Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 354 Ancient God Altar and Ancient God's Heart

Chapter 353

At the edge of the endless abyss, Rosen gently tapped the ancient god's ritual artifact within his heart.

A thick black fog rolled in, and a path appeared within it.

Stepping onto the Stairway to the Ancient Gods once more, the fear of the past was gone, but the caution remained no less.

In less than a month, Lawson had completed the journey that had taken him three years.

The road ahead was blocked, and it was here that he discovered the severed hand of the Great True God of the Ancient God Sequence and thus retreated.

This time, however, he must continue his journey across the broken ancient god staircase.

The laws of space spread forward, and the broken ancient god staircase was gradually rebuilt.

Rosen quickly resumed his journey, but he would occasionally encounter broken sections of the Ancient God Staircase. Each time, he repaired them using the laws of space, which meant that what should have been a journey of a little over a month took more than a year to reach the end of the Ancient God Staircase.

There are only one hundred miles left to go to the finish line.

The previous broken points on the Ancient God Staircase were not dangerous at all.

However, from this point on, Rosen discovered that the Ancient God Staircase was stained with blood.

The bloodstains of the Great True God in the Ancient God Sequence are of the same origin as the blood contained within the severed hand he obtained.

However, the blood of the ancient gods here has become a little strange.

Rosen could sense the terrifying curse contained within the bloodstains; anyone who got close would inevitably be tainted by the curse.

Moreover, the curse is one-sided; continuing forward will not activate the curse, but retreating will activate it.

It gives the impression that it's a sequence of ancient gods that left behind curses, attempting to prevent others from leaving the stairway of the ancient gods through these curses.

Rosen continued forward on the bloodstained curse, soon reaching the end of the final path.

Behind him were the vanishing billowing black mist and the path of the ancient god's staircase; he had now arrived at a magnificent altar, radiant with vibrant colors.

This altar is over ten thousand miles in diameter, and he is now standing on its edge.

At the center of the altar was a corpse with its limbs severed.

Even without limbs, this corpse was over two thousand miles tall.

His eyes were wide open and he looked up in anger. It seemed that someone had stood in front of him and cut off his limbs, but this was obviously not the cause of his death. His real cause of death was that his heart had been removed and there was a hole in his forehead that did not show his brain.

It seems that along with removing the brain, they also removed the sea of ​​consciousness.

Finally, he even drained all his original bloodline before he could completely kill the great true god of the ancient god sequence before him.

Rosen was a little scared; there were almost no other injuries on this great true god.

This shows that the battle was almost one-sided, and the enemy easily killed them with little room for resistance.

Rosen circled the body but found nothing dangerous.

He began to examine the corpse closely. This mutilated body, devoid of limbs and resembling a human pig, was indeed the owner of the severed hand that had been his companion. It seemed that the curse this person had laid down back then had failed to stop the enemy, and he had been caught up and taken back to the altar on the Ancient God's Staircase.

The original bloodline of this mutilated corpse has been drained, so it is no longer of much value to collect.

Rosen looked around the edge of the altar and soon discovered a staircase that led downwards.

As you descend the steps from the altar, a dried-up river of blood lies beneath your feet.

Following the river of blood upstream, he soon saw a new corpse.

This is also the corpse of a great true god in the ancient god sequence. The corpse appears intact on the surface, but unknown flowers are growing in its seven orifices. These flowers have all withered and died, and the corpse itself is just an empty shell.

Rosen carefully bypassed the body and continued forward, and from a distance he could already see the third corpse.

In the narrow space where the altar and the river of blood were located, only the altar emitted light.

The farther away from the altar, the less light there is and the more darkness there is.

The third corpse was completely shrouded in darkness, and Rosen could only barely see it with the help of his Apocalyptic Eyes.

The enormous corpse, stretching tens of thousands of miles, would have been mistaken by Rosen for the corpse of an ancient god in the past.

However, based on his understanding of eternal life, the corpse of the ancient god would not be so small, nor would the ancient god leave behind any corpse. The remains of the ancient god are the entire old world, and the new body of the ancient god is the new world, which has a diameter of at least one light-year.

Although a corpse tens of thousands of miles high is enormous, it is still too insignificant compared to eternal life.

Rosen carefully bypassed the corpse and continued onward to the end of the world.

This world, reached through the Ancient God Staircase, has an incredibly high spatial intensity. Even with his mastery of spatial laws, he can only teleport short distances. This is a world of a higher level than the Dragon Realm and the Abyss; otherwise, spatial laws could not be suppressed to this extent.

Rosen could sense through the laws of space that the boundary of the world lay just ahead.

It is also the source of the dried-up blood river, but it is unknown whether the source leads to the miraculous world formed from the heart of the ancient god.

After following the dried-up blood river to its source, Rosen saw a dried-up sea of ​​blood.

At the center of the sea of ​​blood, there is a dark golden, withered membrane with a diameter of several thousand miles.

The Heavenly Eye could not identify the information in the membrane, which clearly indicates that it is an existence beyond the level of a great true god.

However, looking at this membrane, his ancient god heart felt an instinctive desire.

Since arriving in this world, Rosen's various abilities have never stopped.

The ancient sacred bell is always listening to every possible sound, the hidden brass book ensures that nothing seen is forgotten, and the relic of wisdom ensures that one's sanity is not shaken by any external force.

Then, historical cameras continuously attempt to capture past history.

However, to this day, historical cameras have been unable to capture any footage.

It seems that everything that once existed and happened here is so ancient that even the historical laws he has mastered are difficult to reconstruct.

Rosen also activated the Coin of Destiny, tossing it face up to completely take control of his own fortune.

But the most crucial elements are the Miracle Pocket and the Apocalypse Treasure Map. The former helps you find treasure, while the latter generates treasure maps. Although he didn't generate treasure maps, the enhanced treasure-finding ability through equivalent exchange allowed Lawson to be 100% certain that what he found was treasure.

The altar is a treasure, a treasure that surpasses even the level of the great true god.

The corpse on the altar was not the corpse; it was an empty shell of a completely abandoned body.

The second corpse found along the dried-up blood river was also an empty shell, but the dried flowers growing from its seven orifices were at least treasures of the level of a great true god. However, he sensed the danger and did not collect those dried flowers.

Then the last corpse, despite its astonishing size, was actually just an empty shell.

It contains a treasure more precious than dried flowers, but it is also more dangerous.

However, the three treasures discovered along the way are far inferior to the dried skin membrane in the center of the Blood Sea.

Rosen released the Golden Divine Bull, which flew into the depths of the Blood Sea. As a miraculous life form, the Golden Divine Bull was not afraid of death.

Soon the golden bull was close to the skin membrane, but no matter what they tried, they couldn't tear off even a single piece.

However, after being appraised by the Golden Divine Bull Merchant Sequence's skills, the essence of this membrane should be dried blood vessels, and it is very likely that they are blood vessels from the heart. This section of blood vessel may have once led to the miraculous world transformed from the heart of an ancient god.

However, this section of blood vessel has been severed, which is why the sea of ​​blood and the river of blood have dried up.

The Golden Bull expanded its wealth domain and retracted this dried-up blood vessel.

Rosen then used the Miracle Pocket's treasure hunt feature to turn the Blood Sea upside down, searching for more than half a month. He found some dried and congealed blood, which still contained a trace of activity, enough to extract some ancient god blood.

During the search, Rosen also used a secret compass to confirm that there were no hidden spaces.

After making sure he hadn't missed anything, he turned around and approached the second body.

It was the golden ox that went forward to collect the dried flowers, and unexpectedly, it encountered no danger after collecting them.

However, just as the golden bull returned, Rosen sensed danger approaching.

He immediately commanded the Golden Bull to stop, and then released a Sequence 5 Earth Dragon to approach the Golden Bull.

The moment it got close, the earth dragon turned into a dried-up corpse.

From the seven orifices of the earth dragon, blooming flowers of vibrant and strange beauty emerged. These flowers seemed to be alive, with serrated stamens and even emanating powerful divine and life-force fluctuations.

"Pollen that can parasitize flesh and blood..."

Rosen's Apocalyptic Eyes identified the accurate information.

While both are flowers, these living ones are at most Sequence 5. Clearly, the level of the parasitic object determines the level of the flower that grows from it.

As for the withered flowers that grew inside the corpse of the Great True God, no information could be identified. It is likely that those flowers did not grow naturally but were manipulated by humans, and their level exceeded that of the Great True God, which is why they were able to kill a Great True God.

The golden bull cleaned itself from the inside out several times, sealing away all the dried flowers layer by layer.

Once he had controlled the Earth Dragon to approach without danger, Rosen retrieved the Golden Divine Ox.

According to the Heavenly Eye's identification, the flowers growing from the seven orifices of the Earth Dragon's mummy are called Nightfall Parasites.

The pollen of this flower is not from plants, but from a very tiny insect. After parasitizing a flesh-and-blood organism, it can rapidly multiply and absorb all nutrients, eventually turning into seeds that grow into the Night Parasitic Flower.

If the Nightfall Parasite is burned, the remaining ashes can dispel extraordinary elements of the same level.

Rosen collected some Nightfall Parasites remotely, then manipulated the Sun God Fire to burn them to ashes.

Another Sequence 5 Earth Dragon was released. The moment the ashes of the Nightfall Parasite touched the Earth Dragon, the extraordinary power within the Earth Dragon was completely dispelled, and it instantly degenerated from a Sequence 5 extraordinary life form into a beast.

Rosen immediately thought of the dried night parasitic flowers he had collected, and wondered if the ashes from burning them would be effective.

He immediately ordered the Golden Divine Bull to burn some of the dried Nightfall Parasitic Flowers, and then tried it with the flesh puppets produced by the Flesh Mother Nest. It could indeed dispel supernatural power, but it could only work on true gods at most.

Over the long years, the night-blooming jasmine has withered and died, and its effects have been greatly diminished.

The ashes obtained from burning all the dried night parasitic flowers collected from the corpse of the great true god are roughly enough to dispel the extraordinary power of one true god. If only used to dispel a portion, then it could knock three or five true gods back to godhood.

Rosen approached the third corpse with anticipation; judging by its size, it was much stronger than the second one.

The golden bull went up and tore open the dry, rotten flesh from the head to enter its body.

No night-blooming jasmine was found, as it had already been harvested.

But it wasn't all for naught; inside the Golden Bull's shell, they discovered a bell identical to the ancient god's ritual artifact.

However, this ancient divine artifact exudes a terrifying threat that keeps the golden divine bull at bay.

Rosen took out the ancient god artifact from his heart and handed it to the golden divine bull, intending to test whether the bell, which was the same as the ancient god artifact, would produce a special reaction. As a result, just as the ancient god artifact was gently shaken, the two bells flashed in the void and merged together.

At the same time, the decaying body of the giant, which was tens of thousands of miles tall, began to crumble.

Rosen retrieved the ancient god's artifact from the returning golden bull, only to find that it had changed.

The original ancient god artifact could activate the hidden ancient god bloodline within the body, and shaking it inside the heart could temporarily increase spirituality by nine points.

The ancient god's sacrificial artifact can not only increase spirituality by nine points, but also temporarily increase life essence by nine points.

Furthermore, the Ancient God's Sacrificial Artifacts have gained a new ability: using them for sacrifices allows one to travel to the Ancient God's Heart Field in the Miracle World.

Rosen immediately realized that the Ancient God's Heart Field might be the Ancient God's Heart he was looking for.

That place might even be the origin of the ancient god sequence.

Continuing to perceive the changes in the ancient god's sacrificial artifacts, Rosen also discovered that they contained the hidden power of annihilation of all directions.

Rosen felt that this attack could instantly kill the Great God.

It is now certain that there was more than one ancient god's ritual artifact.

The ancient god artifact he initially obtained was merely a part of a complete ancient god artifact.

We have now obtained two parts of the ancient god's sacrificial artifacts, but it is very likely that they are still not the complete ancient god's sacrificial artifacts.

Rosen is now certain that the ancient gods who are tens of thousands of miles tall are definitely not forbidden gods or demons, but rather intermediate-level powerhouses who surpass forbidden gods and demons but do not reach eternal life. Perhaps "immortal" would be a more appropriate description.

Because the remaining ten directions within the ancient god's sacrificial artifact have been weakened over countless years.

Even so, it could still instantly kill a great true god. How powerful would this power of annihilation of all directions have been before it was weakened?
Rosen was preparing to search the world he was in again before considering heading to the Ancient God's Heart Field.

So he directly dispatched a massive number of Abyssal Shadow Fiends, who thrived in the darkness and conducted a thorough search of the entire world, digging thirty miles into the ground. During this time, he returned to the dazzling altar.

Rosen attempted to refine the altar, but he was unable to budge it at all.

Clearly, this altar is also a treasure that transcends the level of a great true god.

Although the altar couldn't be taken away, the Shadow Fiend brought back other gains.

The higher the world level, the more likely it is to generate higher-level extraordinary resources.

The world Rosen is currently in is of a higher level than the Dragon Realm, and theoretically, a large amount of extraordinary resources will be generated in the soil.

As a result, the Shadow Demon found no valuable supernatural resources underground, because all supernatural resources had lost their energy and become mortal objects. Judging from the signs of energy loss, all the energy had been absorbed by the altar.

Under these circumstances, Shadow Fiend retrieved a round bead emitting a faint golden light from the ground.

Rosen vaguely sensed the aura of annihilation emanating from this bead.

Moreover, it shares the same origin as the Ten Directions Annihilation within his ancient god's sacrificial artifact.

This made Rosen realize that the enemy who killed the holder of the ancient god artifact, the controller of the Night Parasite, might not have won, but rather perished together with the ancient god sequence. The Ten Directions Annihilation within the ancient god artifact was merely the remaining power.

If that's the case, then the two sides he faced were stronger than he had previously imagined.

Rosen couldn't identify the information in the bead, but the fact that it survived a Ten Directions Annihilation attack without collapsing into zero dimensions and being completely destroyed showed how high the hidden value of this golden bead was.

After carefully sealing the golden bead, Rosen burned the human pig at the center of the altar to ashes.

Then the skin and flesh on his chest split open, and his heart burst out of his chest cavity, growing larger and larger in the air as it beat continuously.

With each heartbeat, the blood vessels connected to the heart continuously spew forth the blood of the ancient gods.

Finally, the blood of the ancient god, which had been stored in the heart and orifice of the ancient god, was almost completely drained, and the entire altar was finally covered.

Rosen manipulated the heart back into his chest cavity, then shook the ancient god's ritual artifact that had merged into the heart.

At this moment, the sacrificial ritual at the altar was activated, and Rosen disappeared from the altar amidst his pounding heart.

When the teleportation ended, Rosen found himself in a golden world.

The sunlight in the sky was golden, the clouds were golden, the wind was golden, the surrounding soil and rocks were golden, the river water was golden, and the whole world, except for the colorful altar at his feet, was golden.

The altar beneath Rosen's feet was not the one he had previously used for his sacrificial ceremony.

The place beneath his feet, only ten meters in diameter, felt more like an appendage to the larger altar.

His divine perception enveloped the small altar, and he discovered that standing on it and shaking the ancient god's ritual artifact within his heart would teleport him back to the large altar.

With a way out, Rosen began to explore the ancient god's heart in this miraculous world.

This miraculous world is not as large as imagined; it is only about three thousand miles in circumference, which is very small.

The main world, which is the true form of the ancient gods, is measured in light-years. Strictly speaking, the true size of the ancient gods should be smaller.

After all, the new world is a paper-thin world with a diameter of one light-year and a thickness of millions of miles. The size of the ancient god's body would definitely be compressed a lot, but even if it is compressed, the world formed by the heart could not be this small. Therefore, the size of the ancient god's heart is definitely abnormal.

Rosen was unable to refine the large altar, but he discovered that he could refine the small altar using the ancient god's sacrificial artifacts.

As the small altar was refined, he discovered that it contained the research findings of the ancient god civilization on the ancient god's heart field.

The Ancient God's Heart Field is not the entirety of the Ancient God's Heart, but merely its most core and essential part. Outside the Ancient God's Heart Field lies a vast Sea of ​​Blood, and the Ancient God's Heart Field is a miraculous world floating on this sea of ​​blood.

The ancient god's heart field can grow all things; whatever is planted will grow into the exact same thing.

There was once an ancient god sequence that planted a true god, but in the end, two true gods were planted.

From body to bloodline, from soul to divinity, even memory is no different.

In the beginning, the ancient god civilization cultivated crops and harvested countless resources.

If only something could only be planted once, and couldn't be planted a second time after that.

The ancient god civilization is an endless nesting doll, capable of yielding countless treasures through the ancient god's heart field.

Even if only one copy can be planted, it would still double the existing resources for the ancient god civilization.

There are even insane ancient god sequences that planted themselves and harvested two versions of themselves.

The ancient god's heart gave birth to the ancient god civilization, the ancient god sequence, and the glory of the ancient god civilization.

However, at the peak of the ancient god civilization, an uncontrollable change occurred in the hearts of the ancient gods.

(End of this chapter)