Placement Test Begins

Wu Hai announced the news expressionlessly. Then, with a flip of his hand, a stack of Cards glowing faintly with golden light flew from his palm and spread out in a row before him. "This Placement Test will be somewhat more difficult than usual, but it should still be within your capabilities. Considering that some students do indeed have gaps in their current strength, if you feel unable to pass during the test, you may contact the teacher and withdraw. However, withdrawing means the test will end, and I will score you based on your results before you withdrew."

After a pause, he took another, slightly thinner stack of Cards from his pocket and spread them out. He continued, "Because this Placement Test has increased difficulty, the rewards will also be greater than before. Those ranked eleventh through twentieth in the class will receive a designated One-Star Card. The top ten will receive a designated Two-Star Card. Third place will receive an additional Three-Star Card on top of the Two-Star Card, while second place will receive an additional Four-Star Card on top of the Two-Star Card."

At this point, he paused and spoke as he looked over the students' surprised and expectant faces:

"First place in this Placement Test will receive a Five-Star Card of a designated type. This will greatly increase your strength, so students, work hard!"

Lin Xiao noticed that the teacher's gaze had fallen on the few top students who had consistently ranked in the class's top five. Students like him, ranked in the middle or lower, were passed over without even a glance.

Sure enough, poor students received no attention!

Although he had long been used to it, being ignored like this still made him feel rather annoyed.

This only strengthened Lin Xiao's resolve to do well on this test. Whether the teacher paid attention to him was one thing; the main thing was that Five-Star Card whose type could be designated. That was a truly good item.

After all, for Divine Lifeforms like them who had only just opened up their Divine Domains and had not even become demigods, the highest-level Cards they could use were Five-Star Cards. Anything above five stars was called a Demigod Card, while true gods generally used God Cards.

The number of Cards each student could use during high school was limited. Naturally, they had to use high-level Cards in order to maximize the improvement to their strength.

At that moment, the Class Teacher's voice rang out again:

"The rules for this Placement Test are no different from before. You may go back and prepare now."

With a flick of his sleeve, Lin Xiao felt a powerful force rush over him. His body flew out of the hall against his will. Before leaving, he vaguely saw that several students had not left with him, while Wu Hai and Zheng Wenzhuo also remained in the hall.

"The teacher is so biased!"

He vaguely heard a student complain.

He shrugged and did not respond.

According to the usual testing practice, the teacher would begin sending test enemies to invade their Divine Domains the day after making the announcement. Students could immediately enter their Divine Domains to prepare or wait until the next day, but most students entered right away to make preparations early.

Lin Xiao thought the same way. He immediately entered the Divine Domain Login Device and began connecting to his Divine Domain.

When he arrived in the Divine Domain again, more than a dozen newborn Murlocs had been added in that short time. However, more than a dozen old Murlocs had also died, so the total number had remained even, though he had lost several believers.

Fortunately, as the new generation of Murlocs was born and received tribal faith education from childhood, newborn Murlocs possessed at least the faith of Light Believers as soon as they reached adulthood. Nearly one-third possessed true faith and became True Believers.

As they grew older, all True Believers could obtain the preloaded Salted Fish Thrust skill, greatly increasing their strength. This heavily stimulated the Light Believers, and a considerable number of them saw their faith surge and became True Believers as a result.

At present, the tribe had a total of 654 Murlocs, including 19 Fanatic Believers, 68 Devout Believers, and 116 Light Believers. The remaining 451 Murlocs were all True Believers.

This ratio was already quite good. After all, Murlocs had lifespans that were far too short. Their lives lasted barely more than a dozen years, less than twenty in total, leaving them no chance to gradually deepen their faith. Reaching the level of a True Believer was generally their limit.

A standard human Light Believer could provide 0.1 Faith Points per day, while the weak Murloc race could only provide one-fifth as much as humans.

Therefore, a Murloc Light Believer could provide 0.02 Faith Points per day, which was practically useless.

A True Believer could provide 0.2 points. Although that was still very little, at least Murlocs were numerous and reproduced quickly. With 451 True Believers, Lin Xiao could accumulate 90.2 Faith Points per day.

A Devout Believer could provide 1 Faith Point per day. The Murloc tribe now had 68 Devout Believers, providing 68 Faith Points per day.

A Fanatic Believer could provide 10 Faith Points per day. He now had 19 Fanatic Believers, providing 190 Faith Points per day. They provided the most Faith Points with the smallest numbers, which was why high-quality believers were a Deity's most valuable wealth.

All told, Lin Xiao could gain around 350 Faith Points each day from this group of Murlocs.

However, that was the ideal state. In reality, the Faith Points he gained each day had stabilized at around 270 to 280.

The main reason was that believers had to pray earnestly according to the rituals prescribed by the church to maximize their Faith Point output. Everyone knew the nature of Murlocs. Getting them to pray earnestly according to prescribed rituals was harder than climbing to the heavens. It was in their nature and could not be changed, so Lin Xiao could only harvest sixty to seventy percent of the theoretical amount each day.

Even so, by accumulating 270 to 280 points every day on top of what he had saved before, his total Faith Points had now exceeded five hundred thousand.

That sounded like a lot, right? Yet it was nowhere near enough.

Leaving aside the fact that Divine Domain Players traded either through barter or Faith Points, and leaving aside the costs of upgrading Kinfolk and everything else, those five hundred thousand Faith Points were actually not much at all. Converting them into Divine Power would not even yield one point.

According to the conversion ratio between Faith Points and Divine Power, one million Faith Points were needed to convert into one point of Divine Power. These five hundred thousand points were not enough to convert into even one point.

Still, although it was not yet one point of Divine Power, five hundred thousand Faith Points were at least fairly impressive among Newborn Divine Lifeforms like them, who had opened their Divine Domains less than a year ago.

Sure enough, once the Golden Finger activated, he was about to take off.

Previously, it had taken more than a hundred years to accumulate one point of Divine Power. Now, in less than seven or eight years, he had already accumulated half a point. The speed was faster by an unknown number of times, and it would only become faster as his Divine Domain developed. In another two years, by the time of the College Entrance Examination, accumulating one point of Divine Power per year might not be impossible.

After reflecting for a moment, Lin Xiao pulled himself together and first spent 654 Faith Points to issue a Divine Revelation, equivalent to one point per believer.

The consumption was not much now, but once he had more believers in the future, it would become substantial. If he had hundreds of thousands or millions of believers, a single Divine Revelation would cost hundreds of thousands or millions of Faith Points.

Therefore, when that time came, he would generally have the Chosen One convey any Divine Revelations directly.