My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

Zhao Xuan already has nearly 40,000 merit points. If this continues, he should be able to get several million points by the time the beast tide ends.

The daytime is unfavorable to the monsters, so they begin to rest, and the guards also take turns resting.

Zhao Xuan spent his merit points without hesitation to raise the Star Spirit's authority to level ten.

The Star Order's authority is practically unlimited, and the merit points required for upgrading correspond to the merit points earned from slaying monsters of the same level.

The Level 10 Star Token grants the authority to exchange for Grandmaster-level Rank 9 cultivation resources. Zhao Xuan browsed through the resources in the Ziwei Treasure Vault and discovered the price of Ziwei Star Stones.

A piece the size of a little fingertip can cost as much as 100,000 merit points.

Zhao Xuan roughly calculated that the Purple Star Stone he absorbed was probably worth more than five million merit points.

I also activated all the auxiliary functions of the Star Order, which cost me another thousand merit points.

The additional functions of the Star Token include communication, traction, teleportation, relocation, trading, maps, cave dwellings, library, sub-tokens, lecture hall, task posting, and task acceptance.

There are twelve types, and each type requires one hundred merit points to unlock.

However, using it requires continuously consuming merit points.

For example, the cave dwellings were established by the imperial court for cultivators to use temporarily.

There are cultivation caves, which are divided into level one, level two, level three, level four, and so on...

The spiritual energy levels within are the same as those of the cave dwellings, and they contain various attributes.

There are also caves filled with spiritual fire of various levels, which can be used for alchemy and weapon crafting.

The number of merit points required to rent a cave varies depending on its level.

If needed, after paying merit points, the Star Token will teleport the person to the cave.

Merit points can be considered the universal currency for cultivators; without merit points, the difficulty of cultivation increases a hundredfold.

As Zhao Xuan was exploring the uses of the Star Spirit, Zhao Mingcheng walked over with a group of people, his face grim.

Seeing the expressions on everyone's faces, Zhao Xuan burst into laughter.

"You've brought trouble upon yourselves, haven't you?" Zhao Xuan said with a smile before the others could get angry.

Everyone immediately felt a little embarrassed.

"I never expected things to turn out like this," Zhao Mingcheng said with a bitter face.

The others echoed this sentiment.

"Alright, don't forget your other purpose in looking for the demon hunter. The current situation was expected," Zhao Xuan comforted him.

After the information about the beast tide arrived, Zhao Xuan knew that there was nothing they could do.

After all, they were members of the Zhao royal family, including a prince and the sons of many nobles.

Jinyang City is not in dire straits, so there's no way they'd send these people to their deaths.

These people, however, came from extraordinary backgrounds and were all eager to do something and prove themselves.

That's why I came in person.

This is only the initial stage. By the middle of the beast tide, a large portion of the temporary teams will leave the battlefield.

Although the King of Jin ordered all cultivators in Jinyang City to participate in the defense of the city.

However, there are two types of people who are not ordered to serve: one is the demon hunter, and the other is the cultivator who comes from other cities to earn military merit after receiving the news.

The cultivators in Jinyang City then had three choices. The first was to accept the unified arrangement of the army.

The second option is to form your own team to kill monsters.

Their team consisted of cultivators from the outer city who had come to infiltrate the army, as well as demon hunters.

The third option is to remain inactive and find someone to take over your tasks.

The only people they could find were cultivators and demon hunters from the outer city.

Standing out in the army is naturally more impressive than forming your own team to kill monsters or finding someone to take your place.

As the most powerful organ of state power, the military's recognition is itself a great honor.

In fact, Zhao Mingcheng and his team had long planned to form their own team, just to see if they could gain the approval of the military.

However, with the army's camp in between, these cultivators from the Spirit Realm found it extremely difficult to attack the demonic beasts, naturally resulting in a great defeat.

They won't turn back until they hit a brick wall.

Zhao Xuan came purely to obtain the Star Token.

Star Tokens are generally not available for application; they are only issued when a beast tide is approaching and is under unified management.

Since they were already there, they naturally wanted to experience it, so the group didn't team up on the first night.

After a short rest, they arrived at the military camp together around 5 PM.

This time the number of people is much larger, nearly three hundred in total.

Besides the Heavenly Stems Squad and the four lone demon hunters, the seven marquis sons who followed Zhao Mingcheng each had ten people from their families to protect them.

The rest were cultivators from the outer city, whom Zhao Mingcheng and the others found while Zhao Xuan was in seclusion.

It's not surprising that the four lone demon hunters are all Earth Demon Hunters; the cultivators in the outer city are all Upper Third Grade Spirit Realm cultivators.

But of those seventy people, the seven leaders were all Grandmasters, and the rest were all Masters.

Once a temporary squad was formed at the military control office, the original assigned individual tasks disappeared.

Zhao Mingcheng is the team leader. The team leader uses the Star Token to divide the Star Token into Sub-Tokens and gives them to the team members to refine. That's how the team is formed.

Those coming from the outer city cannot accept the missions from Jinyang City during the beast tide.

Therefore, you must team up with people from the city, and the tasks will be selected by the people from the city.

This also serves as a guarantee, preventing non-locals from lacking a sense of honor and thus not putting in the effort to complete the task.

The instruction is for calculating each team member's contribution to the task.

Zhao Xuan also joined Zhao Mingcheng's team, but he didn't participate in any activities with Zhao Mingcheng.

Zhao Mingcheng was used to Zhao Xuan's mysterious behavior and didn't say anything.

When the beast tide attacked the city, Zhao Xuan remained the same as the day before.

When the beast tide receded the next day, he had accumulated nearly 50,000 merit points.

This continued for ten days, during which Zhao Xuan accumulated over 500,000 merit points.

On the eleventh day, everything was different; Zhao Xuan had no intention of leaving the game.

Instead, they stood on the city wall, watching the monsters attack the city.

From today onwards, the main body of the beast tide will no longer be spirit realm monsters, but grandmaster realm monsters.

Unless Zhao Xuan uses spirit armor or One Yuan Heavy Water, his methods are of little use against Grandmasters.

Zhao Xuan went up to the city wall to witness the demonic beasts' abilities and to absorb the scattered spiritual energy.

If the demonic beasts in the spirit realm are simply enormous wild animals, their true forms can generally be recognized.

From the Grandmaster level onwards, the appearance of demonic beasts begins to become bizarre and grotesque.

It may be a tiger, but it might have wings, scales, bone spurs, horns, tentacles, several eyes, extra legs, or multiple heads.

All are normal.

Once a demon beast reaches the Grandmaster realm, it can develop its own bloodline power. Its strange and unusual shape is due to the mixture of its bloodlines. Some ancestors had this characteristic, which is manifested in its body.

Of course, there are also normal cases, such as those with pure bloodlines whose ancestors looked like this, or those who did not develop their bloodlines and still relied on spiritual energy to strengthen themselves.

Most of those attacking the city were creatures with strange and unusual shapes.

As for beast tides, just take them as a learning experience and fish in troubled waters; don't take them too seriously.

To understand why beast tides occur and what their purpose is, one must understand how ridiculous beast tides are.

The cultivation methods of humans and demons are different.

Heaven and earth are divided into two energies: clear and turbid.

Humans mostly absorb pure energy during cultivation, thus achieving mental clarity and access to countless wondrous methods.

The demon race mostly absorbs turbid energy during cultivation, thus possessing powerful physical bodies and great supernatural abilities.

This situation arises because the human race's physical body is too weak, and lacking sharp teeth and claws, they can only rely on their intelligence to survive.

Since the demon race has sharp teeth and claws, they have gone in the direction of making their teeth even sharper and their claws even sharper.

In addition, the demon race has innate talents, that is, innate supernatural abilities. These are inherited from their ancestors and are not their own. Therefore, they must have a stronger physical body to bear these innate supernatural abilities.

The two energies of heaven and earth, green and turbid, are generally in balance and will not deviate too much.

However, in ancient times, the human race drove the demon race to the starry sky beyond the earth.

The number and quality of the demon race on the land have decreased significantly.

Humans absorbed a large amount of pure energy through cultivation, which caused turbid energy to accumulate and gradually affect their lives.

This forced the powerful humans to leave the earth and venture into the starry sky, and also led to the emergence and development of the demon race, which absorbed the turbid energy between heaven and earth.

Therefore, the monsters on the earth now are actually all raised by humans to absorb impure energy.

Humanity will not allow the demon race on earth to become too powerful, nor will it allow the demon race to be completely wiped out, otherwise it will affect humanity itself.

When the balance between the green and turbid energies is disrupted, the human race will try to get the demon race to launch a beast tide to balance the two energies.

The demon beasts did this out of necessity. Although the turbid energy does help demon beasts cultivate, too much of a good thing can be bad.

There was too much turbid air; even the demon beasts themselves couldn't stand it.

It was also a very good reason to cooperate in launching the beast tide.

The beast tide was originally intended to deplete the number of human cultivators.

However, as generations of humans have developed, they have become too intelligent and too powerful, exceeding the expectations of their ancestors.

This forced the demon race to exert themselves and desperately expand their population so that more demon beasts could absorb the turbid energy.

The monsters had too many offspring and not enough food, so they had to launch suicide attacks to wipe out their numbers.

This is why there are animal tides every year in the twelfth lunar month, because the twelfth lunar month is the coldest and food in the wild is scarcest.

Such beast tides generally do not attack large cities, especially large cities like the Four Capitals and the Five Guards.

This situation arises because a powerful being has emerged again, causing the balance of the green and turbid energies to be disrupted once more. As a result, the demonic beasts launch a great purge ahead of schedule to prepare for having offspring.

Those who can be called truly powerful are considered semi-saints.

The semi-saint realm is not one of the nine realms of cultivation, but rather a transitional period between the divine realm and the saint realm.

As mentioned earlier, the demand for perfecting the Three Jewels is too great, so the divine realm refines the faith of all beings to strengthen itself.

Humans do not allow gods to be sacrificed or have their faith harvested at will.

This would allow the divine realm to be corrupted by too many chaotic beliefs, thus causing it to spiral out of control and become an evil god.

Every time an evil god appears, it brings enormous losses to the human race.

But it is also necessary to ensure that the divine realm can be worshipped.

This led to the method of borrowing space.

The so-called method of borrowing a position involves the imperial court establishing a group of legitimate objects of worship. Once someone cultivates to the divine realm, they can use these legitimate objects of worship to collect faith.

The legitimate objects of worship for humans are collectively referred to as one temple, one shrine, and three monasteries.

One temple is a Taoist temple, one shrine is the Yue Lao Shrine, and three temples are Buddhist temples, namely the Holy Temple and the City God Temple.

The City God Temple is a temple dedicated to the ghosts and gods of the underworld. After a human dies, their soul is taken away by the City God and sent to the underworld for reincarnation.

This was necessary for the peace of the human souls.

The Temple of the Old Man Under the Moon governs human relationships and is necessary for the propagation of the human race.

In every human city, there is a City God Temple and a Moon God Shrine.

These City God Temples and Matchmaker Shrines were of very high rank, and were dedicated to the City Gods and Matchmaker Gods in large cities like the Four Capitals and Five Guards, which had populations exceeding ten million.

Cities with a population of over one million worship the City God and the County Elder.

Cities with a population of over 100,000 worship the county god and the county elder.

As for those with fewer than 100,000 people, they were generally built by a certain aristocratic family to worship their own ancestors, which is another matter.

Once you reach the first rank of the Divine Realm, you can choose between the County God and the County Elder to accept their faith in your place.

In the Divine Realm, one can either condense the Three Treasures Golden Flower or choose not to.

The purpose of condensing the Three Treasures Golden Flower is to achieve the Boundless Sacred Body, and a Sacred Realm with the Boundless Sacred Body is far more powerful than a Sacred Realm without it.

The reason you are asked to accept the faith is so that you can use that faith to refine the Golden Flower; the Imperial Court will not give you much time to accumulate it.

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