pages of the sketchbook.
Initially, Rosen had hoped to create a direct creation skill, but he discovered that true creation was incredibly difficult.
It wasn't that it was impossible—it just came with an enormous cost that far outweighed the benefit.
Among all known beings, only the World Tree—an eternal lifeform—could truly create all things with minimal cost.
Even the ancient gods couldn't achieve that. They excelled more in plundering. Even the ability to transform into all things was achieved by stealing the power of the World Tree. And even then, the energy cost was far greater than what the World Tree needed—making the World Tree indisputably the strongest in terms of creation.
By using painting to create all things, Rosen essentially used several innate skills to reduce the cost.
Before long, millions of infants appeared on the pages, then one by one leapt out of the paintings into reality.
Perhaps because they were born from artwork, these non-pureblood Celestials were naturally born with mastery of the Painter Sequence.
As for the pureblood Celestials, each inherited one of the eleven innate skills of the True Creator, albeit in a weakened form.
Rosen integrated all these infants into the Land of Kings, where they would grow, create a civilization unique to the Celestials, and in return offer him—their Creator—endless faith. From that point on, as long as the Celestials endured, Rosen would remain undying and eternal.
After applying a thousandfold time acceleration to the Land of Kings, Rosen activated the Creator's Eye for the first time.
This innate skill was formed from the fusion of all known ocular arts and abilities.
Within his eyes was a virtual world that could scan all things. From a godlike perspective, he could lock onto anything he wished to see. His current Creator's Eye was likely already approaching the peak state of Apocalypse in its prime—and in terms of complexity, it far surpassed the ocular arts of Apocalypse.
Rosen projected the Creator's Eye toward the Dark Sun, using its power to enhance the Creator's Eye.
Looking towards the new world, there wasn't much enhancement, but in the old world, he could now look down on the entire old world from a god's perspective. He found all the great true gods who hadn't left the old world yet, as well as the two hidden immortal godfiends, all of them had been located by him.
Rosen, through the power of the Dark Sun, unfolded his Creator's domain.
This innate skill integrated all domain-related skills, including the Arrival of the Painted World and others.
At this moment, as the Creator's domain expanded, the sunlight of the Dark Sun covered the entire area, all of it falling within his Creator's domain. By activating the Creator's will within this range, his divine consciousness could control everything within the domain, much like the world will controls the world itself.
Unless someone could destroy the Dark Sun, Rosen was now the world will of the old world.
Several great true gods only felt very uncomfortable, but two immortal godfiends immediately sensed something wrong and, without hesitation, fled the old world towards the new world. If they had moved even a little slower, Rosen would have seized the opportunity to eliminate them.
Rosen was about to strike at the great true gods, but they had already received a message from one of the immortal godfiends.
The great true gods also began fleeing the old world. Because his grasp over the Creator's domain and will wasn't perfect, he hadn't intercepted all the great true gods at once. He had only focused on one to suppress it.
Timothy Suarez, the founder of Heaven Mountain, creator of the Fallen Angel Clan.
Although his attempt to ascend to an immortal godfiend had failed, Timothy ultimately survived and reincarnated, starting over. However, the world will of the new world would no longer give him a second chance to ascend to an immortal godfiend, so he later became a great true god and arrived in the old world.
Though the world will had lifted the suppression on great true gods in the new world, this didn't apply to Timothy, a half-step immortal godfiend.
Thus, Timothy still hid in the old world, even allying with the immortal godfiends who were hidden there.
Although Timothy had been hiding and dodging all these years, overall, he had lived quite safely.
However, at this moment, Timothy felt a long-lost fear.
Back when he was in the new world, attempting to ascend to an immortal godfiend atop Heaven Mountain, he had felt the full force of the world will's suppression.
The laws he once controlled were rendered useless by the world's suppression, except for his self-created laws.
Not a single bit of energy from the world could be summoned.
At the same time, the entire world was filled with endless hostility, and Timothy had to bear the ever-growing pressure from the world.
That feeling of despair, that sense of helplessness, Timothy still dared not forget it to this day.
At this moment, Timothy felt almost the same kind of world suppression.
The entire old world offered him no refuge; he could not manipulate even the smallest law or energy of the old world. Even moving a single step forward, he had to tear through the increasingly strong spatial compression around him, breaking apart all surrounding laws and energy.
This world suppression was not as intense as back then, but back then, he had Heaven Mountain, a semi-finished product, to bear the pressure.
Now, he no longer had Heaven Mountain, and all the world will had to be borne by himself.
The moment Rosen appeared opposite Timothy, the Creator's Eye, combined with the Creator's Scholar, fixed its gaze upon him.
In his eyes, Timothy was gradually stripped bare, every layer of his being being seen through.
The Creator's Eye had partial eternal omniscience, and with the integration of all learning-related skills, centered on extraordinary sequences like historian and fallen scholar, the Creator's Scholar skill allowed him to see through any person's knowledge of any extraordinary system.
Soon, Rosen had fully mastered all the knowledge of the Angel sequence that Timothy had acquired through the Creator's Scholar.
He could use all the skills of the Angel sequence, and by relying on the Creator's bloodline to transform into an angel, he could further enhance all the abilities of the Angel sequence. Unparalleled learning ability was the core positive ability of the Creator's Scholar.
Once there was nothing left to learn, Rosen activated the negative ability of the Creator's Scholar.
Good knowledge can lead to growth, while forbidden knowledge can lead to corruption.
Rosen transformed all the knowledge of the Angel sequence into forbidden knowledge and infused it into Timothy's body.
Timothy wasn't corrupted into a fallen scholar by this forbidden knowledge, but instead, the eternal power of corruption turned him into a Fallen Angel King, becoming Rosen's follower.
In a short time, Rosen had already mastered the first nine innate skills of the true Creator.
As for Sequence 0, the Game Creator and the Immortal Emperor at the true god level, the former was centered on the eternal essence of the game, allowing him to transform everything within the Creator's domain into game rules, and to grant all the life he recognized with a player sequence.
As for the Immortal Emperor, of course, he was centered around the eternal ember source seed, which allowed him to control all fortune within the Creator's domain.
He could even treat the entire old world as an Immortal Kingdom and then use the Emperor's Law to exert all its power in the name of the Immortal Emperor.
The Creator's Scholar, Game Creator, and Immortal Emperor were three innate skills, essentially the true Creator's integration of three eternal source seeds, allowing him to perfectly manifest the powers of these three eternal seeds, and enabling the three seeds to grow alongside the true Creator sequence.
Feeling his complete divine power, Rosen knew it was time for him to create a law that would fit the eternal origin and ascend to a great true god.
(End of Chapter)