Chapter 479 – Mu Lin: Competition? I'll Just Kill the Match!

For the Celestial Spirits, who once dominated a world and arrogantly considered themselves the children of that world, allowing others to become their leader or Divine Master was an immense humiliation.

Proud as they were, it was difficult for them to simply survive in such a subservient manner.

However, if the one who became the Divine Master possessed the bloodline of the Celestial Spirit Clan, that would be different.

Especially when the intricate and complete patterns covering Mu Lin’s body led some Celestial Spirits to exclaim in astonishment:

“Holy patterns—those are complete holy patterns!”

Naturally, Celestial Spirits also varied in innate talent. Due to the limitations of the Celestial Spirit body, which could not fully accommodate all of Mu Lin’s abilities, he was not entirely satisfied with this vessel. Yet, the other Celestial Spirits felt differently.

For them, complete holy patterns were something they could only dream of encountering.

And when they discovered that Mu Lin did not possess just one complete holy pattern, but five (Great Sun, Tree of Life, Eye of Sky Observation, Purification, and Gravity), their excitement soared even higher.

“This is Godchild-level talent.”

Such talent, within the Celestial Spirit Clan, meant being born as a Holy Son or Godchild—a natural leader destined to rule over the Celestial Spirits. Submitting to such a person… the Celestial Spirits felt no psychological resistance; instead, it felt familiar.

“He is one of our own. Submitting to the Holy Son does not seem humiliating at all.”

“I knew it—Mother God would not abandon us without reason.”

“We welcome the Godchild!”

With a collective shout, many knelt before Mu Lin, already regarding him as the successor to the Divine Position.

The cries of the crowd also roused a group of Cultivators who had been immersed in contemplation.

Upon awakening, they angrily realized that Mu Lin, without any regard for ethics, had transformed his own race into that of the Celestial Spirits.

Seeing Mu Lin’s body, indistinguishable from the other Celestial Spirits, the submissive Celestial Spirits, and the satisfied Goddess of Life, these Alien Realm demons and monsters understood all too well that if they did not act quickly, they would not only lose any chance of inheriting the Divine Position but also forfeit their very eligibility to compete.

—Even without thinking too hard, they knew that, given a choice, the Goddess of Life would undoubtedly prioritize Mu Lin, who possessed Celestial Spirit blood, over them, these demons and monsters.

“Despicable!”

“Shameless!”

“You fools, think clearly! This Mu Lin here is just a Clone! His Main Body is still human!”

In an attempt to sabotage Mu Lin’s plans, some shouted accusations of his treachery, while others pointed out that he was not a pure Celestial Spirit—an argument that held some merit. Under normal circumstances, the Celestial Spirit Clan would indeed choose a pure-blooded Celestial Spirit to inherit the Divine Position, not a hybrid like Mu Lin.

But these were not normal circumstances. Their clan had no one capable of inheriting the Divine Position. In such a situation, even as a hybrid, Mu Lin was far superior to anyone else.

Thus, the provocations of those Alien Realm demons and monsters… had little effect.

Realizing that words alone could not sway the Celestial Spirit Clan, some of the Alien Realm demons and monsters gritted their teeth and shamelessly chose to—copy.

They also requested essence blood from their guides, then used Life Authority to catalyze it, creating Celestial Spirit Clones for themselves.

Some of the Foreign Races even went further, abandoning their Clones altogether and altering their own race.

They transformed their Main Bodies into Celestial Spirits.

Of course, under normal circumstances, changing one’s race would be extremely difficult for them to achieve. However, now that they all possess the Life Authority, using this power of Creation of Life to alter their own race becomes quite easy.

Soon, over a dozen Foreign Races transformed themselves into Celestial Spirits.

Then, they discovered that it was very difficult for them to grow.

Mu Lin succeeded in his transformation because he had nearly limitless energy from Nuclear Fusion to power it. As for those Cultivators, they possessed the Authority of Creation and held lofty positions, but they lacked sufficient energy.

Moreover, even if some managed to successfully reincarnate, the observing Celestial Spirits merely glanced at them before losing interest.

The innate talents of the Celestial Spirit Clan vary in quality.

Mu Lin’s current form had already reached the pinnacle of the Celestial Spirit Clan, the kind where there was simply no higher level to ascend to.

On a test with a perfect score of one hundred, Mu Lin achieved one hundred points—and that was only because the test was capped at one hundred.

As for the others, they only scored sixty or seventy. Having seen Mu Lin, how could those Celestial Spirits possibly look favorably upon anyone else?

“…”

“It’s over!”

“Damn it, could it be that this Divine Position will truly be seized by him?”

With a single move of race transformation, Mu Lin gained an overwhelming advantage.

At this moment, Storm Giant Tian Yu, Dragon Clan True Lord Ao Chang, and World’s Embers Yan Qian also furrowed their brows.

With their strength at the Celestial Master level, they were not afraid of competition. But now, before the battle had even begun, Mu Lin was about to end it decisively.

And as they frowned in deep thought, still unable to devise a way to counter Mu Lin, his actions continued.

—Transforming into the Celestial Spirit Clan was a finishing blow for everyone else, but for Mu Lin, it was only the beginning.

“Whoosh…”

With a single thought, a large amount of blood was splattered out by Mu Lin.

Under the catalysis of the Life Authority, all that blood transformed into humanoid forms—this was cloning, a simple principle that had long been successfully researched by the science of his previous life.

Using the Life Authority, Mu Lin easily achieved abilities from the scientific side.

Naturally, these bodies had no souls; they were merely empty shells.

After cloning nearly a hundred bodies, Mu Lin willed it, and countless calamities were bestowed upon these bodies by him.

Life can only undergo metamorphosis and evolution in the direst of hardships and desperate situations—without the influence of natural predators, some creatures have not changed in the slightest for hundreds of millions of years.

Now, using the Calamity Monarch’s innate talent, Mu Lin bestowed various sufferings upon these clones, hoping to stimulate their genetic potential and push his Celestial Spirit Body one step further beyond its peak!

“Crackle!”

“Boom…”

“Snap, crackle, pop…”

“Swish…”

Lightning strikes, freezing cold, burning flames, viral invasions, blade cuts… All sorts of sufferings inflicted upon them quickly left Mu Lin’s cloned bodies covered in wounds and in a miserable state.

And this miserable state of injury was precisely why Mu Lin knew that suffering and desperate situations could trigger bodily metamorphosis, yet he had never attempted it before.

If he had truly done so, Mu Lin might have ended up torturing himself to death without necessarily achieving bodily evolution.

Of course, the past was the past, and the present was the present.

Having obtained the Life Authority, Mu Lin could now heal nearly all injuries.

“Hum!”

Just as those clones were covered in wounds, in the next moment, countless green rays of light merged into their bodies, allowing their injuries to recover rapidly.

Moreover, these green radiance activated the genes of Mu Lin’s clones, whether dominant or recessive. At this moment, all these genes were a hundred times more active.

This heightened activity also caused Mu Lin’s clones to undergo various abnormal changes under the crisis.

“Crack, crack…”

In the face of danger, some clones grew shells, attempting to use them to resist injuries.

Others grew thick fur—this was to withstand the cold.

Still others grew wings, seeking to evade harm by fleeing.

Human gene utilization is only 8.2%; the remainder is entirely recessive.

Now, stimulated by the Life Authority, these recessive genes were fully activated, causing Mu Lin’s clones to exhibit all sorts of mutations.

Yes, mutations, not metamorphosis or evolution.

In times of crisis, not all genetic changes are beneficial. Some mutate toward weakness, or even lead to genetic collapse. In other cases, the suffering Mu Lin inflicted was too severe, causing the clones to be directly destroyed.

This illustrates the difficulty of evolution. Over millions of years and billions of individuals, only then can powerful, perfect, and naturally adapted organisms gradually evolve.

Natural selection is so harsh, and for Mu Lin to achieve another metamorphosis of his Celestial Spirit body is naturally extremely challenging. However:

“Challenging as it may be, it doesn’t matter. After all, I have sufficient energy to experiment slowly!”

—Whether creating clones, healing their injuries, or activating their recessive genes, all of these require the use of the Goddess of Life’s Genesis Authority.

Although this Authority is powerful, it consumes an immense amount of energy. An ordinary Earth Immortal would exhaust all their internal energy after using it just once.

Even a Celestial Master can only barely manage it… after all, this is a Deity-level Authority.

But Mu Lin has controlled nuclear fusion!

With virtually limitless energy, Mu Lin can freely wield the Genesis Authority.

Externally, this manifests as Mu Lin creating eight hundred clones in one go, allowing him to conduct over eight hundred experiments simultaneously!

“If once doesn’t work, then twice; if twice doesn’t work, then ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times…”

“I refuse to believe that, with the Genesis Authority and a hundredfold activation, not a single instance of metamorphosis or evolution will occur in tens of thousands of experiments!”

(End of Chapter)