Chapter 70 Speculations about Merit

Returning to Shuangta Mountain once again, the continuous flow of corpses being transported back cast a shadow of sadness over the entire sect.

Jiang Yi couldn't help but think that when he was leaving, Ding Yuansong found him mysteriously and said that he was temporarily banned from entering Tianduan Canyon.

Jiang Yi said on the spot that if he didn't want to go in, then he wouldn't go in! Anyway, the space in his Dinghai Shenzhu was already full.

However, the fact that Jiang Bai walked out of Tianduan Canyon alive did attract a lot of attention. It seems that Sect Master Yun will be busy arguing with various forces for some time to come.

"Go home!" Jiang Yi glanced at Jiang Bai who was in a very low mood. He knew what his brother was thinking, but he didn't try to persuade him much. Some things need to be figured out by oneself. If others say too much, it will easily backfire.

Jiang Bai just nodded woodenly. Although his elder brother didn't tell him much, he already had some guesses in his mind.

When I returned to the Jiang Mansion, my mother was the only one at home. My mother had come out of seclusion and successfully entered the Soul Melting Realm.

"Xiaobai!" Seeing the appearance of his youngest son, Su Lingyun, although already considered a strong man, still couldn't help crying. The Jiang family had been really unlucky in the past few years. The three children narrowly escaped death when they went down the mountain.

Jiang Bai had no choice but to cheer himself up and comfort his mother.

"Where is my father?" Jiang Yi was a little surprised that he didn't see Old Jiang.

"It will probably take many years to retreat into the Immortal Realm."

Are you in seclusion?
It seems that Lao Jiang has determined that this will be the worst outcome and doesn't know how to face his mother.

"Miao Miao is studying alchemy in Qingteng Palace and has seldom come back recently."

Su Lingyun talked to herself, and took off the Nuwa stone necklace that Jiang Yi gave her before the retreat, and put it on Jiang Bai.

"This is a gift from your eldest brother. Mother can't use it, but it will be good for you." The second brother's thin appearance made her extremely heartbroken. Similarly, she could also sense his physical condition, which made her even more uncomfortable.

The Nuwa Stone exudes a strong breath of life. Even if the body is not injured, it will nourish the body all the time and slowly strengthen the body. How can it be useless!

"Don't tell her for now." Jiang Bai, nourished by the breath of life, felt much better. Telling his sister now would only make one more person worry, and his family's concern made him feel even worse.

Jiang Yi immediately used the magic formula of controlling treasures to make the beggar version of Nuwa stone burst out with a stronger life force. With the infusion of life force, Jiang Bai's condition improved significantly, and his skinny body gradually became shiny.

After a moment, Jiang Yi stopped. As for this beggar version of Nuwa Stone, he gave it directly to his mother after exchanging it, and he didn't study it much. But now he has a clear understanding after several operations.

The function of the beggar version of Nuwa Stone is very simple. It is equivalent to a crystal of life force. It can actively absorb spiritual energy and transform it into life force. The powerful life force can easily regenerate severed limbs.

If the breath of life simply leaks out, there will be almost no loss. However, once the life force in the Nuwa Stone is exhausted, it will be completely destroyed.

Like the Beggar's Version Zhu Tian Qing Yun, they are essentially consumables.

According to his estimation, even if all the vitality in this piece of Nuwa was consumed, it would not be enough to make up for Jiang Bai's lost foundation, so it would be better to leave it this way for now.

"How is it?" Su Lingyun looked at her eldest son with hope. Her old injury had lasted for many years, so she was very clear about the treatment level of the Chongming Realm. There was nothing a warrior could do to treat Jiang Bai's injury.

A warrior's recovery ability is very strong, but once there is a problem with the foundation of the physical body, everything will be like rootless duckweed. It will take reaching the immortal realm to undergo another qualitative change.

"Let's do this for now."

After a round of infusion of life force, Jiang Bai's body barely recovered to the third level. With the constant flow of life energy from the Nuwa Stone, his state was stable, and at least his lifespan was guaranteed.

"Come to the North Tower!"

At this moment, a familiar voice came into his mind, Tang Zhiqu!

"Mother, I'm going to the North Tower first."

"Go ahead." Su Lingyun did not ask any more questions. Her heart was now entirely on her youngest son. Thinking about her youngest son who had been so proud since childhood, if his martial arts path was cut off, then...

"Mother, please arrange Uncle Gu's funeral first." Jiang Bai said with guilt towards Gu Hongyu in his heart.

"Thanks to him, you can rest assured about this."

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When he saw Tang Zhiqu again, Jiang Yi couldn't help but feel the urge to use the Haotian Mirror to shine on him. With his current consciousness, it was difficult for him to distinguish the dream clone. In addition, he had met the cultivator from the Hell Soul Realm in the Tianduan Canyon before, so he really wanted to know the effect of the Beggar Version of the Haotian Mirror in this regard.

"Master Tang, what's the matter? Why is it so urgent?"

"That's good!" Tang Zhiqu smiled and pulled Jiang Yi into the North Tower.

This is the North Tower!

Even the Lord of the Ninth Palace could not enter at will, let alone Jiang Yi before.

So, now his status in the sect has been improved again?
The interior of the North Tower is as plain as its exterior, without any hint of mystery, but the concentration of spiritual energy here is very high, at least twenty times that of the outside.

For Jiang Yi, who is already sensitive to spiritual energy, this place is simply a treasure land.

"Originally, your identity is not enough, but there is a patriarch who thinks highly of you, so you can know some of the sect's secrets in advance."

Tang Zhiqu took Jiang Yi to the second floor. There was no one in the tower, which was somewhat inconsistent with the rumor that all the elders of the inheritance were in seclusion in the North Tower.

"You already know that the core inheritance of the sect is the power of dreams, but the requirements for this power inheritance are very high. You need to at least reach the fourth level of the Melting God Battle Spirit Realm before you can try it."

"Your father was able to be promoted to the Lord of the North Tower without even reaching the Immortal Realm. This is inseparable from his talent in dreams."

As they were talking, the two had already reached the third floor, but there was still no one there!
The nine-story tower, each floor is like an independent space, which cannot be crossed by spiritual consciousness.

However, when he reached this point, Tang Zhiqu stopped climbing the tower. In front of him, a vortex formed by mist suddenly appeared.

"The reason why our Mengshen Sect has the strongest control over the region in Chongming Realm is because the entire Dongzhou is covered in a layer of dreams. Your father is currently in seclusion in the fourth realm of dreams while he is striving to become indestructible. We are going to the fifth realm now!"

The entire Dongzhou is covered in the dream?

What a big deal! So the twin towers and the bridge are the support of this dream?
Jiang Yi did not ask in detail. Obviously, Tang Zhiqu could not explain it to him in detail. This was the top secret of the Mengshen Sect. He was already very surprised to be able to enter the North Tower and enter the dream world.

Stepping into the vortex of fog, it is still the Twin Towers Mountain, but the iconic Twin Towers and One Bridge are gone.

Is this a dream? This power between reality and illusion is truly magical!
"This fifth domain is mainly used to imprison enemies from other worlds, study the knowledge of the other two worlds, and integrate it into our own system after removing the dross and retaining the essence."

Tang Zhiqu looked at Jiang Yi with a smile, "Now you should understand the purpose of bringing you here, right?"

"Master, do you really want to betroth Qingyun?"

Jiang Yi naturally understood. He couldn't be asked to do research, right? What the Dream God Sect wanted was to integrate the essence of the other two realms into the warrior system. He was not even a warrior, so he was brought here only to "collect money."

Thinking about Tang Zhiqu's original request, if it was just special effects, he could still think of a way.

"We'll talk about this later. This is the sect's support for your research. We hope you can come up with more results as soon as possible. The toys on the Shenwu Arena before are not enough."

Jiang Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, this was the beginning of takeoff!
With the sect's support, he doesn't have to go to the battlefield between the two worlds, he can just wait to receive the goods!
Tang Zhiqu brought Jiang Yi into a prison. In the cells engraved with divine patterns were imprisoned sword cultivators with lifeless eyes who looked like corpses. As for the cultivators from the Soul Prison Realm, they were only souls locked in jars.

"These are no longer valuable. They are all yours."

"What? You can't do it?" Tang Zhiqu didn't see Jiang Yi take action for a long time and looked at him with a teasing look.

Jiang Yi shook his head. This scene was indeed quite shocking to him, but it was not the case that he could not bring himself to do it.

The current war among the three realms is actually no different from a war between races. In the face of survival, there is no such thing as good or evil. This is the case in the Mengshen Sect in the Chongming Realm. Similarly, there are many such places in the Sword Realm and the Prison Soul Realm.

Jiang Yi pointed his finger and a sea of ​​fire swept through. The people here had long lost the will to live. Death was a relief for them. Nothing was left after the sea of ​​fire.

But Jiang Yi couldn't accept it. What happened to the promised takeoff? He burned nearly a hundred, but when he looked at the merits, it increased by four points!
Before, he got an eleven-point increase when he killed someone in Tianduan Canyon!

"Master Tang, are you sure these are people from another world?" Jiang Yi looked at Tang Zhiqu with suspicion. Is this a scam?

"Of course, these were all captured from the battlefield between the two worlds, and some were brought back from the opposite world."

"Not a good effect? ​​This is normal. Whether you can gain merit depends on luck. Otherwise, why would the battle between the two worlds take so long?" Tang Zhiqu had obviously expected such a result.

Jiang Yi was at a loss. This was completely different from what he had imagined!
Take off? No, it has already landed.

"Anyway, there must be some. You should study it first, and then the sect will find a way to get some spies back for you. Killing spies usually brings you merit."

"Ok."

Jiang Yi sighed. This was the only way. Unlike him, other people did not have the "Lingbao Atlas" which could clearly see one or two points of merit. Based on their own feelings alone, the difference of ten or even hundreds of points was very vague.

However, after this experience, Jiang Yi had more speculations about merit.

Judging from the way he has gained merits on several occasions, the one who bestowed the merits must be the world will of the Chongming Realm, that is, the Way of Heaven.

So, what counts as merit for the world?

This can be seen from the fact that he only gained four points from the fire just now. Simply killing cannot be considered meritorious. It depends on the target of the killing.

Slaughtering ordinary creatures from the other two worlds does not have much meaning for the Heavenly Dao of the Chongming Realm.

But there is a saying that goes, killing one person is a crime, killing ten thousand people is a hero!

If you can kill all the creatures in the other two worlds, it will definitely be a great achievement, because in this way, the threat posed by the other two worlds to Chongming World will be reduced.

It’s just so hard to do this!

It is not difficult to know from Tang Zhiqu's words just now that it is easier to gain merit by killing spies than fighting on the battlefield between the two worlds.

Why is this so?
In fact, this is not difficult to understand. Spies from other worlds are a potential threat to the Chongming Realm. It is not surprising that the Heavenly Dao offers a "bounty" for these threats.

Jiang Yi now even doubts whether Lu Changge has a "bounty" against the will of heaven, and the so-called treason is difficult to define.

What Lu Changge did was extremely bad for all the forces in the Chongming Realm, but it was different for the Heavenly Dao. Yes, he killed many people in Jueshui City, but so what?
The cycle of life and death is an important part of the operation of the world. Where there is life, there is death. Lu Changge killed many people from his own world. Does that mean that other warriors killed fewer people from their own world?
Think about the ten great dynasties that were kept in captivity. Just from creating battlefields that were conducive to gathering the killing-type martial spirit, the number of people who died each year combined was more than that of the entire Jueshui City.

If the Heavenly Dao determines that Lu Changge is a traitor, then Lu Changge should have the mark of the world's will on him, just like people from the other two worlds who have crossed over.

But the fact is that there was no mark on Lu Changge's body, otherwise he would not be able to hide at all.

If we add "karma" into the equation, it becomes even more difficult to understand. The concept of good and evil is very subjective, and the human concept of good and evil is definitely different from the heavenly concept of good and evil.

Speaking of merit, if the Heavenly Dao bestows merit, it must be beneficial to the world. As far as we can see now, the three realms overlap and have a trend of fusion. So in the process of this fusion, it helps the Heavenly Dao of one's own side devour the Heavenly Daos of the other two worlds and complete the fusion.

As long as it is carried out for this purpose, it is a merit to the Way of Heaven!
The integration of the three realms is currently at a stalemate, and none of the three heavenly ways can do anything to the other. Before this balance is broken, there will probably be no trend of further integration.

This is also the reason why whether or not one can gain merit from fighting on the battlefield between the two worlds depends entirely on luck, because those who died were too weak. If one kills someone at the Immortal Realm level, then there will definitely be merit, as the Immortal Realm is already the backbone of the force in this world war.

This made Jiang Yi doubt the real reason why the intensity of fighting on the battlefields of the two realms had decreased over the past thousands of years, and why the forces of the three realms had tacitly intensified the spy war.

This can't be a way to accumulate merit, right?
It is true that if one helps the world on one's side devour and merge the other two worlds, the benefits one will gain in the end will definitely be beyond one's imagination, but who can guarantee that one will not be the one to die in the end?

After all, this is a war where the winner takes all and the loser loses nothing. Before being absolutely sure, even the strongest people who are eager to find a way forward must calm down and think carefully. Trying their best may only end up making wedding clothes for others.

Just like those who died in the initial battle of the Three Realms, those beings who originally stood at the pinnacle of a realm, their blood is still wet!

Jiang Yi shook his head. The path of merit was much more difficult than he had expected. On the contrary, practicing and earning cultivation points was more stable.

　4000!

　　Thanks for the reward from Keyboard for making the future a success.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)