chapter 150: The Kingdom of Xinhuo and the Xinhuo Painter   Chapter 149

  [The fire will eventually go out, only the embers can reignite the fire...]

  Rosen recited the secret code silently, and disappeared without a sound the moment he finished the last word.

  When he came to his senses, he was already in the main hall of a half-collapsed temple.

  Rosen looked towards the location of the statue, where there was a statue with its head chopped off. And looking at the cracks all over the surface of the statue, it seemed that the statue would shatter if touched.

  Nearly half of the temple collapsed, and Rosen could see the colorful rays of light in the sky through the hole above his head.

  Rosen instantly escaped into the void gallery and controlled his self-portrait clone to walk to the feet of the statue.

  Here was placed a box that was clearly an extraordinary artifact, and it even had the Howard family crest on it.

  Carefully opening the box, Rosen saw a notebook and a pen inside.

  Pick up the book and open it carefully. The first page is the message left by the ancestor of the Rosen family regarding this spiritual realm.

  The specific origin of this world is unclear, but what is certain is that this world is burying a true God and a civilization. The Howard family is the last survivor of this civilization, and also the last guardian and the last ember of this civilization.

  All family bloodlines that have reached the limit of Sequence 7 will be unable to resist the attraction of this spiritual realm.

  Either light the flame in this world or die in this world.

  How to ignite the flame? The diary did not mention at the beginning that the unknown ancestor of the Howard family should have died here.

  Rosen continued to look forward, and every generation of the Howard family who grew to Sequence 7 transcendents eventually died here.

  Some of the words looked excited, some were filled with fear, and some contained curses.

  Then there are those who must have left the temple to explore and returned to the temple alive, so they left behind some discoveries about this world.

  However, these discoveries seem to be somewhat contradictory, and the discoveries of predecessors and later generations sometimes conflict with each other.

  There are two possibilities: the world is not static, or some discoveries are wrong.

  This means that if you take these findings as the truth, you may end up hurting yourself.

  Therefore, although there are still many discoveries in the diary later, the people who wrote the diary reminded that these discoveries can only be used as a reference.

  The more Rosen flipped through the pages, the more shocked he became, because this finger-thick notebook actually contained at least tens of thousands of pages.

  On average, each person wrote ten pages, which means that at least a thousand members of the Howard family wrote diaries.

  The time difference between the first person who wrote the diary and the last person who wrote the diary is at least 50,000 years.

  How could a small Howard family have existed for at least 50,000 years?

  This was incredible, because the oldest family recognized by the human race only existed for 30,000 years.

  It took Rosen two days to read to the end, where he came across the diary written by the fifth Lord Howard.

  This person had actually come in before, and got out alive?

  But how he got out was not recorded in the diary, so the place where he went out should not be the temple, because he did not return to the temple before leaving this world, so the diary ended here, and he was murdered outside in the end.

  Rosen turned to the last few pages, which were the last words left by little Rosen's parents.

  They knew that all the ancestors of Sequence 7 had died here, and that there was no hope for the two Sequence 9s to get out alive, so they kept repenting and apologizing in their diaries, constantly expressing their guilt and love for little Rosen.

  Rosen looked at the blank last page and picked up a pencil-like writing tool from the box.

  No matter how I inspected it, it didn't seem to be anything special.

  But it is easy to imagine that this pen, which can be used to write for tens of thousands of years, is definitely not an ordinary thing.

  Rosen opened the mysterious study and sent the diary and pencil to the main god's computer.

  Now with the Lord God Network, the Lord God computer's identification capabilities are many times stronger than before.

  As long as there is any hidden information in these two things, as long as the Lord God's network has relevant clues, the Lord God's computer will definitely be able to identify the information that he cannot find. Sure enough, after a while, the Lord God's computer gained something.

  This notebook is actually similar to the script of destiny, and the pencil is similar to the pen of destiny.

  Combining the two, as long as you write any word in the diary, your own destiny will be completely inseparable from this notebook. Even if you don't write a single word, because the diaries written by more than a thousand ancestors will naturally be connected to the fate of the diary.

  And after the death of all those who wrote in the diary, the power of the diary will become stronger.

  Now there is only one blank page left in the diary, and whatever is written on this last page will come true.

  So if the Howard family is really the ashes of a certain civilization, then the last page of this diary may be the fire. The Howard family members who died in this spiritual realm in the past generations are actually the firewood that ignites the last page of the fire.

  And it just so happens that on this last page, there is only one descendant of the Howard family left.

  It was at this time that Rosen traveled to this era.

  And normally, only members of the Howard family can enter this spiritual realm.

  Little Rosen's father was fine, but why did his mother come in together?

  Rosen suddenly had a feeling that this last page of the diary had been waiting for him from the beginning to the end.

  Although he had obtained the key item of this spiritual realm, Rosen didn't know how to light the firewood or what changes would occur after the firewood was lit, so he decided to continue looking for clues for the sake of caution.

  Rosen turned the entire temple upside down, but found nothing of value.

  After Rosen walked out of the temple, all he saw was a gray land with nothing on it except footprints.

  It was as if the whole world was burned to ashes, and thick ashes covered the entire world. The feeling these ashes gave him was exactly the same as the ashes that covered the human world.

  The footprints of the Howard family's ancestors who left the temple and explored the surrounding areas have remained unchanged to this day.

  This also means that there is not even any air flowing in this world.

  Only then did Rosen suddenly realize that he had never breathed since he came into this world.

  Although thanks to his strong physique, he can be fine even if he doesn't breathe for ten days or half a month.

  However, actively holding your breath and not breathing are two different things from instinctively forgetting to breathe and not needing to breathe.

  Rosen quickly locked onto the footprints of Rosen's parents among the complex footprints outside the temple using the hunter's trace tracking method.

  Anyway, I don't know which direction is right, so I might as well see if I can collect the bodies of little Rosen's parents.

  If nothing unexpected happens, it might be his descendant.

  Rosen continued to move forward along the footprints, occasionally seeing traces of two people stopping to rest along the way.

  The temple is located in a valley where the river has dried up.

  Little Rosen's parents chose to go downstream along the river. A few hours later, after passing through several winding canyons, Rosen saw large areas of building wreckage left along the river ahead. These building wreckages appeared to have been burned by a fire.

  Except for a very few building stones that survived, everything else that could be burned was reduced to ashes.

  We stayed here for a day, and there were traces of ashes being dug and searched everywhere.

  In the end, nothing should be found, and the footprints continue to flow downstream.

  Rosen quickened his pace, following the footprints as he passed the ruins of towns built along the coast.

  We finally stopped two days later and saw two human-shaped piles of ashes lying by the river.

  Little Rosen's parents fell here, and it seemed that they suddenly encountered something and turned into ashes.

  Rosen squatted down and examined it carefully. As far as he knew, no one in the diary had written about discovering human-shaped ashes left behind by their predecessors. After leaving the temple, everyone encountered various strange phenomena and disappeared without a trace.

  Moreover, the place where little Rosen's parents died was less than three thousand miles away from the temple.

  According to the records in the diary, all generations of Howard family members, those who left the temple alive and came back to stay as recruits, never left the temple within 3,000 miles. This range is considered a relatively safe zone in this world.

  Of course, this safety zone will gradually shrink, and the shrinkage will be random and irregular.

  This place is only a few hundred miles away from the temple. Even if we walk slowly, the safe zone should not shrink.

  Rosen took out two urns and prepared to collect the bodies of Rosen's parents.

  However, as he swept layer after layer of ashes into the urn, he unexpectedly discovered that there was something else in the ashes left by little Rosen's parents. They were two thumb-sized crystal beads with flames burning inside.

  Rosen did not dare to use spiritual exploration, so he sent it to the mysterious study to let the Lord God's computer identify the information.

  "This is actually a fragment of the godhead and the legacy of civilization?"

  Rosen looked at the appraisal results of the Lord God's computer in disbelief.

  Demigods transform spirituality into divinity. The symbol of Sequence 0 is to ignite the divine fire, condense the divine nature, and establish a kingdom of God to become a god.

  As for going a step further from a deity to an immortal true god, the prerequisite is to master the torch of civilization.

  Gods can be sealed and killed easily.

  However, the only way to kill a true god is to extinguish the flame of civilization that the true god holds.

  All civilizations are related to the true God, who truly exists in legends and is the backdrop that supports the existence of each civilization in the world.

  How could little Rosen's parents have the ability to carry the fragments of the godhead and a little bit of civilization with them?

  Rosen thought to himself that the fifth Lord Howard might have done something stupid.

  Encrypt the family secrets and write them into the novel.

  It is true that ordinary sequences cannot see the hidden secrets, but higher-level demigod novelists, high-sequences who master means such as fate prediction and mind reading, and even nearly omnipotent gods and nearly omniscient and omnipotent true gods.

  For those beings, it shouldn't be difficult to see through the secrets hidden in the novel.

  So starting from the fifth generation Lord Howard, the entire Howard family may have been controlled as pawns.  

  Then after years of preparation, it was Rosen's parents' generation that began to take action.

  On the surface, Rosen's parents were involved in this spiritual realm accidentally, but in fact, everything they encountered was like chess pieces on a chessboard, at the mercy of others. They didn't even know until their death that they had fragments of divinity and the legacy of civilization hidden in their bodies.

  However, the plan of the mastermind behind the scenes must have failed in the end.

  As for why little Rosen was able to grow up safely, Rosen did not realize that someone was secretly influencing and controlling him.

  It is very likely that the mastermind behind the scenes has given up spying on this spiritual realm, or something unexpected happened and he couldn't take care of it, so little Rosen was able to grow up healthily, so he traveled through time and replaced little Rosen without causing any trouble.

  No matter what the truth is, this world contains secrets that are enough to make the true God excited.

  In the blink of an eye, several months passed, and Rosen was riding his mechanical mount to return to the temple ruins.

  Over the past few months, he was very careful at first and tried his best not to violate the various taboos mentioned in the diary.

  However, after several months, even though he rode his mechanical mount millions of miles away from the temple, he could still see nothing but a world covered in ashes. What was even more incredible was that he did not encounter any strange events.

  This made Rosen more and more courageous. He even sent gray rats to explore underground and sent mechanical mounts to the sky to contact the colorful rays of light.

  As a result, even the soil underground turned into ashes, and the colorful rays of light in the sky could only be seen but not touched.

  Rosen wandered around like a headless fly for several months, and had no choice but to return to the temple.

  A few hours later, Rosen remained silent as he looked at the temple that had turned into ashes.

  Even though half of the temple collapsed, many members of the Howard family were driven mad and attacked the temple. However, none of them could cause any damage to the temple. Even the statue covered with cracks was indestructible.

  However, such a temple turned into ashes without anyone knowing when?

  Rosen took out a diary and a pencil. Did he really want to write something on it?

  Rosen thought about it and tried to write down the secret words to enter this spiritual realm.

  [The fire will eventually go out, only the embers can reignite the fire...]

  The moment the last stroke was made, the diary and pencil in Rosen's hand instantly disappeared and merged into his spirituality.

  Finally, the diary is integrated into the spiritual canvas, the pencil is integrated into the magic brush, and the extraordinary essence of the painter sequence.

  Finally, he was in the divine territory and a castle protected by the spiritual sequence of ancient trees. A tiny fire was ignited out of thin air on it. At the same time, a colorful light appeared in the ashes of the temple, forming a bonfire out of thin air.

  Within a radius of 34 meters around the fire, all the ashes turned into gray firewood beside the fire.

  Rosen did not feel any harm. After entering the mysterious study, he checked his own changes through the main god's computer.

  Sure enough, the mental canvas and the magic brush changed, and even the sequence of painters changed.

  First is the Mind Canvas, which now has an additional miracle feature.

  [Miracle Features: Ash Curtain - The mind canvas can be transformed into an ash curtain, reflecting the afterglow of the ashes of civilization]

  Then there is the magic pen, which also has an additional miraculous property.

  [Miracle Features: The flame will be passed on forever - can use the remaining light from the ashes to rekindle the flame of civilization]

  Finally, Rosen looked at the extraordinary source of the painter in the magic pen. He unexpectedly turned from a painter into an unheard-of torch painter.

  After becoming a flame painter, his original extraordinary source is splitting. Part of it continues to remain inside the magic pen, and the other part will soon split out and merge into the canvas of the mind to truly activate the miraculous property of the Ash Curtain.

  Rosen waited for a week before the extraordinary source essence was completely split into two.

  The moment the Ash Curtain was activated, Rosen understood what this ability was all about.

  As we all know, the destruction of life and civilization is not the end.

  Because whether it is life or civilization, it will leave traces of its existence in the spiritual world after death.

  Especially in the depths of the spiritual world, many of the historical traces left by past history continue to exist in the world, constantly growing stronger and trying to transcend the spiritual world and reappear in reality.

  But what if those civilizations that left historical traces deep in the spiritual world had even their historical traces destroyed?

  The answer is the complete extinguishing of the flame of civilization, and the answer is that everything that has ever existed will be burned to ashes before the flame of civilization is extinguished.

  The spiritual realm that Rosen is in now is a spiritual realm formed by the historical traces that turned to ashes in the depths of the spiritual world.

  This is a place deeper than the depths of the spiritual world. It is the final resting place of civilization where even true gods find it difficult to set foot.

  The ash curtain can reflect the afterglow of the ashes of civilization.

  What is afterglow? The afterglow here refers to the last glimmer of light before the flame of civilization is extinguished.

  For example, if a city is burned to ashes by the backlash of civilization, the Ash Curtain can use the miracle treasure firewood pile to burn firewood to reflect the scene of the city before it was burned. The higher the level of the mind canvas, the earlier the time of the city that the Ash Curtain can reflect.

  As for the eternal torch of the magic pen, it can make this city that was burned out by the flames come alive again on the canvas of the mind.

  Therefore, the sequence of the Flame Painter can use the ashes to ignite the flame, allowing the historical traces that have completely disappeared to reappear in the depths of the spiritual world. This is a terrifying power beyond Rosen's cognition, and it possesses incredible power that even true gods can hardly achieve.

  However, everything has its pros and cons, and the sequence of Xinhuo painters has transcended the sequence of painters in human civilization.

  Therefore, if you want to improve the sequence level of the painter sequence, you can no longer rely on the ancient trees of the artist sequence belonging to human civilization.

  If he wants to upgrade the Flame Painter sequence to LV6, the flame within his spirit needs to devour the flames of other civilizations.

  Rosen sighed helplessly and went forward to pick up the fire and firewood formed by the ashes of the temple.

  This pile of firewood is a special miraculous treasure.

  Capable of consuming divinity, transforming the embers of civilization into fuel for the fire.

  Rosen used his spiritual power to ignite the fire, and the firewood pile was instantly ignited.

  He threw firewood transformed from embers within a radius of 34 meters into the fire, and the originally weak flames of the firewood pile suddenly exploded.

  Rosen activated the Mind Canvas, transforming it into a curtain of ash that was projected into the firelight.

  He immediately saw that the temple, which was about 34 meters in radius, was the last scene before the flame of civilization burned out.

  Even through the flames, he could sense the terrifying presence of each one.

  The weakest of these were demigods, hundreds of them kneeling densely in front of the statue and praying.

  Rosen also saw the statue whose head was not chopped off. He was stunned when he saw the face of the statue.

  Because this statue looks exactly like him.

  Rosen couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Did he really travel through time while drawing comics for his boss in the study?

  Or did a lot of things happen to him after that?

  He even became a true god and built a civilization of his own with his own hands.

  However, this civilization was eventually completely destroyed, and he lost this part of his memory. He fell into sleep with the mysterious study and the main god computer, and only woke up in this era.

  From the beginning to the end, perhaps it was he who bound this spiritual realm to the Howard family.

  He was originally the master of this spiritual realm, so he did not encounter any danger after coming to this spiritual realm, so the temple became a miraculous treasure firewood pile, so he inexplicably became a firewood painter.

  But if he did all this, why doesn't he have any related memory or feeling at all?

  Rosen continued to look through the curtain of ashes, and he saw that the people in the temple who were bowing to the statue were becoming very frightened.

  Next he saw a flash of golden light, and all the people in the temple, including the statues, were beheaded. Then, one terrified head after another flew out of the temple, and the headless bodies disappeared without a trace.

  Then the temple suddenly collapsed, and the last glimmer of civilization was completely extinguished.

  Rosen took back the firewood that had merged into the firewood pile and felt that it had become noticeably stronger.

  After the firewood pile ignited the firewood, it seemed to have changed a little. The afterglow of the ashes of civilization just now could be continuously reproduced through the firewood pile, and as his spiritual strength increased, the time he saw would be closer and closer.

  Rosen shrunk the firewood pile to the size of a palm and began to walk back and forth around the temple.

  Soon the ashes of the temple and the surrounding area for miles turned into firewood. He immediately lit the firewood to check the remaining glow of ashes in a larger area.

  This time he finally saw the enemy, and the moment he saw the enemy he was stunned again.

  The man who stood at the door of the temple and easily chopped off the heads of everyone in the temple turned out to be exactly the same as him. It was impossible that he killed all his own statues and believers?

  Rosen was skeptical and began to expand the scope of collecting firewood.

  However, as the embers continued to transform into firewood, he felt that his stay in this spiritual realm would become shorter and shorter.

  Because the foundation that supports the existence of this world is these embers. When the embers are transformed into firewood, the world will lose its last support. Therefore, if you want to transform the embers into firewood and take them away, it is best to select them carefully.

  Rosen began to compare the contents of the diary and continued to visit the city ruins around the temple.

  These city ruins were burned to ashes by the backlash of the flames of civilization, but some traces were left behind. Soon, the ashes of dozens of cities were transformed into firewood and thrown into the firewood pile, and he was also excluded from this world.

  After returning to the hotel in Frost City, Rosen was surprised to find that he had only been away for one second.

  Or rather, not even a second. So many days have passed in that world, but in reality, only a moment has passed.

  Rosen took the firewood pile and opened the mysterious study. He decided to rekindle the flame of civilization in the mysterious study with the help of the remaining light from the ashes.

  Of course, he was not going to continue to ignite the ashes of that temple, but to select the ashes of a city, and then find a place in the city that was similar to a library in the ashes, and finally draw this place.

  If the miraculous properties of the magic pen are passed on forever, it can really revive everything in the afterglow of the ashes.

  Then through the books of that era, perhaps we can gain some understanding of that civilization.

  (End of this chapter)