63: Chapter 63 Demigod! System Upgrade!

The moment Fara and Yi leveled up to 50, a faint golden light radiated from their bodies.

Then, their strength began to increase rapidly, visible to the naked eye.

Fara's physique became even more robust, and behind Yi, a pair of incredibly gorgeous, flowing light wings appeared once again.

As the two reached level 50, Fang Chuan's Divine Kingdom began to tremble continuously.

Boom!

A blinding, heaven-piercing golden light exploded above the altar, its brilliance so intense that it dyed the entire Divine Kingdom in gold.

In reality, Fang Chuan's body also underwent earth-shattering changes.

An energy far more vast and pure than any previous upgrade surged from the Divine Kingdom into his limbs and bones like a breached flood.

"Ugh, ah!"

The intense pain made Fang Chuan let out a low roar; blue veins bulged on his forehead, and bead-sized drops of sweat rolled down.

He felt as if his body were about to burst; every cell was crazily tearing apart, reconstructing, tearing apart again, and reconstructing again...

This pain far exceeded the limits of what an ordinary person could endure.

But Fang Chuan gritted his teeth tightly, his eyes flashing with excitement and anticipation.

He knew this was the essential process for ascending to a Demigod—the Baptism of Divinity!

Only by enduring the baptism of this energy could a mortal body transform into a Demigod body and gain the qualification to bear divine power!

"Come on! Be more intense!" Fang Chuan roared in his heart.

He could clearly feel his body growing stronger at an incredible speed.

Strength, speed, physique... all were skyrocketing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

His mental energy, which had been somewhat exhausted from synthesizing followers for a long time, felt as if it had been injected with a stimulant, instantly restoring to its peak and continuing to climb.

Time passed minute by minute.

He didn't know how long it had been, but that violent torrent of energy finally gradually subsided.

Fang Chuan exhaled a long breath, and the moment he stood up, his bones erupted with a series of crisp, bean-popping sounds.

He slowly opened his eyes, and a golden light flashed across the depths of his eyes.

"Is this... the power of a Demigod?"

Fang Chuan murmured, feeling the vast power surging within his body.

He looked down and inspected his hands.

His skin was as fair as mutton-fat jade, faintly shimmering with flowing light, and the terrifying power surging within him gave him the illusion that he could punch through the stars!

Walking to the mirror, Fang Chuan saw that a gray mark about the size of a fingernail had appeared between his eyebrows.

The shape of the mark was lifelike, resembling a flame quietly burning; although it emitted no temperature, it gave one a feeling of palpitations.

"Is this... the unlit Divine Fire mark?" Fang Chuan extended his finger and touched it lightly.

A cool sensation came, but there was no special feeling.

But he knew this mark was the proof of his transformation from a mortal into a Demigod.

From today on, he was no longer a weak divine creature, but a true Demigod!

His lifespan had also been extended from an ordinary person's one hundred years directly to one thousand years!

One thousand years!

For an ordinary person in his past life who could only live for a few decades, this was a number he dared not even imagine.

"Demigod... I have finally taken this step!" Fang Chuan was filled with emotion.

Just then, a series of crisp notification sounds rang in his mind.

[Ding! God-level Hextech System detected that the God Lord has advanced to Demigod, and it is upgrading...]

[Upgrade complete!]

[Congratulations to the God Lord, the quantity limit for Five-star Believer has been unlocked! You can synthesize no more than 1000 Five-star Believer of the same race and profession!]

[Congratulations to the God Lord, the synthesis permission for Six-Star Follower has been unlocked!]

[Congratulations to the God Lord, the one-click synthesis function has been unlocked!]

"Holy crap! The system upgraded too?"

Fang Chuan's breathing instantly became rapid.

The synthesis limit for Five-star Believer had increased from the previous one to one thousand!

This meant he could assemble a terrifying legion composed of over a thousand Five-star Believer!

That wasn't all; even more explosive was that the system had actually unlocked the synthesis permission for Six-Star Follower!

"Hahaha, I bet right; I knew the system would definitely unlock higher-level followers!"

"System is awesome!"

Six-Star! What kind of powerful existence would that be? Fang Chuan couldn't even imagine!

And the final one-click synthesis function made him ecstatic.

Previously, to synthesize those thousands of Four-Star Follower, he had manually operated it for an entire night, and his eyes had almost gone blind.

Now with one-click synthesis, the efficiency would increase by more than a hundredfold!

"Oh my god, I'm going to strike it rich!"

Once the number of followers increased, given the vastness of the Divine Kingdom, accommodating billions of people wouldn't be a problem at all. As long as there was enough time, sooner or later, everyone in Fang Chuan's Divine Kingdom would be Five-Star, Six-Star, or even above Eight-Star!

Fang Chuan was so excited he almost jumped up.

He suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and couldn't wait to open his Divine Kingdom panel to see how much his attributes had changed after breaking through to Demigod.

After breaking through to Demigod, the Demigod panel would be unlocked, and the information inside would be more comprehensive.

The brand-new Divine Kingdom panel emitted a faint golden radiance, and the information stream on it was incredibly clear, with several new lines of attributes added compared to before.

Fang Chuan's gaze swept over them one by one, from top to bottom.

[God Lord]: Fang Chuan

[God Name]: Lord of Baize

[Divine Talent]: None

[Divine Rank]: First-Order Demigod (0/20 Divinity Points)

[Divine Fire]: Unlit

[Divinity]: 1

[Divine Power]: 1

[Divine Kingdom Area]: 2033/10000 (10,000 square kilometers)

[Faith Value]: 5.287 billion

[Follower Count]: 1.67 million

[Follower Race]: Goblin, Griffin, Pure-blood Werewolf, White Jade Statue, and Twilight Star Spirit

[Artifact]: Immortal Temple, war academy, and Elemental Furnace

[Tradable Assets]: 12 tons of B-grade lightning-attribute ore, 6.33 million units of elemental metal, 800 B-grade Spirit-Nourishing Flowers, 200 five-hundred-year-old Vermilion Fruits...

When he saw the [Divine Rank] column clearly written as "First-Order Demigod," although he had expected it, he still couldn't help but feel excited.

Being a Demigod was the first step on his path to becoming a deity, and also the most critical step!

His gaze continued downward, landing on those three brand-new attributes.

"Hmm, it is indeed much more detailed, and it has added three attributes: Divine Power, Divinity, and Divine Fire."

According to the knowledge he learned in school, Demigod was the first step into the Divine Rank.

The path forward was to continuously accumulate Divine Power, refine Divinity, and finally use enough Divinity to ignite the Divine Fire, condense the Godhead, and become a true deity!

Divinity was an important indicator for measuring a deity's potential, the only "experience value" for improving one's Divine Rank, and the core attribute for igniting the Divine Fire.

For example, right now, the (0/20) after his Divine Rank meant that he needed 20 Divinity points to advance from a First-Order Demigod to a Second-Order Demigod.

There were two ways to obtain Divinity.

The first was to kill monsters above level 50 or other divine creatures.

This method was simple and crude, but the efficiency was extremely low. Because after a divine creature died, most of the Divinity would dissipate into the world, and less than one percent could be absorbed.

Therefore, the vast majority of Demigods adopted the second method—extracting it from Divine Power.

So, what was Divine Power?

Divine Power could be converted from Faith Value, with a conversion ratio of 10,000:1. It could be used to cast divine spells, strengthen the Divine Kingdom, and strengthen and heal followers.

Starting from Demigod, the God Lord could learn divine spells, and the God Lord could also enter the field to participate in Divine Kingdom wars; the blue bar for casting divine spells was Divine Power!

When Divine Power accumulated to a certain level, it could be purified into Divinity. The method of purification was to use the Divine Fire to temper the Divine Power, causing the Divine Power to transform into Divinity.

However, Demigods did not have ignited Divine Fire, so how could they refine Divinity?

To refine Divinity from Divine Power, one needed to use a special building—[Divine Fire Furnace].

This was a creation of the great Mechanical Race deity, and its only function was to purify Divine Power and extract Divinity from it.

However, that purification ratio was pitifully low, far inferior to the real Divine Fire.

After Fang Chuan advanced to Demigod, his permissions also increased, and he could now browse S-grade and above items in the Divine Kingdom Exchange.

With a thought, he opened the exchange and searched for "Divine Fire Furnace."

Rows of goods were instantly listed.

[A-grade Divine Fire Furnace]: Selling price 80 million Faith Value. Divine Power-to-Divinity purification ratio: 1 million:1.

[S-grade Divine Fire Furnace]: Selling price 500 million Faith Value. Divine Power-to-Divinity purification ratio: 100,000:1.

[SS-grade Divine Fire Furnace]: Selling price 3 billion Faith Value. Divine Power-to-Divinity purification ratio: 10,000:1.

Fang Chuan gasped as he looked at the "100,000:1" purification ratio of the S-grade furnace.

It took one hundred thousand points of Divine Power to refine one point of Divinity!

And one point of Divine Power required ten thousand points of Faith Value.

Calculated this way, didn't it mean... it would take one billion points of Faith Value to get one point of Divinity?

"Holy crap!" Fang Chuan couldn't help but curse, "This is too damn exploitative!"

He needed 20 points of Divinity to advance to a Second-Order Demigod.

Using the S-grade furnace to calculate, that was a full 20 billion Faith Value!

20 billion!

He only had 5 billion-plus now, and originally thought he had a lot of Faith Value, but he didn't expect that from Demigod onwards, it would be a money pit. No wonder Demigods were the most common in the Dragon Kingdom now.

True deities accounted for less than 1%.

Even for the geniuses of the Dragon Kingdom, with endless resources piled up, it would take years or even decades to ignite the Divine Fire. Ordinary civilians might not even be able to cross this threshold after exhausting their thousand-year lifespan.

He looked further down; the SS-grade Divine Fire Furnace had a better purification ratio, 10,000:1, which meant 100 million Faith Value for one point of Divinity.

But the selling price of 3 billion made him shrink back.

"Too expensive, too expensive!" Fang Chuan shook his head repeatedly, "It seems that relying solely on killing to earn Divinity points won't work; I must find a way to develop some industries."

He glanced at the tradable assets on his Divine Kingdom panel.

Those ores, metals, and spiritual plants were all scavenged from the Fortune ruins previously.

"My Divine Kingdom area is over 20 million square kilometers, and I have the growth bonus of the Immortal Temple. After the environmental transformation is complete, can I consider planting some valuable things to take out and sell?"

Fang Chuan started calculating in his heart.