Golden Finger Activated

"Hiss."

With a faint hiss of pressurized air, the door of the white Divine Domain Login Pod opened. A stream of Light Blue Calming Mist spilled out, revealing Lin Xiao as he opened his eyes.

He reached up and removed the Transparent Crystal Ring from around his head, rubbed the space between his brows, and carefully placed the ring into its designated storage slot inside the pod.

This was an auxiliary device specifically designed to stabilize the mind and buffer mental pressure. Besides allowing him to connect to the Divine Domain located in Subspace, it also relieved the Perceptual Disorder caused by the Over a Hundred Times Time Flow between the Main World and Subspace. It stabilized the mind as well, ensuring that new players like him, who had only recently opened up a Divine Domain, would not lose themselves in the illusions produced by divine power.

After all, Newborn Divine Lifeforms like him had once been ordinary people. Having only just come into contact with divine power and Divinity, they could easily lose themselves in the immense power brought by divine power without this assistance.

When the Human Federation first discovered the God-Sealing Game, such comprehensive auxiliary facilities did not yet exist. Back then, people were often affected by Divinity and divine power, causing drastic changes in their personalities. Those whose wills were not strong enough were even directly enslaved by the power of Divinity.

Lin Xiao had transmigrated at a good time. By now, humanity had gone through tens of thousands of years of exploration and development. Stable Divine Domain Login Pods had long since been created, and human civilization had already gained a foothold in the Chaotic Void Sea. The clan was filled with powerful experts, with tens of millions of Deities dominating countless Crystal Wall Systems in the Chaotic Void Sea, occupying an immeasurable number of planes and even Crystal Wall Systems.

Having transmigrated and been reborn into the best era of this glorious high-fantasy civilization, Lin Xiao was quite satisfied.

He was also quite satisfied with the family he had been reborn into. His parents were alive, and he was an only child with no siblings. Although the family had many branches and some internal conflicts, it was generally harmonious, without all that messy nonsense.

After all, the family's true god Old Ancestor, who had already Ignited Divine Fire, was still alive. Deities had infinite lifespans. Before the Old Ancestor died, the descendants had no hopes to speak of. Even if they wanted to fight for something, there was nothing they could fight over.

After stepping out of the Divine Domain Login Pod, he casually washed his face. Hearing a "ding" notification from the pod, he wiped his face and walked over. His finger lightly tapped a button, and a light screen popped into existence before him, displaying:

Dongning City Fifth Middle School, Class Three of First Year High School, report card for the thirty-eighth major lesson of this semester—

Student: Lin Xiao

Personal performance: 6.2 points.

Kinfolk performance: 4.4 points.

Overall score: 5.5 points.

Overall evaluation: Good-.

Class rank: 25.

Year rank: 252.

Class Teacher's comments: Personal combat performance is above average. Kinfolk performance is failing.

The report card was very formulaic. Lin Xiao glanced at it and shrugged. He had expected this long ago. The Kinfolk he had chosen really were a little lousy.

He had known it half a year ago, when he had first opened up his Divine Domain, but there was nothing he could do.

No matter who it was, their initial Kinfolk could only be low-level races. A newcomer's Divinity could not bear powerful races. Only after becoming stronger in the future could they switch to stronger races.

The reason he had chosen Murlocs was simply because his Divine Domain was entirely water. Murlocs had an advantage in water.

When he had first opened his Divine Domain, there had only been fifty Murlocs. Now, after more than half a year, with one day in the Main World equaling one year in the Divine Domain, over two hundred years had passed. Murlocs had lifespans of around twenty years and could generally reproduce after two or three years, yet after all this time, there were only 107 of them. Their total growth rate over two hundred years was only one hundred percent. What a scam.

The main reason was that Murlocs were simply too weak. Although every student's initial race was weak, Murlocs were still among the very weakest.

With their feeble strength, combined with the combat losses from the weekly major lessons, and without any cards that could accelerate reproduction, he was still in this pathetic state after half a year.

What left him powerless to complain was that, with this performance, he was somehow still in the middle tier of the class. Out of fifty students, he ranked twenty-fifth. There were ten classes and five hundred students in the entire year, yet his ranking had remained around 250. It had been remarkably stable over the past half year.

Rubbing his gums, Lin Xiao closed the panel and opened the other message behind it.

It was also from the Class Teacher, a mass notification:

"Prepare for the Placement Test next Monday. This will be the last Placement Test of the semester, followed by the Final Exam. After that, the school will assign classes. You all know what that means. This is your last chance. Please make proper preparations during this final month."

Placement Tests were held once a month. Usually, the Class Teacher would prepare various monster cards and release monsters of a certain difficulty to invade the students' Divine Domains. It was similar to the major lesson just now, but the monsters would either be stronger or more numerous.

Placement Tests carried a certain degree of danger. One moment of carelessness could cause severe losses among the Kinfolk in a Divine Domain, affecting their development.

However, for some outstanding students, this was also a good opportunity. Since student advancement rates affected teachers' performance evaluations, teachers would usually grant various rewards to students who performed well during major lessons. The same applied to Placement Tests.

Of course, Lin Xiao had attended more than thirty major lessons since enrolling and had never received a teacher's reward even once. His best result had been nineteenth place in the class, earning him a verbal encouragement from the Class Teacher.

He closed the light screen with a somewhat grave expression. He was not worried about the Placement Test, but rather the Final Exam one month later.

Human Federation high schools implemented a tiered system. First Year of High School was still normal, but once students entered Second Year of High School, the school would reassign classes based on their First Year of High School Final Exam results. This was the distinction between Ordinary Classes, elite classes, and Key Classes.

There was no doubt that elite classes and Key Classes would receive more resource support and better teaching staff.

As for Ordinary Classes, they would naturally receive only perfunctory teaching and were basically left to fend for themselves.

Even though Lin Xiao had a Golden Finger, he still attached great importance to class assignment. He did not want to be assigned to an Ordinary Class. Even with a Golden Finger, things would be difficult there.

It was not that his Golden Finger was weak. If he could enter a Key Class, why would he go to an Ordinary Class?

This was not some fantasy novel where a useless protagonist was mocked at the start, then rose to power with a Golden Finger and wildly slapped everyone's faces.

He was not that idle.

So, for this Placement Test... His consciousness sank into his Sea of Consciousness. At the center of the starry Sea of Consciousness, a crystal Magic Cube emitting a faint glow was rotating back and forth without pattern. An unseen progress bar had already reached its peak.

I hope it finishes loading before the test!

Before the thought had even faded, the unseen progress bar reached the end. Then, the crystal Magic Cube endlessly spinning in the starry Sea of Consciousness erupted with boundless radiance, like a sun stretching across the stars.

"My Golden Finger has finally activated."

Lin Xiao was almost moved to tears. He had waited seventeen years. This thing could finally be used.

He immediately stretched out his palm. A speck of white light flew out and rapidly danced across his palm, outlining a Magic Cube made of threads of light. This was the projection of the Creation Cube.

Well, he did not know what this thing was really called. He had simply named it the Creation Cube based on its functions.

Just as its name suggested, the Magic Cube's functions were akin to creation itself. It could decompose, refine, extract, fuse, reorganize, and more, anything placed within it. It possessed the ability to completely alter the fundamental nature of all things in the world.

When Lin Xiao had first obtained the Creation Cube, he had not known how to use it. But after entering the God-Sealing Game and opening up his Divine Domain, he had learned how to make the greatest use of the Creation Cube.

"To hell with waiting. I have to try it."

How could he possibly wait until next time? He turned and entered his room, opened an Alloy Safe embedded in the wall, and took out three crystal cards.

These were cards unique to the God-Sealing Game: one Three-Star Resource Card, one Three-Star Skill Card, and one Two-Star Skill Card. All of them were Blank Common Cards.

Three-Star Resource Card—Fertile Black Soil (Rare): Converts an area of Fertile Black Soil Land sixty meters long and sixty meters wide, with a thickness of four meters, in a single use.

Three-Star Skill Card—Thrust (Common): Restricted to piercing weapons. Charges toward the target at extreme speed, dealing double weapon damage and guaranteed to trigger a piercing effect.

Two-Star Skill Card—Severe Pain (Common): Your attacks deal an additional 15% damage to the target, with an extremely small chance to trigger a bleeding effect.

The first card, the Three-Star Resource Card, had been given to him by his grandfather when he first opened his Divine Domain. Unfortunately, he had chosen an ocean Divine Domain, and the Gray Mist Fishmen were not good at farming, so this rare Three-Star Resource Card had nowhere to be used.

One of the other two Skill Cards had been given to him by his grandmother, and the other by a Cousin. But he felt that using them on a race as weak as Murlocs was somewhat wasteful. Besides, he had known about his Golden Finger's functions early on. He had planned to save them until the Golden Finger activated, then decompose and fuse the two cards into a single more powerful card.

So, they had remained in the safe gathering dust, until today, when they finally had a use.

He eagerly took out the three cards. After thinking for a moment, he removed a Wrist Wheel made of crystal from the bedside cabinet drawer. He pressed it with his finger, and a light screen appeared. After another moment's thought, he tapped and drew across the screen, composing a message: "My wise and mighty father and gentle, lovely mother, your son has recently come to an understanding. He no longer wishes to work hard. I hope Mother will transfer the New Year's money and red envelope money your son has saved with you over the years to your son."

After reading it over, he edited it again, changing "you" to the respectful form. Satisfied, he signed his name and sent it.

Less than five minutes later, a reply arrived. When he opened it, the light screen emerged from the Wrist Wheel's surface and transformed into the projection of a woman dressed in a pale blue starlight gown.

The woman resembled Lin Xiao by seventy or eighty percent. She looked gentle and refined, like a young girl, and gazed at Lin Xiao with a face full of affection as she softly said:

"Xiao'er, have you thought it through?"

"Yes, I have."

This was Lin Xiao's mother, Jin Yunzhu, a demigod whose Divine Profession was Rainy Season and Growth. This was merely a projection of one of her divine thoughts. Her true body was currently in a Plane Cluster within the AX-14 Crystal Wall System, where the family was permanently stationed.

Like all mothers in the world, Jin Yunzhu doted greatly on Lin Xiao, her only son. Every year on his birthday, she would prepare a gift for him.