The Time Lord and Devouring an Ancient Dragon God Alive

In the Chaotic Seas, the Glory Foundation had fully fallen under Daisy's control.

Unless a Sequence 3 Farmer ascended to become the chairman, no one could challenge her authority over the organization.

Although Daisy's methods were impressive, she couldn't have succeeded without Rosen's help in exposing the weaknesses of every board member.

The Glory Foundation wasn't just known for agriculture—it was also unparalleled in livestock production.

In fact, 90% of all meat consumed in the Chaotic Seas was supplied by the Foundation.

The Slaughterhouse Spiritual Realm was a specialized realm used by the Foundation for processing livestock.

The flesh, bones, and blood of the animals were transported to various islands across the Chaotic Seas, while their souls and spirituality were fed to a special extraordinary plant known as the Soul-Eating Ghostwood Tree. This tree continuously produced rare spiritual crystals.

As time passed, the Soul Cemetery, where the Ghostwood Trees were cultivated, became increasingly sinister and terrifying.

With Daisy's assistance, Rosen easily entered the Soul Cemetery.

The Soul-Eating Ghostwood Tree was a nightmare for any soul.

It captured souls and turned them into fruits that hung from its branches, torturing the souls relentlessly to force them to generate more spirituality. Once their spirituality was nearly depleted, the tree would heal them using its own power, starting the cycle all over again.

Some extraordinary beings had been trapped and tormented for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.

Even the souls of ordinary livestock, after years of torment, would develop intense resentment, generating negative mental energy that the Ghostwood Tree absorbed as nourishment. The longer a soul survived, the more ferocious it became.

At the heart of the cemetery grew a single Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Ghostwood Tree.

Rosen approached the tree, tore open its bark and trunk with his bare hands, and climbed directly into its core.

Once inside, he released Life Elixir to help the tree heal itself, sealing him completely within its heart.

Enveloped by the tree, Rosen endured constant attacks from the concentrated soul resentment stored in its core. The tree itself was also in agony—its vital core had been invaded, and any major damage could leave it crippled or dead.

Driven by survival instincts, the Ghostwood Tree poured all its power into trying to kill Rosen.

But this was exactly what Rosen wanted. From within the tree's core, he began channeling his Noble Source Essence, connecting it to the Golden Noble Tree in the Spirit World.

Under the Golden Tree's canopy, two golden leaves fell and merged into Rosen's Noble Source Essence. As the essence transformed, his spiritual strength began to rise. At the same time, he chanted a strange series of syllables.

No one could understand the language of the chant, but as the sound echoed, maddening whispers filled Rosen's ears.

These whispers began absorbing the soul resentment stored within the Ghostwood Tree, directly impacting Rosen's spiritual origin. His spiritual strength, which had just reached 64 points, began to plummet, dropping rapidly to 55 points.

At Sequence 4, having spiritual strength equivalent to Sequence 5 meant that Rosen could no longer fully control his extraordinary source essence.

For the Golden Sequences, this wasn't a major issue, but for the Hunter Sequence, it could result in terrifying backlash.

Rosen quickly activated his Ancient God Relic to stabilize the volatile source essence.

Simultaneously, he endured the mental assault of the whispers while using his Gluttony Divine Authority to consume stored resources: Golden Apples, Stellar Fruits, various spiritual recovery potions, and, most importantly, the rare potions crafted from Momella Stones.

Over time, his spiritual strength slowly climbed back to 64 points.

The moment his spiritual strength fully recovered, the maddening whispers disappeared entirely.

The Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Ghostwood Tree, which had accumulated immense soul resentment over the centuries, now appeared completely drained. Its branches drooped lifelessly to the ground, and the thousands of soul fruits it had cultivated over millennia had vanished.

Rosen's spiritual senses detected the emergence of a new Sequence 4 skill—Immortal Will.

However, the innate authority typically gained at Sequence 4 had yet to manifest, likely delayed by the development of Immortal Will.

Rosen immediately performed the Ancient God Sacrificial Ritual, offering the Temporal Magnetite to his divine territory to further enhance the foundation of the Noble Sequence. This delayed the emergence of his innate authority even further but significantly strengthened his Sequence's potential.

[Immortal Will: Ancient God Spiritual Skill]

Your spirituality gains an immortal quality, making your mental sea and Sequence Tree immune to conventional destruction.

With Immortal Will, Rosen's mental sea and Sequence Tree became exponentially more durable, capable of withstanding almost any attack short of a Sequence 2-level spiritual assault.

More importantly, his spirituality's immortal quality meant that his Self-Portrait Avatars could now roam far beyond his body without fear of spiritual dissipation.

Even if one of his avatars traveled to the Abyss, it would retain its full spiritual potency.

Additionally, when Rosen advanced to Sequence 3 and transformed his spirituality into divinity, he would gain the ability to create Divine Avatars—a capability typically reserved for Sequence 0 deities.

Divine Avatars weren't just additional tools; they could absorb extraordinary source essence from other Sequences, allowing their creator to master multiple rule-based authorities.

However, due to world laws, Divine Avatars were forbidden from absorbing the source essence of humanity's Nine Major Sequences. Instead, they typically fused with the extraordinary source essence of at least Sequence 1 beings from non-human races.

While familiarizing himself with Immortal Will, Rosen's divine territory completed its transformation, gaining the new territorial trait Temporal Gravity.

Soon after, his innate authority finally manifested.

[Time Lord: Noble Sequence 4 Innate Authority]

Your divine territory can anchor itself to different timelines based on historical imprints.

"Anchor itself to different timelines based on historical imprints?" Rosen muttered thoughtfully.

To fully grasp the unique capabilities of the Time Lord authority, Rosen needed to collect more historical imprints using his Sequence 5 authority.

This meant he would have to seek out records and artifacts of lost histories.

Archaeologists and historians were the most knowledgeable in this area. However, Rosen had no intention of risking himself by approaching the archaeologists.

The historians, on the other hand, seemed like a safer bet.

Of course, obtaining valuable historical information from them wouldn't be easy. The most efficient solution would be to become a historian himself, using that identity to access the information he needed.

Alternatively, Rosen could rely on the God-Hunting Magic Eye, though its effectiveness in finding information was far from reliable.

After careful consideration, Rosen decided on a different approach.

The Painter Sequence allowed for up to three Self-Portrait Avatars: one at Sequence 6, one at Sequence 3, and one at Sequence 0.

Rosen believed he could create his Sequence 3 avatar ahead of time.

Furthermore, he planned to combine it with Immortal Will to transform the avatar into a Divine Avatar.

Although Rosen was still at Sequence 4, his physical body, bloodline, spirituality, and extraordinary source essence were already comparable to those of a Sequence 3 being, thanks to the enhancements provided by the Holy Grail King.

Under these conditions, creating a Self-Portrait Avatar in advance seemed entirely feasible.

Even if he failed, the risks were manageable.

Rosen began preparing the materials for the avatar.

He used a Human Skin Canvas generated by the Void Gallery, which was ideal for creating a Self-Portrait Avatar.

For paint, he planned to use the blood essence of a Bronze Dragon. However, his current stock of Bronze Dragon bloodline was of insufficient quality. He needed to collect large quantities of dragon beast bloodlines and use the Dragon Blood Chalice and Paradise Pharmaceuticals' technology to refine them to at least Sequence 3.

Unfortunately, buying the necessary materials proved difficult. Dragon beast resources were always in high demand and short supply.

Since purchasing the materials was inefficient, Rosen decided to hunt dragon beasts himself.

After consulting the Spirit World Deep Web, he quickly identified a suitable hunting ground.

Using Data Transmission, Rosen arrived in Blue Dragon City, located within the Dragon God Empire.

The city was steeped in dragon energy, and most of the extraordinary humans walking its streets carried dragon bloodlines.

The Dragon God Empire was unique as one of the few human nations ruled by non-human beings.

Its ruler was a Holy Light Dragon, a true god-level being that had allied with the World Government two millennia ago. Due to its mastery of resurrection magic for deities, even the World Government sought its favor.

The empire was teeming with dragon beasts, though these creatures weren't acknowledged by the true dragons of the empire.

Only dragon beasts that underwent atavistic transformations into true dragons earned recognition and protection.

But Rosen wasn't interested in dragon beasts—his target was true dragons.

Of course, hunting real dragons in the physical world was impossible, but in the Spirit World, they were fair game.

Two thousand years ago, the Dragon God Empire was dominated by true dragons. The Holy Light Dragon was considered a traitor to its kind, allying with the World Government to scatter the dragon race. Even now, the followers of other dragon deities frequently stir trouble in the Dragon God Empire.

The true dragons in the Spiritual Realm were mostly the ones who had fallen in battle two millennia ago.

If Rosen didn't hunt them, the dozens of dragons serving under the Holy Light Dragon in the Dragon God Empire would actively hunt them down.

The Spiritual Realm corresponding to the Dragon God Empire was vastly different from its modern counterpart.

Now it was dominated by wastelands and valleys, but two thousand years ago, it was filled with mountains. The environment had been irrevocably altered by the great war.

Rosen entered the Spiritual Realm directly from Blue Dragon City. As one of the major cities of the Dragon God Empire, its corresponding Spiritual Realm should have been teeming with extraordinary humans hunting spiritual creatures. Yet, after searching for half a day, Rosen barely saw any hunters.

Activating his Void Shadow Domain enhanced by the Wolf Totem, he silently approached a Sequence 5 Hunter.

Using Seventh Sense, he read the man's thoughts and quickly learned the truth.

It turned out that dragons loved treasure and glittering, spirituality-rich architecture. Humans with dragon bloodlines tended to share this habit.

When the Spiritual Realm overlapped with reality two thousand years ago, the Dragon God Empire was hit hard.

The modern Blue Dragon City had been entirely rebuilt and paled in comparison to its former glory. Back then, even an ancient dragon deity descended from the Spiritual Realm. Despite reinforcements from the Holy Light Dragon and allied gods of the World Government, they failed to completely kill the ancient dragon god, who escaped deep into the Spiritual Realm.

Many demigod-level dragons had also been revived by the Spiritual Realm at the time, and they all retreated back into the Spiritual Realm after the conflict.

Thus, the Spiritual Realm corresponding to the Dragon God Empire remained extremely dangerous.

In fact, this wasn't unique to the Dragon God Empire. The Spiritual Realm in human territories had grown far more perilous over the years.

Take the Chaotic Seas, for example—its Spiritual Realm was still under strict lockdown.

Rosen released tens of thousands of Shadow Demons, spreading them out to locate true dragons and dragon beasts. While finding a living true dragon was difficult, hunting dragon beasts was far easier.

Before long, the Shadow Demons had identified several dragon beasts. Rosen readied Dragon King's Wrath for long-range sniping.

The current Dragon King's Wrath was far more powerful than it had been months ago.

Its base attributes hadn't changed much, but its damage multiplier had increased to 400%.

The biggest improvement lay in its Dragon King's Roar Shells. Originally, the Temporal Dragon Breath could only accelerate time. Now, it could reverse, accelerate, or pause time at will. Additionally, it could stack effects with the volcanic breath of the Fiery Volcano Dragon.

Through the Temporal Scope, he could see dragon beasts hundreds of kilometers away with absolute clarity.

For any dragon beast below Sequence 3, a single shot was lethal.

The Hunter Sequence's innate skill, God-Hunting Magic Eye, played a key role here. Without its ability to target spiritual origins, one-shot kills would have been impossible.

Each time a dragon beast was sniped, Shadow Demons would retrieve the carcass.

The Dragon Blood Chalice greedily absorbed the blood, acting like a bottomless pit.

In just a few days, Rosen had exterminated almost every dragon beast within a radius of several thousand kilometers.

However, the more he hunted, the more something felt off.

His Seventh Sense was warning him, and it never lied. Fortunately, the hunting was being carried out by his Self-Portrait Avatar, not his main body.

Rosen quickly retreated to the Mysterious Study Room, where he painted a Time Prophecy Painting.

To his shock, the painting remained blank—a stark contrast to the past when even Sequence 0 threats would cast ominous shadows in his prophetic paintings.

Even when he infused time energy into his divine brush, the canvas remained completely empty.

Rosen immediately realized that his rampant hunting of dragon beasts in the Spiritual Realm had likely attracted the attention of a dragon deity.

The question was whether it was the Holy Light Dragon or the heavily injured Ancient Dragon God. The level of hostility was also unclear.

Deciding not to take any risks, Rosen prepared to cut his losses and leave.

However, as the Shadow Demons began to retreat, a sudden twist of fate occurred.

The space surrounding his Self-Portrait Avatar distorted and locked.

In a flash, Rosen found himself transported to a foul-smelling underground cavern.

Before him lay the colossal body of the Ancient Dragon God, stretching tens of thousands of meters long. Its decaying flesh oozed foul blood, and its injuries were horrifying.

Despite its weakened state, the Ancient Dragon God could still effortlessly crush Rosen.

Rosen's main body immediately closed the window to the Mysterious Study Room, abandoning any thoughts of retrieving Dragon King's Wrath from the avatar.

"Human, I bear you no malice…"

The seemingly lifeless Ancient Dragon God projected a Divine Avatar in front of Rosen.

"What do you need me to do?" Rosen asked cautiously.

"I see traces of the Ancient God Sequence on you…"

The Ancient Dragon God's voice carried an unmistakable note of envy. "You've awakened an Ancient God bloodline and possess the World Gene Archive. You can transform into any race. I need you to create a dragon body for me to possess."

The dragon god's words were calm, but its request was akin to asking for Rosen's life.

For a moment, Rosen considered using the Dragon Blood Chalice to kill the Ancient Dragon God. But he quickly dismissed the thought.

Even in its current state, a heavily injured deity could kill him with ease.

Running away was an option, but Rosen was unwilling to abandon his Self-Portrait Avatar so easily.

Moreover, the dragon god had identified his Ancient God Physique. If other deities could do the same, would they not also covet it?

"I don't want to die…"

Rosen feigned despair, his face contorted with fear and anger.

"You are worthy of becoming my subordinate deity," the Ancient Dragon God said earnestly.

"Alright," Rosen replied, replacing his avatar with his main body while leaving his divine territory in the Mysterious Study Room.

At worst, he would lose his body but preserve his life. At best, he hoped to turn the situation to his advantage.

The Ancient Dragon God extracted a golden drop of Origin Bloodline from its body. After sealing all genetic information within it, the dragon god handed it to Rosen, instructing him to analyze it using the World Gene Archive.

Meanwhile, the dragon god began dismantling its original body.

It stripped away its unrotted flesh, bones, dragon crystal, divine fire, and even its divine core. Finally, it handed its flesh to Rosen, ordering him to consume it.

Rosen didn't bother hiding his Gluttony Divine Authority. If the dragon god could recognize his Ancient God Physique, it would surely notice his divine authority as well.

Despite suppressing its will within the flesh, the dragon god's blood and meat were still saturated with divine intent. As Rosen devoured the flesh, his body swelled uncontrollably, eventually transforming into a massive sphere of fat hundreds of meters tall.

When he could no longer eat or digest, the dragon god regretfully sealed the remaining flesh within its dragon crystal.

Once Rosen had transformed into a Hellfire Red Dragon, the dragon god eagerly sealed his mental sea and transferred its remaining soul and divine power into the dragon crystal.

It had reduced its strength to Sequence 2 levels to ensure a perfect possession of Rosen's new dragon body.

The dragon god's remaining soul, wrapped in divine fire, charged into Rosen's mental sea.

If the human didn't resist, his soul and spiritual origin might survive.

If he resisted, the dragon god wouldn't mind devouring a "little snack."

However, as the dragon god entered Rosen's mental sea, it was greeted by an endless web of glowing white cables.

When the dragon god tried to initiate the possession, Rosen activated the Main God Computer, using its network to weave an inescapable web.

Before the dragon god could react, it was completely ensnared by the glowing cables.

The divine will and dragon aura emanating from the web were terrifying, and the once-indestructible cables began snapping under pressure.

However, as time passed, the Main God Computer steadily gained the upper hand.

Rosen could feel the computer growing stronger, using the dragon god's power as fuel to repair itself.

This confirmed his suspicion: the Main God Computer was at least on par with a Greater Deity.

Returning to his human form, Rosen looked at his bloated body and sighed.

Transforming into a Bronze Dragon, he began draining his own blood.

The extracted blood was indistinguishable from true Bronze Dragon blood.

Pouring it into the Dragon Blood Chalice, Rosen watched as the chalice's contents advanced to Sequence 2. Only then did his body return to normal.

(Chapter End)