Chapter 476
by fanqienovelChapter 476: Mu Lin, I Knew at First Glance You Weren’t Human!
In the void, combat power was always paramount.
Falling short here didn’t just mean getting beaten—it meant being devoured whole, flesh and bone.
This was why the Celestial Spirit tribe’s Goddess of Life prioritized combat strength as her selection criteria.
The requirement to battle only after merging divine power and authority? Pure survival instinct.
Harsh as it sounded, Mu Lin’s group couldn’t protect their people in the void through raw strength alone.
Only by fusing with the Goddess of Life’s divine position could they wield its true power to confront evil gods.
Hence, the Goddess judged their merged strength, not their current selves.
“Still… it’ll come down to a fight.”
Mu Lin’s gaze swept across Storm Giant Tian Yu, the human Fourth Prince Ji Ming, Ember Flame Qian, and the dragon clan’s True Lord Ji Chang—his prime rivals.
The others stared back.
Though they claimed Mu Lin’s power would wane without his world’s support or true body, his fearsome reputation kept them wary. Most wanted him eliminated first.
The “most” mattered because Fourth Prince Ji Ming had Whispered to him earlier:
“Brother Mu, we’re both human. Whoever wins aids our race. I won’t strike first—spare our kin too.”
“Naturally.”
The prince’s stance removed one enemy. Surprisingly, another ally emerged—a black-robed girl with a black lotus Mark between her brows. She’d studied Mu Lin since his arrival, her eyes holding curiosity, not hostility.
When he noticed, she strode over, grinning up at him: “Fellow kin, you’re wildly unpopular. Need help?”
“???”
Mu Lin blinked.
“Kin? And why no fear or hatred?”
“I don’t covet your world. Why fear you? Will you attack me?”
“…No.”
Mu Lin wasn’t deranged enough to harm the harmless. Yet since entering the outer realm, he’d faced nothing but malice—even from their Celestial Spirit hosts, some glaring at him like he was the invader.
This sudden kindness left him off-balance.
As he mused that he wasn’t universally feared, she answered his first question:
“Kin means we share blood.”
Mu Lin: “Don’t jest. I’m human—”
“Pfft…”
What made Mu Lin’s expression darken was that as soon as he spoke, the girl immediately burst into laughter.
Then, she looked at him with a strange gaze, as if saying, ‘Don’t pretend in front of me.’
Being stripped of his humanity wasn’t what Mu Lin wanted—he’d always believed himself to be human.
Irritated by her attitude, Mu Lin activated Gazing at the Heavens to examine her essence. What he saw left him stunned.
Since the girl wasn’t hiding her nature, Mu Lin realized her state closely resembled his own after mastering the Heavenly Techniques of Darkness.
Mu Lin’s true form was now the indestructible True Spirit Domain Chart—only its destruction could end him.
At the chart’s core lay a simulation of the Heavenly Techniques of Darkness, functioning like a galactic supermassive black hole that forced all things to orbit around it.
The girl before him turned out to be a similar cosmic phenomenon.
As stars collapse in their death throes to form black holes, so too had this girl emerged as black lotus—a forbidden entity born from a dying world’s implosion.
In this mystical realm, the sun wasn’t merely a sphere of light and heat. It embodied justice, holiness, resurrection, and life itself.
By the same token, black holes represented apocalypse and void. The black lotus stood as their conceptual kin—a manifestation of annihilation and oblivion.
Mu Lin’s simulated black hole core and the girl’s world-ending lotus essence made them conceptual siblings.
“……”
While Mu Lin grappled with this revelation, the girl’s next words made his eye twitch.
“See? We’re family.”
She nodded with earnest conviction:
“I knew you weren’t human. Spotted it right away.”
“I _am_ human.”
“Then so am I.”
“……”
Thrilled to find her supposed kin, the girl clung to Mu Lin with sudden familiarity. Though exasperated, he tolerated her presence—studying this living black hole analogy might advance his cultivation insights.
……
“Receive these seeds to obtain life’s powers and mysteries. You have three days to assimilate them. Then begins the contest to inherit my divinity.”
*Hummm!*
As Mu Lin conversed with the black lotus girl, the Celestial Spirit tribe’s Goddess of Life conjured over a hundred glowing seeds. They shot toward the competitors’ foreheads as emerald streaks.
Mu Lin let the seed pierce his brow unchallenged. It took root instantly, flooding him with revelations about life’s workings. Genetic blueprints of countless species and divine applications of life powers poured into his consciousness.
This goddess—last hope of her people—proved formidable. Her powers even included creation itself, weaving new races from divine energy and raw materials.
“Only Nuwa surpasses this.”
Yet creation alone meant little. Humanity’s cosmic prominence defined Nuwa’s legend—after all, the Blood Sea Ancestor who birthed Asuras never attained sainthood.
……
Embedded memories revealed the goddess’ failed experiments: energy-intensive races that couldn’t survive unaided. As patron deity of the Celestial Spirit tribe, she’d abandoned serious creation efforts to avoid threatening their dominance.
Her life powers focused instead on healing and longevity. She’d cured plagues, extended lifespans, even grown cosmic-spanning Sacred Trees like Cang Feng.
To Mu Lin, this was tragic.
“Wasted!”
“Such potent life powers reduced to healing and longevity? Divine vision truly is shackled by mortal perspectives.”