The believers in Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom now numbered far beyond a hundred billion.
Believers died fighting over treasures; they died failing to break through to the next realm; they also died when their lifespans ran out.
The calamities descending now merely accelerated a process of death that had always existed.
Believers kept dying.
At the same time, new lives kept being born.
Though natural disasters and human conflicts plagued Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom, its overall environment remained rich in abundance.
Food, water, spirit fruits, and even all manner of cultivation resources—it had everything anyone could need.
As long as they could fill their bellies, those ordinary mortal believers naturally wanted to have children.
Added to that was the effect of his Rank A talent, life proliferation.
Yang Fan could clearly sense the population of believers in his Divine Kingdom gradually settling into an entirely new dynamic equilibrium.
Natural disasters and human conflicts killed large numbers of believers, freeing up more room to live.
The surviving believers began reproducing faster, bringing new lives into the world.
Once the next generation grew up, they entered a new round of competition.
The weak were eliminated, and the strong remained.
It repeated, cycle after cycle.
A new cycle unique to his Divine Kingdom was quietly taking shape.
Yang Fan, who was in the Real World, could also clearly sense the enormous changes taking place within his Divine Kingdom.
In just a few hundred years, the Divine Kingdom's total population of believers had fallen by roughly ten percent.
Yet alongside that... the entire Divine Kingdom had actually become more vibrant.
In particular, the proportion of high-level believers was slowly increasing at a pace that was not especially fast, but extremely steady.
"With my evolution talent, the effects of this Calamity Pearl... are even comparable