"2,000 Immortal Merit? That's actually not that little."
"And that's only because this was your first kill. If I were the one acting, I'd probably only get a few hundred Immortal Merit for one Abyssal Lifeform."
God King Dongmang sighed. "I've roamed the Immortal World for endless years, and in total, I've only accumulated around a hundred thousand Immortal Merit... Accumulating Immortal Merit is far harder than accumulating Eternal Crystals."
"Indeed." Li Yuan could not help nodding.
Through the intelligence reports, he also knew how difficult it was to obtain Immortal Merit.
First, it was not a physical object like Eternal Crystals, but merely a kind of "record" within an Immortal Token, so there was no way to seize Immortal Merit by killing other powerful beings.
Second, Immortal Merit could only be used by oneself and could not be transferred.
Third, when killing "otherworldly lifeforms" of the same level, the more one killed, the smaller the Immortal Merit reward would become.
"Besides."
"Junior Brother, you're a newcomer, so you won't consume Immortal Merit within the first ten thousand years..." God King Dongmang shook his head. "But veterans like me, who have spent more than ten thousand years in the Immortal World, consume one Immortal Merit every hundred years."
"So when the time comes, we have no choice but to risk our lives and fight otherworldly lifeforms."
Li Yuan sighed inwardly.
Eternal Ruins like the Immortal World sheltered many powerful beings of the universe, allowing them to remain in this world even after their lifespans approached their natural limits... But where in the world was there such a thing as a free lunch?
For many reasons.
It was extremely difficult for the powerful beings of the universe to accumulate Immortal Merit... One had to know that when otherworldly lifeforms descended into