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In the classroom, the students who had been forcibly kicked out of spectator mode were all shaken to the core.

Han Wu, who had a Locust Retinue, had actually won this invasion—and had even shattered Zhang Bin's Divine Realm Core.

It was simply unbelievable.

Yet that was the truth.

Zhang Bin, whose Divine Realm had been shattered, sat limp on the floor with a pale face.

Without a Divine Realm, he would never be able to advance to demigod. He could only remain a lowly Divine Being for the rest of his life.

Having won the invasion battle, Han Wu flashed away and directly skipped class, teleporting back home.

Amid the students' astonishment, the classroom door was slammed open.

Homeroom teacher Liu Letian stormed into the classroom in a towering rage and roared, "Han Wu, get the hell out here!"

Yet after searching several times, Liu Letian still could not find a trace of Han Wu.

He angrily asked the student nearest to him, "Where is Han Wu?"

"H-He... he went home!" the student answered fearfully.

"A student like that should be expelled! Expelled!" Liu Letian roared furiously.

Meanwhile, after returning home, Han Wu immediately entered the God Login Pod to tally the results of the battle.

He had achieved final victory in this battle, but he had also paid no small price.

Among his retinue, fewer than twenty thousand Explosive Locusts remained, while ordinary locusts numbered just over forty million.

After this battle, Han Wu finally understood the power of the Explosive Locusts.

"Looks like I'll have to raise more Explosive Locusts in the future," Han Wu muttered to himself.

Then, he took out the spoils from this battle.

They were fragments of Zhang Bin's shattered Divine Realm.

Zhang Bin came from a well-off family. In order to build a solid foundation, he had poured no small amount of resources into his Divine Realm.

Though Han Wu could not directly obtain those resources, he could acquire the fragments that had been transformed by them.

He fused the fragments into his own Divine Realm.

Han Wu's Divine Realm immediately expanded to two hundred and sixty square kilometers.

Of that, one hundred square kilometers were fertile plains, twenty were mines, forty were forests, sixty were desert, and another forty were ordinary mountains.

The second most valuable items were naturally Zhang Bin's Divine Realm Core Fragment and the Level 1 holy relic originally loaded onto the core: the Dwarven Hammer.

After fusing the Divine Realm Core Fragment into his own Divine Realm Core, Han Wu's Divine Realm Core advanced to Level 2.

He could now load another Level 1 holy relic, or replace the Level 1 holy relic Heart of Explosion with a Level 2 holy relic.

But Level 2 holy relics were worth more than ten times as much as Level 1 holy relics. Han Wu could not afford one.

Besides that, Han Wu found more than eight hundred dwarves and a number of iron weapons and equipment within the Divine Realm fragments.

These gains were already quite substantial for him.

If he could develop steadily, they would be enough to support his normal graduation and admission into a third-rate university.

But Han Wu knew that shattering Zhang Bin's Divine Realm Core would not end so easily.

Zhang Bin's demigod father would most likely come to the school and make trouble.

When that time came, under pressure from a demigod, the school would very likely hand him over for Zhang Bin's father to deal with.

With his current strength, if he fell into a demigod's hands, there was basically no chance of turning things around.

Therefore, before Zhang Bin's father came knocking, Han Wu needed to exchange everything he did not currently need for resources to increase the strength of his retinue.

He had to raise his current strength as much as possible.

After sorting everything out, Han Wu logged into the God Trading Website and uploaded the goods he wanted to sell.

They included sixty square kilometers of desert, forty square kilometers of mountains, the Level 1 holy relic Dwarven Hammer, and several iron weapons and equipment.

Han Wu added a special note to the Level 1 holy relic Dwarven Hammer.

Trade only, not for sale. He required a holy relic related to explosions in exchange.

As for the eight hundred dwarves, Han Wu threw them into the mining area to dig ore. At critical moments, they could serve as sacrificial materials.

Not long after the goods were listed, a notification arrived from the trading website.

The desert terrain had been sold. One unit of divine power per square kilometer, for a total of sixty points of divine power.

The mountain terrain had been sold. One and a half units of divine power per square kilometer, for a total of sixty points of divine power.

The iron equipment had been sold, earning four points of divine power.

The Level 1 holy relic Dwarven Hammer, however, had yet to find a suitable buyer.

Many people sent messages, belittling the effects of the Level 1 holy relic Dwarven Hammer in every possible way.

They said the Dwarven Hammer could only affect dwarf retinues and could only increase the success rate of forging equipment. It had no actual combat power. They wanted to use that to haggle and exchange some trash holy relics for it.

Han Wu was not about to fall for that.

While waiting patiently, he once again used his troop-producing method, accelerating the growth of locusts to obtain more members of the Locust Retinue.

With the Divine Realm's expanded area and abundant resources, the number of locusts it could support had increased enormously as well.

Without damaging the environment, Han Wu could raise even more members of the Locust Retinue.

After ten hours had passed in the real world, Han Wu finally received a message from a buyer who seemed fairly reliable.

The buyer had a Level 1 holy relic called the Molten Fire Crystal. It could increase a retinue's resistance to the fire element and enhance explosive power, making it very suitable for Han Wu's needs.

However, the Molten Fire Crystal was more valuable than the Dwarven Hammer.

The buyer left a message saying Han Wu had to add one hundred points of divine power before he would agree to the trade.

After a round of tugging and haggling, the two sides finally reached an agreement.

Han Wu would pay the Dwarven Hammer and eighty points of divine power in exchange for the Molten Fire Crystal.

The transaction was completed soon afterward.

The moment it was finalized, the Molten Fire Crystal was teleported into Han Wu's hands.

It was a scorching crystal, crystalline and translucent on the outside, with a lively mass of lava wrapped inside, as though it could erupt at any moment.

Han Wu immediately loaded the Molten Fire Crystal onto the Divine Realm Core.

In an instant, a surge of fire power flashed across every locust.

Roughly one-thousandth of the locusts mutated.

The mutated ordinary locusts gained greater resistance to high temperatures, provided twice as much Faith Power each day, and had their lifespans extended to one hundred and fifty days. Yet they still belonged to Normal Lifeforms.

The mutated Explosive Locusts, however, underwent tremendous changes.

Not only did their bodies grow larger once more, reaching twenty centimeters in length, but even their race name and talent changed.

Retinue Name: Bursting Locusts.

Retinue Level: Elite Creature.

Kin Talent: Lava Self-Destruct.

Faith Level: Fanatical Believer.

Faith Power: 1/5 days.

Reproduction Ability: 20/time.

Lifespan: 250 days.

Although the newly produced Bursting Locusts were still Elite Creatures, their power completely surpassed that of the Explosive Locusts.

After testing them, Han Wu found that each Bursting Locust's destructive power was roughly equal to that of a grenade.

Moreover, the splashing lava produced when Bursting Locusts exploded could inflict widespread damage.

Having witnessed the might of the Bursting Locusts, Han Wu immediately made up his mind: stockpile troops!

If he had ten million Bursting Locusts, he could strut sideways through the entire school.

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