Afterwards.
Gu Qingyang further improved the shop in the Divine Kingdom chat group, adding additional categories apart from Body Techniques, Cultivation, and Magic.
Divine Soldiers!
Elixirs!
Miscellaneous Items!
Once these categories were established, Gu Qingyang used Faith Power to fill them with corresponding items.
To set up the Divine Kingdom chat group, Gu Qingyang used one million Faith Power, and another million for the development of the Sacrifice Divine Technique.
The initial more than four million Faith Power had now dwindled to over two million.
This more than two million Faith Power is enough to fully develop first and second-tier items.
As for third-tier items, Gu Qingyang was not in a hurry.
After all, the third-tier shop requires a third-tier Divine Kingdom to open, and currently, many people do not even qualify as evolutionaries and do not need the third-tier shop.
The only ones who can really use the third-tier shop are those high-level evolutionaries of the Federation.
But compared to the entire population of the Federation, which is in the tens of millions, these people are negligible.
...
Three days later.
Gu Qingyang completely withdrew his mind from the Divine Kingdom, and looking at the brand new interface of the Divine Kingdom chat group, a proud emotion arose in his heart.
"The Divine Kingdom chat group is complete, now it's just a matter of waiting for others to sacrifice Fierce Beasts for me, and then I can upgrade while lying down!"
Gu Qingyang's tense mind finally relaxed completely over these days.
With the completion of the Divine Kingdom chat group, followers no longer selflessly dedicate faith, but instead engage in corresponding trades with each other.
However.
There is also a problem.
The maintenance of the Divine Kingdom chat group consumes one thousand points of faith per day, which means a loss of over three hundred thousand faiths a year.
But looking at his current data panel, Gu Qingyang felt at ease again.
...
Name: Gu Qingyang
Essence: Divine Tree
Lifespan: 15/25,000
Rank: Third-tier complete (34,540/1,000,000)
Divine Kingdom: Second-tier (6,203,520/100,000,000)
Innate Divine Techniques: Ancient Tree Tendrils (third-tier), Divine Tree Spirit Root (third-tier), Divine Fruit (third-tier), Divine Whisper (third-tier), Eye of True Sight (third-tier), Divine Kingdom Domain (third-tier)
...
"With over six million Faith Power, if used solely for maintaining the Divine Kingdom chat group, it can last for around twenty years or so," Gu Qingyang pondered.
Originally, after developing a large number of Secret Techniques and items, Gu Qingyang's Faith Power had dropped to six figures.
But within just three days, the number of followers suddenly experienced explosive growth.
The initial number of one hundred thirty to forty million followers has now almost reached the two hundred million mark.
A surge of sixty million followers.
Gu Qingyang didn't even need to think to understand that it was definitely the appearance of the Divine Kingdom chat group, which made more people who did not originally have faith, willingly become his followers.
This situation was also within Gu Qingyang's expectations.
After all, with the opportunity to become beings equivalent to evolutionaries, it's natural for many to flock to it; no one wants to be left behind.
Before, the conditions to become an evolutionary were stringent, but now, just joining the Divine Kingdom chat group gives hope of cultivating extraordinary power, making it completely different.
Therefore.
The surge in followers was inevitable.
As the number of followers surpassed two hundred million, it did not stop and kept increasing, albeit very slowly.
Based on the distribution of faith, now about ninety percent of all surviving humans have become his followers, with the remaining ten percent non-believers continually shrinking in proportion.
Gu Qingyang estimated that in another ten days to half a month, all humans would become his followers.
"Hmm... differentiating ranks for different cultivation systems is also a hassle; let's make a unified rank system!"
Looking at the chat group interface, Gu Qingyang used some Faith Power to update the functions of the Divine Kingdom chat group.
Soon after.
Names appearing in the Divine Kingdom chat group all had corresponding ranks after them.
Starting from zero rank for ordinary people, Gu Qingyang temporarily divided the ranks into four tiers. He did not update beyond the fourth tier, as the highest known combat power currently is merely the fourth tier.
...
"Second-tier median cultivator!"
Xu Bo looked at the suddenly added suffix next to his name in the Divine Kingdom chat group, with a somewhat peculiar expression.
Looking at others' names, similar suffixes appeared next to them.
The difference was.
Some directly showed zero-tier, while others showed different tiers.
"Brother, the hunting team is fully assembled; when do you plan to depart?"
The tall Xu Qing walked in, her red lips parting slightly.
Xu Bo withdrew his attention from the Divine Kingdom chat group and said in a deep voice, "With the appearance of the Divine Kingdom chat group, surely a large number of evolutionaries will go hunt Fierce Beasts.
We must hunt enough Fierce Beasts before other ordinary people grasp extraordinary power, and then open the second-tier shop.
Only in this way can our Xu Family advance ahead of others. By the way, what's the situation with the family on that side now?"
"After you sent your ideas back, the family has also assembled a hunting team, preparing to hunt Fierce Beasts!"
Xu Qing replied truthfully.
Upon hearing this.
Xu Bo nodded slightly.
The appearance of the Divine Kingdom chat group means that hunting Fierce Beasts is destined to become mainstream, as everyone desires the Secret Techniques inside.
Throughout the Federation, third-tier evolutionaries are top-tier, and those who can truly reach this level are extremely few among all evolutionaries.
The vast majority of evolutionaries stay at first or second tiers.
No wonder.
Evolutionaries lack systematic cultivation methods and can only continuously consume the flesh and blood of Fierce Beasts, relying on innate abilities to refine and absorb the power of flesh and blood, naturally resulting in a very low conversion rate.
But taking advantage of the free exchange opportunity, after exchanging for a Body Technique called Celestial Martial Gang Qi, Xu Bo finally understood how mystical the so-called Cultivation Techniques could be.
In comparison to his previous crude refining of Fierce Beasts' flesh and blood, it was utterly incomparable.
If he had the corresponding tier of Cultivation Technique, Xu Bo suspected he would have already entered the third tier, possibly even become a fourth-tier evolutionary, instead of still being only a small second-tier median evolutionary now.
But unfortunately, the tier of Celestial Martial Gang Qi is too low; it's only a first-tier supreme Cultivation Technique, at best allowing cultivation to the first-tier complete stage, which is useless for Xu Bo now.
He is now a second-tier median and must at least exchange for a second-tier Cultivation Technique.
But now, opening the second-tier shop requires a thousand Contributions, not to mention the subsequent exchange for second-tier Cultivation Techniques.
Therefore.
What Xu Bo must first do is organize a hunting team, then go out to hunt Fierce Beasts and quickly gather the Contributions needed to open the second-tier shop and exchange for second-tier Cultivation Techniques.
This matter is urgent; any slightest delay could mean being outstripped by others, which is not beneficial to the family's development.