Chapter 493

Chapter 493: Simulating the Star Creation Path, 36.5 Billion Experience Points

One benefit of uplifting civilization was Mu Lin’s integration into humanity’s historical progression within the Xuanling world. As long as humans endured and history continued, Mu Lin wouldn’t fade away.

Both past and future Xuanling inhabitants would supply endless Power of Belief, constantly pushing him forward.

Stronger beings produced more Power of Belief. The Golden Folk, blessed with eight-century lifespans and exceptional talents, held limitless potential beyond a single world.

Even if initially confined, Mu Lin’s guidance would make them expand into an interstellar empire.

Such empire would birth countless heroes and powerful beings ruling numerous worlds. Without divine intervention, mere collective belief from these humans could elevate a local deity to star god status.

Though powerful beings generated substantial belief, most maintained independent will rather than worshiping gods.

Yet Mu Lin’s completed plan would transform him from mere deity to humanity’s pivotal ancestor – the ‘Progenitor’ leading mankind from their world into the cosmic sea.

While people didn’t worship gods, ancestral reverence persisted. Like ancient Huaxia residents honoring emperors Yan and Huang while calling themselves their descendants.

This ancestral identity generated pure, enduring Power of Belief. With humanity’s growth, Mu Lin could become star god effortlessly.

Naturally, he wouldn’t stay idle.

"Human belief remains essential, but my own efforts must continue. The Giant of Light’s divine body development can’t pause."

Beyond belief power, upgrading humanity brought two more advantages. Enhanced cultivators would become Mu Lin’s direct subordinates.

This required no explanation – as True God, Mu Lin stood among humanity’s highest authorities. Unless utterly unreasonable, his commands would be willingly obeyed.

Like gods in other worlds summoning heroes through divine decrees to slay demon kings, countless human champions would defend Mu Lin against harm.

As humanity’s Progenitor, his status would command supreme reverence.

The final benefit involved the Attribute Panel. Merging with True Spirit Domain Chart unified his cultivation methods – usable separately or as combined system.

Advancing True Spirit Domain Chart demanded 36,500,000,000 experience points!

36.5 billion. The number seemed insane yet justified – advancement expanded his 800 divine positions (Earth Immortal stage) to 3,300 while elevating all their ranks.

This equaled upgrading entire pantheon. Such divine system progression naturally required astronomical experience.

Moreover, True Spirit Domain Chart functioned like simulated cosmic blueprint ("Another Cosmology"), inheriting pantheon advantages.

Meaning its experience accumulation wasn’t Mu Lin’s burden alone.

True names on the chart, Yin soldiers and ghost officials, city gods and wandering spirits, even believers’ insights about hell, Life and Death, good/evil – all became nourishment for True Spirit Domain Chart.

Simply put – everyone contributed to growing its experience points.

Now, even if Mu Lin sat still, nearly a hundred proficiency points would flow in daily from all directions, pushing the True Spirit Domain Chart toward advancement.

If he could raise civilization’s level to become human civilization’s history and imprint, the Golden Folk born from his power and their offspring would channel their insights and cultivation into the True Spirit Domain Chart. This would transform it from a pantheon’s blueprint into a cosmic design, eventually becoming a true universe—a triad of Heavenly Court, Hell, and Human Realm forged by gods.

“The future looks bright, but my Golden Fruit isn’t fully ready yet.”

“Mass-producing it and getting everyone to eat it is another problem… And even if they do, we can’t let the human world’s order collapse afterward.”

By now, Mu Lin had figured out why the Goddess of Life avoided elevating civilization—not just oversight, but deeper worries.

One was feudalism’s entrenched hierarchy. The Goddess likely enhanced her own tribe, but only her direct descendants and maybe her clan.

Then there was energy. The ideal of “everyone as dragons” demanded impossible resource amounts.

Trapped in one world, “everyone as dragons” would spark endless killing over scarce resources. The world itself might breed calamities to thin humanity through war, degrading bloodlines.

Shallow waters can’t raise dragons; ordinary worlds can’t make all humans Golden Folk.

Luckily, Mu Lin’s gaze reached beyond this world to the starry cosmos. He’d refine only the human race, sparing other tribes his mercy. The vast universe could sustain one Golden tribe.

“With enemies threatening the human race, order must be maintained. Uplifting everyone at once should wait… First strengthen my allied powerful clans, loyal soldiers, and heroes.”

“Once their bodies transform and they conquer the stars, others’ genes can change slowly.”

As a deity, Mu Lin thought deeply. Caring for the world, he wanted to elevate everyone to Golden Folk.

But the Yan family, Chu family, and Prince Liang’s residence didn’t know this. They assumed Mu Lin, like past True Lords, favored only his inner circle—a fair guess, since he was no selfless Deity but a mortal who preferred his own.

He wouldn’t abandon Golden Folk, though. After perfecting them, he’d create divine people—stronger, longer-lived. Only his closest would gain such physiques.

Divine people were also for subordinates: Luo Chen, supportive Yan and Chu members, some from Prince Liang’s residence.

His wives like Yan Yunyu and Dongfang Ya? He planned to make them innate deities. When the True Spirit Domain Chart became a cosmic blueprint and he ruled a universe, he’d grant them divine authority.

This was all distant. For now, none knew Mu Lin’s grand ambitions.

Yet Golden and Silver Folk’s gifts already drove them mad.

Transformed beings rarely lived eight centuries. Now one fruit granted that lifespan, immunity to illness, great power, and peerless talent. Who wouldn’t crave it?

After the three women revealed the Golden Fruit’s effects, everyone from family heads to ordinary clansmen—men, women, old, young—clamored for Golden and Silver Fruits.

Ordinary folk sought it for themselves; powerful beings wanted it to fix flawed foundations or secure their children’s futures.

This treasure altered destinies.

Many believed divine Golden Fruits were scarce. Desperate, they groveled before Yan Yunyu, Chu Lingluo, and Ji Ling Sha.

“Goddesses—give me one divine fruit, and my life is yours.”

“Get lost! Your life means nothing. Yunyu… no, Goddess Yan, just give me a divine fruit and I’ll do whatever you ask.”

The speaker made Yan Yunyu narrow her eyes slightly – it was none other than a clan elder of the Yan family.

His words practically announced his faction’s surrender to her.

Truth be told, no single Golden Fruit could achieve such submission.

Though precious, established noble houses like theirs could produce similar treasures.

But after brief consideration, Yan Yunyu understood.

“It’s not just the divine fruit. They fear Mu brother’s power… They want to pledge allegiance to the True God.”

Even without offering rewards, countless would pay fortunes just to claim a True God’s protection.

Now that Mu Lin wielded godly power and could create talent-enhancing treasures like the Golden Fruit, allying with him became irresistible – a guaranteed victory.

Yan Yunyu didn’t refuse. She’d come specifically to claim the Yan family’s loyalty.

Having ascended as True God, Mu Lin barely concerned himself with mortal forces or ordinary resources.

But Yan Yunyu, Chu Lingluo, and Ji Ling Sha remained earthbound, locked in quiet rivalry – each coveting the title of Goddess.

Family support meant better chances to aid Mu Lin and earn his favor, driving Yan Yunyu’s ambitions.

…

The Golden and Silver Fruits’ miraculous effects let Yan Yunyu swiftly conquer the Yan family.

The shockwaves spread further, stirring unrest across Southeast Province.

Yan Yunyu openly revealed the Golden Fruit’s powers before crowds – no need for secrecy. Having inherited divine status to become the world’s supreme being, Mu Lin could display his treasures openly. None dared steal or question.

Weaklings attracted thieves. The mighty inspired terror.

With no attempts to hide the truth, Southeast Province’s noble clans soon learned everything.

Their initial reactions were disbelief.

“Mu Lin became a Deity? Impossible…”

“Divine inheritance? Damn! Why couldn’t that be me?”

Envy and jealousy soon gave way to frenzy when further details emerged.

“Life Goddess’s mantle? Golden Fruit granting eight-century lifespans? Heavenly Spiritual Roots? Divine bodies?”

“Just from eating one fruit?”

“Ridiculous! Such divine fruits can’t exist!”