In the Reincarnation Holy Hall, there was a secret meeting room known only to the chief councilors. Ordinarily, Rosen and the other chief councilors, such as Nightfall Sovereign, would discuss various matters in advance here.
When Rosen arrived at the secret meeting room, someone was already seated at the head of the conference table. Although all chief councilors were equal, the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree originated from him. Therefore, Rosen had always occupied the head seat. This time, not only had his seat been taken, but it was also by a stranger?
Rosen carefully scrutinized the stranger, sensing the oppressive aura of transcendence of reincarnation from him. He knew that Nightfall Sovereign and the others had collected three thousand portions of transcendence resources, preparing for permanent transcendence. Furthermore, this secret meeting room was only accessible to chief councilors.
Rosen unhesitatingly invoked the Lord's Will, using his control over the Grand Dao of Reincarnation to perceive the stranger before him. The feeling of strangeness instantly vanished; he simultaneously sensed the auras of seven Epoch Sovereigns on the stranger. It was evident that the seven Epoch Sovereigns had chosen to fuse for transcendence. He just didn't know who was currently controlling this body.
Rosen walked to the opposite side of the conference table and sat down. In a flash, he understood what was happening. Three thousand portions of transcendence resources could only allow one person to permanently transcend. Due to the uneven distribution, they chose to fuse for transcendence. This approach was essentially not much different from the Lord's Will formed by the Reincarnation Lord system.
It was clear that, facing the swarm of insects outside the Reincarnation Great Realm, they had been pushed into a corner and had no choice but to fight desperately. However, they now had a way out, and it would be impossible for them to remain on the same side as him. Otherwise, they wouldn't have so brazenly taken his seat.
"Congratulations to you all on transcending reincarnation!" Rosen said calmly.
"We invited you here to discuss our withdrawal from the Reincarnation Council," Nightfall Sovereign's low voice emerged from the stranger.
"Withdrawing from the Reincarnation Council, do you know what that means?" Rosen sighed and asked.
"We hope for an amicable parting!" Nightfall Sovereign's voice grew cold.
"You should know that I only have a veto right, not a right to affirmative votes," Rosen said, gently tapping the table with his fingertip and shaking his head.
"More than half will approve when the proposal is initiated," Nightfall Sovereign said confidently.
"You can leave, but others cannot," Rosen stated unequivocally. He could allow Nightfall Sovereign and the others to leave, but he could not allow them to take more than half of the reincarnation lifeforms with them.
Once the Emperor's Will completely devoured the Lord's Will, it would exert a powerful suppressive force over the Reincarnation Lords and Reincarnation Elect. After all, the core component of the Lord's Will was their immortal will, meaning a part of their immortal will was under his control. With this control, the Emperor's Will could truly rule the Reincarnation Lords. What meaning would an Emperor without an army have? Nightfall Sovereign now intended to take people away and dismantle his foundation, so today's meeting seemed unlikely to end well.
"It seems you haven't realized the gap between us now…" As Nightfall Sovereign finished speaking, he had already gained control of the Grand Dao of Reincarnation, locking onto Rosen and casting Nightfall Reincarnation. As long as Rosen was controlled, he wouldn't be able to exercise his veto power.
Once the proposal to withdraw from the Reincarnation Council passed, more than half of the Reincarnation Lords and Reincarnation Elect who had made a deal with them would each send their immortal will into his memory to merge with the Nightfall Parasitic Flower, then advance and retreat together with them. This was an agreement made with them in advance, before half of the reincarnation lifeforms contributed their accumulated transcendence resources. If they violated the agreement, even if they had now transcended reincarnation, they would find the cost unbearable.
The faintly visible Nightfall Parasitic Flower silently drifted towards Rosen's immortal will. Facing an existence that had transcended reincarnation, the immortal memory of reincarnation life was clearly no longer truly immortal. Rosen, relying on his own immortal will, might truly be unable to withstand this single Nightfall Parasitic Flower.
He tried to rely on the Lord's Will to resist, but while he could manipulate the Lord's Will, Nightfall Sovereign and the others could also manipulate it. After their authorities canceled each other out, the final competition was still about the strength of their respective immortal wills.
Just as Nightfall Sovereign and their fused will overwhelmingly triumphed over Rosen's immortal will, he instantly activated his dormant Emperor's Will. Using Life-Death Reincarnation, he caused the Nightfall Parasitic Flower, which was heading for his memory, to wither and die.
"You actually…" Nightfall Sovereign stopped mid-sentence. This was because Nightfall Sovereign saw Rosen's undisguised, frenzied killing intent. He realized that Rosen had stolen the Lord's Will. If he publicly informed the other Reincarnation Lords and Reincarnation Elect, Rosen would immediately become a public enemy. Doing so would be satisfying, but what would be the consequence? If Rosen, pushed to desperation, saw no hope, his only option would be to drag them all down with him.
Within the tiny several-cubic-meter space inside the World Crystal Wall, a death match at the transcendence of reincarnation level would likely result in mutual destruction. Even if by chance someone survived, there was still the Will of Reincarnation nearby, and the unknown insect swarm outside.
"Let's talk properly!" Nightfall Sovereign said, conceding helplessly.
Rosen nodded, reining in his feigned frenzied killing intent, and began to haggle with Nightfall Sovereign and the other six. Both sides started with exorbitant demands and gradually negotiated, roughly understanding each other's bottom lines. Rosen's bottom line was quite high; he wanted not only the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree but also all public territories, lords, and elect. Nightfall Sovereign and their bottom line was not low either; they insisted on having more than half of the lords and elect.
This was because when they raised transcendence resources from everyone, Nightfall Sovereign and the others had signed a contract using the power of Karma Reincarnation. If they violated the contract, though it wouldn't cost them their lives, they would suffer severe damage even after transcending reincarnation. The bottom lines of both parties conflicted, and neither could back down.
Finally, Rosen came up with a solution: being severely wounded didn't matter, as long as there were enough transcendence resources for a quick recovery. So, at Rosen's insistence, Nightfall Sovereign and the others unhesitatingly sold out the lords and elect with whom they had agreements. Instead, they signed a contract with Rosen via the Destiny Network, a mutually beneficial arrangement where both parties got what they needed.
Nightfall Sovereign and the other six would help his Emperor's Will to quickly devour the Lord's Will. Once he fully controlled the Lord's Will and, through it, controlled the life and death of all reincarnation lifeforms, he could forcibly order those lords and elect to sever their karmic contracts with Nightfall Sovereign and the other six. After Rosen alone controlled the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, he would gather transcendence resources and give seventy percent of them to Nightfall Sovereign and the others. Both sides colluded, giving no choice to all the lords and elect.
Five hundred million years quickly passed, and they were now less than one hundred million years away from breaking through the World Crystal Wall. Rosen's Emperor's Will had finally completely devoured the Lord's Will. The tree seed he had planted in the tree heart had also rooted and sprouted over these years, completely devouring the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree. On the surface, there was no change, but in reality, the old Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree had died.
On this day, Rosen, in the name of the eight chief councilors, summoned all the true bodies of the lords and elect to the Reincarnation Holy Hall. When everyone had arrived, the Emperor's Will, which had been disguised as the Lord's Will, instantly dropped its pretense. All the lords and elect felt that their immortal wills had lost control over the Lord's Will. The control of the Lord's Will was, at that moment, entirely concentrated on Rosen, and they felt a terrifying suppressive force emanating from him.
As reincarnation lifeforms standing at the pinnacle of a universe, there were no fools among the lords and elect present. They instantly realized that Rosen had, without their knowledge, stolen the power that was originally shared by everyone. Only a very few expressed anger, jealousy, and killing intent. It wasn't that the others didn't feel it, but they clearly understood that anger and jealousy were meaningless. The law of the jungle was the eternal rule of survival in the Reincarnation Great Realm: to be strong meant to possess everything, to lose meant to possess nothing. The current outcome was that Rosen had won, and they had lost.
Anyone who dared to step forward now would become the target for Rosen's "killing the chicken to scare the monkeys" act. Rosen instantly locked onto the lords and elect who openly displayed malice. Through the Emperor's Will, he cast Karma Reincarnation. The cause was their malevolence towards him, and the result was a karmic backlash leading to the collapse of their immortal wills. At least a million reincarnation lifeforms instantly had their immortal wills collapse due to karmic fate.
While transcendence of reincarnation overwhelmed ordinary reincarnation life, killing a million reincarnation lifeforms instantly was still extremely difficult. Nightfall Sovereign definitely couldn't have done it, but Rosen did it with ease. This was the inherent suppression the Emperor's Will had over the lords and elect. The material that constituted the Emperor's Will was a portion of the immortal will of all the elect and the lords. Through this portion of immortal will, the destructive power of the Emperor's Will could be amplified tenfold or even a hundredfold.
The entire Reincarnation Holy Hall was instantly hushed, and all the lords and elect dared not show the slightest malice.
"From now on, there is no Reincarnation Council, only the Reincarnation Emperor, Reincarnation Lords, and Reincarnation Elect..." Rosen declared, ordering all lords and elect to surrender their transcendence resources.
From a total of over five thousand portions of transcendence resources, Rosen took out three thousand five hundred portions and handed them to Nightfall Sovereign beside him. The rest, Rosen directly integrated into his body, beginning to transform his Reincarnation Saint Body. Over the years of continuously interacting with the Will of Reincarnation, the biggest gap between them was not hard to discern. Three thousand portions of transcendence resources for permanent transcendence was actually just the most basic threshold for transcendence. The Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree indeed achieved permanent transcendence, but in reality, only the public territory permanently transcended. The body of the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, and even the Lord's Will, were all adjuncts of the public territory. If the Lord's Will moved far from the public territory, it would even fall back from transcendence of reincarnation to reincarnation.
The Will of Reincarnation was different. The Blue Star she held was a transcended world, her own body also transcended reincarnation, and her immortal will also transcended reincarnation. Describing it as a trinity, the Will of Reincarnation's state was true permanent transcendence of reincarnation. Nightfall Sovereign and the others now only had their immortal wills permanently transcended; their bodies, even after the seven-in-one fusion, were still in between. However, with three thousand five hundred portions of transcendence resources, it was enough to further advance their bodies and even create a world that transcended reincarnation. Among these, the world was the most important, because only a world that transcended reincarnation could continuously produce resources for transcendence of reincarnation.
For the final period of less than one hundred million years, Rosen no longer saw Nightfall Sovereign and the others. Unlike them, who were in secluded cultivation, he continued to gather the wisdom of all reincarnation life to perfect the Reincarnation Emperor sequence. The previous Reincarnation Lord sequence was about gathering everyone's strength with a unified heart. Now, although the Reincarnation Emperor sequence was also about a unified heart, power was no longer equal. If in the past the Lord's Will suffered damage, that damage was shared by everyone. Now, if Rosen's Emperor's Will suffered damage, he could transfer all the damage to the lords and elect to bear. He monopolized all benefits, and others bore all the downsides for him.
In this period of less than one hundred million years, nearly a hundred million out of over two billion lords and elect had vanished. All of them had attempted to rebel and were subsequently annihilated by Rosen using the Emperor's Will. Rosen didn't want to be a tyrant; every lost reincarnation life would slightly weaken the Emperor's Will. However, he had no choice but to use slaughter to make all reincarnation lifeforms obey.
Why had no powerful Lord extraordinary system emerged throughout the many reincarnation epochs of the Reincarnation Great Realm? The reason was simple: those in power were accustomed to looking down on others. All reincarnation lifeforms were high and mighty, controlling the life and death of countless beings in various universes. They were accustomed to holding great power and being aloof, making it impossible to make them bow their heads. Thus, the initial Reincarnation Lord system was based on equality for all. Now, even though the remaining Reincarnation Lords seemed obedient, this obedience was only temporary forbearance. They chose to obey now simply to wait for an opportunity to overthrow Rosen and reclaim their dominance. Rosen also understood that he could only make them temporarily submit, but for now, he was quite satisfied with this situation. He wondered how many of these reincarnation lifeforms would survive once they escaped the threat of the external insect swarm.
Finally, the day arrived. Only a thin layer of the World Crystal Wall remained. Nightfall Sovereign finally appeared, with a body that had grown two heads. They had ultimately chosen not to create a world that transcended reincarnation. Instead, they used all their transcendence resources to create a second immortal will that transcended reincarnation, thereby causing their body to grow a second head. Nightfall Sovereign and Dark Sun Sovereign each presided over one head.
The Will of Reincarnation also finally stopped concealing herself. One after another, beings who had transcended reincarnation appeared beside her. The public territory of the Reincarnation Epoch Ancient Tree, after over two billion years, had accumulated enough resources to allow two individuals to permanently transcend reincarnation. How many transcendence resources could the Will of Reincarnation, having accumulated for a thousand reincarnation epochs—three hundred trillion years—have amassed? Theoretically, it could accumulate enough resources to allow three hundred thousand people to permanently transcend.
Of course, in reality, it wouldn't be that many. At most, it would be enough resources to allow ten or eight reincarnation lifeforms to permanently transcend. The reason it was so few was that these transcendence resources were not born out of thin air. Instead, they were extracted and converted energy from the shattered World Crystal Wall during the process of carving it open. If they truly extracted resources for three hundred thousand people to permanently transcend, the World Crystal Wall of the Reincarnation Great Realm would probably have been completely depleted. Therefore, even if the Will of Reincarnation spent three hundred trillion years, the accumulated permanent transcendence resources wouldn't be excessive. If she were too greedy, the Reincarnation Great Realm's immune system would have been stimulated long ago.
Thus, at the very last moment, the Will of Reincarnation only released seven existences that transcended reincarnation from Blue Star. Rosen looked at these seven people with a strange expression; he recognized them. By their appearance, they were Yuanshi Tianwang (Primordial Heavenly King), Fuxi, Nüwa, Pangu, Haotian Shangdi (Jade Emperor), Donghuang Taiyi, and Yinglong. Without exception, they were all creation gods from Blue Star's mythological legends, and each possessed the strength to transcend reincarnation.
If the Will of Reincarnation had such seven helpers, she could have broken through the World Crystal Wall long ago. Indeed, the Will of Reincarnation was lying. She waited for a thousand reincarnation epochs, spread the immortal will system, and finally guided the birth of the Reincarnation Lord extraordinary system, waiting for them to arrive before she was willing to break through the World Crystal Wall. There must be some benefit worth her long wait and meticulous planning.