On the Doomsday Ark, Rosen integrated the Miracle Star Sea into the Ark, further strengthening its power.
Strengthening was necessary because the universe had already begun collapsing, starting from the First Star Ring.
Previously, when the evil beings destroyed the universe, it was only the cosmic starry sky and the Origin Dark Sea that collapsed—the universe's true spacetime framework remained intact. But this time, even the most fundamental spacetime framework was collapsing. The terrifying spacetime gravity kept tearing at the Doomsday Ark.
At this moment, the destructive shockwave formed by the destruction of the Heart of the Universe ironically became the driving force for the Doomsday Ark's escape.
Still, it wasn't safe enough yet—the earlier they crossed the cosmic barrier, the safer they would be.
While handling the corpses of the evil beings, Rosen simultaneously infused the refined transcendent materials into the Doomsday Ark.
As the completion of the Doomsday Ark increased, its cruising speed also accelerated.
Rosen stood at the stern, watching the collapsing spacetime and the opposing destructive shockwaves with growing alarm.
He had originally thought his strength was already immense—perhaps not yet matching a true primordial lifeform, but close enough compared to the primordial Moon he remembered from the Lunar Holy God's memories. Yet now it seemed he was still far from a truly powerful primordial being.
Rosen's gaze focused, locking onto two figures appearing within the destructive shockwave.
The Chaos Holy God and the Dimension Holy God—both coincidentally pursuing him.
Choosing the same path, the three sharing the damage from the destructive shockwave was definitely easier than one person bearing it alone.
Moreover, this crossing of the cosmic barrier would also allow them to somewhat test each other's strength.
Rosen's gaze fixed on the Chaos Holy God. From the root of his brow, the Source Heavenly Eye instantly released the Sacred Radiance of Mind.
The gray light penetrated spacetime, locking onto the Chaos Holy God. Sensing danger, the Chaos Holy God immediately released the primordial sacred artifact Chaos Return to Void. The black hole–like Chaos Return to Void world immediately locked onto the Mind Radiance, preparing to absorb it.
The Chaos Holy God was not one to take a beating without fighting back, especially when actively provoked by a former insignificant ant like Rosen.
The moment Chaos Return to Void absorbed the Mind Radiance, it emitted a ray of Chaos World-Ending Divine Light.
This was a focused burst of Chaos World-Ending Divine Light, inherently possessing incredibly powerful destructive force. Moreover, the universe's destruction had caused destructive power to be everywhere. The Chaos World-Ending Divine Light was further amplified by this destructive energy, making it even more terrifying.
At Rosen's mental command, the cycle of spacetime reincarnation unfolded. The spacetime reincarnation imbued with the Immortal Will could cycle endlessly.
Both the Chaos World-Ending Divine Light and the spacetime reincarnation possessed the Immortal trait, so they tangled in the void with neither able to overcome the other.
Both sides had an Immortal Will of one thousand points, and the strength of offense and defense came down to primordial sacred artifacts and primordial sacred laws.
Rosen did not lack primordial sacred artifacts—the Miracle Star Sea was enough to amplify his spacetime reincarnation.
He also did not lack primordial sacred laws—spacetime reincarnation itself was naturally one of the top primordial sacred laws capable of carrying the Immortal Will.
No matter how the Chaos World-Ending Divine Light changed in the void—whether into weapons or strange beasts—it could not break through the blockade of the spacetime reincarnation. The two kept advancing farther apart, until finally both withdrew their Immortal Wills and reintegrated them into their primordial sacred laws.
Without their Immortal Wills, the two primordial sacred laws clashed again—ultimately the Chaos World-Ending Divine Light defeated the spacetime reincarnation.
Rosen was somewhat dissatisfied that his spacetime reincarnation had fallen short.
The difference lay in the environment; the universe's destruction gave a tremendous boost to the Chaos World-Ending Divine Light.
If they were outside the universe, his spacetime reincarnation definitely would not lose to it.
Rosen wanted to continue probing but found the Dimension Holy God had already taken the initiative to test him.
The Dimension Holy God's Dimensional Cube directly tore through spacetime and appeared before the Doomsday Ark. The primordial sacred law Universe in the Palm received a reinforced amplification from the Dimensional Cube, instantly turning the spacetime of hundreds of light-years around into a palm-sized universe that enveloped the Doomsday Ark.
Facing the universe in the palm, Rosen instantly deployed the primordial sacred law Creator's Domain and the Creator's Will.
The Creator's Domain actively merged compatibly with the universe in the palm. His Immortal Will immediately merged into it, attempting to become the universe will of the palm universe. However, the Dimension Holy God's Immortal Will had also already merged into the palm universe, and both Immortal Wills immediately began contending for control.
Rosen's Creator's Will was the newcomer and naturally could not win against the Dimension Holy God's Immortal Will.
But causing even a certain amount of interference was already enough. In just a fleeting moment of interference, a flaw appeared in the tightly sealed spacetime dimensional lockdown of the Dimensional Cube. The Doomsday Ark rushed through this flaw at high speed and, in the blink of an eye, crossed hundreds of light-years, escaping the coverage of the palm universe.
Although it temporarily escaped, the Dimension Holy God soon expelled the Creator's Will.
The Dimensional Cube tore spacetime again and, together with the palm universe, blocked the Doomsday Ark once more.
It's not about how many methods or how experienced you are—what matters is practicality.
The Dimension Holy God's strongest weapon was the palm universe. Its Immortal Will allowed it to unleash the palm universe without limits or consumption. Having an infinitely rechargeable strongest method meant there was no need to use those primordial sacred laws far weaker than the palm universe.
The collision between the Creator's Will and the primordial universe allowed the Doomsday Ark to escape the cage time and again.
But as time passed, the interference effect of the Creator's Will grew weaker.
At the same time as the palm universe intercepted in front, the Chaos Holy God's Chaos World-Ending Divine Light pursued from behind.
In theory, with the Doomsday Ark being caught in a pincer attack like this, its speed should slow down until it was trapped inside the Dimensional Cube.
But in reality, the Doomsday Ark's speed kept increasing.
Because the Doomsday Ark continuously absorbed the transcendent materials refined from the corpses of the evil beings, it evolved and improved from its original 10% completion. Its speed gradually surpassed that of the palm universe, which started to fall behind.
Purely relying on speed, the Doomsday Ark's cruising velocity far exceeded the spreading speed of the Dimension Holy God's Immortal Will.
The only way for the palm universe to appear in front of the Doomsday Ark was to cross spacetime and take shortcuts to intercept it.
But the closer to the outer edge of the cosmic barrier, the more stable the time and space structure became, and the harder it was to distort.
When the Dimensional Cube could no longer cross spacetime and take shortcuts, the Dimension Holy God could no longer intercept the Doomsday Ark.
Moreover, if it exerted its primordial sacred laws with full strength, it would certainly be unable to travel at full speed.
The first half of the journey crossing the cosmic barrier was manageable—it could warp spacetime and take shortcuts to speed up. But once the latter half reached the point where time and space became difficult to distort and fold, continuing to fully exert primordial sacred laws while traveling at full speed was impossible. The Doomsday Ark would simply leave it far behind.
Decades passed. Rosen hadn't seen the Chaos Holy God or the Dimension Holy God for many years.
A tiny margin of error could cause a huge deviation over such a long journey spanning hundreds of light-years per second for decades. Unless they relentlessly pursued, even a slight difference could cause them to drift farther apart until they no longer sensed each other.
One day, the Doomsday Ark finally crossed the last cosmic barrier.
Rosen saw once again the endless cosmic debris scattered across deep space, and all his long-forgotten memories returned at this moment.
He stood on the bow deck, watching the receding universe, and immediately piloted the Doomsday Ark to chase after it.
Then, he stuck close to the cosmic barrier, relentlessly pursuing and waiting for the birth of a new universe.
After several days of his pursuit, the Dimension Holy God also crossed the cosmic barrier, chasing the universe from a distance.
A few days later, the Chaos Holy God was the last to leave the cosmic barrier.
On the surface, the Doomsday Ark was the fastest and the Chaos Holy God the slowest.
But Rosen did not become careless because leaving first did not necessarily mean being the fastest. Crossing the cosmic barrier meant chasing the universe, whereas lingering near the cosmic barrier meant no need to chase. Perhaps the Chaos Holy God was deliberately showing weakness as a ruse.
"No matter if it's a bluff or not, now it's a fight of methods."
Rosen stood at the stern, sneering.
He was the first to leave the cosmic barrier and the first to chase the universe in endless deep space.
So relatively, the Chaos Holy God and Dimension Holy God were behind him at this stage.
The Doomsday Ark rapidly transformed, turning the undying energy cannon originally pointed at the bow around to face the stern.
Infinite vast energy, compressed under the primordial sacred law Immortal Judgment, was injected into the undying energy cannon for a second compression. This continued until the energy was compressed to the extreme, with excess energy overflowing at the cannon's muzzle forming scattered energy tides. Only then was the undying energy cannon finally fired.
Rosen chose to inject energy from the black hole's origin—energy derived from the black hole source species transformation.
The terrifying gravity-laden energy projectile locked onto the Dimension Holy God and was launched.
In response to the attack, one pair of wings behind the Dimension Holy God flashed through the void, cutting the energy projectile apart.
Pure energy projectiles without law attributes don't require primordial sacred laws; even a casual strike can easily tear them apart.
The shattered energy projectile formed countless black holes, causing minor interference to the Dimension Holy God.
The Dimension Holy God merely expanded its domain and easily resisted all the damage.
Seeing how ineffective the undying energy cannon was, Rosen was not surprised but rather satisfied.
Because energy was abundant—no matter how small the interference was each time, after tens, hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of times, accumulated over the years, the Dimension Holy God would only fall farther and farther behind the Doomsday Ark. There were no spacetime laws in deep space to let it catch up by cornering.
The undying energy cannon began frantically firing energy projectiles, continuously attacking and interfering with the Chaos Holy God and the Dimension Holy God.
They also tried to counterattack, but since they were behind, their ranged primordial sacred laws would have to move faster than the Doomsday Ark to hit it; otherwise, any counterattack would miss.
Instead, the Doomsday Ark used the recoil force from the Immortal Energy Cannon; each shot generated a certain amount of acceleration.
In this way, the Doomsday Ark grew faster and faster, while the Chaos Holy God and the Dimensional Holy God grew slower and slower.
If it weren't for the universe's constant speed of movement, Rosen was confident he could have left them so far behind they would never be seen again.
Year after year passed, time flowed relentlessly, and the universe drifting through the endless deep space gradually began to change.
The original universe was nothing but movement—just moving around. The cosmic barrier isolated all interaction between inside and outside, making it a closed loop internally.
The gradually increasing total amount of matter in the universe was at first thought by Rosen to be drawn from the outside, much like how his root microcosm drew energy from the cosmic origin sea. But after leaving the universe, he realized that the universe did not draw matter from the outside.
Perhaps the endless deep space also contained something like a cosmic origin sea, capable of directly transmitting energy to the universe.
This had been Rosen's previous assumption, but now his thinking had completely changed.
Because on the surface of the universe, layers upon layers of energy matter began to appear.
Rosen took a look and saw clear traces of Immortal Will, remnants left by primordial life, fragments of the primordial universe, destructive energy storms, and all kinds of miscellaneous debris being ejected by the cosmic barrier.
It gave the impression that the universe was dumping trash, discarding everything it couldn't digest.
Rosen even sensed the inter-universe space and the cosmic seed. Without hesitation, he piloted the Doomsday Ark, pushing through the destructive storms toward the inter-universe space.
At the moment they brushed past each other, the miraculous star sea seemed like a net, enclosing the inter-universe space.
Rosen, who was always watching the Chaos Holy God and Dimensional Holy God, immediately felt that they were panicking.
They began to forcibly accelerate for a short burst, pushing to close the distance to the Doomsday Ark quickly. Obviously, the inter-universe space was very important to them, and they had never expected to fall behind in this race.
Rosen injected the Immortal Seed into the inter-universe space, attempting to use it to gain deeper control over this "room."
He had expected this to be difficult, but surprisingly it went smoothly.
However, he had only refined about seventy percent; refining even a little more was difficult.
It was clear the smooth refining was due to the fact that, with the one he just captured, he now possessed seven cosmic seeds.
Although not complete control, it was enough for Rosen to use the Root Divine Eye to see through the true nature of the inter-universe space.
The universe hadn't just undergone destruction and rebirth once, but twice counting this time.
The previous destruction and rebirth resulted in the primordial universe transforming into the starry sky universe.
But this time's rebirth wasn't a complete or thorough rebirth.
The reason was simple: the rebirth at that time was controlled by the Detached Ones—they controlled the universe's destruction and even manipulated its new birth, shaping the new universe into the starry sky universe according to their will.
Because of too much interference, it caused the strongest resistance from the Heart of the Universe.
So that rebirth was incomplete; the newborn Heart of the Universe inherited the primordial universe's hostility toward the Detached Ones, meaning they couldn't fully control the new universe. The incompletely reborn universe was also unsatisfactory to them.
The building material for the Heart of the Universe was the remnants of the primordial universe's Heart of the Universe.
That's why it could fuse with the starry sky universe's Heart of the Universe and steal some of its power to build the cosmic seed.
Now the starry sky universe was reborn again. Although there was still interference from the Detached Ones, this time the interference was meant to help the universe be reborn better—not to sabotage it mid-process and cause flaws.
Without destructive interference, the starry sky universe's Heart of the Universe could expel all the debris.
Only then could the newborn universe undergo a perfect and flawless nirvana rebirth.
But the Detached Ones helping the starry sky universe rebirth perfectly didn't mean they gave up controlling the reborn new universe.
The inter-universe space was their means of controlling the new universe.
Its materials were the remnants of the primordial universe's Heart of the Universe, fused later with cosmic seeds separated from the starry sky universe's Heart of the Universe—meaning the inter-universe space contained the power of two generations of Hearts of the Universe. It was effectively the mother and grandmother of the third generation Heart of the Universe.
With this connection, the third-generation new universe naturally had full affinity with the inter-universe space.
As long as the inter-universe space was completely refined, controlling the third-generation new universe would become much easier.
Rosen tried to forcibly refine the inter-universe space while steering the Doomsday Ark to keep capturing the valuable treasures he sensed.
After the inter-universe space was ejected by the cosmic barrier, the memory world was also cast out, along with primordial universe remnants forming the Nightfall Society. He was almost certain these two things would also help control the new universe.
However, before Rosen could pilot the Doomsday Ark to capture them, the Chaos Holy God and Dimensional Holy God began accelerating non-stop.
They obviously used their trump card techniques, instantly boosting their speeds far beyond the Doomsday Ark's.
If such techniques could be used casually, they wouldn't have fallen behind the Doomsday Ark all these years and lost the inter-universe space.
At this point, forcibly using these techniques, Rosen could clearly feel they were much weaker.
The Dimensional Holy God got a head start and snatched the memory world, while the Chaos Holy God took the primordial universe remnants. Then, they both turned back in front, preparing to block and trap the Heavenly Holy God to seize back the most important inter-universe space.
(End of chapter)