Cultivation: From Servant to Revered Immortal

Chapter 869: Chapter 135: Return to Settle Battle Merits, Massive Gains!

From this opening, the terrified faces of the Ghost Race were clearly visible.

”Now’s the time!” True Monarch Tianci seized the moment and controlled nine blooms of Golden Obscurity True Flame, charging fiercely towards the opening.

The Golden Obscurity True Flame instantly transformed into nine golden fire dragons, claws and teeth bared, pouncing towards the Middle-Grade Ghost King in the center!

Where the fire dragons passed, the Ghost Qi was burned to nothingness, and the Ghost Race emitted heartrending cries, their bodies quickly dissipating in the flames.

The Middle-Grade Ghost King wanted to escape, but facing one of the three great Spirit Flames of the Cultivation Realm, which even Great Cultivators avoid,

The greatly depleted Ghost King could not withstand,

In just a dozen breaths, it was trapped by the nine golden dragons, its body burned to death!

As for Wang Erniu,

He had already unleashed the ’Sword Shadow Unification’ technique when the black curtain was about to shatter,

The golden flying sword, infused with 720 strands of Sword Qi, became extremely bright, trembling slightly, and when the black curtain shattered,

It transformed into a golden afterimage, like a golden dragon sweeping forth, engulfing the Tier Four Ghost King on the left, and then carrying a fist-sized Ghost Pearl,

Slowly landed in front of Wang Erniu!

As for Xiaojin and Xiaojia, they transformed into cyan and yellow afterimages; Xiaojia unleashed his Lifebound Divine Techniques ”Thousand Layers of Profound Light”

Earth-yellow light shot forth, instantly enveloping the Ghost King on the right,

Suddenly rendering him sluggish, followed by Xiaojin arriving swiftly, golden light illuminating his body, and a cyan-golden flood dragon claw piercing through his chest and abdomen,

Carrying back a Tier Four Ghost Pearl,

Tier Four Ghost King, deceased!

As for Zhou Xun, after breaking the black curtain, he immediately changed his spell, and the black clouds in the sky scattered, covering an area of several thousand feet,

Immediately,

Thick lightning bolts as thick as thumbs descended from heaven, numbering in the thousands,

Each bolt targeted a member of the Ghost Race, like wandering dragons, extremely agile,

Accompanied by crackling sounds, accurately striking the Ghost Race.

Only the roaring sound of countless lightning bolts and the miserable cries of the Ghost Race were heard;

The Ghost Race had no power to resist under the onslaught of lightning, their bodies obliterated in an instant, Ghost Qi dissipated, instantly annihilated,

Leaving only more than a thousand Ghost Pearls quietly floating!

These actions were completed almost simultaneously with True Monarch Tianci and the others

Then, Zhou Xun gestured and collected all these Ghost Pearls into his Storage Bag.

”We’ve delayed quite a bit, let’s leave quickly!”

Subsequently, they rode True Monarch Tianci’s Flying Shuttle, transforming into a streak of white Spirit Light, speeding away.

Half an hour after they left,

A Ghost King suddenly appeared at the original spot, standing three meters tall, with two horns on its head, a wide forehead, swollen eyes, and an extremely ugly face.

Judging by its imposing aura, it was clearly a Tier Four High-Grade Ghost King,

Showing an ugly expression as it looked at the scattered remnants of the Ghost Race around it, as well as strands of Thunder Light.

”King Tuo Fei!”

At this moment, one black shadow after another appeared beside this Ghost King,

”This...how can this be!”

”Ang Feishe led a thousand elite, along with three Ghost Kings; even if a Great Cultivator from the Human Race intervened, they shouldn’t be defeated so quickly!” said a Single-Horned Ghost King beside him.

”It’s a Thunder Cultivator!”

”Late-Stage Nascent Soul Thunder Cultivator!” King Tuo Fei spoke gravely.

”Where are all these Great Cultivator Thunder Cultivators coming from, decades ago we plotted to kill one, how is it there’s another now!” said the Single-Horned Ghost King.

”Kill, must kill!”

”By the decree of His Majesty, no matter what the cost, Thunder Cultivators must be killed!”

”Never allow the Human Race to have another Divinity Transformation Stage Thunder Cultivator!”

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Three days later, Zhou Xun and the others landed in a mountain valley,

After setting up the ”Five Skies Divine Thunder Array”, everyone gathered around, faces full of delight.

”Big Brother, we reaped quite a harvest this time!” Wang Erniu flipped his hand, taking out a Tier Four Low-Grade Ghost Pearl, worth a full fifty Battle Merit Points for this one alone!

”Big Brother, you keep it first!” He handed over the Ghost Pearl,

Zhou Xun did not refuse, accepting all the Ghost Pearls from True Monarch Tianci and Wang Erniu into his hands, putting them together,

”These four Ghost Pearls are worth three hundred Battle Merits, the remaining Tier Three Ghost Pearls, and Tier Two Ghost Pearls, together also worth fifty or sixty points,”

”Adding to those we initially killed,”

”Now, the battle merits we’ve accumulated, the three of us, have surpassed four hundred points!” Zhou Xun spoke.

One must know, even a Crossing Pill that assists an Early-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator to ascend to the Middle Stage is merely worth one hundred fifty battle merit points,

and what they have on hand is worth nearly three such pills,

and this is just their yield over three months.

”Indeed, although the West Desert Front is perilous, it is also a rare opportunity!”

Two days later, after recovering their Essence, Qi, and Spirit to peak condition, they continued their journey!

However, this time, having completed such a great battle, they decided to leave this area for a while, choosing a different direction and proceeding discreetly.

Previously, True Monarch Yama had warned them,

when achieving great merits and killing too many Ghost Kings, it is necessary to switch areas for the hunt,

for the Ghost Race would also form teams to counter-hunt them.

Thus, Zhou Xun and his companions decided that, unless encountering lone or paired Tier Four Ghost Kings, they would first leave.

A month later, Zhou Xun arrived in another area of the Ghostly Mist,

standing once again at the bow of the ship, he used the Spirit Rhinoceros Cyan Light Pupil to search for Ghost Race traces.

Three months later,

within a certain canyon,

streams of Spirit Light soared up, with faint sounds of thunder, but soon returned to tranquility,

”Big brother, your Thunder Spear is truly effective, capable of killing in a single strike across ten thousand feet!”

This time, with their action, the three obtained two Tier Four Ghost Pearls!

Five months later, above a certain Great Lake, a Tier Four Ghost King led an army flying slowly across,

when suddenly a three-foot-long Thunder Spear appeared several feet before him, then pierced through his head amidst his astonished expression,

followed by streams of Thunder Light blazing forth, turning all remaining ghost entities to dust,

then a lightning hand tens of feet large darted out, scooping gently, gathering hundreds of floating Ghost Pearls into its grasp,

eventually depositing them into the Storage Bag of a figure at the lake’s bottom.

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At the edge of the Ghostly Mist Land,

a white Spirit Light slowly sailed out from the depths of the mist.

It was a pristine Flying Ship, on which stood three figures,

”Big brother, it’s been almost a year, we finally got out; the outside air is indeed more pleasant!” Wang Erniu sighed emotionally.

”Yes, at last, we can return!” Zhou Xun nodded,

”This expedition has yielded significant rewards, just in time to see what treasures the Battle Merit Exchange Vault holds!” Now leaving the Ghostly Mist, preparing to tally their battle merits, True Monarch Tianci’s mood was quite positive.

”Hahaha, a total of over six hundred battle merits!”

Quickly, they returned to the base camp,

after going back, rather than heading directly to the Merit Department to tally their battle merits,

they had previously agreed upon a principle of four-three-three allocation for distributing battle merit points.

As a Thunder Cultivator, Zhou Xun was most effective against the Ghost Race, thus he took forty percent, while True Monarch Tianci and Wang Erniu equally divided the remaining sixty percent.

The Merit Department was a colossal building spanning thousands of feet, with over a hundred counters,

mostly catering to Core Formation and Foundation Establishment Cultivators,

with only one passage available for Nascent Soul Cultivators.

A guard, an Early-Stage Core Formation Cultivator, stood at the entrance, providing no obstruction, allowing Zhou Xun and his companions to proceed inside,

following the passage all the way inward, arriving finally at a counter where ahead was a Nascent Soul Cultivator settling their battle merits,

this person donned Cyan Battle Armor, with shimmering Spirit Light, clearly not ordinary,

”Daoist Xiang, how were your gains this time?” Behind the counter, stood two elders, their Divine Sense scanning, both possessing Middle-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivation.

”Luck was poor, spent over half a year and encountered only one Tier Four runt!”

The man shook his head,

with a wave of his hand, hundreds of Ghost Pearls appeared on the counter,

”One Tier Four Low-Grade Ghost Pearl, fifty battle merit points!”

”Two Tier Three High-Grade Ghost Pearls, ten points, four Middle-Grade, eight points, seven Low-Grade Ghost Pearls, seven points,”

”Fifty-one Tier Two High-Grade Ghost Pearls, 255 points, one hundred twenty-three Middle-Grade, 246 points, four hundred seventy-three Low-Grade, four hundred seventy-three points”

”A total of eighty-four points plus seventy-four!”