A Massive Descent of Merit, East King Duke Was Dumbfounded

Very soon...

Zhunti and Jieyin left.

Just as Jieyin had said earlier...

Rather than staying here and weeping, it would accomplish nothing...

They might as well seize the opportunity to repair more Earth Veins and earn more merit.

Once this chance was gone, it would be gone for good...

It had been one thing when no one repaired the West's Earth Veins before, but judging by Xuan Yang and the others' momentum this time, they clearly Did Not Intend to leave until they had repaired all the Earth Veins in the West...

Thus, Zhunti and Jieyin both felt they had to hurry.

On Di Jun and Taiyi's side.

After seeing Zhunti and Jieyin leave, the two brothers withdrew their gazes as well.

Taiyi even gave a rather haughty snort and muttered, "Good that they knew better. Otherwise, I would have suppressed them with the Chaos Bell!"

Di Jun merely smiled without speaking, but he soon noticed that Xuan Yang at his side had stopped repairing the Earth Veins. Instead, he was frowning deeply, his expression grave as though he were pondering something...

And Di Jun was not the only one who noticed.

Nuwa, Fuxi, Zhen Yuanzi, Hongyun, Tongtian, Queen Mother of the West...

Everyone noticed.

Thus, they all turned their gazes toward Xuan Yang.

"What is it? Daoist Friend Xuan Yang—Third Brother—is something wrong?"

Everyone looked puzzled as they waited for Xuan Yang's reply.

Xuan Yang then voiced his thoughts.

"Hmm... I was just thinking, what if East King Gong and the others hear about this later and come here like Zhunti and Jieyin did? What then..."

"Although we were able to get here before them and repair the Earth Veins in the West..."

"If they realize what is going on and rush over to repair the Earth Veins too, wouldn't we have to share a portion of the spoils with them?"

Taiyi blinked upon hearing this and replied to Xuan Yang, "Logically speaking, East King Gong might not catch on, right?"

"By the time he does, we might have already repaired all the Earth Veins."

Xuan Yang shook his head and said meaningfully, "That may not necessarily be the case..."

"What if someone reminds him?"

After hearing this, everyone roughly understood what Xuan Yang meant.

So they all began to ponder it.

"That really is a difficult problem..."

But in the end, Xuan Yang was the first to come up with a solution.

Xuan Yang's eyes lit up, and he immediately said to everyone before him, "Wait, everyone..."

"I've got an idea."

Everyone could not help but freeze slightly at that.

They had only just begun thinking...

And Xuan Yang had already come up with something.

Wasn't that far too fast?

Thus, they hurriedly pressed him again. "What idea?"

Xuan Yang replied with a smile, "For this matter, we'll need Fellow Daoist Tongtian's help."

Tongtian immediately gave Xuan Yang a puzzled look.

Xuan Yang then used his mana to lay down a barrier nearby, temporarily cutting off outside perception, before explaining to everyone, "This and that, such and such..."

Everyone's eyes lit up upon hearing it.

Nuwa in particular could not help saying, "Daoist Friend Xuan Yang, you really do have a lot of cunning little ideas..."

Xuan Yang chuckled. "That way, we won't have to worry about others interfering next time."

He quickly removed the barrier.

Afterward, the group resumed their work.

Time continued to pass.

Over the following ten thousand years, Xuan Yang and the others continued repairing the Earth Veins in the West.

Under their efforts, a large part of the West had already been restored.

Zhunti and Jieyin's hearts bled.

Though they had also been making repairs over the past ten thousand years.

For one, they lacked manpower.

For another, they did not have the Earth Book.

Thus, their repair efficiency was far inferior to Xuan Yang and the others'.

Watching Xuan Yang and the others repair so many Earth Veins, the experienced Zhunti and Jieyin could already guess what would happen later.

Their tears immediately fell in even larger drops.

East King Duke, however, remained as blindly arrogant and stubborn as ever.

A full ten thousand years had passed, yet he still clung to his own view, believing that what Xuan Yang and the others were doing was a waste of time.

So over these years, East King Duke had only used several inefficient methods he had thought of to earn merit.

Yet he still felt immensely pleased with himself, as though he were incredibly impressive.

At this moment, he only asked the Immortal Court soldiers about Xuan Yang's situation during his leisure time.

"What about the Demon Race? Are they still in the West, working as laborers for Zhunti and Jieyin?"

The Immortal Court soldiers gave an affirmative answer.

East King Duke immediately laughed disdainfully. "A bunch of idiots. They're completely wasting their time."

"Wouldn't it be better to use that time cultivating or earning merit?"

"I don't even know how much merit I've earned over these years!"

He could not be bothered to concern himself with Xuan Yang and the others.

In fact, he was quite happy to see such a thing happen.

So he was not worried in the slightest.

But while East King Duke was unconcerned, Heavenly Dao Hongjun was nearly worried to death...

Over these years, he had watched the situation in the West, seeing Xuan Yang and the others repair more and more Earth Veins...

At the same time, he had constantly tried every possible way to remind East King Duke.

But it was utterly useless!

No matter how Heavenly Dao Hongjun racked his brains, East King Duke remained stubbornly set in his ways and refused to listen to advice.

This truly angered Heavenly Dao Hongjun half to death.

Just now, while controlling a foot soldier, he had once again indirectly reminded East King Duke.

Naturally, it had achieved nothing.

Thus, after hearing East King Duke's reply just now, Heavenly Dao Hongjun's face darkened even further.

"Fuck..."

"Who exactly is the idiot here?"

"The little bit of merit you've earned isn't even a fraction of theirs..."

"How do you even have the nerve to put on such airs?"

Heavenly Dao Hongjun was furious.

Yet he still had to find a way to remind East King Duke.

Because things could not go on like this.

He pondered incessantly.

At last, he came up with a new method.

Then, with an extremely reluctant expression...

He finally issued the portion of merit that Xuan Yang and the others had earned by repairing the Earth Veins in the West, merit that should have been awarded to them in the first place.

At once, huge, dazzling masses of merit descended from the sky and flew toward Xuan Yang and the others in the West.

East King Duke above the Immortal Court noticed this change immediately.

His expression changed drastically!

Staring in dumbfounded shock, East King Duke could not help but blurt out:

"Holy shit!"

"What is going on?"

"What happened?"