Rosen meticulously inspected the Eternal Starship from the inside out.
The situation wasn't great. This Eternal Starship had once suffered heavy damage.
Over countless years, the starship had operated autonomously, mining minerals and repairing itself. Although more than eighty to ninety percent had been restored, the remaining damage was the most critical, requiring eternal-grade metallic transcendent materials for repairs.
However, among materials of that caliber, Rosen had only ever seen Eternal Origin Stones.
Thus, repairing the Eternal Starship was no easy task.
The inner world of the Eternal Starship was the Eternal Mechanical City, while the outer city consisted of countless mechanical hives.
Strictly speaking, the Eternal Starship was the civilizational mothership of the Eternal Mechanical Race.
Through these mechanical hives, it could produce all the mechanical creations mastered by the Eternal Mechanical Race.
At the highest level, it could manufacture great True God-level starships, war fortresses, and mechanical lifeforms. Anything beyond that was no longer within the capabilities of the mechanical hives, since their purpose was mass production.
Even though the starship's core purpose was manufacturing, it still possessed a formidable offense and defense system. Without three to five Immortal Godfiends working together, the external armor could not be breached, and the main cannon could directly blast apart an Immortal Godfiend.
After careful consideration, Rosen decided to dismantle the entire Eternal Starship.
The primary reason was that restoring it fully was simply too difficult.
Secondly, he needed a large quantity of high-quality transcendent metals.
The outermost layer of armor made of Immortal Godfiend-grade metal—he planned to strip it and integrate it into his own body.
He wasn't particularly interested in the Eternal Mechanical Race's shapeshifting abilities; what attracted him was the ability to absorb metals and enhance his physical form. This could allow my already terrifying life origin to quickly grow from 171 points to the full 180 points, he thought.
Of course, even though he intended to dismantle the starship, Rosen wouldn't destroy everything.
He would remove and relocate the entire Eternal Mechanical City and the mechanical hives of the outer city, transferring them to the True Realm of the Old Gods and entrusting them to Amy. As for the Eternal Starship's main cannon and propulsion engines, he would also dismantle them and send them to Amy.
By then, not only would his own life origin reach its full potential, but the remaining materials would also be enough for Amy to forge the mechanical divine kingdom she desired.
In the Mysterious Study Room, Rosen used the main god computer to gather all the civilization data from the Eternal Starship.
Among this data, the most valuable was the technological knowledge of the Eternal Mechanical Race, followed by their understanding of the universe. He immediately made a copy of the technological information to give to Amy, while keeping the cosmic knowledge for himself—this was the most precious gain.
Through this, he could finally gain a true understanding of the universe beyond the Old God World.
The universe was indeed vast, just as he had already assumed.
The outer layer was a cosmic starry sky composed of countless celestial bodies, while the inner layer was the dark sea of origin, filled with infinite world origins.
But this cosmic knowledge was much more detailed, containing information on all kinds of celestial bodies, the territorial ranges of various eternal lifeforms, and the locations of cosmic forbidden zones formed by the fallen bodies of eternal beings. Among these, the Old God World ranked as the second greatest cosmic forbidden zone.
As for the first-ranked forbidden zone, it was the Cosmic Origin Sea at the center of the universe.
Now that he knew the Old God World's precise location in the universe, Rosen tried to find the specific location of the Milky Way Galaxy on the star map.
However, no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find a single clue.
After all, the cosmic starry sky was simply too vast, and the Milky Way was just too insignificant on a universal scale.
Thus, the starry sky he saw from Blue Planet was entirely outside the scope of the Eternal Mechanical Race's star map.
Feeling disappointed, Rosen put away the cosmic star map and returned to the True Realm of the Old Gods to continue absorbing and merging the armor of the Eternal Starship.
Very quickly, several years passed in reality, and Rosen's life origin was approaching the 180-point full value.
He stopped consuming metals only because the Immortal Kingdom had almost completely reversed and swallowed the Eternal Dreamscape.
Rosen immediately rushed to the core of the Eternal Dreamscape. Here, countless fragmented memories made of multicolored light specks floated endlessly. Wrapped within these shattered memories was the Dreamscape Source Seed. As his eternal will merged into the source seed, he soon gained complete control over it.
Through the Dreamscape Source Seed, he commanded the Eternal Dreamscape, fully integrating it into the Immortal Kingdom.
Under his control, the Immortal Kingdom began to merge into the True Realm of the Old Gods.By the time the integration was complete, the True Realm of the Old Gods had fully become an Immortal World at the level of Immortal Godfiends.
Moreover, among all Immortal Worlds, it stood at the very pinnacle.
These past few years, Rosen had been focused on enhancing his life origin, which naturally slowed the improvement of his divine source.
Rosen took out the corpses of the Immortal Celestial Emperors and the various extraordinary treasures they had dropped. Utilizing the power of the Dream Source Seed, he instantly transformed all these items, born from the Eternal Dream, into Eternal Dream Source, and then consumed this source to produce a Dream Connection Flower.
Although the essence of the Eternal Dream was still that of a dream, everything that was born within it was not merely a figment of imagination.
Everything the Eternal Dreamfiend had ever encountered could potentially manifest within the Eternal Dream.
The Dream Connection Flower was a mysterious plant born from the dreams of all living beings. It could grow by feeding on dreams. The fact that the Primordial Spirit Celestial Emperor was able to awaken within the dream of the Eternal Dreamfiend and grow into an Immortal Godfiend was because he had discovered a Dream Connection Flower born within the Eternal Dream.
Rosen picked the Dream Connection Flower and swallowed it, immediately falling into a deep sleep.
His divine source and eternal will entered his own dream during sleep, as if he had transformed into the Eternal Dreamfiend, reliving the entire life that the Eternal Dreamfiend had once experienced, all the way until the Eternal Dreamfiend's death at the hands of the Old Gods before he finally woke up.
In the instant before waking, everything that had happened in the dream was remembered vividly.
But the moment he fully awoke, all memories of the dream disappeared without a trace.
At this point, when Rosen checked his divine source, it had already grown to a full 180 points during the dream.
He only needed a little more growth in his life origin, and he could ascend to an Immortal Godfiend at any time.
He wouldn't even need to prepare a potion for the promotion; he had already abandoned potion consumption when ascending to Great True God.
Although the potion sequence was indeed the best fit for the current Old God World, allowing one to unleash the strongest combat power within it,
once outside the Old God World, the potion sequence was not an advantage but a hindrance.
Rosen continued his secluded cultivation, aiming to push his life origin to perfection.
However, less than two months into real-world cultivation, a new upheaval forced him to halt.
Rosen activated the Creator's Eye and gazed down upon the mortal realm of the Old God World from the Astral Realm.
Two major events had occurred. First, the Abyss Will was on the verge of complete awakening. Almost all Abyss Demons were fleeing, and the arrival of the World Will, after years of dormancy, had stirred the Abyss World into chaos. Countless Abyss Demons were fleeing and posed a tremendous threat to nearby regions.
The Abyss World bordered Rosen's sphere of influence, and already innumerable Abyss Demons were flooding into the continents and islands under his control.
If left unchecked, it would inevitably cause devastating casualties in a very short time.
It was clear that the Abyss Will, who had merged with a world, was now at the final step before ascending to an Immortal Godfiend.
As for the second event, it was the sudden reappearance of the extinct Mech Clan.
They descended directly from the endless void beyond the Astral Realm. The leader of this Mech Clan was none other than the legendary, supposedly fallen, Progenitor of the Mech Clan. The fact that he could lead the Mech Clan back from the cosmic void to the Old God World meant he had surely grown into an Immortal Godfiend within the universe.
The Abyss Will was already identified as a World Will entity, so the World Will wouldn't allow anyone to ambush it.
However, the Mech Clan Progenitor was definitely standing on the opposite side with no room for negotiation.
Because after his appearance, he made no attempt to communicate and immediately launched a fierce invasion against the Main God Network.
Rosen decided to hold back on retaliation for now. It wouldn't be too late to strike back after he ascended to an Immortal Godfiend.
Heaven and earth are vast; nothing is more important than my breakthrough to an Immortal Godfiend.
His life origin would reach perfection in at most half a year, and the Doomsday Ark could set sail ahead of schedule.
Promotion to Immortal Godfiend had to be conducted in the Sea of Origin Darkness, so the Doomsday Ark needed to reach the Sea of Origin Darkness within half a year.
Rosen quietly departed from the Old God World, and the Main God Network lost the support of its Main God Computer.
With only the virtual steward stationed in the Virtual Source Realm, it could at most guarantee the core parts of the Main God Network's safety. The outer regions were already being taken over by the Mech Clan Progenitor. This directly caused the last mental refuge of the intelligent races of the Old God World to vanish.
Unable to enjoy a high-quality life in the virtual world anymore, they had to return to the real world to face poverty and hunger.
The civilizations of the various races, whose order had already collapsed, now completely abandoned all semblance of order and morality just to survive.
At this time, the Doomsday Ark carried Rosen away from the Old God World for the second time.
Perhaps because of the massive hatred he had drawn during the last escape, the moment the Doomsday Ark reappeared, it was already surrounded by a massive swarm of Origin Beasts. Yet, Rosen's first reaction was that there were too few of them, now that his life origin had been perfected.
The Forbidden Godfiend-level Tenfold Annihilation, he still hadn't used it yet.
Because although it was easy to activate, regenerating the body and transforming it into an Immortal World consumed too much.
Using the Tenfold Annihilation to kill Immortal Godfiends would be a heavy loss. Only by using it for mass slaughter of Origin Beasts could its side effects be compensated for. Thus, the more Origin Beasts within the range of the Tenfold Annihilation, the better. After all, they would all be instantly annihilated anyway.
Rosen used the Mechanical Source Seed to strengthen the Doomsday Ark and spread his Eternal Will across the Sea of Origin Darkness.
Every Origin Beast he could sense was provoked on a conscious level.
The Doomsday Ark fled ahead, while more and more Origin Beasts gathered in pursuit.
In just a few days, the number of Origin Beasts grew until the Doomsday Ark was completely encircled with no way to escape.
Rosen knew this was the limit. He stored away the Doomsday Ark and began merging into an Immortal World.
The Immortal World formed from his Old God's body enveloped tens of thousands of Origin Beasts in the Sea of Origin Darkness, and in an instant, dimensional collapse began, plummeting towards zero-dimension. All the Origin Beasts were annihilated in the collapse, leaving behind only Origin Energy to nourish the Immortal World's next ascension.
After collapsing into a zero-dimensional point and undergoing the most extreme compression and tempering, the Immortal World began to ascend dimensions again.
When it once again reformed into an Immortal World, it had turned back into Rosen's Old God body.
His life origin had already broken through the 180-point limit due to this annihilation across all directions.It grew all the way to 182 points before finally halting its advancement.
Rosen originally thought that his divinity origin would naturally undergo a transformation as well, since he had already fulfilled all the conditions to become an Immortal Godfiend.
However, unexpectedly, his divinity origin stopped at 180 points, showing no signs of further growth despite the transformation of his life origin.
He attempted to convert the two origins into each other; although his divinity origin could still transform into life origin, the reverse was no longer possible. His divinity origin seemed completely stuck at 180 points.
The Main God Computer began furiously calculating the reason why his divinity origin could not continue to grow. Was it because his avatar had yet to ascend to a Great True God? It wasn't that he was unwilling, but that it was simply too difficult.
The resources required for his avatar to ascend to a Great True God were almost on par with what was needed for a Great True God to advance into an Immortal Godfiend.
Due to the avatar's overwhelmingly strong foundation, he could barely afford to support its growth anymore.
The results of the Main God Computer's calculations quickly came out, and surprisingly, they had nothing to do with his avatar.
The real reason was that Rosen's own foundation had become too powerful. Although he was still technically a Great True God, he was no weaker than the most peak Immortal Godfiends. If he continued to grow and transformed into an Immortal Godfiend, his strength would surpass the limits of Immortal Godfiends and begin to touch the realm of the Eternal.
However, the resources needed for this process far exceeded his imagination.
Unless he could obtain part of an Eternal Lifeform's corpse, it would be almost impossible for him to ascend into an Immortal Godfiend.
Realizing where the problem lay, Rosen began to rack his brain for a solution.
There were definitely Eternal Lifeform corpses in the Ancient God World, but they were all in the hands of the ancient gods. Even the World Will might not be able to find them, and even if it could, it would never come cheap. If the World Will discovered how deep his foundation was, there was even a chance it might turn hostile against him.
"Looks like I'll have to make a trip to the cosmic starry skies," Rosen muttered.
He returned to the Doomsday Ark and piloted it to jump out of the Source Dark Sea into the Endless Void.
This Endless Void was not referring to the cosmic starry skies but rather the transitional phase between the cosmic starry skies and the Source Dark Sea.
It was almost impossible for Source Behemoths to cross the Endless Void and descend upon the cosmic starry skies, and conversely, it was not easy for lifeforms of the cosmic starry skies to cross the Endless Void and reach the Source Dark Sea. Because of this, the Endless Void had become the prime choice for cosmic navigation.
In the Source Dark Sea, it was virtually impossible to conduct interstellar travel on a cosmic scale.
Because the endless hordes of Source Behemoths were too overwhelming—even at their peak, the Eternal Starships of the Eternal Mechanicus race struggled to handle them.
As for directly traveling in the cosmic starry skies, that was even less feasible.
Through the cosmic star maps of the Eternal Mechanicus race, Rosen had already learned the true face of the real universe.
The entire universe had the Source Sea at its core, expanding outward continuously in spherical layers.
From beginning to end, the universe had never ceased expanding.
If one simply likened the Source Sea to a burning fireball, and the light radiating from the fireball to the expanding universe, then the further one was from the fireball, the lower the temperature and the weaker the light. The same principle applied to the universe's expansion—the farther from the Source Sea, the more fragile the cosmic void became.
In the cosmic starry skies near the Source Sea, there existed extraordinary stars capable of birthing Immortal Godfiends.
The adjacent Source Dark Sea contained world origins of at least the Immortal Godfiend grade.
Occasionally, it was even possible to capture Eternal World Origins flowing out from the Source Sea.
The farther away from the Source Sea, the lower the grade of world origins in the Source Dark Sea, and the weaker the Source Behemoths became. Correspondingly, the newly expanded cosmic starry skies grew more fragile.
At the outermost edges of the universe, a single deity's appearance in the cosmic starry skies could crush an entire starfield.
According to the standard of whether the cosmic starry skies could support extraordinary life living normally, the entire universe was divided into different Star Rings. The Ancient God World was located in the Tenth Star Ring, corresponding to Sequence 0, meaning that the cosmic starry skies here could at most support normal living for Sequence 0 beings.
If a True God appeared in the cosmic starry skies, even a sneeze could wipe out all life within a few light-years.
Let alone something like the Doomsday Ark at the level of an Immortal Godfiend—if it appeared in the cosmic starry skies, everything within millions of light-years would instantly be pulverized into world origins and fall into the Source Dark Sea. For the Doomsday Ark, the cosmic starry skies of the Tenth Star Ring were as fragile as soap bubbles.
For the Doomsday Ark to travel through the cosmic starry skies, it would need to reach at least the Thirteenth Star Ring.
The highest level of the Star Rings was Level Fifteen—the Fifteenth Star Ring referred directly to the Source Sea of the universe.
According to the Eternal Mechanicus' understanding of the universe, when the universe expanded to the First Star Ring, even Sequence 9 extraordinary lifeforms could no longer be born. By that time, the universe's expansion would almost have reached its end.
Although the Doomsday Ark could not enter the cosmic starry skies, Rosen's Eternal Avatars could.
He directly split off dozens of Eternal Avatars at the demigod level, tearing through the void with his Creator Domain and sending them into the cosmic starry skies. These Eternal Avatars would serve as his planted seeds across the universe, helping him better understand the current state of the cosmos.
After all, the cosmic star maps of the Eternal Mechanicus race had not been updated for who knew how many years.
Fortunately, while the universe constantly changed, the cosmic forbidden zones formed after the death of Eternal Lifeforms would not easily shift positions. Therefore, the coordinates of the forbidden zones recorded on the Eternal Star Maps should still be accurate even after countless years.The nearest forbidden zone to his current location lay within the Twelfth Star Ring, where Great True Gods could be born.
The Endless Void allowed for infinite acceleration, and the space here could support endless spatial jumps.
Thus, the Doomsday Ark's speed was terrifyingly fast. A single spatial jump could cover millions of light-years. Compared to the arduous journey within the Ancient God World, the difference was like heaven and earth.By a conservative estimate, it would take at most two years to cross one supercluster after another and reach the Twelfth Star Ring.
Along the way, Rosen continuously dispatched thousands of Eternal Avatars.
The Eternal Avatars recovered from the Ancient God World were now scattered across the various superclusters of the universe.
As he drew closer to the Twelfth Star Ring, reports from the dispersed Eternal Avatars began streaming back.
As expected, there were far more Immortal Godfiends in the universe than he had initially imagined.
The Immortal Godfiends who had left the Ancient God World represented only a tiny fraction. The farther one moved from the Tenth Star Ring, the greater the number of superclusters occupied by Immortal Godfiends. However, all Immortal Godfiends deliberately stayed far away from the cosmic forbidden zones.
Because even the slightest disturbance from a cosmic forbidden zone could spell annihilation for any nearby supercluster.
(End of chapter)