Rosen watched the awakening Ouroboros Fire Serpent with caution, placing the Butterfly Metamorphosis Robe into the Serpent Mother Gourd.
The moment the Butterfly Metamorphosis Robe disappeared, his sea of consciousness and the Yinglong godhood were incinerated into ash the instant the Ouroboros Fire Serpent looked his way.
The real Rosen, who remained at the exit of the Heaven-Burning Creation Furnace, immediately retrieved the Serpent Mother Gourd through the Eternal Immortal Vine.
However, before the gourd even returned, the Ouroboros Fire Serpent had already flashed within the flames.
Rosen instantly felt his sea of consciousness being scorched. The Mysterious Study Room couldn't withstand the burning of the mysterious flame, and even his Eternal Godhood began to melt from the surface. More terrifyingly, the Ouroboros Fire Serpent blinked through the void and pierced his glabella, entering his sea of consciousness.
The Ouroboros Fire Serpent swallowed his Eternal Godhood in one bite, then bit its tail and transformed into a fiery ring in his consciousness.
Rosen was nearly incinerated by the Ouroboros Fire Serpent, but instead, he felt relieved.
Because he sensed no malice or killing intent—he realized this Eternal Divine Artifact was instinctively attempting to acknowledge him as its master.
Though there was no malice, failure to be recognized would mean certain death.
The Yinglong avatar had failed to be acknowledged in an instant and was burned to ashes, now awaiting resurrection by the true body.
With the help of the Compatibility Source Seed, Rosen's eternal will continued merging into the Ouroboros Fire Serpent.
However, the fusion was too slow, as even his eternal will was gradually being burned away by the mysterious flame.
At this rate, before the serpent acknowledged him, his Eternal Godhood would be completely destroyed.
There were only two solutions: accelerate the fusion process, or reduce the damage of the mysterious flame.
Rosen simultaneously merged four Source Seeds—Origin, Wisdom, Compatibility, and Convergence-Divergence—all of which could strengthen the efficiency of fusing eternal will.
But that still wasn't enough. He infused the Eternal Spark and Eternal Radiance into his Eternal Godhood, burning it from the inside out.
The Eternal Spark was mainly used to counter fire with fire, tasked with protecting the Eternal Godhood.
As for the Eternal Radiance, this flame born of the slimmest hope of all living beings and strengthened by burning miraculous treasures was far inferior in quantity to the mysterious flame released by the Ouroboros Fire Serpent, but in terms of quality, it was surprisingly on par.
Rosen's life was temporarily preserved—no need to expend the Eternal Game's origin for resurrection.
However, even this wasn't enough for the Ouroboros Fire Serpent to acknowledge him, since the Eternal Spark would consume fate, and over time the Eternal Radiance would also be worn down bit by bit. What he needed most now was to hold out longer.
Rosen roughly estimated his limits and, without hesitation, released the Doomsday Ark to prepare for return.
After fusing with the Glorious Map, the Doomsday Ark could generate a dedicated navigation chart. As long as it had previously traveled and generated a chart for a location, it could teleport there instantly by locking onto the coordinates.
Rosen selected a coordinate from the navigation chart and, when the teleportation ended, had returned to the Icefeather Supercluster.
This time, he didn't enter the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone via the Origin Dark Sea but piloted the Doomsday Ark directly through the entrance located in the cosmic starry sky. Perhaps out of confidence in their power, the correct entrance to the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone wasn't sealed at all.
Though unsealed, there was no shortage of alarm mechanisms.
The moment the Doomsday Ark charged in, the Icefeather Clan's progenitor had already detected the intruder in advance.
This time, fully prepared, the Icefeather Progenitor activated the Eternal Divine Artifact, the Heavenly Frost Wings, at once. However, he didn't feel pleased—in just half a year, the same invader had returned. Why would he come back to humiliate himself unless he was certain?
Though the intruder had been repelled last time, the Icefeather Clan's lower ranks had suffered heavy casualties.
The Icefeather Progenitor sent all his people deep into the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone before gathering endless frost energy to prepare for battle.
Just as Rosen was about to fully cross the world's boundary, he put away the Doomsday Ark and even his physical body.
Only his Eternal Godhood, entwined by the Ouroboros Fire Serpent, remained in the void as it plunged into the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone, immediately surrounded by layers of frost energy.
But this time, the frost energy couldn't freeze anything—all of it was blocked by the Ouroboros Fire Serpent.
The pressure Rosen endured dropped dramatically, and the efficiency of refining the Eternal Divine Artifact surged.
He had a feeling that this might actually be the only method for the artifact to recognize a master.
If the acknowledgment were attempted in the Heaven-Burning Forbidden Zone, with its full support, not even eternal lifeforms would be able to succeed. The only way to complete the acknowledgment was by using the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone.
From the Fire Spirit's words, it could be inferred that the Heavenly Frost Sacred God and the Heaven-Burning Sacred God were likely mortal enemies.
That was why hunting the Icefeather Clan was necessary to trade for extraordinary fire seeds from the Fire Spirit.
As the frost energy continuously froze everything, the fragment of Rosen's eternal will merged into the Ouroboros Fire Serpent received a piece of information.
His judgment was correct—refining this Eternal Divine Artifact truly required the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone.
Because the artifact was incomplete, acknowledgment was impossible in the Heaven-Burning Forbidden Zone.
To successfully be acknowledged, the only method was to come to the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone and fuse the corpse and Source Seed of the Heavenly Frost Sacred God into the Ouroboros Fire Serpent. Only then could this Eternal Divine Artifact, which the Heaven-Burning Sacred God had crafted at the cost of his life, be fully born.
The reason for the birth of this Eternal Sacred Relic was precisely to ensure that the Heavenly Frost Sacred God could never be resurrected.
Although this Eternal Sacred Relic was somewhat problematic, to Rosen, it was absolutely good news.
He had already been worried about how troublesome the Icefeather Clan would be, but he hadn't expected the Blazing Heaven Sacred God to have left behind an Eternal Sacred Relic that countered the Heavenly Frost Sacred God.
As more and more of the frost energy was absorbed by the Ouroboros Fire Serpent, the Icefeather Clan's progenitor finally sensed that something was wrong.
That fire serpent, which instinctively evoked aversion and fear, turned out to naturally suppress the Heavenly Frost's cold energy.
Seeing that even the full activation of the Heavenly Frost Wings and their cold energy couldn't do anything to that fire serpent, the Icefeather Clan's progenitor decisively flapped its Heavenly Frost Wings to retreat from the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone. Without the slightest hesitation or attachment, it made the cold, rational decision to abandon the forbidden zone.
Without the Icefeather Clan's progenitor concentrating the Heavenly Frost's cold energy, Rosen had to rely on the Condensing-Dispersing Origin Seed to actively gather it.
The Ouroboros Fire Serpent's absorption of cold energy became increasingly rapid. Its body, which had once been completely crimson, gradually began to take on a layer of blue.
The mysterious flame's heat also decreased, and Rosen's speed in refining this half-finished Eternal Sacred Relic increased steadily. Day by day, nearly two years passed, and the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone was almost devoid of any remaining cold energy.
After the Heavenly Frost Sacred God's death, its corpse had turned into boundless cold mist. Now, with that mist gone, it meant the corpse had been entirely absorbed into the Ouroboros Fire Serpent.
The once crimson Ouroboros Fire Serpent had now turned completely ice-blue on the surface.
With a single thought from Rosen, the ice-blue Ouroboros Fire Serpent flashed through the void, diving deep into the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone and swallowing a Heavenly Frost Origin Seed. With that final piece in place, the Ouroboros Fire Serpent began its final transformation, fusing fire and frost.
Neither flame nor frost could truly overpower the other, nor could they possibly merge into one.
They restrained each other, but could never coexist.
So, as time went on, the Ouroboros Fire Serpent began to split into two serpents—one completely crimson and semi-transparent, the other entirely ice-blue and semi-transparent. Like twisted cords, the fire serpent and frost serpent tightly entwined, biting each other's tails to form a bracelet.
Using the opposition between the Heavenly Frost Origin Seed and the Blazing Heaven Origin Seed, Rosen completely infused his Eternal Will into the two origin seeds.
[Ouroboros Twin-Ring Serpent Bracelet: Transcendent Relic]
[Grade: Eternal Sacred Relic]
[Attributes: Can transform into Blazing Heaven Sacred Serpent and Heavenly Frost Sacred Serpent]
[Transcendent Traits: Blazing Heaven Soulfire, Heavenly Frost Cold Energy]
The attributes and traits were unimaginably simple, but within that simplicity lay the most terrifying and extreme power.
At Rosen's command, the bracelet turned into two tiny serpents slithering around his wrist.
These two little snakes were made from the refined corpses of two elemental Eternal Lives.
If their powers were fully unleashed, it would be no different than two Eternal Lives returning to the world.
With these two serpents, Rosen could wield both the Blazing Heaven Soulfire and the Heavenly Frost Cold Energy.
The Blazing Heaven Soulfire was different from the Blazing Heaven Sacred Fire. The former was the innate flame mastered by the Blazing Heaven Sacred God and was more attuned to the spiritual. The latter was a flame forged by the Soulfire after absorbing various transcendent flames, and was more attuned to physical destruction.
Once one mastered the Blazing Heaven Soulfire, mastering the Sacred Fire was a mere formality.
But not yet. The Blazing Heaven Creation Furnace was now the shared property of all immortal godfiends across the universe.
Even with the Ouroboros Twin-Ring Serpent Bracelet, challenging that many immortal godfiends would be suicide.
The peak power of the bracelet could indeed rival the rebirth of two Eternal Lives, but only if one possessed a sufficiently powerful Eternal Will to control that power. Rosen's Eternal Will still fell far short of a true Eternal Life.
Conservatively estimated, Rosen could at most draw out one percent of the bracelet's full power.
Even so, if he encountered the Icefeather Clan's progenitor again, he had a one hundred percent chance of victory.
He couldn't take the Blazing Heaven Creation Furnace for now, but Rosen was confident he could pack up the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone.
With a thought, the bracelet turned into the Heavenly Frost Sacred Serpent and grew rapidly. In its smaller form, it looked like a crystalline entity, but when it expanded infinitely, it became a giant serpent of icy mist—so large it already surpassed the size of the entire Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone.
Rosen controlled the Heavenly Frost Sacred Serpent as it slithered through the void and left the forbidden zone, growing even larger before opening its jaws to swallow the entire Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone whole.
The entire Eternal World, swallowed into the mouth of the Heavenly Frost Sacred Serpent, was devoured in short order.
Rosen could clearly feel that the power of the Ouroboros Twin-Ring Serpent Bracelet had grown stronger.
Previously, energy consumption from the bracelet had to be replenished by him directly. Although the two origin seeds within the bracelet could accumulate power endlessly, their accumulation was inefficient, and their consumption rapid. Now that it had devoured the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone, the Heavenly Frost Sacred Serpent no longer needed to worry about running out of energy.
If it could also devour the Blazing Heaven Creation Furnace, then the Ouroboros Twin-Ring Serpent Bracelet might finally reach its truly perfect state.
Rosen had originally planned to dismantle the Heavenly Frost Forbidden Zone and use it as a resource to ascend into an immortal godfiend himself.
But now, he would have to come up with another plan.
After careful thought, the most suitable target for plundering would be the Eternal Soul-Binding Wolf.
First of all, the Eternal Soul-Devouring Wolf was a creature of flesh and blood. Secondly, the Blazing Heaven Soulfire had a certain suppressive effect on it.
And finally, both the Blazing Heaven Sacred Serpent and the Heavenly Frost Sacred Serpent were elemental beings. With their inherent resilience, even if the Eternal Soul-Devouring Wolf had left behind measures that could threaten Eternal Lives, the Heavenly Frost Sacred Serpent should be able to withstand them.
The Doomsday Ark resumed its return journey, and since the route was already familiar, it moved much faster.
In less than ten days, the Doomsday Ark had returned to the Sirius Supercluster.
The law of the universe was survival of the fittest. No reason, no fairness.
Today it was the Sirius Clan's turn. If Rosen wasn't strong enough one day, it would be his.
So the moment the Doomsday Ark approached the Sirius star system, Rosen exhausted his Eternal Will to the limit, commanding the bracelet to transform into the Heavenly Frost Sacred Serpent. The enormous serpent coiled around the entire star system, and endless Heavenly Frost cold energy froze it solid.
Deep within the Sirius Star, the slumbering immortal Sirius wolf awoke the moment it sensed mortal danger.
By the time it flapped its wings and soared into the starry sky, there was not a single living member of the Sirius Clan left in the Sirius Star System, aside from the Wolf King.
The freezing speed of the Skyfrost Chill was simply too fast—even the Wolf King didn't have time to deploy his domain and retrieve his clansmen.
The Wolf King, lacking broader experience, didn't even know who the enemy was or where they were. But the Immortal Sirius had already realized that what had frozen all the supernatural stars of the Sirius Star System was the Skyfrost Chill. To achieve such a feat, the only one capable was that emotionless, rational monster from the Icefeather Clan.
There was no reasoning with that monster—once it made a decision, it would never waver.
In an instant, the Immortal Sirius spread its domain and took away all the Wolf Kings, then assumed its true Sirius form.
The stronger a member of the Sirius Clan was, the larger its true form. In the blink of an eye, the Immortal Sirius expanded its body until it stood with four limbs grounded, spanning tens of millions of miles, while its wings stretched thirty million miles across. Its unfolded Law Domain enveloped the entire Sirius Star System, then suddenly contracted.
The Sirius Star System, pulled in by the shrinking Law Domain, vanished as it was devoured by the gaping bloody maw of the Immortal Sirius.
Only now was the Immortal Sirius fully prepared to face the enemy.
Even if the Sirius Supercluster was dismantled, as long as the supernatural stars of the Sirius Star System still existed, rebuilding wouldn't be difficult.
The Immortal Sirius released its Eternal Will, searching for signs of the Icefeather Clan.
But all it saw was the omnipresent Skyfrost Chill—it didn't catch a glimpse of the Icefeather Clan progenitor's pair of Skyfrost Wings.
Just as the Immortal Sirius searched for the Icefeather progenitor, the boundless Skyfrost Chill suddenly came to life. The Skyfrost Sacred Serpent had no fixed form—its body could condense or disperse at will. After fusing with the Gather-Scatter Origin Seed, its transformation speed became terrifyingly fast.
At that moment, the endless Skyfrost Chill instantly converged, forming a massive serpentine head that swallowed the Sirius Star System in one gulp.
The Immortal Sirius's wings immediately manifested countless white holes, spewing chaotic space currents outward.
Even the Skyfrost Sacred Serpent's throat bulged from the surge of chaotic space currents. But escaping from within its body wasn't that easy. No matter how much the Immortal Sirius struggled, it was still gradually swallowed into the forbidden zone of Skyfrost.
Was the Immortal Sirius weak? Not at all. Even if it couldn't quite match the Immortal Soul-Devouring Butterfly, it wasn't far off.
Moreover, it had already condensed an Origin Seed—one that governed universal gravity, the Black Hole Origin Seed.
But the Skyfrost Sacred Serpent was even stronger, especially after fusing with the Gather-Scatter Origin Seed, which maximized its predatory capabilities.
If not for the Skyfrost Chill reassembling its serpentine body so quickly, the Immortal Sirius would've had a real chance of escaping.
Now that it had fallen into the forbidden zone of Skyfrost, hoping to make it out alive was nothing but a dream.
.....
At the entrance to the Soulbinding Forbidden Zone, the ten Wolf Kings who had been guarding the area were nowhere to be seen.
When the Sirius Star System came under attack, they had immediately retreated into the Soulbinding Forbidden Zone for refuge.
So this time, there was no inspection at all—the Doomsday Ark charged straight into the Void Soul Realm formed by the world's barriers.
As soon as the Doomsday Ark entered, it was swarmed by countless soul beings already enslaved.
These soul beings were the product of the Sirius Clan's countless years of enslavement, intended to be thrown at any intruder. Once invaders killed these soul beings, they'd be trapped forever in the Void Soul Realm.
Last time Rosen came, he didn't dare kill them. He merely borrowed the Black Wolf King's strength to harvest a few Origin Soul Crystals.
But this time, he planned to completely purge the Void Soul Realm.
The serpent bracelet emitted a fiery glow, summoning the Skyburning Sacred Serpent formed of Skyburning Soulfire. Everywhere it passed, no skill was necessary—any soul being that met its gaze spontaneously combusted, leaving behind only Origin Soul Crystals, which were swept up by the Sacred Serpent.
In less than two days, the entire Void Soul Realm no longer contained a single living being.
The Wolf Kings who fled weren't dead—clearly, they had passed through the Void Soul Realm and reached the true Soulbinding Forbidden Zone.
Rosen put away the Doomsday Ark and directed the Skyburning Sacred Serpent to pass through the final space barrier of the Soulbinding Forbidden Zone.
The Eternal Clone he left behind had already alerted him: the corpse of the Eternal Soulbinding Wolf had just awakened. But it wasn't a natural awakening—it was a sudden reaction to provocation. Clearly, the ones who triggered it were the ten Wolf Kings that had fled inside.
The moment the Skyburning Sacred Serpent appeared, the Eternal Soulbinding Wolf pounced through the void on instinct.
Two giant beasts, both corpses of eternal beings, clashed and tore into each other. In just a short while, the Eternal Soulbinding Wolf was already at a disadvantage.
Though both were corpses, the Eternal Soulbinding Wolf's body had suffered severe damage.
On the other hand, the Skyburning Sacred Serpent's body had been refined into an Eternal Relic, while the Soulbinding Wolf's corpse retained only primal instincts.
So within half a day, the Eternal Soulbinding Wolf had already been seized—tightly coiled by the Sacred Serpent. Everywhere the serpent's body constricted, flesh, skin, and fur were incinerated into ash. The very void was filled with the smell of roasted meat.
Just as the Soulbinding Wolf was about to be thoroughly roasted, the contingency it left behind in life finally activated.
In that instant, every supernatural lifeform imprisoned in the Soulbinding Forbidden Zone was drained completely, reduced to mere husks.
Then, the souls, spiritual essences, and willpower of all those supernatural beings converged at that moment into the horn on the Eternal Soulbinding Wolf's forehead—thus forming a virtual soul body for it.
Self-awareness in life is strange—it often doesn't depend solely on the soul.
If you were to completely erase one person's memories and copy another's memories into them, when they woke up, despite their soul and spirituality being unchanged, the revived person would likely believe they had transmigrated or been reborn.
They would never think the original memory-holder had died, nor realize that they themselves were merely a vessel with implanted memories.
At this moment, the virtual soul within the Eternal Soulbinding Wolf's horn had been infused with the memories prepared long in advance.
Through the horn, the virtual soul now controlled the body—the Eternal Soulbinding Wolf had achieved a false, temporary resurrection.
The Skyburning Sacred Serpent, which had held an overwhelming advantage just moments ago, was now immediately on the defensive.
Both were corpses under external control, but Rosen's Eternal Will was clearly inferior to the virtual soul prepared by the Eternal Soulbinding Wolf as its post-mortem trump card. Especially since the virtual soul had merged with part of the Eternal Soul-Devouring Wolf's memories, it could easily wield various powers belonging to eternal beings.
(End of Chapter)