Bargaining over ten percent of the merit!

Boom!

The Chaos Void trembled violently once more, and the mountain-like Creation Cauldron, carrying terrifying power, slammed down once more onto the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit.

Click!

Cracks spread across the golden lotus once more, and the once brilliant Buddha Light had dimmed to the point of being like a candle flickering in the wind.

The Daoist Jieyin's sacred body trembled violently, and a mouthful of golden sacred blood, which he could no longer suppress, spurted out.

"Fellow Daoist Nuwa! Show mercy! Show mercy!"

Zhunti was terrified. His golden body was already shattered, and now, under the power of the Creation Cauldron, his injuries were worsened.

"Fellow Daoist Nuwa! I was wrong! I was really wrong!"

"Please calm down, fellow Daoist! Everything can be discussed!"

However, Nuwa's cold face remained unmoved, only showing an increasingly chilling aura.

"Now you realize you were wrong? Too late!"

"Don't expect me to show you any mercy unless you produce Merit that satisfy me!"

Nuwa's phoenix eyes flashed with murderous intent, revealing her ruthless desire to kill.

"Today, I will make you taste the bitterness of falling!"

Fallen!

These two words, like a bolt of Divine Thunder from the heavens, struck the Primordial Spirit of Jieyin and Zhunti fiercely!

Saint immortal?

That was in the past!

Ever since Tongtian relinquished his Saint Position, and ever since they realized that the Heavenly Dao Saint Position was nothing more than a huge deception set up by the Dao Ancestor, who would dare to actually die?

Once one perishes, it means that Primordial Spirit will return to the Heavenly Dao Origin and be reshaped by the power of the Heavenly Dao.

What appears to be a resurrection is actually a deeper binding of oneself with the Heavenly Dao and the Dao Ancestor!

Who can guarantee that the Dao Ancestor didn't tamper with their Primordial Spirit when he resurrected them?

At that point, they might truly become puppets at the mercy of others, never to rise again!

The thought of the terrible consequences sent chills down their spines.

"Fellow Daoist Nuwa, you absolutely mustn't! Everything can be discussed!"

The voices of those Jieyin trembled.

"It's not that we're unwilling to give Merit to our fellow Daoist!"

"But... your conditions are just too demanding!"

"Half of the Merit... if I give it to you, then the Great Prosperity of the West will have no meaning whatsoever!"

"Fellow Daoist, please have mercy and change the terms! As long as it's not about Merit, everything is negotiable!"

Zhunti quickly echoed this sentiment.

"Yes, Fellow Daoist Nuwa! Please, let's change the terms!"

"Change it?" Nuwa sneered.

"Today, I demand Merit!"

Jieyin and Zhunti saw that Nuwa was resolute and unyielding, they exchanged a glance and saw endless bitterness on each other's faces.

It seems that without offering some Merit today, the matter cannot be resolved amicably.

Jieyin his teeth, as if he had made an incredibly difficult decision.

"Alright! We can give you the Merit!"

"But... but I can't give that much!"

Nuwa's offensive finally eased.

She sneered inwardly; of course she knew these two wouldn't actually give up even half of their Merit.

She said that simply to set an exorbitant price, leaving room for negotiation later.

"Oh?"

"Then tell me, how much can you give?"

Jieyin and Zhunti exchanged a glance, their eyes communicating rapidly.

Zhunti, gritted his teeth, and tentatively began to speak.

"Fellow Daoist Nuwa... what do you think... half a piece, how about it?"

Upon hearing this, the room fell into an instant, deathly silence.

Even Taiqing, who had been watching the show the whole time, couldn't help but twitch his lips slightly.

Half-finished?

How could you say that?

These two guys are really... as shameless as ever.

Yuanshi Tianzun sneered inwardly; he could already foresee Nuwa's next reaction.

As expected.

Nuwa was taken aback at first, and then, a raging fire far surpassing her previous fury erupted!

"Half a percent?"

"Are you trying to fob me off Delia?!"

"It seems that neither of you is sincere whatsoever!"

"Since that's the case, then let's not talk anymore! You can all die!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the Creation Cauldron erupted with dazzling divine light once more, crashing down with a deafening roar!

"No, no, no! Fellow Daoist, please calm down! We can talk! We can talk!"

The spirits of Jieyin and Zhunti were terrified, and they hurriedly begged for mercy.

They also knew that half a percent was too little.

But isn't this the standard procedure for bargaining?

You're asking for an exorbitant price, I'm going to haggle!

Who would have thought that Nuwa would resort to deadly force at the slightest provocation!

"Snort!"

Nuwa snorted coldly, but her offensive did not stop; however, she slightly restrained her killing intent.

"I'm too lazy to beat around the bush with you!"

"Thirty percent!"

Give me 30 Merit, and this matter will be wiped clean!

"Otherwise, this matter will not be over!"

Upon hearing this, Jieyin and Zhunti were filled with indignation.

Thirty percent is still too much.

"Fellow Daoist, thirty percent is still too much!"

Zhunti thought, Zhunti blurted it out.

"Fellow Daoist Nuwa, at most, the two of us can only bestow upon you one- Merit!"

"This is our limit! Any more, and we truly will be unable to repay the debt of merit we owe to the Heavenly Dao Merit!"

Nuwa frowned slightly.

"Ten percent? That's too little!"

"At least 20%! This is my bottom line, it can't be any lower!"

However, this time, Jieyin and Zhunti were surprisingly firm.

"No! Only 10%!"

We can't back down any further; if we do, we'll really have nothing left.

Nuwa threatened.

"If you don't give me 20%, I will never let you off today!"

Jieyin shook his head bitterly.

"Fellow Daoist Nuwa, it's not that we're unwilling, but we simply can't offer it."

"Fellow Daoist should know! We two promised to give Fellow Daoist Zhou Ming one-third of the Merit!"

"Now, with this additional ten percent given to you, my Great Prosperity of the West's Merit, which I haven't even received yet, have already been reduced by nearly half!"

Zhunti added.

"The remaining Merit are not all ours."

"All living beings who participated in the Great Prosperity of the West and contributed to it will, to varying degrees, receive a share of the Merit."

"What remains is what truly belongs to my fellow disciple and me; we still need to repay the Merit we owe to Heavenly Dao."

"One-tenth of our Merit is the best we can do!"

After the two finished explaining, Jieyin's expression became much more relaxed.

"If you disagree, then let's begin."

"Even if my fellow disciple and I were to perish here today, we would never offer up a single more drop of Merit!"

"At worst, my fellow disciple and I will have a duel with you here today!"

"While we two are no match for you, fellow Daoist, if you wish to kill us, you will likely have to pay a considerable price!"

After saying that, the two of them adopted a bachelor's stance, as if they were ready to fight to the death.

Nuwa fell silent.

After careful calculation, she discovered that everything the two men said was true.

Merit is indeed the limit of what they can offer.

It seems that the Great Prosperity of the West, though seemingly glorious, is actually riddled with problems.

So be it.

Although the Merit was not as much as she had expected, the free benefit was enough to make up for her unhappiness.

Most importantly, with this Merit, one will have more leverage to break free from the Heavenly Dao in the future!

Thinking of this, Nuwa's anger dissipated considerably.

"Good."

She spoke slowly, and her icy voice finally softened slightly.

"As you wish, may you achieve one Merit."

"Let us make Great Dao Oath."

Upon hearing this, Jieyin and Zhunti felt as if they had been granted a pardon, and their hearts, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down heavily.

The two immediately bowed deeply to Nuwa.

"Thank you for your magnanimity, fellow Daoist!"

"We two hereby Heavenly Dao Oath!"

Having said that, the two dared not be negligent in the slightest, and in front of everyone, they made a solemn oath to the Heavenly Dao Merit, promising to share the Great Prosperity of the West with Nuwa.

With the Great Dao Oath, Nuwa slowly put away the Diagram of Mountains and Rivers and the Creation Cauldron.

The terrifying pressure that had been pressing down on the two of them finally dissipated.

Having made their vow, neither of them wanted to stay there any longer.

"Fellow Daoists, my junior brother is seriously injured and needs to return to Spirit Mountain for treatment as soon as possible. We will not stay here any longer. Farewell!"

Jieyin to Nuwa and Taiqing, not even bothering to greet Primordial Lord, and then, supporting the extremely weak Zhunti, transformed into a Golden Light and fled the West without looking back.

Watching the two figures leave in a disheveled state, Nuwa's cold face finally softened slightly.

She turned around, her clear, cold phoenix eyes slowly landing on Yuanshi Tianzun.

"Now."

"Isn't it time to settle our scores?"