Time flew by, and soon it was the end of November.

Inside the classroom of Class 1, Year 2,

the homeroom teacher, Guo Aiqing, was at the podium, explaining the important details of the upcoming exam to the students below.

"Originally, Teacher Xiong Chumo, the homeroom teacher of the other honors class, and I were preparing this just for our two classes."

"But after we reported it to the school, the principal revised the plan, turning it into a preparatory mock exam for all second-year students!"

"The exam will take place on an enormous Broken Continent."

"After this continent was captured and processed by the school, all creatures on it are below the Seventh Level. There will be no high-level creatures involved!"

"But don’t think for a second that this exam will be easy!"

"What they lack in quality, they’ll make up for in quantity!"

"Throughout the exam, you cannot personally intervene. You can only guide your Clan’s development through Oracles."

"The exam will last for three days. When it’s over, the school will not be giving out any rewards!"

The homeroom teacher, Guo Aiqing, swept her intimidating gaze across the room.

Seeing that none of the students below were murmuring, she nodded in satisfaction.

"Because the rewards are already hidden on this Broken Continent!"

"In other words, how much you can obtain this time depends entirely on your own strength and luck!"

"However, this time, the school has prepared a different kind of reward than usual.

This time, the reward isn’t a Divine Domain Card, but a sliver of a divine authority—a Talent Crystal!"

"WOAH!"

A wave of gasps erupted from the class!

In fact, even the homeroom teacher, Guo Aiqing,

had been shocked when she learned what the school was doing!

This was an incredibly grand gesture!

What was a Talent Crystal?

Simply put, a Talent Crystal was a part of a divine authority,

a solidified state formed after a divine authority shattered.

A complete divine authority, in turn, represented a complete Law!

It represented a Divine Being’s Main Divine Position!

And Laws, too, were divided into different tiers.

When a Ninth Transformation Demigod ignited their Divine Fire, they had to choose a Law to condense their Divine Position!

If they chose a Lower Class Law to condense their Divine Position, their upper limit would be a Weak Divine Being.

If they chose a Middle-tier Law, their upper limit would be a Weak Divine Being.

If they chose an Upper-tier Law, their upper limit would be a Middle-Level Divine Being.

And if they chose a Top Level Law, their upper limit would be a Powerful Divine Being!

Of course, this upper limit wasn’t impossible to change.

For example, if a Weak Divine Being chose the Lower Class Poison Gas Law,

once their mastery of the Lower Class Poison Gas Law reached 100%,

they could try to refine a fragment of the Middle-tier Venom Law or a higher-level poison-type item.

If successful, they could replace their Main Divine Position from the Lower Class Poison Gas Law to the Middle-tier Venom Law.

By refining a Poison Law of a higher level than their own, they would have a chance to advance to a Weak Divine Being.

However, the difficulty of refining a Middle-tier Law with a Lower Class Law

was no less than defying the heavens!

Out of a hundred Weak Divine Beings, not even one would succeed!

If they failed,

and the Lower Class Law failed to refine the Middle-tier Law fragment,

their own Law would likely be assimilated by the Middle-tier Law.

At that point, not only would they lose their original Divine Position,

but their status might even drop, regressing from a True God to a Demigod!

They would definitely be severely injured in the process,

and if the injuries were too severe, they might never have the chance to become a True God again!

One must understand that a Middle-tier Law has an overwhelming suppressive force over a Lower Class Law!

Those who could refine a Middle-tier Law fragment using a Lower Class Law were all one-in-a-million geniuses among Weak Divine Beings!

But what if, at the very moment a Ninth Transformation Demigod became a True God, ignited their Divine Fire, and condensed their Divine Position,

they chose a Top Level Divine Position like Life, Death, Time, or Space?

Theoretically, they could skip the Lower Class Laws and begin comprehending the Top Level Law directly.

Following that logic, wouldn’t it be best for everyone to choose a Top Level Law to refine as their Main Divine Position when they ignite their Divine Fire?

Not at all.

Trying to comprehend a Top Level Law directly, without any foundation,

is far too difficult for a Divine Being with an ordinary Talent and few resources!

It’s possible that after condensing their Divine Position,

they could live until they die of old age

and never increase their mastery of the Top Level Law by even 1%!

But for a Divine Being with average Talent but abundant resources,

if they have sufficient resources to help them start comprehending from the Lower Class Laws that make up the Top Level Law,

advancing from a Lower Class Law to a Middle-tier Law,

and from a Middle-tier Law to an Upper-Rank Law,

then as long as they have enough resources, there are no obstacles in between!

But these resources are not something an ordinary Divine Being can get their hands on!

The resources needed to advance from a Lower Class Law to a Middle-tier Law,

require hunting down a weaker Middle-Level Divine Being of the same attribute.

Furthermore, after the hunt, you must instantly restrain them to prevent them from self-destructing their Divine Format.

Otherwise, if the Divine Format self-destructs, the Divine Position vanishes, and you get nothing!

This method of refining another Divine Being’s Divine Position to enhance one’s own strength,

this kind of "pay-to-win" playstyle,

is something that only powerful Divine Clans or the military can afford!

However, if a Divine Being with sufficient Talent and abundant resources chooses a Top Level Law,

as long as their understanding of the Law is deep enough, they can break through naturally, as easily as drinking water!

That was why the students and the homeroom teacher

were so shocked to learn that the school was offering Talent Crystals as a reward this time!

Even though everyone knew the number of Talent Crystals provided by the school would be extremely small,

and even if they found and refined one,

it might not even grant one ten-thousandth of the required progress,

but even so, this was a resource that only True Gods could normally access!

No matter how high the quality of a Five-star Divine Domain Card, it was still a resource that True Gods had little use for!

Instantly, after hearing this news,

the entire class was fired up for the end-of-month exam, ready to face it with their utmost enthusiasm!

"Talent Crystals of different levels and attributes are placed in Treasure Chests of different colors!"

"Talent Crystals formed from shattered Lower Class Laws are placed in Black Iron Treasure Chests."

"Talent Crystals formed from shattered Middle-tier Laws are placed in Silver Treasure Chests."

"Talent Crystals formed from shattered Upper-tier Laws are placed in Golden Treasure Chests."

"The more precious the Talent Crystal, the more remote and dangerous the location of its Treasure Chest!"

"Consider this a little hint from the school for finding Treasure Chests during the exam!"

What the homeroom teacher was saying now was directly related to the locations of the exam’s Treasure Chests!

The entire class listened with rapt attention, their eyes fixed on her,

and when Guo Aiqing finished speaking, many students silently wished she would reveal a little more.

But unfortunately, that was impossible.

"This time, you will log in through the school’s Divine Domain Connection Pods and command your Clans to enter the Broken Continent."

"The time ratio on this Broken Continent is 1:1 with the Main World!"

"In other words, the exam starts this afternoon and will continue until the last day of the month, November 30th!"

"You now only have the lunch break to rest!"

"If any of you forgot to tell your parents, do it now."

"If you’ve already told them, get some good rest at school during lunch,

and after you eat, prepare for this afternoon’s exam!"

After the homeroom teacher had finished telling the students everything she needed to,

she gathered her things and left the classroom.

Then, the classroom erupted like a boiling furnace, the roar of conversation instantly filling the air!