146: Chapter 146 Fang Huai'an's Impotent Rage

Once Meng Ning and the others said this, the originally lively group chat instantly went quiet. Although they had the resolve to sell themselves, they still had to look at the returns, right?

A simple phrase like "it's definitely better than the treatment outside" — how much better, exactly? If others give four or five thousand divine power points, do they give eight or nine thousand, or ten thousand?

Selling themselves for just this amount of resources was clearly not worth it. After calming down, a classmate soon asked directly in the group.

"Brother Meng, could you specify the treatment? After all, this requires signing a Slave God Contract, so we must consider it carefully."

Only this solitary message appeared at the end of the group chat. Meng Ning knew that many people were currently staring at the chat group.

However, he did not explain further because of this. If Lord Lin were willing to announce their current treatment, what kind of god couldn't he recruit?

Even without Lord Lin's instruction, for Meng Ning and the others personally, they were unwilling to state these benefits clearly. Coming here after knowing the benefits would make them feel it had lost its meaning.

Regarding their Subordinate Deity, it wasn't just Meng Ning and the other gods; even the newly ascended demigods cared deeply about this. After all, this concerned their Breakthrough to Intermediate God.

With Lord Lin backing them, they valued personal character and closeness of relationships more than raw strength.

If not for remembering that he had once been in the same situation as everyone else, Meng Ning could have easily gone to his own Family to search.

"As for the treatment, it's not easy for me to say much here. If you are dissatisfied with your current situation and want to take a gamble, then contact me.

If you have reservations, we understand. I don't have many spots left, and I need to reserve some.

Moreover, we aren't always recruiting. After a certain point in time, even if you want to come over, we won't accept anyone.

I'm only telling you this in advance for the sake of our time as classmates. It's also to avoid any awkwardness later regarding recruitment."

The special time point Meng Ning spoke of was, first, when everyone had used up their fifty spots. At that point, there would naturally be nothing to be done.

The other was when everyone had ascended to the Second Rank; that would be equivalent to showing their hand. Naturally, they wouldn't recruit from the outside anymore.

When he sent this message, the classmates in different Star Domains felt differently. The cautious ones, after carefully reading the message, silently closed the chat group.

This message sounded like a rehearsed script: creating a sense of mystery and urgency, then playing the emotional card as a classmate.

Who knows? Meng Ning and his group might just be fishing on purpose!

And these classmates were very likely the fish the other party needed! After all, gods with S-Rank Talent were worth quite a lot on the black market.

These classmates directly categorized Meng Ning and the others as scammers, even making up their minds to have less contact with them in the future.

Some classmates, however, were more wavering. On one hand, they were dissatisfied with their current environment. Relying on four or five thousand divine power points a month to reach a Breakthrough to the Second Rank…

Even with S-Rank Talent, it would take hundreds of years. On the other hand, just like the first group, they were afraid this was a trap set for them.

This made them very conflicted; they wanted to ascend quickly like Meng Ning, but they didn't want to take the risk.

After private messaging and discovering that Meng Ning and the others were on a star they had never heard of, they all completely extinguished their thoughts.

A star that was possibly a subsidiary of a subsidiary in a third-rate Star Domain—what powerful force with resources could there possibly be?

However, there were some classmates who, after a brief chat with Meng Ning and the others, resolutely chose to resign.

These people were on good terms with Meng Ning, Jiang Ling, and the others. On one hand, they firmly believed that their friends would definitely not harm them; on the other, they decided to take a gamble.

What if it worked out? After all, Meng Ning's early Breakthrough to the Second Rank could not be faked.

The number of these people was not large, only about three hundred or so. If Meng Ning and the twenty-plus gods divided them among themselves, each would get a dozen or so.

This was exactly within their acceptable range.

Not only on Meng Ning's side, but the progress of the demigods was also quite good. Not to mention Wang Tao and Su Xue; both came from ordinary families and had suffered through an undead catastrophe.

Including their relatives and friends, they were all of the Divine Being type. Upon receiving the news from their parents, they chose to come and join them without a second thought.

After all, Lin Xiao's reputation was now almost a household name in Anping County. The treatment would certainly not be bad.

Therefore, the two of them were the first to fill their 50 spots. Before they ascended, they had actually withheld a portion of resources for their own advancement.

Regarding this, all the relatives and friends not only had no negative thoughts upon finding out, but were even afraid they didn't have enough, willing to offer more for the two to Cultivate.

After all, Wang Tao and Su Xue were their link to Lord Lin, so naturally, they hoped they would become as strong as possible.

Besides, even after the withholding, each of them still had 80 divine power points every day. That was a full 8 billion faith points!

When had they ever seen so many faith points? If it weren't for Wang Tao and Su Xue's guidance, they wouldn't even know how to spend 8 billion faith points a day!

Compared to the two, the progress of Hu Rong, Fang Yuan, and other third-generation direct descendants of the Family was much slower, especially since they couldn't reveal the benefits while the Family Elders and Clan Chief kept slandering them.

During this time, they had each barely managed to recruit less than twenty people.

Adhering to the principle of "better to have nothing than to have something substandard," everyone was not too worried. Anyway, they were still far from reaching the level of Intermediate God, so they had time to find each Subordinate Deity.

Under Lin Xiao's influence, his subordinates maintained a generous and magnanimous style regarding resources.

As for those Elders who were exiled here, those who felt their personalities were decent would also reach out to them. After all, they were all from the same Family, so there was a natural sense of closeness when there were no conflicts of interest.

Inside Fang Yuan's room, he was currently speaking with Elder Elder Fang Huaian. He noticed that the Elder seemed to have something on his mind recently, often frowning and sighing.

Sometimes, he would mutter something in a voice he couldn't quite hear clearly; judging by his expression, it probably wasn't anything good.

So today, taking advantage of the fact that the other party wasn't on duty, Fang Yuan intended to have a good talk. After a few days of contact, he had quite a good impression of Elder Huaian.

He didn't have the foul temper of those stubborn old men in the Family, nor did he put on the airs of an Elder. From time to time, he would even correct some of his Cultivation problems.

Therefore, he paid a little more attention to Elder Huaian.

"Junior has noticed that Elder has been looking troubled recently. Has something unpleasant happened? Although Junior's strength is low, perhaps I might be able to help?"

"Even if I truly cannot help, at least I can be a qualified listener. Keeping things bottled up inside for too long will inevitably affect your state of mind."

"That is not a good thing for future Breakthroughs."

Upon hearing this, Elder Fang Huaian couldn't help but sigh heavily. He had originally thought that by coming here, he could finally stay away from the frustrating matters within the Family.

Unfortunately, reality often did not go as one wished.

A few days ago, his granddaughter, Fang Lele, came to him crying and complaining.

That old immortal Fang Yuanming's grandson, that brat named Fang Jing, actually wanted to marry his Lele?

After a few days of investigation, he finally learned the reason.

That brat named Fang Jing, he didn't know what he did, but he actually caused his own Believers to rebel, and a large number of Believers became a Corrupted One.

This immediately knocked that brat back to his original state. His strength directly regressed to when he had just experienced his Awakening.

Therefore, this brat set his sights on their Lele.

Calling it marriage was just a pretense; in reality, he wanted to use the contract to legitimately plunder the Believers of their Lele.

He had always been at odds with that old thing Fang Yuanming; if not for him, how could he have spent 80 years recovering from his injuries?! Now, the other party was actually targeting his granddaughter.

This was simply not treating him like a human!

How could Elder Fang Huaian push his own granddaughter into a pit of fire? After he explicitly refused, that shameless old man targeted his offspring and grandchildren, both openly and secretly.

That old thing held great power within the Family, and everyone was unwilling to offend the other party for the sake of an Elder like him who had no presence.

During this time, Elder Fang Huaian was so angry that he even ate much less of the spirit food for the Nascent Soul Realm.

At this moment, hearing Fang Yuan ask, he only whispered in a desolate tone.

"What hope does this old man have for further advancement in this life..."