Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 250 The Pantheon Grottoes and the Remains of the True God
Chapter 249

In the Ancient God Realm, the Glory Printing Factory, built beneath the World Tree, has been operating stably for several years.

Initially, Rosen could barely keep up with the demand after printing only a month's worth of spiritual paintings.

Because once a printed picture goes on sale, no matter how many copies are printed afterward, the supply will always fall short of demand.

He couldn't possibly spend all his time printing spiritual paintings.

So he found architects and mechanics to custom-build an extraordinary structure to meet the needs of the printing factory.

These extraordinary buildings are capable of producing their own spiritual canvas and spiritual pigments.

With both of these in place, all that's left is to provide the universal printer with a continuous supply of spiritual energy.

Rosen entrusted this task to the seven Sinful Spirit Beasts, which were transformed from demonic seeds. These spirit beasts were created because of his spirit ability and possessed the same spiritual spirit energy. With the Gluttonous Spirit Beasts devouring food to replenish their spirit energy, the eight spirit beasts could continuously provide spiritual spirit energy.

In this way, the entire printing factory can operate fully automatically.

The annual production of 20 billion printed paintings can meet the needs of 20 trillion people.

Too many is not good, but satisfying the needs of several empires is not a problem.

Furthermore, the number of printed prints allocated to each empire will continue to decrease, with the surplus production being sent to other empires. This is the limit that can be achieved at the current stage. To completely supply the entire human world, it would probably be possible only if he became Sequence 0.

Although he is still some distance from becoming a world-renowned painter, Rosen has accumulated more fame than he can ever use.

The two spiritual paintings, "Bunny-Eared Chef" and "Farmhouse Vegetable Garden," have already grown from Sequence 4 to Sequence 2.

Li Shiqing now learns to cook from the rabbit-eared girl every day, while Xue Lun stays at home in the farm's vegetable garden every day.

The two paintings didn't benefit much; the one that benefited the most was the Bloodstained Glory.

Originally, it increased the character drawing attribute by 100%, but now it has increased by 356%.

This means that the power of the demon god manifesting in this figure painting has increased by another 265%.

Ultimately, the entire noble class received at least a 20% increase in prestige.

Such a significant improvement is not solely attributable to the printing factory.

Because Rosen hasn't been idle these past few years, he has also painted many Sequence 3 spiritual paintings, and even several Sequence 3 spiritual landscape paintings. The difficulty of painting has become lower and lower as his reputation has continued to rise.

All of these Sequence 3 paintings entered noble auctions in various countries, and without exception, they all sold for high prices due to their superior quality.

Consequently, his paintings were also highly sought after by a large number of nobles among the supernatural community.

At least 30% of his fame comes from these spiritual paintings he created himself.

This also shows that, for the same thing, the extraordinary group gains fame far more efficiently than the ordinary person.

After finishing the last painting that day, Rosen calculated that the opening of the Pantheon, which only happens once every hundred years, was not far off.

The Pantheon Caves are stone sculptures of almost all the demigods of the human race, carved by sculptors from the Sculptors' Association throughout the ages.

Once you become a demigod, you can ask the Sculptors' Guild to leave a stone sculpture inside.

If a demigod dies unexpectedly, he may be reborn through the spiritual energy left in the stone sculpture. Of course, the probability is very low; it would be good if only one in a thousand could be reborn. Even so, the Pantheon Grottoes are still sought after by all demigods.

Since the Pantheon Caves are harmless anyway, it's not a bad deal to leave behind a one-in-a-thousand chance of resurrection for free.

Rosen's trip to the Pantheon Caves was certainly not to leave behind any stone carvings.

Even though he can easily hunt down Sequence 3s, he is still not a demigod.

He went to the Pantheon Caves for the Pantheon Divine Essence, hoping to use the special environment of the Pantheon Caves to transform and sublimate his painting skills, and to incorporate the enhancement materials needed for painting skills, which he had already purchased through the Spirit Realm Deep Network.

The Pantheon Caves are the headquarters of the Sculptors' Guild, and like the Historical Realms, they are not located on the Eternal Continent.

Pantheon Caves is located in the sea area of ​​Pantheon Mountain.

There is a saying that Mount Pantheon is the center of the world.

There once stood a colossal mountain that reached the heavens and the earth, just like Mount Buzhou in the myths and legends of Earth. However, one day, Mount Wanshen disappeared, leaving behind only countless fragments of rocks that had once been scattered on it, suspended in the air.

These pebbles, born from Mount Pantheon, possess special powers from the start.

Later, some unknown force brought these suspended rocks together to form large and small suspended mountains.

All the dominant civilizations that occupied the center of the world in later generations have explored the secrets hidden in these suspended mountains.

The area within a radius of 30,000 li (approximately 15,000 kilometers) of the suspended mountains left behind by the Pantheon Mountain is shrouded in terrifying hurricanes. During the height of the hurricanes, even true gods would find it difficult to cross the layers of hurricanes to reach the suspended mountains. The hurricanes only disappear for a month once every hundred years.

At this time of year, countless demigods rush to explore these suspended mountains.

The Pantheon, the sculptor's association's site, is located on a unique suspended mountain.

Through data transmission, Rosen arrived half a month ahead of schedule at the sea area 30,000 miles away from Pantheon, which was completely shrouded in ash.

He had already purchased a ticket in the Spirit Web as Richard Phoenix.

Activate the ticket, and a pirate ship sailing from the spirit world appears in the void a moment later.

This Sequence 2 pirate ship is 100 meters long and is a super-large pirate ship. It looks like a flying dragon soaring in the sky. It has no sails but has oars on both sides of the hull that look like dragon wings. At this moment, a dragon wing lowered its wingtip and came to Rosen.

Rosen leaped a few times using the dragon's wings and boarded the pirate ship that had come to pick him up.

Although he is currently located 30,000 miles away from Mount Wanshen, this is only the spatial range in reality.

Once you enter within 30,000 miles, you will immediately be trapped in a special space where reality and the spirit world intersect. It is a vast sea area spanning 300 million miles. The hurricane has indeed disappeared, but you will still encounter all sorts of inexplicable dangers along the way.

Even a demigod could die on the way if they didn't know how to avoid danger.

Moreover, the hurricane will only disappear for a month. Considering the time required for the round trip, the actual time available to enter those suspended mountains will not exceed half a month. Under such circumstances, wasting even an hour is a crime, which is why many knights specialize in taking this route.

Almost all of them were pirate captains, because no one knew the sea better than pirates.

Rosen bought the highest-class ticket and was assigned to the best cabin on the Flying Dragon.

It doesn't look big from the outside, but inside it's comparable to a luxurious palace.

There were also maids from various ethnic groups who were responsible for taking care of his daily life for the next forty-five days.

The head maid from the angel race carefully approached Rosen, carrying a folder.

“Master, this is our life contract.”

The fair-skinned, beautiful, and ethereal angel maid spoke in a trembling voice.

Rosen paused for a moment, then opened the folder. Inside were thirty life contracts and a final spirit god contract. The life contracts, along with the thirty alien maids, were gifts, while the spirit god contract was a special contract witnessed by the contract spirit god.

Once the Spirit God Contract is signed, he will be able to know all the information about Mount Pantheon that the Flying Dragon possesses.

This contract was also included with the ticket; it simply meant that once the contract was signed, the information obtained could not be leaked.

Rosen initially thought the ticket price was a bit of a rip-off, but now it seems it was definitely worth it.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and Rosen was so engrossed in the fun that he almost forgot about home.

Until this day, the pirate crew of the Flying Dragon came to inform us that the hurricane in the waters off Mount Pantheon was about to disappear.

The tickets indicated the area the passengers were permitted to pass through on the Flying Dragon. The highest-class tickets allowed access to the bow. By this time, hundreds of passengers had arrived at the bow one after another, watching the dragon head figurehead break through the ashes and distorted space.

A moment later, the Flying Dragon arrived at a calm sea area where no ashes covered the water.

Looking back, you can see a vast expanse of darkness stretching to the horizon, where distorted space has swallowed up the light.

The Flying Dragon's forte is actually flying, but in this sea area, it obediently floats on the surface.

However, the speed seems a bit slow; the area is 300 million square miles in circumference, and the radius is 450 million square miles.

Simply sailing in the sea, the Hiryu couldn't even make a one-way trip in a month.

Several pirates came to the edge of the bow and dumped buckets of the entrails of an unknown creature into the sea.

Several hours later, the waters around the Flying Dragon were suddenly shrouded in a shadow rising from the seabed.

A nameless sea fish, several thousand meters long, swallowed the Flying Dragon along with its internal organs in one gulp. Just as the fish closed its mouth, the Flying Dragon's wings unleashed a golden light, tearing the fish to shreds.

Logically speaking, the Hiryu, which tore apart the fish's body, should still be on the edge of the Pantheon waters.

But in reality, the darkness of the distorted void at the edge of the Pantheon Sea was already tens of millions of miles behind them.

Countless seaweeds grew in the surrounding seawater, and at this moment, these seaweeds were frantically wrapping around the shredded remains of the sea fish. It seemed that at the very instant the sea fish was torn apart by the Flying Dragon, these seaweeds, separated by tens of millions of miles, transported the shredded remains of the sea fish, along with the Flying Dragon, to this area of ​​the sea.

Hundreds of pirates then grabbed barrels of wine and threw them into the sea.

The surface of the barrel dissolved upon contact with water, releasing a mysterious golden oil that spread across the sea.

The dragon head figurehead exhaled a breath of dragon's breath, igniting the oil and turning the sea into a sea of ​​fire.

Countless seaweeds wriggled wildly, burning to ashes in the sea of ​​fire. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, the Flying Dragon, along with the sea of ​​fire, was enveloped by distorted spatial fluctuations, and in the next instant, it had continued to travel tens of millions of miles forward to a new sea area.

On the rest of the journey, Rosen witnessed all sorts of ways to travel.

The Flying Dragon was lifted into the air by a giant seabird and carried for a distance, detached from the seawater and sailing along the lava river on the seabed. It then submerged in the completely dark deep sea, relying entirely on the native life and environment of the Pantheon Sea for transportation. Throughout the entire journey, the Flying Dragon rarely used its supernatural powers.

Rosen recalled the information that came with the ticket: the more extraordinary power an outsider used in the Pantheon Mountain Sea, the more likely they were to attract a great terror to the Pantheon Mountain Sea. No one knew exactly what the great terror was, because everyone who had actually seen it was dead.

Even true gods cannot survive, so pirate ships navigating this sea must rely on local resources to carve out their own routes.

After seven days, the Flying Dragon finally crossed the last stretch of sea and arrived at an area with abnormal gravity.

Looking up at the sky, you can see countless floating giant mountains.

Upon arriving at this point, the Flying Dragon had no more concerns and took off, quickly landing on the nearest suspended mountain.

The entire mountain was bare, with nothing particularly special about it.

Indeed, this is true. The more the suspended mountains are closer to the sea, the more common they are, and some are simply ordinary rocky mountains. The farther the suspended mountains are from the sea, the more special they are. However, the more terrifying the gravity, the more dangerous the suspended mountains themselves are.

Two weeks later, all passengers were to return to the Flying Dragon for their return voyage.

Not a second more; the Flying Dragon needs to reserve a day in case of unforeseen circumstances on its return route.

Based on vertical height, the suspended mountain, which is 85,000 miles above the sea, has been explored by countless people.

Those valuable suspended mountains have already been occupied by various major forces.

Following the route map provided by the Flying Dragon, Rosen found the route to the Pantheon Caves. He spread his feathered serpent wings and took to the air, heading towards the Pantheon Caves. In just a few hours, he had arrived outside the Pantheon Caves.

At this time, the Pantheon was still sealed because the Sculptors' Guild's ship had not yet arrived.

The Flying Dragon is the fastest ship to date to have sailed through the waters off Mount Pantheon.

The only thing faster than the Flying Dragon is the True God, but the True God wouldn't waste time at the Pantheon Cave.

Rosen didn't plan to wait for someone to open the door, because the Sculptors' Association wouldn't allow outsiders to practice here.

Rosen reached out and pressed on the stone door, and the mysterious study opened its door on the stone door.

Entering the mysterious study and standing by the window, one can already see the Pantheon Grotto behind the stone door.

Rosen sat down directly by the window and took out a pair of antlers from his miracle pocket.

These are the antlers and blood of the Rainbow Deer, naturally one of the finest pigments. Even ordinary people can create paintings with this pigment that imbue the life within them with a powerful spirit. Therefore, this is a legendary material that enhances painting skills to the highest level.

Rosen ground the antlers into powder and summoned a magic pen to wrap the powder around it.

The painter's extraordinary essence, integrated into the divine brush, immediately absorbed the powder and incorporated it into the painting technique.

At this moment, Rosen also manipulated the extraordinary source matter, continuously absorbing the divine essence of the Pantheon Cave through the window.

A few hours later, the art of drawing was successfully elevated to a special skill.

[Painting Technique: Combined with special pigments, it can create spiritual paintings that perfectly imitate and replicate the essence of the target.]

[Divine Authority Characteristic: The art of painting contains the power of spiritual authority]

[Divine Authority Characteristics: Spiritual Regeneration—The Spiritual Charm in a Painting May Transform into the Spiritual Origin]

The drawing technique brought Rosen a surprise that was in no way inferior to the Glory Blood Seal.

Once it becomes a special skill, there's no need to try to level it up again, as it doesn't have a level initially.

Secondly, they gained control over the mind and the regeneration of spiritual energy.

This special divine power of spiritual regeneration should originate from the Pantheon Grottoes. The Pantheon Grottoes can revive dead demigods with a one in a thousand chance through the statues here, which should rely on the spiritual regeneration authority possessed by this suspended mountain.

In fact, painters create spiritual realms through painting, and the life within these realms is itself born from the divine essence and resurrected from its spiritual origin.

However, in this process, the painter himself only played the role of a catalyst.

What truly transforms the spirit in a painting into its spiritual essence, and brings life back to life within the spiritual realm, is the spirit world. Unless the painter uses the power of creation, he cannot transform the spirit into its spiritual essence. Now that there is spiritual regeneration, it means that he can revive life without the help of the spirit world.

The idea that great power originates from oneself is entirely different from the idea that great power is borrowed from something else.

Rosen had successfully achieved his main objective for the trip, and he decided to spend the remaining two weeks exploring these suspended mountains.

Rosen took out the Miracle Treasure Map from Sequence 9 to Sequence 1 and explored vertically upwards after leaving the Pantheon Cave.

If there truly is an unclaimed treasure, the miracle treasure map generated by the transformation of the Heavenly Revelation Treasure Map into innate destiny will definitely have a reaction.

After the Wolf Totem incident, his trust in the Miracle Map increased significantly.

However, after several days and passing through tens of thousands of suspended mountains, the Miracle Treasure Map remained unchanged.

Valuable suspended mountains are so easy to find, how could our predecessors not have found them?

Even the most valuable miracle map won't sway an item that already has an owner.

Finally, after being 100,000 miles away from the ground, a Sequence 2 Miracle Treasure Map suddenly appeared and generated a treasure map.

Following the directions, Rosen soon arrived at a suspended mountain several hundred meters in diameter.

The mountain is gray in color and is surrounded by several large suspended mountains, making it difficult to spot.

In the suspended mountain areas of the Pantheon Sea, it is very dangerous to release one's spiritual energy indiscriminately, because it is easy for the spiritual energy to come into contact with some dangerous forces and be severely injured. Therefore, searching for things here usually relies on physical perception.

Under these circumstances, it's no wonder that this small, suspended mountain slipped through the net.

The moment Rosen stepped onto the suspended mountain, the miracle map in his hand disappeared.

The suspended mountain silently split open, and a gray bone fragment fell from its belly.

If Rosen hadn't been fast, he almost wouldn't have caught the bone fragment.

He took out the archaeological magnifying glass he had stolen from Wendy, and with the help of historical analysis and the Miracle Pocket, he began to try various methods to identify the palm-sized bone fragment in his hand. After identification, he determined that it was a fragment of bone remaining from a true god.

Over countless years, divine power has been lost, and the quality of the bone fragments has gradually declined to Sequence 2.

This thing is definitely a treasure, a level 2 item, and its value is no less than that of a level 1 item.

But this is just extraordinary material, and its value is far less than that of the wolf totem.

It seems that even miracle maps aren't omnipotent, and the treasures they point to may not all have extremely high value.

However, since it was indeed a fragment of a true god's bone, he was about to put it away when he noticed that the fragment in his hand moved slightly, as if some being resonated with it. This change immediately made Rosen change his original idea.

Using his senses to detect the broken bones, Rosen quickly found more broken bones buried in the nearby suspended mountain.

These broken bones have all turned into fossils, leaving no trace of any divine power.

The quality is so poor that it doesn't even reach the level of Sequence 9, let alone Sequence 2.

The bones of the true god have been worn away and reduced to mortals, which shows how many years this true god has been gone.

However, since he could sense the bone fragments of Sequence 2, Rosen didn't mind spending some time collecting these bone fragments.

After two days of collecting, Rosen pieced together the bone fragments he had gathered into a complete human skeleton.

At this moment, the remaining power within the bone fragments of Sequence 2 flows along the skeleton to other bone fragments.

All the bone fragments gradually fused together, eventually forming a complete humanoid skeleton of only Sequence 9 quality.

After studying it for a long time, Rosen found no special value.

He was even thinking of doing something good and just burying it when suddenly a bell appeared inside the skull of the skeleton.

Rosen took out the bell, and after examining it with the Miracle Pocket, he discovered that it was a Sequence 9 Miracle Treasure.

【Ancient Sacred Bell: A Miracle Treasure】

[Level: Sequence 9]

[Miracle Attribute: The Ancient Sacred Bell can record all special sounds]

[Miracle Traits: Ancient God's Divine Voice, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Undying]

"A miraculous treasure related to the ancient gods?"

Rosen was greatly alarmed.

The skeleton of the true god he collected probably originated from a fallen ancient god sequence true god.

When a deity falls, miraculous treasures are inevitably born. This ancient sacred bell may be a miraculous treasure born after the death of this true god, or it may be a miraculous treasure that the god carried with him before his death. Therefore, it will instinctively resonate and connect with the complete skeleton.

Regardless of which possibility it is, is the miraculous treasure left behind by the true god only of Sequence 9?

With his doubts in mind, Rosen began to examine the small bell in his hand.

The moment the Ancient Sacred Bell was spiritually refined, its miraculous properties were automatically activated.

The last sounds recorded by this miraculous treasure began to echo in Rosen's sea of ​​consciousness. These sounds were a conversation between two people, but he couldn't hear what they were saying at all. Even when he tried to listen carefully, his sea of ​​consciousness showed signs of collapse.

(End of this chapter)