13: Chapter 13: Resource Wars? That's fantastic!

Teacher Tong Qian was not surprised to see the reactions of Wang Tao and Su Xue; when people know nothing, they always think that as long as they work hard enough, they can get ahead even if their talent is lacking.

But once you start to understand the rules of how this world operates, you will fall into total despair. This kind of gap cannot be bridged by mere talent.

Without resources or faith points, no matter how strong your talent is, you can only sell yourself to those top-tier forces. For an ordinary Divine Being, reaching the level of a demigod is already exhausting all their efforts.

Let alone hoping for anything like becoming a deity, or reaching even higher tiers.

Lin Xiao didn't pay any attention to the expressions of his two subordinates; the faint smile on his face was already becoming hard to maintain. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl upward.

Inside, he couldn't help but laugh wildly. Competing with resources? This is simply amazing! With his settlement cheat, what he loved most was competing with resources.

He had already made up his mind; once he had enough faith points, he would crazily buy these so-called secret refining furnaces and feed the great restoration pills to his Believers like daily meals.

A demigod was no longer his goal; with this pay-to-win gameplay, he had to become a deity by the time he graduated from his third year of high school.

And he would drag his subordinates along to ascend to deityhood together. Looking back now, this place, Anping County, was indeed quite trashy.

A top-tier noble family like the Chen family had fewer than a thousand deities within their ranks. And that was the result of the other party accumulating strength over who knows how many generations.

Lin Xiao only thought this to himself; if the Chen family actually heard this, they would definitely grab him by the collar and settle the score.

Maintaining and improving the Believers within the Divine Kingdom requires faith points; investing in resources requires consuming faith points; buildings require consuming faith points; even maintaining the environment within the Divine Kingdom requires consuming faith points.

It is no exaggeration to say that a deity is single-handedly supporting a massive Divine Kingdom. As for the meager faith provided by the people of the Divine Kingdom every day?

It cannot be said that it is useless, only that it is better than nothing. The stronger the Divine Kingdom, the more it costs. Being able to maintain a daily balance is already difficult, and being able to earn extra faith points is considered genius.

But this thing called faith points, as long as you are willing to spend, there is never such a thing as "enough," unless you intend to stop at your current stage.

But those who can become deities, which one of them wasn't once a champion of eliminating geniuses? They eliminated over ninety percent of their peers; now you want them to stop competing? Who would be willing to accept that?

Even for a noble family in Anping County like the Chen family, their descendants who want to get ahead have to fight until they are battered and bloody!

If you don't compete, how can the upper echelons of the family see you? Without achievements to show off, why would the family invest in you?

In a massive Chen family, the third generation of descendants numbered in the thousands, and the fourth generation of little wolf cubs were watching with glowing green eyes.

The pie is only so big, and everyone is eyeing the resources within the family. If you have no talent and no strength, even if you are the son of the family head, you don't deserve to have the family's resources tilted in your favor!

At most, your father, who is the family head, might pay out of his own pocket to cultivate you.

But here another problem arises; theoretically, as long as the core of their Divine Kingdom is not destroyed, the lifespan of a deity is basically unlimited.

This gives rise to a problem that mortals will never face: if your father thinks that your "alt account" is useless, he won't dote on you like a mortal would.

Instead, he will decisively choose to retrain multiple "alt accounts"!! It's only eighteen years; for a deity, they can afford to wait.

As long as the resources are still there, theoretically, he can always cultivate a satisfactory deity to take over. As for which "alt account" this successor is, it doesn't matter.

So don't be fooled by those direct descendants of the Chen family acting like they are the best in the world. In reality, the internal competition is even more terrifying.

After all, those they are competing with are all the offspring of deities! On Awakening Day, a C-grade talent is considered meeting the standard, B-grade is excellent, and A-grade is prioritized for cultivation.

If your talent doesn't reach C-grade, then you had better pray that you are the only child in the family for the time being. Otherwise, your deity parents will not hesitate to terminate all resource investment in you.

They will give you a basic allowance; if you can rise up on your own later, there is still a chance. If you can't even reach the demigod level in your four years of university, then just honestly go be a manager at some family business and retire.

The model of the Divine Realm is like this: high-level deities spend resources to cultivate Divine Beings with potential. Once this Divine Being ascends to become a deity, they will become a blood bag.

They will continuously provide faith points and resources to the high-level deity who cultivated them. Then, this deity acting as a blood bag will use the few resources they have to cultivate Divine Beings they deem to have potential.

Just as mentioned before, the more powerful the deity, the more terrifying their consumption. To continue advancing while maintaining their own consumption...

They can only squeeze downwards. The Chen family uses their own influence to monopolize a certain resource in Anping County to nourish themselves, and all the ordinary Divine Beings in the entire Anping County use everything they have to support these noble families and major forces.

And forces like the Chen family are also blood bags for even higher levels. Most of their gains need to be used to make offerings to those even higher up.

For example, the Ministry of Education, for example, the actual administrator of Anping County: the County Mayor, as well as the Tier 3 principal of the First High School, and the high-level deity who single-handedly cultivated the Chen family!

Teacher Tong Qian watched Lin Xiao, who not only showed no signs of frustration but was almost unable to hold back his smile. She was somewhat surprised internally.

She didn't know why, after knowing all this, he could still be happy? Could it be that he had startup capital given by the Lin family? She shook her head and didn't think too much about it.

The projected text in front of them changed again. Behind the great restoration pill appeared three large characters: "Drug Resistance."

"You didn't understand before, clearly there is already a pill like the great restoration pill that improves the cultivation of Believers. Why are there other different types?

Just like the drug resistance shown on the projection. Pills are different from Spirit Fruit, monster flesh, and blood; as these high-concentration energy aggregates are consumed by Believers over a long period, the effect will gradually decrease. The effect that could originally exert 100,000 energy will subsequently keep dropping, until eventually only 10,000 remains? Or even 1,000.

To deal with this situation, high-level deities studied diligently and finally developed five major systems. They are: Martial Arts System, Battle Qi System, Savage System, Magic Energy System, and Shadow System.

All five major systems have pills similar to the great restoration pill. When your Believers start to develop drug resistance to one type of pill, you can switch to another. Potions from other systems are brand new to your Believers, and there is no drug resistance.

Rotate through the five major systems, and even a pig without a grade can be fed until it reaches the Qi Refining Stage."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao could no longer suppress the corners of his mouth; he praised them endlessly in his heart.

[The high-level deities are too thoughtful, even considering such problems. This is simply feeding me directly to my mouth; as long as I can pay-to-win with peace of mind, that's it.]

Wang Tao and Su Xue felt cold inside at this moment. A question surfaced in their minds: Can ordinary Divine Beings really turn things around?

What they didn't know was that this question had also surfaced countless times in the minds of all the prodigies who became deities.

In the end, some of them chose to recognize reality and packaged themselves to sell for a good price, becoming a part of some major force.

Others refused to believe in fate, breaking into secret realms, fighting in competitions, and risking their lives in mortal combat with alien deities. In the end, they either died silently in some incident, or were captured alive and became someone else's Slave God. Their Divine Kingdom, Believers, and everything else all became nutrients, nourishing their enemies...