Chapter 386: Battle Merits

Chapter 386: Chapter 386: Battle Merits

"General Qin."

Ji Chen slightly clasped his hands in greeting to the other person.

"You’ll be new to Longnan City, if there’s anything you don’t understand in the future, feel free to come to me for guidance," Qin Xuan said with a smile, appearing quite courteous.

He did not look down on Ji Chen because of his young age.

This was only natural.

After all, in terms of cultivation, Ji Chen and him shared the same Great Saint Realm strength.

Moreover, Ji Chen now also held the status of a Celestial Desolator.

Adding the commotion Ji Chen caused yesterday in Divine River City, which sufficiently proved his remarkable abilities.

After all, not everyone could tangle with the Song and Zhao, those two Great Emperor Clans, and even alarm the Venerable Supremes of various clans in the end.

"Thank you."

Ji Chen clasped his hands again, nodding slightly.

After a brief chat, Ji Chen also bid farewell and left the place.

Leaping off the city tower, Ji Chen entered Longnan City.

Compared to the grandeur of Divine River City, Longnan City was clearly inferior in many respects.

But in terms of area, it wasn’t much smaller than Divine River City.

Walking through the city, Ji Chen could see that the streets were full of cultivators dressed in battle armor, carrying more or less traces of post-battle scars on their bodies.

Apart from them, there were some newcomers like himself to Longnan City, who had yet to be assigned camps.

These people wouldn’t leave the city to face the enemies immediately; they’d wait until after settling in.

Following the instructions on his battle token, Ji Chen eventually found his residence in the north part of the city.

Unlike the ordinary cultivators, the special status of a Celestial Desolator meant his dwelling was naturally a private courtyard.

Celestial Residence.

The plaque in front of the courtyard bore these three large characters.

Ji Chen hesitated not and directly pushed open the gate to enter.

A simple glance revealed that the courtyard had been tidied up.

He seated himself cross-legged below an ancient tree within the courtyard, adjusted his own aura, then took out the battle token from his waist and delved his divine thought into it.

Soon, Ji Chen saw his Battle Merit Points, totaling a thousand and eighty-seven.

However, being his first time handling it, Ji Chen wasn’t clear whether these thousand-plus points amounted to much or little.

"Why not check out the Battle Merit Exchange in the city?"

He mused, and upon deciding, quickly set off from Celestial Residence, heading towards the center of the city.

Before long, he reached a large square.

Looking around, he saw considerably more cultivators gathered here than in other parts of the city.

In the center of the square stood a giant stone tablet, nearly ten zhang tall, resembling a giant tower in its grandeur.

Many ancient characters were engraved on the tablet, like Dao Patterns, or perhaps names.

"Buzz!"

After observing nearby cultivators, Ji Chen quickly learned how to exchange his Battle Merit Points.

He took out his battle token and extended it towards the stone tablet.

Then, feeling a slight spatial tremor, lines of script appeared before him, like a projection screen.

"Elixir, Magical Treasure, Martial Techniques..."

These lines listed the names of items available for exchange, and Ji Chen could see most items were elixirs, martial techniques, and magical treasures.

Apart from these, there were also Spirit Crystal Stones.

A Spirit Crystal Stone required two points, while elixirs below Sixth Grade needed roughly ten or twenty Battle Merit Points.

Magical treasures like Dao Artifacts required more than a hundred points.

Martial techniques available for exchange were at least Earth Tier, also requiring more than a hundred points.

Comparatively, Ji Chen’s present thousand-plus Battle Merit Points weren’t many, yet weren’t too few either.

He scrolled the screen downward to discover many other items available for exchange.

At the end, there were even Sacred Artifacts and Emperor’s Weapons.

However, the Battle Merit Points required for these items were astonishingly high.

For instance, a Holy Weapon required over ten thousand, while an Emperor’s Weapon needed at least a hundred thousand!

"Killing one person gains one point, and the merit points relate to the status of the slain,"

Ji Chen pondered, calculating silently in his heart.

From his previous battle outside the city, he learned that every Yu Realm cultivator he slew yielded one merit point.

If the slain held a Junior General or similar status, the merit points earned would be fifty, some even a hundred.

During the recent battle, he eliminated the enemy’s Chief General and received five hundred merit points.

"It seems the higher the status of the slain, the more merit points obtained."

He mused, continuing to scroll down.

"Immortal Elixir!"

At the bottom, among the exchangeable items, some caught Ji Chen’s eye.

It was an Immortal Elixir, whose description indicated strong healing abilities, capable of reviving the dead and restoring flesh to bone.

However, Ji Chen frowned at the fact, this single Immortal Elixir required as many as ten thousand merit points!

Besides this, next to the Immortal Elixir was a Daoist Emperor’s Weapon, requiring even more points, over a million!

"A million Battle Merit Points..."

Ji Chen clicked his tongue, chuckled bitterly, "Is this a pipe dream? Even if the war ends, gathering so many might still be unrealistic..."

"Brother, you’re mistaken."

A laughter suddenly came from his side, Ji Chen turned to see a young man, close to his age, "A million Battle Merit Points seem impossible to collect, but theoretically not absolutely insurmountable, for instance..."

"For instance?" Ji Chen was taken aback.

"During this battle, several Ancient Emperor level powerhouses from the Yu Realm arrived; killing one means a million merit points," the youth explained.

"Ancient Emperor!"

Ji Chen’s heart jolted, he couldn’t help but shake his head, "Hearing this, gathering a million merit points seems even harder."

"Indeed..."

The youth sighed lightly, "An Ancient Emperor powerhouse can be considered invincible; in this battle, Yu Realm side actually descended with an Ancient Emperor, and not just one..."

"The Desolate Realm currently doesn’t have an Ancient Emperor ruling, only a few Venerable Supremes of the Nine Great Emperor Clans are the strongest forces. If the Yu Realm has Ancient Emperors arriving, wouldn’t that mean unilateral crushing? How can our Desolate Realm withstand it?" Ji Chen frowned.

The youth couldn’t help but smile, "You’re missing something there, aren’t you?"

"Though the Desolate Realm presently lacks an Ancient Emperor, ancestral blessings extend to this era; rumor has it the Nine Great Emperor Clans possess many Daoist Emperor’s Weapons left from the last Immortal Ancient War. If they unleash all without reservation, they could also slay those Ancient Emperors from the Yu Realm. Otherwise, why would the Yu Realm waste time and not have those Ancient Emperors directly sweep us clean?"