"That was a misconception many newcomers had. They thought that with a Federation Body-Tempering Art, every believer could become a dragon?
After a few more years, your Divine Kingdom would have hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people. Could it be that everyone would cultivate every day and abandon production?
People were Artificial Lifeforms. They knew how to use tools, allocate resources, and perform their respective duties. More than that, they would instinctively divide themselves into ranks and classes.
You only needed to issue a Divine Oracle telling them to sow crops. You would not even need to assign tasks; their internal system would naturally send those without talent and with weaker strength to handle such mundane work.
Ninety percent of the believers in a Divine Kingdom were consumables. Their first purpose was to engage in production and maintain the Divine Kingdom's operations; their second was to earn Faith Points for us.
Another five percent were talented powerhouses. In the future, they might break through Tier-One, Tier-Two, or even higher lifeforms through cultivation.
The remaining five percent would become even stronger and live longer, helping us manage the entire Divine Kingdom.
Just like in the real world, populations would multiply, classes would shift, and survival of the fittest would let this civilization climb upward bit by bit.
If you interfered too much and made all of them cultivate diligently, you would actually be destroying this system. Perhaps your believers would become stronger in the short term, but that would only be because you were constantly spending Faith Points to sustain the system. Once the external blood transfusion stopped, the system would collapse even faster."
After listening to Zhang Wanshan's explanation, Yang Fan wore an enlightened expression.
Over the past few days, the consumption of Faith Points had indeed been increasing. Those old, weak, women, and children who could not obtain food perhaps ought to be allowed to die naturally.
That was survival of the fittest in the food chain. As a god, he should not interfere in such trivial matters.
Zhang Wanshan took a sip of wine, growing more animated as he spoke. "Those are all minor issues. If you can break through to Demigod in the future, you can also make agreements with other Divine Lifeforms and have them grow grain and gather resources for you.
If you are strong enough, you can even conquer someone else's Divine Kingdom and directly use the entire Divine Kingdom as your own granary."
"Use someone else's Divine Kingdom as my own granary? Is that legal?" Yang Fan swallowed.
"My classmate is a First-Order God. I am now his Subordinate God; he was the one who told me all this.
This world is like a colossal arena. Divine Kingdoms can wage war against one another, and at every turn, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of believers are slaughtered, their Divine Kingdom Cores plundered.
As Divine Lifeforms, we only feel that those Demigods and gods stand high above us. But once you truly reach their level, you will have to face even greater cruelty.
All of that is still too distant for you. At the very least, before you graduate from university, you need not worry about anyone invading your Divine Kingdom."
Zhang Wanshan was remarkably knowledgeable and told Yang Fan and Zhang Pang many stories about Demigods and even gods. The two listened with great interest.
After returning home, Yang Fan immediately searched the marketplace for grain crops.
"500,000 corn seeds, priced at 300 Faith Points. Drought-resistant, wind-resistant, extremely high yield, highly filling, with no planting requirements.
500,000 vegetable seeds, priced at 500 Faith Points. No planting requirements.
Spirit Rice seeds, priced at 50,000 Faith Points. The Divine Kingdom must possess spiritual energy and spiritual soil, and believers who are Spirit Plant farmers are required for cultivation.
..."
Yang Fan directly chose the cheapest corn and vegetable seeds, then cast them into the Divine Kingdom and issued a Divine Oracle.
After Zhang Wanshan's guidance, Yang Fan no longer intended to interfere excessively with his believers' life trajectories.
If he continued buying food and throwing it in, the population would most likely keep growing. When the Divine Kingdom could no longer bear the burden, there would be massive deaths again, perhaps even plagues. That would only be more trouble than it was worth.
With a new source of food, the tribe's consumption of meat finally stopped being so outrageous, and the ecosystem began to balance itself.
By the ninth decade, the population had already reached 110,000. Even with the Breeding Card's boost, the tribe no longer expanded wildly. It was mainly constrained by the environment; the population density was currently too high and was gradually reaching saturation.
If he wanted to continue expanding the population, he would have to undertake massive construction and expand the settlement outward.
In the hundredth year, the Breeding Card's effect officially disappeared.
Yang Fan's consciousness entered the Divine Kingdom.
His believers had now developed from a small tribe into something resembling a town.
Divine Revelation City stood at the very center of the Divine Kingdom. Thanks to the Moonwells and Sun Springs, the air was thick with vitality.
Meanwhile, the four cities of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird stood in the east, south, west, and north respectively.
Snake Valley in the south was now filled with Bodhi Treasure Snakes. Their numbers had even grown so dense that the snakes had begun spreading outward.
Night Vultures often appeared in the sky, searching for opportunities to strike.
All kinds of plants and animals filled the mountains, while beast roars rose and fell one after another.
The Divine Kingdom now possessed abundant species and a stable ecosystem. The believer population had also reached saturation.
Next, he would use the Federation Body-Tempering Art as a foundation and rely on time and resources to strengthen his believers.
The believers' deaths, reproduction, and cultivation slowly pushed the entire civilization forward.
God: Yang Fan Divine Kingdom Area: 1,000,000 square kilometers Talent: F-Rank Resource Talent (All resources within the Divine Kingdom grow 10% faster) SSS-Rank Evolution Talent (Unique Talent; can accelerate Divine Kingdom Evolution; hidden.) Believers: Ancient Humans (110,000) Cultivation Method: Federation Body-Tempering Art Faith Points: Faith Points (provides Faith Points daily) Buildings: Moonwell ×5, Sun Spring ×5 Assets: Bodhi Treasure Snake (× Tier-One demonic beast), Night Vulture (× Tier-One demonic beast), Water Lotus (× F-Rank Spirit Plant), Soul-Nourishing Wood (hundred years) (× C-Rank Spirit Plant)
After a hundred years of development and the investment of various resources, not only had the believer population reached 110,000, their identity had also changed from Barbarians to Ancient Humans.
When Divine Kingdoms had just awakened, everyone's believers possessed the identity of Barbarians.
As civilization evolved, gaining stable food, safe shelters, city structures, and the ability to pass down knowledge, combined with strength surpassing the limits of Barbarians, their identity would evolve into Ancient Humans.
After Ancient Humans came Mortals.
By then, the believers' intelligence would be awakened, and they would form a small human society. There would be division of labor and cooperation, trade in resources, and even schools where cultivation methods were taught.
Once believers developed into Mortals, the Divine Kingdom would tend toward stability. They would slowly form a social system, would not overexploit resources, and would allow the entire Divine Kingdom to develop in a healthy manner.
Further on, a tiny number of believers would break through in strength and become Tier-One Lifeforms.
The paths they took would be strange and varied. Some would enter the Dao through martial arts and become Martial Practitioners; some would cultivate immortality and refine qi, becoming Cultivators; others might undergo mechanical ascension and become Artificial Lifeforms.
Only when believers escaped the bounds of Mortals could Divine Lifeforms begin transforming toward Demigods.
Those things were still far too distant for the current Yang Fan. Not even one of his believers had cultivated the Federation Body-Tempering Art to minor mastery.
However, with the Evolution Talent, as the believers developed generation after generation, survival of the fittest and genetic selection would eventually produce descendants with decent talent. Yang Fan was in no hurry.
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