Results of the Grand Competition

Divine kingdom wars had the greatest impact on arrays. When high-tier gods waged Divine Kingdom Wars, they could even have tens of billions or hundreds of billions of believers forming grand arrays.

Arrays were far more difficult than cultivation techniques or martial skills. At least so far, no one else in the entire senior year had managed to practice the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array to the Minor Accomplishment Realm.

Li Yuan, an elder of the Li Family, tapped the armrest with his right hand and turned to ask, "Teacher Li Qingying, this is a student from your class, isn't he?"

A Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array at the Minor Accomplishment Realm was already enough to attract the attention of the two great families.

Li Qingying was no less shocked than anyone else, but she still put on an expression as though it were only natural.

"Yang Fan is indeed a good prospect. It is only reasonable that he could comprehend the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array to the Minor Accomplishment Realm."

Seeing the confusion on everyone's faces, Li Qingying continued, "Two months ago, I organized a Prosperity assessment. His evaluation was 22.4. You should know that this child comes from an ordinary family, and his largest source of funding was a five-million-Faith-Point loan from the Federation Fund."

At that, everyone suddenly understood.

"An actuary talent!"

"So that's it. Actuaries are generally people with extraordinary comprehension. This boy must have relied on his own efforts to grasp the essence of the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array, then taught it to his believers." Luo Chengfeng's eyes gleamed with interest.

With such comprehension and an actuary talent, if he received investment, his chances of becoming a lower-order god would not be low.

Even for great families like the Luo Family and Li Family, a god was an extremely important foundation.

Seeing the expressions on Li Yuan's and Luo Chengfeng's faces, everyone else revealed looks of regret.

Wan Sanqian had already thought highly of Yang Fan, but Yang Fan's performance was now too outstanding. If the two great families made a move, there would be no place for his Central Plains Building.

Once the competition ends, I should still do my best to win him over. Wan Sanqian sighed inwardly.

As Yang Fan's teacher, Li Qingying could not help but curl her lips into a smile. "I really misjudged him. His Divine Kingdom Talent may be average, but I never expected him himself to possess such comprehension."

Yang Fan, who was directing the encirclement and suppression of demonic beasts, had no idea that he had already caught the attention of important figures. Looking at the demonic beast corpses scattered across the ground, he could only marvel inwardly, These Faith Points are way too easy to earn.

As the Azure Dragon Army and White Tiger Army closed in from both sides, they won the battle at the cost of only five hundred soldiers.

Three thousand First-Order Demonic Beasts could be exchanged for an additional three hundred thousand Faith Points once the assessment ended.

As for the losses, they could practically be ignored. Training was proceeding at full speed within his Divine Kingdom. With a thought from Yang Fan, another five hundred adult men were drafted to replenish the ranks.

"Next, the five armies will gather in one place and advance deeper," Yang Fan issued a Divine Oracle.

If he had possessed an army of fifty thousand just now, he could have easily wiped out that small beast horde.

The deeper they went, the greater both the quantity and quality of the demonic beasts they encountered. There was no need to conduct a broad search.

More than half the assessment time had already passed. He had to speed things up.

It truly was a Divine Kingdom worthy of being conquered by a god. Its area was absurdly vast. The entire senior year was inside the Divine Kingdom, yet after so long, there was not even a trace of other humans.

During that time, Yang Fan's army fought over a hundred battles against beast hordes of all sizes. The most brutal battle came when they encountered eight thousand Gale Wolves, led by a Second-Order Gale Wolf King.

In that battle, nearly fifteen thousand of Yang Fan's believers died, along with a general who was a First-Order Lifeform.

Yang Fan had long since become numb to it. Although these people were his believers, watching them reproduce generation after generation made it impossible for him to regard them as humans like himself.

A merciful god could not walk the path of a War Divine Kingdom. If he truly could not bear to see his believers die, then he might as well farm properly like Zhang Pang.

Fortunately, Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom had tenfold acceleration. Even after the army suffered such heavy losses, it could replenish its troops in time, and its overall strength did not decline much.

Another three days passed in reality. Of Yang Fan's fifty-thousand-strong army in the Divine Kingdom, only twenty thousand remained, every one of them wounded and dispirited.

As he pushed deeper into the interior, the demonic beasts Yang Fan encountered grew stronger and stronger, while the beast hordes multiplied geometrically. Often, two or three Second-Order Monsters led a single horde.

With such an enormous gap in basic strength, even with the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array's support, the army's casualties kept mounting until even troop replenishment in Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom began to fall short.

Faced with this situation, Yang Fan had no choice but to halt and withdraw his troops a thousand kilometers.

His strength was insufficient. Continuing deeper would only accelerate the losses among his believers. After only a few more battles, he would have to end the competition early.

Since that was the case, he might as well find areas with lower demonic beast density and hunt steadily. That was the only way to earn more points.

The assessment time passed in the blink of an eye, and all the senior-year students still participating heard Principal Hong Bing's voice at the same time.

"The assessment is over. Come out."

Yang Fan only felt a force of repulsion. The remaining twenty to thirty thousand battered believers were instantly sent back to his Divine Kingdom, while his consciousness returned to his physical body at the same time.

1st place, Luo Bing, points: 400 million ten-thousand.

2nd place, Li Tianheng, points: ten thousand.

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43rd place, Li Shuhao, points: ten thousand.

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64th place, Yang Fan, points: ten thousand.

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463rd place, Wang Zhenyu, points: 2.07 million.

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Yang Fan climbed out of the nutrition pod and looked at the rankings in the center of the field, his expression somewhat surprised.

64th place. That result is rather beyond my expectations. It seems those descendants of great families are not as strong as I imagined. As expected of an SSS-grade talent. A smile curled onto Yang Fan's lips.

Being able to enter the top hundred meant that even in Senior Year Class One, he ranked among the best. Yang Fan was naturally satisfied with such a result.

Yang Fan could sense many gazes falling upon him. Aside from the students around him, quite a few important figures on the high platform were also examining him.

"Not bad. I never expected this kid's Divine Kingdom to possess such reserves. The total troop strength he deployed throughout this assessment must have exceeded two hundred thousand, right?" Wan Sanqian drew a deep breath.

"By that estimate, his Divine Kingdom's total population is at least five hundred thousand to one million."

For gods, that population was nothing, but Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom had only awakened three months ago. That made the result quite eye-catching.

"However, his tactical arrangements were still too poor. If he had committed all two hundred thousand troops from the start, he could have advanced another two thousand kilometers at minimum."

"He is young, after all, and this was his first time participating in a Divine Kingdom War. It is normal that he did not dare to go all in."

"With this kid's comprehension, coupled with the development speed of his Divine Kingdom, if he is willing to join my Central Plains Building, then once he breaks through to become a god, I am willing to give him the position of vice president."

The many important figures on the high platform chatted casually, though their gazes intentionally or unintentionally swept toward Li Yuan and Luo Chengfeng.

Compared with great families like the Luo Family and Li Family, the companies represented by those people were inferior by far.

Every year, when investing in students from Yang County No. 1 High School, the Luo Family and Li Family picked away the most promising geniuses, while the other forces could only settle for scraps.

"My Li Family will compete for Yang Fan," Li Yuan stated plainly.

"My Luo Family will do the same. When the time comes, we will each rely on our own abilities," Luo Chengfeng echoed.

Recruiting geniuses was not forced buying or selling. Under the protection of Federation law, even families as powerful as the Luo Family and Li Family had to rely on excellent contracts to make geniuses willingly accept their recruitment.