Divine Domain Development (Thanks to Boss Wu Shang for the Alliance Leader, Oh Yeah!)

Of course, this definitely couldn't be kept hidden. It would surely come out during the Final Exam, but at least he had plenty of time to prepare himself.

After tossing and turning for nearly two hours, he finally drifted off. He woke early the next morning, and after breakfast, entered the Divine Domain Login Pod and arrived at his Divine Domain in Subspace.

He first conducted his usual inspection of the Divine Domain. The Blackscale Naga and Gray Mist Fishmen were getting along fairly well.

Above the newly opened Fertile Land of the Divine Domain, some weeds had already begun to grow along the beach-facing side of the black stretch of earth, which was three and a half kilometers long and a little over one kilometer wide.

Rubbing his chin as he looked down over the Divine Domain, Lin Xiao felt that he still needed some cash crops—some seeds.

Things like potatoes and sweet potatoes, crops that were easy to cultivate and yielded plentiful harvests.

He had long since placed the Five-Star Resource Card—the Large Shallow Sea Fish School Card. It contained five randomly selected large schools of shallow-sea creatures: a large school of White Scale Sea Shrimp, a large school of Chum Salmon, a large school of Cod, a large school of Sturgeon, and a large school of Black Spotted Grouper. The size of each school depended on the species. A large school of sizable groupers, for example, contained only a thousand fish, while a large school of tiny White Scale Sea Shrimp contained over a hundred thousand.

They were all evenly split between males and females and could reproduce.

These five marine species, together with the several species already in the Divine Domain, greatly enriched the ocean's biodiversity and improved its food chain.

As long as they were not overfished and were allowed to reproduce, these marine resources could fully meet the food needs of two or three thousand Murlocs and Blackscale Naga.

As for the Wild Buffalo Herd Card, he still had not used it. The newly opened Fertile Land had not yet grown any grass or plants. If he released the buffalo now, they would starve to death with nothing to eat.

Managing a Divine Domain was no easy task, especially in the early stages. Almost everything was lacking, problems arose without end, and solving one problem would only create another.

The cards available in the early stages were limited, so he had to plan carefully and consider whether every card was worth using.

Lin Xiao spent several months of Divine Domain time considering its future development path. Should he pursue a main combat build, a farming build, or a balanced build?

If he chose the main combat build, he would have to consider forming factions—cough, cough—he meant finding a few compatible friends, like those outstanding students in his class. Once their Divine Domain levels and Divinity values reached a certain point, they could join forces and complement one another's strengths.

A main combat build meant that, in the future, none of the cards integrated into the Divine Domain would need to focus on resource production or internal balance. He would only need to devote himself to cultivating the primary combat race.

As long as the primary combat race and the Divine Domain were powerful, logistics could be left to allied teammates.

For example, he could find a Divine Domain that specialized in the farming build. They would not need to develop their Kinfolk's combat strength; they would only need to farm wholeheartedly and produce enough resources to supply the races within their captain's Divine Domain.

It was just like Lin Xiao's parents. His father followed the main combat build, while his mother followed the farming build. Her Divine Domain's Kinfolk were only average in strength, but its resource output was extremely high, providing enough extra resources to support his father's Divine Domain.

To give another simple example, Lin Xiao's family. Every family member's Divine Domain was clustered around the Divine Domains of the family's two True Gods. With the two True Gods at the center, the other demigod or Divine Creature family members mainly served as support, forming an enormous pantheon.

Within the AX-14 Crystal Wall System, his family appeared before the Native Gods under the name of a pantheon.

The main combat build and farming build were one for offense and one for defense, complementing each other.

As for the balanced build, as the name implied, it was strong in both offense and defense. Conversely, it could also be said to be strong in neither—but it had no weaknesses.

Lin Xiao had originally planned to pursue the main combat build, then find a beautiful goddess to marry like his father had. But later, he realized beautiful goddesses were hard to find. There was not a single pretty female student in his class. There were a few at school, but what did that have to do with him?

Girls of that caliber had long been surrounded by a pack of lechers. He had no chance at all.

Besides, Lin Xiao personally felt that this kind of division-of-labor cooperation carried a huge hidden danger. Once one side ran into trouble, it could set off a chain reaction and affect the entire pantheon.

On top of that, he had a slight obsessive streak and disliked having weaknesses in his Divine Domain, so he could only choose the balanced build.

Of course, that would not affect his ability to find teammates and establish a pantheon in the future.

For the following days, Lin Xiao spent every day in the Divine Domain. Watching Blackscale Naga hatch from their eggs one after another and gradually grow up filled him with joy.

Blackscale Naga took six years to mature and could live up to fifty years. There were still more than ten years until the Final Exam, enough time for a third generation to be born.

Blackscale Naga laid one to three eggs at a time and reproduced once a year. After excluding eggs that failed to develop, more than forty or fifty Newborns were born in the first year alone.

During this period, Lin Xiao gave his believers only one Divine Revelation: reproduce with everything they had. He aimed to accumulate more than five hundred Blackscale Naga before the Final Exam. Only then would he be confident of obtaining a Divinity reward in the Final Exam.

As for the Gray Mist Fishmen, he did not issue them any Divine Revelation. He had already positioned the Murlocs as an auxiliary race, so there was no need for them to reproduce desperately. He did not expect them to play much of a role when the time came.

There was no helping it. In another twenty-odd years, even the longest-lived Murlocs would have died. The large number of Murloc Warriors upgraded during the Placement Test would all be dead by then.

The Murlocs born afterward would all be level zero, with limited combat power. Sending them onto the battlefield would only make them cannon fodder.

However, he had still underestimated the Murlocs' reproductive abilities.

Without war, with ample food, and with all newborn Murlocs possessing twice the reproductive ability and survival rate, the Murloc population grew over these years at an astonishing rate, like dumplings pouring into a pot.

Good lord. Half a month later—fifteen years in Divine Domain time—the number of Murlocs in the Divine Domain had already exceeded 2,100.

That was after he noticed things were getting out of hand and deliberately suppressed them, having the Murloc Chieftain lead the Murlocs in daily training so they would not spend every day doing nothing but making babies.

At that number, they had basically reached the Divine Domain's population capacity.

And let's not forget that there were also over 480 Blackscale Naga in the Divine Domain. They were heavy eaters too. Those few hundred Naga ate no less than two thousand Murlocs.

Fortunately, the newly opened Fertile Land in the Divine Domain had become covered in wild grass over the years. He activated the Wild Buffalo Herd Card and summoned one hundred buffalo to graze on the grassland.

Several hundred Blackscale Naga swarmed forward, captured the buffalo, and penned them up. They had now been preliminarily domesticated.

They were not used for plowing, since there were no seeds. They were simply kept as beef cattle, with some slaughtered for food from time to time while ensuring the herd could continue reproducing.