Fright

However, before he could even catch his breath, the last remaining Snakemen Priest suddenly gave up resisting. He pulled a bone dagger from his waist, set with gemstones and shaped like a snake's tail, and viciously stabbed it into his own chest. The bone dagger immediately lit up with a blood-red golden glow. At the same time, the two eye-like gemstones embedded in its hilt lit up, and a suffocating aura appeared out of nowhere.

"Hiss!"

The Snakemen Priest hissed toward the sky, his pupils turning pitch-black. Strands of snake-like black vapor flew out from his pupils and swiftly shot toward the corpses of every dead Snake-Man around them. When they flew back, each strand was wrapped around a Snake-Man soul, which was drawn back into the Snakemen Priest's body.

As Snake-Man souls merged into his body one after another, the Snakemen Priest's aura rapidly swelled. A pressure belonging only to a demigod slowly emerged and quickly grew stronger.

"Fuck, a demigod descending?"

As a deity himself, Lin Xiao naturally knew what this meant.

The demigod behind these Snake-Men was actually using the Snakemen Priest as a medium to forcibly send a trace of Divinity across worlds and condense an incarnation.

Clearly, that Snakemen Demigod had set his sights on Lin Xiao, this newly born Divine Lifeform, and wanted to use this method to cross worlds and hunt him down.

If an ordinary Divine Lifeform encountered this situation, they would most likely be doomed. A demigod was vastly stronger than a Divine Lifeform. Even a mere incarnation could easily crush almost all Divine Lifeforms.

Unfortunately, Lin Xiao was currently in class. He was a student, and teachers were watching over them during class precisely to prevent accidents like this.

When faced with such a situation, all he had to do was stay calm and then shout, "Teacher, save me!"

"Insolence!"

A deafening roar came from the horizon. A golden finger as massive as a mountain descended from the sky and pressed down upon the Snakemen Priest, who was still in the process of taking shape.

Seemingly sensing this fatal threat, the Black Smoke souls surrounding the Snakemen Priest rapidly contracted, forming a pitch-black eggshell-like shield. A vicious Snake-Man face emerged on its surface and roared toward the sky.

Then the golden finger pressed down. The eggshell shattered inch by inch, and the utterly transformed Snakemen Priest crumbled along with it, eventually vanishing into nothingness. Only a speck of golden light remained, suspended in the air and constantly flickering, continuously emitting divine power fluctuations that made Lin Xiao unable to stop himself from drooling.

This was a trace of Divinity, sent across worlds by the Snakemen Demigod to condense an incarnation. Now that the incarnation and its will had been destroyed, only this trace of Divinity remained.

A beam of golden light flew from the golden finger, wrapped around that speck of golden light, and rose into the sky. Lin Xiao instinctively reached out and let out an "Ah!" The golden finger paused for a moment before continuing away.

After a while, Class Teacher Wu Hai's voice sounded in his ear:

"Theoretically, this trace of Divinity was produced during this additional test, so it should belong to you. But with your strength, it would have been impossible for you to defeat a demigod's incarnation. According to the rules, you failed this additional trial. However, the demigod incarnation was an unexpected situation and fell outside the scope of the additional trial. Therefore, I've taken the Divinity away. This additional test will be judged a success, and the Divine Domain Card is yours."

"Ah!"

Lin Xiao let out a long sigh. This was within his expectations.

But it was still a trace of Divinity. Watching it disappear right before his eyes made his heart ache.

After all, the most crucial thing for a Divine Lifeform to become a demigod was Divinity. It was the essence of a Divine Lifeform. The stronger one's Divinity, the more divine power and the larger a Divine Domain one could bear. In particular, when a Divine Lifeform transformed into a demigod, they needed to condense a Divine Profession, which required sufficient Divinity to support it.

The stronger the Divinity, the more—and more powerful—Divine Professions it could bear.

Lin Xiao currently had only one trace of Divinity. Even Yuan Hong, the strongest in the class, had only two traces. To become a demigod, the minimum requirement was five traces of Divinity.

Normally, one had to accumulate one hundred million units of Faith Points, along with a certain amount of divine power, just to attempt to condense one trace of Divinity—and success was not guaranteed.

A whole hundred million!

Lin Xiao felt like he had missed out on a hundred million.

But there was nothing he could do. No matter how one looked at it, that trace of Divinity did not belong to him.

Fortunately, this additional trial was considered a success, and the Divine Domain Card belonged to him. That was still not bad.

With that, this placement test was over for him. Next, he had to clean up the aftermath.

The injured Murlocs returned to the tribe first, while the uninjured ones cleaned up the battlefield. They moved the dead Murloc corpses, weapons included, to one side, then carried all the Snake-Man corpses back and piled them together.

More than two hundred Snake-Men had been killed, along with over three hundred Murlocs. The corpses were piled up like mountains.

There were now only a little over two hundred Kinfolk still alive in the Divine Domain, a huge drop in number. Fortunately, the remaining Murlocs were basically those with double reproduction and survival rates. There were still more than half a month until the Final Exam, and over twenty years was enough time for them to reproduce again.

Looking at the two massive piles of corpses, Lin Xiao decided to burn them. The weather by the sea made corpses rot easily.

But just as he was about to act, a sudden idea came to him. Could he use his Creation Cube to do something? He was still unwilling to let go of that trace of Divinity, but there was nothing he could do—by any measure, it did not belong to him. It left him feeling extremely frustrated, as if he had suffered a loss, and he wanted to earn something back.

He thought that since the Creation Cube had functions such as decomposition and extraction, allowing it to break down cards and extract their cores, perhaps it could also decompose these corpses and extract something from them?

These corpses were useless anyway and would be burned. Why not test whether his idea would work?

It did not matter if it failed. But if it worked... Acting as soon as he thought of it, he looked up at the sky. By now, the Class Teacher and teaching assistant had already left, and no one was outside the Divine Domain.

Flying above the pile of Snake-Man corpses, he extended his right hand. A ring of golden light flew out, rapidly expanded, and descended, enclosing the mountain of Snake-Man corpses.

When the golden ring swallowed the corpse pile and closed again, the more than two hundred Snake-Man corpses had vanished.

Next, he repeated the process and swallowed the Murloc corpses on the other side as well. As he did so, he did not forget to have the Murloc Chieftain shout from the side:

"The great Lord of Gray Mist welcomes the brave warriors to my lord's kingdom! The evil invaders shall be cast into the Bottomless Abyss!"

As an outstanding student with perfect theoretical grades in deity studies, maximizing faith had practically become instinctive to him. He could spout nonsense without even thinking.

Amid the fervent cheers of all his believers, Lin Xiao's true body shot into the sky and returned to the Divine Kingdom.

His current Divine Kingdom was almost completely empty. Compared to the Divine Domain, which had mountains and water, the Divine Kingdom contained only a stretch of chaos.

As a New God of the Main World, different from traditional faith deities, his core was the Divine Domain formed by the fusion of the Divine Kingdom and the material plane, two sides of the same whole. The Divine Kingdom's area was equivalent to that of the Divine Domain's material plane. However large the material plane was, the Divine Kingdom was equally large.

But for someone like Lin Xiao, whose Divine Domain had only just been opened, developing the material plane of the Divine Domain was already difficult enough. The Faith Points he had accumulated were not even enough for his own use, so how could he have any spare to decorate the Divine Kingdom?

Thus, although his Divine Kingdom was as large as his Divine Domain, the actual developed area was only about the size of a football field. There was only a crude palace, which served as his residence. His true body lived in the innermost part of the Divine Palace, while several dozen Murloc Petitioners stood outside the palace as guards, decorating the facade.