Lord: Sequence Master

"It's time to leave..."

Rosen surveyed the decaying Dragon Orb World, preparing to depart.

The world where he had obtained the Dragon-Binding Rope was actually a Dragon Orb World created from the Yinglong's Dragon Orb.

Since he was taking the Yinglong's Dragon Orb with him, this world was now on the verge of complete destruction.

Rosen left a self-portrait avatar behind to escape into the Book of Miracles Chamber, then used the Yinglong's Dragon Orb to return to the giant dragon castle.

The self-portrait avatar, remaining inside the Book of Miracles Chamber, witnessed the destruction of the Dragon Orb World firsthand.

I may have been overthinking it, but it's always better to be cautious, Rosen thought as he summoned the Book of Miracles Chamber back and entered through the window, pulling out the Yinglong Dragon Orb.

Through the Yinglong Dragon Orb, he could sense the pervasive True Dragon Laws of the Dragon Realm—key to forming true dragon bloodlines. He could use this power to help Ferren acquire a Dragon Orb. However, since the Dragon Orb World had collapsed, attempting to condense a Dragon Orb now would likely attract the attention of the Dragon Gods.

It was best to wait. He had no intention of sticking his neck out recklessly.

Rosen removed the self-portrait avatar from the wall and extracted the Yinglong's origin bloodline from the Yinglong Dragon Orb, placing it inside the Dragonblood Flask. Then he continually infused the Dragonblood Flask with the origin blood of various dragon beasts, using it to nurture and strengthen the weakened Yinglong bloodline.

He then began pondering how to fuse the Yinglong bloodline with the Feathered Serpent God bloodline.

In terms of level, the two were worlds apart.

Even if the Feathered Serpent God bloodline had once produced gods, it was vastly inferior to the Yinglong bloodline. The former typically only reached Sequence 3 upon maturity, whereas the latter naturally ascended to godhood upon reaching adulthood.

However, the Feathered Serpent God bloodline had one undeniable advantage: it was a bloodline belonging to the current age of the Old Gods, whereas the Yinglong bloodline originated from the previous age of the Old Gods.

Directly merging the Yinglong bloodline would likely result in disaster.

Thus, Rosen planned to first merge the Yinglong bloodline into the Feathered Serpent God bloodline, then rely on the mutation growth trait of the Transformation Badge to fuse the two into a completely new bloodline. This would help avoid rejection by the Second Age Old Gods.

In fact, there was precedent for this approach—the dragons of the Dragon Realm who had obtained Dragon Orbs.

The Dragon Orbs were a product of the previous age of the Old Gods, yet they had been accepted by the current age without any hidden dangers.

Rosen was fairly certain that although much of the previous age was incompatible with the current world, and even though the main world of that era had been destroyed and restarted, the essence of all things had still been carried forward. Only certain details had changed.

The self-portrait avatar retrieved the Transformation Badge, merging it into its sea of consciousness and initiating a second transformation.

In mere moments, the Feathered Serpent God bloodline within the self-portrait avatar was fully sealed by the Transformation Badge.

Without the Feathered Serpent God bloodline, it was naturally able to integrate new transcendent bloodlines, making it possible to attempt the fusion and mutation of two transcendent bloodlines.

Thanks to sufficient feeding from the dragon beast origin blood, the Dragonblood Flask quickly restored the Yinglong bloodline to Sequence 3 quality.

Rosen didn't push it further, as stronger bloodlines weren't necessarily better.

Higher-grade bloodlines often retained deeper imprints of their original owners.

Of course, a bloodline that was too weak wouldn't yield effective results after fusion.

The ideal choice was a bloodline that wasn't too high or too low but possessed great potential. The Yinglong bloodline, without a doubt, had the potential of a Great True God. Even after weakening over countless ages to Sequence 3, it was still difficult to fuse.

When Rosen had previously fused with the Feathered Serpent God bloodline, he had relied on the powers of Gluttony and Greed.

That wasn't the best approach.

This time, he directly purchased a Sequence 3 perfect-quality bloodline fusion ritual array created by a bloodline warlock through the Main Hall of the Gods. Combined with the bloodline powers shared by Fara's blood race, this would ensure a perfect fusion of the Yinglong bloodline.

Under the World Tree, bloodline warlocks and alchemists from Rosen's territory quickly set up the bloodline fusion ritual array.

Rosen stepped into the array and, using the Blood Authority shared by Fara, along with his Source Blood Imprint skill, began slowly fusing the Yinglong origin bloodline from the Dragonblood Flask. The entire process went smoothly without any difficulty.

However, when he returned to the Book of Miracles Chamber and reached his hand out the window, a terrifying sense of danger suddenly gripped him.

In an instant, the Twin Daggers flashed in his hand, and he severed his own right hand.

His severed hand, with its outstretched finger as the medium, had already rotted, withered, and lost all vitality in the blink of an eye.

Rejection by heaven and earth is no joke.

Rosen regenerated his right hand and began fusing the Yinglong bloodline and Feathered Serpent God bloodline within his body.

Snakes could transform into dragons, and the Yinglong was the progenitor of dragons.

Even if the Yinglong bloodline had weakened to Sequence 3, it was still far beyond what the Sequence 3 Feathered Serpent God bloodline could contend with.

At that moment, the mutation growth trait of the Transformation Badge took effect.

The Yinglong bloodline began devouring the Feathered Serpent God bloodline. Under the power of mutation growth, it used the Feathered Serpent God bloodline as fuel, inducing changes within the Yinglong bloodline. One of these changes eliminated a hidden innate authority within the Yinglong bloodline.

As the progenitor of dragons, the Yinglong naturally wielded the powers of creation, genesis, and destruction.

The portion of Yinglong origin bloodline Rosen obtained was the one that had elevated the authority of creation into the Law of Creation, transforming the Yinglong into a celestial being.

Later, when the Yinglong and the Primordial Spirit Civilization joined forces to undergo the tenth tribulation, the Yinglong attempted to elevate the authority of destruction into the Law of Destruction.

In truth, it was the human Primordial Spirit Civilization that faced the tribulation, with the Yinglong merely assisting them.

Although the Primordial Spirit Civilization ultimately failed, humanity was not rejected by heaven and earth. Instead, the Yinglong was rejected, leading to the complete annihilation of the dragon race.

The Yinglong understood the true cause—because it had mastered the Law of Destruction.

It had discovered a crucial truth: heaven and earth permitted all beings to wield any law. However, the moment a being mastered a law capable of threatening heaven and earth itself, they would inevitably be rejected. The ultimate end of the Law of Destruction was the annihilation of heaven and earth.

By the time the Yinglong realized this, it was already too late to regret it.

Thus, the essence of fusing the two bloodlines this time was to eradicate the lingering power of the Law of Destruction within the Yinglong bloodline.

Time flew by, and over five months passed—equivalent to nearly eighty years under the accelerated flow of Time Simple Painting.

Only then did the mutation growth of the Yinglong bloodline finally cease, and the self-portrait avatar surpassed Rosen's main body, advancing to Sequence 3.

[Self-Portrait Avatar No. 1: Yinglong Avatar]

[Level: Sequence 3]

[Profession: Sequence 3 Yinglong]

[Bloodline: Sequence 3 Yinglong]

[Divinity: 91 points]

[Divine Authorities: Genesis, Creation, Dragon God Authority]

[Skills: Yinglong Immortal Body, Void Creation, Thought-Born All Things, Dragon God Nine Transformations]

Rosen carefully sensed the power of the self-portrait avatar. His first self-portrait avatar had already surpassed the second one.

The three divine authorities it wielded were all among the most supreme.

Rosen scrutinized the skills, noting that there were only four core ones, but each could give rise to countless derived abilities.

This was because the Yinglong had lived in an era where sequences and skills didn't exist—their powers were natural divine abilities.

Yinglong Immortal Body was similar to the Old God Body.

The Yinglong, as the progenitor of dragons, could transform into nearly any type of dragon.

However, transformation was rarely necessary, as only a very few non-transformable dragons could match the Yinglong.

Thus, in terms of transformation, the Yinglong Immortal Body was far inferior to the Old God Body.

Now that Rosen had mastered the genetic blueprint of the Yinglong bloodline, he didn't even need to share the power of the Yinglong Avatar. Through the Old God Body, he could directly transform into a Yinglong.

However, despite the transformation, he couldn't fully wield the three divine authorities of the Yinglong.

This was because it exceeded the limits of the Old God Body, which couldn't simultaneously transform and inherit the innate talents of a transcendent bloodline at the Yinglong's level.

In terms of transformation flexibility, the Old God Body was superior, but the Yinglong Immortal Body had its own advantages.

The more severe the Yinglong Immortal Body's injuries, the stronger its power became.

This immense power allowed the Yinglong to survive even catastrophic wounds.

Because of its severe injuries, it became stronger; because of its immense power, it could prevent those injuries from deteriorating beyond repair.

Thus, in terms of survival and combat, the Yinglong Immortal Body held significant advantages.

Rosen continued to explore the power of Void Creation. When combined with Thought-Born All Things, he could directly create spiritual realms out of thin air, greatly enhancing his World Domain. This also significantly reduced the difficulty of one day elevating the True Realm of the Old Gods to the level of an independent world like the Dragon Realm, especially with the help of the World Tree.

In addition to world creation, creating life had also become a trivial matter for him.

These two skills were so powerful that he could only grasp the surface of their potential for now.

Rosen then focused on the Dragon God Nine Transformations. The legendary nine sons of the dragon, created by the Yinglong, had each inherited various powerful innate divine abilities from it. Even the weakened versions of these abilities wielded by the nine dragon sons were already formidable, let alone the enhanced versions mastered by the Yinglong.

Take the Qiu Niu, one of the nine dragon sons, for example. Its innate divine ability was The Great Sound of Silence.

Qiu Niu's Great Sound of Silence could unleash the full potential of any musical power. With a single roar, it could shatter mountains, rivers, and even bring down stars. It could hear the voices of all things and beings and even manipulate the spiritual consciousness of life forms through sound.

Whatever Qiu Niu could do, the Yinglong could do better—and more.

The Yinglong's Great Sound of Silence could transform into the Heavenly Melody of Creation, which could open up new worlds, or the Calamity Song of Destruction, capable of annihilating entire worlds. These were powers completely beyond Qiu Niu's reach.

Moreover, the nine sons of the dragon weren't limited to just nine. Nine was simply the ultimate symbolic number.

At most, the Yinglong could have nine dragon sons simultaneously. If any of them perished, it could give birth to new and different ones.

In summary, although the Yinglong Sequence had only four skills, each had limitless potential.

The strength of these skills could be enhanced by elevating the Sequence level and strengthening the Yinglong bloodline, as well as through continuous acts of creation and genesis, gradually evolving these innate divine abilities into Sequence skills.

After leaving the True Realm of the Old Gods, Rosen was about to exit the Book of Miracles Chamber when he suddenly had a sense of foreboding.

He couldn't reveal himself in the Dragon Realm because he had mastered Dragon God Authority.

Dragon God Authority was distinct from the True Dragon Laws, which the Yinglong had already merged into the entire Dragon Realm.

Currently, he wasn't the only one who wielded Dragon God Authority—there were also three living Dragon True Gods and the remnants of two fallen ones.

The Holy Light Dragon God of the Dragon God Continent was less of a concern, having already been stripped of control over the Dragon Realm.

But the two Dragon Gods who held most of the Dragon Realm's authority would not react kindly to a Sequence 3 Bronze Dragon suddenly wielding Dragon God Authority. They wouldn't see Ferren as someone worth nurturing; instead, they'd likely suspect he had inherited the Yinglong's legacy and would seek to flay him alive.

Thus, he couldn't display the power of the Yinglong in the Dragon Realm—unless he fully mastered the Dragon God Authority and concealed that power entirely.

This wasn't difficult for Rosen, as he had already planned to use the Yinglong Dragon Orb to gain control over the Dragon Civilization's Ember.

However, he couldn't do this under Ferren's identity; he needed to assume the guise of a mysterious dragon.

Sitting by the window, Rosen pulled out the Yinglong Dragon Orb and used it to communicate with the Dragon Civilization's Ember.

The process was effortless, as the Civilization's Ember was omnipresent throughout the Dragon Realm.

With the help of Miracle Ember, Rosen gradually integrated the Dragon Civilization's Ember into it. Once the Miracle Ember fully controlled the Dragon Civilization's Ember, he returned it to its original state.

The disturbance in the Civilization's Ember immediately alerted two Dragon Gods within the Dragon Realm.

However, they couldn't trace the source of the anomaly.

As the key to inheriting the Dragon Realm, the Yinglong Dragon Orb made it easy for Rosen to hide from the Dragon Gods, even if it couldn't yet wrest full control of the Dragon Realm from them.

Rosen finally stopped after gaining control over one percent of the Dragon Civilization's Ember.

This wasn't the limit of the Yinglong Dragon Orb—it was his personal limit.

He was currently only Sequence 4, while both of his avatars had already reached Sequence 3. Even so, being able to control even one percent of the Dragon Civilization's Ember was impressive, and it was only thanks to the Miracle Ember that he managed this much.

Even with just one percent, Rosen had effectively become a Child of Destiny within the Dragon Realm.

After all, even the Dragon Gods could only control at most ten percent each.

In theory, if ten Dragon Gods joined forces, they could completely control the Dragon Realm and erase all traces of the Yinglong.

But even at the dragon race's peak, there had only been five Dragon Gods.

Now that Rosen controlled one percent, he could amplify his power within the Dragon Realm to the equivalent of Sequence 0.

To him, the entire Dragon Realm was akin to a far more powerful version of Yunmeng Cave Heaven.

Once he restored the weakened Dragon-Binding Rope to Sequence 0, it would likely be difficult for even a Dragon God to defeat him within the Dragon Realm.

By mastering the Civilization's Ember of a True God-level civilization, Rosen's innate fortune and acquired fortune, which had already been on the verge of transformation, simultaneously ascended from Sequence 0 to the True God level. At that moment, he understood why this step was so difficult to cross.

True Gods coexisted with their Civilization's Ember—as long as the civilization endured, the True God would remain eternal.

A True God-level innate fortune naturally indicated that one's potential was at the True God level.

This type of innate fortune typically only emerged after a Sequence 0 being ascended to True God status. The innate fortune of a True God could strengthen the Civilization's Ember, and in turn, the Civilization's Ember would enhance and reinforce the True God's innate fortune.

The two formed a mutually reinforcing relationship. Rosen estimated that he now controlled five percent of the Dragon Civilization's Ember.

As Rosen continued refining the Civilization's Ember, the two Dragon Gods were utterly stunned.

While Rosen was gaining more control over the Ember, its strength also increased by nearly ten percent. The two Dragon Gods, who had lived for countless years, immediately realized that the dragon race had given birth to a dragon possessing True God-level innate fortune.

The entire Dragon Realm went into a frenzy searching for Rosen.

However, he had already left a divine avatar behind and departed from the Dragon Realm.

It wasn't the right time for him to make any big moves there—better to lay low and wait for the Dragon Gods to calm down.

Rosen transmitted data back to the Sacred Continent's Divine Weapon Kingdom, where he planned to advance to Sequence 3.

In addition to his promotion, he had many other things to strengthen here.

Both the Void Gallery and the Void Sketchbook needed to be enhanced using the Divine Weapon Kingdom's resources.

The same went for Dragon King's Wrath, which had, over the years, shot down countless beast kings containing dragon bloodline within his territory.

Upon seeing Rosen again, Daewen Gaines looked visibly depressed.

The last time they met, Daewen was a Sequence 3 alchemist, and Rosen was only Sequence 6.

Now Daewen remained Sequence 3, while Rosen was already on the brink of advancing to Sequence 3.

Moreover, the transcendent materials Rosen presented made Daewen's scalp tingle.

"I can't handle these materials. I'll have to ask my teacher," Daewen admitted honestly.

"I want the best. Money's not an issue." Rosen nodded, immediately paying a deposit to Daewen.

Back at his hotel in Divine Weapon Sky City, Rosen began preparing to synthesize a Sequence 3 Ashen Bee.

He had initially considered using Two-Dimensional Ashen Bees to enhance Ashen Armor Breaker, but he ultimately gave up on that idea.

Two-Dimensional Ashen Bees were miracle paintings. While they could temporarily make Ashen Armor Breaker extremely powerful, they weren't orthodox Ashen Bees, which might lead the enhancement down the wrong path.

His Time Prophecy Painting had already foreseen unsatisfactory results.

With the amplification from his True God-level fortune, the failure rate of miracle synthesis dramatically dropped.

He skipped synthesizing Ashen Bees altogether and went straight to synthesizing an Ashen Bee King.

After fewer than two hundred attempts, Rosen successfully synthesized a Sequence 4 Ashen Bee King that wielded Divine Authority.

A few hours later, he synthesized a second one. Combining the two finally produced a Sequence 3 Ashen Bee King.

In the past, Rosen had always relied on the power of Gluttony for refining.

This time, however, he intended to use Taotie's power instead.

Taotie embodied the perfect fusion of gluttony and greed, and its stomach far surpassed the Stomach of Gluttony.

The Yinglong possessed an even stronger version of this power. While it mastered Creation and Genesis, the Yinglong wasn't always satisfied with what it had created. Thus, it wielded a terrifying power that allowed it to devour all worlds and return everything to its original form.

Rosen swallowed the Ashen Bee King in one gulp, perfectly integrating its power into Ashen Armor Breaker.

[Ashen Brand: Miracle Skill]

[Passive Attribute: Base damage increased by 500%]

[Active Attribute: When activated, it can accumulate Ashen Power through the Ashen Brand]

[Miracle Traits: True Damage, Vitality Stripping, True Hit Guarantee]

The true damage of Ashen Armor Breaker skyrocketed and gained the True Hit Guarantee trait—a highly valuable ability for hunters.

However, the greatest change in Ashen Armor Breaker lay in the accumulation of Ashen Power through the Ashen Brand.

Rosen experimented briefly and discovered that the most terrifying aspect of Ashen Power was its ability to transform any lifeform he attacked into Ashen Lifeforms that he could freely control.

This meant he could single-handedly unleash a beast tide composed entirely of Ashen Lifeforms.

He could even manipulate ash itself through the Ashen Brand, allowing him to move through ash as effortlessly as a fish in water.

(End of Chapter)