Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 502 Parasites Across Time and Space and a Super Universe
Chapter 501

In the endless depths of space shrouded in darkness, more and more cosmic debris, illuminated by the cycle of dark suns, disappears into the darkness.

What followed was the collapse of spacetime, completely swallowed by darkness and nothingness, with no energy remaining.

In just 120,000 years, Rosen has fed the cosmic vitality left behind by 10,000 cosmic debris into the Root Eye.

This primordial organ, originating from the original sacred body, naturally transformed into the organ of reincarnation.

[The Root of Heavenly Eye: The Organ of Reincarnation]

[Attribute: Ability to see the origins of all things in the universe]

【Characteristics: Immortal Source, Root of Reincarnation】

A blue star appeared in Rosen's hand, and the Origin Heavenly Eye looked at the blue star in his hand.

However, no matter how he observed, the Heavenly Eye of Origin could not see the origin of Blue Star. At most, he could only see that the microcosm of Blue Star originated from the Chaos Pearl, and he could even see that the Chaos Pearl was shattered by the Heaven-Opening Axe, but he still could not see through Blue Star.

This means that the origins of Earth and the spacetime cycle above it may even surpass the cycle itself.

Rosen arrived at the primordial plane of the new universe and activated the Root Heavenly Eye to look at the heart of the universe.

If we can see the origins of everything at the cosmic level, then perhaps we can see everything that happened in the starry universe and the primordial universe.

Under the observation of the Root Eye, tracing back to the source, everything he saw began to rewind in time.

Soon we arrived at the time before the birth of the new universe, and then we moved on to the time before the destruction of the starry universe.

Rosen saw everything that happened in the starry universe, including the birth of the ancient gods and the World Tree. However, when he tried to continue looking back to the primordial universe, his Root Eye was interfered with and could no longer trace the origins.

He immediately took out a historical camera and then used the Root Source Eye to trace the origins of history.

This time, everything seen by the Root Heavenly Eye finally traced back to the primordial universe. He even saw dozens of reincarnated beings joining forces to lead the universe's nirvana, forming the Source Seed by dividing the power of the heart of the universe, and seeing those reincarnated beings eventually leave the primordial universe at the end of their lives.

But no matter how Rosen observed, he could not find the leader of these reincarnated beings.

The sole survivor of the five primordial beings, and the strongest among them, it's not surprising that his strength far surpasses that of other reincarnated beings after advancing to the reincarnation stage. However, the fact that he can completely ignore the Root Eye's ability to trace back to the source clearly indicates that this mysterious being also possesses the power to transcend reincarnation.

If one does not possess that power, killing the will of the universe is not an easy task.

Although we cannot see the most crucial one, it is enough to trace the origins of other reincarnated beings.

Rosen discovered that these newly reincarnated beings did not want to leave the primordial universe, because they all knew that there were likely no other intact universes in the endless deep space. Under such circumstances, it is conceivable how important the primordial universe was to them.

However, the original universe at that time had been squeezed to its very fragile state by dozens of reincarnated life forms.

If it had remained, the primordial universe might not have had the chance to be reborn and transform into the starry universe.

It should be noted that, strictly speaking, this rebirth from the primordial universe to the starry universe was not perfect.

When the starry universe is reborn as a new universe, it completely refines or rejects all foreign objects within the universe. This is why the reborn new universe is completely renewed and has the opportunity to be refined and controlled by others.

In contrast, the cosmic period left behind a large number of products from the primordial universe.

The primordial universe, which could even give birth to dozens of reincarnations, could only give birth to a single batch of eternal life in the interstellar universe era.

The difference is enormous, which shows how fragile the primordial universe was back then.

The fact that dozens of reincarnated beings remained would only hasten the complete death of the primordial universe. That's why those reincarnated beings were forced to leave the primordial universe. They were preparing to go to the nearby cosmic ruins to find out the cause of the destruction of those universes in the endless deep space.

Because they all possess indestructible memories, those reincarnated beings are not afraid of death.

However, once he left, he never returned.

In order to save itself, the primordial universe must have been constantly moving in the endless depths of space to absorb the origin of spacetime. The position of the universe billions of years ago must be vastly different from that billions of years later, so it is not easy for reincarnated life forms to catch up.

However, Rosen was very certain that those reincarnated beings, as long as they were still alive, would never give up searching for a new universe.

Without a new universe, all reincarnated life forms will be homeless.

Rosen tried to trace the origins further, wanting to see how the primordial universe came into being.
Could someone have done something to cause the primordial universe to have such immense vitality?

The result is that tracing back to the source can only reach the beginning of the birth of life, and going further back exceeds the limit of the Root Eye's ability to trace back to the source.

After tracing back to the source, Rosen prepared to try to understand the characteristics of the Root Eye's birth and the Root of Reincarnation.

This characteristic does not exist independently, but rather it is an enhancement of the immortal source species.

Through the characteristic of the Root of Reincarnation, the vitality of the universe can be completely integrated into the Immortal Source Seed.

For such an immortal primordial seed to mature, it would require the remaining cosmic vitality of at least ten thousand cosmic remnants.

Rosen didn't even bother to devour the universe and collect its life force to feed the Root Universe. Instead, he began to collect life force to strengthen the Undying Source Seed with the Root of Reincarnation. Since the stronger he was, the faster he could do it, he estimated that it would take at most 100,000 years to succeed.

Ten thousand years later, Rosen had created an immortal source seed that had merged with the root of reincarnation.

Rosen travels at top speed to the next cosmic debris, preparing for an adventure that crosses timelines.

A pure, immortal source species, possessing parasitic abilities similar to those of the Nightfall Parasite.

Not only can it parasitize everything that the Root Heavenly Eye sees, but it can also control everything once it successfully parasitizes.

Rosen locked onto the cosmic debris before him and began to trace its origins. In his eyes, time began to rewind from the cosmic debris.

Soon, we will be rewound to before the destruction of the universe, back to the time when the mysterious mummified corpse appeared and destroyed the universe.

Time can be accelerated or reversed.

The acceleration of time has already consumed a great deal of energy, even under the premise that time flows smoothly like water.

To reverse time and go against the current, the amount of time required is beyond imagination.

Rosen once considered reversing the timeline of a cosmic remnant to a point 1600 billion years ago before its destruction.

The calculations revealed that even if he were to work himself to the bone a hundred times, the resulting energy expenditure would be insufficient.

If it's impossible on a cosmic scale, is it possible to reverse time locally?

The smaller the range of time reversal, the less it consumes.

Rosen looked at the mysterious mummified corpse locked onto by the Root Heavenly Eye. This time, the mysterious mummified corpse did not attack him across 1600 billion years.

Time is singular; what's past is past, and there's no such thing as the past and present existing simultaneously.

The mysterious mummified corpse didn't actually attack him 1600 billion years later. Rather, it knew, through near-predictive means, that someone would be spying on it 1600 billion years from now, so it left an attack sealed away until 1600 billion years later before releasing it.

The fact that the mysterious mummified corpse didn't detect his spying this time indicates that the corpse's essence hasn't transcended the cycle of reincarnation. Otherwise, facing the Root Eye, which excels at tracing back to the source, it would have been impossible for it not to realize it was being spied on.

Rosen locked onto the mysterious mummified corpse and began to use a time loop to reverse time within a small area.

He has recently consumed 20,000 cosmic debris and all the time and space source matter he has harvested has been integrated into the cycle of time and space. Even so, it is only with the help of the Root Heavenly Eye to trace back to the source that it is possible to reverse the time and space within a range of one zhang by 160 billion years.

As time continued to rewind, the mysterious mummified corpse locked onto by the Heavenly Eye became increasingly clear.

Finally, the timeline reversed back to 1600 billion years ago, and Rosen and the mysterious mummified corpse coexisted in this spacetime within a one-zhang radius.

The mysterious mummified corpse, upon seeing a reincarnated life form suddenly appear before it, instinctively tried to kill it.

Rosen instantly used his Origin Heavenly Eye to lock onto the mysterious mummified corpse and implanted the Undying Source Seed, which had fused with the Origin of Reincarnation, into the mysterious mummified corpse.

The indestructible source species' rooted parasitism took effect the moment it was observed.

The moment the parasitism succeeds, the time loop reverses and begins, accelerating back to the future.

Although the effect of reversing time and space is fading, Rosen's Root Eye is still tracing back to the mysterious mummified corpse.

He saw the mysterious mummified corpse tear open its own ribs and look down at its heart. The Undying Source Seed had already parasitized the entire body with the heart as its core. Soon, the mysterious mummified corpse dug out the Undying Source Seed using unknown methods.

By combining the Root Heavenly Eye with the cycle of time and space, he successfully parasitized the Immortal Source Seed 1600 billion years ago.

If it were an ordinary immortal species, it would be impossible for it to have parasitized the mysterious mummified corpse for 1600 billion years.

However, the source of reincarnation absorbed the life force of ten thousand cosmic debris, which is equivalent to giving the immortal source seed an extremely powerful life force, a terrifying life force that even time cannot erase, enough to support the immortal source seed to bloom and bear fruit for 1600 billion years.

Rosen carefully sensed the whereabouts of the Immortal Source 1600 billion years later.

He vaguely sensed that the Undying Origin Species existed in the world of memories.

Rosen immediately used his Origin Heavenly Eye and the Undying Origin Seed as a medium to trace the origins of the mysterious mummified corpse and examine its current state.

He saw it: in the deepest part of the world of memories, a mysterious mummified corpse slept in a coffin.

Rosen had assumed that the Undying Source Seed taking root, sprouting, blossoming, and bearing fruit would awaken the mysterious mummified corpse and destroy the Source Fruit.

The investigation revealed that the mysterious mummified corpse was no longer the monster that could easily destroy the universe 1600 billion years ago, but rather a dying creature so weak that it was barely clinging to life. The fact that it was able to retain even a breath of life was thanks to the immortal source species.

It turns out that the Undying Origin Species transferred most of its life force to the mysterious mummified corpse in order to keep it alive.

Rosen manipulated the Root Fruit to fall off, and then transmitted a fragment of the immortal memory by tracing its origins.

The undying will used the Root Fruit as a medium to quickly give birth to an avatar.

The Root Fruit split open, and Rosen, whose clone had taken 1600 billion years to create by drawing power from the mysterious mummy with the help of the Undying Source Seed, successfully broke out of the fruit. He then carefully examined the mysterious mummy, which was being kept alive by the Undying Source Seed.

The immortal source species, having parasitized for 1600 billion years, not only absorbed some of the power of the mysterious mummified corpse.

At the same time, everything the mysterious mummified corpse experienced should have been recorded by the Undying Origin Seed.

However, Rosen did not find any memories related to the mysterious mummified corpse within the Undying Source Seed; all the memories that should have been recorded had disappeared.

It is obvious that all the memories of the mysterious mummy involve a higher level of power that does not allow them to be recorded.

Rosen carefully examined the coffin space, which was nine zhang long and three zhang wide, and found that the entire coffin was actually made using the Heart of the Universe.

Instead of rushing out, he carefully examined the mysterious mummified corpse.

First, it can be confirmed that the mysterious mummified corpse is human, and moreover, a human who has mastered the extraordinary system of immortal will.

Then, combining the power plundered from the Undying Source Seed within this clone, it can be determined that the mysterious mummified corpse, in addition to the Undying Will system, also possesses the Reincarnation Dark Sun Heavenly Eye, and a power completely opposed to the vitality of the universe.

Rosen was absolutely certain that this power was the cosmic death energy formed from the destruction of the universe.

Cosmic vitality and cosmic death energy are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining. Cosmic vitality possesses the strongest regeneration and resurrection ability, while cosmic death energy possesses the strongest destructive and killing ability. The mysterious mummified corpse can crush reincarnated life by virtue of its ability to restrain certain life forms.

However, the excessive use of this cosmic death energy obliterated the life essence of the mysterious mummified corpse.

So the mysterious mummies that were so powerful 1600 billion years ago have only become so weak and barely clinging to life now.

Rosen could clearly sense that his clone was only alive because of the life force of the universe.

Without the life force of the universe to sustain life, the result is that the cosmic death energy goes out of control and directly perishes.

According to his observation, the coffin, which was made from the heart of the universe and contained the mysterious mummified corpse, served primarily to contain the death energy of the universe.

Rosen approached the edge of the coffin and placed his hand on it, attempting to open a portal to another dimension.

Having mastered the cosmic avatar for so many years, no one understands the heart of the universe better than him.

Soon a portal to another dimension opened, and Rosen crossed it, arriving outside the coffin at the Heart of the Universe.

He saw countless coffins in the void, densely packed together. Unlike the coffin behind him, the surfaces of the other coffins were filled with cosmic death energy. If there were mysterious mummies inside, they must have been completely dead to cause the cosmic death energy to erupt.

Each coffin was connected to a chain, and all the chains stretched into the depths of the void.

The endless stream of cosmic death energy emanating from the coffin vanished into the depths of the void along with these chains.

Far away in the real world of the Great Realm of Reincarnation, Rosen himself immediately used his clone's vision to lock onto these coffins and chains deep within the world of memories. Then, following the chains to their source, his gaze quickly reached the end of the chains and saw a universe entangled by countless chains.

This is a very special universe; even when the primordial universe expanded to its maximum size, it was not one millionth the size of this universe.

With such a vast universe, it's hard to imagine how powerful it was at its peak.

The vitality of such a universe is unimaginable. However, this universe's vitality has been almost completely eroded by the endless flow of cosmic death energy. Although the entire universe still looks intact, it is already lifeless and nearing the end of its life.

Rosen was almost certain that the reincarnation will of the Great Realm of Reincarnation might be within this super universe.

As for those mysterious mummies, they may all be reincarnated beings from the Nightfall and Dark Sun factions.

They all possess an undying will system and have experienced more than one cycle of reincarnation in the Great Realm. The mysterious mummies are essentially their reincarnation holy bodies. As for their undying will, it is not within their bodies, which is why the mysterious mummies appear to have no intelligence and only instinct.

We just don't know where their immortal memories are, or whether their methods can truly kill the will of reincarnation.
Rosen wanted to continue observing, but suddenly sensed a deadly danger approaching.

Without hesitation, he deactivated the Root Heavenly Eye, and his clone outside the coffin returned to the coffin through the space-time portal.

The sense of danger vanished; as expected, the reincarnation life forms of the Nightfall and Dark Sun factions were not yet extinct.

He is now qualified to contact them, but he is unsure of their attitude towards him. They might accept him into their respective camps, but they might also kill him, just as the mysterious mummified corpse killed the reincarnated beings from various universes.

Rosen did not intend to make contact with the surviving reincarnation beings from both factions until he was absolutely certain of success.

(End of this chapter)