Chapter 461

Chapter 461: Apostle of Heaven, Agent of the Heavens

The ultimate goal was too grand, while Mu Lin’s current strength remained too feeble. The chasm between reality and ideals made him sigh.

Yet he swiftly cast aside his lamentations.

"Though I’m still far from becoming a sovereign among gods or king of kings, this power suffices to handle divine masters!"

With this thought, Mu Lin willed himself to emerge from the Yin Soil.

Witnessing the apocalyptic battlefield where earth crumbled and skies inverted under the divine masters’ chaos, he strode toward the heart of conflict.

"Seeking death!"

His approach ignited excitement among monsters and evil spirits. While they wouldn’t dare chase Mu Lin if he fled, his voluntary entry changed everything – even stray battle energies could wound him now.

"If human divine masters divert attention to protect him, our chance arrives," the demons and monsters schemed. Demon Emissaries exchanged glances before unleashing torrents of attacks toward Mu Lin.

Their plan to force protective measures worked. The Seven Killing Wolf Lord scowled: "Foolishness! Retreat! The sky still holds – we don’t need youngsters on the field yet."

Mu Lin responded without anger to this well-meant warning, smiling lightly: "Young I may be, but strength transcends years."

Facing sky-blotting assaults leaving no escape, Mu Lin neither dodged nor defended. Instead, he spread his arms as if embracing the world.

A thunderous decree rolled from his lips:

"We embody calamity! Your powers ARE calamity!"

"Hummm!!!"

A bizarre ripple swept across existence. Human divine masters and foreign evil emissaries alike gaped as their attacks rebelled, now governed by another’s will.

All turned to see Mu Lin commanding their unleashed forces – manifestation of his calamitous insight. Through enlightenment, he’d grasped that any human-harming force constituted calamity: eruptions, storms, weapons, plagues… and foreign demons’ powers fell under this domain.

As Lord of Calamity wielding dominion over such forces, control came naturally.

"I am the Calamity King – KNEEL!"

"Buzz!"

With another roar and decree from Mu Lin, not only were the attacks from the foreign demons and evil spirits brought under his dominion, but even the powers of weaker foreign beings were forcibly seized.

"Boom!"

As Mu Lin clenched his fist moments later, countless foreign bodies exploded simultaneously.

Their own energies detonated uncontrollably within them.

Though Mu Lin could label foreign demons as calamity, his dominion extended only to the weakest.

Powerful foreign beings possessed unyielding wills and souls, resisting his control through sheer determination.

When Mu Lin closed his fist, ordinary evil spirits and Transformation-level beings indeed self-destructed from internal energy surges.

But Earth Immortals merely suffered violent energy turbulence within their bodies.

Against apostle-level powerful beings, Mu Lin’s will couldn’t penetrate their forms at all.

Even their external energies remained mostly beyond his grasp—he could only control ten to twenty percent.

Apostle-level attacks carried not just energy, but their wielders’ will and laws, countering Mu Lin’s talent as the Calamity King.

Only his will of dominance allowed even that fractional control.

"Earth Immortal strength alone can’t rival divine masters… But if that fails—"

Mu Lin’s eyes hardened as he stomped the void.

"Buzz!"

Ripples spread through emptiness, manifesting a hellish painting into reality.

At Mu Lin’s command, Yin soldiers and ghost officials vanished while hellfire receded, leaving only a grand altar beneath his feet.

Standing atop it, Mu Lin pressed his palms together and chanted skyward: "Heaven above, witness this earth… Foreign monsters slaughter the living. This Daoist Mu Lin begs heaven’s power to purge these evils!"

As his prayer linked his Calamity King talent to the celestial realm—heaven answered.

"BOOM!!!"

A majestic aura enveloped Mu Lin.

His eyes glowed white as his expression turned detached yet sacred. Behind him materialized an emperor’s manifestation wearing a twelve-crest crown and robes embroidered with red Zhu Long, surrounded by sun, moon, stars, and shifting seasons.

Lord of Mount Tai—descended to the mortal world.

Heaven’s blessing elevated Mu Lin’s rank beyond Earth Immortal, surpassing even divine masters.

With this heightened status, his repeated incantations unleashed vastly different results.

"All… are calamity…"

"Buzz!"

Mu Lin’s coldly divine voice made battling foreign monsters stagger under sudden weight and dread.

They felt a sense of being watched… observed by the heavens.

In the next instant, they realized it wasn’t imagination – Mu Lin had turned his gaze toward them, and the power of the heavens followed his line of sight.

As Mu Lin looked upon them, denouncing them as calamity, misfortune, and impure power, catastrophic changes occurred. The world itself rejected them. Spiritual energy refused their command.

Even the natural laws they once controlled stopped responding.

This heavenly suppression proved devastating to Earth Immortals and divine masters whose existence intertwined with worldly principles.

Their strength and rank seemed to plummet.

Like the Emperor who could degrade others’ cultivation with mere words, this demonstrated the might of the Lord of Mount Tai.

Such overwhelming suppression explained why evil gods lingered in the outer realm, rarely entering the mortal world.

Ordinary Earth Immortals and divine masters posed negligible threats – grand heavenly principles seldom noticed them.

But evil gods were different. These Deep Sea behemoths faced full heavenly suppression when entering the mortal realm, their power reduced to thirty percent at best. In such weakened states, even divine masters could slay them.

Thus foreign evil gods circled beyond the world, seeking to corrupt or deceive the world’s consciousness from the outer realm… sizzling…

"Chaos… too much fragmented knowledge…"

While channeling the power of the heavens and manifesting the Lord of Mount Tai’s authority, Mu Lin endured a torrent of disjointed information – the heavenly consciousness scouring his mind.

The reason evil gods sent Demon Emissaries instead of manifesting personally became one of countless chaotic truths pouring into him.

He suddenly understood why unity of heaven and man brought clarity rather than madness.

"Unity of heaven and man resonates with specific heavenly laws… naturally filtering out chaotic knowledge…"

"…The inability to maintain constant unity… could this be heaven’s protection rather than restriction?…"

Forced merging flooded Mu Lin with disordered truths.

While processing this knowledge, he struggled to maintain mental clarity.

Only one-third of his attention focused on battling the Demon Emissaries.

Yet even this partial focus overwhelmed them.

His declaration "You are calamity, impure power" made the world itself despise them.

Had these been local divine masters, such heavenly rejection would cripple eighty percent of their power.

But these outer realm Demon Emissaries carried foreign energies. While Mu Lin stripped their access to worldly power, their alien energies remained.

Now they activated these foreign forces, forbidden power surging against Mu Lin’s heavenly authority.

"Damnation! A heavenly agent! Stop holding back – only forbidden power can oppose the heavens!"