3: Chapter 3 Marrow Cleansing Pool

The initial test was imminent.

Time was extremely tight for the newborn deity.

Lin Yunfei locked his room door and sat cross-legged in front of his desk.

With complete concentration, his consciousness directly connected to the creation terminal.

Lin Yunfei looked down at the area below from a god's-eye view.

The ten square kilometers of black frozen soil were completely in view.

The weather was freezing, spiritual energy was depleted, and it was utterly desolate.

This was the F-grade Wasteland sentenced to death by the federal instructor.

Lights flickered as ten thousand human refugees had just been born here.

They were ragged and sallow, and all of them were of mortal flesh.

Facing the strange and harsh environment, the newborn humans couldn't stop their bodies from trembling, their eyes filled with fear and confusion.

The cold wind howled like a knife.

The first bitter winter night quickly descended.

The climate of the F-grade Wasteland was harsh, and the temperature dropped below freezing.

The refugees lacked clothing to cover themselves, so they could only huddle together for warmth and dig the dirt with their bare hands to shield themselves from the wind.

The cold dawn broke.

A string of data popped out from the dark golden panel.

[Panel prompt: Affected by the extreme climate, the dependents suffered a five percent loss.]

Five hundred of the weakest elderly, weak, sick, and disabled lost their vital signs in their sleep.

Lin Yunfei watched the beating data with a calm expression.

Survival of the fittest was inherently the iron law of civilization evolution.

High-tier deities rarely interfered with the natural elimination of the lower strata.

With scarce resources in the early stage, nutrients had to be centrally supplied to high-quality individuals with reproductive potential.

The surviving nine thousand five hundred refugees erupted with an extremely strong survival instinct.

Relying on a small amount of stone tools from the early days of their descent, they frantically reclaimed land on the frozen soil.

The high-yielding, cold-resistant rye seeds bestowed by the Lord God were sown into the soil.

The first-tier effect of [Transcendent Breeding] began to take effect.

The dark golden divine power silently fell, nourishing the entire wasteland.

Under the blessing of tenfold prosperity, the cold-resistant rye completely ignored the harsh climate.

Heading, jointing, maturing.

The entire growth cycle was compressed to the limit.

In just a few days, the rye produced plump ears of grain.

Waving crude stone sickles, the refugees turned on a crazy harvesting mode.

Adequate rations cut off the crisis of starvation.

After filling their stomachs, the refugee group began to show the extremely strong organizational power unique to the human race.

Logging, digging soil, and making bricks.

Windproof thatched houses rose from the ground.

A few hours passed in the outside world, while more than half a year passed inside the divine kingdom.

The embryonic form of the tribe was officially established, initially stabilizing its footing.

Lin Yunfei called up the faith collection slot.

Locking his gaze on the data panel, he immediately started calculation and deduction.

[Total current faith points: eight points.]

The value was extremely low, too miserable to look at.

Relying on the theoretical knowledge learned at school, Lin Yunfei knew that the output of faith points entirely depended on the dependents' awe and sacrifice to the Creator.

The current batch of refugees ran around exhausted all day to resist the severe cold and fill their stomachs, exhausting their physical strength and unable to build an altar.

Lacking the deterrence of divine power, the awe of the lower classes was out of the question, and the efficiency of faith output was extremely low.

He must take the initiative to establish absolute divine power.

Descend a divine miracle.

Lin Yunfei switched out to the starnet trading section.

The terminal balance only had one thousand points of basic subsidy left.

Good steel must be used on the cutting edge.

He decisively transferred eight hundred points, and bought five hundred [low-tier long-haired snow rabbits] and three hundred [armored black pigs] with his full position.

The oracle descended.

Lin Yunfei used the Creator's highest authority.

Within the stone array in the center of the tribe, a spiritual energy bonfire three zhang high ignited out of thin air.

The flame presented a pure azure blue color.

The wild wind blew, but the fire remained motionless, releasing huge heat.

The warm firelight dispelled the severe cold of the tribe.

At the same time, eight hundred plump live preys were accurately dropped into the wasteland on the outer periphery of the tribe.

The long-haired snow rabbits fled in all directions, and the armored black pigs let out low roars.

The grand divine voice turned into rolling thunder, echoing throughout the frozen soil.

"I bestow upon you fire and prey."

"Multiply and grow strong, and forge my divine might!"

Looking at the never-extinguishing holy fire and the abundant meat running on the wasteland, the trembling refugees...

The crowd erupted in frantic shouts and knelt on the ground one after another.

Ten thousand people kowtowed, their foreheads pressed tightly against the cold frozen soil.

[Divine might deterrence achieved, faith channel established.]

[Dependents produce fanatical worship, faith point income greatly increases.]

The panel's faith collection slot shone brightly.

The output base soared, and the value climbed steadily at a rate of several hundred points per day.

The primary time acceleration card issued by the federation was still effective.

The time flow rate ran wildly.

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

In these ten years, the first-tier effect of [Transcendent Breeding] showed Lin Yunfei what true ecological fission was.

The first to be affected was the herd of beasts dropped in.

The long-haired snow rabbits themselves reproduced extremely fast.

Under the blessing of tenfold prosperity, the mating and gestation cycles were infinitely shortened.

In just half a year, five hundred snow rabbits fissioned into tens of thousands.

On the wasteland on the outer periphery of the tribe, white rabbit groups could be seen everywhere gnawing on excess ryegrass.

The three hundred armored black pigs were the same.

A sow produced dozens of piglets in a litter, and the cubs grew rapidly as soon as they met the wind, rooting around everywhere.

The beast herd base soared, providing the human race with inexhaustible high-quality meat.

Then, the human tribe ushered in a true population explosion.

Sufficient nutrients made the human women's vital energy abundant.

Almost all women of appropriate age among the refugees became pregnant.

The tenfold prosperity law subtly transformed their physiques.

At the time of birth, single births were extremely rare.

Twins could be seen everywhere, and triplets or even quadruplets were also ubiquitous.

The survival rate of newborns was extremely high, and they could run around all over the place in a few months, showing an astonishing growth rate.

The first generation of refugees gradually aged.

The second and third generations of newborns were born in batches, expanding the size of the ethnic group like a snowball.

The dirt-thatched houses were upgraded to sturdy large stone houses.

Tall wooden fences to defend against beasts were erected on the periphery of the tribe.

The bronze furnace was set up, and basic ironware began mass production.

In the tenth year of the Divine Kingdom Calendar.

The total population of the tribe broke the 20,000 mark in one fell swoop.

The scale soared and it was thriving.

Looking down at this grand occasion, Lin Yunfei keenly perceived a fatal hidden danger.

The population base was indeed huge, but the qualitative change had been slow in coming.

He retrieved the data panel of the new generation of dependents for in-depth inspection.

[Race: Human]

[Tier: Mortal Body]

[Physique Evaluation: Strength 1.2, Agility 1.1]

Reproduction and updates had lasted for a full three generations.

Nourished by meat and rye, the human body shape was much stronger, and with iron tools, it was enough to hunt outer beasts.

Limited by innate genetic shackles, everyone still stayed in the mortal class.

Twenty thousand people, zero people awakened transcendence.

Lin Yunfei began to analyze calmly.

The second-tier effect of [Transcendent Breeding] was named "Transcendent Mutation".

This mythical-level law relied on a huge base as a trigger pool.

The root cause of the current failure to trigger mutation was that the lower limit of the human race's basic aptitude was too low.

The spiritual energy of the wasteland was exhausted, and newborns had congenital deficiencies.

If they wanted to increase the probability of triggering bloodline transition, they must first raise the physical purity of the entire race.

Only by breaking the physical limits of the mortal physique could transcendent individuals be bred.

Lin Yunfei cut into the starnet mall.

Directly bypassing the ordinary materials area, he clicked on the special building blueprints section.

Massive data streams washed over his eyes, and countless commodities flashed past rapidly.

His gaze finally locked onto an old blueprint flowing with a light purple halo.

[Tier-1 Special Building: marrow cleansing pool]

[Effect: Consume faith spiritual energy to condense high-tier law pool water.]

[Dependents soaking in it can forcibly wash the marrow and cleanse the tendons, strip away mortal impurities, and greatly enhance physical strength and spiritual energy affinity.]

[Soaking for mortal bodies can reshape the bone structure and lay an excellent transcendent foundation.]

[Selling Price: 50,000 faith points.]

The attributes perfectly matched current needs.

Building the marrow cleansing pool to elevate the aptitude of the entire clan, the probability of transcendent mutation could be greatly increased.

But the selling price was high.

Fifty thousand faith points were enough to buy a fully armed tier-1 elf archer formation.

Ordinary civilian deities couldn't scrape together this huge sum even if they lost everything.

Lin Yunfei's line of sight moved to the terminal balance in the upper right corner.

Two hundred points.

The funding gap was as high as 49,800 points!