Chapter 448

Chapter 448: Mu Lin: I Am the Great Catastrophe!

Pride filled the hearts of the outstanding, and they rarely submitted to others.

Like the Golden Crow, even when facing death in battle, it refused to yield.

Yet "rarely" meant exceptions existed.

The Chongming Bird, owing to her bond with the Blue Bird, surrendered to Mu Lin and became his subordinate.

Similarly, Luo Chen—the first among humans in the North Wilderness—should have been proud and spirited. But this prodigy carried heavier burdens.

Raised and trained by the North Wilderness, he bore the innate duty to drive out monsters and evil spirits and reclaim lands for the human race.

Though powerful, his strength remained within mortal limits, lacking Mu Lin’s superlative might.

Thus, despite relentless efforts, he alone couldn’t reverse the North Wilderness’ decline.

A selfish man might have shrugged, saying he’d tried his best and the land’s fate wasn’t his concern.

But Luo Chen wasn’t such a man. Having grown up sustained by the North Wilderness’ people, he cherished both the land and its inhabitants deeply.

Their suffering haunted him, yet solutions eluded him—until Mu Lin appeared.

Soon after arriving, Mu Lin purged insiders and parasites from the troops, securing the Agricultural and Martial Corps’ stability.

He then led them to repel the insect apostle’s assault, driving back the insect tribe and slaughtering countless locusts.

Unrelenting, Mu Lin allied with the Black Sha Legion and Thunder Legion. With Holy Salt and formidable powers, he launched a massive campaign.

Victory loomed near.

Should he triumph, This Place’s people would finally live free from monsters and evil spirits.

Mu Lin achieved everything Luo Chen had ever dreamed of.

Naturally, Luo Chen came to aid him.

Entering the Agricultural and Martial Corps’ dominion, he found refugees around Tian Shi City rebuilding lives.

Armed with Holy Salt, they cleansed fields, planted crops, paved roads, and erected homes—emerging from disaster into normalcy.

An ordinary sight, yet it stirred Luo Chen profoundly.

Having served multiple legions, he’d always seen refugees lingering outside camps—weary, numb souls scraping by.

Soldiers elsewhere merely survived day to day, their eyes vacant. Luo Chen believed he’d grown accustomed to this bleakness.

But witnessing hope here revealed his delusion. The Agricultural and Martial Corps’ camp also clarified one truth.

“Only Mu Lin can save the North Wilderness and the human world.”

“I’m a prodigy, but he’s an unprecedented peerless prodigy. Losing to him and aiding him isn’t shameful!”

Once resolved, Luo Chen, his blood still hot, went straight to Mu Lin and pledged his allegiance.

Truthfully, his decision startled Mu Lin.

“Are you certain?”

Though eager, Mu Lin spoke gravely:

“Entering my True Spirit Domain Chart means your abilities will cease to be yours—they’ll become mine. Do you truly wish to join?”

“It matters not. If you purge the evil spirits, take my powers. Just answer this: Will you cleanse the North Wilderness of monsters and evil spirits?”

Mu Lin smiled at his reply.

“Of course. Banishing evil spirits is my purpose, with or without you. But your aid will hasten and sharpen this task.”

“Then let it hasten… For driving out those horrors sooner is also my wish.”

With Luo Chen’s consent, Mu Lin inscribed his True Spirit into the chart.

Boom!

The instant this Destined One joined, Mu Lin felt the chart’s fixed quota of 365 divine slots expand—by thirty-three.

“?!!”

“This potent?”

“So the chart thrives by gathering Destined Ones?”

“Claim their fates, and its slots grow endlessly?”

Mu Lin gaped in astonishment.

Soon, he noticed more: As Luo Chen entered, a new slot labeled Calamity King manifested in the fifth tier (Earth Immortal), just below the King of Hell yet above the vengeful spirit golden crow.

“No—it slightly surpasses, ranking second only to the King of Hell!”

…

Though formidable, Calamity King’s powers fell instantly under Mu Lin’s dominion. Now he saw them clearly:

“Sense calamity, absorb it, become disaster and tribulation… Terrifying!”

Endless worldly calamities—if fully mastered, Luo Chen could conjure eruptions, storms, meteor strikes. Even echo Deathwing’s dread title: *Destiny’s Annihilator, Ender of All, Unstoppable—I Am the Great Catastrophe.*

“This power could end worlds.”

While Mu Lin marveled at Luo Chen’s potential, Luo Chen himself staggered at his own ascension.

The Calamity King’s ability was indeed formidable, yet Luo Chen faced bitter hardships.

To transform into a calamity, he first had to personally endure that specific disaster and deeply comprehend its nature.

For instance, to embody a fire calamity, he needed to sense wildfires, locate active ones, then suffer through the flames himself—all while analyzing how such disasters ignited and spread…

In short, transforming into a natural disaster required numerous strict conditions. Simply witnessing a calamity didn’t grant him immediate transformation.

Another constraint was his magical energy reserves.

Though versatile, every spell demanded fuel. The calamity’s destructive scale directly relied on how much energy his body contained—the core reason Mu Lin defeated him despite the Calamity King’s potential.

Luo Chen’s energy couldn’t rival Mu Lin’s. Even in raw power clashes, Mu Lin crushed him effortlessly.

Though Luo Chen could absorb calamity energy from surroundings, his human physique restricted intake limits. However mighty, he remained flesh and blood—not an immortal force of nature.

Combat posed further challenges. Enemies like Mu Lin wielded higher-order concepts like Death itself. Sword cultivators boasted techniques like “One Blade Sunders All Laws”—legendary strikes claiming to “shift mountains, part oceans, slay demons, topple cities, even cleave heavens.” Such blades could slice through calamities.

Ye Huang too possessed countermeasures against Luo Chen’s disaster forms.

Thus, while Luo Chen acknowledged his calamity transformations’ strength, he never considered them invincible. His human limitations shackled the Calamity King’s true might.

Mu Lin faced no such restraints.

His energy reserves dwarfed Luo Chen’s, especially after merging with earth veins. The True Spirit Domain Chart and his refined three hundred sixty-five units of high-level resources granted him monstrous endurance—a hundredfold Luo Chen’s capacity.

Moreover, while Luo Chen gained calamity insights through agonizing firsthand trials, Mu Lin’s past-life scientific knowledge revealed disaster mechanisms effortlessly.

“Every weakness binding Luo Chen vanishes before me.”

“Thus I declare to this world, like Deathwing of legend—I am the Lord of Calamity, Destiny’s Destroyer, The End of All Things. Unstoppable. Inevitable. I…am the Great Catastrophe!”