Chapter 22: The Relationship Between Gods and Divine Kingdoms

Upon hearing the value of this card, the eyes of many students lit up.

Looking at the expressions of the students ranked lower in the class, Li Qingying sighed softly and said, "With ten thousand believers, one can set up this great array. Practicing with this formation even aids in cultivating the Federal Body Refining Technique, significantly improving the believers' physiques. If you haven't already resolved to follow the Logistics Path, it's best not to sell this formation card."

Li Qingying knew in her heart that the assessment in a month's time wasn't aimed at all students; the school truly wanted to screen for geniuses with combat capabilities.

"Yay!"

Many students let out excited cheers. Although the assessment had nothing to do with them, gaining a hundred thousand Faith Points for free to make some investments in their Divine Kingdoms would make life much easier for their families.

"Over the next month, I will teach you how to deploy the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array, organize for battle, and even use the array for cultivation. Students determined to follow the Logistics Path do not need to attend. Everyone else, listen carefully. If you perform excellently in this grand exam, you may even have the chance to receive investment from major families."

"Yes, Teacher!" Many students present still had burning gazes.

Returning to reality, Yang Fan immediately deployed the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array into his Divine Kingdom.

"This is the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array. Ten thousand people shall form one squad. This array can assist you in cultivating the Federal Body Refining Technique. In three hundred years, there will be a war against foreign races. During this period, you must not kill one another; everyone must cultivate with all their strength," Yang Fan descended his Divine Oracle.

"We obey the Divine Decree!" The entire human race in the Divine Kingdom knelt to the ground.

Under his tenfold Evolution Talent, Yang Fan did not immediately exit the Divine Kingdom. Instead, he silently observed the performance of his believers.

Perhaps it was because their aptitude was too poor, or perhaps the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array was too complex.

After one year in the Divine Kingdom, the best-performing squad from God-Awakened City was still crooked. After practicing for an entire year, a squad of ten thousand people couldn't even manage to move in unison.

"Is their aptitude this poor? Their bodies aren't even coordinated; trying to cooperate is worse than not cooperating at all." Back in reality, Yang Fan couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

As the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array skill card was loaded into the Divine Kingdom, the details of the formation naturally appeared in Yang Fan's mind.

Although this formation was complex, in Yang Fan's view, mastering its basic form was quite easy.

Yang Fan opened his smartwatch and typed 'Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array' into the search bar of the God Forum.

"OP must be a high schooler, right? Are you about to take the school-wide quarterly grand exam? Here's a suggestion: don't be silly and let your believers practice on their own. Their life level is too low right now, they're dumb as bricks, and letting them figure it out themselves is a waste of time."

"First floor is right. OP can buy some basic formation knowledge from the mall to load into the Divine Kingdom, but you also need to study the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array yourself. As Gods, our life level is higher. Once you understand the key points of the formation, you can directly descend a Divine Oracle so your believers avoid unnecessary detours."

Furthermore, during the assessment, you'll have to command the battle yourself. If you know nothing about formations, you might end up being a hindrance. It wouldn't be worth it if your believers are slaughtered en masse by demonic beasts."

"Stop browsing the God Forum. The school's teachers are at least Rank One Gods. Make sure to listen well during this time. Once you enter society, the price to hire a God to guide you in formation cultivation is ridiculously high."

"Good luck, OP. Hope you get good grades."

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Many people were asking on the God Forum, and there were even a large number of posts from previous years.

Yang Fan browsed through them roughly and gained a clear understanding of the direction he should work toward.

The next day in class, only about a third of the students showed up. The rest had completely given up on the path of a War Divine Kingdom.

Yang Fan listened very intently. Under the teaching of Li Qingying, a Rank One God, his understanding of the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array advanced by leaps and bounds.

The transformations of the array, the movement of the formation eye, how to defend, attack, and maneuver—even using the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array to assist in cultivation and enhance the strength of the believers.

Li Qingying taught from the simple to the profound. In just one class, the difficult points he couldn't figure out yesterday suddenly became clear.

Yang Fan noticed that even Li Shuhao was listening intently; it seemed the forum's claims were not false.

One day in the outside world meant ten years had passed in Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom.

Projecting his consciousness in again, he found that his believers hadn't made much progress. Although the squads stood more neatly, many positional details were wrong.

If they participated in the grand exam in this state, the formation would collapse under a single wave of demonic beast attacks.

Yang Fan immediately descended a Divine Oracle, transmitting his understanding of the formation and the knowledge taught by Li Qingying in class directly into the minds of his believers.

He let everyone memorize it first; given enough time, they would eventually understand it.

Next, Yang Fan did not return to reality. Instead, he watched the believers practice the formation. Whenever he saw a flaw, he would directly descend an oracle to correct it.

Fortunately, only Yang Fan's consciousness entered the Divine Kingdom. In his eyes, the changes within were like a slideshow on fast-forward; while he could clearly perceive every detail, his sense of time remained anchored to reality.

Otherwise, spending ten years just like that would have surely caused Yang Fan's mind to collapse.

That night, Yang Fan stayed up very late. It wasn't until one in the morning that he returned to reality and forced himself to sleep.

Under his guidance, the believers' comprehension of the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array had improved rapidly. In just one night, he had saved his believers at least several decades of time.

These changes also gave Yang Fan another layer of understanding regarding the development of a Divine Kingdom.

A God should not actively interfere with the survival, reproduction, or evolution of their believers, nor should they destroy a stable ecosystem.

But this didn't mean the God should do nothing. Relying solely on the natural evolution of the Divine Kingdom was too slow, and it was even possible for the entire civilization to stagnate.

Therefore, a God must provide appropriate positive guidance. For example, the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array was purely beneficial to the believers.

In such a situation, he could fully utilize all resources to accelerate this evolution.

Strong believers would in turn nourish the God, and the God should likewise provide resources for the Divine Kingdom to assist the believers' growth.

On the surface, the Divine Kingdom and the God seemed to have a master-subordinate relationship, but in reality, it was a symbiotic one.

The Divine Kingdom was the God's wealth, and the God was the Divine Kingdom's safeguard.

If he completely neglected the Divine Kingdom just because he had the Evolution Talent, he would eventually fade into mediocrity.

Even with ten times the resources of an ordinary person, with the current aptitude of his believers, they wouldn't be able to comprehend those high-level techniques at all.

If progress itself was zero, it wouldn't matter if the time flow was multiplied by ten, a hundred, or a thousand—it would still be zero.

In the following days, aside from attending classes, Yang Fan's consciousness was basically always within his Divine Kingdom, frequently descending Divine Oracles.

With his help, the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array practiced by the believers had now taken its proper form.

By the fiftieth year of practicing the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array, Yang Fan felt it was already quite decent. Now, a squad of ten thousand, relying on the array on a battlefield, would have their overall strength increased by at least threefold.

By the hundredth year, Yang Fan felt he had taught them almost everything he could. Although there were still minor flaws, there were no obvious weaknesses when the array was deployed. If it were just mindless demonic beasts, they could never easily break the formation, not even a small-scale beast tide.

By the hundred and fiftieth year, those believers had begun to use the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array to assist their cultivation.

The major main cities organized military sparring matches, first to test the array's true combat power, and second to cultivate the Federal Body Refining Technique through actual combat.

By the two-hundredth year, the supply of taisui meat alone could no longer support the army's consumption. The Emperor of God-Awakened City issued a military order for the Four Kings to send troops to Snake Valley to hunt the Bodhi Treasure Snakes.