Pulling his drifting thoughts back, William reached a conclusion. Currently, there were 10 million followers in his divine domain, and in the divine world, he would earn a point of divine power every day. In real life, he would accumulate over 2,000 points in half a month, which would be enough to purchase the necessary divine skill cards from the list. William breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he could afford them.

"Leave 1,000 points of divine power as backup. I need at least three Short-range Random Teleportation Divine Skill Cards, one Primary Divine Domain Concealment Divine Skill Card for use and one as backup, two Primary Divine Domain Range Scanning Cards, and two Regular Resource Terrain Cards. A total of 10 cards, which will cost exactly 1,000 points of divine power. If there's any surplus, I can buy a few Blank Cards and Desolate Terrain Cards too. The plan is perfect," William thought, feeling pleased with himself. He closed the screen in front of him, feeling in high spirits.

Now, what he needed to do was review the knowledge about breaking free from the divine world's beginner protection period and prepare appropriate solutions for possible scenarios.

With that thought, William immediately logged into the school's library via his divine energy wristband and began searching for books related to the beginner protection period. As books projected one after another in front of him, William quickly flipped to one and started reading. The library books had copyright protection, so they could only be read in reality and could not be downloaded.

In the newly created divine domains in the divine world, they were all protected by the rules of the divine world. There was a thin membrane surrounding the entire divine domain, preventing the outside world from sensing or touching it. As long as the membrane remained intact, the divine domain would not be revealed to the divine world and would be safe from any attacks.

The membrane could only disappear in two scenarios: one, after 30 years, the divine domain's protective membrane would automatically fade; and two, a demigod or a follower from within the divine domain breaks through the protection from the inside. As soon as they step beyond the membrane's range, the protection would automatically disappear.

If William wanted to teleport to the Divine Exchange Continent, he would inevitably need to cross this protection layer, thus exposing his divine domain to the divine world. This was the method for breaking free from the protection period in advance.

As for why there was a beginner demigod protection period, it was likely a rule set by the great civilization that created the divine world in the past. The divine world was an inheritance from this ancient divine civilization. The current situation of this civilization was unknown—some said it perished in the previous cosmic cycle, while others claimed it had left for other universes. Regardless, the opinions varied, and no one could verify it.

The only thing certain was that this great divine civilization had scattered countless seeds of their civilization across the universe. Any interstellar force that obtained one of these seeds could create divine seeds, enter the divine world, and begin the path to divinity.

William quickly discarded the book about the origins of the demigod protection period and flipped to the next one. The content he was searching for finally appeared before his eyes.

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Newly created divine domains that had just broken free from the protection period were usually located in barren or desolate regions. If a nearby divine domain encountered another one, there was a high chance the other divine domain had just broken free from the protection period as well. This was a rule summarized by countless predecessors. All demigods who break free from protection within the same period tend to appear in a specific desolate area. This period could range from one month to several years.

This was the reason why breaking free from the protection period early was extremely dangerous. Take for example the classmates of William's class, who had recently opened their divine domains but were forced to break free prematurely. Their divine domains would inevitably be surrounded by demigods from other civilizations who had waited the full 30 years to break free. If their domains were invaded, the outcome would be the extinction of their core followers and the absorption or sealing of their divine domain's resources and land.

From the market situation, it was clear: for a new demigod domain in a good environment, just the value of the resource terrain cards for an area of 10,000 square kilometers could reach 10,000 divine power points. For a newly broken demigod domain with no resources, this was like a windfall, and no one would hesitate to seize the opportunity.

As time passed, William, who had been lying in bed for more than six hours, finally finished the last book.

"Not bad, the ancient saying is true: there is a treasure house of gold and jade in books," William muttered as he stretched, relieving the fatigue from staying still for too long.

He immediately dove into the divine energy logging chamber. With the time difference of a hundredfold, over 20 days had passed in his divine domain. He had gotten used to controlling the domain at any moment, so after such a long time without checking on it, William felt a little uneasy.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, five years had passed in the divine domain. William looked at the latest batch of 2,000 curved-blade cockroaches hatching and his face turned serious.

At this point, the insect race had completed a full generation update. Aside from the queen ant, which remained the same, most of the insect units had been replaced with the remaining four main combat species. The underground part of the domain still had some earthworm units surviving by eating soil.

William scanned the entire domain with his divine sense, and a blue semi-transparent information panel appeared in front of him.

Name: William.

Level: Demigod.

Divine Fire: Not ignited.

Divine Rank: None.

Divine Mark: None.

Divine Traits: Environmental Adaptation, Genetic Adjustment.

Divinity: 1 point.

Divine Power: 2,060 points.

Faith Power: 35 million.

Core Followers: Insect Race.

Follower Count:

* Queen Ant: 1

* Piercing Wolf Spider: 5 million

* Poison Sting Dragonfly: 1 million

* Logistics Ant Spider: 1 million

* Curved Blade Cockroach: 3 million...

After glancing at his follower count again, William helplessly closed the information panel.

Three days ago, William had awakened all the dormant Piercing Wolf Spiders in the domain and had them begin feeding to bring their physical functions to their peak. The result was a sharp increase in resource consumption within the domain, and now the ecosystem was beginning to become unbalanced. The domain urgently needed external resources to replenish its supplies.

This made William stop hesitating.

"I have to get through this stage no matter what. I've done everything I can; the rest is up to fate." In his previous life, William never liked gambling. He always did everything he could to maximize his chances of winning.

After crossing over and learning about divine beings, he had been striving toward the path of becoming a god. But to him, becoming a god was merely a higher form of life. He had never placed himself above others in a lofty, god-like position.