Chapter 485 – Wrestling with Gods

Towards the head of the Mother of Nest Worms, Mu Lin’s fist, condensed with endless radiance, struck heavily.

“Boom!”

This punch was both a fist and a nuclear explosion.

As Mu Lin struck the Mother of Nest Worms, boundless light and shockwaves erupted from his fist.

The terrifying impact and explosion, along with the endless brilliance, shattered the Mother of Nest Worms’ crystal-like carapace and forced her back several steps.

—The evolved crystal carapace could absorb light and convert it into energy, but absorption required time and had its limits.

The instantaneous impact and explosion were too powerful, still capable of breaching the defense of her crystal carapace and injuring her.

To Mu Lin’s dismay, this terrifying punch only inflicted minor injuries on her, failing to harm her fundamentally.

Even the distance she retreated was merely a few steps—Mu Lin’s three-thousand-meter Divine Form was indeed massive, but the Mother of Nest Worms’ body stretched thirty thousand meters long, resembling a small asteroid.

Her immense size granted her unparalleled strength and defense. Mu Lin’s nuclear explosion-like punch inflicted injuries on her akin to a mere tickle.

“Damn!”

“So tough?!”

The attack proved ineffective, and instead, one of his own arms turned to nothingness, causing Mu Lin to curse under his breath.

But soon, he had no time to dwell on such matters.

The Mother of Nest Worms’ counterattack arrived.

Injured by an ant-like Mu Lin, the Mother of Nest Worms felt insulted, and thus, her retaliation was exceptionally fierce.

“Squeak!!”

Accompanied by a shrill shriek, thousands upon thousands of tentacles sprouted from the Mother of Nest Worms’ body. In the next moment, these tentacles lashed out like whips, sweeping toward Mu Lin in an overwhelming assault.

“Swish, swish, swish…”

The dense whip shadows possessed the power to shatter everything. Even space itself, under the Mother of Nest Worms’ lashing, turned into nothingness and fragments.

But this attack was useless against Mu Lin.

Though his form was large, as the Giant God of Light, his speed was not lacking.

“Swish!”

With a single flap of the wings on his back, Mu Lin transformed into a stream of light, evading the barrage of whip shadows.

Then, instead of retreating, Mu Lin charged forward once more, unleashing a flurry of punches at the Mother of Nest Worms.

“Ora ora ora ora ora…”

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

Transforming into a stream of light and phantom, Mu Lin continuously circled the Mother of Nest Worms, his fists raining down like a storm, relentlessly pounding her body.

Although, without charging his power, Mu Lin found it difficult to shatter the Mother of Nest Worms’ crystal carapace with a single punch.

The continuous barrage of punches still managed to injure her.

Such harassment only fueled the Mother of Nest Worms’ rage further. More whips sprouted around her body, and her attacks grew even swifter.

At this moment, Mu Lin and the Mother of Nest Worms resembled a martial artist and a Demonic Monster relying solely on brute force, engaged in a frenzied brawl.

This approach was born of necessity for both. The forbidden Mystical Art of “Rule the World with Martial Might,” the decay of energy attenuation, and the silence of the night… the chaotic overlapping laws of this divine battlefield prevented any Mystical Art from projecting too far.

Once they strayed too far, their power would diminish by tens or hundreds of times, and shortly after being unleashed, they would vanish entirely as their energy decayed to nothing.

In such a battlefield, the two could only rely on their Divine Bodies to engage in mutual combat.

And the result of their brawl was that neither could gain the upper hand over the other.

Although the Mother of Nest Worms possessed unparalleled strength, invincible defense, and a variety of extraordinary abilities, Mu Lin was no slouch either. Transformed into a streak of light, his speed was simply too fast.

In the world of martial arts, nothing is indestructible—only speed is unbreakable.

As long as he was fast enough, the Mother of Nest Worms could not land a hit on him. Thus, no matter how formidable her power, it would be rendered useless.

However, just as Mu Lin thought he could rely on his speed to stall the Mother of Nest Worms, a “hum!” echoed, and her body underwent another transformation. She shifted from a crystalline firefly into a massive, sinister spider.

As the spider’s eighty thousand legs tapped into the Void, Mu Lin immediately sensed a web-like formation, seemingly capable of ensnaring everything, spreading throughout the Void.

The densely woven spiderwebs caused threads to uncontrollably entangle around Mu Lin’s body. Their restraints slowed his speed.

Although, in the next moment, divine radiance erupted from Mu Lin’s body, purifying the ‘spider silk’ clinging to him, that brief interval was enough for the Mother of Nest Worms to close in on him. Immediately after, countless tentacles sealed off his surroundings, lashing out at him in a frenzy.

“Ora!”

Faced with the whip-like strikes, Mu Lin naturally did not sit idly by. His fists fired like machine guns, relentlessly pummeling his surroundings.

Simultaneously, the sixteen wings on his back shot out countless feathers.

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

“Boom!!!”

Each feather was akin to a nuclear bomb. The continuous close-range explosions filled Mu Lin’s vicinity with endless heat and scorching flames.

And then… Mu Lin was sent flying.

Unable to overcome the tentacles, the enraged Mother of Nest Worms simply charged forward with her massive body, crashing into him recklessly.

This time, Mu Lin was helpless. Her thirty-thousand-meter colossal frame made the impact feel like a meteor striking the earth.

Even more terrifying was the fact that insect muscles and bones could exert dozens of times their own weight in force.

The Mother of Nest Worms, having optimized the genes of all insects, possessed the strength of a Hercules beetle—a power Mu Lin simply could not withstand.

Moreover, the entanglement of tentacles and spider silk left him with no means of escape.

Thus, with a “thud!”, Mu Lin was struck head-on.

If such an impact had occurred within the Profound Spirit World without any world-imposed limitations, the continent would have shattered into pieces and sunk into the ocean depths.

Mu Lin, too, suffered shattered internal organs and blurred vision from the blow.

Yet, despite his severe injuries, Mu Lin did not lose his fighting spirit.

“I am the Calamity Monarch, and all suffering is under my command!”

“Pain, be absorbed!”

“Hum!”

At his command, all his injuries transformed into Calamity Qi. Subsequently, these calamitous energies were absorbed and commanded by Mu Lin.

With his injuries turning into calamity and vanishing outright, Mu Lin’s body naturally recovered for the most part.

—The reason it wasn’t a full recovery was that, with the calamity gone, many tissues in Mu Lin’s body were left missing.

Fortunately, Mu Lin now wielded a portion of the Genesis Authority.

Upon noticing his bodily injuries, he immediately invoked the Genesis Authority to repair the damage.

Once everything returned to normal, Mu Lin flashed a ferocious grin at the Mother of Nest Worms.

“You can’t kill me!”

“Ora!”

With a furious roar, Mu Lin resumed pummeling the Mother of Nest Worms.

The battle once again erupted between the two.

This time, the fight was even more brutal.

(End of Chapter)