Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 499 The Candlelight of Life and Death and the Divine Path of Incense and Candles

Chapter 498

"After all that, I still don't know how to address you!"

Looking at the mysterious man lost in thought, Candlelight picked up the teapot, poured him tea, and asked him a question.

Rosen snapped out of his daze and replied apologetically, "Rosen, I was rude just now."

"It's alright. What I've said is hard not to overthink. Is there anything else you want to know?"

The candlelight sighed bitterly.

"I do have some questions I'd like to ask you!"

Rosen said impatiently.

"I can answer your questions, but I've already answered many of your questions."

Candlelight shook his head. “It’s only fair if there’s give and take. If you want to know more from me, you’ll need to clear up some of my doubts. In exchange, I’ll tell you everything you want to know.”

"You're right. What do you want to know?"

Rosen asked in agreement.

"How is the Samsara Realm doing now?"

Candlelight thought for a moment and asked.

"The entire Cycle of Reincarnation was shrouded in night..."

Rosen answered without hesitation, "All universes have become cosmic debris. The Dark Sun of Reincarnation shines on the vicinity of these debris. I have traveled all over the Great Realm of Reincarnation for many years and have not seen a single piece of cosmic debris with any living life..."

"If all universes are destroyed, then where did you come from?"

Candlelight asked skeptically.

"I may have been born in the last universe of the Great Realm of Reincarnation..."

Rosen said with emotion, "That was a universe that gave birth to many primordial life forms. Later, the forces of Dark Sun and Night appeared in the universe for some unknown reason, causing the primordial life forms to fall into chaos. In the end, the will of the universe fell, and the surviving primordial life forms became reincarnated life forms and left the universe."

Due to the severe loss of the universe's origin, after the departure of reincarnated life, the universe can only give birth to eternal life at most.

For the last few billion years, two reincarnated primordial beings have been plotting to destroy the universe to obtain the resources needed to advance their primordial life.

They successfully destroyed the Heart of the Universe, and I also seized some resources and successfully advanced to a primordial life form.

Later, when the universe was destroyed, there was nowhere to go but to wander in the endless depths of space.

Rosen's answer made Candlelight ponder, clearly judging the truth or falsehood of the answer based on His own understanding.

"I have nothing more to ask. Is there anything else you'd like to know?"

After the candlelight faded and he fell into deep thought, he smiled kindly.

Rosen asked bluntly, "I want to know how one can become a reincarnated being?"

"I only know three ways..."

Without hesitation, Candlelight replied, “The simplest way is to destroy the will of the universe and devour it. Those reincarnated beings you mentioned who successfully ascended and left the universe became reincarnated beings through this path.”

Or perhaps they are born into a cycle of reincarnation; many universes directly give birth to reincarnated life forms.

Furthermore, there are primordial beings who possess an undying will. If they can experience a cycle of time and space within the Great Realm of Reincarnation, they can also transform into reincarnated beings. This is the most common type of reincarnated being, and relatively speaking, it is the weakest.

Rosen felt a little disheartened when he heard about these three paths, because he realized that none of them were viable.

The new universe is now his clone, and his undying will is the cosmic will of the new universe.

He can't kill himself, so that path is clearly not feasible.

He wasn't born a reincarnated being, so the only path he could take was to wait for the cycle of time and space to repeat itself. However, that would be at least 1.6 billion years from now. Even if he hid in the world of memories and lived until the Great Reincarnation Realm was reset, he would only become the weakest reincarnated being.

Therefore, we must find other ways. If we really can't find any, then we should try to make the first way through.

Although killing himself is difficult, it may not be impossible for him.

"What are those mysterious mummies that destroyed the universe?"

Rosen asked finally.

He still had many questions, but he felt he couldn't linger in this world of memories any longer.

Because he could clearly sense that the Eye of Night was becoming more and more active in this world of memories that permeated the Great Realm of Reincarnation. If it continued to stay there, the balance between the Eye of Night and the Dark Sun Eye would definitely be broken.

"I don't know either. The Nightfall Parasite conceals some taboos that cannot be touched in the world of memories."

Candlelight shook his head and explained.

"Thank you so much for your guidance. I owe you a favor."

Rosen sighed in disappointment.

If what Candlelight said is true, then it has definitely helped him a lot.

While he wouldn't say he'd repay a small kindness with a great one, he would never repay kindness with enmity if given the chance.

But if the candlelight deceived him, he would absolutely not hesitate to seek revenge.

"You're welcome. I'm very happy to be able to talk to a living person..."

As he spoke, Candlelight suddenly smiled regretfully.

"A living person?"

Rosen was slightly taken aback, but then suddenly noticed that the candlelight sitting opposite him drinking tea had disappeared.

It's not just that people have disappeared; the tea table, which was just a moment ago spotless, is now covered in dust.

Rosen's undying will instantly covered the city where the incense and candle shop was located. The hundreds of thousands of citizens who originally existed in the city disappeared without a trace along with the candlelight, and the entire city had become a place that had been abandoned for many years.

The life space distorted space, and he explored the entire candlelight universe at top speed.

As a result, the entire universe became deathly silent, as if all life in the universe had suddenly disappeared in an instant. He wanted to investigate what was going on, but the increasingly active Eye of Night forced him to leave the world of memories and return to the endless deep space.

Having left the world of memories and returned to the Ark of Doomsday, Rosen pondered the last words of the candlelight.

It's fun to talk to living people, does that mean the candlelight represents the dead?

During their face-to-face conversation, he couldn't have carefully observed the candlelight. After all, he needed something from the candlelight and wouldn't do anything so impolite as to offend someone. So, he didn't even notice that there was something wrong with the candlelight he was talking to.

It's normal that he didn't notice the problem with the candlelight, but it would be abnormal if he didn't notice the problem with the candlelight universe.

Years later, the Dark Sun Eye and the Night Eye achieved a perfect balance again.

Rosen couldn't wait to activate the Eye of Night and once again arrived in the memory world that spanned the Great Realm of Reincarnation.

Since I didn't move from my real-world location, the first thing I saw when I entered the world of memories was the candlelight universe.

Enveloped by a life magnetic field and permeated by the will of the Creator, the entire universe was deathly silent, without a trace of any living being.

It was no different from what he saw and perceived when he left a few years ago.

Rosen left the Candlelight Universe, wielded the Heaven-Opening Axe, and with the amplified power of the Eye of Night, cleaved the Candlelight Universe in two.

The time loop reappeared, and the Candlelight Universe returned to its original state within the loop. Rosen used the Heaven-Opening Axe to tear open a rift in spacetime and once again entered the Candlelight Universe, only to find that the entire universe had come back to life.

This means that the candlelight universe of the memory world should normally be uninhabited.

Only after being destroyed by the Heaven-Opening Axe and then triggering a cycle of time and space will the Candlelight Universe come back to life.

Otherwise, the Candlelight Universe would not have been able to come back to life and allow him to come into contact with the candlelight.

Rosen couldn't wait to get to the incense and candle shop, and what happened after they met was exactly the same as last time.

"Are there still lives surviving in the Great Realm of Reincarnation?"

After seeing Rosen, Candlelight couldn't help but ask.

The exact same reaction made Rosen realize that the candle in front of him was probably already dead.

"Are you alive?" Rosen asked directly.

Candlelight looked at the mysterious person in front of him with displeasure, wondering why he was being asked if he was alive.
The incense and candle shop vanished instantly, transforming in the blink of an eye into a temple of incense standing in the void.

Behind the candlelight stood a statue of a deity on the altar, with two enormous, towering candles on either side of the statue.

The endless pressure from the gods made Rosen unable to move an inch and filled him with fear.

Divine power is like a prison; deities possess a natural ability to suppress ordinary life.

This kind of divine suppression is essentially a natural suppression at the spiritual and mental level. It is very effective against mortals, but almost ineffective against gods. However, the divine power of the candlelight can even make primordial life feel fear.

Indeed, every universe in the Great Realm of Reincarnation has its own unique extraordinary system.

Rosen was no stranger to belief systems, but he never imagined that a belief system could elevate divine power to such a level.

Now that we've started, we might as well test the waters to see if the candlelight is real or not.

Rosen unleashed his life magnetic field, which isolated the suppression of divine power. His life space even began to forcibly merge with the incense temple to suppress the candlelight. Originally, as a primordial life form, he could not possibly be a match for a reincarnated life form, but the Eye of Night allowed him to thrive in the world of memories.

All powers were amplified so dramatically that the living space was able to control the candlelight.

Although Candlelight knew that the mysterious figure before him possessed the Eye of Night and had an overwhelming advantage over him, as a reincarnated being facing a primordial being, he was still confident that he could offset the advantage brought by the Eye of Night by relying on the difference in strength.

Just as Candlelight was preparing to retaliate, he suddenly vanished without a trace.

The incense temple also disappeared, and the Candlelight Universe, which had only been alive for a short while, died again.

This time, the candlelight lived for a much shorter time than before.

The difference between the two times is that this time, Candlelight took action.

Clearly, taking action will hasten the death of the candlelight that has been briefly resurrected in the time loop.

This time, the candlelight seemed unaware of its own death until it disappeared.

But if you realized it last time, then how did the candlelight realize it was dead last time?

Rosen wanted to investigate further, but found that he had to leave the world of memories immediately.

Because using the Eye of Night repeatedly will intensify the stimulation experienced by the God of Night, and the stimulated Eye of Night will use the power of the Memory World to suppress the Dark Sun Eye. Therefore, using the Eye of Night in the Memory World will shorten the time the God of Night stays in the Memory World.

After leaving the world of memories, Rosen waited for several years before returning to it for the third time.

This time, after seeing Zhuguang, every expression, every word he uttered, and even all his actions were exactly the same as when he first saw Zhuguang. However, after arriving at the tea room on the second floor, he began to focus on quietly observing Zhuguang.

After Rosen noticed that the person drinking tea by candlelight paused slightly for a moment.

Could it be that the act of drinking tea led Candlelight to discover that he was already dead?

Rosen picked up the tea and tasted it carefully. Sure enough, he found that although the tea tasted excellent and was even very beneficial to strengthening the divine source, he could clearly taste that it was not new tea, but old tea that had been stored for countless years.

No wonder Candlelight noticed something was wrong after drinking the tea; it's possible that He usually only likes to drink new tea and doesn't like to drink old tea.

"Are you still alive?"

Rosen asked tentatively.

"It seems this isn't the first time you've sat down for tea with me..."

Candlelight sighed and said, "I apologize for the poor hospitality. I don't know if I'm alive or dead. Right now, I'm sure I'm alive, but through this 1600 billion-year-old tea, it's as if I died 1600 billion years ago."

"Yes, you suddenly disappeared the first time we met."

Rosen said with certainty, "I tested you the second time we met. You took me to the temple and suppressed me with your divine power. I had just fought back when you disappeared before we met again."

"It seems I don't have much time left. There's something I'd like to ask you."

Candlelight said urgently after realizing that he didn't have much time left.

"You've cleared up a lot of my doubts. Just say what you need to say."

Rosen said seriously.

"Time is limited, so let's focus on memory-based communication!"

As the candlelight spoke, it released its own beliefs and Rosen's undying will into contact in the void.

Language is one of the slowest ways to transmit information, while communication at the level of memory is the fastest.

Candlelight fully unlocked its memories, allowing Rosen to access whatever memories he wanted to know.

This also confirmed for Rosen that the question He answered when he first met Candlelight was basically true.

Of course, it's also possible that the candlelight is hidden too deeply, making it too easy for it to tamper with or forge its own memories.

Therefore, we cannot let our guard down. Losing vigilance means dying without even knowing how.

As the candlelight opened its memories for Rosen to view, it also proactively showed some of its own memories to Rosen.

These memories are all part of the various traditions of incense and candle worship.

The core of the incense and candle deity path is the belief in incense. It relies on the incense belief to continuously strengthen its own divine origin and on the thoughts of all living beings to strengthen its own memory. Therefore, candlelight is naturally equivalent to the collective thoughts of all believers in the candlelight universe.

Then, on this basis, the candlelight gave birth to an independent self that transcended it.

Because of this, the divine power formed by the candlelight merging with the beliefs of all living beings is extremely terrifying.

What appears to be the oppression of one person's divine power is actually the oppression of the collective will of all believers in the Incense and Candle Universe.

Besides its unique ability to cultivate faith and divine power, the most special aspect of the incense and candle deity path is that faith itself is immortal. Even if the candlelight is dead, as long as there is enough incense and candle faith, the candlelight can be resurrected from the dead faith.

The task that Candlelight wanted to ask of him was to create some believers to follow Him.

If the candlelight could be revived, that would be wonderful; if it cannot be revived, then the tradition of incense and deity worship would not have been lost with the candlelight.

Over the next few centuries, Rosen entered the Candlelight Universe hundreds of times.

Finally, with Candlelight's cooperation, all the memories that were valuable to him were stored in the God's computer.

However, he did not immediately cultivate believers in the candlelight, because he could not yet fully believe in it.

Whether you are resurrected early or late makes no difference, and it's not even certain whether you can be resurrected at all.

Rosen plans to visit other universes in the Memory World, to contact the reincarnated beings in other universes, to see if they in the Memory World also died like Candlelight, and then decide whether to revive Candlelight after verifying this multiple times.

(End of this chapter)