In the entire Nine Continents, even warriors at the Spirit Sea Realm couldn't have such a large amount of battle credits. It wasn't that Spirit Sea Realm warriors couldn't get so many battle credits. It was just that Spirit Sea Realm warriors also needed to use battle credits to exchange for cultivation resources. Who would have so many battle credits with them?
With over three hundred thousand battle merits, he could exchange them for twenty golden spirit lots!
With Lu Ye's current Fifth Order Cloud River Realm cultivation, if he had twenty golden spirit lots, he could easily break through to the Eighth or Ninth Order!
Although the City Lord could see some of Lu Ye's movements in the Soul Pond, he had no way of knowing how many battle merits Lu Ye had. After getting the answer from the Butcher, he immediately had a plan.
However, even if he was the City Lord of Immortal Essence City, he could not get the corresponding amount of Soul Water by consuming Lu Ye's battle merits. This kind of thing had to rely on the power of Heaven's Secret.
It just so happened that he could also test whether this person was the chosen one.
If so, Heaven's Secret would definitely respond. If not, naturally, there would be no response.
After making up his mind, he cupped his fists towards the void and softly chanted, "Immortal Essence City's Ji Yuan respectfully invites Heaven's Secret. Today, an outsider named Lu Ye entered my Immortal Essence City and fought a bloody battle to the death. He killed the invading insect race and injured his spirit body. He was allowed to enter the Soul Pond to recuperate, but when he woke up, he had bad intentions and stole the Soul Water from the Soul Pond, destroying the foundation of Immortal Essence City. I should have killed him as a warning to others, but in view of his merits, I cannot bear to do so. I ask Heaven's Secret to give him the right to exchange for Soul Water with his battle merits! "
Ji Yuan said this short speech without pause, sonorous and powerful.
The moment he finished speaking, Heaven's Secret fell from the sky!
Ji Yuan raised his brow, and the Butcher, who was standing behind him, showed a thought-provoking look.
It was confirmed that the boy was the chosen one!
Although Heaven's Secret was omnipresent and any cultivator could respectfully ask Heaven's Secret to be a witness or sign some contracts, it was rare to see Heaven's Secret bestowing a special power to a single person.
Especially when this matter involved the Soul Water in the Soul Pond.
This was the foundation of Immortal Essence City. How could the high and mighty Heaven's Secret not know the importance of Soul Water? But after Ji Yuan finished speaking, he still gave a response.
That boy was definitely chosen, so he could receive such special treatment from Heaven's Secret.
Since Tianji had given Lu Ye the right to exchange for Soul Water, what else could Ji Yuan say?
Ji Yuan wasn't sure what the exchange rate was, but he didn't need to worry about it. Heaven's Secret would make its own judgment. Furthermore, soul water was extremely important. If that brat was really like what Butcher said and only had a few tens of thousands of battle merits, he probably wouldn't be able to exchange for much soul water.
That was what he thought …
Lu Ye didn't notice the commotion beside the Soul-Cleansing Pool. At this moment, he was concentrating on condensing the Soul Water.
The last time he came here, he was only an Eighth Order Spirit Stream Realm cultivator. Although he was now a Fifth Order Cloud River Realm cultivator, due to some special circumstances, his current strength was comparable to a True Lake Realm cultivator.
Therefore, the spirit-gathering funnel he constructed this time was much larger than the previous one. Naturally, the commotion it caused was incomparable to the previous one.
The huge funnel emitted a boundless devouring power, swallowing the dense soul mist and condensing it into soul water.
Lu Ye originally used a jade bottle to store the soul water, but he found that the soul water condensed too quickly, and the jade bottle was soon full.
So, he simply took out an empty water bag and placed it under the spirit-gathering funnel, listening to the sound of the soul water dripping into it. Lu Ye was in a wonderful mood, thinking that this was the most beautiful sound in the world. He didn't know that there was a master above the Soul-Cleansing Pool who was secretly gnashing his teeth.
While collecting the soul water, he was also paying attention to the movements around him.
The last time he constructed the spirit-gathering funnel here, he didn't know why the funnel kept breaking, causing him to often have to rebuild it.
How could he know that the reason why this happened last time was because of Immortal Essence City's City Lord, Ji Yuan …
If not for this, he would have been able to bring out a lot more Soul-Cleansing Water last time.
At that time, he only thought that the spirit-gathering funnel he constructed wasn't stable enough, so he didn't think too much about it.
This time, he was prepared, but the same situation didn't happen again.
Just as Lu Ye was happily collecting the Soul Water, he suddenly felt a slight warmth on the back of his hand. This strange and familiar feeling left him stunned, because this was clearly a reaction that occurred when a large number of merit points were deducted.
Just like when he had opened the door that required 10,000 merit points to open …
But now, he was just collecting soul water, so how could a large number of merit points be deducted?
Puzzled, he quickly immersed his mind to investigate, and then he discovered something incredible.
What was being deducted was not merit points, but battle merits!
He originally had more than 300,000 battle merits, but now he had lost 50,000 to 60,000 battle merits, and it was still decreasing at an extremely fast speed.
What was going on?
Lu Ye was a little flustered.
In this trip to Immortal Essence City, the biggest harvest besides the soul water was these battle merits. Although the amount was not small, he had exchanged them with his life.
He had originally planned to immediately enter the Heavenly Secret Treasure House to exchange for a batch of golden spirit sticks when he returned to the Cloud River Battlefield. He didn't need to raise his cultivation too high, because with his current foundation, as long as he could break through to the Seventh Order Cloud River Realm, there wouldn't be many people in the entire Cloud River Battlefield who could threaten his safety. If he could break through to the Eighth Order, it would be even better. At that time, he would be able to walk sideways in the Cloud River Battlefield, and any Myriad Demons Ridge cultivator who dared to look for trouble would be courting death.
But his beautiful plan was suddenly ruined by a sudden change.
Lu Ye couldn't figure out why his battle merits were decreasing for no reason, and the speed of the decrease was too fast, almost decreasing by a thousand points.
Why!?
Although he did use some methods to obtain these battle merits, and had mastered strength far beyond his own cultivation, they were obtained by killing the insect race one by one. How could they disappear just like that?
Moreover, he had never heard of a cultivator's battle merits or battle merits disappearing in such a bizarre way.
Even in the face of a hopeless situation, Lu Ye could remain calm and unperturbed. However, at this moment, he panicked. As he watched his Battle Merits rapidly dwindle, he could not help but feel a heartache as if someone was slicing his flesh apart.
More than three hundred thousand battle merits, more than twice his current merit points. In the Cultivation World of the Nine Continents, there was probably no cultivator with more battle merits than his current merit points.
He hadn't even warmed up yet, but they were disappearing bit by bit.
Lu Ye told himself to calm down. First, he had to at least figure out why his battle merits were disappearing for no reason.
But after thinking about it, he couldn't figure it out.
At most, he was stealing the Soul Cleansing Water …
[Wait …]
Lu Ye suddenly reacted and stared at the huge funnel in front of him.
There was a pattern to the decrease of battle merits, and each time, it was a thousand points.
Whether it was merit points or battle merits, in terms of statistics and consumption, it was common knowledge that heaven's will operated.
Therefore, the decrease of his battle merits was also caused by heaven's will.
If heaven's will really wanted to erase this huge amount of battle merits of his, it could have just done so. There was no need to cut his flesh with a blunt knife.
A thousand points was also a thought-provoking number.
Lu Ye sensed the condensation of the Soul Cleansing Water while paying attention to the changes in his battle merits, and gradually found a pattern.
Every time his water bag received a drop of Soul Cleansing Water, his battle merits would decrease by a thousand points.
In order to verify his guess, Lu Ye moved the water bag placed under the funnel.
Sure enough, the number of his battle merits no longer changed. Even if new Soul Cleansing Water condensed, as long as he didn't collect it, his battle merits wouldn't be deducted, because the condensed Soul Cleansing Water would quickly turn back into mist and return to the Soul Mist.
So that's how it is!
The battle merits he consumed were used to exchange for Soul Cleansing Water. Each drop of Soul Cleansing Water was worth a thousand battle merits.
Realizing this, Lu Ye's nervous mood completely relaxed!
He was originally sneaking around here and was a little worried that he would be discovered. After all, taking without asking was not a good thing.
But since this process would consume his battle merits, it didn't matter.
Of course, this ruined his original plan to increase his cultivation. But compared to cultivation, Soul Cleansing Water was undoubtedly more precious.
Soul Cleansing Water could only be obtained in Immortal Essence City, but one's cultivation could be slowly increased. This was something that anyone could understand.
Moreover, a thousand battle merits for a drop of Soul Cleansing Water was so cheap!
Lu Ye didn't expect that the price of exchanging Soul Cleansing Water here would be so affordable.
What could a thousand battle merits do? For cultivators, a thousand battle merits could be exchanged for a blue spirit stick. Two white spirit sticks wouldn't bring much improvement to a cultivator.
But a drop of Soul Cleansing Water? If it was released, even the Spirit Sea Realm cultivators would fight over it. No matter which Spirit Sea Realm cultivator had a drop of Soul Cleansing Water, it could strengthen their Soul to a certain extent.
Compared to this, some True Lake Realm Ninth Order cultivators had a higher demand for Soul Cleansing Water, because a drop of Soul Cleansing Water might allow them to break through their current bottleneck and advance to the Spirit Sea Realm.
The two were on completely different levels.
After figuring out the reason why he consumed so many battle merits, Lu Ye completely relaxed.
He wasn't being sneaky. He had used a huge amount of battle merits to exchange for this Soul Cleansing Water!
Even in front of the Immortal Essence City's City Lord, he could still straighten his back!
At the same time, beside the Soul Cleansing Pond, the Immortal Essence City's City Lord, who was remembered by Lu Ye, had an ugly expression because he sensed that … the development of the situation wasn't quite right.
"Tu Fu!" Ji Yuan shouted, "Didn't you say that he only has a few tens of thousands of battle merits?"
Tu Fu hurriedly explained, "I don't know how many battle merits he has. I was just guessing." Then he asked, "What happened?"
Ji Yuan slowly turned his head and stared at Tu Fu. He gritted his teeth and said, "He has already collected more than two hundred drops of Soul Cleansing Water! And he hasn't stopped! "
How could it only be a few tens of thousands of battle merits? That brat's battle merits were far beyond Tu Fu's estimation. (To be continued)
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