Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” - Chapter 625: Earning Merit Points
Su Yuan nodded and said, “Of course you can!”
Dominator Jiemeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She had actually been injured in the previous battle as well, and the wounds were at the soul level.
She possessed a secret technique that could be used to harmonize and heal through dream interaction, but now it seemed that wouldn’t be necessary. She could privately ask Dominator Seven Stars for help with recovery later. The debt could be repaid slowly.
Seeing Wuyazi and Jiemeng successfully join, the remaining Stone Dominator, Moon Dominator, and Che Chi Old Man all expressed their desire to join as well.
Su Yuan agreed to all of them.
Seeing this, Taixuan Dominator still couldn’t make up his mind. He ultimately decided not to stay. Instead, he said to Su Yuan, “Fellow Daoist Seven Stars, I wish to borrow a few Dominator Artifacts. I will make up the Chaos Jade later.”
Su Yuan said calmly, “As fellow members of the Taihao Chaos, I will help with this. You can borrow a full set of the Seven Stars series. Once you’ve earned enough Chaos Jade, you can return it.”
Taixuan Dominator said gratefully, “Thank you!”
Su Yuan nodded and didn’t say anything more.
Taixuan had his own path. It was a personal choice.
“Song Cai, take Fellow Daoist Taixuan to choose a full set of Seven Stars standard equipment, excluding the Seven Stars Armor,” Su Yuan instructed.
Song Cai nodded and said to Taixuan, “Senior Taixuan, this way please!”
“Alright!” Taixuan took a deep breath, finally bid farewell to Su Yuan, Wuyazi, and the others, and disappeared from the VIP room of this starry world.
Su Yuan then said to Li Chun, “Li Chun, take these few and arrange their work assignments.”
“Yes, sir!” Li Chun replied.
Thus, the VIP room quickly quieted down again.
“All miscellaneous matters are settled. Now it’s time to temper my personal will!”
Within Black Flame City, besides the Chaos Stele, there were two other special structures belonging to the Chaos Alliance. One was the Combat Pagoda, and the other was the Purple Vein Stone Pillar.
The Purple Vein Stone Pillar was specifically designed for tempering one’s will.
A Chaos Dominator’s will influenced the course of battle. Often, the clash of wills was even more dangerous and direct.
If one’s will was completely extinguished, even if the physical body remained intact, that was true death.
The annihilation of a Chaos Dominator’s physical body or the destruction of their Life-bound Chaos was not fatal. Only the will was the true essence of a Chaos Dominator.
Therefore, among the three special structures existing in Black Flame City was a place for tempering will.
Su Yuan flashed and appeared at the periphery of the Purple Vein Stone Pillar.
A guardian also existed here.
The guardian blocked Su Yuan’s path. “This is the Purple Vein Stone Pillar. You must pay Merit Points to temper yourself here. These must be Combat Merit Points. Your balance is insufficient. Please leave!”
Hearing this, Su Yuan was taken aback. “Combat Merit Points?”
“You don’t know?” The guardian frowned. “Merit Points are divided into two types: Combat Merit Points and Non-Combat Merit Points. Combat Merit Points are earned by killing or assisting in killing Scavengers. Essentially all benefits and resources can be exchanged with these points. Non-Combat Merit Points, such as those earned from uploading Dominator Artifacts, can be used for general exchanges in the marketplace, but they cannot be used to exchange for access to the Purple Vein Stone Pillar.”
Hearing this, Su Yuan frowned. He hadn’t heard about this before. He didn’t expect tempering will required Combat Merit Points, while something like the Chaos Stele didn’t—it only required Chaos Jade.
This disrupted Su Yuan’s cultivation schedule.
Although he believed his will was decent, being able to temper it further would naturally be better.
“Killing Scavengers, right? I understand!”
Su Yuan turned and left.
The guardian just glanced at him, closed his eyes, and transformed back into a statue, continuing to guard the Purple Vein Stone Pillar.
Su Yuan flashed.
His figure disappeared from Black Flame City.
When he reappeared, he was already somewhere in the Nothingness.
He looked down and saw that below him, a team was besieging a “Scavenger.”
It was a wolf-like creature with blood-red eyes, its body composed of Nothingness energy.
A total of twenty-seven Chaos Dominators were besieging this blood wolf. When their attacks clashed with the blood wolf’s, they would mutually annihilate and disappear, as if the nature of their powers was opposite.
When the blood wolf was sometimes trapped in one place, it would briefly fade into the Nothingness, as if turning invisible on the spot. At such times, the twenty-seven Dominators would scatter as much as possible, surrounding the direction of the blood wolf’s movement. Once the blood wolf reappeared, they would swarm it again to attack!
After observing for a while, Su Yuan discovered that the blood wolf’s Power Source was the Nothingness itself. One could say the blood wolf’s power was inexhaustible. Its weakness, surprisingly, was also its will!
Each attack that truly landed on the blood wolf’s body would extinguish a trace of its will. Only by directly destroying the blood wolf’s will origin could it be killed quickly; otherwise, it had to be worn down slowly.
Even though the number of Chaos Dominators was much greater, fighting a Scavenger of the same level was so troublesome.
Under Su Yuan’s observation, the battle lasted a full three hundred years before it ended.
Finally, the blood wolf was successfully killed. Its body collapsed and transformed into a Dominator-level material, which the team collected. Then, everyone left happily.
Standing in place, Su Yuan analyzed the experience gained from watching the battle. Greater doubts about the nature of Scavengers arose in his heart. What exactly were these things? Why did they “drop” materials after dying?
“Let’s go find a Scavenger to practice on!”
With a flash, he quickly moved forward.
There was no concept of time within “Nothingness,” so in the next instant, Su Yuan encountered a Scavenger.
Ahead, a humanoid figure was walking slowly through the Nothingness.
It was a somewhat illusory figure, barely maintaining a human shape, with edges as turbid as silt, looking like a sand person.
“Stubborn target detected. Initiating eradication protocol!”
That figure seemed to instantly detect Su Yuan and swiftly rushed toward him!
Su Yuan stood his ground, extending an arm to block in front of himself.
This Scavenger condensed a sword of Nothingness and swung it down!
The Nothingness Sword struck the True Name Armor on Su Yuan’s arm. The Nothingness energy rapidly invaded the armor’s interior but was weakened layer by layer.
Su Yuan intentionally allowed a wisp of Nothingness energy to land on his arm.
The Nothingness energy quickly collided with his True Name Power, annihilating each other and disappearing.
“This kind of power is truly strange. It doesn’t contain the slightest hint of Chaos True Intent, yet it can directly annihilate Chaos Origin!”
A sense of wonder rose in Su Yuan’s heart. This kind of attack was almost unsolvable. If one couldn’t dodge it, they could only withstand it head-on. This was where the importance of armor became evident.
No wonder the first and best piece of equipment Taixuan Dominator bought was that Seven Stars Armor. The importance of protective armor was simply too great.
Su Yuan flicked his finger, sending out a True Name Sword Qi that instantly struck the sand person’s head ahead, pierced inside, and struck its origin will.
The sand person paused for a moment on the spot, then dissipated into nothingness. Not half an item was left behind. However, Su Yuan still obtained Combat Merit Points—a full ten billion points!
