Chapter 502

Chapter 502: Planetary Transformation, Gaia-like Planets

Due to Mu Lin’s past extraordinary deeds, various alien races in the cosmic void kept close watch on him.

When noticing Mu Lin’s recent movements, their curiosity arose as they speculated about his intentions.

Some factions that had long coveted entry into the Xuanling world regarded Mu Lin as their greatest obstacle. Upon detecting his activity, their immediate impulse was sabotage.

"Though unclear about his plans, this can’t benefit our kind… Find ways to disrupt it."

"Whatever our enemy attempts, we must thwart…"

Numerous deities observed Mu Lin with palpable malice.

Yet despite their hostility, none took immediate action.

Their restraint stemmed from two reasons: lacking the endurance of a major world’s backing, and preferring to strike when Mu Lin neared completion of his task.

This strategy promised maximum disruption and wasted effort.

Holding these calculations, the alien forces and evil gods maintained watchful silence.

Mu Lin sensed their malice but remained indifferent, knowing one truth – after today, most external threats would be neutralized.

"This justifies all my time and effort."

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Reflecting on recent struggles, Mu Lin felt weary. Though wielding divine authority for merely a month, the mental strain exceeded ordinary measures.

Critical to understand: Mu Lin never operated through singular effort.

Since his awakening during the Spring Fountain phase, he’d perfected master-level Substitute Paper Figures capable of independent cultivation and labor.

Initially limited by mental stamina, vitality, and soul capacity, his avatar numbers remained small.

But as his power grew, so did his clone forces.

Upon reaching Transformation stage, he commanded three hundred Substitute Paper Figures.

After advancing to Earth Immortal, this multiplied to thousands.

Now ascending to divinity with creative authority, his avatar capacity exploded exponentially.

Nineteen thousand six hundred – his current clone limit.

The nuclear fusion furnace granted limitless energy, empowering each clone with abundant magic and spiritual strength – the latter achieved without soul fragmentation.

Even a True God’s divided soul weakens when split thousands-fold.

Most deities restrict themselves to a dozen avatars due to energy limitations.

Mu Lin defied convention.

"Technology drives progress!"

He powered his system through nuclear fusion while maintaining mental capacity via the Starry Sky Brain – a cybernetic concept familiar in cyberpunk realms where humans interface directly with machines.

In the real world, research on neural interfaces never stopped.

Firmly believing in science, Mu Lin had no issue using the Starry Sky Brain as an external brain connected to his clones, aiding his calculations.

Through the Cloning technology of life powers, controlled nuclear fusion, and biological smart brains, Mu Lin split his spiritual thoughts into 19,600 parts, each capable of conducting experiments.

With these clones, Mu Lin constantly ran countless experiments every moment.

For an ordinary person bound to linear time, one month for Mu Lin equaled 19,600 months—588,000 days, or 1,610 years.

This didn’t even factor in the accelerated time flow of the Time Secret Realm. Including that, the scale became absurd.

His month of work rivaling a century of effort by ancient deities wasn’t an exaggeration.

“Technology is the primary productive force,” he remarked. “Ancient mathematicians’ lifetime calculations can’t match a supercomputer’s single second.”

This efficiency let him swiftly establish the golden divine fruit, Five Element Fruit, Environmental Transformation Device, and Starry Sky Brain server.

He even conceived a colossal structure—a Plant Dyson Sphere encircling the sun.

Naturally, Mu Lin didn’t invent this plant from nothing. The Xuanling world had Fire Spirit Vines and Sky-Climbing Vines.

The former absorbed magma flames and sunlight to grow. The latter stretched hundreds of thousands of meters, blanketing entire mountains.

By merging their strengths, Mu Lin engineered the Fire Spirit Sky-Climbing Vine—a flame-absorbing, endlessly growing plant with extreme resilience and vitality. He was certain it could form a Dyson sphere around the great sun.

“The Dyson Sphere can wait. First, modify the Xuanling world’s satellite.”

Mu Lin flew to the desolate satellite.

Annoyingly, several foreign races occupied it.

Lacking atmosphere and spiritual energy, these races dwelled in their Deities’ Divine Kingdoms or secret realms, rarely emerging. The satellite served merely as a foothold, their territories small.

Detecting Mu Lin’s arrival, some foreign Deities emerged, bowing respectfully.

The satellite’s proximity to the Xuanling world meant Human True Lords could act freely here at full strength.

Thus, most satellite inhabitants maintained close ties or alliances with humans. Hostile evil gods here would face relentless attacks—minor strikes every three days, major assaults every five.

Few evil gods could endure such harassment. Their presence would signal humanity’s desperate plight, as satellites (moons) granted outsiders influence over the Xuanling world.

As Mu Lin pondered, he met the foreign Deities, who inquired about his purpose.

“What brings the God of Life here? How may we assist?”

“No assistance needed. Just don’t interfere. Later, I’ll propose a trade.”

Dismissing them, Mu Lin produced his painstakingly crafted planet transformation devices—spiritual algae.

With a flick, he scattered the algae across the satellite. He didn’t leave them unattended.

Though his enhanced algae could eventually thrive alone, that required time Mu Lin lacked. Luckily, he possessed acceleration methods.

*Hummm!*

Focusing, Mu Lin’s body morphed into a thirty-thousand-meter Giant of Light.

This titan didn’t conjure a ‘sun’—Mu Lin’s research had embedded the Five Organs Nurturing Spirit Tree within him, his heart replaced by a nuclear fusion furnace.

It generated colossal energy every instant—enough to sustain an entire world. Now, this energy fueled life powers.

*Hummm!*

Life energy catalyzed the algae, their growth visible to the naked eye.

*Rustle…*

Accelerated thousands-fold, the scattered algae bloomed from specks to lakes.

Within minutes, they expanded into mountains, plains, seas… until everything in sight drowned in green spiritual algae.

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