Beastmaster of the Ages

With Eminent Ranxing’s official announcement, things would be smooth sailing. Everyone turned and looked at Tianming. Even though they could estimate how much he was getting, they really wanted to know whether his ten times multiplier would work.

Suishen Yao seemed to treat everything that belonged to Tianming as her own. She expectantly stared at his myriadpath ring. So far, the daily stipend of merit and springwater wasn’t much. He only received thirty bowls of springwater a year, and he only had two so far. As for his merit, it had reached tens of thousands. Those were negligible numbers, as far as Suishen Yao was concerned.

Suishen Zhao also looked nervously at his gold myriadpath ring. When the springwater allocation changed, he yelled, ”Mine’s here!”

When Suishen Yao saw the change in Tianming’s ring, she couldn’t help but yell the number, letting everyone around her hear it. ”Ten million merit points!”

”Ten million!”

”It was multiplied by ten times after all!”

Having ten million merit points was enough for a fortuna disciple to achieve complete financial freedom within Myriadpath Valley.

”Normally, the reward for getting first place at the Prehistoric Path is only a million points. Since he got ten million, it appears that his multiplier also works for the Prehistoric Path’s rewards!”

Other fortuna and maniverse disciples discussed it nonstop. They were all filled with blatant envy. Others aside, even Tianming felt a little lightheaded at going from pauper to prince overnight thanks to a quirk in the reward system.

Qitian Jian, ranked first on the Fortuna Ranking, only got ten thousand merit points a year. That was normally the highest amount of merit the top disciple could accrue. Suishen Yao, being ranked third, only got half of that! But now, Tianming had obtained what was akin to a hundred years of Qitian Jian’s stipend in one go; Qitian Jian hadn’t even been on the top of the Fortuna Ranking for that long.

”I got five million too!” Suishen Zhao, despite his serious temperament, smiled like a fool. No disciple of the Three Exalted Houses had ever gotten five million merit points at the age of around a hundred. Not to mention, he hadn’t even played any part in the Prehistoric Path’s trials.

Tianming simply couldn’t comprehend the kind of joy Suishen Zhao felt for getting so much without having done anything.

”You two!” Suishen Yao was both envious and happy for them. She and Suishen Shuang had dropped from second place to third because Tianming and Suishen Zhao had risen to the top spot. As disciples in third place only got half a million merit points, it was just a twentieth of Tianming’s reward.

Qitian Jian and his teammate got seven hundred thousand points, while Yumo Xue’s team got three hundred thousand. Suishen Zhao’s reward of five million alone was almost more than the reward of the rest of the top ten combined.

”Sis, don’t say anything else. If you want anything, I’ll buy it for you,” Suishen Zhao generously offered.

”Of course! You got all of it for free, so you shouldn’t feel bad while spending it. However, you should spend your merit on Shuangshuang, not me!” Suishen Yao turned and looked at Tianming while biting her lip, sending really obvious hints.

Tianming waved and generously said, ”No worries. You can buy anything you want with my merit”!

”Good!” Suishen Yao wasn’t someone who would hold back.

”You see, he’s paying her protection fees,” Ying Huo explained to its siblings.

”I see!”

”How pathetic.”

Tianming was often surprised by his beasts’ imaginations. At the end of the day, there wasn’t much that could be exchanged using merit anyway. Most top-tier artifacts, ordered manna, and fortuna-class techniques weren’t obtainable using merit, so there wasn’t much Tianming could even spend them on. Keeping Suishen Yao happy, on the other hand, was important. He also wanted to make sure she was distracted by his merit points and wouldn’t ask him for springwater.

”How much springwater did you get?” Suishen Yao asked.

Tianming saw the number and struggled to keep it together. ”Ten kegs!”

”I got five, too!” Suishen Zhao said.

Ten kegs was equal to ten thousand bowls. Tianming would only be able to get that amount from the Fortuna Ranking stipend over three centuries’ time. He currently had ten times the amount of springwater that Yumo Yuanni had used for his breakthrough.

The springwater from the Myriadpath Sourcespring was core to Myriadpath Valley, and truly valuable. In the past, those who placed first at the Prehistoric Path would be rewarded one keg of springwater. The fact that Yumo Yuanni had managed to use that amount for his breakthrough showed how far House Yumo had gone to make things easy for him.

Suishen Yao and Suishen Shuang each got five hundred bowls as their reward. As for the top ranker on the Fortuna Ranking, they only got a hundred bowls each year. Tianming’s reward was equal to a century of Qitian Jian’s springwater stipend.

”Ten kegs! That kid hit the jackpot!”

”He has a lot of wealth under his name indeed.”

The springwater reward was far more enviable than the merit points. Ten million merit points was only a number, at the end of the day, while ten kegs of springwater were precious treasures through and through. Someone without elite status might have them snatched away.

Everyone had already known that Tianming would get that amount even before the announcement. It was only when he truly got it credited under his name that people felt the envy set in.

I finally got springwater. I wonder if ten kegs will be enough to take care of the red dust.... Tianming’s emotions were going rather wild; he had never thought that he would be able to obtain so much springwater in one go.

His original plan was to use springwater to strengthen himself so he would be able to get more and more, but that was built on the assumption that he would only get bowls at a time. However, ten kegs no doubt made him among the richest people in terms of springwater.

If it’s really enough, I should focus on saving Ebonia and the Sun! Even though strengthening myself is important, their lives are currently at stake! Tianming couldn’t wait to go back to the Sun and Ebonia to test out the springwater.

He was constantly worried about the infected ones and couldn’t afford to relax for a single moment. His grandfather and Grandmother, Li Jingyu, as well as Jiang Qingluan, Moran, and others still weren’t in their right minds. They were only surviving, like beasts in quarantine.

Still, I should be careful. Ten kegs of springwater is a lot of wealth, and House Yumo’s sure to want to get rid of me as soon as possible. I’m only a Suishen ward, and I doubt that’s enough to properly protect me. I can’t rush things. He needed to be careful and make sure that nobody found the Infinitum Mundus.

Even though what I got might seem glorious, I’m actually in much more danger than before! All this wealth has no doubt drawn even more malice to me. That was why he wasn’t as hyped up as Suishen Yao was about his wealth.