"Coin True God, you're actually in the Ascension Heavenly Dynasty too?"
Rosen was both surprised and delighted as he activated the Apocalypse Demon Eye to lock onto the Coin True God.
Through the appraisal, he quickly saw the Coin True God's personal information.
Unexpectedly, the Coin True God's current identity was the Ascension Emperor of the Ascension Heavenly Dynasty.
Digging deeper into the appraisal, Rosen learned that after arriving in the Old World, the Coin True God had first appeared in the Sun-Shooting Heavenly Dynasty. He then traveled through the Myriad Paths Holy Court to reach the Cosmic Holy Court, only to be sent by the Cosmic Holy Emperor to rescue the Ascension Heavenly Dynasty.
If the Cosmic Holy Emperor had been willing to rescue the Ascension Heavenly Dynasty, he could have done so long ago. There was no need to wait until now.
By the time the Coin True God took over as the Ascension Emperor, the Ascension Heavenly Dynasty had already suffered heavy losses.
It was clear that the Cosmic Holy Emperor had allowed the Dark Sun's offspring to severely damage the Ascension Heavenly Dynasty.
However, he wouldn't sit back and watch the Ascension Heavenly Dynasty fall, which was why he sent the Coin True God after the dynasty had been heavily weakened.
As a True God, the Coin True God was naturally much stronger than these hastily elevated True Gods.
After merging with the Ascension Emperor's divine position, he undoubtedly became even more powerful.
While destroying the Dark Sun Nests might still be beyond his reach, the Coin True God could definitely hold the line and protect the Ascension Heavenly Dynasty.
With the Cosmic Holy Emperor backing the Coin True God, Rosen knew it wasn't the right time to confront him.
Using the Xirang Spirit Pearl, Rosen burrowed underground, planning to get closer to the Ancient God's Black Cavity and assess the situation.
He tried using the Apocalypse Demon Eye to observe, but not only could he not see the Ancient God's Black Cavity, he couldn't even see the Dark Sun Nests.
While he could appraise Great True Gods, these two entities left the Apocalypse Demon Eye powerless.
Clearly, both the Ancient God's Black Cavity and the Dark Sun Nests existed on a level beyond that of Great True Gods.
It made sense for the Ancient God's Black Cavity to surpass Great True Gods, as it was a section of the Ancient God's trachea used for breathing.
As for the Dark Sun Nests, they likely contained the most primal power of the Dark Sun.
However, while the Apocalypse Demon Eye couldn't affect the Ancient God's Black Cavity, the Hidden Brass Book, which had integrated the Miracle Sequence, could use its miracle traits to glimpse the origins of the Black Cavity. Both the Apocalypse Demon Eye and the Hidden Brass Book were miracles, so why was the Apocalypse Demon Eye inferior to the Hidden Brass Book?
There was only one possible answer: the Hidden Brass Book had integrated the Miracle Sequence, while the Apocalypse Demon Eye had not.
This suggested that the essence of the Miracle Sequence might also surpass that of Great True Gods.
According to the World Tree, the Small World Tree was merely an artificial creation of the Ancient Gods.
At its peak, its upper limit was that of a Great True God. His Small World Tree had only grown to the level of a True God so far.
Could such a Small World Tree truly give birth to a unique first sequence like the Miracle Sequence?
Clearly, the Small World Tree still held secrets unknown to him.
With these questions in mind, Rosen quietly approached the Ancient God's Black Cavity, which was surrounded by five Dark Sun Nests, from underground.
The Dragon-Binding Rope split off a Sequence 1 Burrow Demon Dragon. Then, using the Apocalypse Demon Eye's visual lock on the Ancient God's Black Cavity, Rosen activated the miracle trait Void Eye to create a mini wormhole. He then enveloped the Burrow Demon Dragon in a spatial domain, shrinking it and sending it through the wormhole.
The Burrow Demon Dragon directly entered the Ancient God's Black Cavity, and the Mysterious Study Room anchored itself to the dragon at that moment.
The entire Ancient God's Black Cavity exerted a terrifying inward pull. The Burrow Demon Dragon was dragged through the darkness by this force for several minutes, gradually approaching the exit on the New World side. However, in the next moment, a dragon claw pressed down.
The Burrow Demon Dragon was instantly annihilated. Rosen's Death God clone, watching through the World Window, saw the Earth Demon Dragon.
As expected, while this path could lead back to the New World, the presence of the Earth Demon Dragon made it a dead end.
Even if a Great True God were to force their way through the Ancient God's Black Cavity, they would first have to endure the intensified corruption of the Dark Sun's power, then withstand the suppression of the Black Cavity, and finally fight the Earth Demon Dragon within it. Under such conditions, it would be extremely difficult for a Great True God to defeat the Earth Demon Dragon one-on-one.
Unless two or more Great True Gods joined forces to break through, it would be nearly impossible to overcome the Earth Demon Dragon's blockade and truly return to the New World.
The Burrow Demon Dragon controlled by Rosen had died inside the Ancient God's Black Cavity, and he had thought he would need to find another way.
But at that moment, the Earth Demon Dragon transformed into a humanoid dragon form, grabbed the slain Burrow Demon Dragon, and quickly passed through the Ancient God's Black Cavity to return to the New World. It turned out that what had been inside the Black Cavity was merely a clone of the Earth Demon Dragon.
Through the World Window, Rosen finally saw the true body of the Earth Demon Dragon.
Even among Great True Gods, the Earth Demon Dragon felt far more powerful than the Cosmic Holy Emperor.
This was because even the Earth Demon Dragon's clone possessed the strength of a Great True God.
While its true body couldn't surpass the level of a Great True God, it was undoubtedly one of the most formidable beings within that tier.
Rosen had been too optimistic. Without three to five Great True Gods working together, there was no hope of breaking through the Ancient God's Black Cavity.
Therefore, leaving the New World was the safest choice, and through the Main God Network, he had allowed the World Government to deduce that he had fled to the Old World.
This way, if the World Government wanted to continue pursuing him, they would have to venture into the Old World.
Although the World Government had mastered the means to track him in the New World, Rosen didn't believe such methods came without a cost.
As long as the World Government confirmed he had fled to the Old World, they wouldn't frequently use such costly methods in the New World.
Rosen had spent over two hundred years in the Old World laying low, so the World Government certainly wouldn't be using their tracking methods frequently to hunt him now.
Activating the Apocalypse Demon Eye, he began spying on the True Gods of the World Government.
Of course, he didn't forget Barry, who was known as the strongest human knight. This allowed him to uncover the truth behind the ambush he had faced.
"So it was the World Will…" Rosen sighed in relief.
It made sense that the World Will could locate him. As long as it wasn't a Great True God who had done it, he could handle it.
Since the World Government had to pay a heavy price to enlist the World Will's help, Rosen only needed to keep a close eye on Barry. If Barry ever contacted the World Will to inquire about his location, Rosen could preemptively leave the New World and enter the Old World.
As he appraised the information of one True God after another, Rosen also learned that the World Government was backed by three Great True Gods.
However, the Apocalypse Demon Eye couldn't pinpoint exactly which three they were.
But this was normal. Forbidden True Demons were like rats scurrying in the streets of the New World. The three Great True Gods who could evade the World Will and help the World Government's True Gods avoid the God-Slaying Demon Eye's surveillance must possess incredibly powerful concealment methods at the Great True God level.
In contrast, the Cosmic Holy Emperor, whom the Apocalypse Demon Eye could lock onto, likely didn't have such methods, which was why he remained in the Old World.
Having roughly understood the World Government's true situation, Rosen began to focus his attention on the Hunting True God.
As his divine essence burned, he gleaned more and more information about the Hunting True God through the Apocalypse Demon Eye's appraisal.
[Hunting True God, true name Orpheon Dixon, a demi-human with human and slime bloodlines. Once the strongest of the three True Gods during the peak of the demi-human race, he faked his death at the hands of the Hunter True God and later conspired with other races to murder the Hunter True God and take his place…]
[The Hunting True God harbors extreme hatred for humans and has allied with the World Will to plot the overthrow of the World Government…]
"No wonder the World Will agreed to Barry's deal so easily," Rosen muttered, frowning.
The World Government had sealed the World Will, so the World Will's greatest desire was to see the World Government collapse.
If Barry had proposed a deal with the World Will, under normal circumstances, the World Will should have refused.
If Rosen were the World Will, he would have waited for the World Government's True Gods to be hunted down one by one, for the World Government's losses to grow, and for them to become desperate to eliminate him at any cost. Only then would he make an exorbitant demand to force the World Government to agree to the deal.
But instead, the World Will had agreed to the deal after only a one percent reduction in the seal.
Now it seemed the real reason was that Rosen had targeted the Hunting True God, who was a hidden agent of the World Will within the World Government.
Therefore, hunting the Hunting True God would not only provoke the World Government but also enrage the World Will.
If it were the Coin True God, Rosen might have considered abandoning the hunt.
But the Hunting True God was different. His self-created skills in the Hunter Sequence required him to kill the Hunting True God to fully master them. So, even if it meant offending the World Will, Rosen absolutely would not let the Hunting True God go.
Rosen spent a long time devising a new plan for the hunt.
The Apocalypse Demon Eye could spy on and appraise all things, and data transmission could send both living beings and inanimate objects. Transmitting information at its most fundamental level was even easier. Combined with the Mind Canvas and Mind Domination, he could even manipulate most demigods through the network.
The true identity of the Hunting True God was soon leaked to six human True Gods through data transmission.
Less than an hour after the leak, the Hunting True God's divine kingdom was simultaneously attacked by six True Gods.
Rosen also disappeared from the Mysterious Study Room and reappeared in the capital of the Archer Empire, Hunter's Capital.
A hand-drawn map of Hunter's Capital appeared in his hand, and he locked onto the city depicted in the painting, activating Painting World Descent.
At that moment, the Hunting True God, who was in Hunter's Capital, had just received a message from the World Will urging him to flee.
But before he could escape, the city was enveloped by the painting domain.
The three forbidden curse paintings Rosen had prepared specifically for the Hunting True God were also activated simultaneously.
Crimes Beyond Forgiveness successfully entangled the Hunting True God in sin.
Equivalent Contract forcibly established a pact that neither side could harm the other from that point onward.
As for Crimes Beyond Forgiveness, which had already taken effect, it didn't cause subsequent harm and thus didn't violate the contract.
However, the Hunting True God was unaware of this contract. Seeing Rosen appear, he didn't dare to hesitate and immediately unleashed his full power, stacking various skills. Finally, he drew his bow, locked onto Rosen, and fired an arrow that traversed the void, piercing Rosen's consciousness sea.
Rosen, who had completely abandoned all defenses, instantly suffered fatal damage.
But in the next moment, the Hunting True God, having violated the contract, suffered an equivalent backlash. Meanwhile, Rosen's injuries vanished due to the contract's compensation. The arrow that had pierced Rosen's consciousness sea now penetrated the Hunting True God's consciousness sea instead.
However, the injury wasn't fatal, and the Hunting True God hadn't abandoned all defenses.
Before the Hunting True God could figure out what had happened, Rosen's hand was already holding a bronze hollow sphere.
This was the shrunken form of the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest. A thousand dragon heads emerged, simultaneously unleashing a Silent Dragon's Chorus. The soundless dragon roars, further amplified by the Ancient God's Sacred Bell, were constrained by the laws of space-time and enveloped the Hunting True God.
His consciousness sea, already torn apart by the backlash from the Equivalent Contract, was now completely shattered.
Rosen teleported in front of the Hunting True God. The Ten Thousand Dragon Nest transformed into the Dragon God's Wrath, and with the barrel pressed against the Hunting True God's forehead, Rosen fired nine consecutive shots. The Flesh Mother Sequence's Flesh Assimilation, combined with the Doctor Sequence's Cellular Paralysis skill, successfully immobilized the Hunting True God's body.
Then, a transcendent bullet infused with Judgment Thunder shot into the collapsing consciousness sea and struck a shield.
This shield was a True God transcendent artifact called Soul Guardian. Under normal circumstances, Rosen's shot wouldn't have penetrated it. However, the earlier Crimes Beyond Forgiveness had entangled the Hunting True God in sin, and now the Judgment Thunder, enhanced by the miracle trait Sin Judgment, dealt massively increased damage.
Coupled with the Ash Brand's armor-piercing effect and the Royal Treasury's suppression of transcendent artifacts, the Soul Guardian was breached. The divine spark's surface was riddled with cracks from the Judgment Thunder.
Before the Hunting True God could make a desperate move, one of the transcendent bullets that had entered his consciousness sea transformed into the Ancient God's Shackles.
Both the divine spark and the Soul Guardian were sealed by the Ancient God's Shackles.
Just as Rosen was about to capture the Hunting True God alive, the painting domain was torn apart.
A dragon's breath descended from the sky, nearly reducing Rosen to ashes.
Meanwhile, the Hunting True God was fully healed under the dragon's breath.
"Earth Demon Dragon…" Rosen sighed in relief as he watched the spatial rift disappear.
It was clear that the World Will had noticed what was happening and, to save the Hunting True God, had gone so far as to have the Earth Demon Dragon cross endless voids to intervene. However, the Earth Demon Dragon likely couldn't stay away from the Ancient God's Black Cavity for long, or perhaps it feared the Great True Gods backing the World Government. Thus, it only rescued the Hunting True God without doing anything further.
Rosen once again forcibly activated the Equivalent Contract, equally restraining both his main body and the Hunting True God's transcendent powers.
The Bronze Dragon clone left in the Mysterious Study Room used the Original Painting Sealing Technique through the World Window. The Hunter's Capital, enveloped by the painting domain through Painting World Descent, collapsed into a painting in an instant and then merged into the World Window, disappearing.
The soul avatar in the Ascension Heavenly Dynasty of the Old World changed the spatial anchor, and the Mysterious Study Room once again left the New World.
This time, both the main body and the clone left, leaving no anchor points for the Mysterious Study Room in the New World.
Because hunting the Hunting True God had undoubtedly angered the World Will, if the World Will had previously held back, wanting to use Rosen to pressure the World Government, from this day forward, the World Will would surely push Rosen and the World Government into a life-and-death struggle.
Both were enemies of the World Will, and no matter which side suffered, it would benefit the World Will.
Therefore, this time, Rosen planned to return to the New World only after advancing to Sequence 0 in the Old World.
By then, with the Ten Directions Annihilation, even Great True Gods would have to tread carefully around him.
Within the spatial domain of the Small World Tree in the Ancient God's True Realm, the Hunting True God was immobilized under the suppression of the laws of time and space. The three forbidden curses continued to corrode his life and weaken his divine essence, and even the laws he controlled were significantly diminished.
Meanwhile, Rosen, having put some distance between them, continuously fired a rain of light from the Dragon God's Wrath.
Each drop of light was essentially a transcendent bullet composed of Holy Light Nen, enhanced by hunter skills like Food Chain.
In less than half an hour of exchanging fire, the Hunting True God had already sustained multiple injuries.
Realizing there was no hope of escape, the Hunting True God began attempting to self-destruct to avoid being captured alive by Rosen.
However, with the laws of time reversing time, even suicide was a difficult task.
Rosen's final shot, Judgment of Sin, shattered the Hunting True God's divine spark. All the accumulated damage was concentrated on the now unprotected divine essence, completely killing the Hunting True God who had mastered the laws of hunting.
Although he had successfully hunted the Hunting True God, Rosen had also suffered significant injuries.
Thus, Vengeance Judgment had long been activated. As the Hunting True God fell, his life, his soul, his remaining divine essence, his shattered divine spark, and the laws of hunting all became Rosen's spoils of war.
Rosen accepted it all, integrating these into his simulated divine spark to construct the self-created skill for Sequence 1 of the Hunter Sequence.
[Hunting Contract: Select a prey and establish a contract. Successful hunts will grant comprehensive growth.]
[Hunter's Pact: Master the laws of hunting. Killing humans will gradually and permanently increase true damage against humans.]
Through the Hunting Contract, Rosen could use his prey as nourishment to strengthen his life essence and divine essence, even plundering part of the prey's authority and laws. The more he hunted using the Hunting Contract, the faster his growth would be.
The Hunter's Pact was even more terrifying. Simply killing humans would stack true damage.
And since nearly all life in the New and Old Worlds evolved from primitive humans, killing both humans and other races would stack true damage. Combined with the True God miracle artifact Hunter's Map, Rosen could directly become a bane to humanity.
The third self-created skill required continuous use of the Hunting Contract and Hunter's Pact to master.
While directly killing fellow humans carried some psychological burden, killing other races didn't weigh on Rosen's conscience at all.
After all, although humans and demons shared a common origin in primitive humans at the genetic level, over the long course of evolutionary history, demons had become fundamentally different from humans. Humans would never consider demons their kin.
Rosen couldn't wait to make the rivers of the Old World run red with the blood of other races.
(End of Chapter)