Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 194 Cyclic Time and Space and Five-Dimensional Painting

Chapter 193

Eight thousand miles southeast of Shanhe City, Rosen arrived at a valley with waterfalls and deep pools.

This deep pool is connected to an underground water system. If you follow the dark current at the bottom of the pool, you will eventually arrive at a different space located deep underground. This is a different space formed when the divine realm merged into reality after the death of the demigod painter.

Rosen had experience entering the underground world through underground water systems, so his journey went very smoothly.

Following the undercurrent, he arrived at its end half an hour later and passed through a spatial barrier.

Before Rosen was a mountain that looked like a tower, with each layer of the mountain being 100 meters high. Between the two layers were five supporting pillars in total, and then the layers were stacked up like this, making it about 101 layers high.

Because the space in the divine realm is limited, the center of the divine realm is almost entirely mountains.

Castles can be built on the mountaintop, and the space inside the mountain can be expanded to house the people. Terraces can also be created to expand the planting area.

However, this was the first time he had ever seen a divine domain transformed into a hollowed-out giant tower, with each level filled with tombs.

Rosen teleported to the bottom of Tower Mountain and saw at least tens of thousands of densely packed graveyards.

Rosen discovered that the densely packed tombstones had simple portraits and names on them, and the back of each tombstone also had a brief biography.

Judging from the quality of the portraits, they should be the work of a demigod painter, and the biographical sketches show that they are all deceased people.

Logically, when a demigod painter dies, he should leave his divine territory to his descendants.

If there are truly no descendants, then he will release his people and let the divine realm become his own graveyard.

This demigod painter actually died behind all his subjects?
Rosen considered a possibility: the demigod painter might not have died a natural death, but rather suffered a calamity that killed many or even all of the people in his territory. The demigod painter, who survived, then altered the terrain of the divine realm to bury these people.

He teleported to the second level, where, as expected, the land was also filled with the graves of his subjects.

There are over a million people on 101 floors. Judging from the randomly selected biographical sketches, these people are all followers of the demigod painter. As for the painters who are not followers, they are not buried in the tower, perhaps because they are not qualified or perhaps because they did not die.

When Rosen arrived at the top of Tower Hill, he found that there was only one tomb on that floor.

Moreover, behind the tombstone, there is a sequence ancient tree that has not completely withered. Inside the branches of the sequence ancient tree is a painting, which should be the sequence 3 spirit realm painting.

Before Rosen could even get close to the Ancient Tree of Sequence and see the painting, he had already vanished from the spot.

The spatial transfer was over, and Rosen had arrived in a city full of art.

The Void Realm expanded outwards, quickly encompassing the shadow of the entire city.

Through the Void Realm, Rosen can observe the entire city from below.

For some reason, he felt a sense of familiarity with the city.

This city has a large population, at least several million.

There are quite a few who have mastered the extraordinary sequences; at least tens of thousands could be found.

Strangely, there are no combat sequences, only auxiliary sequences of extraordinary beings.

Rosen found no trace of Misia or the other outsiders. The people in the city were living their normal lives. The pedestrians who walked past him on the street, apart from a few single women who glanced at him a few more times, did not pay any special attention to him.

Rosen wandered around the city and discovered some unusual places.

The lords of the divine realm did not simply provide for their people by settling them within the spiritual realm.

The people also need to work. If they become farmers, they need to cultivate the land; if they become miners, they need to mine; if they become fishermen, they need to raise and catch fish. Every person needs to create wealth and even provide faith to the divine territory.

Of course, there are rewards for hard work, and becoming a leader can provide opportunities for greater spiritual awakening.

Then you can change jobs, gain a longer lifespan, earn more personal wealth, and live a better life.

Because popular support is also a form of faith, even if the lord of the divine realm has to pretend, he will still pretend to be a good person.

Rosen observed the entire city through the illusory realm and surprisingly found no industrial area.
There are vast farmlands surrounding the city, as if farming is the primary occupation of all the residents within the city.

However, many of the people who changed jobs were not farmers; some were miners and fishermen. The problem is that these miners and fishermen were also farming. This abnormal division of labor obviously had a special reason.

Rosen teleported to the edge of the city and approached a fisherman who was farming.

Using his sixth sense to read minds, he quickly understood what was going on.

This fisherman originally lived in another spiritual realm.
Until a few months ago, the Lord of the Divine Realm suddenly notified them to relocate to this Spirit Realm.

After that, he could no longer contact the Lord of the Divine Realm. However, the fisherman also needed to eat, and he had family members who had migrated with him to support. He had no choice but to go out and farm, so at least he wouldn't starve. He endured this for several months, waiting for the Lord to appear.

In fact, everyone suspected that the Lord of the Divine Realm must have been engaged in a fierce battle, otherwise he wouldn't have been missing for several months.

For the next few days, Rosen continued to search the city for any suspicious clues.

However, they couldn't find anything, as if Misia and her companions had never been there at all.

However, Rosen did not come away empty-handed; he was certain that there was a problem with the time aspect of this spiritual realm.

It's obvious that the demigod painter had been dead for at least several thousand years.

However, the fishermen's memories within the Spirit Realm are still stuck a few months after the lord's disappearance.

The timing was clearly off, and the deeper Rosen explored the city, the more familiar everything seemed. This even made Rosen suspect that he might not be entering this spiritual realm for the first time, but rather that he had experienced more than one time loop.

However, this time loop realm can also reset memories.

Rosen was able to recognize many things because he possessed a certain degree of resistance to the power of time.

Realizing this, Rosen did not rush to leave the spirit realm immediately.

He suspected that time reset might be conditional, and attempting to leave the spirit realm might be one of those conditions.

Normally, if he can't find anything in the Spirit Realm, he would definitely use the Lazy Foot to leave the Spirit Realm.

However, he clearly did not manage to leave, but instead got stuck in a time reset more than once.

If this is a time-reset cage, then where are Misia and the others?
Or is it that this spiritual realm is not only reset in terms of time, but also has more than one layer of spiritual space?
Upon opening the mysterious study, Rosen approached the main computer.

Sure enough, there was a diary on the computer desk, with the words "Time Cycle Diary" written on the cover.

Indeed, the spirit realm outside can reset even memories, but it has no effect on the mysterious study.

Opening the diary, I found that there were already six records of time resets.

I didn't realize the time was abnormal before, so I didn't keep a diary entry and don't know how many times the time was reset.

In the six recorded time resets, he tried to destroy the Spirit Realm with the Dragon King's Roar Bomb, tried to cover the entire Spirit Realm with the Void Shadow Realm, tried the Void Phase of the Fairy Dragon Balls, and so on, but without exception, he was unable to leave the Spirit Realm.

So directly confronting him wouldn't work; in his diary, he suspected six ways out, and that his path to survival lay in painting.

Although the entire city is not like Shanhe City, which is entirely painted, it is still filled with countless paintings. These spiritual paintings are all from the same person, and they may hold the secrets of this spiritual realm.

Each of these spiritual paintings contains hidden spiritual runes.

Of the thousands of spiritual paintings in the city, he has already deciphered nearly 90% of the first six. The reason he hasn't deciphered them all and recorded them in his diary is because the time reset of this spiritual realm will not exceed three years at most.

So when the time is almost up, they will try all sorts of reckless methods to find a way out.

Rosen immediately left the mysterious study and began searching for the remaining ten percent of the spiritual paintings to decipher the spiritual runes within them.

Each spiritual painting has a number in the lower right corner. Some spiritual paintings are located in frames on the walls of residents' homes in the city, some are painted directly inside or outside buildings, and some spiritual paintings are even composed of flowers, trees, and crops.

Rosen searched for two whole years before finally finding the last extremely hidden spiritual painting.

Because it wasn't in reality, that spiritual painting with the number zero actually existed in the memory of a little girl in the city.

All the spiritual paintings were found, and thousands of spiritual runes were analyzed.

Rosen has mastered 99% of the spiritual runes, with only a very few special ones that he has not mastered.

Moreover, the final spiritual painting, number zero, unexpectedly contained no spiritual runes, but rather a three-dimensional diagram of a spiritual rune structure.

After Rosen pieced together all the spiritual runes according to the structural diagram and numbers, they surprisingly formed a mysterious skill.

Upon further investigation, he discovered that this was an unknown skill of a painter.

Of all the painting skills he had ever seen, this one was undoubtedly the most complex.

Conservatively speaking, this is definitely a painter skill level of at least Sequence 3.

Rosen seemed to be deep in thought, realizing that he would probably need to rely on the painter's skills to leave this spiritual realm.

However, this painter's skill is Sequence 3, which he cannot master due to his Sequence 5. His extraordinary source essence at Sequence 5 is simply unable to support the skill of Sequence 3. But without mastering this skill, the entire Spirit Realm has been turned upside down with no other clues.

If he were truly forced into a corner, he would have other ways to leave this spiritual realm.

The simplest way is to hide in the mysterious study and then attack this spirit realm with the Dragon King's Roar Bomb.

The time reset in the spirit realm poses no threat to him in the mysterious study, but his Dragon King Roar Bomb can continuously damage the spirit realm. Sooner or later, he will force the spirit realm to reveal a weakness, and then it will not be difficult for him to leave.

With the legacy of a demigod painter right before him, leaving in disgrace was not his style.

When in doubt, a bounty is the best solution. Rosen immediately logged into the Spirit Realm Deep Network and the Main God Network through the Main God Computer, and then anonymously offered a large reward for each. Before the reward results came out, he also took the opportunity to study the skill in the Mysterious Study.

As expected, a generous reward can solve many problems, and a high-sequence painter did indeed provide a solution. It turns out that the first generation of Sequence 0 descendants, also known as divine offspring, may inherit the skills their parents possess if they change jobs to the same sequence as their parents, and at the highest level, they may even master the skills of Sequence 0 at Sequence 9.

Although limited by the sequence level, a sequence 9 cannot fully unleash the power of a sequence 0 skill.

However, when compared to other beast kings of the same level, the Divine Bloodline can still demonstrate combat power comparable to other beast kings of the same level.

Since the divine descendants can master high-sequence skills ahead of time, it is natural that some people will study the divine descendants.

No one in the World Government dares to act recklessly in this regard, but there are fewer such concerns among the alien races.

The Main God Network accepted the bounty offered by Rosen for a stranger with great fortune. They possessed a valuable item that could enable a Sequence 5 player to acquire a Sequence 3 skill. The other party refused to disclose the specifics of this item, only stating that if the trade was agreed upon, its value could be witnessed by the Main God Temple.

Rosen sensed there was a trap involved, but this was the only option at the moment.

Through the main god's hall, Rosen used the main god's gold coins, worth one hundred million spiritual crystals, to purchase a piece of extraordinary source material.

Through the appraisal of the Miracle Pocket, he confirmed that this extraordinary source material was indeed worth the price.

However, a more detailed appraisal requires placing the item in the Miracle Pocket.

Not long after Rosen put the extraordinary source material in, the Miracle Pocket had already identified more detailed information.

This is a Sequence 5 Painter's Extraordinary Source Material, but the owner of the Extraordinary Source Material is a descendant of gods.

Starting from demigod status, the extraordinary source essence absorbs faith and the authority of laws to transform into a godhood. When it reaches the final sequence 1, the extraordinary source essence will completely transform into a complete godhood, bearing all the core power of the sequence.

However, the extraordinary essence of the divine descendants naturally possesses the qualities of divinity, enabling them to bear the rules.

Therefore, only those of the ninth rank who are divine descendants have the potential to master skills of higher ranks.

If his extraordinary source essence devours this piece of extraordinary source essence, it will not only increase the foundation of his extraordinary source essence, but also allow him to master a high-sequence skill beyond his level. It may even be possible for him to inherit the high-sequence skill that was originally present on this extraordinary source essence.

However, besides the benefits, this approach also has the drawback of contaminating the extraordinary source material.

Moreover, this extraordinary source material is a divine descendant. Since it is a divine descendant, at least one of the parents must be a Sequence 0. It's one thing for the child to die, but if this extraordinary source material is refined, it is very likely that a Sequence 0 will follow the clues and come after them.

So this extraordinary source material is indeed worth 100 million, but it is also undoubtedly a trap.

Rosen thought for a moment, then took the network cable from the main god's computer and touched the extraordinary source matter.

The network cable remained unchanged, but the main computer provided a solution.

He had previously eaten a Sequence 2 Golden Apple, which, in addition to strengthening life force, also had the power to purify all negative effects such as curses. However, even with gluttony, he could not fully digest the Sequence 2 Golden Apple after eating it.

Therefore, the body not only contains unactivated vitality, but also unactivated purifying power.

If he were to refine this extraordinary essence, he could ignite the firewood pile with the Miracle Flame, then place the firewood pile into the potion bottle, and finally add his own painter's extraordinary essence into it. In this way, the fusion would not contaminate his extraordinary essence.

Once the fusion is complete and the extraordinary essence is returned to the body, it will be thoroughly purified again using the purifying power of the golden apple.

In this way, even if it's sequence 0, you won't be able to find any clues by following the trail.

Of course, the entire fusion process must take place in the mysterious study.

After pondering for a long time, Rosen decided to fuse with this extraordinary source.

In this way, the painter skill at sequence 5 directly solves the problem of two or more high-sequence skills.

Rosen took out all sorts of miraculous treasures and prepared them, then began to operate them in sequence.

Finally, the Divine Brush and the Mind Canvas were taken from the Sea of ​​Consciousness and placed into the Potion Bottle. Under the burning of the Miracle Flame, the extraordinary essence originating from the divine lineage did not merge with the Divine Brush, but instead merged with the Mind Canvas.

After Rosen retrieved the two extraordinary essences from the Torch Painter, he immediately used his Golden Divinity to activate the purification power hidden within his body.

It took a full five days of purification before the extraordinary essence within the canvas of the mind finally completed its transformation and stabilized.

After such a transformation, his extraordinary essence was first able to absorb and transform faith, and then permanently sublimate spirituality into divinity. Secondly, his extraordinary essence could now bear a rule, and Rosen merged with the divine power of creation without hesitation.

If the original cost of using the divine power of creation was ten, now the maximum cost is one.

Finally, during the extraordinary source fusion process, Rosen retained the only high-sequence skill mentioned above.

[Soulful Artist: You can imprison the target's spirit and seal it in your hand]

Rosen was completely bewildered. This was a high-sequence skill?
By logging into the Spirit Realm Deep Web through the main god's computer and then activating intrusion mode, information about the Soul Painter skill was found at the Artists Guild headquarters. It turned out to be a Gundam Sequence 1 painter skill.

It turns out that once a painter reaches the demigod level, it becomes increasingly difficult to progress further and to complete higher-level paintings.

Because for any extraordinary sequence, the higher the sequence level, the closer it is to uniqueness.

A Sequence 7 painter finds a Sequence 7 hunter as a model and meticulously paints a portrait of the hunter, capturing their essence. Once completed, the painter can summon the hunter from the painting to aid in battle; the painted hunter will be nearly as powerful as the original.
However, it is almost impossible for a Sequence 1 painter to paint a Sequence 1 hunter.

Or rather, even if one were to paint it, it might take hundreds of years to complete such a spiritual work.

If it were so easy to draw, then painters would have been invincible among their peers.

Why is it that the first part is easy to draw, but the second part is so difficult?

Because the earlier spiritual paintings do not involve rules, while the later spiritual paintings do, if you want to paint a Sequence 1 hunter, you must at least know the rules that the Sequence 1 hunter knows, and at least be able to replicate the rules in the painting.

So don't be fooled by the fact that painters paint everything in their early years; once they reach the level of demigods, they need to specialize in something else.

For example, if the painter himself has mastered the rules of horror, then he will definitely develop in the direction of horror painting.

However, some painters are never satisfied. Before they became demigods, they could paint whatever they wanted, but after becoming demigods, their paths became narrower and narrower. It was under this mentality that the skill of "soul painter" was born, which is to use the soul rules contained in the soul painter to control other rules.

I don't know any horror rules, but I still want to draw horror pictures.

Then capture a demigod who has mastered the rules of terror, extract the spirit of this demigod and integrate it into your hand. In this way, you can use the spirit of this demigod to unleash the rules of terror, thereby greatly reducing the difficulty of integrating the rules of terror into spiritual paintings.

Even for spiritual paintings, the model is the unfortunate demigod sealed away by the soul painter.

When it comes to painting, it's even more effective, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

So don't underestimate the seemingly insignificant skill of a "soul painter"; it's actually a special skill that would make any demigod painter drool.

To master this skill, one must first understand the rules of the soul.

However, Rosen didn't have any demigod spirituality at hand, so he turned his attention to the Sequence 3 Mystic Painter skill.

The spiritual runes were drawn continuously, and the drawn spiritual runes were continuously integrated into the curtain of ashes.

As the last spiritual rune merged into it, a new skill was born within the extraordinary essence.

[Five-Dimensional Painting: The Ability to Paint in Five-Dimensional Space]

When Rosen saw the skill description, his heart skipped a beat.

In this world's understanding of spacetime dimensions, zero-dimensional space is a point, one-dimensional space is a line, two-dimensional space is a plane, three-dimensional space is a solid, four-dimensional space is three-dimensional space plus time, and five-dimensional spacetime plus energy.

The essence of a painter's spiritual artwork is to transform a two-dimensional flat painting into a final three-dimensional representation.

If one consumes the power of creation and borrows the authority of creation, one can even materialize spiritual paintings in five dimensions.

The essence of spiritual paintings is actually to elevate spiritual paintings to the fifth dimension.

However, the skill of five-dimensional painting allows for painting directly at the five-dimensional level.

They may look the same, but they are fundamentally different.

The elevated five dimensions in Lingjing paintings are essentially the sealing of the five-dimensional space in reality into the painting.

The skill of five-dimensional painting involves integrating spiritual artwork into the real five-dimensional space.

If a person wants to enter a painting of a spiritual realm, they need to step into the world depicted in the painting.

However, using five-dimensional painting, one can paint directly in the real space, using the existing five-dimensional space as a canvas. The resulting painting can be perfectly integrated with the real space, so that even a demigod would not realize that he has fallen into a painting.

Furthermore, through five-dimensional painting, one can freely adjust the time, space, and energy of spiritual painting.

Rosen was certain that this five-dimensional painting was in no way inferior to that of a true master painter.

The demigod painter who created this skill, if he hadn't died, would at least have been a Sequence 1 painter.

After mastering five-dimensional painting, Rosen looked out the window at the spiritual realm and experienced a completely new sensory experience.

Based on the five-dimensional space that constitutes the spiritual realm, someone has added another layer to the time, space, and energy of the spiritual realm, thus creating a nested doll-like dual spiritual realm. There should be more than that, perhaps three, four, or even more layers of spiritual realms.

Destroying one spiritual realm will immediately plunge you into another spiritual realm, starting all over again.

Then, the originally destroyed spiritual realm will be reset in time and space under the power of the five-dimensional painting to control time and space.

Having seen through the true nature of the world, leaving this spiritual realm becomes very simple.

Rosen left the mysterious study, summoned a magic brush, and then drew a door in the empty air.

This door is one that he drew directly in space using five-dimensional painting.

Pushing open the door, he had already left the Spirit Realm and returned to the outside of the Spirit Realm, which was enveloped by the Sequence Ancient Tree.

Rosen possessed the painting and picked it up, beginning to infuse it with spiritual energy to refine it.

(End of this chapter)