Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 126 Time Loop Spirit Realm
Chapter 125

Before the main computer, Rosen kept searching for virtual realms related to time.

The boss, whose name I'd almost forgotten, actually had quite a few bookmarks on his computer.

The films include Edge of Tomorrow, Source Code, Triangle, as well as Harry Potter's Time Turbo and Marvel's Time Stone, among others.

As for TV series, there's The Beginning and My Date with a Vampire.

As for games, both the Xuan-Yuan Sword and the Legend of Sword and Fairy series possess the power of time.

Finally, there are even more anime, such as Detective Conan, Naruto, Doraemon, and so on, all of which have the power of time.

First, we can rule out those that he simply cannot activate at present; Marvel and Doraemon are too high-end and should be ruled out first.

Naruto's Dragon Vein could be considered as a theatrical film, while Harry Potter, although set in a magical world, has its main storyline confined to a limited magic school. Triangle and Source Code also don't involve many scenes in their plots.

The beginning of the TV series is the same; "My Date with a Zombie" involves the forces of fate, which is very troublesome.

The same goes for games; there are so many game scenarios that it's exhausting.

After some screening, Lawson kept Source Code, Triangle, Harry Potter, The Beginning, Naruto: The Lost Tower, and Conan as options. After further screening, Conan was also eliminated by Lawson.

Because Detective Conan is not finished, and with so many episodes, the virtual spirit world has been transformed into an endless series.

The source code is also excluded; if I remember correctly, this should be a virtual world.

Cruise is nice, but it's not a place to focus on drawing.

Harry Potter has some really overpowered magic, and materializing this virtual realm consumes a lot of resources.

Rosen ultimately chose the Beginning, which possessed no extraordinary power other than the time loop and required little spirituality to activate.

The story begins with a TV series, which mainly tells the story of the female protagonist, Li Shiqing, riding the No. 45 bus, which explodes as it walks towards a cross-river bridge. She then repeatedly travels back to before the explosion, getting trapped in a time loop, and eventually finds the culprit and prevents the bus from exploding.

Because it's a TV series, it involves more than ten times more static images of keys than a movie.

Fortunately, the setting is simple and there aren't many characters involved.

Actually, it's not that difficult to draw.

After activating the virtual spirit realm multiple times, Rosen has now summarized some experience.

Besides the complexity of the scenes and characters, the strength of the supernatural powers also determines the difficulty of activating the virtual spiritual realm.

Because it involves the power of time, this type of virtual spiritual realm is inherently difficult to activate.

If it also possesses powerful extraordinary abilities, the difficulty of activation can increase by dozens of times.

Rosen spent half a month completing all the static key drawings for the beginning.

After arriving in Shafiq State, he easily distributed these keys with the help of the Shafiq Consortium.

In less than five days, the virtual spiritual realm has become a real virtual spiritual realm.

However, this virtual spiritual realm is very special after it is materialized. There is no consumption if the time loop is not activated, but activating the time loop requires additional consumption of spiritual crystals, and the consumption of spiritual crystals depends on Lawson's sequence level.

He is now Sequence 8, and his time cycle consumes one hundred units of spiritual crystals per day.

Moreover, when he is inside the spiritual realm, he can only recover his lost spiritual energy by relying on spiritual crystals.

Rosen estimated that with a three-year time cycle and the spiritual depletion caused by painting on the Mind Canvas during that period, at least two million spiritual crystals would be needed, with the majority of the expenditure concentrated on spiritual recovery.

To enjoy the accelerated cultivation brought about by the time loop, these losses are still within Lawson's tolerance range.

Rosen integrated the Time Loop Spirit Realm into the divine realm, placing it in his bedroom for easy access.

After pre-paying 500,000 spiritual crystals, Rosen couldn't wait to enter the spiritual realm.

In the blink of an eye, he had become a passenger on bus number 45.

The female lead, Li Shiqing, sat in front of him, her head tilted to one side, as if she were having a nightmare and was covered in cold sweat.

Based on his understanding of dreams, Li Shiqing is about to wake up from a time loop.

After waking up, she will try to leave the bus, which will cause the male protagonist sitting next to her to also fall into the time loop.

Then the two of them began searching for the killer and preventing the No. 45 bus from exploding in a series of cycles.

However, this development is not conducive to Luo Sen's cultivation. The time loop of this world depends on Li Shiqing. Her death will cause the time loop to restart. If someone is trapped in the time loop with her, the conditions for restarting the time loop will become more complicated.

Rosen reached out from the back seat and placed his hand on Li Shiqing's shoulder, shaking her awake instantly.

In that instant, Rosen pulled Li Shiqing into the Void Gallery.

Li Shiqing watched as the familiar No. 45 bus, which terrified her, suddenly disappeared from her sight and was replaced by an art gallery with various paintings on both sides of the wall. This sudden change did not alarm her; instead, it made her breathe a sigh of relief.

Having gone through time loops several times, suddenly ending up in an art gallery is better than being blown up in a car.

Although the body may be intact after the time loop, the painful memory of being blown up alive will not disappear because of the time loop.

At least it's safe here. After calming down, Li Shiqing looked at the paintings on both sides and walked deeper into the gallery.

Li Shiqing knows a little about painting, although she's not very good at it, but she has seen various famous paintings online.

She was certain that all the famous paintings she had ever seen were far inferior to those in the gallery.

Regardless of what was depicted in the paintings, they gave her the feeling that she was about to come alive from them.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Li Shiqing's stomach began to rumble with hunger.

Suddenly, bright lights appeared ahead, and she immediately jogged forward to see an art studio.

At that moment, a young Asian man with short black hair was looking at the artwork projected onto the screen with his back to her.

"I am Li Shiqing. Do you know where this place is?"

Li Shiqing carefully entered the studio and asked.

No one answered her, which made her walk to Rosen's side, puzzled.

Just one glance was enough to terrify Li Shiqing, who could hear her own heartbeat in the quiet art studio.

Since there was no projector at all, the young man's eyes were the projector she imagined. She watched as images were projected from the man's glowing eyes onto the screen on the opposite wall.

Li Shiqing didn't dare to say anything more, even though she suspected that the time loop was related to the strange man in front of her.

With such strange and mysterious power, killing an ordinary person like her would be as easy as stepping on an ant.

So she wisely refrained from questioning or shouting, and simply stood aside and waited silently.

Finally, unable to bear the hunger any longer, she saw some fruit on the table next to her, quietly took an apple, and began to eat it cautiously like a hamster. Seeing that the man next to her did not react, she gradually became bolder and began to observe the art studio.

A few hours later, Li Shiqing, still feeling anxious and frightened, couldn't help but want to take a nap.

Rosen turned his head away instantly, hesitated for a moment, and did not wake her up.

As soon as Li Shiqing falls asleep, the time loop will immediately restart.

However, he wasn't short of those spiritual crystals, so there was no need to torment Li Shiqing by preventing her from resting.

In the blink of an eye, he was back on the bus, but this time Li Shiqing, who was sitting in front of him, was not immediately awakened by the nightmare.

Rosen instantly pulled Li Shiqing back into the Void Gallery, and then continued to hone the canvas of her soul with persistent, gentle effort.

When Li Shiqing woke up, she was unaware that she had experienced another time loop.

A few days later, Li Shiqing, who was getting bolder, began to tentatively ask Rosen about her doubts.

However, Rosen turned a deaf ear, engrossed in his mental canvas.

Li Shiqing received no answer for a long time, and she did not find any threat to the man in front of her.

As she grew bolder, she began to try to get close to Rosen, but the moment she got close, she would be thrown back into the maze gallery.

Each time, it takes at least an hour to find the studio again in the gallery maze.

After several attempts, Li Shiqing finally gave up and lay down.

Every day I would watch Rosen draw like an idiot, and after watching him draw so much, I couldn't help but find spare brushes and paper in the studio and try to draw myself.

As for food, there would always be some food on the table not far away when I woke up every day.

The only thing that struck her as odd was that she didn't seem to need to use the restroom after arriving at this mysterious studio.

The things she ate seemed to be just air.

In the end, she even doubted whether she was still alive and could only resign herself to the strange cohabitation life.

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Li Shiqing has gradually gotten used to life in the art studio.

Although there was no television or internet, there were countless mysterious paintings that amazed her.

Li Shiqing discovered that the food she was eating was actually drawn. She also witnessed Rosen stop the projection of his eyes and draw various portraits with a paintbrush. Her favorite painting was the portrait Rosen drew for her.

She found the name Rosen by looking at the signatures on some of her paintings.

As usual, Li Shiqing prepared dinner in the kitchen she had drawn.

Although the food that Rosen drew was delicious, it had one fatal flaw: they all tasted exactly the same.

Even the most delicious food will eventually become tiresome if you eat the same thing too often. So, after living together for a year, she started asking Rosen to draw some ingredients, and then she cooked dinner for her every day.

Over the course of two years, I've honed my culinary skills to a high level.

Besides her culinary skills, her biggest gain is that she has developed excellent painting skills.

As usual, Li Shiqing prepared dinner and then served it.

Rosen would sometimes get up to eat, but more often he would ignore it and concentrate on drawing.

Seeing that Lawson had moved today, Li Shiqing couldn't help but feel a little secretly pleased.

Rosen ate the vegetables that Li Shiqing kept putting into his bowl; he was a carnivore and really didn't like eating vegetables.

However, he simply couldn't refuse such a kind gesture.

I haven't spoken to Li Shiqing for three years; this is a special practice method of the Mind Canvas.

The canvas of the soul—the soul itself is the core.

However, you can know a person's face but not their heart. Not to mention other people's hearts, how many people can truly understand your own heart?
Language itself is full of lies, and unless one has an inability to lie, no one can always tell the truth.

Even a white lie is ultimately not a reflection of one's true feelings.

So Rosen didn't speak for three years and didn't have any direct communication with Li Shiqing, which is somewhat similar to the Buddhist concept of silence.

Because talking to someone is boring, Li Shiqing gradually fell silent, just like him.

From then on, their communication was limited to observing each other and exchanging glances.

This kind of communication is more real than language, and closer to a true connection of hearts.

Now, after three years, the Mind Canvas has finally reached LV3 with Li Shiqing's help.

Now, as soon as Rosen looks into Li Shiqing's eyes, her true thoughts immediately appear on his mental canvas.

He was also able to project his feelings onto Li Shiqing's heart through the canvas of her soul, using her eyes as a medium.

Of course, it's easy to project your own feelings, but it's difficult to reflect the feelings of others on the canvas of your heart.

This is because Li Shiqing is just an ordinary person; otherwise, Rosen would not have been able to express Li Shiqing's feelings on the canvas of the mind.

However, in the future, when combined with other extraordinary abilities, the level of the Mind Canvas will continue to increase and become effective against extraordinary abilities as well.

A high-level mental canvas is fully capable of peering into the minds of the vast majority of extraordinary beings.

After finishing his meal, Rosen did not sit down for the first time in three years.

Instead, he stepped forward, bent down, and lifted Li Shiqing up from the chair in a princess carry.

"I want you!"

Rosen looked down into Li Shiqing's eyes and walked toward the bedroom.

For an entire night, Rosen made Li Shiqing bleed and cry.

That night, Rosen and Li Shiqing talked a lot, which cleared up all of Li Shiqing's doubts.

Although somewhat angry, Rosen ignored her for three years in order to focus on his training.

But she was also grateful that she was able to escape the time loop and meet a love that moved her heart.

The following afternoon, Rosen brought Li Shiqing to the Divine Realm territory and transformed her into a citizen.

Standing on the castle terrace, Li Shiqing saw a fantastical divine realm and gripped Rosen's arm tightly.

For her, the future will be a completely new world.

What job sequence do you want to switch to?

Rosen held Li Shiqing as they sat on the rocking chair on the terrace.

"A sequence that can be used to make delicious food."

Li Shiqing blurted it out.

Luo Sen understood Li Shiqing's feelings; in her opinion, eating together was the happiest thing.

However, the most suitable category for those who can create gourmet food is undoubtedly the gourmet.

However, only hereditary nobles can switch to one of the four major civilization sequences, so making her a gourmet is not so simple.

Whether he succeeds or not, he can only try once or twice.

After all, he had only heard that such a possibility existed, and he had no way of knowing whether it was true or not.

The World Government only allows nobles to transfer to the four major civilization sequences, but there are also many geniuses among ordinary people who are more suitable for transferring to the four major civilization sequences. If the path for ordinary people to transfer to the four major sequences is completely blocked, it will hinder the development of civilization.

Therefore, for ordinary people who want to switch to one of the four civilization sequences, all they need to do is become a hereditary noble.

The World Government has a special talent clause: if an ordinary person possesses amazing talent in the four major civilization sequences, then once that talent is good enough to be recognized by the ancient tree of the civilization sequence, the World Government will directly bestow upon them a hereditary title of noble.

Of course, this title wasn't given away for nothing; as long as he lived, he would have to earn merit to pay off his debts.

This is equivalent to pre-paying for hereditary noble titles, giving exceptional geniuses among ordinary people the opportunity to strengthen the four major civilization sequences.

In terms of culinary talent alone, Li Shiqing is good, but she could never reach the level that would make the Sequence Ancient Trees' hearts flutter.

However, Rosen possesses many virtual spiritual realms originating from Earth, containing countless recipes from thousands of years of Earth's history. These recipes might be able to activate the ancient tree of gourmet sequences, thus making up for the gap in Li Shiqing's talent.

Rosen shared his thoughts, and Li Shiqing panicked after understanding the differences between the extraordinary sequences.

She hadn't expected that switching to the extraordinary sequence, which specialized in food preparation, would be so difficult.

Rosen purchased a large quantity of alchemical potions that could enhance memory, and also acquired a considerable number of Sequence 9 extraordinary artifacts that could enhance memory.

This helped Li Shiqing awaken her spirituality, and the entire awakening process was smooth and without any surprises.

Even without mentioning the repeated time loops, which ignited Li Shiqing's spirituality.

The mental projections created by the Simple Mind Canvas over the past two years have unconsciously brought Li Shiqing's spirituality to the point of awakening.

Rosen eventually prepared recipes collected from different virtual spirit realms, and even created a virtual spirit realm that resembled a food movie.

This is how Li Shiqing was sent into these virtual spiritual realms, allowing her to maximize her culinary skills and memorize recipes.

Suddenly, Li Shiqing was not by his side, and Luo Sen, who had gotten used to it over the past three years, felt very uncomfortable.

But he had no choice but to shift his focus to other things.

When Lawson was creating the Divine Brush, he used a Sequence 7 drawing brush as the base material.

Furthermore, since it's an innate skill, upgrading the Divine Brush to Sequence 7 is not difficult at all; it only requires some additional enhancement materials.

They can evolve directly without any additional materials. Of course, if the enhancement materials are good enough, the attributes will be even better after the upgrade.

Due to the time loop, three years in the Spirit Realm are equivalent to only three days in the outside world.

The reward Rosen offered for the enhancement materials for the magic pen half a month ago has finally brought good news in the last three days.

Someone recently spotted the extraordinary rainbow jellyfish in the nearby waters.

This life form is the painter among extraordinary sea creatures. The rainbow jellyfish can paint whatever it touches on its body surface through color changes within its body, just like painting.

The extraordinary essence of the Rainbow Jellyfish is one of the best materials for making brushes and paints for the Painter's Sequence.

Furthermore, since rainbow jellyfish cannot be artificially bred, they are highly sought after by many artists whenever they appear.

This is why the Blue Whale Kingdom spends so much time traversing the ocean, so the chances of spotting rainbow jellyfish are not low.

If this happened in the Principality of Blazing Shadow, one would probably never hear of the Rainbow Jellyfish in their entire life.

Rosen was already two days late, so he couldn't wait to hire a supernatural vessel to set sail.

When he arrived at his target location hundreds of nautical miles away, there were already hundreds of extraordinary ships on the sea. Some of them were extraordinary ships hired by the painters of the Blue Whale Kingdom, while the rest were from other extraordinary sequences who wanted to capture Rainbow Jellyfish alive and sell them for a high price.

Despite the large number of people, Rosen breathed a sigh of relief.

Because a large number of people means that they haven't been caught yet; the rainbow jellyfish has average combat power but extremely strong stealth ability.

If it weren't for its slow movement speed, it wouldn't have given anyone a chance to catch it.

Rosen did not act immediately; blindly searching would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

There are at least two or three thousand extraordinary beings around, so why was he the one who found him?

Rainbow jellyfish are not very intelligent, with a sequence level of only nine, and are simply unable to resist sufficiently powerful bait.

Rosen arrived at the seabed and opened up his divine domain. Then, at the edge of the divine domain, he released 20 million spiritual crystals and piled them up into a mountain. The powerful spiritual fluctuations immediately spread in all directions, attracting all the extraordinary sea beasts nearby.

Such a large lure also attracted extraordinary human beings.

They wouldn't dare to openly storm into the divine realm to plunder, but they could spread out around it and wait for the rainbow jellyfish to pass by. That would be equivalent to intercepting it in advance.

If they failed to intercept the rainbow jellyfish, then it was only natural that Lawson would wait and catch it.

(End of this chapter)