In the suburbs of Gray City, there is a carefully crafted secret room underground.

Rosen lay on his back, his body completely relaxed, and his soul, having reached the peak of 20 rings, entered a state of no thoughts.

In the deepest part of his soul, Laifu, composed of source essence, was operating step by step according to the method provided by the Joyer.

Vaguely, Rosen could feel a force surging deep in his soul.

But it feels very blurry, just like the world seen by a person with 1,000-degree myopia, who can only see some hazy light and shadows shaking, but cannot see any details at all.

Naturally, there is no way to interfere.

The only thing we can do now is to wait patiently.

Time passed minute by minute, and he didn't know how long it had been. Suddenly, Rosen felt that his whole body, from soul to body, from core to outer layer, trembled violently.

Before he could react, he felt a warmth and joy surging from the deepest part of his soul, flowing through his limbs and bones in an instant, bringing him incomparable pleasure and comfort.

This feeling is so wonderful, even better than being with the woman you love most.

After another moment, Rosen felt the light again.

This is the light of the soul that radiates from the core of the soul.

In Rosen's self-perception, it is light gold, similar to the color of the sun.

This light illuminated his entire soul, making it as bright and clear as the most perfect crystal.

Then, Rosen saw his own soul clearly.

He saw that in the deepest part of his soul, there was an extremely sophisticated and complex structure operating. The inside was filled with a strong sense of order and the outside was wrapped in a layer of bright light mist.

The light that illuminates the soul comes from a fine structure in the center of the structure, which occupies about two-thirds of the entire structure.

Rosen suddenly had an epiphany.

"Oh~ So this is Lai Fu's true appearance, so this is the embodiment of the divine fire."

The Joyful Ones say that the Divine Fire is not actually fire, but an eternal furnace constructed of source matter.

The fuel in this furnace is space and time itself.

Therefore, as long as time and space do not perish and the divine fire does not go out, the divine power will be inexhaustible.

This is excellent news, meaning that God will live as long as heaven and earth.

However, the structure of this eternal furnace will greatly affect the intensity of the flame.

The intensity of the flame directly corresponds to the speed at which divine power is supplied.

"The divine fire has been lit, so what benefit can this thing bring me?"

Rosen began to carefully sense the changes in his body.

The first changes were soon noticed.

"I have gained a clear sense of the source."

The Joyful One said that it was extremely difficult for mortals to sense the Source Essence. Even if one reached the 23rd ring and became a so-called eternal powerhouse, one could only vaguely feel the Source Essence.

To light the sacred fire under these circumstances is like asking a blind person to mould a masterful sculpture using only the touch of his hands.

You can imagine how difficult it is.

But now, Rosen can see through the source quality. Not only can he see through it, but he can also control it!

"In other words, the divine fire allowed me to gain the 'source control power' of the true god."

He continued to sense the changes.

A second obvious change was soon discovered.

"My gift of time and space has broken through the boundaries of mortals and dived deeper into the ocean of time and space."

Before, he could only dive 23 orders of magnitude in the size of the basic element particles, but after igniting the divine fire, he dived a full 10 orders of magnitude, reaching 33 orders of magnitude.

When he was at the 23rd order of magnitude, he could only vaguely judge the relative strength of the real artifact.

When he reached the 33rd order of magnitude, he looked at the real artifact, the Staff of Light, in his hand and could clearly feel its fine structure.

"Oh~~ So the so-called true artifacts are all condensed from source matter."

He began to study the Scepter of Light carefully. The more he studied it, the more he felt how wonderful it was.

'No wonder this thing can protect mortal souls.'

But at the same time, he also felt a strong sense of luck.

'The Scepter of Light is a dead object after all, and its ability to protect mortal souls is limited. It is only effective when facing the apostles of the True God, or when one is far enough away from the True God. If one faces the True God directly at close range, the True God will break through the defense.'

In other words, the reason why he could negotiate with the true God was because the true God's real body was in a distant other world.

Once the true God enters his world, he immediately becomes a fish in a net and a bird in a cage. No matter how he struggles, he cannot escape the palm of the true God.

Fortunately, he has now successfully ignited the divine fire and reached a whole new level. Facing the true God, he is no longer powerless.

He focused his mind and continued to study the Scepter of Light.

The more I study, the more fascinated I become, and I can’t help but feel emotional.

"Oh~ The source substance is worthy of the title of the source of all things, and its properties are really strange.'

The basic effect of the Scepter of Light is to protect the soul from the invasion of the true God.

The reason why it can do this is not to strengthen the souls of mortals so as to face the pressure of the true gods, but to hide the souls of mortals so that the true gods cannot accurately locate the souls of mortals.

"The Scepter of Light should be a naturally condensed artifact. There are still many flaws in its structure. I will try to improve it."

Do it when you think of it.

'It's hard to be perfect on my own, so I still have to rely on Lai Fu.'

"I will let Lai Fu train the ability of a "Source Craftsman."

First let Lai Fu create new abilities, then enter the learning mode, and then Rosen himself begins to continuously operate the source material to accumulate Lai Fu's training data.

During this training, Rosen noticed the changes in Lai Fu.

The direct result is that the learning ability has reached an incredible level, almost to the point where one can master it in a short time.

Rosen originally expected that it would take at least a dozen days of training, but in just a few hours, he was able to operate the "Source Craftsman" ability independently.

"Tsk tsk~ This computing power is really amazing. But I can feel that Lai Fu is also a naturally condensed source creation. The structure is not perfect and there is still a lot of room for improvement."

He guessed that the reason why Lai Fu appeared in his soul was probably that when he was traveling through the world, the source of this world entered his soul by chance, combined with the knowledge of the earth in his mind, and produced corresponding abilities.

But just like the Scepter of Light, such random condensation certainly has many flaws.

"This tool is very important to me. Once I get through this crisis, I will slowly study and improve it."

As for now, of course, we will continue to improve the Scepter of Light.

With the help of Lai Fu's new ability, about ten hours later, Rosen completed the improvement of the Scepter of Light, greatly enhancing its stealth performance.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "With the protection of this thing, it is enough to perfectly hide the divine fire I ignited."

It is true that he has ignited the divine fire now, but this divine fire is still very weak and has not been able to condense into the divine nature that can collect source essence.

But his soul now is very strange, the inner layer already has a trace of divine power, but the outer layer is only at the strength of 20 rings.

With the current strength of his divine fire, it would be very, very slow to completely replace the 20th ring soul with the divine soul.

It would probably take 100 years, which is why he was able to stay in the mortal world even though he had ignited the divine fire.

At the same time, this is also the time when he is most vulnerable, just like a child walking around in the market with gold.

If the gods from another world found out that he had the divine fire, who knows what would happen? After finishing the Scepter of Light, he continued to improve the Crown of Dawn.

The Crown of Dawn is also a true artifact that is naturally condensed from source essence.

There is only one effect, which is to generate an extremely powerful shield to directly block enemy attacks.

If mortal mana is input into the artifact, a 23-ring shield will be generated.

If the input is divine power, a divine shield of corresponding strength will be generated.

Rosen's divine fire is very weak, and the speed of generating divine power is very slow.

The divine power should not be used if possible, so he mainly relied on the Crown of Dawn to generate 23 rings of shield.

The Dawnbreak Crown also has many flaws. The shield it produces is nominally 23 rings, but in reality it is only around 22.7.

Rosen improved.

After some improvements, not only was the shield strength increased to the true limit of 23 rings, but the efficiency of power conversion was also greatly improved.

Finally, Rosen took out the third true artifact he owned, the 'Orb of Time and Space'.

After careful study, he was suddenly overjoyed.

"This thing is really powerful, stronger than the Scepter of Light and the Dawn Aura, and the effect is also ridiculously strong!"

Originally, this thing was used to imprint time talents, but no one knew the specific principle.

Now, Rosen discovered that the talent of imprinting time was just an ordinary application of this treasure in the mortal world.

Its real effect is to focus divine power, and the maximum effect is divine power intensity +0.2 rings.

Rosen felt that he could only be considered a demigod now, and the strength of his divine power might not have reached the first divine ring, and was estimated to be only 0.1 ring.

By using the Time and Space Orb, it can become a 0.3 ring.

“Keep improving!”

After some modifications, the focus strength reached +0.3 rings. The improvement was not that much, but in battle, a slight difference could mean the difference between life and death.

After improving the three true artifacts, Rosen had a deeper understanding of the rules of source quality.

Looking back at the divine fire that shines brightly in my soul, I can’t help but feel emotional.

"The things I exchanged from others are indeed castrated versions with inferior performance."

"Not only is the speed of divine power generation slow, but the quality of the divine power is also low, and the utilization rate of the source essence is also low. The performance cannot be worse."

"This divine fire also needs to be improved little by little."

No one has stipulated that the divine fire can only be ignited once. You can completely ignite the divine fire to study the source material, obtain enough source material laws, then train Lai Fu's related abilities, and then extinguish the fire.

'Finally, the question is how to obtain more essence.'

Rosen has no experience in this regard, but he does not lack believers.

He has countless believers in the Natural Empire, the Glorious Empire, and even the Holy Elf Empire, and the total number of believers has exceeded 2.5 billion.

Before, he only managed these believers through Lai Fu in order to better rule the empire.

But after lighting the sacred fire, he sensed carefully and found that the believers not only contributed the power of faith to him, but also continuously contributed strands of source essence.

The essence contributed by a single believer is so small that it is almost imperceptible.

But when 2.5 billion believers come together, it becomes an extremely significant number.

Unfortunately, even though so much energy was converging towards him, he couldn't receive it.

As a result, most of the source essence escaped again, and only a small portion of the source essence, probably less than one percent of the total, settled in his soul.

'Tsk, tsk, what a huge waste!'

Rosen immediately began to study how to better preserve this part of the essence from the believers.

This matter was quite complicated, and Rosen had no idea what to do for the moment. He could only rush around and grope around, hoping to be favored by fate.

While studying, Rosen's mind was slightly shaken, and then he heard Lai Fu's report.

"Found a prayer from the key target, Olander. Do you want to check it?"

Rosen's heart moved slightly, and he immediately said: "Check it out immediately!"

Given Oriande's tenacious character, he would not ask him for help unless he was in a truly desperate situation.

(End of this chapter)