In the Reincarnation Great Realm, the Space-Time Reincarnation triggered by world destruction initiated a new reincarnation epoch. Rosen cautiously isolated himself from the insect swarm's pollution and corruption within the tunnel they had dug, making his way back to the Reincarnation Great Realm.
Currently, the Reincarnation Great Realm's immune system was entirely engaged in battling the confined insect swarm. Otherwise, not to mention him, even Haotian Shangdi and the others wouldn't have been able to return to the Reincarnation Great Realm. Rosen immediately released all the Reincarnation Lords and Reincarnation Elect. They originally came from various universes and were already the rulers of their respective universes. Thus, in less than a hundred years, the Reincarnation Holy Court he established had taken control of the entire Reincarnation Great Realm.
In the past, within the Reincarnation Great Realm, the Reincarnation Lord system was, strictly speaking, just a collective. Only after the Lord's Will was born could it truly be called "united in purpose" (万众一心). However, by the time the Lord's Will was born, they had already been expelled by the immune system. This time was different. Rosen not only controlled the stronger Emperor's Will but also integrated all life from all universes into the Reincarnation Holy Court. The Emperor's Will used the Reincarnation Elect as base stations and the Destiny Network as a medium to link all life across all universes.
Rosen could clearly feel that he could now easily exert one hundred percent of half of the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority. In the past, this would have required at least millions, or even tens of millions, of Reincarnation Lords to achieve. After completely controlling half of the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority, Rosen finally clearly perceived the other half of the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority. The half he controlled primarily governed the surface Reincarnation Great Realm. As for the other half, controlled by the immune system, it governed the dark side of the world, the Reincarnation Great Realm's spiritual realm.
Rosen then realized that the Reincarnation Great Realm actually had two layers: an outer layer and an inner layer. The outer layer was like the surface world of the Ancient God World, and the inner layer was like the spiritual realm of the Ancient God World. The dark spiritual realm of the Reincarnation Great Realm was filled with endless corruption and pollution. Rosen then understood that while the Reincarnation Great Realm appeared to have successfully resisted pollution and corruption on the surface, it had actually been contaminated and corrupted from within long ago. Upon careful reflection, he quickly analyzed why this had happened.
The great existence whose consciousness sea formed the Reincarnation Great Realm likely had not only its body contaminated and corrupted back then but even its self-consciousness at the same time. Although the great existence was contaminated and corrupted, the pollution and corruption wouldn't immediately kill the great existence. So, the great existence abandoned its body, transformed its consciousness sea into the Reincarnation Great Realm, sealed the contaminated self-consciousness in the dark side of the world, and cut out the spiritual origin that was not yet contaminated and corrupted, then cast it into the surface Reincarnation Great Realm to generate countless lives. This also meant that the remaining half of the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority could simply not be mastered.
"This is the true face of the Reincarnation Great Realm," the Will of Reincarnation said with a sigh as she appeared beside Rosen. "The great existence didn't want to die, so it used infinitely looping space-time reincarnation to maximally delay the pollution and corruption of its self-consciousness. But this is like a fiercely burning candle; without a new wick and wax, it will quickly perish. That's why the surface world exists. All life in the surface world are sheep reared by the great existence. Each end of a reincarnation epoch is a harvest of the flock. The harvested spiritual origin is injected into the dark side of the world, becoming the wick and wax for the great existence to extend its life. This is the true reason why the Reincarnation Great Realm has become increasingly weak."
"Does it still have a clear self-consciousness?" Rosen asked worriedly.
"It lost its self long ago, retaining only its instincts. Although the great existence survived, it's merely lingering on its last breath…" the Will of Reincarnation scoffed with a laugh. "Persisting for a hundred thousand reincarnation epochs in such a state, neither truly alive nor dead, enduring the torment of pollution and corruption on its self-consciousness day and night—if you ask me, it would have been better to die cleanly back then, rather than reach a point where it can't even commit suicide."
"So, what you said about the Reincarnation Great Realm merging into Blue Star for self-preservation was also false?" Rosen asked, holding up Blue Star.
"That is true." The Will of Reincarnation said, taking Blue Star and then casting it into the dark side of the Reincarnation Great Realm. At this instant, the entire Reincarnation Great Realm violently vibrated. In the surface Reincarnation Great Realm, an endless, terrifyingly vast power of karma emerged. In the inner Reincarnation Great Realm, an endless power of pollution and corruption emerged.
Rosen saw this scene and finally understood the Will of Reincarnation's scheme.
The great existence's self-consciousness, after being corrupted, lingered in the inner Reincarnation Great Realm, relying on the surface Reincarnation Great Realm to raise countless lives formed from its own spiritual essence, and then sustained itself by "sucking blood" from the spiritual essence of the beings in the surface world.
However, this was merely "drinking poison to quench thirst." After a hundred thousand reincarnation epochs, the great existence's self-consciousness had long since collapsed. Only instinct remained. The complete collapse of its self-consciousness should have occurred about a thousand reincarnation epochs ago. If the great existence's self-consciousness had still been clear, the Will of Reincarnation would never have dared to do anything to displease it.
When the great existence's self-consciousness was reduced to mere instinct, the Will of Reincarnation began to prepare to separate the surface and inner layers of the Reincarnation Great Realm. However, due to the karmic entanglement set by the great existence, the two worlds simply couldn't be separated.
The Will of Reincarnation released the insect swarm into the Reincarnation Great Realm, letting the swarm contaminate and corrupt it. The true purpose was to tie up the immune system, minimizing the influence of the great existence's instinctive self-consciousness on the surface world. If it had been in the past, the gu-raising grounds created by Yuanshi Tianwang and the others would have been destroyed by the immune system long ago. Now, with the immune system occupied by the insect swarm, the three gu-raising grounds continuously expanded in the surface world.
Under these circumstances, the great existence's self-consciousness, which continuously drained life from the surface Reincarnation Great Realm, suddenly found its life-sustaining "blood" mixed with the power of pollution and corruption. In this situation, it would naturally instinctively resist absorbing the "poisoned blood" from the surface world. The Will of Reincarnation seized this opportunity to send the equally contaminated Blue Star into the inner world. Then, she took the chance to trigger the immense karma accumulated in the surface world.
The beings of the surface world were lives formed from the spiritual essence of the great existence, so they were naturally karmically entangled with the great existence and owed karma. However, after a hundred thousand reincarnation epochs of being raised like livestock, when the infinite beings across the over a billion universes in the surface world were annihilated in each reincarnation epoch, enormous resentment would be generated. This resentment also transformed into karma, but it had been suppressed by the immune system in the past. This karma, formed by the resentment of all beings, naturally antagonized the great existence and repelled the inner Reincarnation Great Realm.
At this point, the karma of the surface world repelled the inner world, and the inner world, having absorbed "poisoned blood," instinctively avoided the surface world. The two worlds, originally closely linked and karmically entangled, now became mutually hateful and repulsive. However, separated from each other, the Reincarnation Great Realm became incomplete.
In this situation, Blue Star, a smaller Reincarnation Great Realm constructed from the World Crystal Wall, was the perfect material for the inner world to complete itself. So, visibly, Blue Star was gradually decomposed and integrated into the inner world by its immense power. Rosen had refined Blue Star, and his immortal will was equivalent to Blue Star's world will. At this moment, as Blue Star was merged into the inner Reincarnation Great Realm, his immortal will also began to integrate into the inner world. The pollution and corruption that permeated the inner world also at this moment began to contaminate his immortal will. Sensing this, Rosen immediately intended to self-destruct the immortal will integrated into Blue Star.
"No need to self-destruct your immortal will. Use the Emperor's Will to integrate the self-consciousness of all beings into the inner Reincarnation Great Realm," the Will of Reincarnation said earnestly.
Rosen hesitated for a moment. After confirming that this action would not harm him, he decided to try it. Even in the worst-case scenario, it would merely mean that the immortal will integrated into Blue Star would be contaminated and corrupted. As long as his true body's immortal will was not contaminated and corrupted, it would remain within his acceptable limits. Based on his research into pollution and corruption, this substance could only spread contamination through direct contact.
As the Destiny Network spread into the inner Reincarnation Great Realm, the self-consciousness of the beings in the surface Reincarnation Great Realm began to pour into it. As soon as these self-consciousnesses came into contact with the pollution and corruption, they were almost immediately annihilated. Without self-consciousness, what remained were empty shells, like comatose bodies. In less than an hour, all beings in the surface Reincarnation Great Realm, except for those who had transcended reincarnation and reincarnation life, were extinct.
The extinction of all beings triggered the karmic resentment of the surface reincarnation world, which had been freed from the suppression of the immune system. Endless karmic resentment immediately surged into the inner Reincarnation Great Realm. However, even karmic resentment could not escape pollution and corruption.
"Do you feel it?" the Will of Reincarnation asked, staring at Rosen with anticipation.
Rosen nodded. He found that the part of his immortal will integrated into Blue Star, although it had come into contact with pollution and corruption, the power of pollution and corruption did not destroy his immortal will. Instead, it caused his immortal will to gradually merge with the pollution and corruption. As this fusion occurred, he discovered that he had gained a tiny bit of power over pollution and corruption. Carefully sensing the changes in his immortal will, he roughly understood what was happening.
Pollution and corruption primarily destroy self-consciousness, actually having little lethal power against spiritual origin, and even less against life origin. The power of pollution and corruption is essentially about causing mutational evolution in life origin and spiritual origin.
However, the Immortal Will Extraordinary System successfully and completely fused the self-consciousness, spiritual origin, and life origin into a single, indivisible entity. With the three inseparably merged as one, a peculiar situation arises when facing pollution and corruption.
On one hand, pollution and corruption aim to destroy self-consciousness, while on the other hand, they seek to evolve life origin and spiritual origin. Yet, because these three are indivisibly unified, destruction and evolution create a self-contradictory, cyclical conflict.
Of course, if it were an ordinary immortal will, self-consciousness would still ultimately be doomed. This is because, even with the contradiction, which causes the immortal will to share the evolutionary power while the life origin evolves, mutational evolution requires terrifying sustenance. Without that sustenance, the ultimate outcome is the destruction of self-consciousness and the failure of mutational evolution for both life origin and spiritual origin.
Rosen introduced the self-consciousness of all beings from the surface Reincarnation Great Realm into it, and these self-consciousnesses became the sustenance for mutational evolution. This is fundamentally because all beings in the surface Reincarnation Great Realm, when traced back to their origins, are part of the great existence. Coupled with the integration of the Emperor's Will, this allowed the self-consciousness of all beings to successfully meet the basic requirements of becoming sustenance.
Therefore, his immortal will, using this sustenance, simultaneously evolved and was destroyed. Gradually, his self-consciousness successfully adapted to the power of pollution and corruption, completing its mutational evolution and successfully mastering a tiny bit of the power of pollution and corruption.
Rosen didn't have time to fully comprehend it and immediately withdrew the transformed immortal will from the inner Reincarnation Great Realm. Although the immortal will had evolved and transformed, this part of the immortal will was also extremely weak. If it weren't withdrawn at this point and continued to be exposed to more of the pollution and corruption, the self-consciousness within the immortal will would still be destroyed.
If the intensity of pollution and corruption is rated from one to ten, the original pollution and corruption in the Vast Wasteland is ten. The pollution and corruption on the insect swarm is at most five. The pollution and corruption in the three gu-raising grounds is one, and the pollution and corruption intensity in the inner Reincarnation Great Realm is nine. As for the tiny bit of pollution and corruption Rosen now controlled, its intensity was at most zero point one. Why so weak? Because the pollution and corruption in the inner Reincarnation Great Realm was almost entirely sealed away by the great existence. If not for a small leakage when the inner Reincarnation Great Realm merged with Blue Star, it would have been impossible to come into contact with the pollution and corruption of the inner Reincarnation Great Realm. Even with this tiny bit of pollution and corruption, Rosen's immortal will only survived by sacrificing the self-consciousness of the beings in the surface Reincarnation Great Realm. And that original tiny bit of pollution and corruption, which had an intensity of nine, had been diluted to zero point one after passing through countless self-consciousnesses.
"I succeeded, I finally succeeded…" The Will of Reincarnation stared at the tiny speck of immortal will floating before Rosen, laughing hysterically with tears streaming down her face.
"It's too early to celebrate…" Rosen continued to examine this speck of immortal will and shook his head. If the trinity within the immortal will is viewed as a triangle, then the three vertices are self-consciousness, spiritual origin, and life origin. The area in the center of the triangle is the immortal will formed after the trinity's fusion.
However, now, the area in the center of the triangle has an additional, highly unstable power of pollution and corruption. This force has altered the originally stable triangular structure, causing it to gradually transform from a triangle into a square. A square's stability is far inferior to a triangle's, and the precarious balance formed by the four forces within it can easily be broken.
Considering the power of pollution and corruption, its intensity is only zero point one after endless dilution. This small amount of pollution and corruption can at most contaminate a reincarnation life. It is utterly incapable of resisting higher intensities of pollution and corruption. If this speck of immortal will were thrown into a gu-raising ground now, its balance would likely be shattered, and the immortal will would collapse in minutes.
To enhance resistance and control over pollution and corruption, a way must be found to increase the intensity of pollution and corruption. However, in this precariously balanced quadripartite structure, every tiny increase in pollution and corruption intensity must be accompanied by a corresponding increase in self-consciousness, spiritual origin, and life origin. Otherwise, once the balance is broken, the previously successful mutational evolution will easily collapse.
"The seed is planted; you should know better than I how to make it take root and sprout," the Will of Reincarnation said, stopping her mad laughter.
Rosen pondered for a moment, then divided the single unit of immortal will in his hand into over two billion portions. He then distributed these dispersed immortal wills through the Destiny Network, integrating them into all the Reincarnation Lords and Reincarnation Elect.
The seed has been sown; now, it's just a matter of waiting for it to take root, sprout, blossom, and bear fruit. He was using all reincarnation life as nourishment to further strengthen this portion of immortal will. Some seeds grow robustly, while others rot in the soil, so broad sowing is needed for a good harvest. If over two billion reincarnation lives are not enough for this portion of immortal will to blossom and bear fruit, then it means the Will of Reincarnation's scheme has ultimately failed.