Small Circle

"Tier-One Roc × Price."

"Tier-One Falcon × Price."

Yang Fan bought them all, adding more hunters to the skies so the Night Vultures would not dominate alone.

After investing the resources into the Divine Kingdom, Yang Fan issued another divine decree, informing them of the Hundred-Spirit Peach's cultivation method and the existence of the Spirit Fish Dolls.

God: Yang Fan

Divine Kingdom Area: 1,000,000 square kilometers

Talents: F-Rank Resource Talent (All resources within the Divine Kingdom grow 10% faster)

SSS-Rank Evolution Talent (Unique Talent; can accelerate the evolution of the Divine Kingdom; hidden.)

Believers: Ancient Humans (110,000)

Cultivation Method: Federation Body-Tempering Art

Faith Points (Faith Points provided daily)

Buildings: Moonwell ×5, Sun Spring ×5

Assets: Bodhi Treasure Snake (× Tier-One Demonic Beast), Night Vulture (× Tier-One Demonic Beast), Spirit Fish Doll (× Tier-One Demonic Beast), Roc (× Tier-One Demonic Beast), Falcon (× Tier-One Demonic Beast), Tai Sui ×1, Water Lotus (× F-Rank Spirit Plant), Soul-Nourishing Wood (100 years) (× C-Rank Spirit Plant), Hundred-Spirit Peach (×100, C-Rank Spirit Plant)

Yang Fan continued living peacefully, attending class on schedule, regularly browsing malls and forums, and checking whether anything unexpected had happened in his Divine Kingdom. In the blink of an eye, twenty days had passed.

But within the Divine Kingdom, that meant two hundred years.

It had been exactly a month since he last sold resources such as Moonlight Dew, and Yang Fan planned to make another sale to replenish his Faith Points.

However, before he even entered the Divine Kingdom, he felt a warm current surge through his body.

Powerful strength flooded into his limbs and bones. Yang Fan felt more than four or five times stronger than before.

Sensing the immense changes in his Divine Kingdom, Yang Fan hurriedly sent his consciousness inside.

Believers: Mortals (120,000), providing 1.4 Faith Points daily.

Over those two hundred years, the believer population within the Divine Kingdom had actually experienced a peak before declining again.

Around the hundredth year of the Divine Kingdom calendar, the population had surpassed 240,000.

At that time, Divine Revelation City and the other four cities were extremely densely populated. Small tribes of all kinds began appearing around the five major cities.

At the same time, Tai Sui meat finally became insufficient to meet demand.

The believers began hunting to maintain their food supply.

Then, people from the four major cities began expressing dissatisfaction with the distribution of Tai Sui meat and entered negotiations with the main city.

The negotiations failed, and war broke out.

The four cities of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise besieged Divine Revelation.

History called it the Rebellion of the Four Kings.

All of this happened while Yang Fan was asleep, but even if he had been awake, he would not have actively intervened.

Believers were people too. Naturally, they had the seven emotions and six desires, greed, anger, obsession, and hatred. War would only make civilization stronger.

As a God, Yang Fan would never interfere with development as long as civilization did not perish within his Divine Kingdom.

The Rebellion of the Four Kings lasted ten years, and the population plummeted to eighty thousand.

In the end, one emperor and four kings signed a non-aggression pact. Divine Revelation City received forty percent of the Tai Sui meat, while the other four cities divided the remaining sixty percent.

This war eliminated a great number of weak believers, and those who remained were mostly strong.

What followed was nearly a century of peace, and the population surged once again to 180,000.

Because the believers cultivated the Federation Body-Tempering Art, the stronger they became, the more meat they consumed.

With the population now at 180,000, Tai Sui meat alone could no longer fully sustain them.

The population began fluctuating.

170,000, 160,000, 130,000, 120,000.

Over this century, Divine Revelation City had expanded by nearly double, while the four cities had likewise established their own cities, greatly reducing population density.

The believers began trading, while those in power began issuing laws and establishing rules.

That was why Yang Fan's believers had changed from Ancient Humans to Mortals.

Watching the development of his believers from a god's-eye view, Yang Fan was very satisfied. Perhaps before long, Tier-One Lifeforms would appear among his believers.

"The Federation Body-Tempering Art is only suitable for laying foundations. Even if cultivated to the limit, it only produces Tier-One Lifeforms. Later, I'll have to buy cultivation methods, perhaps even all kinds of weapons. It's far too slow to rely on the believers to explore and pass down their own techniques. All of that requires Faith Points!" Yang Fan rubbed his head. Sometimes, rapid development in the Divine Kingdom brought its own troubles.

Yang Fan roughly checked the assets in his Divine Kingdom, then directly took out blank cards and removed all the Moonlight Dew and Solar Essence. He also took away twenty thousand Bodhi Treasure Snakes, two thousand Night Vultures, twenty thousand Spirit Fish Dolls, and twenty thousand Water Lotus Seeds.

All of these resources were sold through Taotao Network.

Total income: 810,000 Faith Points. After deducting 10% personal income tax and a 2% platform matching fee, net income: Faith Points.

Faith Points (providing 1.4 Faith Points daily)

Sensing that the biological chain in his Divine Kingdom was very stable, Yang Fan decided to spend 1.2 million Faith Points to buy another two Moonwells and two Sun Springs, making full use of his Faith Points.

Faith Points (providing 1.4 Faith Points daily)

Buildings: Moonwell ×7, Sun Spring ×7.

With the level of internet technology in this era, as long as one was willing to put in the effort, nearly all knowledge could be acquired online. As a result, the proportion of knowledge taught by teachers in class kept shrinking, and daytime classes became fewer and fewer.

After gaining a great deal of free time, even someone like Yang Fan, who disliked socializing, began participating in class activities.

It was not because he was bored. Mainly, he gradually discovered that his classmates really did have their merits.

Unlike on the Gods' Forum, face-to-face conversations in the virtual world made everyone more open and sincere.

Which spirit plants could be cultivated on a large scale for the highest overall return? Which treasures could significantly improve believers' aptitude? Were there any cheap yet powerful cultivation methods? Private transactions to evade taxes were actually legal.

Everyone searched for information online, refined and extracted the useful parts, then shared them with each other.

Yang Fan had to admit that humans truly were social creatures. Working together was far more efficient than fighting alone.

Especially geniuses like Li Shuhao, who came from major families. His information channels were far beyond theirs, and often a single sentence from him left everyone enlightened.

A private room at Heavenly Fragrance Haven.

Li Shuhao, Wang Zhenyu, Yang Fan, Zhang Pang, and more than a dozen other male students from Class 7 of the third year gathered together.

With Li Shuhao, the obvious big shot, present, quite a few female classmates actually wanted to join. But Heavenly Fragrance Haven was an awkward sort of place. With girls they knew in real life nearby, they would not be able to have fun at all, so they stopped inviting female classmates afterward.

"Brother Hao, aside from the Federation Body-Tempering Art, my believers are also cultivating the Muscle-Tendon Cleansing Art. Their meat consumption is simply terrifying. The Wine Pool and Meat Forest can't produce meat fast enough, so I have to buy meat from the mall every day now." Wang Zhenyu gulped down a mouthful of wine.

By now, he had come to terms with it. He no longer regarded Li Shuhao as an opponent and instead directly followed his lead, calling him Brother Hao at every turn.

Before Li Shuhao could speak, a somewhat short classmate raised his hand. "I have the Animal Husbandry Talent and raise quite a few Bodhi Treasure Snakes. Especially unranked cattle, horses, sheep, and the like—I can produce another seventy or eighty thousand every day. Brother Wang, do you want to buy from me? We can avoid the mall's taxes. I'll give you a five percent discount. Mutual benefit."

"No problem. I'll take however many Bodhi Treasure Snakes you have. But forget the beef and mutton. My believers are already Ancient Humans, and they've entered the Federation Body-Tempering Art. Ordinary meat has no effect at all now; it can only fill their stomachs." Wang Zhenyu nodded in agreement.