13 Billion Mushroom Kin

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"How many times in life can one truly struggle? If not today, then when?"

"Today's hardship is for the happiness that comes after ascending to godhood!"

"..."

Chen Changhe rubbed his head as he woke from his daze, finding himself standing in the school's spacious auditorium.

Annoying!

So annoying!

Damn annoying!

Happiness after ascending to godhood?

I don't deserve it!

"Easier said than done."

"My kin are all mushrooms, what am I supposed to fight with?"

"Should I rely on stuffing my opponents to death during battle?"

Standing in the class formation, he watched the principal deliver an impassioned, motivational speech via a virtual projection.

Chen Changhe felt not a shred of excitement; his heart was completely cold.

Chen Changhe had been in this world for eighteen years, and he had a deep understanding of how it worked.

A divine being with kin like his, a common fungal species, had no future in this life.

There was no need to even talk about college entrance exam results.

The best path forward was to regularly provide mushrooms and other fungi to some deity in exchange for a bit of divine power.

A born laborer for the gods.

"It's certainly better than being an ordinary person."

"But this life is just going to be like this..."

Chen Changhe sighed, standing in the formation feeling drowsy.

Zhu Caigou, the homeroom teacher standing at the front of the line, glanced at Chen Changhe and frowned.

However, he said nothing.

"There is one week left until the school conducts the pre-college entrance exam assessment."

"An elimination system will be held then."

"This Chen Changhe should just pack his bags and leave!"

"An orphan with no parents, relying on the support of the Federal Government to complete his education at Deity High School."

"What a lucky guy!"

"But that's as far as it goes..."

"This kid has no chance of becoming a demigod in this lifetime."

Zhu Caigou had been Chen Changhe's homeroom teacher for three years.

During his freshman and sophomore years, he had actually held high hopes for Chen Changhe.

Although the kid was penniless and couldn't give him gifts like the other students in the class.

But the kid was smart, and his grades in all subjects related to deity studies were always ranked first in the grade.

For that reason, he hadn't mistreated Chen Changhe.

Who would have known that after activating his divine domain in his senior year, the kid's core kin would turn out to be nothing but mushrooms.

And they were just common mushroom species at that.

This infuriated Zhu Caigou.

All his tolerance had been fed to the dogs.

From then on, he targeted Chen Changhe at every turn.

He tried every possible way to force Chen Changhe to drop out voluntarily.

Yet he never expected this kid to be so thick-skinned as to keep clinging to the class.

"No... this can't go on like this..."

"The students' assessment results affect my teaching performance review."

"Other students might be able to pass a round or two, but this loser Chen Changhe definitely won't pass a single one."

"When that happens, I'll become the laughingstock of the whole school!"

"I must find a way to make Chen Changhe drop out voluntarily before the assessment..."

Zhu Caigou's eyes darted around as an idea formed in his mind.

"As a teacher, I certainly can't take direct action against Chen Changhe."

"But if it's a conflict between students, that's a different story."

"Students fighting each other over a dispute and destroying a Divine Domain core."

"That kind of thing isn't something a homeroom teacher like me can control."

"There are more than one or two people in the class who don't like the look of that kid..."

Don't blame me for being ruthless!

Trash doesn't deserve to stay in my class!

In his past life, Chen Changhe was also named Chen Changhe.

He was a craftsman.

His Kirin Arm was unrivaled under the heavens.

An accident sent him transmigrating to this parallel world of Earth known as Blue Star.

This was a world where everyone had the chance to become a god.

Having lost both parents at a young age, he grew up with his grandfather, who also passed away three years ago before he started high school.

Relying on the Blue Star Federation government's educational subsidies, he entered Deity High School to receive three years of deity education and opened his private Divine Domain.

"But... is this all there is?"

Back home, Chen Changhe sighed.

He was very unwilling to accept this.

A rope always breaks at its thinnest point, and misfortune always seeks out the miserable.

"I can basically consider this a hell-difficulty start."

For divine beings, the type of core kin is extremely important.

After divine beings open their Divine Domain, they can naturally give birth to some creatures within it.

These creatures are the divine being's core kin.

Compared to other kin, core kin increase a divine being's faith much faster.

They are also more likely to produce high-quality believers and more easily evolve into high-level life forms.

Ordinary life form, elite life form, extraordinary life form, epic life form, legendary life form, lord life form.

This is the promotion path for the life levels of kin.

The higher the level of the life form, the more powerful it is.

Once kin reach the legendary life form stage, they possess strength equivalent to a demigod.

Lord life forms are even comparable to gods.

Chen Changhe's kin were all mushrooms without the ability to move.

They didn't even have basic intelligence.

Let alone combat power.

"This is a trash race."

If he could, Chen Changhe certainly wouldn't just lie flat.

Having transmigrated with such difficulty, not trying to get ahead would be a disrespect to the transmigration itself.

"But I just can't do it!"

If he had a family background, Chen Changhe could try to reset his Divine Domain.

He could find a way to obtain new core kin.

But Chen Changhe was penniless.

The only core holy relic he possessed was something he had bought by selling his ancestral home.

He couldn't afford the cost of resetting his Divine Domain.

There is no true fairness in this world; even before he transmigrated, the upper class used connections and money to settle everything, while those at the bottom could only settle for being fodder.

How much more so now?

There were actually a few other classmates in Chen Changhe's class who had obtained useless kin just like him.

However, they had long since obtained new opportunities by resetting their Divine Domains.

Without demigod parents, Chen Changhe had to rely on himself for everything; he lacked that kind of pay-to-win ability.

Once a divine being's divinity reaches 6 points, they can prepare for the ritual to become a demigod.

Becoming a demigod allows one to fuse with a divine profession, attempt to ignite a divine fire, and ascend to a divine throne to become a true god.

Resetting the resources of a Divine Domain was an astronomical figure to him, but to those demigod families, it was merely a matter of a few materials.

Although there were female classmates who wanted to sponsor Chen Changhe to reset his Divine Domain.

Chen Changhe was still not used to being a kept man.

He did not agree.

Craving my body?

I am a man of integrity, that won't do!

He did not like passive pleasure.

This was already his only bottom line.

Chen Changhe walked toward the Divine Domain Login Pod in the room.

Divine creatures below the demigod level lacked sufficient ability to connect to the Divine Domain on their own and needed the assistance of a Divine Domain Login Pod.

From the outside, it looked like a space capsule, with a bullet-shaped design that felt very high-tech.

"Click!"

The Divine Domain Login Pod opened, and Chen Changhe lay inside.

[Identity card and Divine Domain information match perfectly, genetic recognition successful!]

[Name]: Chen Changhe
[Age]: 18
[Current Realm]: Divine Creature (divided into Divine Creature, Demigod, True God, Main God, God King...)
[Core Kin]: Mushroom
[Divine Name]: Mushroom God
[Godhood]: None
[Divinity]: 1
[Divine Domain Core]: Level 1
[Divine Domain Area]: 10 square kilometers (50% plains, 30% mountains, 20% lakes)
[Number of Kin]: 13 billion ordinary mushrooms, 2300 Mushroom Men
[Faith Value]: 3697
[Divine Power Balance]: 600
[Loaded Relic]: Humanoid Core (Mushroom)—after loading, a one in a hundred million chance to anthropomorphize mushroom-type kin, turning them into ordinary living Mushroom Men
[Divine Art]: None
[Artifact]: None
[Deity Abilities]: Growth Acceleration, Life Sacrifice (Unique).