1: Chapter 1: A desperate comeback, starting with the hatching of a colossal beast that devours the heavens!

"Lin Feng, this is your last chance. If you can't evolve a follower race again, you won't need to participate in the Deity College Entrance Exam in three months."

Inside the teachers' office of Class 7, Grade 12 at Xinghai City No. 1 High School.

Homeroom Teacher Wang Tao sighed and handed over a crystal-clear stone.

"This is a Primary Procreation Stone. This is all Teacher can do for you."

The rules of the Great Xia Alliance are strict; Grade 12 students must successfully open a Divine Domain and cultivate a faithful race to be eligible to apply for deity universities.

The higher the potential of the race, the better the university one can attend.

If one can get into the top institution, Starry Sky University, one will surely be able to ignite the divine fire and ascend to the divine throne in the future.

Lin Feng gripped the faintly glowing Procreation Stone in his hand and lowered his head to thank him: "Thank you, Teacher Wang Tao."

"Hurry home and fuse it," Teacher Wang Tao waved his hand. "Next week is the school-wide mock exam. Good luck."

...

Half an hour later.

Lin Feng scanned his face to push open the gate of the detached villa allocated by the Alliance, went straight into the basement, and lay down in the Divine Domain login pod.

The incandescent light overhead was blinding. He squeezed the Procreation Stone in his hand and smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Transmigrated once, yet I'm still as broke as ever."

A Procreation Stone costs one thousand drops of divine power on the market.

When he entered the first year of high school, the Alliance distributed free supplies once. Lin Feng failed.

Later, he scrimped and saved for two years, running errands and working part-time to scrape together enough divine power to buy a second one, but he still failed. The one in his hand was his third attempt, and absolutely his last.

His parents in this life died in battle in the extraterrestrial void.

As an orphan of martyrs, the Alliance specially granted him the right to reside in this house and allowed him to enter No. 1 High School without an entrance exam.

But the benefits were not permanent. If he couldn't get into a deity university, the house would be immediately repossessed, and he would have to go to the slums and sleep on the streets. There was no way back.

Lin Feng closed his eyes and pressed the start button of the login pod.

A sensation of weightlessness washed over him.

His consciousness pierced through the boundless star sea and descended above his exclusive Divine Domain.

Looking down, this piece of land was only three thousand square kilometers in area.

All that met his eyes were grayish-brown barren hills; not even a single weed could be seen.

Dark purple miasma floated in the air all year round, with visibility of less than five meters. It was lifeless.

This was Lin Feng's Divine Domain.

No wonder his two previous attempts had ended in failure.

The low-level lifeforms catalyzed by the Procreation Stone hadn't even taken two breaths after landing before their lungs were poisoned by the dense chaos purple qi, turning them into a puddle of pus.

Today, this last attempt, logically speaking, wouldn't escape the fate of sudden death either.

Just as Lin Feng was prepared to treat a dead horse as a living one.

A crisp electronic notification sound suddenly rang out from the depths of his mind.

"Ding!"

"Detected mutated chaos terrain, Ancient Shanhai System activated!"

Lin Feng was stunned at first, then his heart was filled with wild joy.

The standard cheat for a transmigrator, three years late, had finally arrived!

"Initial binding complete, novice super blind box distributed. Open it?"

"Open!"

Lin Feng did not hesitate at all.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining: Divine Domain Expansion Scroll (100,000 square kilometers)!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining: Ancient Terrain Modification Card (Spirit Qi Revival Version)!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining: Ferocious Beast Taotie Manifestation Card!"

Taotie?

Lin Feng's heartbeat accelerated.

A peerless ferocious creature from the myths and legends of his previous life, known for devouring all things and possessing monstrous power.

"System, manifest Taotie immediately!"

"Command effective, cannot be reversed."

Whoosh!

A card interwoven with black and gold appeared out of thin air in mid-air, shattering into thousands of streams of light.

The light intertwined and converged, outlining a massive silhouette within the purple miasma. A sheep's body, a human face, tiger's teeth. Most terrifying of all, it had a pair of scarlet vertical pupils growing under its armpits. As its blood-red maw opened, it seemed capable of swallowing an entire mountain.

"Roar—!"

The moment the Taotie took shape, it roared at the sky. The violent pressure turned into a tangible wave of air, sweeping in all directions.

Crack!

The entire Divine Domain land trembled and cracked, and fine fissures even appeared in the void at the edges. A mere three-thousand-square-kilometer initial Divine Domain simply could not bear the arrival of an ancient ferocious beast!

"Hurry and use the expansion scroll!" Lin Feng roared.

As soon as he finished speaking, another card shattered. Vast spatial laws descended.

The chaos mist at the edge of the Divine Domain was instantly pushed away, and the land expanded and widened crazily at a speed visible to the naked eye! In the blink of an eye, the territory surged.

A semi-transparent attribute panel appeared before his eyes:

[Deity: Lin Feng]

[Divine Rank: Demigod]

[Divine Domain Name: Unnamed]

[Area: 103,000 square kilometers (Barren Land 100%, chaos purple qi 100%)]

[Resource Output: Zero]

[Faithful Race: None]

[Core Lord: Taotie Juvenile (Tier 3)]

[Divine Domain Comprehensive Combat Power: 10,000 (Taotie Bonus 100%)]

[Divine Power Reserve: 0 (1 drop of divine power can be converted per 100 combat power daily)]

[Time Flow Rate: 1 to 100 (Adjustable)]

The moment he saw the panel clearly, Lin Feng hadn't even had time to be happy. The system's notification sound came again.

"Ding!"

"Warning: Taotie Juvenile is ravenous. Please feed it as soon as possible to help it pass through the weak juvenile stage."

Lin Feng looked down at the terrifying giant beast below, which had crushed over a dozen hills and was larger than a skyscraper. His mouth twitched violently.

"System, you call this thing... a juvenile?"