Lord: Sequence Master

Rosen walked through the shadows of all things, silently approaching the spatial vortex leading to the Zerg Spiritual Realm.

The moment he touched the vortex and was transported into the realm, the undead demigods guarding the vortex immediately sensed the disturbance.

The spatial vortex generated ripples when activated, alerting the sentinels to the presence of a mysterious intruder with formidable concealment abilities.

Within moments, seven Sequence 2 undead demigods gathered at the scene.

"Who could have gone in?"

"If it was a Sequence 2 undead, there'd be no need to sneak in. It could be a Sequence 3 undead demigod with terrifying concealment abilities or some artifact. Or it could be an outsider—they can't enter the realm normally, so they'd have to sneak in…"

"If it's one of our own, it's just foolishness. If it's an outsider…"

"Regardless of who it is, for now, we can only wait."

The Sequence 2 undead demigods fell silent.

A deity adept in prophecy had already confirmed that the current Zerg Spiritual Realm posed a deadly threat even to Sequence 2 beings.

According to the prophecy, even with a full team of twenty, they wouldn't be able to completely resolve the threat.

Their mission was simply to retrieve a specific item, after which the deity would summon a True God to destroy the Zerg Spiritual Realm from the outside.

…

Upon passing through the spatial vortex, Rosen was met with a horrifying scene.

The entire spiritual realm was completely covered in Zerg mycelium, scattered with countless Zerg eggs.

The moment these eggs hatched, the emerging Zerg larvae would instantly wither into shriveled husks, their blood and flesh drained completely.

Only their souls remained, which slowly floated upward.

The sky of the realm was a boundless sea of black clouds, where countless Zerg larvae souls fought fiercely.

The victors devoured the heads of the vanquished, whose dissolving bodies merged into the black clouds.

The mycelium nourished the eggs, the eggs hatched into larvae, and the larvae were drained of their life force by the power of death, leaving only their souls to ascend and cannibalize each other.

The entire process resembled a soul-forging ritual.

Rosen painted a time foresight painting, revealing a faint image of the Psychic Broodmother lurking within a corner of the black clouds.

It was undoubtedly hiding in that region.

Since he couldn't pinpoint its exact location, Rosen decided to go in aggressively.

The Gluttony Rune Stone flashed, transforming into a thumb-sized halo under the influence of a miracle aura.

A manifested Mind Bullet formed within the barrel of Dragon God's Wrath, infused with the divine-burning power of the innate skill Hunter's Divinity Burn, granting it the property of consuming divine origins.

The Ashen Imprint was also embedded into the bullet.

Rosen immediately raised the firearm and fired at the black clouds.

Thanks to the true-hit property of the Ashen Imprint, the bullet could not miss.

The bullet vanished through the Future Silencer, reappearing a second later to pierce the black clouds before freezing in a state of temporal suspension, building up destructive force.

Simultaneously, the Gluttony Trap, fused with the halo and bullet, activated within the clouds.

A 9,100-meter-wide Gluttony Trap manifested, resembling a black hole as it tore through the black clouds and shredded the souls of the Zerg larvae within, devouring everything into oblivion.

More and more black clouds were consumed by the Gluttony Trap until the hidden Psychic Broodmother was finally forced to react.

It made no attempt to hide, instead appearing directly outside the Gluttony Trap.

The Psychic Broodmother, which had once resembled a bloated worm, now looked 70% humanoid, with mantis-like crimson scythe-arms.

In a blink, it disappeared, circled the Gluttony Trap, and returned to its original position.

Crimson flames instantly engulfed the Gluttony Trap, slicing and tearing through space itself.

The outermost layer of the Gluttony Trap was cleaved cleanly in two by the Psychic Broodmother's scythes.

However, the remaining eight layers immediately replaced the destroyed layer.

From the outside, the Gluttony Trap appeared completely intact, continuing to devour the black clouds.

Under normal circumstances, the destroyed layer of the Gluttony Trap should have been automatically repaired through spatial recursion.

However, the crimson flames left by the Psychic Broodmother's scythes continued to burn within the spatial layer, preventing the Gluttony Trap from repairing itself.

Just as the Psychic Broodmother was about to continue her assault, the Mind Bullet, which had been suspended in time after piercing the black clouds, suddenly resumed its momentum. Locked onto the target by its true-hit property, it struck the Psychic Broodmother's brow at a speed even she couldn't react to under accelerated time.

It might have seemed like an ordinary bullet, but its base damage amplification was 2,540%.

Coupled with the compressed and terrifying psychic energy infused within, as well as the Ashen Imprint's true-damage property bypassing defenses, the bullet shattered the Psychic Broodmother's skull while the Hunter's power simultaneously pierced through her divine origin.

Yet, the Psychic Broodmother remained unharmed, transferring all the damage to the Zerg within her Psychic Network.

Rosen had already tried to infiltrate the Psychic Network with the help of the Main God Computer, intending to locate the Psychic Broodmother.

However, it was futile because the entire black cloud itself was a massive, physical manifestation of the network.

Ordinary psychic networks relied on the anchoring power of the mind and spirituality, forming intangible yet structured connections resembling a web—common to almost all networks.

Yet this transformed black cloud had become tangible, functioning more like a server than a traditional network.

Under such circumstances, even the Main God Computer struggled to locate the Psychic Broodmother's hidden form.

Thus, the only option was to lure her out and engage in direct combat.

Dragon God's Wrath, initially in the form of a flintlock rifle, instantly transformed into a gatling gun, unleashing a storm of Mind Bullets.

Under accelerated time, the bullets traveled without any perceptible distance within a ten-thousand-mile radius, blanketing the Psychic Broodmother entirely.

Initially, the attack consisted solely of Mind Bullets. Gradually, halos began to encircle the bullets.

These were miracle halos, transformed from Dragon Language Magic.

Each bullet was wreathed in a halo, instantly casting a Dragon Language spell.

All of them were Sequence 3 spells of Temporal Pause and Temporal Disintegration, freezing the Psychic Broodmother in place, turning her into a stationary target within the black cloud.

The Psychic Broodmother remained unscathed, but the black cloud enveloping the entire spiritual realm grew visibly smaller.

Even so, Rosen didn't believe she would be defeated so easily.

Otherwise, the Sequence 2 undead demigods outside wouldn't have been so cautious.

Rosen quickly realized that although the black cloud was shrinking, the damage was being transferred to weaker Zerg larvae souls.

In contrast, the stronger Zerg souls were accelerating their growth during the process.

Although he had inflicted significant damage on the black cloud, the Psychic Broodmother was using him to purify the impurities, leaving only the essence.

Rosen's Seventh Sense warned him that the Psychic Broodmother's counterattack was imminent.

As expected, the moment the black cloud shrank to a radius of ten miles, the Psychic Broodmother expanded her psychic domain.

All incoming Mind Bullets were immobilized by her terrifying psychic force.

A moment later, a mental storm compressed into a single spike locked onto Rosen.

Rosen immediately performed a Void Blink, teleporting away and slipping into the Void Shadow Realm.

Thanks to the Wolf Totem, he had no intention of clashing head-on with the Psychic Broodmother.

However, the psychic spike broke through the Wolf Totem's concealment, relentlessly tracking him and colliding with a temporal barrier midair.

The next moment, the psychic spike unleashed a terrifying spiritual shock, piercing through the temporal barrier and nearly shattering Rosen's consciousness sea.

Rosen barely resisted the urge to fire a Dragon God Roar Shell, worried that it would shatter the entire spiritual realm.

He needed to capture it intact and transport it to his Divine Domain.

So far, he hadn't activated his World Domain or Divine Domain, as the World Domain had already silently enveloped the entire spiritual realm, gradually infiltrating its world barrier.

The Divine Domain was fully prepared to accommodate the spiritual realm at any moment.

Rosen suddenly leaped into the sky, transforming into an Yinglong midair.

The Psychic Broodmother dived toward him, intending to tear him apart with her scythe-like arms.

Great Sound, Silent Voice!

An inaudible dragon roar echoed through the entire spiritual realm.

Though it seemed gentle and subtle, the terrifying resonance instantly stunned the spiritual consciousness of all living beings within the realm.

In that instant, they all fell into a state of dazed confusion.

Rosen's dragon head swelled as he unleashed a Tao Tie-enhanced version of Dragon Devour.

A vast expanse of void spanning dozens of miles was bitten and swallowed whole.

"The Psychic Broodmother is either weak, or I'm just too strong…"

Rosen reverted to his human form, rubbing his stomach.

He felt slightly uncomfortable, as the Psychic Broodmother was violently struggling inside his stomach.

Rosen could still tolerate it, though even he wasn't sure exactly how strong he had become.

Despite this power, he remained cautious, knowing that part of his success was due to his natural suppression of the Psychic Broodmother.

The Broodmother's deadliest strengths were parasitism, speed, and psychic control, all of which were utterly ineffective against him.

Just as the Broodmother countered undead demigods, she was thoroughly countered by Rosen.

The higher the sequence level in the transcendent system, the smaller the gap in innate talents and strength between beings.

Two True Gods, for instance, would inevitably possess top-tier talents and countless combat experiences, making it incredibly difficult for one to defeat or kill the other unless one naturally countered the other.

This didn't mean there was no difference between True Gods, however.

The longer they lived, the deeper their foundations became, granting them greater survival capabilities, more error tolerance, and the ability to counter more opponents.

However, few True Gods ever achieved this level of mastery.

With the Psychic Broodmother neutralized, Rosen's World Domain quickly took control of the entire Zerg Spiritual Realm.

Bit by bit, he pulled the realm into his Divine Domain, causing it to gradually vanish from the outside world.

The undead demigods who had been waiting outside immediately sensed that something was wrong.

Before they could react, the spatial vortex leading to the Zerg Spiritual Realm abruptly reopened.

At that moment, a cannon barrel several meters thick emerged from the vortex and began firing.

It was the Temporal Destruction Cannon, the main weapon of the Dragon God's Wrath in its mechanical bio-warship form.

Powered by Yinglong's Void Creation and the Old God's Decimation of the Ten Directions, the cannon unleashed boundless temporal energy, enveloping the seven undead demigods in a miniature world.

The next instant, the enhanced Decimation of the Ten Directions annihilated the miniature world, collapsing its dimensions into a zero-dimensional singularity.

The seven demigods had no time to react and were instantly obliterated by the Sequence 1 warship's main cannon.

Only a lich, whose phylactery contained a reserve of divine origin, could resurrect.

The remaining six Sequence 2 undead demigods were utterly destroyed with no chance of revival.

Rosen retracted Dragon God's Wrath and discreetly left through data transmission.

By the time the undead deities rushed to the scene, the culprit was long gone.

Upon returning to Divine Weapon Sky City, Rosen immediately began studying spirituality and the Psychic Broodmother.

Using every method at his disposal, he finally weakened the Broodmother.

Combining Spiritual Canvas with Mind Domination and Mind Reading, he relentlessly assaulted the Broodmother's divine consciousness.

Initially, she resisted stubbornly, but once her defenses crumbled, she attempted to commit suicide without hesitation.

However, with Time Reversal, even dying wasn't an easy escape.

Within the Temporal Cage, Rosen tortured the Psychic Broodmother for half a year, finally breaching her divine consciousness and extracting her deepest secrets.

As expected, her presence on the Continent of Death was no coincidence—she had been acting under the Zerg Overlord's secret orders.

The Zerg Overlord had long realized that their civilization's focus on bloodline genetics was a flawed path.

Although the Zerg had a psychic network, which seemingly compensated for this flaw, the strength of this network relied on the aggregation of countless Zerg psychic consciousnesses.

For a single ordinary Zerg Broodmother, her psychic strength was relatively weak compared to others of the same sequence.

Thus, the strategy was akin to "building a tower from grains of sand."

But by then, it was already too late—the Zerg civilization was on the verge of succumbing to its Seventh Cataclysm.

Realizing that the failure of this catastrophe would likely lead to the complete extinction of the Zerg, the Overlord began preparing an escape route.

He dispatched a Sequence 0 Psychic Broodmother to the Continent of Death, a land where any life that perished would become an undead.

The Zerg Overlord hoped that the Broodmother would, alongside a Broodmother Egg, transform herself into an undead lifeform on the Continent of Death, thereby escaping the extinction of their civilization.

However, upon arriving on the continent, unforeseen events occurred.

The Psychic Broodmother obtained a miracle artifact—the Resurrection Cross of Sequence 0.

This miraculous artifact's unique miracle sequence allowed for rebirth across races, enabling a being to live a second life.

The Broodmother's first instinct was to reincarnate as an undead lifeform.

What she hadn't anticipated, however, was that the Broodmother Egg she carried contained the True God Will of the Zerg Overlord.

From the beginning, this had all been the Overlord's backup plan, and the Broodmother was merely a sacrificial pawn.

Now that Rosen had obtained the complete Resurrection Cross, it seemed the Zerg Overlord also intended to use it for reincarnation and rebirth.

In the end, the Psychic Broodmother and the Zerg Overlord's True God Will perished together, and the Broodmother's attempt at reincarnation ultimately failed. The Resurrection Cross shattered into ten fragments; only the most central piece remained, while the rest scattered and disappeared.

"There are ten pieces of the Resurrection Cross?"

Rosen was surprised as he extracted a fragment of the Resurrection Cross from the Broodmother's divine origin.

Compared to the two pieces he already possessed, this one was extremely special.

The difference between them was like that between a body and a soul.

This soul-like fragment of the Resurrection Cross contained an endless supply of mysterious death energy.

This was why the Psychic Broodmother had been drained to such an extent before her death that she had fallen below even demigod status, leading to the spiritual realm being classified only as Sequence 4.

Later, Rosen had helped her recover to Sequence 3, enabling her to regain more of her memories and reclaim control of the soul-form Resurrection Cross.

By harnessing its mysterious death energy, which naturally countered undead lifeforms, she had hunted and killed countless undead demigods who entered the spiritual realm.

Of course, those demigods alone weren't enough to elevate the realm from Sequence 3 to Sequence 2.

The key lay in the endless death energy emanating from the Resurrection Cross.

Realizing that the artifact in his hand was no ordinary item, Rosen immediately brought it into the Divine Library for analysis using the Main God Computer.

The results were unexpected.

This was not a Resurrection Cross but rather the Death Cross, a True God-level artifact.

The nine physical fragments of the Resurrection Cross were likely seals for the Death Cross.

When the seals were broken, the Death Cross had successfully escaped confinement.

However, not all miracle artifacts had purely positive attributes—some inherently carried powerful negative properties.

The Death Cross naturally granted dominion over death, making it the bane of all undead lifeforms.

But its overwhelming negative trait would turn its wielder into a puppet.

The Psychic Broodmother had essentially been a puppet controlled by the Death Cross.

Now, even the Main God Computer could barely keep it sealed.

Without his immortal will and Old God divinity, and without the protection of the Old God Artifact, Rosen would likely have fallen under its influence upon contact.

Feeling a lingering sense of dread, Rosen sealed the Death Cross.

It was useless without the other nine Resurrection Cross fragments and could only be used to trick unwitting victims into certain doom.

Slightly disappointed, Rosen re-entered the Zerg Spiritual Realm and killed the Psychic Broodmother.

There was no Broodmother Egg drop this time—perhaps the first drop had truly been a one-time occurrence.

Although he had acquired the Death Cross, his primary objective had been to modify the Broodmother Egg.

Just as Rosen was considering alternative methods, the Main God Computer, which had sealed the Death Cross, provided a solution.

The Death Cross was undoubtedly dangerous, but the death energy it generated could be converted by the Main God Computer into a potent resource for the undead race.

This death energy could be used to transform the Broodmother Egg into a Death Broodmother.

With the assistance of the Main God Computer, the modification of the Broodmother Egg proceeded smoothly.

Rosen even infused the egg with transcendent source essence dropped by the Psychic Broodmother, using it as incubation fuel.

When the egg was on the verge of hatching, he refined it with divinity and bound it with the noble sequence's transcendent source essence.

A few days later, the egg hatched into a special Death Broodmother.

[Death Broodmother: Special Unit Matriarch]

[Level: Sequence 3]

[Attributes: Capable of producing Soul Eggs. These eggs, when parasitizing lifeforms, hatch into Death Zerg.]

[Skills: Psychic Network, Parasite, Assimilation, Death Will, Death Harvest, Undead Resurrection Art...]

Rosen looked at the palm-sized Death Broodmother.

She resembled a healthy humanoid with dark-tanned skin.

Her arms, however, bore mantis-like scythe-blades, reminiscent of the Psychic Broodmother's form.

She looked somewhat attractive—until she opened her mouth, revealing a retractable injector-like appendage.

"Never open your mouth in front of me again," Rosen ordered.

The Death Broodmother nodded reluctantly, retracting the injector back into her mouth as if sulking.

After bringing the Death Broodmother into the Void Prison, Rosen turned to leave.

As soon as he was gone, the Broodmother's eyes gleamed with hunger.

Drooling, she floated over to the prisoners one by one, injecting Soul Eggs directly into their consciousness seas.