556: Chapter 491: The Divine Kingdom is Completed, Peak of Intermediate Divine Power Reached

Three days after the award ceremony ended, Lin Zhou's godhead began to fluctuate abnormally.

It was not a decline, but a growth.

The water level of the river of civilization was rising slowly; with every percentage point it rose, he could feel the boundaries of his godhead expanding outward.

He sank his consciousness into the Divine Kingdom and saw plains extending, mountains rising, and rivers deepening.

The rule fragments of a hundred God Kings were slowly melting into the foundation of the Divine Kingdom, releasing a constant stream of essence of order, nourishing his godhead.

He sat cross-legged under the Wall of Heroes, closed his eyes, and let that river flow slowly within his body.

He knew this was the power fragments of the God King level filling in the last piece of his foundation; he didn't need to do anything, he just needed not to block them.

[Divine Kingdom · Expansion Data]

- Area: 1,500 square kilometers → 50,000 square kilometers → 100,000 square kilometers (continuously growing)

- Rule integrity: 100% (stable)

- Spiritual Qi concentration: 100 times the outside world → 500 times

- Kin population: Literary Heart Elves 5,500 → 20,000, Tiangong Dwarves 3,300 → 15,000, Law Fishmen 2,200 → 10,000, Civilization Sword Cultivator 500 → 3,000

- river of civilization water level: 16% → 30% → 50% (continuously rising)

On the seventh day, a tiny crack appeared at the top of the Heavenly Pillar.

Lin Zhou felt that crack—it was not damage, but an expansion after growth, like the natural cracks that appear when tree bark thickens.

Countless fine golden veins spread out from the crack, extending downward along the shaft of the Heavenly Pillar, touching every inch of the Divine Kingdom.

Wherever the veins passed, the ground became firmer, and the sky became deeper.

The Law and Order took root deep in the ground like tree roots, no longer just a film of light floating on the surface of the Divine Kingdom.

[Heavenly Pillar · Evolution]

- Height: 2.5 million kilometers → 3 million kilometers

- Material: Civilization Crystal → God King-level Civilization Crystal

- New trait: Resonance with the Great Wall of Civilization, can call upon part of the defensive line's energy

On the twelfth day, in the school of the Literary Heart Elves, the first student to break through the Rank barrier stood up.

Before everyone's eyes, a gentle flame ignited around the young elf, the color of the flame between pale gold and moon white.

When he crossed the threshold of the school, the flame on his body caused several withered trees nearby to sprout new buds.

Immediately afterward, the second, the third... the Literary Heart Elves began to evolve in batches.

Their hair tips were tinged with a faint gold, and subtle patterns of the Fire of Civilization appeared in their pupils.

On the Anvil of the Tiangong Dwarves, the first legendary-grade equipment was forged.

In front of the Law Enforcement Team hall of the Law Fishmen, the first Law formulated and promulgated by the kin themselves was carved onto a stone slab.

In front of Jixia Academy, that stone that was still listening to lectures grew its first leaf.

All the movements were not loud, but each one silently indicated: they were no longer just kin, they were becoming Human Race.

[Kin · Collective Evolution]

- Literary Heart Elves → Human Race (First Generation)

- Tiangong Dwarves → Human Race (First Generation)

- Law Fishmen → Human Race (First Generation)

- New racial trait: Hundred Schools of Thought affinity + 500%, learning speed + 500%, probability of creating original skills significantly increased

On the fifteenth day, Lin Zhou opened his eyes.

His godhead integrity recovered from 20% to 80%, the water level of the river of civilization recovered from 16% to 60%, and his godhead Rank broke through from LV950 to LV1000—Peak Mid-Tier Divine Power.

When he stood up, the sky of the Divine Kingdom brightened for a moment, then returned to its normal color.

In the distance, the sound of reading from the school, the sound of hammers from the dwarf workshop, and the footsteps of the Law Enforcement Team could be heard.

All sounds were ringing normally, just like every other day.

Su Yueyao walked up from below the city wall and stood beside him. She didn't ask something like "Did you have a Breakthrough?", but said softly: "When you closed your eyes just now, the seed of civilization of the New Universe flickered collectively."

Lin Zhou looked at her and was silent for a moment.

"That should be..." He paused, "When the kin evolved, the river of civilization connected with the seed of civilization of the New Universe."

Su Yueyao nodded and did not ask for more details.

She stood by the Wall of Heroes, watching those busy figures, her gaze lingering on the stone at the school entrance that had grown a leaf.

"Is that stone evolving too?"

"It is taking root."

The wind blew across the city wall, and the tree shadows swayed.

Lin Zhou was not in a hurry to check the data of the Divine Kingdom, nor was he in a hurry to record anything.

He just stood by the city wall for a while, watching those lights flowing in the sea of stars.

The river of civilization was still rising, the Heavenly Pillar was still growing, and the kin were still evolving.

He no longer needed to stare at every single detail.

He turned and walked down the city wall, with Su Yueyao following behind him.

The stone that had grown a leaf at the school entrance shook its leaves gently, as if a breeze had just blown by, or as if it were a silent response.