Chapter 54: Chapter 54: The Choice of a Path, Comprehensive War Stream, Military Team

After finishing his meal, Zhang Yi returned to his room.

Although Zhang Yi didn’t think he was at an age where he needed to rush to find a wife, there was indeed some truth to what his dad had said earlier.

Specifically, which development path he should choose for his Divine Realm!

In the first semester of opening their Divine Realms, all students had to plan the future direction of their domains!

Would they choose the charge-ahead War path, or the Logistics path focused on cultivating their Clan’s faith and managing the Crystal Wall System!

Even within the charge-ahead War path, there were sub-styles like the Farming style and the Hybrid style.

Besides considering his own Divine Realm, he also needed to think about his future team.

It’s hard to go it alone.

Even in their second year of high school, the school had already started training them in teamwork!

The final exam, a real-world Divine Realm assessment, was a major training exercise designed to cultivate the cooperative combat abilities between different students’ Clans!

Zhang Yi had to consider this as well.

Should he follow the military model and form a team where roles were divided by Divine Position? Or should he create a large Elf Pantheon by himself, become the Main God, and cultivate numerous Subordinate Gods?

After much thought, Zhang Yi finally made a decision.

’With my Golden Finger and the support of my family, I don’t have to worry about my personal strength. Therefore, to maximize my gains, I must choose the War path!’

The Divine Beings of the War path were the main force, the vanguard, for conquering other Crystal Wall Systems and clashing with other Divine Beings!

Although it carried the greatest risk, it also produced the strongest among all the paths!

With the help of his Golden Finger, Zhang Yi’s future strength was guaranteed to be formidable. He wouldn’t be lacking in most resources, either.

Since he wouldn’t have any weaknesses in terms of strength, there was no need to create a Pantheon and become its leader.

Becoming the head of a Pantheon meant that all the Divine Spirits within it would have to cultivate the same type of Clan, which would severely limit the potential of Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm!

In the future, the majority of the Clans in his Divine Realm could be Elves, but they absolutely could not *all* be Elves!

Only through competition among all things can a hundred flowers bloom!

The same was true for cultivating Clans!

Zhang Yi was very ambitious.

Besides Elves, he wanted to cultivate other Clans as well.

In Zhang Yi’s vision for the future, his Divine Realm would follow two parallel paths: a combination of technology and Magic!

(Note: The coexistence of technology and Magic refers to Mechanical Masters and Mechanical/Magical Civilizations. Some readers have said that Elves would never like a concrete jungle. The author has, of course, considered this.)

Now that he had decided on the War path for his Divine Realm’s development, Zhang Yi’s Divine Positions were also determined.

In addition to the Natural Divine Position he had already secured, he would add the Divine Position of Magic, which was the best match for Elves.

He couldn’t forget the Divine Position of War, either—after all, he was taking the War path!

With his Divine Positions set, the Natural Divine Position, combined with his Wood Elf Clan, could also handle Logistics well.

Thus, his specific path within the War path would be the Hybrid style!

’Looking at it this way, what am I still missing?’ he wondered.

The Divine Positions of Nature, Magic, and War all had great future potential. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Even a Powerful Divine Being could use one of them as their Main Divine Position.

This meant he was still missing a support-type Divine Position.

However, Divine Positions could also conflict with one another.

Zhang Yi needed to keep his Main Divine Position.

Therefore, Zhang Yi would need powerful support, like healing or prophecy.

Thus, the future direction for his team was clear: form a group based on the Blue Star Federation Military model, with roles divided by Divine Position!

Choosing a team structure like the Blue Star Federation Military’s would also benefit him in the future!

Both his grandfather and his father served in the military.

The military was the Zhang Family’s foundation.

If Zhang Yi were to follow the military path in the future, he would surely obtain more resources than he would on any other path!

Not to mention, the strongest power in the entire Blue Star Federation was the military!

The more Powerful Divine Beings the Blue Star Federation possessed, the more it needed to expand outward to acquire faith and resources.

And the more it expanded, the more territory it needed to defend, which in turn required even more Powerful Divine Beings!

It was a snowball effect, growing larger and larger!

Therefore, most of the Divine Beings in the Blue Star Federation were hawks!

As for the loyalty of his future teammates, that problem was even easier to solve!

The best way was to have them sign a contract supervised by the Blue Star Will.

Once a contract supervised by the Blue Star Will was signed, any betrayal would cost them their lives.

The penalty for breaking the rules could be written directly into the contract.

He could set the price of betrayal so high that not even a Powerful Divine Being could save them!

For now, all of Zhang Yi’s questions could be answered by history.

He had thought through all the issues.

Having figured out his future path, Zhang Yi’s mood instantly brightened!

His Divine Realm’s development was planned out.

The next step was to invite Divine Beings he deemed to have potential, those who could complement his Main Divine Position, and start building his core team in high school.

As for whether a team formed in high school could be brought to university, the universities had rules.

If a team was already established in high school, and one member had good grades while another had poor ones, an important member of the team who got into a good university could pay a certain price to allow their lower-scoring teammate to attend the same university as a visiting student.

Of course, it would be even better if everyone on the team had good enough grades to get into the same university!

As for how to find potential candidates and how to win them over, his grandfather, father, and mother had all subtly taught Zhang Yi these things over the years.

After thinking everything through, Zhang Yi wrote it all down on paper so he wouldn’t forget.

Then, Zhang Yi prepared to enter the Divine Domain Connection Pod, log into his Divine Realm, and continue his work!

[System]: Logging into the Ten Thousand Realms Divine Net...

[System]: Identity verification successful...

[System]: Descending consciousness into your Divine Realm...

[System]: Welcome, great God of Nature, Lord of Elves, and Forest Dominator, to your Divine Realm!

In the Main World’s timeline, Zhang Yi had collected all the corpses of the invading clan yesterday.

However, when Zhang Yi logged into his Divine Realm again, more than a day had already passed inside!

The diligent and loyal Wood Elves, led by their High Priest Shamiel, had inquired with the great Elf God, and after receiving the great Elf God’s permission, had sent Wood Elf Scouts to explore the newly appeared part of the Divine Realm and begin mapping it.

Ever since Shamiel became a Holy Believer, Zhang Yi had been spending nearly one thousand Faith Value every day to possess Shamiel and impart his advanced knowledge to the various Wood Elves.

For example, deep in the Dawn Forest, within the Wood Elf tribe, in the room of Elf Legion Commander Feiyana, a large table was covered with a sand table built to scale with the Divine Realm’s various terrains.

The sand table clearly marked the currently discovered resources and the unexplored areas!

The coal deposits that had been discovered earlier were now being mined.

Although no Iron Ore had been found yet, they were using high-temperature furnaces to melt down damaged Iron Weapons and re-smelt them.

This wasn’t too difficult for the Wood Elves, who had Zhang Yi’s guidance.

The molten iron was not reforged into weapons but was instead turned into iron farming tools.

After all, the tribe’s warehouses still held a considerable number of Iron Weapons.

With the entire Divine Realm undergoing major development, iron farming tools were much more needed for plowing fields, planting crops, and digging for coal!

As for agriculture and animal husbandry, these two enterprises were also developing vigorously during the periods when Zhang Yi possessed Shamiel!

Agriculture shifted entirely to large-scale, systematic cultivation.

The animal husbandry system was integrated with the planting system.

The manure produced by the farmed cattle, sheep, and rabbits could be turned into fertilizer to promote plant growth, while the mature branches and leaves of the Baobab Trees could be used as feed for these animals.

The other industries derived from agriculture and animal husbandry were countless!

Right now, all aspects of Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm were developing well; the only flaw was that the number of Wood Elves was far from sufficient!

Therefore, Zhang Yi spent the entire afternoon, Main World time, inside his Divine Realm.

Aside from possessing Shamiel to further guide the development of various industries—a process that Elf Queen An Nobel had now made a habit of carefully listening to and recording—he also ordered Feiyana to organize that small Elf Corps from before the end-of-month assessment and prepare for the possibility of battle!

This was because as time passed, it was getting closer and closer to the time foreseen by the Four-star Divine Domain Card, [Fated Encounter], that Zhang Yi had used yesterday.

Zhang Yi could already feel it coming!

When Zhang Yi’s consciousness appeared at the highest point of his Divine Realm and gazed out at the nearby Subspace, he discovered the imminent encounter!

A continent, floating in Subspace, was hurtling toward Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm!