It Turned Out He Was a Top Student

"Teacher Li, there must be some mistake, right?" Wang Zhenyu's face twitched beneath the stage.

He was fully convinced by his loss to Li Shuhao. After all, Li Shuhao had a B-rank building.

But why did Yang Fan have such high Prosperity? Neither his buildings nor his assets looked particularly remarkable.

The only absurd thing was his believer population. Wang Zhenyu had only just awakened, and he had used a Breeding Card as soon as he got home. How could the gap be this huge?

And one of Yang Fan's believers had actually grasped the basics of the Federation Body-Tempering Art.

Was that right? No, that was completely wrong.

Only a little over twenty years had passed in the Divine Kingdom, yet the Federation Body-Tempering Art had been created by an advanced God and contained endless profound variations. How could a group of uncivilized Barbarians possibly grasp its basics without eighty or a hundred years?

The more Wang Zhenyu thought about it, the more ridiculous it seemed. He directly questioned the Artificial Lifeform's result.

"Shut up. The Federal Government's Artificial Lifeform has computational power comparable to an advanced God. How could it possibly make a mistake?" Li Qingying waved her hand, cutting him off. A powerful divine aura pressed down on the students, leaving them silent with fear.

Li Qingying then turned to Yang Fan. "The population issue is easy enough to explain, but I'm very curious. How did your believers grasp the basics of the Federation Body-Tempering Art in such a short time? At your rate of development, you're probably already comparable to those geniuses in Class One."

Li Qingying was, after all, a First-Order God. Her knowledge naturally surpassed that of these students.

Raising a population from several hundred to one hundred thousand in twenty years within a Divine Kingdom was not actually difficult.

A C-rank or higher Breeding Card, or certain special buildings, could accomplish it.

It was simply that most people would not choose to do so, as it would place far too great a burden on the Divine Kingdom.

However, grasping the basics of the Federation Body-Tempering Art was much harder. In the early stages of a Divine Kingdom's creation, believers had poor aptitude. One either had to rely on time or use heavenly treasures and special buildings to improve their aptitude.

If this had happened in a major family, Li Qingying would not have been surprised in the slightest. So long as they were willing to invest, even trash physiques like those of Barbarians could be turned into cultivation geniuses.

But Yang Fan was merely a child from an ordinary family, which made it seem rather abrupt.

"Teacher Li, when my believers reached the third and fourth generations, several geniuses emerged. After that, I sent down a divine oracle and had them focus on cultivation. They had more than enough Bodhi Treasure Snake flesh to eat, so they only barely grasped the basics yesterday." Yang Fan had already prepared his explanation.

The better a believer's aptitude, the more likely their descendants were to produce geniuses. However, descendants of ordinary believers were not necessarily untalented either. Given a sufficiently large population base, one or two geniuses would always be born.

More importantly, matters of probability could not be explained at all.

"You really are lucky." Li Qingying chuckled.

Li Qingying did not doubt him. Ever since the era of Divine Kingdoms arrived, strange tales and extraordinary events had become countless. Yang Fan's situation was only enough to shock these students.

Seeing the students trembling under the pressure of her aura, Li Qingying withdrew her divine presence and asked, "Do any of you think Yang Fan's Prosperity evaluation was unfair?"

"Yes. The others are one thing, but Li Shuhao's Divine Kingdom is clearly stronger than Yang Fan's, and he even has a B-rank building like the Hundred Spirits Blood Pool. How could his score be so much lower than Yang Fan's?" Wang Zhenyu raised his question.

Yang Fan's believers were Ancient Humans. Wang Zhenyu already knew he could not compare based on that alone, but Li Shuhao was not lacking either.

Moreover, the gap between their data was far too great. In terms of asset value within their Divine Kingdoms alone, Li Shuhao's was likely several hundred times Yang Fan's.

Li Qingying explained, "Prosperity does not compare the overall strength of a Divine Kingdom. It compares the stability of its current ecosystem. Do you think it is really that easy for the Federation's Artificial Lifeform to give an excellent overall evaluation?"

Seeing their confusion, Li Qingying called on Wang Zhenyu directly. "How many Faith Points do you have to invest in your Divine Kingdom every day?"

"Approximately Faith Points," Wang Zhenyu answered.

"Your population is only around one-eighth of Yang Fan's, yet he can be self-sufficient while you still have to invest so much every day. Don't you think there's something wrong with that?"

"This..." Wang Zhenyu was left speechless.

He naturally knew the flaws in his Divine Kingdom. Spending over twenty thousand Faith Points every day was definitely painful.

He simply could not understand how Yang Fan had done it. With so many people, and during the early stages of Divine Kingdom development, how could he support them all on his own?

"This is the importance of theoretical knowledge." After saying that, Li Qingying looked at Yang Fan with even greater satisfaction.

"Theoretical knowledge is not unimportant. Did you think you could just toss all kinds of biological resources into a Divine Kingdom and be done with it? If it were truly that simple, every school providing basic education apart from universities could be demolished.

"For example, what kind of environment is suitable for Bodhi Treasure Snakes to reproduce in? Lush mountain forests, or damp and dark mountain ravines?

"Besides their living environment, what food source is most suitable for them?

"If their living conditions are too favorable, will they reproduce excessively? Should natural predators be introduced?

"How should you control the distance between your believers' settlements and these food sources? Do you need to send down divine oracles to prevent overhunting?

"What plants are suitable for growing by rivers, what plants are suitable for wastelands, and which ones can withstand severe cold? Even the most basic plants involve immense knowledge.

"If you listened carefully in class and often went to the school library after class to study, you could make plans in advance from the very beginning when you introduced cards. That would greatly increase your Divine Kingdom's resource utilization rate.

"Of course, both animals and plants undergo natural selection. Animals migrate when their living conditions are poor, while plants die naturally.

"But all of that takes time. I can responsibly tell you that if you rely entirely on a Divine Kingdom to regulate itself, it will take at least several hundred years.

"In reality, that could mean your entire high school career passing by."

"Today's situation is a very good example. I hope everyone will take theoretical classes seriously."

Everyone showed looks of sudden realization. At that moment, the way they looked at Yang Fan had changed somewhat.

They had previously only known that Yang Fan kept a low profile and was not good with words. Who would have thought he was actually a hidden top student who spent his time in the library?

Li Shuhao also looked at Yang Fan curiously, unable to suppress his doubts. I never ran into him at the library. Could it be that he borrowed books from the Federal Government's public library?

Seeing that her educational goal had been achieved, Li Qingying directly announced the end of class. "The rewards for second through tenth place will be sent directly into your Divine Kingdoms. Everyone else is dismissed. Yang Fan, come with me."

Li Qingying grabbed Yang Fan's left hand, and their bodies transformed into pale-blue data before disappearing in front of everyone.

In an instant, the two appeared inside an office.

"Do you feel proud? Do you feel that you've already pulled hundreds of years ahead of your classmates?" Li Qingying asked.

"I wouldn't dare."

As for Li Qingying's assumption, Yang Fan could only say that his strength was entirely built on other people's imagination.

Yang Fan had studied Divine Kingdom theory well, but he absolutely could not have considered things so comprehensively. The only reason his Prosperity evaluation was so high was that his Divine Kingdom had spent two hundred years regulating itself.

But even if he said that himself, no one would probably believe him.