Chapter 492

Chapter 492: The True Might of Divine Authority!

After mastering the powers of life and gaining gene-editing abilities, Mu Lin found it wasn’t too hard to make everyone in the world as mighty as dragons—transforming ordinary civilians into Golden Folk with long lifespans and extraordinary talents.

This made perfect sense.

Comparing the Xuanling world to his past life, Mu Lin realized the technology of his previous world could only threaten those at the Transformation stage. Once someone reached Earth Immortal status—or even certain special Transformation-tier beings—all advanced weapons from his old world became useless.

This wasn’t because technology was weak, but because his past world’s scientific progress hadn’t reached higher levels.

“The tech level of my previous life was only 0.73, not even Level 1.”

A Level 1 civilization (planetary civilization) could fully harness all energy on its planet—wind, water, solar, and other natural resources. Such a civilization controlled its world’s energy output through methods like controlled nuclear fusion, achieving global self-sufficiency. They could manipulate weather, rivers, land, ecosystems, and even geological shifts.

After analyzing this, Mu Lin saw that Earth Immortals in the Xuanling world matched the capabilities of a Level 1 civilization.

A Level 2 civilization (stellar civilization) could exploit all energy within a star system, building megastructures like Dyson spheres to capture a star’s radiation. They’d travel freely between planets without energy constraints, mastering long-distance energy extraction…

“While the Xuanling world can’t build Dyson spheres, Earth Immortals can still journey between stars and harness stellar energy.”

A Level 3 civilization (galactic civilization) controlled entire galaxies, drawing power from galactic cores and traveling freely across cosmic distances.

Upon gaining True God authority, Mu Lin recognized he met Level 3 standards.

Though limited to creative authority over life, his genetic mastery exceeded expectations. True Gods could traverse the cosmic void with their followers’ hopes and seeds—proof they operated at Level 3.

As part of such a civilization, granting eternal life through gene editing?

Completely logical. Without longevity, galactic travel would be impossible.

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“One True God could elevate our civilization to galactic—or at least stellar—levels.”

“Even combat-focused True Gods should reach this tier.”

Mu Lin brainstormed divine authority applications.

When seeing Divine Kingdoms floating in the astral realm, his first thought?

“Giant spaceships.”

If he’d been a god earlier, he could’ve used Divine Kingdoms as vessels to ferry believers across stars, expanding civilization’s reach. Just this would upgrade humanity from planetary to stellar civilization.

But Mu Lin wasn’t some minor deity—he held the True God’s creative authority. His ambitions stretched further.

First: perfect human genetics, turning all into Golden Folk.

Second: engineer super-plants.

“Most planets are dead stars—unfit for life.”

Ordinary people would abandon such worlds. But Mu Lin, as a Level 3 civilization incarnate, could transform them.

Could a galactic civilization lack terraforming abilities? Impossible.

Mu Lin’s plan? Modify plants to absorb light, emit oxygen for atmospheric shields, and accelerate resource production. Normal plants took millennia to become oil or minerals—his creations would do it weeks. They could even grow bread or milk directly.

As for spiritual energy needs?

The sun blazed with raw spiritual power. A few tweaks would let plants convert solar energy into human-friendly spiritual energy.

“Given time, I’ll turn dead stars into Gaia-like planets!”

“Dyson spheres? Simple. Engineer space-vines to encircle stars and harvest energy—that’s a living Dyson sphere.”

Terraforming plants, organic Dyson spheres, genetic ascension—these showcased the True God’s power over life.

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“Some gods squander their divinity—fighting for belief in backwater worlds instead of uplifting civilizations. Like beggars wasting golden shovels.”

Mu Lin’s motives weren’t purely altruistic. Elevating humanity benefited him through the Power of Belief.

By reverting humans to Golden Folk and leading them across the stars, he’d become their Mother Goddess—etched into civilization’s core. His existence would intertwine with humanity’s fate: as long as they thrived, so would he.