26: Chapter 26 You should also improve your meals.

"This [spirit gathering martial arts hall] has many more functions than the martial arts hall. It can also accommodate many more Believers at once."

Lin Xiao spent 6 billion on five-element pills, buying three portions directly from the shopping section. He tossed one portion to each of his two subordinates.

Actually, based on his current daily income, he could easily afford to buy finished products directly from the trading section.

But since Lin Xiao was a transmigrator, he had always kept that famous quote from the Chairman engraved in his heart: Having a father or mother is not as good as having it yourself.

Therefore, he still intended to spend divine power points to purchase the complete setup. Aren't divine power points just meant to be spent?

"This is your Believers' share for today. Remember to ensure they consume all 15 five-element pills every day. If their energy is insufficient, have them take a great restoration pill.

As for the spirit beast meat and Spirit Fruit I've given you, feel free to distribute them among your Believers as you see fit; don't be stingy. You and your families should also improve your own meals from time to time.

I've asked around, and consuming high-grade ingredients actually provides some benefits to our God Kingdoms, even if the effect is very weak."

"My Lord, are—are these things for our Believers?"

If Lin Xiao hadn't made it clear earlier, Wang Tao and Su Xue would likely have started to decline the offer right then and there.

This was 46 billion worth of spirit beast meat, Spirit Fruit, and pills! With so many faith points, let alone cultivating Believers, they couldn't even spend that much if they bought their entire families' lives.

"These are for you. My ears aren't deaf, and I've heard the gossip from people outside.

They laugh at you for being foolish, and laugh at you for selling yourselves to me—someone they think is all talk and no substance—without having seen anything yet.

But what they don't understand is that only those who are the first to eat crab get to eat their fill and eat well. As I said before, within the God Domain, resources are the most important thing.

For the remaining ten days, focus on cultivating your Believers for me. If you need anything, go buy it; if you're short on something, tell me.

I intend to use a massive amount of faith points to smash you both into prodigies!"

After hearing Lin Xiao's words, the two felt their hearts stirred and unable to calm down. Thousands of words were reduced to a single sentence.

"We will strictly follow your instructions, My Lord! We will certainly not fail your expectations."

"Very well, there is nothing else. You may return first. This place is no longer suitable for me to live in, so I will send you word once I have moved tomorrow."

Standing outside the public housing complex, the two still couldn't calm their hearts. This was 46 billion! Even a genius with A-level talent from the Chen family was only rewarded with 100 million.

Judging by what the Lord said, those 6 billion worth of pills were the fixed daily expenditure for the Believers.

Spending 6 billion on Believers in a single day—in the eighteen years they had lived in Anping County, they had never heard of such a cultivation method.

Su Xue suddenly chuckled, her laughter filled with unconcealable wantonness and exhilaration.

"Do you think if those people outside knew about the treatment we're getting, they would regret it? Even the direct descendants of the Chen family would surely be willing to serve as a Slave God for the Lord if they knew about this treatment.

There are still ten-plus days left. When the time comes, I'll definitely make those people in class who laughed at us open their eyes!"

Wang Tao's face was flushed with excitement, but he tried hard to calm himself down.

"Class 7 is just full of ordinary Divine Beings; there's no point in surpassing them. We should set our sights on the streaming assessment, or even the school-wide competition.

We need to suppress the heirs of those powerful families and major factions. Only then will we live up to the Lord's cultivation of us."

Upon hearing this, Su Xue couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

"You usually look so dull, but when it comes to things like this, your brain turns so fast. Can you give me some time to react next time?

Every time I'm a beat slower than you, it makes the Lord think I'm too greedy. Are you trying to push me out so you can monopolize the Lord's cultivation for yourself?"

This was, of course, just a joke from Su Xue.

At Fuyuan Residential Complex, hearing the noise at the door, the two elderly parents, who were working hard at home, paused for a moment.

Then, his mother put down her work and looked with a smile at the son who walked into the house.

"You've been busy managing your God Kingdom these past few days and have lost weight. Mom had the Believers slaughter a cow; we'll have your favorite braised beef for lunch in a little while."

Wang Tao's father continued to busy himself with work, looking as if he didn't want to engage with his son. For the past ten days or so, he had barely spoken to him.

A complex smile appeared on Wang Tao's face. It contained relief, heartache, and boundless hope for the future.

"Mom, don't have the Believers go to all that trouble. I've already prepared some food, and it's just in time for lunch. You two should come over and eat together."

"You child, the initial development of your God Kingdom concerns your future. Instead of wasting time, you should have the Believers train more.

Isn't something like cooking just a waste of their time?"

Listening to his mother's nagging and watching his father, who was scowling but still walked over, Wang Tao smiled happily.

"Mom, don't worry. There's no rush for training at this very moment, and besides, the dishes we're having today weren't made by the Believers."

As he spoke, dishes emitting a mouth-watering aroma and rich spiritual energy appeared on the family dining table.

Although they had never eaten or even seen such things before, the two elderly parents knew from the intense spiritual energy wafting off the food that these dishes were definitely above F-grade.

They might even be C-grade ingredients! Wang Tao's father became anxious on the spot.

"These foods? Is it that Lord of yours? Is he making you do something dangerous?"

Bringing such high-end ingredients back for his son—what was this? Wasn't this a last meal for the condemned? How could Wang Tao's father not be anxious?

Seeing his father lost in his own wild imagination, and his mother becoming nervous as well, Wang Tao quickly tried to reassure them.

"Dad, can you stop letting your imagination run wild? Dangerous things? Your son is just a newly awakened Divine Being; what qualifications do I have to be involved in anything dangerous?

I've already told you, the Lord is different. These ingredients are for me to use to cultivate my Believers, and he also wants us to improve our own meals as well."

After some explanation, his parents finally dispelled their doubts. However, looking at the table full of aromatic, spirit-rich delicacies, the couple, who had been frugal for decades, made no move to pick up their chopsticks.

"This is too extravagant. These must be C-grade ingredients, right? With these faith points, wouldn't it be better to just eat some F-grade ones? Why don't you take these to a large restaurant and sell them?

We could trade them for F-grade ones. That way, not only could our family eat well, but you could also use the extra faith points to properly develop your God Kingdom and Believers."

Listening to his wife, Wang Tao's father also sat silently at the table. He, too, made no move to pick up his chopsticks; if the food was touched, its value would be discounted.

Seeing his parents like this, Wang Tao couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache. Ever since he could remember, it had been like this; his parents were always reluctant to eat or use anything good.

They always claimed they didn't like such things. Only after growing up did he gradually understand that it wasn't that his parents didn't like them, but that their family simply didn't have many resources.

Raising livestock required consuming the time and energy of their Believers, and most of their Believers were pressed by his parents into planting spirit plants.

The few remaining Believers were tasked with grazing, just enough to sustain their own needs. Any livestock meat left over each year, apart from what they kept for him to eat...

...was all sold to exchange for a few faith points. From time to time, they would buy him some F-grade spirit meals, claiming it was to improve his physique.

This was the life of low-level Divine Beings; they could only scrape together a few faith points from their own meager resources to cultivate their children.

Hoping that the next generation wouldn't have to be like them, spending a lifetime paying off debts, unable to afford food, unable to afford necessities, and having no future...

Thinking of this, Wang Tao picked up his chopsticks. Without a word, he stirred the spirit meal on the table until it was a mess. Then, he looked at his parents with a complex smile on his face.

"Dad, Mom. The presentation of these spirit meals is ruined now, so I doubt those large restaurants would accept them. So we might as well eat them, so as not to waste them.

If we wait any longer, more of the energy within them will dissipate. That would be a real waste."

Feeling the spiritual energy beginning to escape from the spirit meals, his parents were heartbroken. They could no longer care about anything else; they had to save as much as they could.

"You child! If you weren't going to eat it, you shouldn't have stirred it up! Hurry up and eat as much as you can while the spiritual energy hasn't dissipated too much.

And you! You hurry up and eat more, too. There's too much food for our son to eat all by himself."

"Don't worry about me, you just hurry up and eat! Oh my, why is this spiritual energy so rich? Are these really C-grade ingredients? The spiritual energy is too intense; we'll need the God Kingdom to help refine it."