A Hundred Thousand Years of Accumulation and the Will of Royal Authority

Inside the Mysterious Study Room, Rosen carefully extracted several drops of golden blood, each as large as a chariot wheel, radiating like miniature suns. Harnessing his mastery of the Flesh Law, he began to excavate the inherited memories sealed within these drops—memories passed down by the Golden Crow lineage.

Before long, fragmented remnants of these ancient memories surfaced. Much of it was incomplete, but one thing he was able to confirm—the origin of the damaged artifact inside the Golden Crow's skull.

It was the Sun Gold Wheel, an ancestral celestial artifact of the Golden Crow Clan, a weapon that could only be wielded by those of their bloodline.

Rosen swallowed a drop of Golden Crow blood and activated Flesh Symbiosis, transforming into a Golden Crow.

It wasn't just a mere disguise—at this moment, the bloodline coursing through his veins was identical to that of the Sun Gold Wheel's last wielder. As a result, the dormant Sun Gold Wheel instantly submitted to him, entering his Divine Consciousness Sea and allowing itself to be refined by his Divine Essence.

The damage was severe, but the Sun Gold Wheel had self-repairing capabilities. Unfortunately, such restoration was impossible in the Old World. The only way to repair it was to bring it into the New World and rejuvenate it using the power of the New World's Sun.

But that was easier said than done. The New World's Sun was under the absolute control of the Pantheon of Gods. Without the collective approval of all divine factions, no one—not even a True God—could approach it. Thus, restoring the Sun Gold Wheel was nothing more than a distant dream.

Rosen placed the Sun Gold Wheel inside Golden Crow Cave Heaven, securing it at the apex of the Brilliant Lighthouse. With both artifacts combined, slowly purging the darkness from Golden Crow Cave Heaven was no longer impossible.

Even a Great True God had perished in silence, without so much as drawing scavengers to loot his corpse—the depths of the Old World's mysteries were beyond comprehension. Thinking he could subjugate the Old World's civilizations to develop Ancient God's True Realm—Rosen now realized he had been far too naive.

If not for the Dark Sun Spawn currently ignoring him, he wouldn't have even managed to take Golden Crow Cave Heaven with him.

But that wasn't necessarily a good thing. The Dark Sun Spawn weren't harming him because his Primordial Law was beneficial to the Old World. It was also beneficial to Dark Sun itself.

And if he continued to withhold the Primordial Law from merging with the Old World's darkness—would Dark Sun really just sit back and do nothing?

Of course not.

It was likely lowering his guard. Given the Dark Sun's reach within the underground world, it wouldn't be difficult to amass an army of Dark Sun Spawn to hunt him down. However, killing him and seizing the Primordial Law were two entirely different matters.

Perhaps that was why Dark Sun had temporarily held back—it simply wasn't certain it could take the law from him by force. But if stronger Dark Sun Entities were to descend into the underground world, then the situation would change entirely.

He might have defeated a True God with ease and advanced to Sequence 1—but it seemed that had made him overconfident.

Rosen immediately commanded his Bronze Dragon Avatar to shift the spatial anchor of the Mysterious Study Room, allowing him to traverse the endless darkness and return to Celestial Ruins.

But even Celestial Ruins was not truly safe. In the New World, he had to evade the Great True Gods. In the Old World, he had to evade Dark Sun. There was no place left for him to truly hide.

Fortunately, he still had the Mysterious Study Room as his final sanctuary.

Before the Small World Tree in Ancient God's True Realm, Rosen silently unfurled his Divine Domain.

Inside the Ashen Castle, he began his research on the Blazing Sun Empire's Divine Thrones.

With the empire's extensive records on Divine Thrones and the memories of the captured Tiger-Dragon True God, Rosen gradually gained a deeper understanding of how they functioned.

A Divine Throne could be destroyed—but a destroyed Divine Throne would always regenerate.

It was somewhat similar to the Eternal Indestructibility of Miracle Artifacts—except for one critical difference.

A Miracle Artifact was unique, possessing the Heaven and Earth Uniqueness trait.

But a Divine Throne did not possess that trait.

Or rather, all Divine Thrones combined together formed a single Miracle Artifact.

Every Divine Throne was merely a component of that artifact.

If that were truly the case, then the Divine Thrones of the Old World would undoubtedly be the most powerful Miracle Artifact he had ever encountered.

His research into Divine Thrones yielded no further breakthroughs, but at least the Small World Tree was no longer withering.

Rosen decided once again to create a new skill. This time, he entered the Imperial Authority World Fruit, attempting to craft a skill for the Noble Path by drawing upon the power of the Imperial Authority Law.

Imperial Authority was an upper-tier law superior to Royal Authority. Even though it was classified as an Old World Law, its potential still surpassed the New World's Royal Authority Domain.

Now that Time-Space Law had become the core law of the Small World Tree, time acceleration could now affect any World Fruit.

Moreover, the upper limit of time acceleration was no longer just a thousandfold—it had reached a terrifying three thousandfold.

However, the energy consumption at that level was simply too high. In the end, he stabilized it at one thousandfold, where the consumption remained manageable.

The principle behind time acceleration was simple: the larger the affected area and the stronger the target, the greater the energy consumption.

This made Rosen realize that while he could effortlessly maintain one thousandfold time acceleration at Sequence 1, once he reached Sequence 0, sustaining even one hundredfold might already be difficult.

And if he ever ascended to True Godhood, maintaining just tenfold time acceleration over long durations would already be an achievement.

If time acceleration were that easy to use, then mastering the Law of Time would be nearly impossible, but wielding the Authority of Time wouldn't be difficult at all.

Thus, while he could still easily enjoy one thousandfold time acceleration, it was best to preemptively deduce all his future skills—not just for Sequence 0, but even for True Godhood. That was the most efficient and cost-effective approach.

And why could a Sequence 1 already deduce skills meant for True Gods?

Because he had Law Mastery.

Skills were simply a means to fully exploit a law's power.

Therefore, while creating high-level skills at a low sequence was difficult, it was not impossible.

Five-Dimensional Painting and Art of Dimensions were both skills whose potential exceeded the Sequence Level of the painters who created them.

Creating skills from nothing was too difficult. The best approach was to stand on the shoulders of predecessors—to absorb their strengths and refine their wisdom.

In the New World, all knowledge related to Royal Authority and Imperial Authority had been sealed away.

But in the Old World, these Law Systems had never been erased.

In fact, even the Royal Authority Law still had surviving traces.

Thus, finding records on them was not difficult.

However, the Old World did not use a Sequence System, nor did it classify abilities as Sequence Skills.

Instead, they followed a system of cultivation realms and techniques.

Thus, even understanding those records—let alone gaining insights from them—was no easy task.

During his self-created skill research, Rosen soon stumbled upon an unexpected discovery.

The Truth Chamber within Apocalypse Treasure Map also had the ability to enhance intelligence.

Previously, however, the Truth Chamber had functioned independently.

When training inside, he had been unable to enjoy time acceleration.

Thus, its usefulness had always felt underwhelming.

But after Apocalypse Treasure Map merged into the Miracle Path, its connection with the Small World Tree had become seamless.

Now, the two powers could fully integrate.

Rosen experienced yet another boost in intellectual prowess, and his progress in skill creation became even smoother.

...

Year after year passed.

Both Rosen's true body and his three self-portrait avatars were fully occupied.

His Azure Dragon Avatar in the New World's Dragon Realm had to oversee trade within the Main God Hall, all while using Mind Canvas to harvest insights from the New World's countless painters—he was busy year-round.

Meanwhile, his Bronze Dragon Avatar in Celestial Ruins was no less burdened.

He had to maintain high-value bounties for various Old World techniques, purchase rare supernatural resources, and ensure a steady supply of Celestial Ruins Divine Pills—all of which required an endless hunt for Dark Sun Spawn.

If not for delegating that task to his Reaper Avatar, he wouldn't have had enough resources to exchange for the countless cultivation manuals he needed.

And just like that,

Rosen divided his workload accordingly, and his true body spent over a hundred years intermittently training inside the Truth Chamber.

With one-thousandfold time acceleration, that translated to a total of one hundred thousand years.

With the aid of Prime Oil Lamp, Flesh Secret Fruit, and various other resources, it took him less than a thousand years of accelerated training to perfect his divine essence.

Not wanting to waste the remaining time, Rosen frequently used his Miracle Skill—Forbidden Curse—to create Forbidden Curse Paintings.

Since Forbidden Curse Paintings permanently consumed Divine Essence, Rosen took this opportunity to reforge his divine foundation.

Over the course of one hundred thousand years, his Divine Essence fluctuated nearly a hundred times.

Rosen had painted over a hundred Forbidden Curse Paintings, each one targeting a different True God of the Main World. However, because they were separated by two realms, none of the curses had activated yet—they all remained sealed.

The moment he needed them, he could unseal them at will.

Even if they couldn't outright kill a True God, these Forbidden Curse Paintings would ensure that their targets never knew peace.

But a hundred thousand years of rigorous training wasn't as grueling as it seemed—Rosen wasn't just mindlessly toiling away day after day.

Whenever he felt mentally drained, he would relax by wandering through the Ancient God True Realm.

Thus, after a hundred thousand years of intermittent training, he finally succeeded in deducing all three of his Paths' self-created skills up to the True God level.

Beyond that, however, it was impossible.

After all, Supernatural Paths at the Great True God level were beyond his current comprehension.

He didn't even truly understand what a Great True God was supposed to be—so there was no way he could imagine and create a Supernatural Path at that level.

For now, his Path Development had reached its limit.

Moving forward, Rosen wouldn't spend years in accelerated training anymore.

Inside the Flesh World Fruit, Rosen retrieved the Flesh Factory that had been stationed there.

Over the years, he had relied on the Miracle Trait of the Flesh Factory to mass-produce Flesh Puppets, selling them for exorbitant prices and amassing a vast fortune.

Now, he planned to take things one step further—by integrating the Flesh Hive into his Noble Path at Sequence 1.

Thanks to his mastery of Flesh Law, ten thousand years of refinement under the Holy Grail of Kings, and the fusion of his Supernatural Essence into a Simulated Divine Core, his essence capacity had grown to a monstrous degree.

Thus, despite still being Sequence 1, he could directly integrate a True God-tier Flesh Hive into his Noble Path.

A Miracle Divine Structure of this magnitude provided far greater benefits than any Sequence 1 self-created skill.

Thus, the Flesh Hive unquestionably occupied one of his skill slots.

With the aid of Flesh Law, the Flesh Hive seamlessly merged into his Divine Territory.

Previously, as a standalone entity, the Flesh Hive had relied on Flesh Law and the Flesh World Fruit to function independently.

Now that it was integrated, it naturally had to yield greater benefits.

The most immediate advantage was a massive boost to the output of other troop-producing structures.

For instance, the Abyss Demon Nest—which produced Abyssal Shadow Demons—could now use the Flesh Hive to generate physical bodies, while the Demon Nest itself focused on forging their souls.

Moreover, the Flesh Hive could now benefit from the Noble Path's amplifications.

Production efficiency increased, and resource consumption significantly decreased.

This wasn't immediately apparent for low-tier Flesh Puppets, but for True God-tier Flesh Puppets, the resource cost reduction was roughly thirty percent.

If he could originally manufacture three True God-tier Flesh Puppets, then after integrating the Flesh Hive, he could now produce four.

After successfully merging the Flesh Hive, Rosen proceeded to master his self-created skill—Royal Authority Will.

Back at Sequence 4, he had already grasped Immortal Will, which granted his Spirituality an immortal nature, vastly enhancing his mental defenses.

Moreover, when he eventually ascended to Great True Godhood, Immortal Will would significantly reduce the difficulty of his apotheosis.

His newly created Royal Authority Will was no less formidable than Immortal Will from the Ancient God Path.

If Immortal Will specialized in defense, then Royal Authority Will specialized in suppression.

Rosen retrieved the Civilization Ember of the Brilliant Kingdom and channeled it through his Simulated Divine Core.

By drawing upon the Civilization Ember, along with the faith of his kingdom's subjects and all his believers, he condensed their various forms of faith energy and began engraving Spiritual Runes within his Divine Core, forging Royal Authority Will.

As countless Spiritual Runes wove together into a complex formation, the Skill Rune for Royal Authority Will was successfully constructed.

[Royal Authority Will: The strength of one's will is determined by the might of their Royal Authority. By wielding Royal Authority Will, one can instill fear into all spirituality.]

In essence, Royal Authority Will was a spiritual suppression ability.

Even True Gods could not escape its influence.

As long as Rosen's Royal Authority Will was strong enough, even a True God's divine will wouldn't be able to extend beyond their own domain. They wouldn't be able to manipulate the Laws of Heaven and Earth through their divine will, either. In theory, Royal Authority Will could completely suppress a True God, sealing their Divine Essence inside their Mind Sea, preventing it from extending outward.

In this state, if one disregarded physical strength, a True God's divine power would be weakened to the point of being inferior to Sequence 9.

Of course, Rosen wasn't capable of such an extreme level of suppression yet. He tested it on Tiger-Dragon True God inside the Ancient God True Realm.

Under the pressure of Royal Authority Will, Tiger-Dragon True God's divine will was locked within his Law Domain.

His overall strength was reduced by at least thirty percent.

If it were a Sequence 0, it would be weakened by seventy percent.

If it were a Sequence 1, its Divine Power would be completely sealed, making it incapable of using any Sequence Skills that consumed Divine Power—essentially rendering it no different from being stripped of all supernatural abilities.

After successfully mastering Royal Authority Will, Rosen proceeded to grasp his next self-created skill—Royal Authority Judgment.

This skill wasn't as easy to cultivate as Royal Authority Will, because Royal Authority Judgment required external power.

To wield Royal Authority Judgment, the Brilliant Kingdom first needed a Nation-Safeguarding Treasure.

This treasure had to withstand the full power of the Brilliant Kingdom's Civilization Ember, bear the faith of all its citizens, and carry the spiritual force of every transcendent being in the kingdom.

If Royal Authority Judgment failed to kill the target, the Brilliant Kingdom itself would collapse.

The essence of Royal Authority Judgment was to channel the power of an entire nation through a Nation-Safeguarding Treasure to obliterate an enemy.

For the Brilliant Kingdom, its Nation-Safeguarding Treasure was, without question, the Brilliant Map.

Besides requiring a Nation-Safeguarding Treasure, mastering Royal Authority Judgment also required multiple Authorities.

The core Authorities included Royal Authority and Judgment Authority, while additional Authorities had no upper limit—the more, the better.

In this regard, Rosen had an absolute advantage from the very beginning.

After all, he had already mastered over ten different Laws and held over a hundred different Authorities.

As layers upon layers of Spiritual Runes were woven into his Simulated Divine Core, the Brilliant Map, which had merged with the Miracle Sequence, began a deep integration with the Noble Path, further strengthening the fusion between the Noble Path and the Miracle Sequence.

Next, he needed to acquire the Judgment Authority.

For Rosen, this wasn't particularly difficult, either.

Since his Divine Domain at Sequence 1 still allowed him to perform one final Ancient God Sacrificial Ritual, he could use this ritual to integrate a Miracle Treasure's Trait into his Divine Domain.

As long as he obtained a Miracle Treasure with Judgment Authority, he could simply sacrifice it to his Divine Domain and obtain Judgment Authority with ease.

Shortly after Royal Authority Judgment was conceptualized, Rosen's three avatars had already begun tracking down a relevant Miracle Treasure.

They had already found clues, but obtaining the treasure would still be difficult.

Through the Mysterious Study Room, Rosen, who had been away for over a hundred years, discreetly returned to the New World and left the Dragon Realm.

Having mastered the Law of Fate—even though it was only the Old World's Fate Law and could not take effect outside of the Ancient God True Realm, his Divine Domain, or his own territory—when combined with his recently regained True God Innate Fortune, it was enough to make it extremely difficult for Great True Gods to foresee his actions.

Thus, he no longer needed to hide in the Main World—the death of the Light Angel True God no longer affected him.

The Main World had witnessed the rise and fall of countless civilizations.

Many of them had perished under the World Will's Judgment—the so-called Cataclysm of Civilization.

At its core, Civilization Cataclysm was simply the judgment of the World Will.

Because of this, Judgment Law had never been successfully mastered by anyone.

At most, a few True Gods had managed to grasp lesser branches of Judgment Law.

Each time Judgment Law annihilated an entire civilization, it would sometimes give birth to Miracle Treasures imbued with Judgment Authority—many of which were Sequence 1-grade.

The last known owner of such a Miracle Treasure had been sighted in the Dwarven Kingdom.

The Main World's dwarves had once flourished in glorious splendor.

But in the present era, not a single True God remained among them.

Without a strong backer, many dwarves had been forced to serve as vassals under the major races of the Main World.

That said, the Dwarven Kingdom was by no means weak.

Deep beneath the Main World's surface, in the Underground World, the Dwarven Kingdom remained one of the dominant powers among underground races.

Even though they had no True Gods, they had a Demigod—the Earth Dwarf King, who had a history of easily slaying True Gods.

Unlike the kingdoms of the World Government, which were kingdoms in name only with no actual Royal Authority, the Dwarven Kingdom, under the rule of the Earth Dwarf King, truly wielded the power of Royal Authority.

However, this Royal Authority didn't come from himself—instead, he relied on a mysterious Miracle Treasure, an artifact of Royal Authority that had been passed down through the Dwarven Kingdom's history.

It was precisely because of this Miracle Treasure that the Earth Dwarf King was able to slay True Gods.

The Dwarven Kingdom was highly isolationist, making it difficult to locate.

Furthermore, the Dwarven Kingdom was not stationary—it was a mobile kingdom that continuously migrated through the Underground World, chasing after new mineral veins.

Rosen had even attempted to track down the Dwarven Kingdom's Fate-Blessed Individual through the Main World Network, but whether it was due to the Miracle Treasure's power or some other reason, even the Main World Network was unable to lock onto their Fate-Blessed Individual.

However, Rosen was well aware of one place that had deep ties to the Dwarven Kingdom.

The dwarves had originated from the Titans, and currently, the only race that remained on friendly terms with them was the Titan Race.

Thus, in the Titan Heavy Industries of the Chaotic Seas, there was a significant number of dwarves from the Dwarven Kingdom.

Years ago, Rosen had relocated the core infrastructure of several major corporations from the Chaotic Seas into the Ancient God True Realm.

Now, after so many years, the major factions of the Chaotic Seas had reestablished their corporations, and Titan Heavy Industries remained one of the five great powers of the region.

Through Titan Heavy Industries, it wouldn't be difficult to find a way to contact the Dwarven Kingdom.