Chapter 214: Lighting a Sky Lantern in the Dark

The final stage before the soul nourishing wood matures.

The entire Divine Kingdom had completely changed its appearance.

If one were to look from the Void Realm.

Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom seemed to have transformed into a massive sphere of light radiating a pale golden glow.

The extremely dense Soul aura constantly spread outward, like a bonfire in the dead of night.

It was crazily attracting the demigod believers wandering and exploring in the Great Void.

In just a few short days.

Several waves of unfamiliar forces had appeared one after another around the periphery of the Divine Kingdom.

However, these demigods were clearly much more cautious and did not directly send believers into Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom.

Instead, they chose various strange and bizarre methods of detection.

Some released silver floating detection spheres, others released fleshy eyeballs, and there were even paper effigies; those things floated in the spatial turbulence like ghosts, possessing almost no aura of life.

Apart from this, there were a large number of other strange detection methods.

There were mental ripples, special spirit insects, and transparent creatures resembling spores.

As long as they approached the Divine Kingdom, they would automatically record the surrounding environment.

This also allowed Yang Fan to truly witness the bizarre and varied detection methods of alien races.

However, these demigods were clearly extremely cautious and did not rashly allow their believers to enter Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom.

Because once believers stepped into an enemy Divine Kingdom, it meant that the Divine Kingdom War had officially begun.

If the believers were completely annihilated, one's own Divine Kingdom coordinates would also be exposed.

Therefore, before officially starting a war, intelligence warfare and information probing were almost an inevitable stage of all Divine Kingdom Wars.

After all, no one wanted to inexplicably provoke an existence they could absolutely not afford to offend.

Just like the basic information attached to the Divine Kingdom coordinates Yang Fan used to purchase in the Mall.

In essence, they were all collected bit by bit through similar means.

Of course, the price of Divine Kingdom coordinates in the Mall was extremely expensive.

Not all demigods could be as wealthy and bold as Yang Fan.

Most demigods were still more willing to let their own believers explore outward.

As for these detection methods, Yang Da handled them without any politeness.

As soon as those detectors approached the periphery of the Divine Kingdom.

The next second, they would be vaporized on the spot by a City-Destroying Cannon, giving absolutely no chance for investigation.

…

At this moment, in the real world.

Yang Fan was sitting in the courtyard of the villa provided by Taichu Academy.

A breeze blew, and the spirit bamboo in the courtyard swayed.

Not far away, Gu Le was kneeling by the stone table, carefully brewing tea for Yang Fan.

White mist slowly rose, and the fragrance of tea overflowed.

Yang Fan was half-reclining on an old man's chair, flipping through a newly purchased book in his hand—《Construction of the Subordinate God System and Loyalty Control》.

The title was simple and straightforward, but the content within was quite useful to Yang Fan.

Gently turning a page, Yang Fan's eyes flickered slightly.

Then he sighed softly:

"A storm is coming."

Gu Le was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

"Husband, what storm is coming?"

"It's nothing."

Yang Fan smiled.

"Just some annoying flies."

Now, there were only the last two or three days left until the soul nourishing wood matured, which was also the time when the aura was most intense.

Only until this moment did Yang Fan finally truly understand.

Why neither demigods nor gods were willing to engage in large-scale Planting of soul nourishing wood.

The risk of the Divine Kingdom coordinates being exposed was simply too high.

…

Time passed slowly.

Finally, it was the eve of the soul nourishing wood's maturity.

Yang Fan, who was resting in reality, suddenly heard Yang Da's call.

The next moment, his consciousness instantly entered the Divine Kingdom.

"Master."

Yang Da's expression became serious.

"Once my detection equipment leaves the range of the Divine Kingdom, it immediately loses contact."

"No information is transmitted back."

"Right now, it is feared that quite a few enemies have gathered around the periphery of the Divine Kingdom."

Hearing this, Yang Fan's eyes narrowed slightly.

"So…"

"Are they waiting for the soul nourishing wood to mature?"

"That's correct."

Yang Da nodded.

"And there are quite a few who have come."

"I fear there are many people who want to take advantage of the opportunity to plunder."

"Heh."

Yang Fan suddenly sneered.

"Since that is the case."

"Then let us wait and see."

"It just so happens that someone is offering Divine Kingdom coordinates for free, which saves us from having to continue buying them in the Mall."

Speaking of this, Yang Fan's gaze was cold.

Staring fixedly in the direction of the Divine Kingdom's periphery, he even subconsciously licked his lips, like a beast eyeing its prey.

"Pass the order to Ling Xuzi."

"Tell her to send Qi Refining Stage believers out to investigate."

"Let's see exactly how many demigods are blind."

"Yes!"

Yang Da nodded immediately.

Soon, the order was conveyed.

In just a moment, Ling Xuzi's consciousness projection appeared before Yang Fan.

Compared to before, her current state was clearly much better.

Her whole person was refreshed, and there was a bit more color on her face.

"Master."

"I have already dispatched ten Qi Refining Stage believers to investigate."

"There will be results very soon."

However, just as she was halfway through her sentence.

Ling Xuzi seemed to have suddenly seen something through the vision of her believers, and she froze in place instantly.

Her complexion turned pale to the naked eye.

"Ma… Master…"

"Something terrible has happened!"

Ling Xuzi's voice was trembling slightly.

"Outside… outside there are twenty demigods!"

"Among them are the Human Race, Beast Race, Undead Race, Insect Race…"

Clearly, she had been completely terrified by the scene she saw.

Yang Fan, however, just calmly waved his hand, "How is their strength?"

"My believers dare not get too close."

Ling Xuzi wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.

"Each wave of forces has thousands of Foundation Establishment Stage believers."

"And this is only the vanguard."

Such a scale of war, when had Ling Xuzi ever seen it?

At this moment, she only felt her scalp tingling.

She didn't even understand why the new master she had just acknowledged was suddenly targeted by so many demigods.

And among them, they were all existences of different races.

The Human Race, Beast Race, Undead Race, Insect Race…

These forces, which usually slaughtered each other, now seemed to have formed some kind of strange tacit understanding, all waiting for an opportunity.

Ling Xuzi turned her head slowly, feeling the increasingly dense Soul aura within Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom.

Her voice was trembling slightly.

"Ma… Master."

"Exactly how much soul nourishing wood did you plant?"

Hearing this, Yang Fan just smiled indifferently.

"Not much."

"Only five trillion."

"And, it's been nearly ten thousand years."

As soon as these words were spoken, Ling Xuzi stood frozen in place instantly.

Her mind was left completely blank.

Crazy!

No wonder it attracted the covetous eyes of so many demigods!

This is simply—lighting a sky lantern in the dark, afraid that others won't know you are rich!

"Master."

Ling Xuzi hurriedly spoke.

"These people are not of one mind."

"Perhaps… we could distribute a portion of the soul nourishing wood."

"As long as they see the benefits, they might not fight to the death."

As a Subordinate God, she shouldn't have spoken out of turn.

But the problem was, she had just found such a good master in Yang Fan.

She really didn't want to change masters so soon!

However, Yang Fan just said calmly, "Just watch with peace of mind."