"First, congratulations to all of you for awakening your Divine Kingdoms yesterday and becoming Divine Lifeforms. I especially want to commend three students by name. Yang Fan received a Class C Rating, Li Shuhao received a Class C Rating, and Wang Zhenyu received a D-Rank Rating. Although awakening a Divine Kingdom involves a certain degree of randomness, luck is also a form of strength. Your teacher congratulates you here." Li Qingying lightly clapped her hands.
All the students in Senior Year Class 7 came from ordinary families. With two Class C Ratings and one D-Rank Rating in this awakening, Li Qingying was already very satisfied.
The other students looked at Yang Fan and the other two, their faces equally filled with envy.
It was not because of the ratings themselves, but because of the Ministry of Education's resource preference represented behind those ratings.
Although the resources awarded by the Ministry of Education could not be used for other expenses in daily life, at least they would not need to ask their families for investment money, indirectly easing their families' burdens.
"Ever since the Divine Age descended, human lifespans have greatly increased. You are still young; do not become trapped by temporary gains and losses and forget your original hearts." Li Qingying changed the subject.
"We understand, Teacher."
"Alright, let's begin today's lesson. What do you think a Divine Lifeform is?" Li Qingying pointed at the four large characters on the blackboard.
"Aren't we one?"
"A god who possesses a Divine Kingdom?"
"Ordinary people become Divine Lifeforms after awakening."
The students below chimed in one after another, all answering eagerly.
Li Qingying gave a soft laugh and turned her gaze to Yang Fan. "Student Yang, what do you think?"
"Huh?" Yang Fan froze. He had always listened attentively in class, but he had never thought of answering questions. Why was the teacher taking the initiative to ask him today?
"Ahem, my thoughts are about the same as everyone else's." Yang Fan scratched his head and gave a simple-minded grin.
Seeing this, a trace of disappointment flickered in Li Qingying's eyes.
"Just an ordinary student?" Li Qingying sighed inwardly.
Li Qingying then shifted her gaze to Li Shuhao and continued, "What does Student Li think?"
"The core of a Divine Lifeform does not lie in divinity, but in being a lifeform. After awakening, we possess Divine Kingdoms, and a Divine Kingdom is like a sheepfold, while our believers are lambs raised within it. By the same logic, we can reach a conclusion: before becoming gods, we are merely links in the food chain. From one perspective, we are also lambs now, or links in the food chain." Li Shuhao stated his view in an even tone.
As he finished speaking, quite a few gazes turned toward him. Some were curious, some astonished, some contemplative, and some speechless.
Yang Fan looked at him, and a different light also flashed through his eyes. This guy is kind of interesting. It's just a pity that he clearly knows he's a lamb, yet still wants to act like a lamb with thoughts. Not steady enough.
Li Qingying's eyes lit up. "Who did you hear that from?"
"In my spare time, I like logging into the school library to read."
"Very good. Your insight is quite good. Though it may be somewhat unpleasant to hear, the core idea is correct.
So-called Divine Lifeforms still have not escaped the category of humans. Aside from lifespan, your physical bodies are still fragile. Go ten days without food and you will starve to death; go three days without water and you will die of thirst; encounter a minor traffic accident and you may lose your life.
Divine Lifeforms are merely higher-level lifeforms. They are still fragile.
I know you have just awakened your Divine Kingdoms and are brimming with high spirits, but I regret to tell you one statistic: ninety percent of our class will be unable to break through to Demigod." Li Qingying's expression was utterly serious.
The classroom was very quiet. Many students looked upset. After all, their Parents were not Demigods either, merely Divine Lifeforms engaged in logistical work, and most of their Parents expected them to break through to Demigod and change their families' destinies.
"Teacher, how can One break through to Demigod?" a student raised his hand and asked.
"Work hard to develop your Divine Kingdom and make your believers strong enough. Of course, if you want a quantifiable benchmark, then even if you do nothing every day, you must be able to obtain 1,000 Faith Points purely through your believers' faith."
"1,000 Faith Points just from faith alone!" Many students' mouths fell wide open, their eyes full of disbelief.
That was 30,000 a month. Many people's Parents could not even earn 5,000 a month combined, let alone that this was not from selling Divine Kingdom resources, but from the most basic acquisition of Faith Value.
"Do not be too surprised. Once you truly become a Demigod, perhaps you will not care about such a small income anymore."
Yang Fan lowered his head and pondered in secret. I still need to work hard to raise my believers' life levels. With the strength of the believers in my Divine Kingdom now, even if their numbers grew to a million, the Faith Value they could provide each day would probably only be in the single digits.
This was also why a Divine Kingdom could not make a god stronger through the method of mass-producing troops. If the population grew without limit, the Divine Kingdom would ultimately be unable to support them.
Troops lay in excellence, not numbers.
"Students, I am not trying to discourage you. I am making you face reality. If you want to become Demigods, you need to make your believers strong enough. Yesterday, I read everyone's Divine Kingdom awakening reports. Seventy percent of you have no talent, while most of those who do have talents possess livelihood-type talents.
Think about it. If your believers spend most of their time doing routine work such as mining, farming, and hunting, how can they become stronger?"
Hearing this, everyone looked troubled, and some students even became anxious.
"I know your difficulties. Your family circumstances are not good, and after becoming Divine Lifeforms, the first thing you want to do is help lessen your families' burdens. However, as your teacher, I want to say this: if you want to break through to Demigod, then from now on, you must think of every possible way to improve your believers' strength.
Purchase Resource Cards, Breeding Cards, all kinds of cultivation techniques and spirit plants, and invest them all into the development of your Divine Kingdoms. If circumstances permit, have your families provide support.
To break through to Demigod, the core does not lie in talent, but in resources."
At this point, Li Qingying could not help but sigh inwardly.
What Senior Year Class 7 lacked most was resources. If these had been the top students from Class 1, their teacher would probably have used an entirely different teaching method.
"Teacher, after advancing to Demigod, does one leave the category of humans?" Li Shuhao asked curiously.
"Of course. Your believers' strength will feed back into the bodies of their corresponding gods. You have only just awakened, so it may not be obvious yet. After some time, once your Divine Kingdoms undergo their golden period of development, you will gradually feel changes in your physical constitutions. Even leaping over roofs and walking on walls will be nothing difficult.
As for breaking through to Demigod, I can tell everyone clearly: even if you are struck by a supercar traveling at 2,000 kilometers per hour, your life will not be in danger."
"Then what about gods?"
"As long as the Divine Kingdom remains, the god will not die." Li Qingying's tone was firm.
Li Qingying said those words to encourage everyone. In truth, there was one more thing she had not said: once one truly became a god, if there was a life-and-death feud, they would not fight in the Real World at all. They would directly send troops into each other's Divine Kingdoms.
Li Qingying's class passed quickly. The students actively discussed things throughout the lesson, and in the blink of an eye, it was time for class to end.
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