91: Chapter 91 Overall Strength Steadily Improves

The Second-order Deity barely had time to deploy more defensive measures before being completely submerged under the radiance of the Law Divine Power.

Having succeeded with the first strike, Meng Ning and the others did not give their opponent any chance to react. Another wave of Law Divine Power bombarded the exact same spot.

After a full five times, the group stopped, their faces filled with vigilance. They kept their Law Divine Power condensed, ready to strike again immediately if they noticed anything amiss.

"I keep getting the feeling that I'm being used by that kid. He really treats me like a subordinate. He's making me want to give him a few surprises..."

Elder Yang, at the back of the group, muttered to himself. As for the ambushed Second-order Deity, he had already sensed that the target was in a heavily injured state and posed essentially no threat.

"We have not failed your expectations, my lord. We have brought that Second-order Deity back for you."

Inside the starship, Lin Xiao looked at Meng Ning and the others, who were carrying the heavily injured Second-order Deity with joyous expressions. His heart was filled with mixed feelings.

He was happy because a Second-order Deity had been dealt with so easily, meaning they could use Second-order Deities as prey from now on.

He was worried because the mole hiding in the team seemed quite formidable; even a Second-order Deity had been tricked to this extent. If that person turned around and tricked him instead...

Wearing a standard, faint smile, Lin Xiao nodded at the group.

"I knew you could do it. From now on, including this time, I will calculate rewards based on merit for all Second-order Deities. Whoever has the greatest merit will receive more. Meng Ning, tell me, who had the greatest merit in this operation?"

Meng Ning was taken aback, not expecting Lin Xiao to ask such a question. However, after thinking for just a second, he answered very seriously.

"Everyone contributed earnestly to this operation. If you insist that I name the one with the greatest merit, my lord, it is truly difficult..."

"What is this guy after? He doesn't even want resources when offered?"

Lin Xiao smiled and nodded, while another thought crossed his mind.

"Previously, we only killed Demigods and First-order Deities, so the resources were basically overlapping. Now that we have a Second-order Deity, surely there must be some unique resources on their person? If my hypothesis is correct, I just need to distribute these special resources equally. When the System settles the accounts, I'll be able to tell who Elder Yang is by seeing what extra resources he has..."

"Since that's the case, let's distribute the resources using the previous method. Let's see what good things this Second-order Deity has on them."

The heavily injured Second-order Deity was barely clinging to life thanks to their Divine Kingdom core. However, they had completely lost the ability to resist, and even Lin Xiao, a Divine Being, could freely peer into their Divine Kingdom.

Everyone simultaneously extended their Divine Thought into the Second-order Deity's Divine Kingdom.

"A Yao Beast of the Nascent Soul Realm, and such a massive size. This one probably has hundreds of tons of meat, right? Just this one could feed so many Believers!"

"That's easy to say, but you should think about how many resources it takes to advance to the Nascent Soul Realm. How could we just kill it for meat?"

"The Spiritual Qi in that orchard over there is so dense. Could those be Nascent Soul Realm Spirit Fruit?"

"Look at that river over there! There's a trace of Spiritual Qi amidst the dense Death Qi. Could that thing have been a river of Spiritual Qi before?! This is such a waste!"

As Lin Xiao probed with his Divine Thought, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"Both are Second-order, but why does this Divine Kingdom look so much worse than Elder Yang's? Still, they seem quite satisfied with it."

After roughly browsing the resources within the Divine Kingdom, things went as usual, and all resources were distributed equally.

The Nascent Soul Yao Beasts, each as large as a small hill, were seized by the group and brought into their own Divine Kingdoms. Areas that had long been cleared out became the habitats for these top-tier Yao Beasts.

From now on, these Yao Beasts would serve as whetstones, helping the core Believers of the Golden Core Realm in everyone's Divine Kingdoms experience the power of the Nascent Soul Realm in advance.

During the distribution process, Lin Xiao deliberately handed a resource building he hadn't seen much of to one of the Deities, secretly noting down the person's name in his heart.

With Elder Yang as the mole in the team, the subsequent hunting operations went smoothly in all aspects, except for the difficulty in finding prey.

Compared to the bountiful harvests of the previous two days, they only managed to kill a pitiful dozen or so Second-order Deities today. As for First-order Deities and Demigods, they killed a few along the way, but not many.

Although the quantity was far inferior to the previous two days, the quality was impeccable. This could be seen from the completely unrestrained smiles on everyone's faces.

As the quality of the harvest improved, the strength of the subordinates' Believers also began to skyrocket. Even Wang Tao and Su Xue, the seedlings Lin Xiao was cultivating as ultimate Prodigies, saw their strength increase.

At this moment, the First-order Believers in their Divine Kingdoms were springing up like bamboo shoots after rain. Meanwhile, that group of Second-order core Believers had steadily reached the Peak of the Second-order and were about to step into the Ranks of the Tier 3.

It wasn't just the two of them; the strength of the Believers in Lin Xiao's Divine Kingdom was improving just as quickly. With him pouring in massive amounts of resources without hesitation, the First-order Believers in his Divine Kingdom had already reached 50,000.

The 1,000 core Believers had also entered the Peak of the Second-order, and a few Believers with top-tier talent had even taken a step ahead and crossed into the Tier 3 sequence.

He had privately tested this in Yan Cang's Secret Realm. Even when equipped with only the most ordinary Hundred-Refined grade equipment, his Tier 3 Believers could already hold their own against a hundred enemies. Of course, this was just holding their own; if he truly wanted to wipe out a hundred enemies, they would still need to change their equipment.

As for the newcomer Hu Rong, who had just joined, her strength was skyrocketing. All her core Believers had entered Tier 3, and the other Believers in her Divine Kingdom were at least First-order.

There were quite a few Second-order ones as well. Although the total number of Believers in her Divine Kingdom was only a little over a hundred thousand, this already made her very excited.

If this were before, even with her Family pouring all their resources into cultivating her, it would have taken at least a month to reach this level. But now? It had only taken a few days!

Lin Xiao naturally saw her excited appearance. He felt that as her boss, it was necessary for him to let her know that Rank wasn't everything.

In the evening, he took some time to have Su Xue lead a hundred Believers to fight against a thousand of the other party's Believers.

The specific rules were that the side whose Believers were completely defeated would lose, and Hu Rong could replenish her Believers at any time, with a cap of ten thousand.

When Hu Rong heard these rules, her expression was indescribably ugly. Wasn't this clearly looking down on her?

Tier 3 against Second-order, and she had a thousand people while the other side only had a hundred. And yet, they allowed her to replenish troops?

This rule made her suppress a surge of anger before the battle even started, and she secretly resolved to win decisively and beautifully!

As it turned out, once the fight started, she was instantly stunned. Those hundred Second-order Believers on the other side were simply outrageously strong!

Before her Believers could even land an attack, the other side had already struck them. Even though they barely managed to block, the opponent's attacks came one after another, endless and continuous.

In no time at all, they had cleared hundreds of her people off the battlefield. Shocked by the opponent's strength, Hu Rong had to choose a defensive formation and simply use a delaying tactic.

She didn't believe the opponent's Internal Energy could last for very long.