Chapter 244 – Domain of Silent Divinity

Using Tie Xun as a sacrificial offering, the Pleasure Maiden and the Black Mountain Devotee truly managed to obtain power from beyond this world.

With this power, one of them briefly shattered the world’s seal, allowing the eternal and immortal Divinity to once again radiate its light.

“Boom!”

The unsealing of Divinity caused a sacred and vast aura to erupt from the Black Mountain Attendant.

Under the influence of this aura, the Black Mountain Attendant also became more profound and powerful.

At this moment, it too had become a Divine Being.

After the transformation was complete, the Black Mountain Devotee first looked toward the Pleasure Maiden. However, whether due to a contract they had signed, fear, or a command from a superior, it did not take action. Instead, it merely snorted coldly before turning its gaze toward the depths of the Sky Burial Domain.

At this moment, all traces of worry and fear had vanished from its face, replaced only by a maddened sneer and boundless savagery.

“You insect, daring to slander us, the Servants of the Gods—you will not die so easily!”

The Black Mountain Devotee was threatening and intimidating, seeking to vent the fear it had felt toward Mu Lin earlier.

Faced with this scene, although Mu Lin’s eyes narrowed slightly, his expression showed no significant change. He merely responded indifferently, “Oh.”

Such an ordinary reaction clearly did not satisfy the Black Mountain Attendant, and as a result, its savage aura grew even heavier.

“Don’t care, do you? Or do you think I can’t reach you? Human, you underestimate us, the Divine Servants!”

“I will make you understand the price of provoking us!”

“Boom!”

With those words, the Black Mountain Attendant, now imbued with Divinity, pushed off with both feet and shot straight toward Mu Lin like a cannonball.

“Bang!”

Such reckless and forceful intrusion inevitably triggered an uproar in the Sky Burial Domain. Countless Anomaly Evils within the area immediately fixed their gazes on the Black Mountain Attendant.

And almost instantly, Evil Spirits began to move.

“Woo woo woo…”

Amid mournful weeping, spectral shadows began to approach the Black Mountain Attendant.

On the ground, inexplicable footprints also started moving toward the Black Mountain Devotee.

At the same time, some houses began to emit endless suction forces out of nowhere, accompanied by loud, clattering sounds.

“Cough, cough…” Violent coughing also inexplicably echoed through the Sky Burial Domain.

The sight of so many Anomalies launching attacks made Mu Lin’s heart skip a beat.

Especially the coughing—even from a distance, the moment Mu Lin heard it, he felt discomfort in his body, as if he had been plagued by illness for a long time.

“Cough, cough…”

Almost uncontrollably, Mu Lin also coughed uncomfortably twice.

Then, he felt that the more he coughed, the more uncomfortable his body became.

Moreover, this coughing didn’t just affect his respiratory system—his flesh, internal organs, lifespan, and even his Divine Soul and Mana also felt a sense of decay.

This startled Mu Lin, but fortunately, in the next moment, he relied on the Substitute Paper Figure to expel all the cursed energy from his body.

Even so, Mu Lin remained endlessly wary of this illness-causing Anomaly.

“The intensity of this Anomaly is no less than that of the Weeping Ghost or the Ghost Money filling the sky—perhaps even stronger. It even carries a hint of the feeling of the Five Decays.”

From a distance, Mu Lin was affected by the ‘coughing’ Anomaly. Naturally, the Black Mountain Devotee, who was its primary target, suffered even more.

Mu Lin clearly saw that after arrogantly charging forward for just over ten steps, its entire body suddenly stiffened.

Divine Soul, sound, illness, endless suction… this chaotic barrage of attacks, even as a Divine Being, it could not completely withstand.

However, being sent down by the Evil God as a scout, it did possess some capabilities.

Upon sensing the danger, it immediately roared and unleashed its own Domain.

“Silence!”

At first glance, this Silence Domain seemed only capable of prohibiting the transmission of sound, turning an area into a vacuum.

In reality, it was far more than that.

Silence was essentially a lesser version of anti-magic, akin to a silence debuff in games, capable of nullifying many Mana and Anomaly abilities.

And when linked with Divinity, a terrifying scene unfolded—the Black Mountain Attendant truly possessed, albeit briefly, the formidable power of anti-magic.

Within the Divinity·Silence Domain, the eerie, wailing cries no longer held the power to drive people to death through sorrow. Instead, they sounded like ordinary women weeping—still heart-wrenching enough to bring tears, but only tears.

The same applied to other abilities.

Coughing no longer caused one’s organs to burn or afflicted them with countless diseases.

The strange footsteps could never approach the Black Mountain Attendant, and the suction emitted by the surrounding houses could do nothing to it.

Even the ghost soldiers Mu Lin had left behind in the Sky Burial Domain, upon encountering the Black Mountain Attendant’s Silence Domain, collapsed to the ground like mere Paper Figures.

This terrifying scene showcased the might of the Servants of the Gods and filled Mu Lin… with greed.

“This ability is fated for me—it should be mine!”

This thought did not arise from Mu Lin being fickle or coveting every power he saw. He genuinely felt that Silence was highly compatible with him.

After all, the Source Rune he had comprehended, “Stabilize,” originated from the concept of “stillness” within yin and yang, duality, and motion and stillness.

The relationship between stillness and silence sounded inherently close. If he could obtain such Divinity, Mu Lin believed he wouldn’t even need much practice—the moment he acquired it, his “Stabilize” could, in addition to immobilizing others’ Divine Souls and forms, also “silence” (seal) their abilities, Mana, and even their cultivation realms with a single word.

Moreover, if his strength grew sufficiently, he too could unleash an anti-magic Dharma Domain like the Black Mountain Attendant.

“I must obtain this Divinity!”

With this thought in mind, as he watched the Black Mountain Attendant besieged by numerous Anomaly Evils, Mu Lin did not take advantage of the situation or join the attack while the Anomalies were preoccupied.

While the Anomalies were fully occupied, Mu Lin shifted his target and summoned the Dharma Image Zhong Kui.

Then, the strongest combatant in Mu Lin’s hands opened its great mouth and swallowed the Corpse Tree—he intended to first extract the Withered Divinity.

As Zhong Kui devoured the Corpse Tree, the Black Mountain Attendant, having activated its Divinity and unleashed the Silence Domain, arrived not far from Mu Lin. Its oppressive aura and sinister grin pressed down upon Mu Lin like mountains and seas from afar.

—It had not wiped out all the Anomalies within the Sky Burial Domain.

The Divinity·Silence Domain was indeed powerful, but the Black Mountain Attendant’s strength was limited. It could not render all anomalous forces null, and as time passed and the frequency of attacks increased, the Mana consumed to silence others grew ever greater.

Under such circumstances, it was utterly impossible for it alone to clear the Sky Burial Domain.

However, while it couldn’t be eliminated, this ability was enough to break free from the anomalies’ entanglement and reach Mu Lin’s side.

Upon seeing Mu Lin, its expression grew even more ferocious and savage.

“See, you bastard? This is the power of us Divine Servants! Your petty tricks can’t stop me!”

With that, it charged toward Mu Lin once more.

What Mu Lin did next only made its grin widen further.

Seeing it approach, Mu Lin didn’t step forward to confront it. Instead, he pulled out an Origami Carriage and blew on it casually.

“Whoosh!”

With a breath of living energy, the carriage immediately came to life. Mu Lin then boarded it and simply… fled.

Yes, he ran away.

“Running! Hahaha… You’re scared! I knew you weren’t invincible! But do you really think you can escape? Hahaha…”

The Black Mountain Attendant laughed wildly, convinced it had witnessed Mu Lin fleeing in panic, and its laughter grew even more unrestrained.

Yet, soon after, the smile vanished from its face.

Watching Mu Lin swiftly driving the Yin-Spirit Carriage, a sense of foreboding rose in its heart.

‘Wait… Could he actually get away…’

“Fool! What are you standing around for? Chase him now!”

While the Black Mountain Attendant was stunned, the Pleasure Maiden was not. At her reminder, the startled attendant immediately gave chase with all its might.

Then, it anxiously realized it was falling farther and farther behind Mu Lin.

It wasn’t that it was slow—Mu Lin was simply too fast.

What he was currently driving was the projection of a high-grade Magical Artifact, the Yin-Spirit Carriage, which inherently possessed divine speed.

Beyond the artifact, Mu Lin had also transformed a doppelganger into the form of an ink dragon to serve as the coachman.

Not only was it steering, but the ink dragon coachman also cast the Spell Riding Clouds and Mist, summoning fierce winds and clouds to accelerate Mu Lin’s carriage.

With these two measures, Mu Lin’s speed instantly became as swift as a cannonball, soaring through the air.

Even this alone was enough to trouble the Black Mountain Attendant.

But the next moment, an even more despairing scene unfolded before it.

The clouds and mist summoned by the ink dragon not only allowed Mu Lin’s Yin-Spirit Carriage to soar through the sky but also had the ability to obscure vision and divine senses.

This left the Black Mountain Attendant, which had burned its Mana to charge into the mist, completely blind.

When it finally burst out of the Black Mist, it was utterly devastated to find that the number of Yin-Spirit Carriages emerging from the clouds was not one, but four.

Four identical carriages raced off in four different directions, leaving the Black Mountain Attendant with no clue which one to pursue.

At this point, the Black Mountain Devotee’s composure shattered completely.

“Bastard!” “Scum!”

“If you have the guts, face me one-on-one!”

“What kind of hero runs away like this?”

“Come back! Come back to me!”

Like a scorned woman, the Black Mountain Devotee, who had been so arrogant moments before, now pleaded pathetically for Mu Lin to turn back.

At the same time, the Black Mountain Attendant was on the verge of madness with anxiety—and it had no choice but to be.

—After all, it was still in the human world, where the suppression of the Heavenly Dao persisted.

Although it had sacrificed the wild hunter’s servant Tie Xun to temporarily unlock the power of Divinity, this was only a temporary release.

Once the sacrificial energy dissipated and the world’s suppression returned, if Mu Lin came back then, it would be finished.

No, Mu Lin didn’t even need to return. He could curse it to death from afar.

Faced with such a situation, how could it not be frantic?

“Come back, I beg you, come back and fight me!”

(End of Chapter)