Chapter 483

Chapter 483: Clash of Deities

"Come forth and challenge me."

Mu Lin issued the challenge, but the monstrous beings from foreign realms all shrank back upon seeing his towering Giant God form, blinded by the harsh Divine Light radiating from sixteen wings behind him. His previous battle records made retreat seem wise.

Even Storm Giant Tian Yu and dragon clan’s True Lord Ao Chang stayed silent.

No one blamed their caution. Mu Lin’s Celestial Spirit body had now reached the tier of heavenly masters – and not just any master, but the strongest among them. This divine body alone brought despair, let alone his notorious command over the Laws of Death.

With supreme physical form, annihilation-purification powers, and limitless energy reserves, none could imagine Mu Lin suffering defeat.

"He’s invincible below Deity level! Only True Gods wielding supreme authority could oppose him now."

Knowing themselves outmatched, the creatures naturally withdrew. Yet while they sought retreat, Mu Lin… preferred they stay.

These were his enemies’ finest talents. Eliminating them here would secure his future. Still, he restrained himself – this was Celestial Spirits’ territory. Bloodshed might harm innocents and lower the Goddess of Life’s opinion of him before his ascension.

Not that it truly mattered. The core reason remained: they posed no threat anymore. Even before inheriting full divinity, his perfected Celestial Spirit body rendered all below True God level irrelevant. Current foes – even the true dragon’s Dragon King – seemed like crushable insects to him. After ascension, only evil gods and foreign deities would merit his attention.

"Scram!"

The foreign monsters exhaled in relief at his dismissal. Without uttering threats, the fleeing talents scattered like panicked sparrows into the cosmic void beyond Spirit Flower Garden.

Some stayed. The human Fourth Prince remained, abandoning divine post ambitions to curry favor. Mu Lin ignored him.

The black lotus girl who claimed kinship stayed too. Mu Lin tolerated her presence since she helped him study black holes indirectly. Others remained to flatter or pledge loyalty, which Mu Lin didn’t outright reject – but recruiting subordinates could wait.

He glanced upward. The Goddess of Life met his gaze and nodded gravely.

"As you predicted. The evil gods… have acted."

This Divine Kingdom normally blocked outside observation. But as losers fled, both evil gods and human True Lords learned the outcome – Mu Lin had claimed the Celestial Spirit tribe’s divine post.

The evil gods and alien deities couldn’t accept this outcome.

Even before Mu Lin gained his divine position, he’d caused them endless trouble. Now that he held it, their plans to invade the Xuanling world would face even greater resistance.

Unsurprisingly, several deities immediately unleashed their divine power and authority, attacking the Spirit Flower Garden in various ways.

"Hum!"

The Night Demon struck first. Its bat-like wings stretched endlessly, blotting out the sky like a dark curtain. As the wings spread, pitch-black night surged toward the Spirit Flower Garden, threatening to drown it in endless darkness.

Next came the Mother of the Nest Worms, releasing swarms of billions that flooded toward the garden. Alongside these came the Winds of Decay, the Goddess of Joy… countless divine authorities and rules converged on the garden, seeking to drag it into oblivion.

Fortunately, the Celestial Spirit tribe’s Goddess of Life had anticipated Mu Lin’s enemies. After naming him as her successor, she’d already begun moving the Spirit Flower Garden toward the Xuanling world. Once the foreign monsters gave chase, the garden accelerated sharply toward human territory.

As the alien forces emerged, both the evil gods and humanity’s True Lords learned of the succession’s outcome.

"Ha! I knew Mu Lin wouldn’t fail us!"

"Attack!"

"You dare strike at humanity’s rising star without our consent?"

"Boom!"

The True Lords’ combined assault shook the cosmic void. Celestial radiance lit the skies as spatial tremors rippled outward. Conflicting rules clashed and overlapped, twisting the void’s natural laws into chaos.

Battles between True Lords and Deities were wars of cosmic principles. Each combatant overwrote reality with their own domain—the Heavenly Martial Marshal’s Martial Arts Dominance suppressed all magic, forcing even cultivators into brute physical combat. Yet the Night Demon clan’s dark domain countered this, creating a realm of endless night where they controlled everything.

When these opposing domains collided, space itself warped. As more deities joined the fray—bringing decay, ecstasy, thunder, calamity—the void became a shifting nightmare of broken laws. Time frayed. Space splintered. Such battles could annihilate nations in moments, their aftermath lingering for thousands of years as twisted wastelands.

"Boom!"

To weaker beings like Earth Masters, the battlefield was incomprehensible—a blur of distorted dimensions and inverted logic. But Mu Lin’s Gazing at the Heavens let him see clearly… and what he saw worried him.

"Of course. The human True Lords are outnumbered. They’ve held out this long using the world itself as shelter. But now, protecting me traps them in open battle."

The Goddess of Life shared his concern. Already, swarms of evil gods and alien deities were breaking through the human lines, closing in on her Divine Kingdom.

She rose to intervene—but Mu Lin stepped past her toward the garden’s edge.

"I’ll handle this."