Yang Da listened intently, not daring to show the slightest negligence.
Yang Fan paused briefly, then continued:
"As a god, doing nothing but exploiting and squeezing your believers dry is ultimately shortsighted."
"A truly powerful Divine Kingdom needs a sound system that allows its believers to keep growing through their own drive."
"That will create a virtuous cycle within the Divine Kingdom."
"Do you understand?"
At that moment, Yang Fan's gaze grew more solemn as he looked at Yang Da.
The relationship between a god and his believers appeared to be one of absolute control.
In truth, however, it was also a symbiotic relationship.
Now that Yang Fan had become a First-Order God, the early days when he lacked even Faith Points were long behind him.
His Divine Kingdom Area kept expanding, and its internal systems kept improving.
What he needed to consider was no longer merely how to obtain more resources, but how to give the entire Divine Kingdom the capacity for sustained development.
Only as his believers grew stronger would he, their god, grow stronger.
Of course, competition and social classes could still exist in this process. It would even require a certain degree of pitting poisonous creatures against one another to breed the strongest, weeding out the weak.
But these methods had to serve the Divine Kingdom's development, rather than exist purely for exploitation.
A powerful Divine Kingdom inevitably needed a class hierarchy.
Only with social classes would countless believers have goals and yearn to climb higher.
If all believers stood at the same level, they would gradually lose their drive to advance instead.
But those classes could not be allowed to become rigid, either.
Once the paths upward were completely sealed off and ordinary believers could see no hope, all that would emerge in the end