Merit——-
What can it do?
Gu Qing Shan silently asked in his mind.
But no red text appeared to answer him.
The Highest Sequence didn’t answer his question.
The Sequence was still in a slumbering state that can only randomly appear to inform him with some basic knowledge.
In that case, the only other choice is——-
Gu Qing Shan took out the Book of the Sea again and asked it the same question.
The Book of the Sea said: [This is a very crucial question, I can only tell you the current usage of Merit, which will cost you another day’s worth of wealth]
“Then, I’ll owe you 3000 years and two days’ worth of wealth?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
[Correct] the Book of the Sea answered.
“Deal” Gu Qing Shan readily agreed.
After all, I already owe it so much, one more day or one less day of wealth won’t be significant.
Lines of text written in common human language then appeared on the Book of the Sea:
[The Five Elements are rampaging, the ten spirits became demons, the Human realm had just been established, and the Samsara had begun]
[After Chosen Saints accumulate a certain amount of Merit, they will awaken their own Samsara Divine Skills and cause it to undergo new changes]
Samsara Divine Skills?
Gu Qing Shan’s eyes became sharp as he quickly recalled this matter.
The first step of participating in the Samsara Clash for Supremacy was to achieve Impossibly Unknown realm.
Once they reached this realm, each Chosen Saint would be able to convert one of their Thaumaturgies into a Samsara Divine Skill.
—–indeed, a Samsara Divine Skill!
When I gave up on choosing the Huang Quan realm to choose the Wraith realm, my fully evolved [Dreamjolt] Thaumaturgy had fused with the unfathomable ultimate Guise Hex [Past Wraithy Form] to create the Wraith realm Samsara Divine Skill: [Mountain Wraith]
At the time, the UI had reminded me that since I was the only Chosen Saint of the Wraith Realm, this Iris Technique was a Divine Skill that the Wraith realm’s essence had fully supported me to manifest.
Under the current circumstances, all of the Chosen Saints’ powers had been tightly sealed away, so if I could awaken the Wraith realm Divine Skill [Mountain Wraith], I would be able to win no matter who I face!
Gu Qing Shan then started making more considerations.
—–strange.
That County Magistrate was clearly a Chosen Saint, so why didn’t he use Merit to awaken his original Samsara Divine Skill?
While he was thinking that, another line of text written in common human language appeared on the Book of the Sea:
[Every Chosen Saint will need 100 points of Merit in order to awaken a Samsara Divine Skill]
[This is a secret that cannot be arbitrarily revealed, revealing it would result in the subtraction of all of one’s Merit]
100 points!
Gu Qing Shan was completely speechless.
Killing a Lizard of Three Yin only netted me one point of Merit.
Without Ye Fei Li, as a Chosen Saint whose power had been sealed away, what kind of price would I have had to give up in order to kill that lizard?
——I wouldn’t have been able to.
I might have even lost my life.
It was only because I had Ye Fei Li carry me around that I managed to evade its attacks so easily, and it still ended with our lives barely hanging by a thread when I managed to kill it.
This single point of Merit was obtained through braving indiscernible danger, and you’re telling me a total of one hundred points would be necessary?
——-in other words, I need to kill one hundred Lizards of Three Yin.
That’s an impossible mission.
But only by completing such an impossible mission would one be able to awaken their Divine Skill!
No wonder that County Magistrate was no match for me.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly realized something.
From the looks of it, there had actually been many Chosen Saints who were already eliminated at this step.
—–only those who had awoken Samsara Divine Skills would be qualified to kill more powerful monsters, stabilize the rampaging Five Elements, and settle the Human realm down.
As time went by, the strong would only grow stronger, while the weak would remain weak.
Comparatively.
If the County Magistrate had earned a hundred points of Merit and awoke his Samsara Divine Skill, what chance would I have against him?
I would have been killed as soon as I saw him!
Other than that, there was another crucial point.
I only managed to learn of this secret through the Soul Artifact of the Water Pillar of the Four Saint Pillars—— the Book of the Sea.
—–how many Chosen Saints would be clueless about this secret itself?
After all, anyone who knows about this secret would have to pay the price equal to all of their Merit in order to reveal it to someone else.
This represents the fact that the Samsara forbids anyone from arbitrarily discussing Merit.
——–not to mention how no one would ever discuss it!
Gu Qing Shan suddenly felt cold sweat on his back, silently felt relieved, then heavily sighed.
“…Who would have thought? So it has already begun” he muttered.
“What?” Ye Fei Li asked.
“It’s nothing” Gu Qing Shan shook his head.
The Samsara has been reset.
The Human realm has yet to be settled.
But the Samsara Clash for Supremacy had actually already begun.
It was using an exceptionally harsh method to filter out the majority of Chosen Saints, leaving only exceptional seeds and candidates behind.
This entire process was silent, without warnings, cold, and cruel.
Only the tiny portion of those who are the most exceptional would be able to obtain an almost insurmountable advantage from the very beginning.
Those who had awoken Divine Skills would wield the right to kill in their hands and command all other Chosen Saints.
While other Chosen Saints would still be obscured in the fog, clueless of what they need to do.
With that in mind, Gu Qing Shan felt clarity.
Just as Li An had said, I already arrived late, so if I can’t immediately set out and move forward, I wouldn’t have a chance.
I need to seize my time…
As he was thinking this, Ye Fei Li suddenly asked: “What are we eating tonight?”
Gu Qing Shan regained his senses and asked: “Are you hungry?”
Ye Fei Li rubbed his belly and grinned: “Not especially hungry, just that I want to eat something since it’s a rare moment when I’m awake”
Gu Qing Shan checked his rations bag and said: “I have a few steamed buns here, let’s have one each, then we’re heading out to kill the next monster”
“In such a hurry?” Ye Fei Li was surprised.
“Hm, I arrived in the Human realm a bit late, so I’m quite a bit behind the others” Gu Qing Shan answered.
Ye Fei Li was about to say something else when he suddenly appeared startled.
Gu Qing Shan also noticed something and drew his blade.
The two of them were standing on the side of the mountain, currently looking down towards the other side of the river at the bottom of the mountain valley.
There was a small rocky path that crossed a small stream which was connected to the main road leading to the county city.
There was a middle-aged man wearing court official clothing riding a horse who had just arrived from the main road.
The middle-aged man was carrying a spear on his back with one hand on the reins, currently having the horse galloping towards the small rocky road.
“Must have been alerted by the commotion of the battle earlier—— seems like your killing of the official has been found out”
Ye Fei Li sarcastically teased him.
——-there was only one pursuer, and they’re still over half a mountain away, so it would still take quite some time for them to actually reach this place.
Not to mention the one they’re pursuing is Gu Qing Shan and me. With our battle experience, it isn’t particularly hard to ambush a pursuer in return.
Gu Qing Shan took a short glance and noticed that the other party had also noticed the two of them.
He reached his hand back to grab his spear.
Gu Qing Shan’s expression immediately changed and said: “We’re leaving! Hurry!”
Ye Fei Li was startled and asked: “How fast?”
“As fast as possible, we’re running for our lives!” Gu Qing Shan shouted.
As they spoke, the middle-aged man had already grasped his spear.
Ye Fei Li’s boney wings abruptly spread out widely.
He caught Gu Qing Shan and shot into the sky, flying towards the far distance like a bolt of lightning.
In an instant, the two of them had already gone far away.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man appeared surprised.
“So you noticed very quickly, but did you think that was enough to flee?”
He pointed his spear forward.
Invisible fluctuations emerged from his body, gradually being infused into the spear.
On the other side.
Ye Fei Li had carried Gu Qing Shan and fled a few hundred miles away from where they previously were.
“Don’t all Chosen Saints have their powers sealed away?” Ye Fei Li loudly asked.
“Their powers have been sealed, so he definitely wouldn’t be able to catch up—— but we still need to flee as fast as possible, speed up more if you can!” Gu Qing Shan said.
“Why are we running away?” Ye Fei Li was very confused.
“That person was still in the stream, over half the mountain away from us, but he already drew his spear. This meant that he wanted to attack” Gu Qing Shan firmly explained.
Ye Fei Li thought back and confirmed that the middle-aged man was indeed drawing his weapon when he was still in the stream.
——if he couldn’t attack from that distance, why would he have drawn his weapon from so far away?
Thinking of this, Ye Fei Li suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
The Samsara is too eerie.
Thank god that Gu Qing Shan was here and noticed the other party’s intentions——–
Without waiting for him to continue thinking, Gu Qing Shan suddenly shouted: “Evade!”
Ye Fei Li turned around, only to see a giant spear that eclipsed the sky appearing far behind them in the air.
The spear exuded a harrowing ancient presence as it flew towards them at unimaginable speed.
“@#@#$!”
All of Ye Fei Li’s hair stood up in their ends as he exerted every last bit of strength he could muster in his body to flap his wings.
The spear was flying too fast to outrun, so the only thing he could do was move out of its way.
It’s a good thing that I flew so far ahead, otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to avoid it at all.
Ye Fei Li drew a large arc across the sky, after which the spear howled deafeningly as it barely brushed past the two of them.
The spear almost managed to graze them.
——it was only a hair’s breadth away!
Fortunately, the two of them still managed to avoid the spear and watched as the layers of clouds in the sky were erased by the flying spear while the ground and mountain below were removed without a sound.
The spear was so fast that it had already gone out of sight in an instant.
Ye Fei Li’s heart was beating rapidly and exclaimed: “What kind of technique is that!?”
Gu Qing Shan tightly kept his mouth shut without answering.
The two of us couldn’t even try to resist such a technique.
If we were struck, they would lose their lives without question.
——-a technique of this level of power must be a Samsara Divine Skill without question.
The pursuer had already awoken a Samsara Divine Skill!
Against such an enemy, Ye Fei Li and I don’t stand a single chance.
Unless…
Gu Qing Shan said in a harrowing low voice: “We’re going”
“Go where? Do what?” Ye Fei Li asked.
“Towards the East. Before that person catches up, we need to continue killing more Elemental monsters” Gu Qing Shan calmly explained.
“WHAT!?”
