Fake Tiger-Dragon True God and the Dying Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty

In the endless darkness, Rosen relied on the power of laws to perceive his surroundings and distinguish friend from foe.

The Flesh Laws allowed him to sense all beings containing flesh and blood.

Although the Children of the Dark Sun and their minions had unique life forms, they were still flesh-and-blood beings.

Thus, through the Flesh Laws, Rosen could accurately pinpoint the locations of the Children of the Dark Sun.

By the same logic, the true god relentlessly pursuing him couldn't escape his detection either.

After traveling at maximum speed through the darkness for several days, only one true god remained on his tail.

The other true gods and deities who had wanted to rob him had completely lost track of him.

Rosen sensed a large gathering of Children of the Dark Sun ahead and knew he had found his destination.

The Children of the Dark Sun could create minions, usually using the intelligent life forms of various civilizations as material.

However, there was another method. If more than a hundred Children of the Dark Sun gathered in one place, they would kill and devour each other. The last survivor would transform into a Dark Sun Nest.

This Dark Sun Nest could continuously absorb the power of the Dark Sun, directly producing more Children of the Dark Sun and their minions.

Whenever a Dark Sun Nest was discovered, the nearby Holy Courts would inevitably destroy it.

However, in the endless darkness, finding a Dark Sun Nest was no easy task. These nests were heavily guarded by numerous Children of the Dark Sun. Aside from Great True Gods, who could easily destroy them, few true gods could discover a Dark Sun Nest and escape unscathed.

Under normal circumstances, Rosen wouldn't dare approach one. But the current situation was special—the Children of the Dark Sun wouldn't actively attack him.

This suggested that until the old world was fully covered by the Origin Laws again, the Children of the Dark Sun wouldn't eliminate him.

However, this also indicated one thing: the Dark Sun behind the Children of the Dark Sun might possess intelligence.

Taking advantage of this, Rosen swiftly passed by the Dark Sun Nest.

While he made it through safely, the true god pursuing him was immediately surrounded by dozens of Children of the Dark Sun.

Rosen stopped, and the Dragon God's Wrath destroyer transformed into a sniper rifle.

From hundreds of miles away, he set up the sniper rifle, with the God-Hunting Demon Eye locking onto the true god trapped in the encirclement.

At this distance, it would have been too close under normal circumstances, but in the endless darkness, it was safe enough.

"So it's you…"

Rosen quickly recognized the true god's identity.

During his years in the Immortal Ruins, he had become acquainted with many true gods and deities through trade.

The one trapped in the encirclement was from the Dragon-Tiger Celestial Dynasty. Unlike the Sunshot Celestial Dynasty, which was a human civilization, the Dragon-Tiger Celestial Dynasty was a demonic civilization composed of the Dragon and Tiger races. The true god chasing him was one of the three true gods of the Dragon-Tiger Celestial Dynasty—the Tiger-Dragon True God.

The Tiger-Dragon was a type of dragon, with a fish-like body, a snake's tail, four legs, and a head resembling a tiger's.

It was one of the aquatic dragon races created by the Yinglong and had since become the royal family of the Dragon-Tiger Celestial Dynasty. While the Tiger-Dragon True God was known for its water control abilities, Rosen hadn't expected its earth-shrinking and earth-diving techniques to surpass its publicly known water manipulation skills.

After observing for a while, Rosen realized he had overestimated the Tiger-Dragon True God.

This Tiger-Dragon True God held a divine seat formed from the Water Laws. Its earth-shrinking and earth-diving abilities relied on an external treasure. If it truly mastered two laws, the Tiger-Dragon True God wouldn't have been so thoroughly trapped by the Children of the Dark Sun.

As time passed, about a dozen Children of the Dark Sun were killed or injured.

Although they were at the deity level, the Children of the Dark Sun had pitifully low intelligence. Moreover, living in the underground world, every true god had a few tricks to counter them. This was why the Tiger-Dragon True God, despite being surrounded by dozens of Children of the Dark Sun, managed to kill several of them.

Just as the Tiger-Dragon True God was about to break through the encirclement at the cost of severe injuries, using its treasure to escape the fused domain of the Children of the Dark Sun, Rosen pulled the trigger.

The dual barrels of the Dragon God's Wrath fired two transcendent bullets.

One of the bullets transformed into a Dragon God's Roar, derived from the Yinglong's Great Sound Silences All, which had a certain level of suppression against all dragonkind.

The other bullet, accelerated by time, transformed into the Ancient God's Shackles as it approached the Tiger-Dragon True God.

Already severely injured, the Tiger-Dragon True God couldn't resist the suppression of the Dragon-Binding Chains.

The Ancient God's Shackles dragged the Tiger-Dragon True God toward Rosen. The Children of the Dark Sun, still in pursuit, attacked the Tiger-Dragon True God but refrained from targeting Rosen. They continued their assault until the Tiger-Dragon True God entered Rosen's Divine Domain, at which point they lost their target and stopped attacking.

Worried about complications, Rosen quickly fled and soon found a safe place to retreat into his Divine Domain.

As happy as he was to capture the Tiger-Dragon True God, his joy soon turned to disappointment.

Rosen had initially thought that killing the Tiger-Dragon True God would yield a true god's transcendent artifact, and that the Dragon-Binding Chains could absorb the Tiger-Dragon True God's corpse to further restore itself to Sequence 0. However, he discovered that the Tiger-Dragon True God, despite its true god-level strength, was at best a Sequence 3 demigod.

Excluding the power granted by its divine seat, the Tiger-Dragon True God's true strength was only at Sequence 3.

"As expected, anything becomes less valuable when its quantity increases!"

Rosen sighed.

A dead Tiger-Dragon True God would be exceptionally cheap, but a living one still possessed genuine true god-level strength.

After sealing the Tiger-Dragon True God with the Original Painting Sealing Technique, Rosen attempted to study its divine seat.

He gained almost nothing, but this was within his expectations.

The divine seat system was a creation of many Great True Gods working together. If it were so easy to uncover its secrets, it would be an insult to those Great True Gods. After hours of research, the only thing he could confirm was that the divine seat was a mixture of laws,信仰, and fortune.

"It's not too late to study this after securing an Imperial Dynasty."

Rosen said as he stored the Tiger-Dragon True God's painted card and picked up the captured treasure.

[Breathing Earth Spirit Pearl: Cave Heaven Immortal Artifact]

[Level: Immortal Deity]

[Attribute: The Breathing Earth Spirit Pearl contains a Breathing Earth Cave Heaven, formed from Immortal Dao and Earth Laws.]

[Abilities: Earth-Shrinking, Earth-Diving Great Escape.]

Rosen couldn't refine the Breathing Earth Spirit Pearl for now. In the old world, an Immortal Deity corresponded to a true god in the new world.

The Tiger-Dragon True God, translated into the old world's hierarchy, would be the Tiger-Dragon Immortal Deity.

The Breathing Earth Spirit Pearl was even more impressive than the Cloud Dream Cave Heaven. It contained a cave heaven world spanning tens of thousands of miles, with a core area of a thousand-mile medicinal garden. Beyond that were countless mines, and within the cave heaven, countless earth puppets were responsible for planting and mining.

This item was likely the Dragon-Tiger Celestial Dynasty's national treasure, and the dynasty would not give up searching for the Breathing Earth Spirit Pearl.

If Rosen returned to the Immortal Ruins, coexistence with the Dragon-Tiger Celestial Dynasty would be impossible.

Unable to refine the Breathing Earth Spirit Pearl, Rosen had no choice but to use the Source Star Core to seal it and forcibly control it.

By mastering the Earth-Diving Great Escape, Rosen not only gained mastery over the Earth Laws but also acquired powerful earth-diving abilities. However, for long-distance movement, the Earth-Shrinking technique was still superior, matching the speed of the Dragon God's Wrath destroyer form enhanced by the Origin Laws.

Rosen stopped using the destroyer and instead relied on the Earth-Shrinking technique to travel.

The destroyer's speed was too fast, far exceeding its normal cruising speed, making it difficult to avoid dangers flexibly. In contrast, the Earth-Shrinking technique offered much greater flexibility in dangerous situations.

If it hadn't been for the domain created by the dozens of Children of the Dark Sun, which blocked the Earth-Shrinking technique, the Tiger-Dragon True God could have easily escaped before the domain enveloped it, had it been more cautious and noticed the danger earlier.

Several months later, Rosen arrived at an underground sea and stopped.

According to the clues he had gathered, a true god had once searched this underground sea for a type of transcendent metal. During the search, the true god unexpectedly discovered sunlight at the level of an Imperial Dynasty piercing through the darkness deep within the sea. However, upon investigating, no Imperial Dynasty was found.

The true god couldn't have been mistaken—what it saw was real.

The fact that it didn't find anything only meant that the dynasty was well hidden.

If it hadn't been hidden so deeply, it wouldn't have been able to survive alone in the darkness far from the Holy Courts.

After searching for months without success, the true god had no choice but to leave in frustration.

Through Fate Precognition Painting, Rosen confirmed that the true god who provided the clue was telling the truth.

Since the Imperial Dynasty couldn't be found on the surface, it must have been hidden within a concealed cave heaven world.

Rosen expanded the Temporal Domain shared from the Small World Tree. Under the coverage of a true god-level domain, no hidden cave heaven could escape detection enhanced by the Temporal Laws. All that remained was to conduct a thorough search of the underground sea.

In less than half a month, Rosen found the hidden cave heaven world.

Taking out the Secret Compass, he activated the miracle trait Spatial Orbit, constructing a spatial channel based on the spatial coordinates calculated through the Temporal Laws.

Rosen passed through the spatial channel and arrived in a desolate cave heaven world.

From a high vantage point, the cave heaven world spanned over a hundred thousand miles, but only the core area of about ten thousand miles was still bathed in sunlight. The rest of the region had been completely engulfed by darkness, and it was clear that the darkness was slowly consuming the light.

Using the Earth-Shrinking technique, Rosen quickly traversed the darkness and arrived at a small town near the boundary between light and darkness.

The town now had only a few hundred people left, all elderly or disabled. The young and children had already fled. Those who remained gathered in the most luxurious courtyard in the town, some despairing, others resigned, clearly waiting for death.

The Mental Canvas continuously reflected the spirituality of these hundreds of people, revealing everything they knew about this world.

This was the Golden Crow Cave Heaven. The Golden Crow was an innate divine beast that wielded the authority of the sun.

The Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty ruled over the Golden Crow Cave Heaven. Legend had it that the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty had existed for millions of years, with each generation of the Blazing Sun Immortal Deity protecting the dynasty from the corruption of darkness. However, at this point, the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty was being gradually devoured by the darkness.

Rosen casually moved the people into the Breathing Earth Cave Heaven. Meeting him was a stroke of luck for them.

After several uses of the Earth-Shrinking technique, he approached the capital of the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty.

The entire Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty was, strictly speaking, equivalent to the divine kingdom of the Blazing Sun Immortal Deity.

Moreover, the Blazing Sun Immortal Deity was also the master of the Golden Crow Cave Heaven. While it wasn't difficult to hide in the outer regions, it was nearly impossible to evade the perception of the Blazing Sun Immortal Deity in the capital of the dynasty. Until he confirmed whether they were hostile, it was better to proceed with caution.

Using the God-Hunting Demon Eye, Rosen secretly observed the capital ahead and was surprised to find no transcendent beings at the true god level.

In fact, there weren't even any deities, let alone true gods.

Rosen directly penetrated the Formations along the way with his vision and focused on the palace of the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty, quickly locking onto the dynasty's ruler.

To his surprise, the ruler wasn't a true god but merely a Sequence 3 demigod.

After observing the extravagant lifestyle within the palace, Rosen roughly understood what was going on.

The Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty had only one true god. Facing the threat of the Children of the Dark Sun alone, the true god had no allies to help it recover from injuries. This prolonged solitary struggle inevitably shortened the already brief lifespan of true gods in the old world.

This was also the key reason why Imperial Dynasties struggled to survive. Having only one true god meant being unable to withstand the pressure alone.

If it weren't for the Golden Crow Cave Heaven, the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty would have already perished.

However, not all heirs to the throne of the Blazing Sun Immortal Deity were willing to live short lives or sacrifice themselves for the dynasty. The current ruler of the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty clearly had no intention of inheriting the Immortal Deity's divine seat.

Instead, he indulged in a life of luxury within the palace, completely disregarding the survival of the dynasty.

Rosen released several Shadow Demons, quickly gaining control over all transcendent beings in the capital of the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty.

Deep within the palace, the Blazing Sun Ruler, who had been drinking and enjoying music, sighed in resignation upon seeing Rosen appear.

Even though the Golden Crow Cave Heaven was so well hidden, it had still been discovered by an outsider.

The Blazing Sun Ruler was all too familiar with the law of the jungle, as he had been content to let the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty crumble. He just hadn't expected that the few hundred years of life he had left would be cut short before he could fully enjoy them.

Rosen used the Mental Canvas to reflect the Blazing Sun Ruler, sealing him into a painting.

At the same time, he reflected the ruler's memories, confirming his earlier analysis.

After the previous Blazing Sun Immortal Deity fell, the current ruler was supposed to inherit the divine seat. However, becoming the Blazing Sun Immortal Deity would limit his lifespan to around a thousand years, while remaining at Sequence 3 would allow him to live for several thousand years.

Thus, after weighing his options, the current ruler decided to abandon the divine seat.

To ensure his power remained unchallenged, he sealed all divine seats above Sequence 3, allowing the dynasty's territory to be gradually consumed by darkness. He only cared about enjoying his remaining years, completely indifferent to the fate of the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty.

Throughout history, few foolish rulers were truly unintelligent. Most were very clever and fully aware of their actions.

They knew their incompetence would lead to the downfall of their kingdom but didn't care, adopting the mindset of "after I die, let the floodwaters rage."

Every cave heaven world has a core, which is almost always formed from the world's origin.

The core of the Golden Crow Cave Heaven was a true god-level Fusang Tree.

Rosen found the withered and dying Fusang Tree within the origin secret realm of the palace.

Because it was on the verge of death, the difficulty of refining the cave heaven core was significantly reduced.

Rosen easily refined the Fusang Tree and then summoned the Mother Tree of Life, Iris, to do her best to heal it.

However, this was only a temporary solution, at best delaying the Fusang Tree's death.

To fully revive the Fusang Tree, the darkness that had engulfed most of the Golden Crow Cave Heaven needed to be dispelled.

But this was nearly impossible. If it were that easy, the territories of the various civilizations in the underground world wouldn't be shrinking. Sunlight could only resist the encroachment of darkness, and while it could temporarily drive back the darkness, purifying it was far more difficult.

It would likely require sacrificing more than one Celestial Dynasty's fragments of the Sun's origin to eradicate the darkness in the Golden Crow Cave Heaven.

Rosen released the Glorious Lighthouse, which hovered above the capital of the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty, transforming into a solar jellyfish.

Endless sunlight spread through its tendrils, covering the remaining territory of the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty that hadn't yet been consumed by darkness. While it couldn't counterattack the darkness, it wasn't difficult to prevent the darkness from further encroaching on the dynasty.

Then Rosen exited the Golden Crow Cave Heaven and shrank it into a hollow copper sphere.

In this form, the Golden Crow Cave Heaven was completely sealed off from the outside.

The hollow copper sphere had turned pitch black, with only a faint golden glow remaining deep within its core.

Moving a cave heaven world was relatively easy, so there was no reason for the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty to remain isolated in this underground sea, fighting alone.

Seeking protection near a Holy Court or allying with other Imperial Dynasties to form a Celestial Dynasty would have been the logical choices.

The reason the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty stayed in this underground sea was that it concealed a natural cave heaven world.

The Golden Crow Cave Heaven, a cave heaven immortal artifact, was the reward the first Blazing Sun Immortal Deity obtained from that natural cave heaven.

The light the true god from the Immortal Ruins had seen bursting from the underground sea was the result of the previous Blazing Sun Immortal Deity's failed exploration of that natural cave heaven. The Immortal Deity had been forced to flee in disarray and subsequently died suddenly.

The Golden Crow Cave Heaven struggled to survive in this underground sea, with each generation of the Blazing Sun Immortal Deity living less than half as long as the true gods of Celestial Dynasties.

Despite sacrificing half their lifespans, they refused to leave, which spoke volumes about the value hidden within that natural cave heaven.

Rosen quickly found the entrance to the natural cave heaven and constructed a spatial channel to infiltrate it.

Almost immediately, he realized that this wasn't a natural cave heaven but a man-made one, similar to the Golden Crow Cave Heaven. However, this cave heaven was on the same level as the Dragon World, likely also an independent world created by a Great True God.

But this world was in an even worse state than the Dragon World, teetering on the brink of destruction under the erosion of darkness.

Along the way, Rosen discovered numerous Dark Sun Nests. If it weren't for the fact that the Children of the Dark Sun weren't actively attacking him, reaching the world's core through their heavy blockade would have been nearly impossible.

In a world of this caliber, created by a Great True God, the world core should have been extremely well hidden.

Even in the Dragon World, the world core had never been found by successive generations of Dragon Gods.

But now that this world was on the verge of collapse, the world core could no longer remain hidden.

As Rosen cautiously approached, he saw the corpse of a Golden Crow lying on the ground. This Golden Crow had undoubtedly been a Great True God in life, as even after countless years of death, it still emitted a terrifying radiance. The surrounding darkness had not corrupted the corpse in the slightest.

However, when Rosen passed through the darkness and touched the Golden Crow's body, he realized it was nothing more than a hollow shell.

The radiant feathers of the Golden Crow could be easily plucked, crumbling into dust at the slightest touch. After searching the entire body, only three tail feathers remained at true god quality, along with a few dozen feathers at Sequence 0 quality.

If the feathers were in such a state, the flesh and bones weren't much better.

Only the skull, where the consciousness resided, retained true god quality. The rest of the bones had completely decayed, and the flesh was mostly gone, with only a few drops of blood in the heart still retaining vitality. The rest was an empty shell. The only thing that barely retained the quality of a Great True God was a damaged artifact inside the skull.

After collecting these valuable items, the world, having lost its final support, completely collapsed.

(End of Chapter)