“Teacher Li, there must be a mistake.” Wang Zhenyu’s face twitched as he stood below the stage.
He was perfectly willing to accept losing to Li Shuhao.
After all, Li Shuhao possessed a B-grade building.
But why was Yang Fan’s prosperity level so high?
Neither his buildings nor his assets seemed particularly impressive.
The only truly outrageous figure was his believer population.
Yang Fan had only just awakened and used a Breeding Card after returning home.
How could the gap between them have become so enormous?
Even more absurdly, some of Yang Fan’s believers had already reached the entry level of the Federal Body Refinement Technique.
How was that possible?
Only a little over twenty years had passed in God Kingdom time.
The Federal Body Refinement Technique had been created by High-tier Gods and contained countless profound mysteries.
How could a group of uncivilized Barbarians reach the entry level without at least a hundred years of cultivation?
The more Wang Zhenyu thought about it, the more ridiculous it seemed.
He couldn’t help but question the result produced by the Intelligent Life.
“Enough.” Li Qingying waved her hand and interrupted him.
“The computing power of the Federal Government’s Intelligent Life is comparable to that of a High-tier God.
Do you really think it could make a mistake?” Her powerful divine aura swept across the classroom, instantly silencing everyone.
Li Qingying turned her attention to Yang Fan.
“The population is easy enough to explain, but I’m curious about how your believers managed to reach the entry level of the Federal Body Refinement Technique in such a short period.” “Your development progress is probably already comparable to the geniuses in Class One.” As a First-Order God, Li Qingying’s experience naturally far exceeded that of these students.
In reality, increasing a population from a few hundred to a hundred thousand within twenty years of God Kingdom time wasn’t particularly difficult.
A C-grade or higher Breeding Card could accomplish it, as could certain special buildings.
However, most people wouldn’t choose to develop their population so aggressively because the burden it placed on the God Kingdom was enormous.
But improving the believers’ aptitude was an entirely different matter.
When a God Kingdom was first established, the aptitude of its believers was generally poor.
Improving that aptitude required either a long period of natural development or the use of natural treasures and special buildings.
If Yang Fan had come from a powerful family, Li Qingying wouldn’t have found it strange.
As long as a great family was willing to invest enough resources, even a poor constitution like that of the Barbarians could be transformed into something suitable for cultivation.
But Yang Fan came from an ordinary family.
That was what made his results so surprising.
“Teacher Li, when my believers reached their third and fourth generations, a few talented individuals appeared among them.” “I issued a Divine Decree ordering them to focus on cultivation and provided them with plenty of Bodhi Precious Snake flesh.
With all that, they only barely reached the entry level yesterday.” Yang Fan had already prepared this explanation.
The better the aptitude of the believers, the greater the probability that talented individuals would appear among their descendants.
But that didn’t mean the descendants of ordinary believers would necessarily be mediocre.
With a sufficiently large population base, one or two geniuses would inevitably appear.
Most importantly, this involved probability.
It was practically impossible to verify.
“You’re certainly lucky.” Li Qingying chuckled.
She didn’t doubt Yang Fan’s explanation.
Since the beginning of the Age of God Kingdoms, countless strange and miraculous events had occurred.
Yang Fan’s situation might be astonishing to these students, but it wasn’t enough to make her question the Intelligent Life’s evaluation.
Seeing the students trembling beneath her pressure, Li Qingying withdrew her divine aura.
“Do you still think Yang Fan’s prosperity level evaluation is unfair?” “Exactly!” Wang Zhenyu immediately raised his hand.
“Forget about everyone else.
Li Shuhao’s God Kingdom is obviously stronger than Yang Fan’s, and he even possesses a B-grade building like the Hundred Spirits Blood Pool.
How could his score be so much lower than Yang Fan’s?” Yang Fan’s believers were Ancient Humans, and Wang Zhenyu already felt inferior because of that.
But Li Shuhao wasn’t weak either.
Furthermore, the difference between their data was simply too large.
In terms of the value of their God Kingdom assets alone, Li Shuhao was probably hundreds of times richer than Yang Fan.
Li Qingying patiently explained, “The prosperity level isn’t an evaluation of the overall combat strength of a God Kingdom.
It measures the stability and health of its current ecosystem.” “Do you think it’s easy to obtain an ‘Excellent’ comprehensive evaluation from the Federal Intelligent Life?” Seeing the confusion on everyone’s faces, Li Qingying pointed directly at Wang Zhenyu.
“How many Faith Points do you need to invest into your God Kingdom every day?” “About twenty-five thousand Faith Points.” “Your population is only about one-eighth of Yang Fan’s, yet he can already sustain his God Kingdom without external investment.” “You, on the other hand, still need to invest more than twenty thousand Faith Points every day.” “Don’t you think there’s a problem?” “This…” Wang Zhenyu was rendered speechless.
He naturally knew that his God Kingdom had many flaws.
Having to spend more than twenty thousand Faith Points every day was painful even for him.
But what he couldn’t understand was how Yang Fan had achieved self-sufficiency.
With such a massive population and a God Kingdom that had only recently begun developing, how could Yang Fan support all of them without continuously pouring resources into it?
“This is the importance of theoretical knowledge.” Li Qingying looked at Yang Fan with increasing satisfaction.
“Theoretical knowledge isn’t useless.” “Do you think you can simply throw all kinds of biological resources into your God Kingdom and call it development?” “If things were really that simple, there would be no need for basic education schools.
Everyone could just wait until university.” “For example, what kind of environment is suitable for the Bodhi Precious Snake to reproduce?” “A forest rich in vegetation?
Or a damp, dark mountain stream?” “Beyond the living environment, what is its most suitable food source?” “If the survival conditions are too favorable, will it reproduce excessively?” “If so, should you introduce natural predators to control its population?” “How far apart should your believers’ settlements be from these food sources?” “Do you need to issue a Divine Decree to prevent them from over-hunting?” “Which plants are suitable for growing beside rivers?
Which ones can survive in wastelands?
Which ones can withstand severe cold?” “Even the most ordinary plants contain a tremendous amount of knowledge.” “If you had listened carefully during class and regularly studied in the school library after class, you could have planned all of this before investing your cards.” “That would greatly increase your God Kingdom’s resource utilization rate.” “Of course, plants and animals will eventually undergo natural selection.” “If the survival conditions are unsuitable, animals will migrate, while plants will naturally die off.” “But all of that requires time.” “I can tell you quite responsibly that if you rely entirely on the God Kingdom’s natural self-regulation, it will take at least several hundred years.” “In reality, your entire high school career could pass before the ecosystem reaches that point.” The classroom fell silent.
“Today is an excellent example.” “I hope all of you will take your theory classes seriously from now on.” Everyone’s eyes lit up with realization.
At the same time, their gazes toward Yang Fan subtly changed.
Previously, they had only thought of Yang Fan as a quiet, low-profile student who rarely spoke.
Now, they realized that he was actually a hidden top student who had apparently spent countless hours studying in the library.
Li Shuhao also looked at Yang Fan curiously.
He couldn’t help feeling puzzled.
‘I never saw him in the library.’ ‘Could he have been borrowing books from the Federal Government’s public library?’ Seeing that she had achieved her educational goal, Li Qingying announced the end of the class.
“The rewards for second through tenth place will be sent directly to your God Kingdoms.” “Everyone else is dismissed.” “Yang Fan, come with me.” Li Qingying grabbed Yang Fan’s left hand.
The two figures instantly transformed into pale-blue streams of data and disappeared before everyone’s eyes.
In the blink of an eye, they appeared inside an office.
Li Qingying looked at Yang Fan with a faint smile.
“Do you feel very proud?” “Knowing that you’ve already surpassed your classmates by hundreds of years?” “I wouldn’t dare.” Yang Fan could only smile awkwardly.
As for Li Qingying’s speculation, he could only say that his strength had been greatly exaggerated by everyone’s imagination.
He had indeed studied the theoretical knowledge of God Kingdom development carefully.
But it was absolutely impossible for him to have considered everything as comprehensively as Li Qingying imagined.
The reason his prosperity level was so high was entirely because his God Kingdom had already undergone two hundred years of natural self-regulation.
Unfortunately, even if he explained the truth himself, no one would probably believe him.