True God World Tree and the Ten Great Laws

"This doesn't seem to be the full power of the Mimicry Godhead…"

Rosen sensed the Godhead within his Sea of Consciousness, deep in thought.

His instincts told him that once he truly advanced to Sequence 0, once he truly ignited his Divine Fire and condensed a Godhead, the Miracle Trait: Mimicry Godhead would reveal additional hidden effects.

But for now, its existing capabilities were already incredibly powerful.

With a single thought, he merged all his Divine Essence into the Mimicry Godhead formed from Transcendent Essence within his Sea of Consciousness.

The moment the two fused, the Mimicry Godhead—which had remained dormant—fully activated.

Immediately, prayers from countless followers echoed in Rosen's ears, and he could directly sense faith flowing into his Mimicry Godhead.

He could instantly convert faith into Divine Power.

No matter how much Divine Essence he used, he could constantly replenish it by converting Faith Power.

Moreover, by channeling Divine Power through the Godhead, he could greatly amplify the effects of the Laws and Authorities he wielded.

Satisfied, Rosen retracted the Miracle Kindling, only to immediately summon the Apocalypse Treasure Map.

Without hesitation, he permanently consumed Innate Luck to generate a Miracle Treasure Map.

As his Innate Luck plummeted from True God level to Sequence 4, Rosen leveraged his mastery of the Equivalent Contract Law to unilaterally tear apart the contract he had signed with the Coin True God.

The moment Rosen severed the contract, Coin True God, far away in the Eternal Continent of the Spirit Realm, immediately sensed it.

Rosen had broken the contract himself—but Coin True God wasn't pleased.

If it had been any other True God, they would have been delighted.

After all, breaking a contract meant that Innate Luck would be forcibly extracted and transferred.

And for True Gods, the Innate Luck of Forbidden Paths, which was naturally at True God level, was far more valuable than the contract itself.

But Coin True God was different.

Compared to a single portion of True God Innate Luck, what he truly valued was the King's Game.

However, there was nothing he could do—Rosen had already torn up the contract.

Now, what really worried him was whether Rosen, having lost his Innate Luck, would be too unlucky to ascend to True Godhood.

If that happened, Coin True God would personally have to intervene and help Rosen ascend without Innate Luck.

At this thought, Coin True God began to suspect—Had Rosen deliberately taken advantage of him before tearing up the contract?

But before he could confirm this, he noticed something odd.

Normally, when a contract was broken, Innate Luck of the True God level would descend onto him.

Yet now, the Innate Luck he received was only at Sequence 4!

Coin True God immediately realized—Rosen had used some method to permanently consume his Innate Luck.

That was why he didn't care about breaking the contract.

Methods that could permanently consume Innate Luck were extremely rare in the Main World.

He had no idea where Rosen had found such a technique.

Since he could no longer control Rosen through a contract, Coin True God began considering using force instead.

However, half an hour later, when Coin True God arrived at the ocean and saw the massive, bottomless whirlpool left behind—he fell into silence.

Rosen had not only torn up the contract—he had taken the entire Glorious Continent and vanished.

This wasn't something that could be done with ordinary means.

In recent times, there had only been two instances where an entire continent had been forcibly moved.

One was Glorious Continent.

The other was the disappearance of Blazing Angel Continent.

At that moment, Coin True God realized—he had never truly understood Rosen.

It seemed that when the King's Game began, the first player he needed to eliminate…

…was this uncontrollable variable—Rosen.

....

At the same time, Rosen didn't even need to think to know how furious the Coin True God must be right now.

But he was certain that the Coin True God would still do his best to cover for him.

Because if he died, who knew how many centuries it would take for the King's Game to restart?

However, after this incident, the Coin True God would never underestimate him again.

When the King's Game finally began, he had to be prepared for the possibility of being ganged up on by three True Gods right from the start.

But that was something to worry about hundreds of years from now.

Right now, he planned to head to the Old World and lay low for a while.

His Yinglong Avatar returned to the Dragon Realm, while his true body swapped into the Celestial Ruins via the Mysterious Study Room.

Leaving his Bronze Dragon Avatar behind to manage the interworld trade, his true body entered seclusion within the Time-Space World Fruit to develop new Sequence 1 skills.

Yet, after only a few days, Rosen was forced to halt his skill research.

Because he noticed that the Time-Space World Fruit had started to wither.

Not just the Time-Space World Fruit, but all the World Fruits—even the Small World Tree—were showing signs of decay.

It was extremely subtle—so faint that if it weren't for Tree Spirit, he might never have noticed it.

After carefully inspecting the Small World Tree, Rosen more or less figured out what was happening.

The Small World Tree had reached 100% growth.

This meant that it had reached the limit of Sequence 0.

All it needed was one final step—then its World Authority would fully evolve into World Law, allowing it to ascend to True Godhood.

However, in both the Old World and the New World, the Ancient God had locked the fundamental rules.

Neither world allowed anyone to fully control the World Laws.

Or rather—

The World Laws of both the Old World and the New World were already in the hands of the Ancient God.

It wasn't difficult for the Small World Tree to grasp traces of World Law.

But if it wanted to fully control the World Laws and ascend to True Godhood, it would have to directly challenge the Ancient God and wrest the World Laws away from him.

That was simply impossible.

Another path suited for the Small World Tree would be the Stone Realm power once wielded by the World Tree.

But that was even less feasible.

Back in its prime, the Ancient God had slain the World Tree—and still failed to seize its Stone Realm power.

Now, as just a Sequence 1, how could Rosen possibly accomplish something the Ancient God at full strength had failed to do?

Rosen pondered for a long time before finally deciding—he had no choice but to compromise.

If World Laws were unattainable for now, then Time-Space Laws should still be within reach.

And if the nine World Fruits each nurtured different Laws, then adding Time-Space Laws to the mix—

Even if it still couldn't compare to World Laws, it would be more than enough to overwhelm any other True God.

At present, the nine World Fruits had already given rise to five Laws:

Painting, Flesh, Life, Death, and Time-Space.

If he extracted the Time-Space Laws and merged them into the Small World Tree, then in theory, the Time-Space World Fruit could reset to its origin and give birth to a new Law.

So in total, there were still five World Fruits that could produce five more Laws.

If he wanted entirely new Laws that didn't exist in the Main World, then creating them through the World Fruits would be easy.

However, if he wanted to replicate existing Laws from the Main World, he would need to—

Either slay a True God who had mastered that Law,

Or obtain that Law from the Old World,

And then fuse the Old World's version with the New World's version—

Only then could he achieve a perfected Law, just as he had done with Flesh Law.

So, the first step was to determine which Laws had already emerged in the Main World and which ones were currently controlled by True Gods and Great True Gods.

The Main God Computer handled this task.

Although it might not be able to detect the Great True Gods, any True God who had left a mark on history could be tracked.

Thus, compiling a list of all the True Gods in the Main World wasn't difficult at all.

Several days later, Rosen examined the investigation results and comparison data, deep in thought.

Nearly all of the powerful Laws in the New World had already manifested.

And they were either controlled by True Gods or forbidden from being controlled at all.

Take Time-Space Law, for example—

If it weren't for the Small World Tree's unique nature, the birth of the Time-Space World Fruit would have been practically impossible.

Or Fate Law—

The New World absolutely did not allow any being to wield it.

The same went for Reincarnation Law.

Back when the World Fruits tried to give birth to Reincarnation Law, the New World outright rejected it—

In the end, Reincarnation Law had to be split into Life Law and Death Law.

And since True Gods in the Main World had already claimed both,

Life Law and Death Law were ultimately forced to evolve into Old World Laws.

Later, after subduing the Life Mother Tree, Rosen finally managed to obtain the New World's Life Law and merge it with its Old World counterpart.

But Death Law—

Even now, he still couldn't merge the Old and New versions into one unified Law.

For now, he could only make do by combining the Old World's Death Law with the New World's Death Authority.

From all this, one thing was clear—

Even though the World Fruits could birth Laws,

The New World had to recognize them.

If the New World refused to acknowledge a Law,

It would degrade into an Old World Law.

This also proved that the birth of Laws through the World Fruits was fundamentally tied to the New World.

And that was a huge problem.

All the strong Laws in the New World were either—

A) Already claimed by True Gods, or

B) Forbidden from being controlled at all.

As for the Laws that had yet to emerge,

Rosen found most of them to be unworthy of his attention.

If the New World was a dead end, could he rely on the Old World instead?

The New World had both the Ancient God and World Will suppressing it.

But the Old World had no World Will at all.

In fact, many of the Old World's original powerful Laws had vanished along with its gradual collapse.

Rosen immediately began testing whether the Small World Tree's World Fruits could give birth to Fate Law.

Before his very eyes, one of the World Fruits began to form Fate Law.

At the same time, the Fate Law that had long since disappeared from the Old World re-emerged.

From start to finish, there was zero resistance.

Granted, the Fate Law inside the Fate World Fruit could only exist in the Old World—

The New World wouldn't recognize it.

But this was just like Flesh Law.

The Flesh World Fruit had been able to devour the Flesh Mother and merge the Old and New Flesh Laws.

So in the future, if the Fate World Fruit could devour the New World's Fate Law,

Then even under the New World Will's suppression, he could still gain control over it.

If the straight road was blocked, then he would forge another path.

Under Rosen's control, the remaining four empty World Fruits each gave birth to an Old World Law.

The final selections were:

Fate, Civilization, Imperial Authority, and Origin.

Originally, Rosen had wanted to obtain the Old World's Royal Authority, Imperial Authority, and Emperor's Authority.

But he soon realized that only Imperial Authority had collapsed.

The Royal Authority and Emperor's Authority still existed in the Old World.

So, in the end, he kept Imperial Authority and added Civilization Law and Origin Law.

The moment he grasped Origin Law, a deep connection formed between the Small World Tree and the Old World.

Rosen could clearly feel that the Old World wanted to fully merge with the Small World Tree.

Because the origin of the Old World had always contained a fragment of the Original Small World Tree.

And it was precisely the collapse of Origin Law that had caused the Old World's essence to continuously drain away, pushing it toward inevitable destruction.

Now that the Small World Tree had birthed the Origin World Fruit, the Old World's shattered Origin Law had begun to reform.

The reborn world essence started spreading across the entire Old World—

And once the Old World's newly formed Origin Law stabilized, it might even halt its collapse altogether.

At the very least, the New World would no longer be able to drain the Old World's essence as easily as before.

If Rosen allowed the Small World Tree to fully merge with the Old World,

He could even use it to control the Old World.

But he immediately abandoned this suicidal idea.

Most of the Old World had already been corrupted by the Dark Sun.

Right now, the Old World was no different from a rotting ship, sinking into oblivion.

It was beyond saving.

Even the reformation of Origin Law could do no more than slow down its destruction.

What Rosen wanted was to plunder the Old World's foundation—

Not to go down with it.

Now that all nine World Fruits had given birth to Laws,

Rosen began extracting the Time-Space Law from the Time-Space World Fruit and infusing it into the Small World Tree.

Then, using the World Authority as nourishment,

He maximized the Small World Tree's grasp over Time-Space Law.

With Time-Space Law removed,

The now-empty World Fruit began forming a new and previously nonexistent Law—

History Law.

And at last, having abandoned World Law,

The Small World Tree was finally acknowledged by the New World and began its final transformation.

Months later,

The Small World Tree successfully ascended to True God-grade World Architecture.

[Small World Tree: World Architecture]

[Rank: True God]

[Core Law: Time-Space Law (New)]

[Subsidiary Laws: Origin Law (Old), Fate Law (Old), Imperial Authority Law (Old), Civilization Law (Old), History Law (New), Life Law (New/Old), Death Law (Old), Flesh Law (New/Old), Painting Law (New)]

Right now, the Small World Tree controlled ten Laws—

Three New, five Old, and two that had merged New and Old together.

Rosen's final goal was to find a way to merge all ten Laws.

If he could truly achieve that,

The Small World Tree would inevitably grow into a Great True God-level entity.

And along with its transformation,

Even the Ancient God True Realm had evolved.

At this moment, the Ancient God True Realm had expanded to 300 million kilometers in diameter.

Compared to the New World and Old World, it was still small.

But in total landmass, it was already several times larger than the Dragon Realm.

As he gazed upon the vast, empty lands of the Ancient God True Realm,

A certain idea took root in Rosen's mind.

If he relied solely on the natural reproduction of the life within the Ancient God True Realm,

It would take thousands—no, tens of thousands of years before this world thrived.

So why not relocate some of the Old World's civilizations instead?

There were bound to be kingdoms on the verge of collapse.

There were bound to be nations that refused to die alongside the Old World.

They would willingly migrate to the Ancient God True Realm—

As long as they believed they could survive.

Of course, they had to be absolutely obedient.

Rosen had no intention of inviting wolves into his own den.

That meant he needed overwhelming force to deter rebellion.

Only by displaying absolute power would some nations be willing to submit.

Otherwise, if he approached them without sufficient strength,

Their first reaction would be to kill him and seize the Ancient God True Realm for themselves.

After all, in the Extraordinary World,

The law of the jungle was absolute.

The Holy Courts were out of the question—

Every Holy Court wielded Great True God-level power.

The Heavenly Dynasties were also not an option—

The Sundering Heaven Dynasty alone had at least three True Gods.

Rosen could probably take one in a fight.

But if he faced three at once?

That would be suicidal.

No way was he making a loss on this deal.

That left only the Empires—which typically had only one True God overseeing them.

However, as far as Rosen knew, the few remaining Empires in the Old World were exceedingly rare.

Without delay, he posted a high bounty at Celestial Ruins, offering Celestial Pills in exchange for any leads on the location of an Empire.

His patience paid off.

Before long, he received a promising lead.

The regions surrounding the Ten Thousand Paths Holy Court were dominated by Heavenly Dynasties.

Because the Holy Court was powerful enough to attract more and stronger Dark Sun Spawn—

Whose sole purpose in the Underground World was to extinguish all civilizations and eradicate all sunlight.

In this environment, Empires had little hope of surviving.

In today's Old World, the Underground World was almost entirely controlled by Heavenly Dynasties orbiting Holy Courts.

There was simply no space left for Empires to exist.

Most had already been forced to merge into the Heavenly Dynasties.

But that didn't mean all Empires were completely gone.

Because becoming a Heavenly Dynasty was not that simple either.

After verifying the authenticity of the information,

Rosen immediately left Celestial Ruins.

No sooner had he departed than someone secretly began tailing him.

At this point, he was already a well-known figure in Celestial Ruins.

A foreigner from the New World—

Holding numerous treasures from the New World—

Capable of hunting large numbers of Dark Sun Spawn and refining them into Celestial Pills.

There was no shortage of people who had set their sights on his Radiant Lighthouse.

But until now, he had never once left Celestial Ruins.

Even those who wanted to rob him wouldn't dare make a move anywhere near Celestial Ruins.

But this time, someone had already leaked that Richard Phoenix was leaving Celestial Ruins in search of an Empire.

And once he moved far enough away,

Their hesitation would vanish entirely.

In truth, the lead about an Empire had originated from these very same people.

Originally, Rosen had planned to use his Old World's Fate Law to locate an Empire.

But he soon realized—

It was impossible.

Even though the Old World's Fate Law had revived due to the Small World Tree,

The Old World itself was still being gradually consumed by the endless darkness.

And as the darkness spread, it was erasing the influence of all Old World Laws.

As a result, his Fate Law simply could not take hold in the Old World.

Unless he personally traveled to each Heavenly Dynasty and Holy Court,

He wouldn't be able to extend his Fate Law's reach to those sunlit domains.

For now, Fate Law remained just a flickering spark.

But in the vicinity of Celestial Ruins, its power was still fully intact.

Which was why, before setting out,

Rosen had already used a Fate Prophecy Painting to foresee that he was being targeted.

And not just by one person—

He was being hunted by three True Gods and dozens of lower-ranked Gods.

Taking them all down at once was impossible.

But if they split up, he could pick them off one by one.

After leaving Celestial Ruins aboard the Dragon God's Wrath,

He immediately began accelerating with the Origin Law.

Unlike Fate Law, which was actively rejected by the Old World's darkness,

The Origin Law was welcomed by the darkness.

It was allowed to spread freely.

However, the darkness also began corrupting it.

After suffering a minor setback,

Rosen had no choice but to steer the Origin Law away from the darkness.

But now, he was deliberately using Origin Law to enter the darkness.

And to his surprise—

The Dark Sun Spawn actively avoided Dragon God's Wrath and Origin Law.

As a result, with the Dragon Crystal Engine enhanced by Origin Law,

The warship barreled forward, tearing through the Underground World at full speed.

And its endurance far surpassed that of any True God.

The Dark Sun Spawn ignored Dragon God's Wrath and Origin Law—

But they did not ignore the True Gods and Gods chasing behind him.

Before long, two of the True Gods and many of the lesser Gods had already drawn the attention of the Dark Sun Spawn.

Only one True God—who wielded the ability to shrink the earth and step across great distances—

Managed to repeatedly slip underground and evade the Dark Sun Spawn.

But even then, he was barely keeping up as Dragon God's Wrath pulled further and further away from Celestial Ruins.

(End of Chapter)