"This is a misconception held by most newcomers, thinking that relying on a single Federal Body Refinement Technique, every follower can become like a dragon?"
"When a few more years pass, your Divine Kingdom will have hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. Could it be that everyone cultivations every day and does not engage in production?"
"Humans are intelligent creatures, knowing how to use tools, allocate Resources, perform their respective duties, and subconsciously divide themselves into different ranks."
"You only need to issue a Divine Decree for them to sow seeds, without even assigning tasks. Their internal System will automatically have those who lack talent and are weak in strength do these routine administrative jobs."
"Ninety percent of the followers within the Divine Kingdom are consumables. Their role is twofold: first, to engage in production and maintain the operation of the Divine Kingdom, and second, to earn Faith Points for us."
"Another half-percent are talented powerhouses who might rely on Cultivation in the future to breakthrough to First-Order, Second-Order, or even higher forms of life."
"Another half-percent will become stronger, enjoy longer lifespans, and help us manage the entire Divine Kingdom."
"Just like in the Real World, populations will reproduce, classes will flow, and natural selection will allow this civilization to climb upward bit by bit."
"If you intervene too much and make all of them work hard to cultivation, you are actually destroying this System. Perhaps in the short term your followers will become stronger, but that is because you keep spending Faith Points to sustain this System. Once you lose external blood transfusions, the System will collapse even faster."
After listening to Zhang Wanshan's explanation, a look of sudden realization appeared on Yang Fan's face.
Over the past few days, the consumption of Faith Points had indeed been increasing more and more. Those old, weak, women, and children who could not obtain food should perhaps simply be allowed to die naturally.
This was the survival of the fittest in the biological chain, and as a god, he should not meddle in these trivial matters.
Zhang Wanshan took a sip of wine and spoke with growing enthusiasm, "These are all minor issues. If you can breakthrough to demigods in the future, you can also sign agreements with other Divine Beings to have them plant food and gather Resources for you."
"If your strength is sufficient, you can even conquer someone else's Divine Kingdom and directly treat the entire Divine Kingdom as your own granary."
"Treating someone else's Divine Kingdom as my own granary? Is this legal?" Yang Fan swallowed hard.
"My classmate is a First-Order God, and I am currently his Subordinate God. He was the one who told me about this."
"This world is like a huge arena where various Divine Kingdoms can wage war against each other. At every turn, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of followers are slaughtered, and the Divine Kingdom Core is plundered."
"As Divine Beings, we only feel that those demigods and gods are high and mighty, but once you truly reach that step, you have to face even greater cruelty."
"This is all too distant for you. At least before graduating from university, you don't need to worry about anyone invading your Divine Kingdoms."
Zhang Wanshan was extraordinary in knowledge and told Yang Fan and Zhang Pang many stories about demigods and even gods, both of whom listened with relish. This chapter was taken from novelping . com without permission.
Returning home, Yang Fan immediately searched for cereal crops in the Divine Shop.
"Corn seeds × 500,000, price 300 Faith Points. Drought-resistant, wind-resistant, extremely high yield, strong satiating effect, no Planting conditions required."
"Vegetable seeds × 500,000, price 500 Faith Points. No Planting conditions required."
"Spirit rice seeds × 5,000, price 50,000 Faith Points. The Divine Kingdom needs to possess Spiritual Qi, have spiritual soil, and have followers who are Spirit Plant Farmers to cultivation it."
Yang Fan directly chose the cheapest corn seeds and vegetable seeds, then poured them into the Divine Kingdom and issued a Divine Decree.
After Zhang Wanshan's guidance, Yang Fan was no longer prepared to excessively interfere with the life trajectories of his followers.
If he continued to buy food and pour it in, the population would most likely continue to increase. By then, the Divine Kingdom wouldn't be able to bear it, leading to large-scale deaths and even plagues, which would result in losses outweighing the gains.
With a new source of food, the tribe's consumption of meat was finally no longer so exaggerated, and the ecology began to balance out.
In the ninth decade, the population had already reached 110,000. Even with the blessing of the Breeding Card, the tribe no longer expanded crazily, mainly constrained by the environment as the current population density was too large and gradually becoming saturated.
If they wanted to continue developing the population, they would have to undertake major construction and expand their living spaces outward.
In the one hundredth year, the effect of the Breeding Card officially disappeared.
Yang Fan's consciousness entered the Divine Kingdom.
By now, his followers had developed from an initial small tribe into the appearance of a town.
The Divine Enlightenment City stood tall in the very center of the Divine Kingdom. Because of the Moon Well and Sun Spring, the aura of life was extremely rich.
As for the four cities of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird, they stood respectively in the southeast, northwest, and north/south directions.
The Snake Valley in the south was now covered all over with Bodhi Treasure Snakes, and even due to the excessive density, the snake groups began to spread outward.
Dark Night Vultures often appeared in the sky, looking for the right moment to strike.
Various plants and animals permeated the mountains, and the roars of beasts rose and fell in succession.
Today's Divine Kingdom had rich species and a stable ecology. The follower population had also reached saturation.
The death, reproduction, and Cultivation of followers slowly pushed the entire civilization forward.
"God Lord: Yang Fan"
"Divine Kingdom Area: 1 million square kilometers"
"Talent: F-rank Resource Acceleration Talent (All Resources within the Divine Kingdom accelerate growth by 10%)"
"SSS-Rank Talent: Evolution (Unique talent, can accelerate Divine Kingdom Evolution, hidden.)"
"Followers: Ancients (110,000)"
"Method: Federal Body Refinement Technique"
"Faith Points: Faith Points: 1,070,988 (Daily provision of Faith Points: 0.55)"
"Buildings: Moon Well × 5, Sun Spring × 5"
"Assets: Bodhi Treasure Snake (× 27,233, First-Order Demonic Beast), Dark Night Vulture (× 1,345, First-Order Demonic Beast), Water Lotus (× 21,000, F-rank Spirit Plant), Soul-Nourishing Wood (Century) (× 1,000, C-rank Spirit Plant)"
After a century of development and the investment of various Resources, the follower population not only reached 110,000, but their identity also changed from Barbarians to Ancients.
When the Divine Kingdom was just awakened, everyone's followers had the identity of Barbarians.
With the Evolution of civilization, having stable food, safe dwellings, city architecture, knowledge Inheritance capabilities, and coupled with breaking through the limits of Barbarians, their identity would evolve into Ancients.
After Ancients came mortals.
By that time, the followers' spiritual wisdom would be opened, forming a small human society with division of labor and cooperation, trading of Resources, and even opening schools to teach Cultivation Techniques.
Once the followers developed into mortals, the Divine Kingdom would tend to stabilize. They would slowly form a social System, not excessively exploit Resources, and allow the entire Divine Kingdom to develop benignly.
Further on, a very small number of followers would breakthrough in strength to become First-Order life forms.
As for the directions, they were bizarre and varied. Either entering the Dao through martial arts to become martial artists; or cultivating immortality and Qi Refining to become Cultivators; or achieving Mechanical Ascension to become Intelligent Lifeform.
Only when followers broke free from the category of mortals could Divine Beings begin to transform toward demigods.
Those were still too far away for the current Yang Fan. Right now, not even a single one of his followers had cultivated the Federal Body Refinement Technique to Minor Achievement.
However, with the Evolution Talent present, as generations of followers developed through natural selection and genetic screening, descendants with good talent would eventually be born. Yang Fan was not in a hurry about this.