Chapter 16: So He’s a Top Student

"Teacher Li, there must be a mistake." Wang Zhenyu's face twitched below the stage.

He was perfectly fine with losing to Li Shuhao; after all, the other guy had a B-grade building.

But on what grounds did Yang Fan have such a high Prosperity Level? Neither his buildings nor his assets seemed particularly special.

The only thing that was ridiculous was the believer population. He had only just awakened and used a Breeding Card after going home. How could there be such a huge gap?

And there were actually believers who had reached the entry level of the Federal Body Refining Technique.

Was that right? It was very wrong.

Only twenty-some years had passed in God Kingdom time, and this Federal Body Refining Technique was created by High-tier Gods, containing infinite mysteries. How could a bunch of uncivilized Barbarians reach the entry level without a hundred or eighty years?

The more Wang Zhenyu thought about it, the more ridiculous it felt, and he directly questioned the result given by the Intelligent Life.

"Shut up. The computing power of the Federal Government's Intelligent Life is comparable to that of a High-tier God. How could it make a mistake?" Li Qingying waved her hand and interrupted him, her powerful divine aura suppressing the students present into silence.

Li Qingying turned to look at Yang Fan and said, "The population size is easy to explain, but I'm curious how your believers could reach the entry level of the Federal Body Refining Technique in such a short time. Your development progress is likely comparable to those geniuses in Class One."

After all, Li Qingying was a First-Order God, and her experience was naturally beyond what these students could imagine.

It wasn't actually hard to raise the population from a few hundred to a hundred thousand in twenty years of God Kingdom time.

A C-grade or higher Breeding Card, or certain special buildings, could achieve that.

However, most people wouldn't choose to do so, as the burden on the God Kingdom would be too severe.

But reaching the entry level of the Federal Body Refining Technique was very difficult. When a God Kingdom is first established, the believers' aptitude is low. One must either rely on time or use natural treasures or special buildings to improve their aptitude.

If this were in a great family, Li Qingying wouldn't be surprised at all. As long as they were willing to invest, even a trash constitution like that of the Barbarians could be forged into a cultivation genius.

But Yang Fan was just a child from an ordinary family, which made it stand out.

"Teacher Li, when my believers reached the third and fourth generations, a few geniuses emerged. Then I descended a Divine Oracle for them to focus on cultivation, with plenty of Bodhi Treasure Snake flesh provided. Only then did they barely reach the entry level yesterday," Yang Fan had already prepared his explanation.

The better the believers' aptitude, the higher the probability of geniuses among their descendants. But the descendants of believers with ordinary aptitude aren't necessarily bad either; with a large enough base, one or two geniuses will always be born.

Most importantly, this kind of probability issue was impossible to explain.

"You're certainly lucky," Li Qingying chuckled.

Li Qingying didn't doubt this. Since the dawn of the Age of God Kingdoms, there had been countless strange occurrences. Yang Fan's situation would only shock these students.

Seeing the students trembling under her pressure, Li Qingying withdrew her divine aura and asked, "Do you all think Yang Fan's Prosperity Level evaluation is unfair?"

"Exactly. Never mind the others, but Li Shuhao's God Kingdom is clearly stronger than Yang Fan's, and he even has a B-grade building like the bailing blood pool. How could his score be so much lower than Yang Fan's?" Wang Zhenyu raised his question.

Yang Fan's believers were Ancient Humans. Based on that alone, Wang Zhenyu felt inferior, but Li Shuhao wasn't bad either.

Furthermore, the gap between their data was too large. In terms of asset value within the God Kingdom alone, Li Shuhao was likely hundreds of times ahead of Yang Fan.

Li Qingying explained, "Prosperity Level isn't a competition of the overall strength of the God Kingdom, but rather the stability of its current ecology. Do you think it's easy to get an 'Excellent' comprehensive evaluation from the Federal Intelligent Life?"

Seeing everyone's confusion, Li Qingying directly called out Wang Zhenyu: "How many Faith Points do you need to invest in your God Kingdom every day now?"

"About 25,000 Faith Points," Wang Zhenyu replied.

"Your population is only about one-eighth of Yang Fan's, yet he is self-sufficient while you still have to invest so much every day. Don't you think there's a problem?"

"This…" Wang Zhenyu was speechless.

He naturally knew the current flaws of his God Kingdom. Investing over twenty thousand Faith Points every day—it would be a lie to say he didn't feel the sting.

But Wang Zhenyu couldn't figure out how Yang Fan did it. With such a large population and in the early development stage of the God Kingdom, how could he support them all on his own?

"This is the importance of theoretical knowledge," Li Qingying said, her gaze looking at Yang Fan with increasing satisfaction.

"Theoretical knowledge is not unimportant. Do you think you can just throw all kinds of biological resources into the God Kingdom and be done with it? If it were that simple, all basic education schools except for universities could be demolished.

For example, what kind of environment is suitable for the Bodhi Treasure Snake to breed? Is it a vegetation-rich forest or a damp, dark mountain stream?

Besides the living environment, what is the most suitable food source for it?

If survival conditions are too favorable, will it over-breed? Should natural enemies be introduced?

How do you control the distance between your believers' settlements and these food sources? Do you need to descend a Divine Oracle to prevent over-hunting?

What plants are suitable for growing by the river, what are suitable for wasteland, and which ones aren't afraid of the severe cold? There is great knowledge even in the most basic plants.

If you had listened carefully in class and frequently studied in the school library after class, you could have planned ahead when you first invested the cards. This would significantly increase the resource utilization rate of the God Kingdom.

Of course, plants and animals will undergo natural selection. Animals will migrate if survival conditions are poor, and plants will die naturally.

But all of this takes time. I can tell you quite responsibly that if all of this relied on the God Kingdom's self-regulation, it would take at least several hundred years.

In reality, your entire high school years might pass before that happens."

"Today serves as a very good example. I hope everyone can take the theory classes seriously."

Everyone showed expressions of realization, and their gazes toward Yang Fan became a bit different now.

Previously, they only knew Yang Fan was low-profile and a man of few words; they didn't expect him to be a hidden Top Student who frequently spent all his time in the library.

Li Shuhao also looked at Yang Fan curiously, feeling puzzled: "I didn't see him in the library? Could it be that he borrowed books from the Federal Government's public library?"

Seeing that her educational goal was met, Li Qingying directly announced the end of class: "The rewards for second to 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, and their bodies turned into pale blue data and vanished before everyone's eyes.

In an instant, the two appeared in an office.

"Do you feel very proud? That you've already surpassed your classmates by hundreds of years?" Li Qingying asked.

"I wouldn't dare."

Regarding Li Qingying's speculation, Yang Fan could only say that his strength was entirely based on others' wild imaginations.

Yang Fan had learned the God Kingdom theoretical knowledge well, but it was absolutely impossible to consider things so comprehensively. The reason his Prosperity Level evaluation was high was entirely due to the two hundred years of self-regulation in his God Kingdom.

It's just that even if he said it himself, no one would probably believe it.