140: Divine power brings about a qualitative change; with everyone's faith united, efficiency is greatly enhanced.

Inside the Quiet Cultivation Star Realm, time seemed to be stretched out.

Lin Zhou sat cross-legged in meditation, and he did not know how long had passed. Outside, it might have been only a moment, but for him, having just completed a leap in the level of life and currently frantically absorbing and digesting all the mysteries of the True God Realm, it felt like a long time had passed.

Within his body, the Fire of Civilization burned eternally, stable and majestic, like the most precise perpetual motion machine, constantly swallowing and converting strands of Power Of Faith from the divine Domain, his kin, and the Void Realm. With every tiny inhalation and exhalation, a wisp of pure Divine Power was refined and poured into the "river" that was rapidly filling up.

The divine crystal floated in the center of his Soul, reflecting the divine fire, processing massive amounts of information with an efficiency thousands of times greater than during his Demigod period: every subtle adjustment of the Law within the divine Domain, every prayer and thought of his kin, every bit of energy flow in the environment of the Quiet Cultivation Star Realm... all were under his control, analyzed and organized without the slightest delay.

"So this is the feeling of a True God..." Lin Zhou slowly exhaled a long breath, which caused imperceptible ripples of the Law to spread out in the stable air of the Quiet Cultivation Star Realm. "Control, perception, the essence of power... everything is different."

With a thought, he brought up his core personal panel, his gaze falling on the Divine Power conversion efficiency column.

[Lin Zhou · True God Panel (Partial)]:

Divine Rank: LV101 (Faint Divinity)

Divine Fire: [Fire of Civilization] (Perfect Quality)

Divine Power Reserve: 2580 / 5000 (continuously recovering, current recovery speed approx. 15 Divine Power/hour)

Faith Reserve (Divine Domain): Approx. 3.2 million (Ordinary Faith, continuously being produced, due to kin evolution and fanatical emotions, current daily output estimated to exceed 250,000)

Divine Power Conversion Efficiency (True God): 1 unit of Divine Power ≈ 10,000 units of Faith (Pure standard, loss rate below 5%)

divine office: [Civilization · Enlightenment] (Faint), [Law · Order] (Faint)

Divine Domain Area: 100 square kilometers

Core Kin: Confucian Scholar Elves (all LV35), Ink-Craftsman Dwarves (all LV34), Law Official Murlocs (all LV33)

"Ten thousand units of Faith for one unit of Divine Power." Lin Zhou repeated in a low voice, his eyes flashing with a strange brilliance. Not long ago, he had needed a million units of Faith to barely condense one unit of Divine Power, and the process was slow and filled with a sense of stagnation. Now, efficiency had increased a hundredfold! This meant that with the same scale of Faith output, the Divine Power he could utilize would be a hundred times what it used to be! What a terrifying qualitative change this was?

He tried to actively guide the divine fire.

With a slight movement of his mind, within the divine Domain, about ten thousand units of newly generated, relatively pure Power Of Faith were captured across space, crossed the distance, entered the Quiet Cultivation Star Realm, and directly merged into the Fire of Civilization within his body.

"Sss..."

A sound, as faint as a water droplet falling onto a hot iron, rang out. The cluster of Faith rolled in the magnificent flames for less than a second before disappearing completely, replaced by a wisp of pure, condensed, new Divine Power flowing like liquid gold, which smoothly merged into his Divine Power reserve.

[Real-time Conversion Demonstration]:

Faith Input: 10,050 units (Purity approx. 88%)

Time Consumed: < 1.5 seconds

Divine Power Output: 1 unit (Actual conversion rate approx. 98.5%)

Divine Power Reserve Change: 2580 → 2581

The whole process was smooth, efficient, and almost lossless! Compared to the frustrating feeling during the Demigod period, which required long periods of meditation to refine and was often accompanied by significant loss, it was simply a world of difference!

"Efficiency... This is the efficiency of a True God!" Lin Zhou felt the conversion completed almost instantly, and a strong sense of satisfaction surged in his heart. This meant his "endurance" and "burst" capabilities had been fundamentally improved. Many high-consumption Divine Spells or methods that he dared not easily use during the Demigod period might now be considered standard.

"Then, what would the divine miracles performed with True God-level Divine Power look like?" Lin Zhou's curiosity was completely piqued. After his promotion, his divine crystal naturally inherited some basic Divine Spell information common to True Gods, most of which were enhanced versions of Demigod Divine Spells, but a few were "True God-level" miracles that could only be driven by True God Divine Power.

His gaze fell on the description of one of the miracles — [Time Flow Adjustment].

During his Demigod period, he could also perform small-scale time micro-adjustments to the divine Domain, but that was extremely crude, consumed a huge amount of power, and had limited effects. At most, he could create a two or three-fold time difference in a very small area (such as a room), and it was extremely unstable, difficult to sustain, and more like a form of rule interference.

But the True God-level [Time Flow Adjustment] was a limited control over local time rules in the true sense! It was a qualitative difference!

"Just right. The divine Domain has just expanded and evolved, the kin's strength has improved, and they need time to consolidate their Realm and digest their gains. The new projects at the Tian Gong Institute also urgently need time to advance... Let's use this to test it, and it will also happen to accelerate the development of the divine Domain!"

With his mind made up, Lin Zhou immediately linked his consciousness to the deep rules of the divine Domain. He chose an area of about one square kilometer in the core area of the divine Domain as the target. This area covered part of the expanded Jixia Academy (new area), the construction site of the [Divine Fire Forge] newly planned by the Tian Gong Institute, and a fertile field planned as an Advanced spiritual plant test field.

"True God Miracle · Local Time Acceleration!"

Lin Zhou whispered in his heart, driving his Divine Power.

Unlike the Demigod period, where he needed to struggle to pry open the rules, at this moment, wherever his mind went, the divine crystal shone, the Fire of Civilization rose slightly, and a majestic and pure Divine Power was instantly extracted and shaped into countless dense golden runes containing the concepts of "time" and "acceleration," which sprinkled down onto the target area like a meteor shower.

[Miracle Execution]:

Miracle Name: Small-scale Time Acceleration (True God-level)

Scope: Approx. 1 square kilometer (divine domain core area)

Target Time Flow Ratio (Inside Area : Outside Area): Set to 10 : 1! (Meaning ten days pass inside the area, only one day passes outside)

Divine Power Consumption: Startup consumption 80 Divine Power, maintenance consumption 5 Divine Power/hour (Divine Domain time).

Estimated Sustainability: With current Divine Power recovery and reserves, it can easily be maintained for over 200 hours (Divine Domain time), meaning more than 2000 hours (approx. 83 days) of accelerated time will pass inside the area!

"Hum —!"

An invisible "fluctuation" that all kin within the target area clearly perceived descended. It was as if a layer of transparent, flowing amber wrapped around that one square kilometer area.

The scene within the area began to change at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The most intuitive change was the land designated as the Advanced spiritual plant test field.

Previously, several types of spiritual plant seeds obtained from league rewards and daily accumulations had been sown here, including the [Jade Marrow Rice] that needed three years to initially mature, the [Vermilion Fruit Vine] that bore fruit every five years, and the [Seven-Star Moon-Companion Grass] which grew slowly but had extremely high medicinal value. Under normal time flow, they had just broken through the soil, revealing tender seedlings.

However, under the cover of the Law of time acceleration —

A miracle happened!

Those [Jade Marrow Rice] seedlings grew taller and headed at a speed visible to the naked eye! It was as if an invisible hand was quickly turning their life clocks. The tender green leaves stretched and darkened, the stems became thick and strong, the tops quickly produced pale golden spike-like inflorescences, and then the inflorescences filled and drooped at an astonishing speed, the grains turning from green to pale gold, and then to a milky white as warm and translucent as jade marrow... The whole process, in the eyes of Lin Zhou outside the area and the few kin who happened to be able to see this area, was like watching a plant growth documentary that had been fast-forwarded a thousand times!

[Jade Marrow Rice Growth Observation (Acceleration Zone)]:

Breaking soil period → Seedling period: Time consumed approx. 2 minutes (Outside observation time, same below).

Seedling period → Heading period: Time consumed approx. 8 minutes.

Heading period → Filling and maturation period: Time consumed approx. 15 minutes.

Total from sowing to full maturity: Approx. 25 minutes! (Simulated normal growth cycle of approx. 1000 days)

Mature Quality: Due to abundant Spiritual Qi and gentle rule acceleration, quality reached "Excellent," yield estimated to increase by 10%.

Not just the Jade Marrow Rice, the [Vermilion Fruit Vine] seedlings nearby spread frantically, climbing up the pre-set trellises, the vines becoming as thick as a child's arm, the leaves becoming as thick as emeralds, and then, little bits of bright red appeared and swelled between the leaf axils, and finally, after about 40 minutes, clusters of bright red, sweet-smelling, Spiritual Qi-radiating Vermilion Fruits like rubies bore fruit! Spiritual fruits that normally required five years to gestate were ripe in less than an hour within the acceleration Domain!

The [Seven-Star Moon-Companion Grass] was even more miraculous. In the center of the seven sword-shaped grass leaves, a point of fluorescence like moonlight condensed and brightened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the grass leaves themselves became more crystalline, the medicinal power so rich it seemed ready to drip out.

"Miracle! This is a miracle bestowed by the Dominator!" Near the test field, the few old farmers (promoted from elderly elves) who were arranged to take care of the spiritual plants stared at all this in a daze, then knelt down fanatically, muttering words, and points of light of Faith floated up from them like fireflies, even purer.

In the new area of Jixia Academy, dozens of Confucian Scholar Elves who had just evolved and were in the stage of consolidation and thirst for knowledge felt another kind of "acceleration." Their thinking speed did not seem to directly speed up, but the process of them studying classics, practicing Spells, and digesting newly acquired power and knowledge was greatly "compressed." A new Spell model that originally took ten days to initially master might now be introduced and mastered in one day; the classic Subtle Influence that required months of hard study to comprehend could perhaps be understood in a few days within the acceleration zone, combined with their improved wisdom. This feeling of "abundant time" made them ecstatic, and their enthusiasm for learning was unprecedentedly high.

At the new site of the Tian Gong Institute, the changes were even more dramatic. The Ink-Craftsman Dwarves were working energetically under the command of Bronzebeard to build the basic structure of the [Divine Fire Forge]. Under time acceleration, the foundation and main frame construction, which originally would have taken more than a month, progressed at an astonishing speed. Stones were quickly cut and stacked, metal components were rapidly forged and assembled, and complex energy conduction runes were precisely engraved one by one... At this speed, this high-level building, which was planned to take half a year of divine Domain time (nearly twenty days outside) to complete, would very likely be completed and even undergo preliminary debugging during the time this acceleration Domain lasted!

[Time Acceleration Zone Comprehensive Effect Feedback (Real-time)]:

Spiritual Plant Growth Speed: + 900% (relative to normal speed outside)

Kin Cultivation/Learning Efficiency: + 300% ~ 500% (due to individual differences, what is saved is "objective time," thinking speed remains unchanged but available time increases)

Building/Engineering Project Progress: + 900% (relative to normal construction speed outside)

Regional Rule Stability: Good (Fire of Civilization Divine Power properties are gentle, divine Domain rule foundation is solid, no obvious sequence disorder or rule conflict occurred)

Divine Power Consumption: Ongoing, current reserve 2500 / 5000, recovery speed slightly higher than maintenance consumption, can operate long-term.

Looking at that vibrant, time-flying area, Lin Zhou was filled with a sense of achievement and shock. This was the power of a True God! Controlling time, accelerating the progress of civilization! Although the range was limited, the consumption was not cheap, and it could not be applied to his own direct Cultivation (his own time was bound to the divine fire and divine crystal, making it difficult to be accelerated by his own miracles), but its strategic significance was immeasurable! Whether it was rapidly cultivating resources, accelerating technology research and development, or cultivating elite kin, it had an irreplaceable role.

"This is just one of the most basic applications." Lin Zhou felt the Divine Power flowing, "The power of a True God, in terms of combat, construction, exploration, rules... there are still too many possibilities waiting to be explored. The conversion efficiency of Power Of Faith is the foundation of all this."

He retracted the miracle, and the time acceleration zone slowly returned to normal flow. But it was already a scene of harvest and progress, forming a sharp contrast with other areas of the divine Domain, and also greatly inspired all the kin.

Just as Lin Zhou was preparing to further familiarize himself with other True God abilities, the early warning magic array he left outside sent a message — it was Su Yueyao. It seemed she had been paying attention to his situation after his promotion.

Lin Zhou's lips curled slightly, and his consciousness returned to reality. Perhaps he could share this first experience of "Power Of Faith conversion" and "time acceleration" with her, and by the way... express his sincere gratitude.

He knew that for him to be able to forge the perfect Fire of Civilization so smoothly, Su Yueyao's timely and selfless Moon Essence assistance was crucial. This friendship had far exceeded the ordinary.