Chapter 509: Two Thousand Merits
Chapter 509: Two Thousand Merits
It is so that in these ten continents on the sea, there is a common decree.
In the face of the aggression of the sea demon beasts, all cultivators who have the ability to make a move must try their best to make a move to defend the territory of the human race.
If any cultivator blatantly violated this decree and avoided fighting when they had the ability to fight, they would be expelled by the ten continents jointly.
This decree was to safeguard the rights and interests of the Human Race as a whole.
Of course, if the situation had reached the point of no return, abandoning the island and fleeing would be beyond reproach.
Like the situation just now, Xu Chuniang, as a mid-Jindan cultivator, even if she didn’t put up a fight, people couldn’t find fault.
As for the old crone and the white-faced scholar, the situation was different.
Not to mention the fact that these two were born and raised in Qionglin, and had extremely deep feelings for this island, with all of their relatives and family roots here.
Once the two of them retreated, the six Jindan Stage Sea Demon beasts that invaded Qionglin Island would no longer have any qualms about slaughtering the tens of thousands of cultivators and mortals on the island.
The two of them leaving would only save their own lives, but the loss of Qionglin Island would become inevitable.
Therefore, these two people would rather fight until the last moment than retreat.
Fortunately, their persistence was not in vain.
Fellow Daoist Xu happened to pass by at this time and lifted the danger of Qionglin Island.
The few cultivators who had come from Wind Thunder Island quickly met, to their curiosity, Daoyou Xu.
Learning that this Fellow Daoist Xu had killed a mid-Jindan demonic beast in almost a single glance, and after that, she had even killed a late-Jindan crocodile demon on her own, a few of them tsked in wonder and were impressed by her.
“Fellow Daoist Xu is only at the fourth level of Jindan, but she has such tactics, it really puts us to shame.”
The speaker was the leading cultivator surnamed Zhou who had come from Wind Thunder Island, this person had a cultivation at the sixth level of Jindan, and had been stuck in the middle Jindan stage for many years.
Against the late Jindan crocodile demon, he wasn’t too sure he could kill it.
“Fellow Daoist Xu has killed four Jindan stage demonic beasts in a row, which adds up to a full two thousand merit badges. In this tiny Qionglin Island, it’s really enviable to be able to obtain so many merit honors in just this one battle.”
“Merit points?”
Xu Chuniang was a little puzzled.
Seeing her confusion, a man explained.
“The so-called merit points are a newly set initiative by Yanzhou Ancestral Island to incentivize all cultivators to go to the front lines to kill sea demon beasts.”
Next, he explained in detail, the specific division of merit points gained from killing demonic beasts at all levels.
Killing a Qi Practicing Stage Siren Beast would only earn a few merit points.
Slaying a Foundation Establishment Stage demonic beast would earn tens of merit points.
As for the Jindan Stage Siren Beasts, for every one killed, at least three hundred merit points could be obtained.
Of the four sea demon beasts Xu Chuniang had killed, two early Jindan stage sea demon beasts were worth six hundred merit points, one mid Jindan stage sea demon was worth six hundred points, and as for the late Jindan stage crocodile demon, it was worth as much as nine hundred points.
These four Jindan stage demonic beasts alone were worth at least two thousand one hundred points.
Xu Chuniang nodded, gaining a general understanding of how merit honors were calculated.
“Then what exactly is the use of these two thousand merit points?”
“The Ancestral Island encourages human cultivators to participate in wars and kill sea demonic beasts, which is why the merit points issued are extremely useful. Merit points can be used directly as spirit stones to purchase various cultivation resources and materials commonly found in the workshop market.
In addition, the Xuanzhou Ancestral Island had also united all the large and medium-sized islands in the continent and the forces of the Shi Clan, and had taken out many good things that were usually rare to see, not limited to the merit laws, extremely high quality spirit stones, and even the Infant Transformation Dan! As long as one has enough merits, they can all be exchanged.”
Speaking of this, a hint of envy appeared in the eyes of cultivator Zhou. “The value of one merit point is approximately equal to one mid-grade spirit stone. Don’t look at your 2,000 Merit Points as a small amount, but when converted into Spirit Stones, it’s as much as 200,000, which is already a significant amount of money.”
Two thousand merit points, worth two hundred thousand spirit stones!
From the value of the merit points, Xu Chuniang could see the importance that the Yanzhou Ancestral Island placed on the battle between the human cultivators and the sea demonic beasts, as well as the severity of the situation in Yanzhou.
If the situation hadn’t reached a critical juncture, how could the lineage clans led by the Yanzhou Ancestral Island be willing to give up these goodies.
Especially the Infant Transformation Dan, such a good thing, has always been in the hands of these top-level forces, and very few of them can flow out to the outside world.
And this time, they were actually willing to take out the Infant Transformation Dan, so it could be seen that the determination was heavy.
But it had to be said that for all the Yan Continent cultivators, this was undoubtedly a good opportunity.
As long as they were able to obtain enough military merits, they would have the chance to obtain a large amount of resources.
Moreover, the proceeds from killing the sea demon beasts would not be collected by these great families.
This was equivalent to the fact that for every Sea Demon Beast killed at the frontline, one would be able to receive double the proceeds.
These thoughts flashed through Xu Chuniang’s mind, and she suddenly thought of something and asked.
“How is the situation in the entire Yan Continent, right now?”
A trace of gravity flashed in the eyes of cultivator Zhou, and he shook his head slightly.
“The situation is not optimistic, within the entire Xuanzhou, there are already several medium-sized islands and dozens of small islands that have been captured by the sea demon beasts. As for those smaller islands, there are even more that have been captured.
Moreover, this time, the Sea Demon Beasts had come in force, and it was different from any of the usual Sea Demon Beast Tides. In the past, when the beast tide came, there was never a situation where a dozen or so islands were captured at the same time.”
Speaking here, a hint of worry flashed in cultivator Zhou’s eyes.
He came from Wind Thunder Island and was born into a not-so-small cultivation family, so he had more or less heard some of the rumors about the abnormalities of the Sea Demon Beasts this time.
It was just that the involvement was too great to avoid people being on edge, and it would be better not to talk about these things until they were confirmed.
Upon hearing this, a trace of happiness flashed in the old woman’s eyes.
“If it wasn’t for Fellow Daoist Xu who happened to be passing by here, I’m afraid that my Qionglin Island would have already fallen at this point, and would have been completely overrun by the Sea Demon Beasts. If those Sea Demon Beasts commit another offense after you and the others leave, what should we do?”
Cultivator Zhou shook his head and comforted.
“Don’t worry, for the time being, I haven’t heard of any island that has been attacked twice, after the first offensive battle fails, these Sea Demon Beasts will usually choose another target.”
This was also the reason why cultivator Zhou felt slightly uneasy in his heart, the behavior of these Sea Demon Beasts was too organized and planned, it was almost as if someone was secretly manipulating them.
The old woman’s face loosened, revealing a hint of apology.
“A few of you have traveled a long way to come to the aid of my Qionglin Island, it’s just a pity that the teleportation array on my island has been completely destroyed in the war, so if you want to fix it up, you can only wait for Wind Thunder Island to send in a high-level array master.”
Cultivator Zhou had known that the transmission array on Qionglin Island had been destroyed, and did not look disappointed.
“No harm done. We’ll just take a detour back to Wind Thunder Island, but it’s only a delay of a few days.”
Xu Chuniang was silent, the key points of the transmission array related formations had always been firmly in the hands of the Ten Continents Ancestral Islands and some of the great clans.
Some of the formation materials were even more firmly controlled by them.
Even if she was a Grade 3 Formation Master, there was nothing she could do without the relevant formation diagrams and materials.
(End of chapter)