The battle between the humans and demonic beasts lasted for a full two years.
Nearly fifty thousand adult Bodhi Precious Snakes were hunted and transported back to the major cities in batches.
Knowing this, Yang Fan naturally felt his heart race.
That represented 250,000 Faith Points.
After several centuries of development, the Bodhi Precious Snakes had spread from the original Snake Valley throughout the entire mountain range, with their population exceeding one hundred thousand.
However, this disorganized combat force was still vulnerable before the human race, which had already mastered the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array.
Perhaps because Yang Fan had once issued a Sacred Decree forbidding excessive killing, his believers withdrew their troops after hunting nearly half of the Bodhi Precious Snakes and returned to their cities.
Yang Fan did not stop them.
The High School Senior Year-wide Assessment was approaching, and he needed to improve his believers’ strength as quickly as possible, make a name for himself, and secure investment from the Great Families.
Even without these Bodhi Precious Snakes, Yang Fan would have found other meat resources to invest in.
“As the believers grow stronger, their resource consumption is truly terrifying.
No wonder everyone is living under such pressure.” Yang Fan sighed softly.
Although his Evolution Talent allowed him to obtain resources ten times more efficiently than ordinary people, if his Divine Kingdom could not become self-sufficient and continued to rely on external resources, its consumption would also be ten times greater.
Another thirty years passed within the Divine Kingdom, and the believers’ strength continued to increase.
By now, Yang Fan could no longer provide much guidance regarding the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array.
In fact, watching his believers practice the formation had begun to give Yang Fan new insights.
After all, it was only an F-rank formation.
Through more than two hundred years of exploration, several generations of soldiers had passed down their knowledge and experience.
Now, whenever the believers deployed the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array, it possessed not only its original form but also a faint hint of true spirit.
Yang Fan knew that this meant his believers had cultivated the formation to Minor Achievement.
One day, shortly after Yang Fan finished class, he was about to exit the Virtual World when he suddenly felt something change within his body.
An invisible energy surged through his entire body.
His cells, flesh, and bones began undergoing a profound transformation.
Cracking sounds echoed from various parts of his body.
Yang Fan forcibly exited the Virtual World.
He didn’t even have time to remove his helmet before he broke out in a cold sweat from the intense pain.
A Tier 1 Being had been born within his Divine Kingdom.
As a Divine Being, Yang Fan possessed a powerful ability to withstand physical mutations.
Within just a few dozen breaths, the pain disappeared.
Yang Fan stood up and threw a punch into the air before him.
A sharp sonic boom rang out as the surrounding air rippled violently from the impact.
“Just the birth of a single Tier 1 Being has made my body this much stronger.
To what extent must the bodies of those Demigods and even Gods be strengthened?” Yang Fan swallowed hard.
His consciousness entered the Divine Kingdom and immediately located the newly born Tier 1 Being.
It was the Emperor of Shenqi City.
After breaking through to Tier 1 and transcending the limits of ordinary mortals, his lifespan would increase by two hundred years.
But the increase in lifespan was only secondary.
More importantly, the breakthrough in life tier would have a marrow-cleansing effect, allowing the Emperor to produce stronger and more talented descendants in the future.
God Lord: Yang Fan Divine Kingdom Area: One million square kilometers Talent: F-rank Resource Talent (All resources in the Divine Kingdom grow 10% faster) SSS-rank Talent: Evolution (Unique talent, can accelerate Divine Kingdom Evolution, currently hidden.) Believers: Tier 1 Being (1), Mortals (150,000) Methods: Federal Body Refinement Technique, Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array (Minor Achievement) Faith Points: 833,000 (Daily Faith Points provided: 2.6) Buildings: Moon Well ×7, Sun Spring ×7 Assets: Bodhi Precious Snake ×88,765 (Tier 1 Demonic Beast), Dark Night Vulture ×31,222 (Tier 1 Demonic Beast), Spirit Fish Baby ×102,620 (Tier 1 Demonic Beast), Great Roc ×45,533 (Tier 1 Demonic Beast), Peregrine Falcon ×42,332 (Tier 1 Demonic Beast), Taisui ×1, Water Lotus ×21,000 (F-rank Spiritual Plant), Soul Nourishing Wood (Century-old) ×1,000 (C-rank Spiritual Plant), Hundred Spirit Peach ×25,711 (C-rank Spiritual Plant) Looking at the current state of his Divine Kingdom, Yang Fan decided to intervene more actively.
He sold twenty thousand each of the Dark Night Vultures, Peregrine Falcons, and Great Rocs.
In exchange, he purchased one hundred thousand adult Bodhi Precious Snakes and released them throughout the areas surrounding the five major cities.
At present, the ecosystem within the Divine Kingdom was no longer sufficient to support the rapid development of his believers.
Many people had already begun hunting herbivores such as antelopes for food.
Since they were entering the final sprint before the examination, their resource supply naturally had to be sufficient.
The main reason Yang Fan sold the flying demonic beasts was that his believers currently had almost no anti-air capabilities.
The weapons in the Divine Kingdom were still in the Stone Age.
Their only long-range weapons were bows and arrows made from wood.
They were perfectly adequate for hunting antelopes, but trying to hunt Tier 1 flying demonic beasts with them was nothing more than a pipe dream.
As a result, these flying demonic beasts had almost no natural enemies.
And when it came to hunting Bodhi Precious Snakes, they directly competed with the human race for the same prey.
The rivers within the Divine Kingdom were sufficiently large.
Combined with the believers’ primitive fishing techniques, the Spirit Fish Babies were also reproducing at an astonishing rate.
“There are still plenty of details that need to be dealt with in the Divine Kingdom.
But for now, I have to focus entirely on developing the army’s strength.
If I want to grow powerful quickly, I must obtain investment from the Great Families.” Yang Fan murmured to himself.
After coming into contact with Li Shuhao, Yang Fan’s mindset had changed.
Relying solely on his SSS-rank Talent and quietly accumulating wealth was no longer a realistic option.
Divine Beings only had a lifespan of five hundred years, and Yang Fan’s starting point was simply too low.
Compared with the wealth possessed by those Great Families, his starting capital was practically negligible.
A person needed to be cautious and remain grounded.
But when a massive opportunity appeared before them, they also had to give everything they had to seize it.
Sometimes, choice was more important than talent.
The platform could be more important than effort.
And refusing to adapt was nothing more than another name for cowardice.
With the introduction of one hundred thousand Bodhi Precious Snakes into the Divine Kingdom, the supply of meat finally became sufficient.
An arms race began between the cities.
Everything was for the sake of fighting for their God in the upcoming War Against Alien Races.
Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.
By then, a total of six Tier 1 Beings had been born within Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom.
The five major cities each selected their strongest adult males to establish five elite armies.
The Divine Revelation Army consisted of ten thousand elite soldiers and was commanded by two Tier 1 Beings.
Baihu, Qinglong, Xuanwu, and Zhuque each named their armies after their respective cities.
Each ten-thousand-man army was commanded by a Tier 1 Being.
As Yang Fan watched the armies conduct their drills, he could feel a fierce, murderous aura washing over him.
Because of the one hundred thousand Bodhi Precious Snakes he had invested in, his believers had spent these years cultivating while simultaneously participating in actual combat and hunting demonic beasts.
Those were Tier 1 Demonic Beasts.
Even a Tier 1 Being among his believers might not necessarily be able to defeat one bare-handed.
Every hunt for Bodhi Precious Snakes resulted in casualties.
Afterward, new recruits would be added to replenish the army.
Through this high-intensity combat training, they had gradually become a battle-hardened force.
In just one month, the comprehensive combat power of his Divine Kingdom had increased by more than tenfold.
Yang Fan was extremely satisfied with the result.
Faith Points: 422,030 Because of the massive resource investment during this period, Yang Fan’s liquid capital had fallen below five hundred thousand Faith Points.
He took out a blank card and collected all the Moon Dew, Sun Essence, and Water Lotus Seeds stored in his warehouse.
He then sold them through the mall.
After taxes, he obtained roughly eight hundred thousand Faith Points.
His total funds had once again risen to 1.2 million.