"Finally, I can't hold back anymore…"
Inside the Saint Temple, the bronze dragon avatar of the Supreme Moon Saint was flipping through the Fate Bronze Book, sensing impending doom in his heart.
He had already bought his true self seven thousand more years of time, and his Primordial Holy Law had actually been created in several versions.
Now the Primordial Holy Law was undergoing its final refinement, so there was really no need to continue delaying the Sinful Lifeforms dismantling the universe.
At this moment, if he stepped back, the Chaos Saint and the others wouldn't strike hard just yet.
But he didn't want to retreat, because he wanted to test the true intentions of the Chaos Saint and the others.
After all, even if the eternal lives of the Saint Temple died in large numbers, it wouldn't be a huge loss for him.
He even wanted to seize the chance to kill two birds with one stone and eliminate those veteran eternal lives remaining in the Saint Temple.
The entire Saint Temple microcosm was made up of more than three hundred Eternal Worlds belonging to nearly two hundred eternal lives.
The newly risen eternal lives had their memories altered, and some of the veterans had already left. As long as he could deal with the rest, he could fuse the Saint Temple microcosm into the Root microcosm, pushing the Root microcosm closer to the Primordial microcosm.
Once the final battle began, all their forces had to be clenched into a fist.
First solve internal troubles, then better handle external threats.
Although dozens of veteran eternal lives were a very strong force, each harbored their own agendas. Among them were even secret agents left by the Chaos Saint and the others to sabotage at critical moments. Leaving them until the final battle would definitely do more harm than good.
So it was better to have them kill each other off, and at the same time test the Chaos Saint and the others.
If handled well, he might even take down those eternal lives siding with the Chaos Saint.
With so many benefits in sight, how could Rosen stop just because it was dangerous?
Rosen was very certain: once the Chaos Saint and the others decided to start a war, they would definitely choose to strike first.
And the best timing for a sneak attack would be when the Saint Temple and Sinful Lifeforms were locked in a stalemate.
That day, all eternal lives of the Saint Temple finished resting and began holding a war meeting in the virtual world for the upcoming years. Every eternal life could speak their mind, and the final war plan for the next combat cycle would be decided by vote.
The result was no different from previous meetings: concentrate forces to defeat enemies one by one.
Some eternal lives skilled in defense and speed were responsible for drawing away the troublesome Sinful Lifeforms, gathering the easier-to-deal ones so the Saint Temple could seize the chance to crush and then seal them.
Since Sinful Lifeforms couldn't be killed no matter how many times, sealing was the only choice for the Saint Temple.
However, some Sinful Lifeforms were skilled at breaking seals, and others were difficult to seal. Sealing these troublesome Sinful Lifeforms would be more trouble than it was worth, as the methods to seal Sinful Lifeforms were hard to execute. It was better to pick the low-hanging fruit for maximum benefit.
As the Saint Temple continued sniping the Sinful Lifeforms, the favor from the Heart of the Universe among its members soared.
The direct benefits were plentiful: the cosmic origin drawn through the Source Seed greatly increased, making controlling laws easier. Occasionally, they could find various rare extraordinary resources in the Cosmic Origin Sea, even receiving cosmic blessings that greatly accelerated their growth in strength.
If the Saint Temple continued like this, after the birth of the new universe, it might indeed actively throw itself into their arms.
This was also why the Chaos Saint and the others were anxious. As for why they didn't try to increase their favor with the Heart of the Universe—it wasn't that they didn't want to, but that the Heart of the Universe simply wouldn't give them the chance. Even if they tricked their way into getting the Source Seed, even after reincarnation, the Heart of the Universe instinctively rejected them.
Deep in the void, the Dimension Saint folded space and hid a patch of surrounding space.
Next to him stood an Ancient God, and behind him were more than twenty eternal lives.
Though they had decided to join forces to severely damage the Saint Temple, the Dimension Saint didn't plan to fight alongside the Chaos Saint. Instead, they planned to split into two groups and attack from both sides, because neither dared to guarantee they wouldn't stab the other in the back once a good opportunity appeared.
Under the Dimension Saint's watch, the Saint Temple began breaking apart and sealing the Sinful Lifeforms bit by bit as usual.
They only had to wait for the sealing to reach a critical moment—that would be their best chance for a pincer attack.
No need to worry about whether there are traps or not—this time they had to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys. Even if it was a trap, it was certain that the Sinful Lifeforms would tie up most of their forces. As for the rest, even with the help of traps, there was only a dead end.
At this moment, in the endless void between the cosmic starry sky and the Primordial Dark Sea, the Saint Temple's trap was already set.
Most eternal lives didn't know that the Saint Temple had actually prepared two traps today.
One by one, the eternal lives responsible for drawing hatred attracted their target Sinful Lifeforms from different places into the trap's coverage area at the same time. The eternal lives tasked with sealing the Sinful Lifeforms also unleashed the jointly forged Burning Heaven Star Palace.
This eternal structure, once belonging to the Immortal Gods and Demons, had ultimately come to the Saint Temple with the newly risen eternal lives.
Though the universe was being destroyed by Sinful Lifeforms, the Saint Temple was not just standing by doing nothing.
Those precious extraordinary stars in the universe, the scarce extraordinary resources, and some special treasures only born when a universe is destroyed—all of these were carefully collected by the eternal lives.
The Saint Temple's advantage was its large numbers; its weakness was the huge gap in individual power compared to the Chaos Saints.
Those remaining in the Saint Temple all had their eyes on competing for the new universe. To compete, they had to leverage their advantage and concentrate their strength.
Therefore, forging an eternal holy artifact that could gather everyone's power became a plan. Eventually, the Burning Heaven Star Palace was voted on and chosen in a meeting. All eternal lives contributed the extraordinary stars they collected, combining various extraordinary resources to maximize the Star Palace's enhancement.
The Burning Heaven Star Palace today was still an eternal holy artifact, but most primordial holy relics might not be able to compare.
Because the Star Palace was enormous—countless extraordinary stars sublimated and fused, even killing the Immortal Golden Crow avatar that had barely survived, which belonged to the Immortal Star God. Using the Golden Crow's Source Seed as its core, it granted the Star Palace three special forms.
The first form was the extraordinary structure, with countless divine palaces arranged into an array formation.
In this form, it was not only terrifyingly strong in defense but also possessed formidable sealing power.
The second form was the Eternal Sun, transforming into a perpetual blazing sun that unleashed endless eternal solar flames to burn everything.
The last form was the Three-legged Golden Crow—capable in both offense and defense, but its specialty was actually escape.
If in the future they really couldn't claim the new universe, the Burning Heaven Star Palace would be the only retreat route after fleeing the universe.
Suddenly, in the void, countless extraordinary stars flashed like grains of sand in the Ganges River. The stars fused and recombined into countless flaming divine palaces. All the Sinful Lifeforms attracted here were not being trapped for the first time, but still fell for it repeatedly despite being taught lessons again and again.
As the endless eternal solar flames transformed into chains, they forcibly dragged dozens of Sinful Lifeforms into the flaming divine palaces.
At this moment, most of the Burning Heaven Star Palace's power was tied up by the Sinful Lifeforms. All the eternal lives left in the Saint Temple had to pour their full strength into the Star Palace to maintain the seal.
This was undoubtedly the weakest moment for all the eternal lives of the Saint Temple.
Almost simultaneously, the Dimension Saint and Chaos Saint struck at the same time.
The Chaos Saint opened his mouth and spat out a vortex like a black hole, which kept expanding until it became a swirling chaos vortex that enveloped the Burning Heaven Star Palace. Then countless rays of chaos world-ending divine light shot toward the Star Palace.
These chaos world-ending divine lights didn't lock onto eternal lives, but instead targeted the flaming divine palaces sealing the Sinful Lifeforms.
If the seals were broken, the Saint Temple would have to endure the Sinful Lifeforms' counterattack internally while withstanding the bombardment of chaos world-ending divine light externally—not to mention the Dimension Saint and Ancient Gods waiting for a more suitable moment.
All chaos world-ending divine lights were wielded with indestructible will, so these primordial holy laws possessed immortal properties.
They wouldn't weaken in power after hitting their target.
Not only did their strength remain undiminished, but they also transformed into endless eternal calamity mantises.
The eternal calamity mantis was born with the power of calamity. The chaos world-ending divine light itself had the destructive force to tear through everything. If, after causing damage, it could also bind the enemy with calamities, such a foe would be hard to deal with even for eternal lives.
A full thousand eternal calamity mantises spread destruction everywhere. The eternal lives of the Saint Temple simply couldn't hide.
When the Chaos Saint made his move, it showed the overwhelming gap in strength.
He dared to allow the Saint Temple to exist and personally create nearly a hundred new eternal lives. The fundamental reason was his own power. Though he couldn't destroy the Saint Temple alone in a short time, defeating it bit by bit was only a matter of time.
Faced with the sudden attack by the Chaos Saint, the Saint Temple's first reaction was to defend and counterattack.
But with Sinful Lifeforms and eternal calamity mantises destroying their defenses everywhere, it was difficult. Trying to fight back, they couldn't even find where the Chaos Saint's true body was.
They had no choice but to react move by move—first eliminate the Sinful Lifeforms and eternal calamity mantises before anything else.
The Burning Heaven Star Palace transformed into the Three-legged Golden Crow in the void and began retreating toward the Cosmic Origin Sea. This was a move to force the Chaos Saint to make a choice: if the Chaos Saint didn't stop, the Saint Temple would bring the Sinful Lifeforms into the Cosmic Origin Sea. In that case, the destruction of the old universe would be incomplete, and the new universe would be underdeveloped. The one forced into a dead end would be the Chaos Saint.
However, just as the Burning Heaven Star Palace was retreating, the surrounding dimensional void suddenly began folding infinitely.
The cosmic starry sky seemed to expand. Although the Star Palace didn't shrink, it was pulled by the folding void into a Rubik's Cube held in the palm of the Dimension Saint. The simplest Rubik's Cube has only three layers, but the one in the Dimension Saint's hand had a staggering 129,600 layers.
At this moment, the primordial holy relic, the Dimensional Rubik's Cube, kept rotating and misaligning, while the Burning Heaven Star Palace was dragged into the infinitely folding and twisting dimensional labyrinth.
The primordial holy law's palm universe combined with the Dimensional Rubik's Cube, allowing the Dimension Saint to control the entire Saint Temple with one hand.
The Dimensional Rubik's Cube was very special—it didn't have particularly strong defense or offensive power.
But its internal dimensional labyrinth would endlessly reorganize and cycle with the cube's rotation. Although its defense and attack were weak, even primordial lives trapped inside wouldn't be able to break through the infinitely cycling labyrinth and escape in less than tens of thousands of years.
What was even more terrifying was that even if someone escaped, the Dimension Saint could use the palm universe to send them back inside.
The Dimension Saint didn't like killing. He always believed that death was the most meaningless thing.
Compared to killing enemies outright, he preferred to watch them trapped in the dimensional labyrinth, like a god looking down on his enemies struggling to escape. The Saint Temple could never escape to the Cosmic Origin Sea before him.
The Chaos Saint, approaching the Dimension Saint, looked at the Dimensional Rubik's Cube with some caution.
If he could catch the Dimension Saint off guard just once in their deadly battle, he could kill him.
But the Dimension Saint would never easily give him that chance. Before that chance appeared, although the Dimension Saint couldn't threaten his life directly, he could easily trap him for tens of thousands of years, causing him to lose the best opportunity to seize the new universe.
Of course, the Dimension Saint wouldn't dare to act recklessly, because if he went all out, he could destroy the Dimensional Rubik's Cube in a short time.
But if things truly reached that desperate point, even if the Chaos Saint destroyed the Dimensional Rubik's Cube and killed the Dimension Saint, he himself would face an unforgettable counterattack from the Dimension Saint at the brink of death, and the Ancient Gods and Heavenly Saints wouldn't miss that perfect opportunity.
Even if he used all his cards to kill them, what strength would he have left to control the new universe?
The Chaos Saint's mind was filled with thoughts on how to eliminate the Dimension Saint, while the Dimension Saint was thinking about how to get rid of the Chaos Saint. Neither wanted to die together. So the final blow to kill the Chaos Saint must not be his.
The two old friends, each harboring their own schemes, still joined forces to push the Saint Temple to the brink.
The power displayed by these two primordial lives reincarnated truly startled Rosen.
If they had this power back then, his disguised Heavenly Saint would have long been dead.
But on second thought, they hadn't then elevated their eternal will into indestructible will, so they couldn't unleash such powerful primordial holy laws, nor could the primordial holy relics show such great power.
Rosen was very certain this still wasn't their full strength.
So he prepared to make his move—the Saint Temple couldn't just fall without any value.
The indestructible will locked onto a Sinful Lifeform. At the moment the primordial holy law's personality interpretation method was cast, the Nightfall Parasitic Flower silently planted itself deep in the Sinful Lifeform's memories, then began splitting the Sinful Lifeform's memories to interpret different personalities.
The Sinful Lifeform's destructiveness dropped sharply in an instant, and instead it began frantically self-harming.
Seizing the opportunity, the Burning Heaven Star Palace transferred one by one the crazily self-harming Sinful Lifeforms outside the Star Palace.
Not only did this get rid of internal troubles, it even used the Sinful Lifeforms to destroy the surrounding dimensional labyrinth.
The Burning Heaven Star Palace no longer had to face the Sinful Lifeforms directly and could concentrate its power to fight the eternal calamity mantises transformed from the chaos world-ending divine light.
However, under the Dimension Saint's control of the dimensional labyrinth, he could use the folding and twisting dimensional void to continuously funnel the Sinful Lifeforms outside the Star Palace—making them like an attached sore that couldn't be shaken off.
Though the threat of the Sinful Lifeforms couldn't be completely eliminated, the pressure on the Saint Temple was greatly reduced.
They couldn't escape the dimensional labyrinth in the short term, but the Chaos Saint also found it hard to kill the eternal lives hiding deep inside the Burning Heaven Star Palace. Under the weakening effect of Rosen's personality interpretation method, the previously one-sided battle turned into a long, drawn-out war.
(End of chapter)