16: Chapter 16 Ultimate Prodigy, Settlement Fantasy

Listening to Wang Tao's words, which were almost like delirious ramblings, Teacher Tong Qian fell silent for a moment, a look of self-mockery appearing on her face.

"If you only want to raise your Believers to the Elite-level, then you only need to develop drug resistance in one of the five attributes.

And if you want to raise your Believers to the Genius-level, you must consume three of the attributes and develop drug resistance.

As for the Prodigy-level, that requires consuming all five attributes and developing drug resistance; this is considered reaching the threshold of a Prodigy-level.

However, the reason Prodigies are called Prodigies is that they themselves like to pursue the extreme. Merely developing drug resistance is just the threshold.

There are Prodigies even among Prodigies, so after developing drug resistance, they will continue to consume them until the effect of the medicinal pills is halved, or even reduced to only 30% efficacy.

What I mentioned before about consuming until there is almost no medicinal effect is only the theoretical optimal state. But in reality, even for Prodigies personally cultivated by the Ministry of Education, they won't push them to such extremes. It's not that they can't, but that it's unnecessary. Here, I have to mention the resources we have been talking about."

Slightly calming her unusual emotions, Teacher Tong Qian continued her introduction.

"Let's take an ordinary Divine Being as an example. If we assume the total resources required to promote it to a Demigod is 100 points,

then based on that, cultivating an Elite-level Demigod would require consuming one thousand or even three to five thousand points.

The reason for such a large fluctuation lies in the innate talent of the Divine Being being cultivated. The better the talent, the lower the consumption.

This is also why the Ministry of Education and other top factions like to recruit Divine Beings with top-tier talent.

In the end, it's just to save a large amount of resources.

And if you want to cultivate a Genius, the resource consumption will be pushed to tens of thousands or even one hundred thousand.

To reach the threshold of a Prodigy, the starting point is four hundred thousand. On this basis, if you want to reduce the medicinal effect to 50%, the consumption will be increased to one million.

If you want to compress it to 30%, then the consumption could be two million. The more you compress the medicinal effect, the more the required consumption will continue to increase.

If you want to compress the medicinal pill effect to the limit, this consumption could exceed ten million. This might not sound very intuitive to you.

Let's use a more intuitive example. According to this ratio, the total consumption for an ordinary Divine Being to ascend to a First-order Deity is about two hundred thousand.

Of course, these are just my personal estimates; after all, I am only an ordinary First-order Deity. The specific consumption can only be guessed.

But the fact that cultivating a top-tier Prodigy-level Demigod costs enough to cultivate ten ordinary-level First-order Deities cannot be wrong.

Of course, the Prodigies I am talking about here refer to top-tier Prodigies whose medicinal effects have been compressed to 30%.

And this is just at the Demigod stage, do you understand? That is to say, if this Prodigy wants to maintain their Prodigy-level status, they need to continue extreme cultivation.

To elevate them into a Prodigy-level First-order Deity! How much that costs specifically, I do not know, nor can I imagine...

Perhaps it requires the total resources of ten Second-order Deities? Or even more? From the moment one decides to become a Prodigy, everything is destined to be unstoppable.

Spending a massive price to become a Prodigy-level Demigod, and then only being able to aim for a Genius-level First-order Deity because of insufficient resources? Then all your previous expenses will become a joke!"

Hiss! Even Wang Tao and Su Xue, who had already been shocked to the point of numbness, couldn't help but gasp.

Is it normal to put the values of 100 and 2,000,000 together? Could it be that one Prodigy-level Demigod can beat so many of the same rank?

This isn't just an exaggeration; it's terrifying!

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao, who was on the side, was rubbing his chin, constantly thinking about a question: Should he cultivate all his subordinates into extreme Prodigies?

The extreme he was thinking of was the ideal state Teacher Tong Qian mentioned, where the medicinal effect is almost zero. After understanding these quality classifications,

he himself would absolutely not take the path of mediocrity; his Believers must be fully equipped with resources. He believed that after being fully equipped, the faith points settled for the Believers would definitely not be the same as those of ordinary ranks.

If it follows the current settlement ratio, then theoretically, an extreme Prodigy-level Believer would not only cost no faith points but would also be profitable, and highly profitable at that!

Or taking a step back, even if it's not highly profitable, or even if it just maintains a balance, that would be terrifying enough!

What is the condition for promotion to Demigod? One hundred Qi Refining Believers! And what is he doing now? Mass-producing troops!

If... well, Lin Xiao was talking about a hypothetical, what would happen if he had 400 million extreme Prodigy-level Believers in an ideal state?

Just thinking about it made his mouth go dry. 400 million extreme Prodigies, meaning he alone could contend against millions of the same rank?

And don't forget, these are extreme Prodigies, capable of killing Deities above their rank!

He is currently just a Divine Being. If he becomes a Demigod, with a Believer population reaching 4 billion, and a Deity population reaching 40 billion...

Lin Xiao didn't dare to calculate further. Now he only had one question in his heart: Brother System's ability shouldn't have an upper limit, right?

If everything was as he thought, then never mind fighting above his rank; he felt he could try crossing realms.

[Calm down, I need to calm down... That's not how the math works. One day in the outside world is equal to one year in the Divine Kingdom. I would need to throw in 365 times the consumption for the extreme Prodigy-level Believers every day.

And I also have to maintain the environment in the Divine Kingdom, I have to cultivate subordinates, and most importantly, I need to accumulate the extreme resources for the next stage.

At the Divine Being stage, I need to prepare resources for an extreme Demigod, and at the Demigod stage, I have to prepare resources for an extreme First-order Deity.

According to the exponential surge of resources at different ranks, even adding the settlement from buildings and subordinates, it might just be barely enough?]

After calculating this, Lin Xiao's mood finally calmed down a little. After taking a few deep breaths, an incredibly sincere smile appeared on his face.

"Thank you very much for today's teaching, Teacher. I, Lin Xiao, promise on my surname that if you ever need help in the future, as long as I can do it, I will never refuse!"

Teacher Tong Qian's teaching today could be said to have given Lin Xiao an incredibly clear direction, knowing how to cultivate his Believers and how to push them to the limit.

Being able to obtain such important knowledge in the early stages greatly saved him time and resources.

Although this kind of knowledge might just be common sense for Deities, given his current status and the resources at hand,

this kind of common sense, if it were another Deity, they wouldn't be able to explain it to him so thoroughly, so carefully, and so intuitively.

He was already behind the ancestors of those top factions by who knows how many years, plus the time flow between the Divine Kingdom and the outside world,

and if he wanted to catch up, besides massive resources, the most important thing was time.

So, he acknowledged this favor. In the future, if the other party had a need, even if the enemy was a higher-level Deity, he would be willing to make a move for it.

Hearing his solemn promise, Teacher Tong Qian just smiled faintly. It seemed like she didn't care, but in reality, she was nodding inwardly.

It was finally worth it that she had so painstakingly laid out, broken down, and fed these bits of knowledge to him.

Actually, Lin Xiao, limited by his own strength and knowledge, thought that what was just taught was the curriculum for normal elite students.

Little did he know, all this knowledge was self-summarized by Teacher Tong Qian over decades, nearly a hundred years, of researching massive amounts of data.

It belonged to her secret store of knowledge, and even for powerful families like the Chen family of Anping County, she had never shared these.

"Yawn! This impromptu lecture was truly exhausting. If you have no other questions, I will be leaving now."

"Thank you for your hard work, Teacher. Please take care."

Including Lin Xiao, all three of them bowed respectfully to her.