Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 527 Raising Gu in the Epoch and the Metamorphosis of the Self
Chapter 526

In the Great Realm of Reincarnation, countless swarms of insects, even the weakest of which are reincarnation beings, traverse the flowing starry sea.

Wherever they go, all matter is contaminated and corrupted by the swarm of insects.

Countless life forms within the universe hadn't even realized what was happening before they were corrupted and degraded by the swarm, losing all self-awareness.

Strangely enough, before life was polluted and corrupted, the swarm of insects would fight to the death as soon as they found something.

However, after being contaminated and corrupted, although the swarm still feeds on weaker life forms, it will prioritize contaminated and corrupted life forms with self-awareness over preying on weaker life forms, even if the food is right in front of it.

It's as if the self-awareness that destroys all life is an instinct etched into the life of the swarm.

Tens of thousands of years passed quickly, and the Primordial Heavenly Kings and the others still had not broken through the passage that connected the world's crystal wall.

However, the last universe in the Great Realm of Reincarnation has been corrupted and polluted by the swarm.

Although these universes have not been destroyed, and even spacetime has not collapsed, they have already triggered the bottom line of spacetime reincarnation.

As the cycle of time and space enveloped the entire realm of reincarnation, everything began to flow backward in time.

While both involve time loops, the time loops on Earth cannot restore self-awareness to life in parallel worlds.

However, the cycle of time and space in the Great Realm of Reincarnation is possible. This does not mean that the power of the Great Realm of Reincarnation is stronger than the power of pollution and corruption. It simply means that the power of pollution and corruption wielded by the insect swarm is far less than the immense power of the vast wasteland polluted and corrupted.

If it weren't for the fact that the Great Realm of Reincarnation had gone through 100,000 reincarnations and had been squeezed out of its capacity by the will of reincarnation along the way.

At its peak, the Great Realm of Reincarnation would likely be able to easily expel the swarm of insects with its immune system.

Even now, the swarm is able to enter only because of the will of reincarnation.

As the cycle of time reverses all universes back to their original state, life within those universes is freed from pollution and corruption. However, the swarm of insects is not expelled from the cycle of reincarnation; instead, it is sent to a new universe that was created out of thin air in the void.

This new universe is very special, enveloped by an extremely powerful force of cause and effect.

The swarm being trapped is the cause, and the inability of the swarm to leave is the effect. No matter how the swarm tries to leave this universe, it is trapped in the new universe by the cycle of cause and effect and cannot escape. Under the threat of the swarm, the Great Realm of Reincarnation activates the third immune system.

Then the second immune system was activated, and a continuous stream of Endless Calamity Beasts invaded the new universe.

The war between the End Beasts and the Zerg Swarm was confined to the small new universe.

This was not the outcome the will of reincarnation wanted to see. Yuanshi Tianwang, Pangu, and Yinglong, having already faced insect swarms that had been transferred to a new universe by the Great Realm of Reincarnation, easily returned to the Great Realm of Reincarnation while protecting the only intact Haotian Shangdi.

Without any pause, Yuanshi Tianwang, Pangu, and Yinglong began to create the world.

Moreover, the materials they used to create the world were all fragments of the world's crystal walls.

After the three worlds were born, the three Primordial Heavenly Kings transformed into all things and merged into the worlds they created. Due to tens of thousands of years of fighting with the insect swarm, their self-awareness had been polluted and corrupted. At this time, their transformation into all things also polluted and corrupted the three worlds.

The only uncorrupted and unpolluted deity, Haotian, began to use his unparalleled power to create countless clones and conquer the universe.

As universes were conquered one by one, the Heavenly Court, which ruled the Great Realm of Reincarnation for only tens of thousands of years, was born.

The Heavenly Expeditionary Force, composed of elite and extraordinary beings from various universes, began its conquest of the three worlds created by the Primordial Heavenly Kings. However, tens of thousands of years later, these three worlds were filled with countless corrupted and polluted beings.

No matter how many Heavenly Expeditionary Forces set foot in it, none of them could survive.

Rosen observed through the world's crystal wall for 100,000 years and roughly understood what the will of reincarnation was doing.

Life adapts to its environment; even in the harshest environments, life gradually adapts.

The swarm's pollution and corruption were so powerful that life in the ordinary universe had no time to adapt before it was corrupted.

Therefore, the three Heavenly Kings sacrificed themselves, using their already corrupted and defiled bodies to transform into all things.

The corrupted life forms born from their corpses are far less powerful than the swarm of insects, and their corrupting abilities are greatly weakened. At this time, the Jade Emperor will send in an endless stream of Heavenly Expeditionary Forces, forcing them to confront and adapt to the corruption.

Those three worlds are the vessels for raising Gu poison, and those Heavenly Expeditionary Forces are the selected Gu worms.

Once life forms capable of adapting to low-level pollution and corruption emerge, these life forms will be sent to the new universe that traps the swarm. If even the pollution and corruption of the swarm can be withstood, then the life forms that the will of reincarnation needs to adapt to pollution and corruption will have begun to emerge.

However, judging from the frequency of deaths among the Heavenly Expeditionary Force, even the success rate of the first stage of raising Gu was infinitely close to zero.

Knowing that the will of reincarnation would not be detrimental to him for the time being, Rosen returned to the Ancient Tree of the Reincarnation Era, which was rooted in a deep parallel plane of Blue Star.

The will of reincarnation did not come in this time, but instead fell into a deep sleep, leaning against the world crystal wall repaired by Nuwa.

An endless stream of cosmic life flowed from His body to the World Crystal Wall. Combined with the World Crystal Wall's self-repairing ability, the insect swarm outside was gradually and completely isolated once again. However, the passage through the World Crystal Wall did not disappear.

Because when the insect swarm dug through the world's crystal wall, it polluted and corrupted the entire surface of the passage.

Therefore, the world's crystal wall recovers very slowly. In addition, most of the power of the Samsara Realm is currently being used to trap the insect swarm in that new universe, which makes the recovery of the world's crystal wall even slower.

Deep within the miraculous star sea, at this very moment, a universe floats suspended.

This universe is isolated by the Miracle Star Sea through a cycle of time and space because the entire universe has been polluted and corrupted.

Rosen stripped away the polluted parallel worlds on the outer layer of Earth and integrated them all into this universe.

In this universe today, tens of millions of reincarnated beings, under the leadership of the Night Lord and the Dark Sun Lord, are studying the pollution and corruption within it. Although the chances of achieving results are not very high, it is still better than doing nothing and lying down to die.

Rosen didn't sit idle either; he began to focus his research on the Eye of Night and the Dark Sun Eye.

If these two eye techniques are indeed products of the research on the corruption process by the Will of Reincarnation, although the Will of Reincarnation is not satisfied with the final effect, they still have some function. Otherwise, the Will of Reincarnation would not have schemed against the Lord of Night and the Lord of Dark Sun.

As research continued, the true nature of pollution and corruption was quickly revealed.

Upon hearing about pollution and decay, the first thought is undoubtedly that such forces are harmful to life.

This statement is correct; otherwise, it wouldn't be called pollution and corruption.

However, the true nature of pollution and corruption is actually evolution. After the great being died, maggots grew on its body and transformed into swarms. The essence of these maggots is actually the cells of the great being. Pollution and corruption caused each cell in its body to evolve into an independent life.

The evolution of life can be divided into slow evolution and mutational evolution.

Slow evolution is the accumulation of minute variations and growth over a long period of time, which is also the most normal and mainstream evolutionary process for life.

Mutational evolution is rapid evolution resulting from intense mutations and growth over a short period of time.

The former relies mainly on the inheritance of life from generation to generation, while the latter relies mainly on drastic changes in the environment and external interference.

The pollution and corruption of the vast wasteland is a kind of mutation and evolution. However, evolution cannot come from nothing, especially when it evolves towards a more powerful direction. It inevitably requires a huge external source of energy to make up for the consumption. When the consumption is insufficient, the mutation and evolution will fail.

The corrupted portion of pollution is essentially a product of failed mutational evolution. This kind of pollution and corruption is unique in two ways: firstly, it can not only cause life forms to mutate and evolve, but it can even cause matter to mutate and evolve; secondly, the nourishment for this mutation and evolution is self-awareness, which is why life forms corrupted by pollution lose their self-awareness.

Knowing the true nature of pollution and corruption is not difficult; the key is how to solve it.

Rosen compressed the undying will of a primordial life form into a single cell, then allowed that cell to become corrupted and decayed. As a result, even with the primordial life form's entire undying will, it was still unable to meet the mutation and evolutionary needs of a single cell.

Is this a bit of an exaggeration, or is it that the mutation and evolutionary ability of pollution and corruption is simply impossible to succeed?
Soon, tens of millions of reincarnations in the Destiny Network came to a new conclusion: the power of pollution and corruption was not pure.

The source of the corrupting and destructive power lies in the unspeakable existence of the vast wasteland.

That mysterious entity destroyed the vast wasteland, so its power is unimaginable.

The swarm of insects born from the corpse of the great being is merely a product of the failed mutation and evolution after the great being was corrupted by the mysterious being. During the great being's cellular mutation and evolution, the corrupting and destructive forces within it were already impure.

Even within this corrupting force, there may be traces of the genes of a great being.

The reincarnation will nurtures the Gu, probably not just hoping that life can adapt to pollution and corruption, but also thinking about purifying the power of pollution and corruption, because only the most original power is the purest and most powerful, and most likely to guide the mutation and evolution of life cells onto the right track.

Although the schemes of the will of reincarnation have been analyzed, the research on pollution and corruption has come to an end.

One hundred thousand cycles of reincarnation, one hundred thousand cycles of time and space, those reincarnated beings born from the Great Realm of Reincarnation from beginning to end are the reincarnated people of today. However, the memories of even more distant reincarnation eras could not be preserved because they lacked an undying will.

Therefore, those who once followed the will of reincarnation to study pollution and corruption are now the chosen ones of reincarnation.

There has been no breakthrough progress even after 100,000 cycles of reincarnation, so it is naturally impossible to achieve it overnight now.

After a cycle of three hundred billion years, the Heavenly Expeditionary Force's suicidal mission finally came to an end.

During this period, countless internal conflicts broke out within the Heavenly Court, all of which were suppressed by the Jade Emperor.

As the universe is destroyed and spacetime collapses, the cycle of time and space is activated, ushering in a new era of reincarnation.

Apart from the Jade Emperor and the four Gu-raising sites, everything in the entire Samsara Realm starts anew.

The Jade Emperor once again conquered the Samsara Realm and established the Heavenly Court, and once again sent the Heavenly Court's expeditionary force to the Gu-breeding ground to their deaths.

Then, after another three hundred billion years of fruitless efforts, the Jade Emperor began his conquest in the third cycle of reincarnation.

At first, Rosen would occasionally check on the situation in the Heavenly Court of the Samsara Realm, but later he gradually became numb to it.

Only then did he truly realize that although he had transcended reincarnation, his mindset was still inferior to that of ordinary reincarnated beings.

In just a few cycles of reincarnation, he has already begun to slack off.

He has even stopped paying much attention to research on pollution and corruption, spending his days taking Elise and Alicia sightseeing.

Once he grew tired of the landscapes, and even ordered some reincarnated beings skilled in art to build magnificent cosmic wonders, his current actions resembled those of the wise and virtuous monarchs in the early years of Earth's history, as he began to enter a period of absurdity and folly in his later years.

Rosen knew this was wrong, but he just didn't want to change; he just wanted to indulge himself and enjoy himself.

Why bother studying pollution and corruption? He didn't want to end up like the Will of Reincarnation, who wasted 100,000 reincarnation eras and nearly went mad.

In the 100,000 cycles of reincarnation, how many years did the will of reincarnation live happily and enjoy life to the fullest?

He can enjoy dozens or hundreds of reincarnation eras now, and even if he dies with the Great Reincarnation Realm in the end, it won't be a loss.

He might not even need that time before he gets tired of living and doesn't want to live anymore.

Lawson's path of lying down and enjoying life continued for trillions of years, spanning several epochs.

On this day, as usual, Rosen enjoyed the unique flying song and dance from a certain race in a certain universe.

However, as he looked at it, he felt an emptiness inside.

Rosen knew what was wrong with him. Over several lifetimes, he had indulged in every kind of pleasure he could imagine, and now it was difficult for him to find anything new that could excite him.

Simply put, he got tired and bored of playing, and suddenly felt that work was more important than pleasure.

This is understandable; the Lords of Night have been studying this diligently for several lifetimes.

They never considered trying to persuade him, because they had had similar experiences. It was because they had experienced all kinds of enjoyment and because the feeling of excitement was becoming less and less that they pursued transcendence and were willing to pay any price for it.

Through several cycles of reincarnation, Rosen's true strength has not changed much.

After merging three thousand transcendent resources, it becomes impossible to merge any more and go further.

The resources for transcendence accumulated over the years have allowed the five Death Lords to transcend individually.

In addition, all of his clones have also transcended the cycle of reincarnation.

If it weren't for the will of reincarnation stopping him, he would have even wanted to raise his pets to transcend reincarnation.

But that won't work, because resources beyond our control cannot be created out of thin air.

The Ancient Tree of the Cycle of Reincarnation and Blue Star, two transcendent worlds, are essentially still parasites of the Great Realm of Reincarnation.

All resources generated internally are plundered from the Great Realm of Reincarnation.

The Will of Reincarnation has only cultivated seven beings who have transcended reincarnation across 100,000 reincarnation eras, largely because it does not want to excessively exploit the Great Realm of Reincarnation.

With a thought, Rosen left Blue Star and appeared in the World Crystal Wall Channel, instantly awakening the will of reincarnation that had been dormant for several reincarnation eras.

"It seems you have undergone your first transformation of self-awareness."

The Will of Reincarnation stated with absolute certainty.

Does it matter?

Rosen asked tentatively.

"Of course it's important."

The Will of Reincarnation solemnly said, "There is a saying in human society on Blue Star: 'A young person's mind is not settled.' You have now truly passed through your adolescence. Your self is now stable and will no longer be easily changed by external interference."

I hope that starting from the next cycle of reincarnation, you will replace the Jade Emperor and establish the Heavenly Court to rule the Great Realm of Reincarnation.

Rosen did not refuse, because he knew it would be in his best interest.

The Emperor's Will has only gathered the undying will of all reincarnated beings, but this does not mean that the Emperor's Will has reached its limit. The Emperor's Will can also accommodate the wills of more than a billion universes in the Great Realm of Reincarnation, thus making the Emperor's Will even more powerful.

(End of this chapter)