Chapter 463 – All-Pervading Attraction

Using light to purify everything, Mu Lin did not worry about harming ordinary people in doing so.

The boundless light before him, aside from the battlefield close at hand, did not rely on light and heat to harm evil spirits and malevolent ghosts in the distance.

What it relied on was the law of purification that Mu Lin had infused into it.

The nuclear fusion suspended at his fingertips, along with the infinite radiance blooming from it, served as the energy source and medium through which Mu Lin activated the law of purification.

And since it was purification, Mu Lin naturally only purified impure forces and those harmful to humans.

—Distinguishing between what was harmful and what was beneficial across such a vast scope was difficult, but coincidentally, Mu Lin, who was in harmony with the heavens, could achieve this.

Of course, the consequence of doing so was that Mu Lin’s expression grew increasingly detached, and his harmony with the heavens deepened further.

“Hum!”

Thus, boundless light, endless radiance bloomed from Mu Lin’s fingertips, while the demonic fiends of the Northern Wastelands wailed incessantly.

“Save me…”

“No, spare me…”

“Wuwu, I won’t dare anymore…”

Even the evil spirits in the far distance were purified and destroyed, so the condition of the numerous demonic ghosts and evil spirits before Mu Lin was naturally even more pitiful.

Evil spirits below the level of Celestial Master—whether demonic ghosts, the offspring of the Insect Apostle, or Night Demons and Nightmares—their bodies were decomposed and purified within the endless radiance.

The forbidden and ominous entities summoned by the Apostles could indeed contend with the boundless light blooming from Mu Lin’s fingertips.

However, even with energy counteraction, the issue of quantity had to be considered.

Water can extinguish fire, but a sufficiently powerful flame can also boil and evaporate water.

Undoubtedly, with nuclear fusion suspended at his fingertips, Mu Lin possessed infinite energy.

As for the Apostles—they were being rejected by the Heavenly Dao, unable to utilize any energy within the world.

One with infinite energy, the other suppressed by the world—the outcome of their confrontation was naturally clear.

Beneath the endless radiance Mu Lin unleashed, like the Ember Ashes of a burning world, they were gradually erased by Mu Lin.

The massive eight-headed serpent, its resentment, its illusory body, also gradually disintegrated under the light.

The Insect Apostle, unwilling to accept defeat, struggled to resist for a while… It fed all the insects it had cultivated to the Gluttony Abomination, and even part of its own body was fed to the Abomination, enhancing its power.

Yet, even the Abomination’s massive, forbidden body gradually decomposed and vanished under the baptism of endless radiance and the law of purification.

Using light as the medium, Mu Lin truly purified everything.

Thus, after three hundred breaths, all the evil spirits and malevolent ghosts that had been on the battlefield vanished completely, all purified by Mu Lin’s move, 【Supreme Above and Below, I Alone Am Honored】.

In the end, only three Celestial Master Apostles remained on the battlefield… no, five—there were two other Apostle-level powerhouses who had originally been hiding nearby, observing.

But when the endless radiance bloomed, their spells were also broken, revealing their figures.

And now, these five Apostles… were all fleeing.

Clearly, the move Mu Lin had just executed had terrified them.

Especially since Mu Lin was not alone—the Three Great Legions and the commanders of other legions were watching intently from the sidelines.

Under such circumstances, they naturally wanted to escape.

However, they wanted to flee, but neither Mu Lin, Zhang Hetian, nor the commanders of the Black Fiend Legion and Thunderclap Legion were willing to let them.

“Thinking of escaping? Have you asked me?”

“Kill!”

Upon noticing the enemy’s intent to flee, Zhang Hetian, the Seven Killings Wolf Lord, and the Five Thunder Celestial Master immediately gave chase.

As for Mu Lin, he naturally would not allow these demons and monsters to escape either.

Maintaining his posture with one hand pointing toward the sky, Mu Lin continued to sustain the infinite energy of nuclear fusion.

Meanwhile, he raised his other hand, which had been pointing toward the ground.

Aiming at the fleeing demonic monster apostles, Mu Lin’s hand suddenly formed a claw-like shape, as if trying to grasp something.

As he made this gesture, the visualization of the sun in his Sea of Consciousness did not cease.

But this time, he was no longer visualizing the sun’s scorching heat, boundless radiance, or infinite energy. Instead, he visualized the sun’s gravitational pull—the force that governs celestial bodies.

As is well known, everything in the solar system revolves around the sun, all due to its immense gravitational force.

Now, having become an avatar of the sun, Mu Lin visualized this very characteristic and transformed his vast Mana into gravitational force, pulling toward the fleeing Insect Apostle.

“All-Pervading Attraction!”

“Hum!”

Under Mu Lin’s intense pull, the Insect Apostle, which had been trying to flee, was immediately suspended in mid-air.

An overwhelming force, like ropes, bound its body, preventing it from escaping.

“Bastard! Do you really want us both to perish together?”

Unable to escape, the Insect Apostle grew frantic. Struggling fiercely, it roared at Mu Lin, hoping to intimidate him into letting it go.

Unfortunately, its threats were futile.

Not only was Mu Lin using gravitational force to restrain it, but upon noticing its violent struggles, countless chains suddenly materialized from the Void, swiftly coiling around its body.

In the next moment, the chains pulled in unison, dragging it toward Mu Lin.

“Boom!”

As it was being pulled, countless flames erupted from the chains, blazing fiercely.

They scorched the Insect Apostle’s flesh and Divine Soul, twisting its expression in agony.

“Bastard!”

“Hum!”

Throughout this, the Insect Apostle was not entirely defenseless.

True to its status as an Apostle of the Celestial Master level, even while bound by chains, it managed to break free multiple times, causing Mu Lin considerable trouble.

—The greatest strength of insects lies in their adaptability. The Insect Apostle, having integrated the genes of billions of insects, could transform into countless forms, making it exceptionally difficult to deal with.

Take the flames, for instance… Faced with the intense heat, its carapace first turned crimson, granting it fire resistance. As a result, Mu Lin’s flames inflicted almost no damage.

And that was just the beginning. In the next moment, having evolved some unknown ability, it began devouring Mu Lin’s flames.

Yes, it could now consume fire.

Using the fire as an energy source, it initiated a third transformation.

This time, it took on the form of a beetle-like insect, though compared to an ordinary beetle, it was countless times larger—mountainous in size.

Its massive body endowed it with invincible strength and formidable defense.

“Moo!”

Despite the relentless pull from Mu Lin and the frenzied bombardment from Zhang Hemiao and Sheng Cang, the Insect Apostle charged forward with his head down.

Then, he ended up charging backward by eight hundred meters… There was no helping it. While his avatar, the longhorn beetle, was indeed powerful with boundless strength, the current Mu Lin had Nuclear Fusion as his trump card, granting him limitless energy.

With this energy, using the All-Pervading Attraction, Mu Lin could pull an entire mountain toward himself. Faced with such terrifying power, the Insect Apostle naturally couldn’t escape.

“Bastard!”

The immense force from behind enraged him, but even now, he hadn’t given up hope.

“Buzz!”

As energy activated within his body, he transformed into another peculiar insect.

This insect possessed neither overwhelming strength nor a massive form, but its body surface was incredibly smooth—so smooth, in fact, that it reached a level of rule-like perfection. Mu Lin’s chains, when wrapped around it, couldn’t hold it firmly.

Yet, despite this slippery body… he still failed to escape.

“Buzz!”

As Mu Lin continued to wield the All-Pervading Attraction, he wasn’t just pulling surrounding objects toward himself—he was causing the Void itself to collapse in his direction.

With even the Void contracting, the Insect Apostle naturally had no chance of escape.

However, even after countering this form of the Insect Apostle, Mu Lin remained cautious.

As an Apostle of a Deity, a force at the level of a Celestial Master, the Insect Apostle was not to be underestimated, even if suppressed by the Heavenly Dao and despite Mu Lin’s infinite energy. Mu Lin believed that the Insect Apostle must still have other abilities he hadn’t yet revealed.

Mu Lin thought this, and indeed, the Insect Apostle did have other abilities.

Yet, after a moment of consideration, he actually gave up on escaping, allowing Mu Lin to pull him into the intense magnetic field at his fingertips, where endless flames reduced him to ashes.

“???”

However, before his death, he glared fiercely at Mu Lin and uttered with deep malice, “Mu Lin, is it? How dare you destroy this body of mine. I’ll remember you!”

“…”

His sudden surrender initially puzzled Mu Lin, who feared it might be a trick.

But the Insect Apostle’s final words made Mu Lin realize something, leaving him utterly speechless.

“That guy… doesn’t actually think he can be reborn through some other means after I kill him, does he?”

(End of Chapter)