Rosen strolled around the main hall of the Blazing Heaven Star Palace and truly found quite a few treasures.
And this was merely what the 1,621 immortal godfiends had casually offered for trade—not the elite items of the once-in-ten-thousand-years minor gathering, let alone the foundational treasures exchanged at the once-in-a-million-years grand gathering. As expected, the longer one lived, the greater their wealth.
That said, the Immortal Celestial Wolf seemed a bit poor by comparison.
But then again, it wasn't all that surprising. The immortal godfiends hailed from countless different races across the universe.
Some immortal godfiends needed to refine artifacts and thus stockpiled transcendental resources for forging extraordinary items.
But for a being like the Immortal Celestial Wolf—who relied solely on sheer physical might—any resources they possessed were either consumed or integrated into the immortal world within their abdomen. Rather than wasting them on crafting items, it was better to use them for self-enhancement. Even then, calling the Immortal Celestial Wolf "poor" was only relative.
The Blazing Heaven Star Palace didn't bar any immortal godfiend from joining, but there were still entry requirements.
If one couldn't present 30,000 bricks forged from Sequence 0 transcendental stars, they shouldn't even dream of gaining recognition from the palace.
Had Rosen not possessed the space source seed allowing him to span infinite cosmic distances, or the time source seed granting him precise foresight of transcendental star locations, he wouldn't have been able to gather so many Sequence 0 transcendental stars in such a short time.
Just like the Immortal Celestial Wolf, many immortal godfiends were unable to produce such a quantity of transcendental stars and therefore couldn't join the palace.
Rosen approached a transcendental star and reached inside, retrieving a bone fragment.
The immortal godfiend behind this transcendental star came from the Heart-Ape Clan.
This race was quite unique, somewhat akin to the spiritual stone monkey from Journey to the West.
The Heart-Ape Clan was innately gifted in infinite transformations and could see through the true nature of all things, tracing causes back to their roots.
Because of this, they excelled not only in treasure-hunting but also in intelligence-gathering.
Depending on where they resided, they made use of their talents to acquire resources accordingly.
Rosen input the intelligence he wished to acquire into the bone fragment, then casually tossed it back into the fist-sized transcendental star.
Soon, a projection of the immortal Heart-Ape's eternal will descended and quoted a price based on the intelligence requested.
Rosen paid with some Eternal Blazing Heaven Source and received the information he wanted.
Among the immortal-godfiend-level transcendental materials in the universe, 10% came from the Fourteenth Star Ring, 30% came from forbidden zones of the universe, and the remaining 60% were sourced from primordial beasts. However, the materials harvested from primordial beasts were generally of lower quality.
Of course, there were exceptions—an extremely small number of exceptionally powerful primordial beasts could drop valuable transcendental materials.
The primordial beast Rosen had set his sights on was actually well known among many immortal godfiends.
Unlike most primordial beasts that didn't even have names, this one had been named: the Primordial Beast Emperor.
The title "Beast Emperor" said it all—it was the sovereign among primordial beasts.
The Beast Emperor resembled a rhinoceros, its back covered in blade-like bone armor. Its most terrifying trait was its undying, indestructible physique. It had once been besieged by dozens of immortal godfiends yet lay there sleeping as if completely unfazed by the damage it took.
Later, over a hundred immortal godfiends assembled again to besiege it, and only then did their combined damage finally surpass the Beast Emperor's self-recovery rate.
It was then that the Beast Emperor revealed another terrifying ability besides its immortal body—it could summon other primordial beasts out of thin air. One-on-one, an immortal godfiend could crush a primordial beast of the same tier; even one-versus-five wasn't impossible with difficulty.
But the Beast Emperor summoned over ten thousand immortal-level primordial beasts. Of the hundred-plus immortal godfiends who attacked, several died while the rest escaped severely injured.
"So terrifying… to be able to summon so many primordial beasts at the immortal-godfiend level. No wonder it's called the Beast Emperor," Rosen muttered in a low voice, barely able to hide his excitement.
Indeed, the Primordial Beast Emperor was utterly terrifying.
However, it didn't display overwhelming direct destructive power. Instead, its strength lay in its summoning ability.
And since summoning required the summoned targets to cross space, then sealing off space should in theory prevent the summons.
Those injured immortal godfiends had tried targeting the Beast Emperor again afterward.
But even when they jointly sealed off space, they were still unable to block the Beast Emperor's spatial summoning.
It was eventually evaluated that the Primordial Beast Emperor's spatial summoning ability was genuinely at the eternal level, and only an eternal being highly skilled in spatial sealing, leveraging an eternal world's lockdown, might have a chance at stopping it.
Rosen wasn't an eternal lifeform, but he did control the space source seed.
Any spatial ability, when faced with his space source seed, was nothing more than showing off in front of a master craftsman.
After leaving an eternal clone behind in the Blazing Heaven Star Palace, Rosen used the Crossing Gateway to leave the Blazing Heaven Supercluster.He casually teleported to the surface of a distant star, took out the Time Foresight Painting, and pushed open the spatial door within the painting.
Passing through the spatial door, he arrived at the location of the Primordial Beast Emperor as depicted in the painting. Rosen immediately unleashed the Creator Domain, enveloping the Primordial Beast Emperor. Since he was only one person, the Primordial Beast Emperor didn't even notice the threat and remained asleep without attempting to summon any primordial beasts.
Rosen summoned the Creator's Chains, which wound around the massive Primordial Beast Emperor—its body spanning several hundred thousand miles, the size of a star.
Next, he released the Root Queen, directing it to parasitize the Primordial Beast Emperor.
Still not satisfied, Rosen used the Hypnotist Sequence, reinforced by the Dream Source Seed, to plunge the Primordial Beast Emperor into an even deeper slumber.
Finally, he released the Blazing Heaven Holy Serpent, which swallowed the Primordial Beast Emperor whole and transported it into the Soulbinding World.
The power of the Space Source Seed now filled every inch of the Soulbinding World, and with the addition of the Eternal World, the Primordial Beast Emperor's summoning abilities were completely nullified. What remained was its terrifying self-regeneration ability.
Of course, this didn't rule out the possibility that the Primordial Beast Emperor possessed other powerful offensive capabilities that it hadn't shown yet.
Thus, Rosen couldn't afford to be careless. Slaying the Primordial Beast Emperor would require caution.
Rosen soon realized that the Root Queen could not parasitize the Primordial Beast Emperor.
The cells of the Primordial Beast Emperor were strange—it seemed to be a conglomerate of countless different primordial beasts, and within its cells, there was a powerful unknown eternal source. This indicated that, in addition to the Miracle Source Seed, the Primordial Beast Emperor also wielded other source seeds.
This source seed was extremely resistant to the Root Queen's parasitic ability.
Since the Root Queen couldn't do the job, Rosen decided to employ other means.
The Ouroboros Snake Bracelet instantly split in two, but they didn't transform into the Blazing Heaven Holy Serpent or the Heavenly Frost Holy Serpent.
The fundamental property of this eternal holy artifact was to allow the bracelet to freely transform between the two elemental bodies of two eternal beings. While this ability was impressive, it seemed somewhat wasteful to use it purely to summon two helpers.
The Hunter Sequence had a Miracle Skill, Spiritual Armament, which allowed pets to be transformed into weapons with special abilities.
With the Spiritual Armament, the Hunter could better wield their pets' powers.
Though the Hunter Sequence could share their pet's strength, they usually could only share one at a time.
By using Spiritual Armament, however, two skills could be shared simultaneously.
Rosen decided to create his own skill specifically for this purpose.
He combined similar skills from other sequences, the mechanical fire source transformation abilities from the Mechanical Source Seed, the illusory powers of the Dream Source Seed, the data manipulation abilities from the Game and Information Source Seeds, and the aggregation and dispersal capabilities from the Aggregation Source Seed.
By merging the powers of these source seeds, he successfully created an elemental armament that would fit the source seeds.
The sole purpose of this elemental armament was to transform the Blazing Heaven Holy Serpent and the Heavenly Frost Holy Serpent into weapons.
There were no restrictions on the type of weapons, but the simpler and more direct, the better.
Rosen grasped the tails of the Blazing Heaven Holy Serpent and the Heavenly Frost Holy Serpent. Under the influence of the elemental armament, the two serpents transformed into swords—one a fiery blade wreathed in the Blazing Heaven Soulfire, and the other an icy blade encased in Heavenly Frost Chill. Both weapons possessed destructive power on the eternal level.
Rosen immediately utilized the Creator Scholar's abilities to release the sword techniques from the Sword Saint Sequence.
Blade Split, Phantom Slash, Elemental Sword Qi—though these were merely the highest-level Sequence 0 Sword Saint skills, the addition of various sequence-based passive skills for increased damage to swords, weapons, and elements, along with the elemental armament's enhancement, made each strike surpass the limits of immortal godfiends.
The Primordial Beast Emperor's body was immediately torn open by abyss-like wounds, and all the wounds froze over.
The cells frozen by the Heavenly Frost Chill couldn't regenerate, and the damage from the Blazing Heaven Fire Sword reached directly into its divine origin.
The Primordial Beast Emperor could no longer remain asleep. The intense pain caused by the burning of its divine origin drove it into a frenzy.
However, no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't summon any loyal primordial beasts.
While it lacked high-level intelligence, unlike other primordial beasts, the Primordial Beast Emperor did possess low-level intelligence comparable to a wild beast. It had never attempted to flee before, but now, this anomaly—the Primordial Beast Emperor—was preparing to escape.
But it couldn't escape the Soulbinding World. The Primordial Beast Emperor's direct destructive capabilities were pitifully weak.
Under a thousand-fold time acceleration, Rosen hacked away at the Primordial Beast Emperor for decades.
Finally, he managed to dismember the Primordial Beast Emperor. Its divine origin had been burned away by the Blazing Heaven Soulfire many years ago, and though the remaining body still struggled instinctively, Rosen had no choice but to tear it apart and freeze it with Heavenly Frost Chill.
Only then did Rosen finally have the chance to search for the Miracle Source Seed.
With the sensation provided by his own Miracle Source Seed, Rosen located the source seed within the heart of the Primordial Beast Emperor.
Rosen carefully peeled it away and, after refining it with his Eternal Will, discovered a secret.
The Primordial Beast Emperor and the primordial beasts it summoned were likely related to its main body and clones.
At its peak, the Primordial Beast Emperor might have been a primordial beast at the eternal level.
However, over the long years, the Primordial Beast Emperor developed a bit of low-level intelligence. Yet, low-level intelligence couldn't freely control its own eternal-level strength. So, the Primordial Beast Emperor used the power of its clone source seed to split its power.
Rosen couldn't wait to integrate the Miracle Source Seed into the Miracle Star Sea. This semi-complete miracle artifact immediately began its final transformation.
During the transformation of the Miracle Star Sea, he began to refine the clone source seed naturally possessed by the Primordial Beast Emperor.
Mastering this source seed would allow for better creation of clones and strengthen the connection between the main body and its clones.
By combining it with the Space Source Seed, no known force in the universe would be able to sever the connection between his main body and all clones. He could freely swap his main body and clones or even swap between clones across the void.
As Rosen was familiarizing himself with the powers of the clone source seed, the Miracle Star Sea had completed its transformation under time acceleration.
[Miracle Star Sea: Miracle Artifact]
[Level: Eternal Holy Artifact]
[Miracle Attribute: Can Assimilate, Symbiotically Coexist, and Fuse All Things]
[Miracle Trait: Miracle Source Seed]
A very simple set of attributes, but simplicity meant an infinite expansion of the abilities within its literal meaning.
With a thought, Rosen expanded the Miracle Star Sea, which initially spanned thousands of light-years, to tens of thousands of light-years.
Upon reaching its current maximum size, the Miracle Star Sea was composed of ordinary water.
Then, the Miracle Star Sea could shrink infinitely, down to the size of a single drop of water. Compressing tens of thousands of light-years of water into a single drop could be hurled at an immortal godfiend, who would not dare to resist it head-on.
The Miracle Star Sea, having fused with three Miracle Source Seeds, gained the special abilities of each of these seeds.
Assimilation allowed it to assimilate all things. The Primordial Beast Emperor relied on this ability to consume other primordial beasts and merge parts of their genes into itself. However, it assimilated too many, causing the powers of these genes to lie dormant.
With this assimilation ability, the Miracle Star Sea could assimilate all matter and convert it into water.
It could even assimilate various liquids and transform the Miracle Star Sea into the corresponding liquid.
Miracle Symbiosis allowed the Miracle Star Sea to form a symbiotic relationship with other lifeforms.
This was the power originally possessed by the Miracle Source Seed. Through Miracle Symbiosis, the Miracle Star Sea could symbiotically coexist with life forms, with different symbiotic objects yielding different effects.
Lastly, Miracle Fusion, unlike Miracle Symbiosis which targeted life, was aimed at inanimate objects.
It could merge treasures, worlds, but could never merge living beings.
Rosen fused the Miracle Star Sea with the Creator's Palette. After merging the Miracle Star Sea with various Creator pigments he had stored, it immediately transformed all liquid water into paint. Using a vast amount of paint across tens of thousands of light-years, Rosen was able to create enormous paintings with entire superclusters as their backdrop.
Next, he tested the symbiosis ability, merging with his immortal body.
His body, already incredibly strong, could transform into a world of aggregation and dispersion.
After merging with the Miracle Star Sea, the immortal body's world expanded from an immortal world to an eternal world.
After transforming back into his body, Rosen found that his physical form now rivaled that of eternal beings.
Of course, such benefits came with drawbacks. The overwhelming strength of his body made it slightly difficult to control with his Eternal Will.
All his movements appeared to be in slow motion.
However, with the Time Source Seed, this drawback was mitigated. Once his total Eternal Will equaled that of an eternal being, he would be able to freely control the symbiotic immortal body with ease. The strength boost provided by the Miracle Star Sea surpassed even that of the Ouroboros Snake Bracelet.
And this wasn't the end. Rosen began to merge the Miracle Star Sea into the Miracle Sequence.
After merging, the properties didn't change, but all miracle artifacts within the Miracle Sequence would be strengthened into Eternal Holy Artifacts.
Moreover, the Miracle Sequence gained its sixth exclusive ability. The Miracle Star Sea's unique Miracle Trait, the Miracle Source Seed, granted it the power to absorb the miracle energy of the universe. As long as miracles continued to be born in the universe, the Miracle Star Sea could capture and absorb their miracle energy.
Combined with the other exclusive abilities, Rosen would be able to obtain an inexhaustible source of eternal miracles.
(End of Chapter)