Chapter 356 - 252: The Six Assessment Systems, the Second Round’s Scores; Zhang Yi’s Commanding Lead, Lu Mei’s Miscalculation
Chapter 356: Chapter 252: The Six Assessment Systems, the Second Round’s Scores; Zhang Yi’s Commanding Lead, Lu Mei’s Miscalculation
A slight improvement over last time, but not by much.
As for the reason behind Zhang Yi’s score, it was quite simple.
Although the number of Goblins in Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm had increased, very few of them had grown stronger.
Besides the Goblin Great Sage Norton, who possessed Ninth Level strength, even the Goblin Clan’s second Heroic Clan member, Goblin Mayor Hobali, had only just reached the High Level, possessing Seventh Level strength.
And that was to say nothing of the other Goblins.
Therefore, in this aspect, it was actually Lu Mei who received a higher score!
After all, in Lu Mei’s Divine Realm, the Main Clan was the Sunbird, and the auxiliary clan was the Flame Bird.
The entire Divine Realm had been crafted into an environment suitable for these two clans.
Naturally, it was easier for them to grow stronger than the three different clans in Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm.
As for the third point, the cultivation of the Main Clan, new clans, and Hero units, two months had passed in the Main World, yet Lu Mei’s Divine Realm still hadn’t produced a single Heroic Clan member.
In this regard, Zhang Yi remained firmly in the lead.
As long as the two Goblin Heroic Clan members in his Divine Realm didn’t die, Zhang Yi would continue to maintain a perfect high score on this point!
Furthermore, Instructor Li Qiongtian could also see that the Goblin Heroic Clan member, Norton, was currently in a state of a Burst of Inspiration.
From the looks of it, once the Burst of Inspiration ended, the clan’s civilizational system in Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm would be pushed even further!
So, for the fourth point, Instructor Li Qiongtian also gave Zhang Yi a high score of 95.
The remaining 5 points were points that Instructor Li Qiongtian was holding back for his final visit to Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm to check on the improvement of the clan’s civilizational system.
As long as next time, Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm showed more progress in its clan’s civilizational system, Instructor Li Qiongtian would definitely give Zhang Yi a perfect score of 100!
Meanwhile, Lu Mei, who was also being observed by a Split Soul of Instructor Li Qiongtian, did not perform as well as Zhang Yi on the third and fourth points of the six evaluation criteria.
Lu Mei chose to continue cultivating her Main Clan, the Sunbird.
After their bloodline was enhanced, the Sunbirds had the potential to become Undying Phoenix Birds.
At that point, they would be on par with the Giant Dragon clan.
But because of this, elevating the Sunbirds’ bloodline to that of a true Undying Phoenix Bird required a massive amount of Fire Attribute resources!
Compared to the natural environment within Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm, Lu Mei’s Divine Realm was a sea of fire.
If a portion of Lu Mei’s Divine Realm were to be cut out and placed into Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm, it would serve perfectly as a Fire Attribute Elemental Plane!
In fact, this was the primary way most True Gods expanded their Divine Realms!
Directly devouring another’s Divine Realm through divine warfare.
Devour whatever you’re lacking!
The True Gods of the Blue Star Federation couldn’t do this, but couldn’t they just switch targets and choose the native Divine Beings of other planes or Crystal Wall Systems?!
However, last month, in order to cultivate her Main Clan and accelerate the bloodline growth of her Sunbirds, Lu Mei used the privilege she had earned by completing a Hell Level difficulty mission—the right to select any Five-star Unrivaled Quality Divine Domain Card from the University Alliance Training Camp.
She chose a Five-star Divine Domain Card—the [Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood]!
Although it wasn’t the complete [Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood], but just a branch from it.
This was similar to the Divine Domain Card Zhang Yi had previously obtained—a branch of the Moon Ancient Tree from the Elf Ancient Tree.
And this Divine Wood, originating from a special Fire Attribute Elemental Plane, was indeed of great benefit to the Sunbirds’ growth!
Once this Fire Attribute Divine Wood fully matured and the Sunbirds built their nests on it to live, it could indeed subtly purify the Sunbirds’ bloodline and accelerate their growth.
It could even replenish their essence and speed up their rebirth after the Sun God Birds’ self-detonating Nirvana!
The only unfortunate thing was that for this Fire Attribute Divine Wood to achieve the effects mentioned above, it also required a massive investment of Fire Attribute resources and treasures!
In Lu Mei’s original estimation, the Fire Attribute Magic Resources stored in her Divine Realm would be more than enough for this Fire Attribute Divine Wood to grow from a branch back into a towering tree.
Even if it couldn’t reach its mature stage, entering its growth stage wouldn’t be a problem at all!
Unfortunately, Lu Mei had calculated everything perfectly but missed one thing: the Divine Domain Card provided by the University Alliance Training Camp was of too high a quality!
The branch of the Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood that Lu Mei had selected using her privilege to pick any Five-star Unrivaled Quality Divine Domain Card, due to its excessively high quality, required far more Fire Attribute Magic Resources for its growth than she had anticipated!
The Fire Attribute Magic Resources in Lu Mei’s Divine Realm, such as Flame Crystal Ore and Earth Vein Flame Marrow, which she had meticulously built up and had seemed rather abundant, after being consumed by both the Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood and the Sunbird clan this month, had been greatly depleted.
In one month of Main World time, she had lost the equivalent of at least two Five-star Fire Attribute resource-type Divine Domain Cards’ worth of investment!
Many of the resources that Lu Mei had planned to prioritize for the Sunbird clan now had to be supplied to the Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood first.
Otherwise, if the supply of Fire Attribute Magic Resources were to stop now, the growth of the Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood would stagnate.
At that point, not only would the resources invested in cultivating the Sunbirds be wasted, but even the vast resources poured into the Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood would also go to waste!
Lu Mei had to push through in one go.
She had to at least cultivate the Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood to its growth stage!
And the resources that should have been allocated to the Sun God Birds this month were now being used by the Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood.
Therefore, compared to last month, the cultivation of her clan’s strength and the progress of its civilizational system in Lu Mei’s Divine Realm were naturally slowed down, and so she didn’t get a high score!
For the former, Lu Mei only scored 75 points, and for the latter, she only scored 73.
Compared to Zhang Yi, who scored above ninety in both categories, the difference was more than 40 points!
As for the fifth point of the six evaluation criteria, the degree of the clan’s faith, there was no need to elaborate on this point.
Just based on the miracles Zhang Yi had performed in his Divine Realm in the past—though few and far between, they were etched so deeply into the Goblins’ hearts that they would not be forgotten even in death—and the successful establishment of the Natural Church in the [Goblin Mage Technology City], Zhang Yi received a high score of 98 on this item!
As for the final point of the six evaluation criteria, the relationship between the new clan and the other clans, there was no need to elaborate here either; Zhang Yi also received a high score of 98.
The mere fact that the Dwarf Clan and Elf Clan were helping the Goblin Clan expand the outer city and build a new one was enough for Zhang Yi to get a high score of over ninety.
Add to that the establishment of the Natural Church within the [Goblin Mage Technology City], and the resident Elf Bishop, and he secured the remaining eight points!
The final two missing points were simply Instructor Li Qiongtian being cautious and habitually holding back a little.
But if Zhang Yi could maintain this pace for the Goblin Clan during the final round of the Yanhuang Federation’s second assessment in the University Alliance Training Camp, and even show steady improvement, then Instructor Li Qiongtian would certainly be happy to help him succeed and give Zhang Yi several perfect scores for cultivating his new clan!
It wasn’t like he was the one handing out the rewards anyway.
Instructor Li Qiongtian was only responsible for recording and evaluating the progress of the students from the Tianya Academy team in cultivating their new or main clans.
As for whether the final rewards were distributed, that was still up to Chief Instructor Yang to decide.
And as Instructor Li Qiongtian’s two Split Souls finished their evaluation of the new clan in Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm and the Main Clan in Lu Mei’s Divine Realm, their scores were released.
Zhang Yi scored 574 points, an improvement of 24 points from last time!
And Lu Mei scored 504 points; compared to her score of over 400 last time, this was also a significant improvement!
However, compared to Zhang Yi’s score, Lu Mei’s score seemed quite a bit lower!
At the same time, due to Lu Mei’s strategic error in cultivating the Flaming Phoenix Tree Divine Wood, although her actions were certainly correct in the long run, in the short term, it had dragged down the development progress of her Main Clan.
Otherwise, compared to the first month of the Yanhuang Federation’s second assessment at the University Alliance Training Camp, Lu Mei could have raised her scores for the third and fourth points of the six evaluation criteria even higher!
And when Zhang Yi and Lu Mei left their Divine Domain Connection Pods, stepping out of the dedicated examination chamber for the pods, the first thing they saw was Instructor Li Qiongtian waiting for them outside.