"Liu Yu advised Wu Liang: 'Those who win a battle yet whose generals grow arrogant and soldiers slacken will be defeated. Now the soldiers are somewhat lax, while Xia's troops grow stronger by the day. I fear for you, my lord.'"
Shen Zhui recited the third story of General Liu Gong from the Heyuan Biographies.
Every word was like gold; divine light entered the sea!
This time, Shen Zhui recited the entire third story in one breath!
Clearly feeling the booklet in his hand grow much lighter, Shen Zhui set it down, a faint smile rising at the corners of his lips.
"The Third Summon of Deity, Slay Evil Spirits, cost me fifty thousand Merit Points. It's finally done."
He had originally thought that, having advanced to Peak Houtian, this third summon would not cost him too many Merit Points. Yet in the end, it had consumed nearly a third of them.
"Being able to perform the Third Summon of Deity at Peak Houtian—looking across all of Liangzhou, even Dayuan Prefecture, who else could do it?!" Shen Zhui's heart brimmed with heroic pride.
The first and second summons each increased his strength fourfold.
Yet this Third Summon of Deity increased it by a full tenfold!
In other words, if Shen Zhui now invoked the power of the Third Summon of Deity, on top of his Peak Houtian foundation, his strength could be amplified eighteen times over!
"An ordinary Third Summon of Deity only increases one's strength tenfold. I wonder whether, after my Third Summon of Deity, I can fight a High-stage Xiantian?"
Shen Zhui secretly speculated.
He estimated that his Third Summon of Deity could only place him on par with a High-stage Xiantian. Even if he used the blade technique of Unity of Heaven and Man, killing a High-stage