155: Chapter 155 Advancement to Demigod

I am not magnanimous enough for that! Are you done? Are you leaving, or am I?"

Looking at Elder Fang Huaian's cold expression, Fang Yuanming shook his head inwardly.

"I have said what I needed to say. Since this is your decision, I will respect your thoughts."

Since the other party was unwilling to resolve past grievances, Fang Yuanming did not say anything more. After all, Elder Fang Huaian was not a direct subordinate of Lord Lin, so there was no need for him to lower himself to curry favor.

Seeing Patriarch Fang Hong and the Grand Elder return so quickly, the expressions of the Elders who were reluctant to leave the conference room were quite colorful.

"Patriarch, Grand Elder? Why, why are you back already? Even if Lord Lin didn't agree to our proposal, we should have at least been able to leave five people behind, right?"

"Why haven't you dispersed yet? Perfect. Hurry and check if anyone is missing! Call all the Elders of our Fang Family, and let's go, quickly!"

Patriarch Fang Hong did not dare to delay for even a moment, fearing that Lord Lin might change his mind if they were late. Until the Slave God Contract was bound to every Elder of the Fang Family, he would not be able to rest easy!

Just as everything was going smoothly for Lin Xiao, Commander Zhou Huai, far away in the Xuanxu Star Region, was in no mood to be happy.

Several months had passed since he was severely injured by a fifth-order alien. During this time, he had truly experienced the fickleness of human nature.

"Lord Deity, the Grand Commander's messenger just came to notify us. Your Tenth Legion will be officially disbanded effective immediately, and the deities within the legion will be scattered and absorbed into other legions..."

"Has it finally come to this? Tell me... is there still any hope for me?"

With his ten-thousand-strong deity legion disbanded, Commander Zhou Huai's last shred of support had completely vanished.

The Domain Lord's move was tantamount to telling the outside world: Commander Zhou Huai was beyond saving...

He could even foresee that the various factions and families below would soon find excuses to cut off their tributes to him.

Once the channels for obtaining resources from the outside world were cut off one by one, relying solely on the 10,000 divine power points from the Group Owner every day would be insufficient to maintain everything he had now.

"Lord Deity's Divine Might is unparalleled; so many hardships in the past have never brought you down. We believe this time will be the same. Once your injuries are fully recovered, the Domain Lord will surely arrange for a stronger, more valiant group of deities to form a new deity legion for you!"

Seeing Commander Zhou Huai's low spirits, the Subordinate Deities hurriedly spoke up to comfort him.

As members of Commander Zhou Huai's pantheon, their everything was already firmly bound to the temple.

If the Intermediate God, Commander Zhou Huai, was too severely injured to maintain the operation of the temple, they, the Subordinate Deities bound to the temple, would also be buried along with it.

If not for this reason, they might not have stayed until now.

"That's right, Lord Deity, things have not yet reached the worst-case scenario. If we hold on for a while longer, there might be a turning point."

Although the Third-order Deity who said this did not believe it himself—after all, healing Commander Zhou Huai's injuries would require over two billion divine power points.

"You are right, things have not yet reached the worst-case scenario..."

As Commander Zhou Huai spoke, the image of that four-person chat group appeared in his mind. At this point, it seemed he had no other choice.

["@Group Owner, does what you said before still count?"]

After rounding up all the Elders of the Fang Family, Lin Xiao welcomed some good news of his own the next day.

He had promoted to a Demigod!

Even those subordinates who had joined later had long since promoted to Demigods, and only today did he finally achieve a Breakthrough to Demigod.

And it was 100,000 Believers breaking through all at once! He felt a vast and powerful force continuously gathering within his body.

With a crisp cracking sound, the chair, which had been crafted from High Grade spiritual wood, shattered into pieces on the floor.

At this moment, in a certain area of his Divine Kingdom, a small tree sapling seemed to be fast-forwarded. From a tiny sapling, it grew into a ten-meter-tall giant tree in the blink of an eye.

Looking at this giant tree that had suddenly appeared, Lin Xiao was instantly struck with inspiration: This was the core of his Divine Kingdom!

As long as the core is not destroyed, the deity will not die!

Just as Lin Xiao was having this realization, he saw the giant tree's trunk sway. As the tree swayed, a storm of Spiritual Qi instantly formed.

The Spiritual Qi, which was already dense within the Divine Kingdom, began to rapidly converge toward the giant tree, and at this moment, the giant tree was like a gluttonous child.

A massive amount of Spiritual Qi was absorbed and devoured by the giant tree; in just a short while, the Spiritual Qi in Lin Xiao's Divine Kingdom had dropped by more than ten percent!

One must know that there were a full 50 Spiritual Veins in his Divine Kingdom!

After absorbing more than ten percent of the Spiritual Qi in the Divine Kingdom, the Spiritual Qi storm finally dissipated completely. In its place stood a giant tree that was glowing all over!

Whether it was his imagination or not, Lin Xiao felt that some strange change had occurred within his Divine Kingdom.

However, after searching carefully, he did not find anything different. It was just that the vegetation was more lush, the soil was more fertile, and the rivers and lakes were clearer?

Shifting his attention from the changes in the Divine Kingdom to himself, his eyes flickered slightly. A top-grade Magical Artifact Flying Sword appeared in his palm.

Looking at the gleaming Flying Sword in his hand, Lin Xiao didn't know why, but he felt that this thing couldn't hurt him.

He carefully extended a finger and lightly touched the edge of the blade.

Indeed, the blade did not cut his palm skin. He began to apply pressure little by little, until finally, with a 'ding' sound, this top-grade Magical Artifact Flying Sword was snapped in half by his bare hands.

Looking at his palm, which didn't even have a single mark, the corners of Lin Xiao's mouth curled up. A big smile appeared on his face.

As his subordinates successively advanced to Demigods, he also gained some understanding of the strength of a Demigod. For Demigods like Hu Rong and Fang Yuan who did not receive special training.

Without summoning Believers, one person could fight against hundreds of Qi Refining Realm Believers and win easily.

Their Physical Body could, to a certain extent, reduce the damage from Low Grade Magical Artifacts, but once the Magical Artifact reached Medium Grade, it could relatively easily pierce through their body's defenses.

As for Demigods like Wang Tao and Su Xue, whom Lin Xiao had trained as ultimate Prodigies, without using Believers, they could fight against 10,000 Qi Refining Realm Believers with just their fists and win easily.

Medium Grade Magical Artifacts could only leave an imperceptible white mark on their skin, and only High Grade Magical Artifacts could relatively easily pierce through their body's defenses.

Their limit record was, without using weapons or armor, being able to fight against thousands of Foundation Establishment, or more than a dozen Golden Core cultivators.

If they used weapons and armor of top-grade Magical Artifact level, this number could be doubled.

"I used the same Believer training method as Wang Tao and the others, but the difference in results is so huge. It seems that the number of core Believers indeed plays an important role. Right now, it shouldn't be a problem for me to fight dozens of Prodigy Demigods like Wang Tao, but I just don't know what would happen if I fought a deity? I have only promoted 100,000 Spirit Rank Believers so far, and there are still tens of millions, hundreds of millions of Believers waiting to advance. When that time comes, is it possible that I could kill a deity with a single punch?"

Just as Lin Xiao was thinking about whether to find a deity subordinate to test his strength, the long-silent chat group suddenly sent a notification.