What Good Is Fighting? This World Runs on Brains!

Time in this plane did not flow at the absurd ratio of one to three hundred and sixty-five like it did in the Divine Domain.

But it still reached a ratio of more than one to thirty.

Three days on Blue Star amounted to more than three months in this plane.

Over those three months, the student who had unexpectedly fared the best was Liu Qinzhong.

Liu Qinzhong's core followers were the Elves.

The place where he descended was also near the region inhabited by the Elves.

At that time, the Elven Goddess had been slain, leaving the entire Elven race leaderless.

The three Elven Demigods each occupied one territory.

All three claimed to be the Elven Goddess's successor and wanted control of the Elven race.

They had even nearly reached the point of going to war.

It was then that Liu Qinzhong appeared in the Elf Kingdom.

He claimed to be the Elven Goddess's child.

The rightful heir to the Elf Kingdom.

It was an utterly clumsy and absurd excuse, yet he gained the support of Milia Falina, one of the three Elven Demigods.

There are clever people among these Outer Domain Demigods after all.

His encounter with Milia Falina had been an accident.

The Elven Demigod Milia Falina had been the Elven Goddess's maidservant and also her half-sister through their father.

After the Elven Goddess died, Milia Falina had the highest level of support among the Elves.

She was also the strongest.

However, the other two Demigods had joined forces to oppose Milia Falina.

Milia Falina's mother had been the previous Elven God's lover.

She had always been feared by the Elven Goddess.

After obtaining godhood and ruling the Elves, the first thing the Elven Goddess did was kill Milia Falina's mother.

She then demoted Milia Falina to a slave.

It was not until several decades ago, after Milia Falina became a Demigod, that she was granted a higher status.

Even so, while the Elven Goddess had still been alive,

Milia Falina had not received the rights she should have had.

What an extraordinary woman...

Whenever Liu Qinzhong thought of Milia Falina, his face filled with admiration.

For certain reasons, he did not think much of women.

Yet the moment he saw Milia Falina, he had been utterly captivated.

Even though, on the Elven Goddess's orders, Milia Falina's face had already been ruined.

She was an extraordinary, formidable woman with a female body but an unyielding heart.

From slave to Demigod, and then to her current position controlling more than half of the Elven race.

Milia Falina must have paid dearly for it all.

Milia Falina discovered Liu Qinzhong while he was communicating with his Divine Domain and transferring Elven followers from it into this plane.

When he had to face the Demigod-level Milia Falina shortly after entering the plane,

Liu Qinzhong had nearly broken down.

At the time, he had nearly used the treasure provided by the school to forcibly leave this plane and give up the remaining assessment.

Fortunately, I didn't do that...

Otherwise, he would have suffered a tremendous loss.

Milia Falina took him to the Elf Kingdom.

She even fabricated an identity for him as the Elven Goddess's illegitimate son.

Because the Elves were his core followers,

he naturally possessed a strong affinity with them.

Coupled with the several Elven divine spells he had mastered,

and the special building he possessed, the Life Spring,

he quickly gained the recognition of a great many Elves.

He became a highly respected divine child.

The Life Spring was a special building that could continuously produce Life Spring Water, a liquid that could greatly enhance a creature's reproductive ability after being absorbed.

Chen Changhe had once been offered this building as an option.

However, he had chosen the fourth-tier Divine Realm Territory God Card, which suited him better.

Liu Qinzhong's Life Spring had been acquired by his parents after great effort.

It was merely a projection of a true Life Spring.

The Life Spring Water it produced contained little energy and was scarce in quantity.

Even so, it was still a divine treasure exceptionally suited to the Elves.

The Elves of this plane had once possessed a Life Spring.

But it had long since dried up.

When Liu Qinzhong brought out such a precious Life Spring,

those Elven commoners naturally had no reason to doubt his identity.

What good is that Chen Changhe's fighting ability? In this world, real strength depends on brains!

Liu Qinzhong finally held his head high.

He had always been the top student in Class One.

Yet in the first stage of the assessment, he had not only fallen behind Lu Hongrong,

but had even lost to Chen Changhe.

What displeased him even more was that

Principal Zheng Dongfeng had actually praised Chen Changhe.

Zheng Dongfeng had always been kind and gentle.

But he rarely praised anyone.

It was the first time Liu Qinzhong had ever seen him praise Chen Changhe.

Liu Qinzhong's parents had both been Zheng Dongfeng's students.

They were Demigods personally trained by Zheng Dongfeng.

They were now both serving in the military.

Liu Qinzhong had been sent to Nanshan City as a child, and Zheng Dongfeng had taken especially good care of him.

Since childhood, he had always deeply respected Zheng Dongfeng.

I will prove that I am Old Zheng's finest student!

This assessment was his opportunity.

Milia Falina was using him.

Compared with the other Demigods, Milia Falina understood very clearly the gap between the gods of Blue Star Civilization and Outer Domain plane gods like themselves.

She knew that these gods from another world were not, as the other Demigods believed,

gone after slaying the three gods.

Who would simply pass up a feast laid out before them?

No god could resist the temptation of believers.

The reason they had not taken the next step

had to be something else.

After Zheng Dongfeng and the others stopped their campaign against this plane,

Milia Falina had never relaxed her vigilance.

That was why she discovered Liu Qinzhong at the very first opportunity.

But wasn't I using her as well?

Liu Qinzhong could not hide the excitement in his heart.

It could not be helped. He had gained far too much this time.

Milia Falina had cooperated with him.

On one hand, she wanted to use his name to gain public support.

Although Milia Falina was a Demigod,

because of her background, compared with the other two Demigods,

she lacked the legitimacy to unify the Elf Kingdom.

Now, under Liu Qinzhong's name,

that problem had been solved.

Liu Qinzhong's current identity was the illegitimate son of the previous Elven Goddess.

If a war against the other two Demigods was launched in his name,

Milia Falina would have the legal legitimacy to stand her ground.

She also wanted to take this chance to curry favor with Zheng Dongfeng and the others.

Milia Falina mistook Liu Qinzhong for Zheng Dongfeng's child.

She believed that as long as she cooperated with Liu Qinzhong and helped him train,

Zheng Dongfeng would spare her.

Because of this, she had practically granted Liu Qinzhong anything he asked for.

At a time like this, even if I asked her to warm my bed... she would probably do so willingly...

However, Liu Qinzhong was not that shallow.

He was not like his close friend, Qu Xianghua.

Qu Xianghua, the Class Three monitor, only had ordinary Pigmen as followers.

However, his Divinity had already reached four points, and he also had two Hero Units.

He was likewise one of the favorites to take first place this time.

He was also the competing student most likely to catch up to Liu Qinzhong at this stage.