1: Chapter 1: Awakening Gold Items at the Start

Tianwu First High School, Divine Kingdom Awakening Plaza.

The holographic divine inscription calculation stele projected a string of blue data, suspended in mid-air.

[Assessment Subject: Lin Yunfei]

[Initial Area of the Divine Kingdom: Ten square kilometers]

[Companion First-tier Building: None]

[Companion Spiritual Plant Output: None]

[Comprehensive Talent Rating: F-grade]

The chief examiner held the spiritual energy recorder, brought up the terminal roster, and crossed out the name with a gold star at the very top of the roster.

With this stroke, the full resource subsidies for top students representing the Federal Ministry of Education were cut off right then and there.

"What a pity!"

The chief examiner sighed aloud.

"A genius who scored full marks in the deity theory grand exam for three consecutive years and ranked first in the whole school, yet his practical operation rating plummeted through the bottom line. With an F-grade talent and a divine kingdom area of only ten square kilometers, he cannot even support a single nest of the lowest-tier gray-skinned goblins because the ecological chain is completely severed."

Hundreds of senior high school students off the stage whispered among themselves.

Wang Tian from Class One crossed his arms, scanned the data on the calculation stele, and directly gave his judgment.

"Scoring full marks in the theoretical exam is fucking useless. In the era when everyone ignites their divine fire, everything is based solely on data. An F-grade start directly deprives him of the qualification to purchase entry-tier troops, and he cannot even touch the threshold of establishing a basic ecological cycle."

"The divine kingdom assessment relies entirely on three core indicators. The initial territory area determines the capacity upper limit, the talent tier determines the rule strength, and basic spiritual plants represent the early economic source."

"Lin Yunfei is empty in all three items, and his rating fails. According to the Federal starnet Act, those with failing ratings will have their free resource allocation cut off on the spot. From now on, he has even lost the qualification to ignite the demigod fire. He can only go to the outer city to act as a spiritual energy miner."

Lin Yunfei's expression remained unchanged as he walked down the high platform along the white jade steps.

The cold words around him fell into his ears, failing to stir up the slightest ripple.

Emotional fluctuations were completely useless for changing reality; the most urgent task was to consider how to build his own divine kingdom—even if it was an F-grade wasteland, he could not give up!

A tsunami-like cheer erupted on the other side of the high platform.

The calculation stele refreshed once again with a row of dazzling data.

[Assessment Subject: Wang Han]

[Initial Area of the Divine Kingdom: One hundred and fifty square kilometers]

[Companion Specialty: Miniature Magic Crystal Vein]

[Comprehensive Talent Rating: B-grade]

Wang Han, the eldest young master of the Wang family, held his head high and walked to the front of the stage to accept the congratulations of the instructors.

The Wang family controlled one-third of Tianwu City's spiritual energy armed trade, boasting abundant capital.

Now Wang Han had awakened a B-grade talent, coupled with the magic crystal vein that came naturally with his divine kingdom.

A miniature magic crystal vein produced one hundred units of basic magic crystals daily, which equated to two thousand faith points in the starnet trading market.

The miniature magic crystal vein not only provided magic crystals but could also subtly improve the spiritual energy concentration of the divine kingdom's soil. Subsequently importing goblin miners and establishing forging camps, the produced entry-tier enchanted weapons would likewise be a highly profitable production line.

In the early stage, he could completely exchange for a large amount of initial funds by mining ores.

Then, with family funds entering the market to escort him, he could directly purchase high-tier troops, Elven Archers, in full.

This combination of punches smashed out with heavy money was enough to guarantee his direct passage to the heavenly-tier deity sequence.

However, at this moment, the true focus of the entire audience gathered on another girl.

Liu Ting.

Lin Yunfei's girlfriend.

A civilian girl from an ordinary working-class family.

At this moment, at the highest point of the calculation stele hung her brilliant data.

[Assessment Subject: Liu Ting]

[Initial Area of the Divine Kingdom: Three hundred square kilometers]

[Companion First-tier Building: Miniature Ice Spring]

[Companion Spiritual Plant: Ten mu of Frost Grass]

[Comprehensive Talent Rating: A-grade]

Ten federal special-dispatch instructors surrounded her layer by layer, finalized her direct admission quota to the A-grade special training class on the spot, and handed over a high-tier resource support contract.

Relying on her A-grade talent, Liu Ting directly achieved a class leap.

Her divine kingdom came with a first-tier miniature ice spring, plus ten mu of frost grass.

Frost grass belonged to the core material for making entry-tier mental recovery potions, and the market purchase price was as high as fifty faith points per stalk.

Frost grass grew extremely fast and could be harvested once every three months. Ten mu of land produced one thousand stalks per round, which converted to a stable income of as high as fifty thousand faith points.

It was enough to fully purchase an entry-tier water-attribute rule prototype and complete the internal ecological cycle of the divine kingdom.

With a boundless future, she was destined to hold her divine throne high.

Lin Yunfei glanced at Liu Ting, who was surrounded like stars around the moon, turned around and left the plaza, walking with big strides out of the school gate.

He had strict time allocation principles.

Every morning he completed one hundred standard push-ups to maintain physical vitality.

During the day, he concentrated fully on deducing five different deity rule development routes.

At night, he conducted high-intensity reviews and resource matching drills.

Now that the test was over, the primary task left for him was to find the breaking point.

Just as he stepped onto the bluestone-paved road of the main street,

a dark gold data stream fiercely stabbed into his retina, occupying his entire field of vision.

[The supreme creation terminal has finished loading]

[Unique Core Rule: Every time the host's divine kingdom ascends a tier, a golden mythical-tier trait is guaranteed to be acquired]

[Detected that the host has successfully pioneered a divine kingdom]

[Current Divine Kingdom Tier: Black Iron Level 1]

[Starting to issue the initial gold trait]

[Acquisition successful: Transcendent Breeding]

Lin Yunfei stopped in his tracks, his breathing rhythm slightly adjusted.

Golden mythical-tier trait.

Clearly priced in federal textbooks, traits were divided into white, green, blue, purple, and gold.

If ordinary students could brush out a blue trait in their divine kingdoms, it would be enough for the local director of education to throw a three-day banquet.

As for gold traits, they only existed in the secrets of the ancient starry sea and belonged to the exclusive authority of the supreme main god.

He immediately clicked on the dark gold panel on his retina to check the detailed attributes.

[Transcendent Breeding (Gold)]

[Effect 1: Flourishing Prosperity. The dependents under the jurisdiction of the host's divine kingdom constantly receive a tenfold increase in reproduction rate and basic resource output base.]

[Effect 2: Transcendent Mutation. During the birth period of newborn dependents, there is an extremely high probability of triggering bloodline transition, breaking the genetic upper limit, and exceptionally transforming into high-tier hero individuals.]

Looking at this gold trait, Lin Yunfei began to ponder.

The essence of divine kingdom management relied entirely on resource exchange and time stacking.

Time flow rate combined with reproduction base was the core element of snowballing.

Ordinary people spent three years cultivating a nest of entry-tier troops, but under a tenfold blessing, they could take shape in just a few months.

As long as he utilized the entry-tier time acceleration cards freely distributed by the federation (time acceleration cards were only useful for the very beginning divine kingdom), the time cost would be reduced to the limit.

One day in the outside world, ten years in the divine kingdom.

Ten years of time, plus tenfold reproduction, was enough.

The most core profit point lay in Effect 2.

Tenfold reproduction yield superimposed with high-frequency mutation rate.

Even if he only invested the cheapest gray-backed goblin embryos into the divine kingdom, he could rely on the huge base to forcefully smash out a mythical-tier combat power assembly line.

Mutating silver-tier or even gold-tier hero units was completely without difficulty.

A silver-tier hero unit had a minimum guaranteed selling price of up to one hundred thousand faith points in the starnet black market, and it was often priceless and unavailable.

Lin Yunfei's terminal balance only had one thousand basic faith points issued by the federation left.

Thinking for a moment, Lin Yunfei closed the panel and looked up at the starry sea crystal wall system above the firmament.

Deity rules were extremely cruel.

The starnet Act clearly recorded that high-tier deities possessed the legal authority to invade, plunder, and enslave weak divine kingdoms.

Once the existence of the gold trait was exposed, it would bound to attract the joint strangulation of high-position crystal wall system main gods.

An innocent man is guilty of bearing a wall of jade.

Only by hiding his trump cards and developing stealthily could he survive.

He strode toward the crossroad ahead, preparing to head to the Federal Resource Distribution Center to purchase the cheapest living creature embryos.

There were still ten meters left from the street corner turn.

A familiar figure blocked his way.

Liu Ting.

She had changed out of her slightly outdated high school uniform and put on the silver-patterned tactical combat uniform exclusively supplied to the A-grade special training class.

The two stood opposite each other with a distance of three steps.

Lin Yunfei's gaze fell on her face.

This genius girl who had just won an A-grade talent and had a boundless future could not find a trace of joy on her face at all.

On the contrary, her face was covered with frost, and her expression was exceptionally solemn...