Chapter 138: War Preparations

One month, two months, three months quietly passed by.

With the enhancement of his hundredfold Evolution Talent, Yang Fan could clearly sense himself becoming stronger with every passing moment.

Based on its original Foundation, the divine kingdom had traversed nearly another nine thousand years of time.

Now, the number of Foundation Establishment Realm believers had surpassed three thousand, while the number of Qi Refining Realm believers had exploded to over three million—a staggering scale.

The combat power of the entire divine kingdom was no longer what it used to be.

With a slight shift of thought, Yang Fan's consciousness entered the divine kingdom once again.

"Divine Lord: Yang Fan

Divine Kingdom Area: 11 million square kilometers

Talent: Omitted

Believers: Foundation Establishment Realm (3,214), Qi Refining Realm (3.11 million), Martial Apprentice Realm (670,000), Tier 5 Beings (150 million), Tier 4 Beings (250 million), Tier 3 Beings (610 million), Tier 2 Beings (700 million), Tier 1 Being (2 billion), Mortals (1 billion)

Professions: Alchemist (70,430) (Capable of refining qi gathering pills, blood essence pills, strong bone pills…), Blacksmith (43,900) (Capable of mass-producing B-grade weapons)

Subordinates: Adult Elves (1.89 million)

Techniques: Ten-Palace Yama Array (C-grade, Major Achievement)…

divinity points: 510 million (Reality provides 1.67 divinity points daily)

Buildings: moon well X 500,000, sun spring X 500,000, fountain of life X 52, divine weapon world-forging platform (S-grade), Spiritual Vein X 1,000 (A-grade), alchemy tower X 100 (B-grade), Hundred Herb Spirit Pivot Academy X 50 (B-grade), Prison Suppressing Body Refining Tower X 50 (B-grade), immortal breeding tower X 1,000 (B-grade), Special Building: enlightenment stone X 1,000…

wonders: Penglai Island X 1,000 (Deployed), Spirit Peach Mountain X 5,000 (Deployed), Longze Water Mansion X 10,000 (Deployed), Worlds Number One Martial Arts Arena X 100 (Deployed), myriad manifestation war stele X 1

Assets: Dragon Fish Fry (100 million), Large Mineral Veins X 10, Spirit Stones (), Dragon Meat (), Spiritual Grain (), Various Medicinal Pills (), Various Spiritual Fruits (), Various Medicinal Herbs and spiritual plants (), B-grade weapons (), C-grade weapons ()"

After three whole months, the total return on Yang Fan's divine kingdom investments was as high as six to seven hundred million divinity points, yet his liquid capital had only grown from two hundred million to five hundred million.

He earned a lot, but he spent just as much!

During this period, aside from continuously expanding various assets, Yang Yi's main expenditures remained concentrated on cultivation resources like Medicinal Pills, Dragon meat, and Spiritual Grain.

As the overall strength of the believers continued to rise, resource consumption also climbed to a staggering level.

According to Yang Yi's calculations, every three thousand years in the divine kingdom, the consumption required just for the believers' cultivation reached as high as one hundred million divinity points.

This figure was absolutely terrifying.

Given a population of less than ten billion, even for some low-tier gods, their divine kingdom consumption could never reach such an extent.

In the final analysis, it was because the liquid capital in Yang Fan's hands was too abundant.

With so much liquid capital, under Yang Yi's allocation, the investment of resources into the believers was pushed almost to the limit.

Unlimited supply of Spirit Stones; continuous distribution of high-tier Medicinal Pills; an endless stream of various auxiliary cultivation resources.

As long as the believers had a need and it was beneficial to their strength, Yang Yi would invest resources without hesitation.

No upper limit, no restraint.

The reason for this was simple: even with such consumption, the supply of resources still exceeded demand.

Unlike most demigods and gods who maintain a state of "balanced income and expenditure" or even a slight deficit.

Yang Fan's divine kingdom was an outlier among outliers.

These three months of observation also made Yang Fan gradually realize one thing: resources are never enough for the development of a divine kingdom.

As the number of Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment believers continued to increase, even a fixed asset income of two hundred million divinity points per month could still be completely consumed.

As the believers grow stronger, the income and expenditure will gradually balance out, and Yang Fan will have to reduce his investment sooner or later.

Ultimately, it was because the speed of his divine kingdom's investment and development was too fast, while the believers' strength hadn't kept up. Perhaps before long, Yang Fan would have to worry about resource issues again.

Yang Fan wasn't worried about this; the current cultivation environment for the believers was indeed a bit "over-the-top" in its excellence. Tightening resource input appropriately and filtering believer investments was actually a reasonable adjustment.

Furthermore, high-intensity resource allocation was essentially "trading resources for time." And for Yang Fan, time was the one thing he didn't need to worry about.

Now, the divinity points that the divine kingdom's believers could provide daily had reached the threshold for breaking through to godhood, but this was not the limit for a demigod.

Unlike Divine Beings promoting to demigods, "providing one divinity point daily" was no longer the upper limit, but merely the minimum standard.

There was only one true Breakthrough condition: to launch a Divine Kingdom War and devour a divine kingdom core, allowing one's own divine kingdom area to break through 100 million square kilometers.

Everything was ready!

Yang Fan no longer hesitated. His consciousness connected to the Virtual World, and he entered the Wan'an Information Service Co., Ltd. again, directly spending ten million divinity points to purchase a "Safety-grade" divine kingdom coordinate.

With a thought, Yang Fan's consciousness sank into the divine kingdom.

In the next instant, the world opened up, and a vast military Formation came into view.

Upon the earth, a full one hundred million believers were arrayed in Formation, their auras linked as one—the Ten-Palace Yama Array!

At the very core, a thousand Foundation Establishment Realm believers occupied the Formation eyes, their auras as steady as mountains, like stabilizing pillars.

In the next ring, a million Qi Refining Realm believers were distributed among the core nodes, their auras interconnected, spiritual power rising and falling like the tides.

Further out were the densely packed tiered beings, layer upon layer, covering the earth.

The entire grand array operated as one under the command of Yang San.

"Heng—!"

"Ha—!"

The uniform shouts boomed out from all directions.

As the Formation operated, Yin Qi gathered. In the sky above, vague and majestic phantom figures faintly emerged.

Sensing Yang Fan's arrival, Yang San instantly stopped his movements.

Swoosh!

His figure vanished instantly and reappeared standing before Yang Fan.

Yang San stood tall and gave a crisp military salute, "Master!"

"The current divine kingdom combat divisions have completed their reorganization. A total of five hundred million believer soldiers are available for external conquest."

"Among them: one thousand in the Foundation Establishment Realm; one million in the Qi Refining Realm; five hundred thousand in the Martial Apprentice Realm; one hundred million Tier 5 beings; two hundred million Tier 4 beings; and two hundred million Tier 3 beings."

"The entire army is divided into five great phalanxes, ready for battle at any time!"

His voice fell, carrying an irrepressible Battle Intent.

Yang Fan's gaze swept across the entire military Formation; the equipment of these selected elites had been fully updated.

The Foundation Establishment, Qi Refining, and Martial Apprentice believers were all equipped with full sets of B-grade weapons, while the other tiered beings were uniformly equipped with C-grade weapons.

With the weapon supply from the divine weapon world-forging platform, the overall combat power of his believers had reached another level compared to before.

"You've only mobilized less than one-fifth of the forces?" Yang Fan was slightly surprised.

"Reporting to Master, a Divine Kingdom War is essentially a long-term war of attrition. While the mobilized forces are important, the key lies in logistics and the replenishment of troops."

Yang San's voice was steady and logical: "The divine kingdom itself is the Foundation of everything. We must retain enough population for reproduction to continuously replenish our forces."

"If too many troops are invested at once, any large-scale losses will impact the population structure of the believers and even affect the overall operation of the divine kingdom."

"Furthermore, the divine kingdom still needs to retain defensive forces to prevent others from taking advantage of our absence."

"Based on the current evaluation of the divine kingdom's defensive system, and after consulting with Yang Yi, investing one-fifth of the forces is already a high-intensity combat configuration."