8,000 Petitioners, Far Ahead

[Name]: Chen Changhe

[Age]: 18

[Current Realm]: Divine Being

[Core Followers]: Mushrooms, Orks

[Divine Name]: God of War

[Godhead]: None

[Divinity]: 1

[Divine Domain Core]: Level 6

[Divine Domain Area]: 1,420 square kilometers (30% plains, 13% mountains, 5% lakes, 20% desert, 30% swampland, 2% rainforest)

[Follower Count]: 23.69 million Orks (Snotlings)

[Faith Points]: 896,359

[Divine Power Balance]: 9,683

[Loaded Sacred Relic]: Heart of the Orks, Level 1 Sacred Relic. Once loaded into the Divine Domain Core, it gave mushroom-type followers a certain chance of transforming into Orks during reproduction.

Level 3 Sacred Relic Wild Law: Once loaded into the Divine Domain Core, the core race received the Wild Law enhancement. Attack speed and movement speed increased by 30%. After taking damage, the enhancement grew stronger; the more damage taken, the greater the boost, up to a 100% increase in both speeds.

[Divine Spell]: Battle Howl

[Divine Artifact]: None

[Divine Authority]: None

[Divine Abilities]: Growth Acceleration, Life Sacrifice (Unique).

The enormous number of followers allowed Chen Changhe to harvest Power of Faith at an astonishing rate.

His Divine Power Points balance rose at a visible pace.

"Even Demigods probably can't increase their Divine Power Points this quickly..."

After one night, the number of Petitioners in Chen Changhe's Divine Kingdom had surpassed 8,000.

Their day-and-night prayers accelerated the growth of his Power of Faith even further.

"What a pity... Petitioners can't enter the Divine Domain."

Otherwise, those Petitioners would have been an exceptionally powerful fighting force.

When Chen Changhe had attacked Bian Jianqiang's Divine Domain Core before—

If Bian Jianqiang had had Petitioners defending it—

Chen Changhe would have needed to commit at least a hundred thousand troops to possibly destroy Bian Jianqiang's Divine Domain Core.

Death was an unavoidable destination for mortals.

There were only three paths after death. The first was the complete annihilation of the soul.

This was the fate of the vast majority of Unbelievers and Shallow Believers.

When True Believers and Devout Believers died, their souls were temporarily stored within the Divine Domain.

Once the Divine Domain produced new life, those souls would be reborn.

Although these reborn souls lost the memories of their past lives, they retained most of their faith.

Fanatic Believers and Saints entered the Divine Kingdom, praying to their god day and night.

However, some gods could use secret techniques to let Fanatic Believers and Saints reincarnate within the Divine Domain.

That was the best possible fate. After reincarnation, they would have a far higher starting point than other beings.

However, Chen Changhe had not mastered such a secret technique. Even if he wanted to do it, he could not.

Chen Changhe did not report to Class One.

He asked Shan Mu for leave. During the remaining days of the assessment, aside from entering his Divine Domain once a day to perform Life Sacrifice, he spent most of his time studying divine spells in the library.

Three days meant three chances to perform Life Sacrifice.

However, his luck was average on all three occasions.

Other than gaining several thousand Divine Power Points, he only obtained a special building unit—the Void Beast Arena.

Gods who possessed this building unit had one chance each day to send their followers into the arena to battle the followers of other gods.

It was a virtual battle and did not cause any follower losses.

It was an entertainment facility used by gods for gambling.

However, Chen Changhe discovered the true value of this building unit.

Through battle, he could rapidly raise his followers' faith.

Every time, he sent Devout Believer-level followers into the arena.

A large portion of them became Fanatic Believers through battle.

"Too bad I can only send one thousand followers into battle each time right now."

Even so, after only two arena battles, Chen Changhe had gained more than 1,500 additional Fanatic Believers.

He now possessed over ten thousand Fanatic Believers.

However, this time, he did not rush to turn those Fanatic Believers into Petitioners.

More than 8,000 Petitioners were already enough to guard the Divine Domain Core.

At least, that was true for now.

Even if a Demigod entered his Divine Domain—

They would not be able to take his Divine Domain Core in a short time.

He kept those Fanatic Believers—

To try cultivating Saints from among them.

One Saint was worth several thousand Fanatic Believers.

The three days passed quickly.

Today was his third day after joining Class One, as well as the day of Third Middle School's assessment.

When he arrived at school, students from every senior class were already gathered on the main field under the guidance of their homeroom teachers.

Principal Zheng Dongfeng would personally oversee this assessment.

Third Middle School originally had ten senior classes.

But only nine groups stood on the field now.

Zhu Caigou had fled with the money two days ago.

He had taken the resources distributed by the school and escaped back to the Outer Domain.

Yellow Mountain No. 3 High School had already called the police.

Zhu Caigou would likely be wanted soon.

Chen Changhe had not expected Zhu Caigou to actually do such a thing.

It meant Zhu Caigou would probably have to remain an unregistered resident in the Outer Domain for the rest of his life.

"That guy is truly ruthless!"

Ordinary people could never make such a decision.

But it was also because of this incident—

That the school discovered Zhu Caigou had embezzled an astonishing amount from the resources it had distributed over the years.

The remaining students of Class Five had now been split up and forcibly assigned to several other classes.

Chen Changhe glanced at several familiar faces among the groups toward the back.

Lu Hongrong was among them.

However, he did not know that Lu Hongrong had not been assigned there.

Like him, she had officially joined Class One.

Shan Mu was also quite surprised.

He had not expected recruiting Chen Changhe into Class One to come with a buy-one-get-one-free deal.

Lu Hongrong had gained some renown in Third Middle School's circles long ago.

She was one of the popular candidates competing for a high assessment ranking.

"Lu Hongrong, Chen Changhe, and Liu Qinzhong, the top student our class already had."

"The three of them will definitely get into first-rate universities."

This was the rhythm of winning the Outstanding Teacher award this year!

Shan Mu felt that he really needed to thank Zhu Caigou.

That guy was practically a walking fortune-bringer!

Too bad he had run away.

Otherwise, Shan Mu would have had to reward him with a one-day trip to a bathhouse.

What a good man!

All of a sudden, an overwhelming aura descended upon Third Middle School's plaza.

Zheng Dongfeng had arrived!

This was Chen Changhe's first time encountering Principal Zheng Dongfeng at close range.

All he could see was a figure shining with golden light from head to toe.

He could not make out the man's features, only vaguely sense that he was somewhat old.

"So this is a god?"

"A true god?"

Chen Changhe was filled with boundless awe.

He was only a Lesser Divine Power god, yet he already exerted such immense pressure on Chen Changhe.

What about gods of Intermediate Divine Power or even Greater Divine Power?

Above True Gods were Main Gods and God Kings.

How powerful would they be?

At that moment, he truly felt how insignificant he was.

"God King!"

"Since I have lived this life again, I will become a God King!"

Chen Changhe clenched his fists tightly.

His eyes remained fixed on Zheng Dongfeng, completely disregarding the stinging pain caused by the golden light.