Virtual World

After finishing all this, Yang Fan spent Faith Points to deliver a Divine Oracle.

At that moment, everyone around the Moonwell in the Divine Kingdom seemed to sense something in the dark. As one, they dropped to their knees.

"Our God, we are your most devout believers. Please bestow a Divine Oracle upon us. We are willing to die for you!" the believers cried in unison.

Yang Fan's voice descended, ethereal and sacred. "Your strength is still insufficient to bear my will. This Divine Kingdom has only just begun; its people are weak and cannot shoulder great responsibilities. From this day forth, I shall bestow upon you a method—the Federation Body-Refining Art—as well as various basic skills. These are the foundation upon which you shall stand, and the gate leading to higher realms. Cultivate diligently without slackening, and only then may you transform."

"Thank you, our God."

A golden curtain of light fell from the sky and sank into the center of every believer's brow.

After they received the inheritance, Yang Fan's thoughts stirred slightly, and ten stone houses appeared on either side of the Moonwell.

"This is the Moonwell. Build your tribe around it, and it will reduce disease and calamity. Every ten years, the well will nurture a drop of Moonlight Dew. Without my Divine Oracle, you must not take it for yourselves.

"A hundred kilometers from here lies a treasured land that nurtures Bodhi Treasure Snakes, First-Order Demonic Beasts. Once you have achieved success in the Federation Body-Refining Art, you may form teams to hunt them. These snakes are powerful, far beyond what you can touch at present. Remember this.

"In the great river on the other side, I have placed Water Lotus. Its maturation period is roughly one hundred to three hundred years. You must send people to inspect it from time to time. Once it matures, harvest it and place it in the storeroom."

"We shall obey the Divine Oracle." The crowd answered as one. There was not the slightest greed in their eyes, only devotion.

These believers were people as well, and they too had the seven emotions and six desires. But that was only when they interacted with other living beings in the Divine Kingdom.

Before Yang Fan, their god, they did not dare overstep in the slightest. It was as though an order had been carved into the depths of their souls.

After he had explained everything, the golden radiance of the Divine Oracle slowly faded away.

God Lord: Yang Fan

Divine Kingdom Area: 1,000,000 square kilometers

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

SSS-Rank Evolution Talent (Unique talent, can accelerate Divine Kingdom Evolution, hidden.)

Believers: Barbarians (600)

Method: Federation Body-Tempering Art

Faith Points (Provides Faith Points daily)

Building: Moonwell (Produces one drop of Moonlight Dew every ten years)

Assets: Bodhi Treasure Snake (X First-Order Demonic Beast), Water Lotus (X F-Rank Spirit Plant)

Looking at the changes in his Divine Kingdom, Yang Fan revealed a satisfied expression. Next, he did not intend to keep purchasing resources. After all, he still needed to save Faith Points to accelerate the Evolution of his Divine Kingdom.

Because of his awakening, today was the first time Yang Fan had stepped out of his house in several months. Feeling somewhat tired, he flopped onto his bed and drifted into sleep.

After sleeping until dawn, Yang Fan rose feeling refreshed, as though his body had grown much stronger.

Yang Fan had expected this. Under the tenfold time flow of Evolution, one day in the outside world was ten years in the Divine Kingdom. Moreover, the Divine Kingdom was currently in a period of rapid development, so there was bound to be considerable change.

Yang Fan sent his consciousness into the Divine Kingdom and discovered that the tribe's population had reached 600, tripling in full. Nearly half of them were infants and youths of seven or eight.

This was thanks to the many antelopes Yang Fan had placed around the tribe. Food was abundant, and with the Moonwell present, the chance of dying from illness had also fallen considerably.

Furthermore, because they cultivated the Federation Body-Tempering Art, both adults and children looked far sturdier than before, brimming with vitality.

The Moonwell had also condensed a drop of Moonlight Dew, but Yang Fan had no plans to sell it yet. The quantity was too small, and the listing fees on the online marketplace would eat away too much of its value.

Meanwhile, the number of Bodhi Treasure Snakes a hundred kilometers away had doubled as well. However, many of them were only about a meter long—still baby snakes that had not grown up.

What shocked Yang Fan most was the number of antelopes. Within his senses, the antelope population had actually approached 500,000.

But the surrounding vegetation was being consumed at a rapid pace, and many antelopes had begun starving to death. Only then did their numbers settle into a dynamic balance.

Yang Fan paid this no mind. In the end, there were simply too few hunters. As for the green vegetation, it would continue growing, while the corpses of dead antelopes would enrich the soil. It was all benefit and no harm to his Divine Kingdom.

The Divine Kingdom was flourishing in every direction. Yang Fan was confident that those ordinary high school students with backgrounds similar to his could not possibly be developing as well as he was.

Of course, he could not compare himself to a genius like Luo Bing. She had the support of a great lineage behind her. Those advanced buildings had likely already been set up in her Divine Kingdom. Their starting resources were too far apart; even with an SSS-Rank Talent, the gap between them remained like an insurmountable chasm.

The development of a Divine Kingdom required time. One bite would not make a fat man. By then, Yang Fan had already returned to reality.

"It's almost time for class," Yang Fan thought. He took a helmet from beneath his bed and put it on, instantly entering the Virtual World.

"My dad bought me a Breeding Card yesterday. When I woke up today, I found that my believers had increased by thirty. The effect is really good."

"Same here, but my starting population was a little low. I only had fifty people."

"What does population matter? As long as there are enough resources, by the time we graduate high school, the minimum will be hundreds of thousands. Some may even reach millions. What truly matters is how to make believers stronger."

"Now that you mention it, I'm not sleepy anymore. Yesterday, my old man transferred 50,000 Faith Points to me and told me to buy the Federation Body-Tempering Art."

"Same. My dad said this thing definitely wouldn't be a loss, so he bought it for me right away too."

"Let me tell you, the Ministry of Education rewarded me with an E-Rank Building. Guess what it is..."

The moment Yang Fan entered the school area of the Virtual World, he felt the blazing atmosphere. After all, they had only awakened as Divine Lifeforms yesterday. It was only natural for everyone to be so excited.

"Brother Yang, I saved you a seat." Zhang Pang waved to Yang Fan from the third row.

The moment Yang Fan sat down, Zhang Pang could not help asking, "Brother Yang, you really stole the show yesterday. A C-Rank Rating—among the entire senior year, excluding the children of great lineages, you're definitely in the first tier. Hurry and tell your brother, what did the Ministry of Education reward you with?"

"100,000 Faith Points and a C-Rank Building." Yang Fan did not hide it. Or rather, there was no need to hide it.

"Just as expected. You must have bought quite a few good things yesterday, right?" Zhang Pang's face was full of envy. Given his family circumstances, 100,000 Faith Points were not something he lacked, but it was still no small sum.

"Not bad." Yang Fan smiled calmly.

"What did your C-Rank Building turn out to be?"

"A Moonwell."

"Not bad, brother. Before even graduating high school, you're already earning 3,000 Faith Points a month." Zhang Pang gave him a thumbs-up.

Everyone was naturally familiar with all-purpose buildings like Moonwells. Their textbooks had even described a Lower-Order God who had built over ten thousand Moonwells in his Divine Kingdom as a long-term investment.

Just then, a young woman with a graceful figure walked onto the platform. She was Li Qingying, the homeroom teacher of Senior Year Class 7, a First-Order God.

"Good morning, Teacher Li," all the students of Senior Year Class 7 said as they rose to their feet.

"Good morning, students. Please sit." Li Qingying waved her hand, and a blue curtain of light instantly formed a blackboard behind her. She then wrote four large words—Divine Lifeform.