If an ordinary person wanted to refine a Soul Banner into a Merit Treasure, it would be nothing short of a pipe dream.
First, it was clear from the diary that refining a Merit Treasure required consuming an enormous amount of merit. Even the Moral Sect had to open the Merit Pool to possess the necessary foundation.
The wielder of a Thousand Soul Banner would inevitably have harvested countless souls and committed slaughter on a scale that reached the heavens. It was already a blessing if such profound Karma was not suppressed by merit, let alone accumulating enough merit to refine a Merit Treasure.
Even looking at it from another angle, could a Demonic Path Overlord avoid acting personally and instead seek out someone bearing immense merit to refine a Merit Soul Banner Treasure? Was such a plan feasible?
Clearly, that was impossible as well.
Even if the wielder bore no sins or Karma, refining a Soul Banner required slaughtering countless people and sacrificing their souls into the banner. An enormous amount of resentment would accumulate within it. Karma and merit were natural opposites, with no possibility of compatibility whatsoever.
Thus, throughout the Xianxia Version from ancient times to the present, no one had ever heard of the absurd claim that the Demonic Path possessed Merit Treasures.
But if these matters were placed upon Lu Yan, the result would be different.
First, Lu Yan possessed an ocean of merit, with the Apocalypse Version as a reserve as well. He would never lack merit.
Second, whether the Vengeful Souls or the primary souls within Lu Yan's Soul Banner had basically all come from harvesting zombies. Zombies were missing the two heavenly souls and had become muddleheaded wandering souls. After refinement, the resentment that remained was less than one-thousandth of that in