18: Chapter 18 Functional Buildings: Chuan Gong Hall

[Message failed to send. You have been blocked by this shopkeeper.]

"What the heck?? I'm just asking for a price, friend? This is a massive order worth ten trillion, shouldn't I clarify the specific effects before deciding?"

Lin Xiao's face darkened as he grumbled. However, he was also clear that the reason he was blocked was most likely due to his status.

Such a large order, no matter how you looked at it, was not something an ordinary Divine Being could afford.

In the following time, Lin Xiao went to attend a banquet hosted by the third generation of the Liu Family. The person who invited him was a young man who looked very refined.

During the banquet, everyone talked about the development of their Divine Kingdoms and matters regarding increasing the strength of their Believers. This time, Wang Tao and Su Xue were much more composed.

While they remained respectful toward the people of the Liu Family, they lacked that sense of humbleness. For the entire day, no one came to talk to Lin Xiao about Slave Gods again.

This actually surprised him a little, but after a moment of thought, he understood the reason. It was highly likely that his classmates had already heard the rumors.

Wang Tao and Su Xue had already become his Slave Gods. Since someone had already started to try it out, everyone might as well wait and see for a while to see if he could nurture the two of them.

If he could, then naturally more Divine Beings would be willing to sell themselves to him. If not, then everyone would just act as if they had never heard what was said at the Awakening Ceremony.

[Yesterday's settlement is complete.]

[Divine Kingdom Believers: 437. Reward: 437 faith points.]

[Divine Kingdom resource rewards: 10,000 catties of Clear Vein Fruit, 10,000 catties of Light Vein Red Fruit, 1,000 stalks of Blood Coagulation Grass, 10 bottles of marrow cleansing pill.]

[Subordinate Deity rewards: Wang Tao (143 faith points), Su Xue (168 faith points). You may view the specific information of a certain subordinate in detail.]

[Rewards have been distributed to the system space; the host may access them at any time.]

[Today's settlement: Not yet performed.]

Waking up in the morning and looking at the system prompts, Lin Xiao no longer felt the excitement he had the first time. It was only a hundred thousand or so faith points, barely enough for the price of one bottle of great restoration pill.

It was the same old routine; he sold the marrow cleansing pill first. The 90,000 faith points obtained were split, with 40,000 for each of the two subordinates, and his own Divine Kingdom, adding the rewards from yesterday, had 20,000 faith points remaining.

Along with a large amount of E-rank Spirit Fruit. If it weren't for the teacher's guidance yesterday, he would have already started repurchasing E-rank Spirit Fruit seeds by now.

Now that he knew about the quality grading of Believers, he couldn't be bothered to buy those ordinary Spirit Fruits and Demonic Beasts anymore. If he was going to buy, he would do it right the first time and exchange everything for a B-rank Secret Refining Furnace.

After munching on a few Spirit Fruits, he put on his helmet and entered the virtual classroom. Compared to the excessive enthusiasm of his classmates yesterday, everyone was much more indifferent today.

Although they still nodded to greet him, no one came over to greet him respectfully anymore. This actually saved Lin Xiao from having to keep up that standard smile; after all, even in the virtual world, smiling too much would make his cheeks cramp.

At eight o'clock sharp, Teacher Tong Qian's figure appeared on the podium on time. There were no pleasantries or greetings. With a wave of her hand, a projection appeared. A term appeared on the projection in front of them: Functional Building.

"Yesterday, we all learned some basic knowledge about Believers. Besides Believers, if you want to develop your own Divine Kingdom, you cannot do without this lesson's topic: Functional Building."

Clearly, after explaining Believers in detail to Lin Xiao and the other two yesterday, Teacher Tong Qian skipped this topic directly and did not intend to give any further explanations to the other students.

Today's topic was also a continuation of the course she gave Lin Xiao yesterday regarding the grading of Believers. It could be considered supplementary teaching.

"If the Believers in our Divine Kingdoms want to develop, they cannot do without various Functional Buildings. For example, the learning and improvement of cultivation techniques."

"Take the Basic Body Refining Technique as an example. After you purchase it, you load it directly into your Divine Kingdom. The Believers will then learn this technique."

"But the Believers only know the name, content, and operation of this technique; it can be said that at this moment, they only know the basics."

"It doesn't even count as entering the threshold. Afterward, they need to spend more time slowly comprehending, exploring, and summarizing through practice."

"Then, they pass this experience down to the next generation generation after generation. This kind of natural iteration without intervention—if you are lucky and there are a few geniuses among the Believers, the progress will be a bit faster."

"If you are unlucky, and your Believers are unable to comprehend the essence and mysteries within the technique, that progress will infinitely slow down."

"If we want to speed up this comprehension, we cannot do without the topic we are discussing today: Functional Building."

Pausing slightly, her gaze swept over Lin Xiao, who was listening intently. Confirming that a look of understanding appeared in his eyes, Teacher Tong Qian continued her explanation.

"So-called Functional Buildings are one of the basic structures that high-level deities spend various spirit materials to build in a targeted manner according to different needs."

"Let's take the Basic Body Refining Technique we just mentioned as an example. Under normal circumstances, if your Believers want to comprehend the essence of the technique, they can only hope for a few Believers with high comprehension. But the attribute of comprehension is too ethereal. Even high-level deities cannot guarantee the comprehension of their Believers."

"Since they cannot guarantee comprehension, high-level deities began to change their mindset. If a technique is to be fully comprehended, it ultimately comes down to the Believers operating the Qi within their bodies according to the optimal route. How this Qi is operated, where it starts to flow most smoothly, and which meridian is most suitable and fast to pass through—all of this can be guided in a targeted manner."

"Mechanical creations precisely customize the optimal route, and the power of laws within the Functional Building helps the Believers actively operate the technique according to this optimal route. No comprehension? It doesn't matter; the Functional Building will teach your Believers step-by-step. It doesn't even matter if the Believer has no brain; the building can replace it and actively run the technique."

"As long as they stay inside the building, even a pig that knows nothing and understands nothing will instinctively remember this route after running it one hundred thousand times. And this is the function of the Technique Transmission Hall. According to the number of Believers it can accommodate, the grade of the Technique Transmission Hall also varies, for demigods and even deities."

"The Believers in their Divine Kingdoms number in the tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. In such a situation, if they want to quickly let their Believers learn a technique, they need a larger Technique Transmission Hall. For specific situations, everyone can decide based on the number of subjects in your Divine Kingdom and the number of Believers you want to cultivate."

"Of course, you can also choose to wait for a period of time and let a certain batch of Believers use it first. After this batch of Believers has fully mastered it, you can then switch to the next batch. This can save you a lot of faith points."

A cup of spirit tea appeared in her hand, and Teacher Tong Qian took a gentle sip, giving the students below—mainly Lin Xiao—time to absorb the course content.

"So that's how the Technique Transmission Hall operates! Isn't this just too amazing? Even a pig without intelligence can learn a technique?"

"Heh, it's a building that starts at 300,000 faith points, after all. Isn't it normal for it to have this effect? This thing was created specifically for the descendants of wealthy families like the Chen Family."

"No wonder the strength of those direct-line Believers of the Chen Family improves so quickly. With such a Technique Transmission Hall, how much time can be saved! Moreover, this type of Functional Building can be used indefinitely as long as the Divine Kingdom is not invaded. It is simply an essential resource for heritage."

"Since there are already C-rank ones, why not compress the capacity a bit more? Make a smaller one, or even a single-person room would be fine. Once the price comes down, we could grit our teeth and buy one for our own Believers, right?"

"Stop kidding. Smaller? Single-person room? After compressing it, would there still be any profit? Since you're building it anyway, why not just build a C-rank one? Family descendants who can afford it and are willing to use it won't care about 300,000, and Divine Beings who can't afford it would rather spend time grinding than buy some single-person room."

"After all, Believers can complete a batch of iteration in 18 days. If the first generation's comprehension isn't good, you change to the second or third generation; there will always be Believers with high comprehension. Since that's the case, why spend faith points to save this time? For us, time is the least valuable thing."

It was a heartbreaking but very realistic answer. For ordinary Divine Beings, the bit of time saved is not as good as investing in ordinary resources with stable returns.