The Relationship Between Gods and Divine Kingdoms

Quite a few students' eyes lit up when they heard the value of the card.

Looking at the expressions of the students ranked near the bottom of the class, Li Qingying sighed softly. "Ten thousand believers are enough to set up this grand array. Training through it can even help with the Federation Body-Tempering Art, greatly strengthening your believers' physiques. If you haven't already decided to take the support route, it's best not to sell this array card."

Li Qingying knew full well that the assessment a month from now was not aimed at every student. What the school truly wanted to select were talented individuals with combat ability.

"Yay!"

Many students cried out excitedly. Although the assessment had nothing to do with them, getting one hundred thousand Faith Points for free would make life much easier for their families after making some Divine Kingdom Investments.

"For the next month, I'll teach you how to arrange troops, organize battles, and even cultivate using the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array. Students who have decided to take the support route don't need to attend. The rest of you, listen carefully. If you perform outstandingly in this major exam, you may even have a chance to receive investment from prominent families."

"Yes, Teacher." Quite a few students still had burning looks in their eyes.

After returning to reality, Yang Fan immediately placed the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array into his Divine Kingdom.

"This is the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array. Ten thousand people shall form one unit, and this array can help you cultivate the Federation Body-Tempering Art. Three hundred years from now, there will be a war against foreign races. During this time, you must not kill one another. All of you must cultivate with everything you have." Yang Fan issued a Divine Oracle.

"We obey our God's command." The entire Human Race of the Divine Kingdom fell to their knees.

With his tenfold Evolution Talent, Yang Fan did not immediately leave the Divine Kingdom. Instead, he silently observed his believers' performance.

Perhaps their aptitude was simply too poor, or perhaps the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array was too complicated.

After a year had passed in the Divine Kingdom, even the best-performing team from Divine Revelation City was still a crooked mess. After drilling for an entire year, the ten-thousand-man formation still could not even execute clean, unified advances and retreats.

"Are their aptitudes really this bad? Their bodies aren't even coordinated. Their cooperation is worse than no cooperation at all." Yang Fan could not help shaking his head and sighing after returning to reality.

As the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array skill card was loaded into the Divine Kingdom, the contents of the array naturally appeared in Yang Fan's mind.

Although the array was complicated, Yang Fan felt that grasping its basic form was quite easy.

Yang Fan opened his wristwatch and entered "Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array" into the search bar of the Gods' Forum.

"OP, you're a high school student, right? Are you about to take your school's quarterly exam? Here's some advice: don't stupidly make your believers practice on their own. Their life levels are too low right now, and they're dumb as rocks. Letting them figure it out themselves is a huge waste of time."

"The first commenter is right. OP can buy some basic array knowledge from the store and load it into the Divine Kingdom, but you should also study the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array yourself. As Gods, our life levels are higher. Once we understand the key points of the array, we can directly issue Divine Oracles and let our believers avoid detours.

"Besides, you'll have to command the battle during the assessment. If you know nothing about the array, you might end up making things worse. If your believers are slaughtered by demon beasts in large numbers, it won't be worth it."

"Stop browsing the Gods' Forum. The teachers at school are all at least First-Order Gods. Make sure to listen carefully during this period. Once you enter society, hiring a God to guide you in array cultivation will cost an outrageous amount."

"Good luck, OP. Hope you get great results."

Many people on the Gods' Forum had asked similar questions, and there were also countless posts from previous years.

Yang Fan roughly browsed through them and gained a clear understanding of the direction he needed to work toward.

The next day, only about one-third of the students came to class. The rest had completely given up on pursuing the War Divine Kingdom path.

Yang Fan listened very attentively. Under the instruction of Li Qingying, a First-Order God, his understanding of the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array advanced by leaps and bounds.

The transformations of the array, the movement of the array core, how to defend, attack, and maneuver—even using the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array to assist cultivation and improve his believers' strength.

Li Qingying began with the basics and gradually went deeper. In just one class, the difficult points Yang Fan had failed to understand yesterday suddenly became clear.

Yang Fan noticed that even Li Shuhao was listening attentively. It seemed the forum posts had not been lying.

One day in the outside world meant ten years had passed in Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom.

When his consciousness entered once more, he found that his believers had not improved much. Though their formations stood somewhat neater, many details in their positions were still wrong.

If they entered the major exam in this state, a single wave of demon beasts would scatter their formation.

Yang Fan immediately issued a Divine Oracle, pouring his understanding of the array, along with the knowledge Li Qingying had taught in class, directly into his believers' minds.

He would first let everyone memorize it. Given enough time, they would eventually understand.

Yang Fan did not return to reality afterward. Instead, he watched his believers practice the array, and whenever he spotted an error, he directly issued a Divine Oracle to correct it.

Fortunately, Yang Fan only sent his consciousness into the Divine Kingdom. To his eyes, the changes within it were more like a slideshow played at fast-forward speed. He could clearly sense every detail, yet his sense of time remained anchored in reality.

Otherwise, if ten years passed at a time, Yang Fan's mind would have collapsed sooner or later.

That night, Yang Fan stayed up very late. It was not until one in the morning that he returned to reality and forced himself to sleep.

Under his guidance, his believers' comprehension of the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array improved by leaps and bounds. In just one night, he had saved them at least several decades of time.

These changes gave Yang Fan another layer of understanding regarding the development of a Divine Kingdom.

Gods should not actively interfere with their believers' survival, reproduction, or evolution, much less destroy an already stable ecosystem.

But that did not mean Gods should do nothing. Relying solely on a Divine Kingdom's natural evolution was far too slow, and an entire civilization might even stagnate.

Therefore, Gods needed to provide appropriate positive guidance. For example, the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array was beneficial to believers in every way and had no drawbacks.

In this case, he could fully use every resource at his disposal to accelerate that evolution.

The stronger the believers became, the more they would nourish their God in return. Likewise, a God should provide resources for the Divine Kingdom and help the believers grow.

On the surface, a Divine Kingdom and its God seemed to be in a subordinate relationship. In truth, they shared a symbiotic relationship.

The Divine Kingdom was a God's wealth, while the God was the Divine Kingdom's safeguard.

If he relied on his Evolution Talent and completely neglected his Divine Kingdom, he would ultimately fade into mediocrity.

Even if he had ten times the resources of ordinary people, what would it matter? With his believers' current aptitude, they simply could not comprehend those advanced cultivation techniques.

If the initial progress was zero, then even multiplying the time flow by ten, a hundred, or a thousand would still result in zero.

Over the following days, aside from attending class, Yang Fan spent almost all his time with his consciousness inside his Divine Kingdom, frequently issuing Divine Oracles.

With his help, the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array practiced by his believers had finally taken shape.

In the fiftieth year of cultivating the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array, Yang Fan felt that it was beginning to look convincing. A ten-thousand-man unit could now rely on the array in battle and increase its overall combat strength by at least threefold.

By the hundredth year, Yang Fan felt he had taught them nearly everything he could. There were still flaws, but no obvious weaknesses appeared when they activated the array. If they only faced mindless demon beasts, those creatures would never be able to break the formation easily—not even a small beast tide could do so.

By the hundred and fiftieth year, the believers had begun using the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array for cultivation.

The major cities organized sparring matches between their armies, both to test the array's true combat power and to cultivate the Federation Body-Tempering Art through real combat.

By the two-hundredth year, Tai Sui flesh alone could no longer sustain the army's consumption. The emperor of Divine Revelation City issued a military order, commanding the Four Kings to send troops to Snake Valley to hunt the Bodhi Treasure Snakes.