Believer Identity: Ancient Human

"This is a misconception most newcomers have. They think that with a Federation Body-Tempering Art, every believer can become a dragon?

A few years from now, your Divine Kingdom will have hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of people. Are they all supposed to cultivate every day and neglect production?

Humans are Artificial Lifeforms. They know how to use tools, allocate resources, and divide labor. More importantly, they instinctively sort themselves into different ranks.

You only need to issue a Divine Oracle telling them to sow crops. You do not even need to assign tasks—their internal system will have those without talent or strength handle such routine work.

Ninety percent of the believers in a Divine Kingdom are expendable. Their first purpose is to engage in production and maintain the Divine Kingdom's operations; their second is to earn Faith Points for us.

Another five percent are talented powerhouses who may one day break through to Tier-One, Tier-Two, or even higher lifeforms through cultivation.

The remaining five percent will become even stronger and live longer, helping us manage the entire Divine Kingdom.

Just like in the real world, populations multiply, classes shift, and survival of the fittest gradually pushes civilization upward.

If you interfere too much and make all of them strive to cultivate, you are actually destroying this system. Perhaps your believers will grow stronger in the short term, but that is only because you are constantly spending Faith Points to sustain the system. Once the external support disappears, the system will 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. Perhaps the elderly, weak, women, and children who could not obtain food should simply be allowed to die naturally.

This was the 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. "These are all minor issues. If you can break through to Demigod in the future, you can even make agreements with other Divine Lifeforms and have them grow food and gather supplies for you.

If you are strong enough, you can even conquer someone else's Divine Kingdom and 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, and I am currently his Subordinate God. He was the one who told me all this.

This world is like a massive arena. Divine Kingdoms can wage war against one another, and every conflict can result in tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, of believers being slaughtered and Divine Kingdom Cores being plundered.

As Divine Lifeforms, we only feel that Demigods and Gods stand high above us. But once you truly reach their level, you will face even greater cruelty.

All that is still too far away for you. At least before you graduate from university, you do not need to worry about anyone invading your Divine Kingdom."

Zhang Wanshan was exceptionally knowledgeable and told Yang Fan and Zhang Pang many stories about Demigods and even Gods. Both listened with great interest.

After returning home, Yang Fan immediately searched the marketplace for grain crops.

Corn Seeds × 500,000, price: 300 Faith Points. Drought-resistant, wind-resistant, extremely high yield, highly filling, no planting requirements.

Vegetable Seeds × 500,000, price: 500 Faith Points. No planting requirements.

...

Spirit Rice Seeds × 500,000, price: 50,000 Faith Points. The Divine Kingdom must possess spiritual energy and spiritual soil, and believers with Spirit Plant Farmer professions are required for cultivation.

...

Yang Fan directly chose the cheapest corn seeds and vegetable seeds, then placed them into the Divine Kingdom and issued a Divine Oracle.

After Zhang Wanshan's guidance, Yang Fan no longer intended to interfere too much with his believers' life paths.

If he continued purchasing food and placing it inside, the population would most likely keep increasing. When the Divine Kingdom could no longer sustain them, there would be mass deaths again, perhaps even outbreaks of plague. That would only be counterproductive.

With a new source of food, the tribe's consumption of meat finally became less outrageous, and the ecosystem began to stabilize.

In the ninth decade, the population had already reached 110,000. Even with the Breeding Card's boost, the tribe no longer expanded madly. This was mainly due to environmental constraints; the population density was currently too high and was gradually reaching saturation.

To continue increasing the population, they would have to undertake major construction and expand their 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 the original small tribe into something resembling a town.

Divine Revelation City stood at the very center of the Divine Kingdom. Due to the Moonwells and Sun Springs, the area was filled with an exceptionally dense 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 covered with Bodhi Treasure Snakes. Their density had even become so great that the snake swarms 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 beastly roars rose and fell without end.

The Divine Kingdom now had abundant species and a stable ecosystem. The believer population had also reached saturation.

Next, they would use the Federation Body-Tempering Art as a foundation and rely on time and resources to strengthen the believers.

The believers' deaths, reproduction, and cultivation slowly drove the entire civilization forward.

Divine Lord: 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, accelerates Divine Kingdom Evolution, hidden.)

Believers: Ancient Humans (110,000)

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 Demon Beast), Night Vulture (× Tier-One Demon Beast), Water Lotus (× F-Rank Spirit Plant), Soul-Nourishing Wood (Centennial) (× 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, but 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, once they had stable food, safe shelter, city structures, the ability to pass down knowledge, and strength exceeding the limits of Barbarians, their identity would evolve into Ancient Humans.

After Ancient Humans came Mortals.

At that point, 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 gradually form a social system, refrain from excessive resource extraction, and allow the entire Divine Kingdom to develop healthily.

After that, a very small number of believers would break through in strength and become Tier-One Lifeforms.

Their paths could vary wildly. 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 category of Mortals could Divine Lifeforms begin transforming toward Demigods.

Those things were still far too distant for the current Yang Fan. None of his believers had even cultivated the Federation Body-Tempering Art to minor mastery.

However, with the Evolution Talent, as generations of believers developed, underwent survival of the fittest, and experienced genetic selection, descendants with decent talent would eventually emerge. Yang Fan was not worried about it.