Boundless Merit Book

Students quickly gathered around. Some handed over clothes, while others crowded around the girl to express their concern.

Cheers rose from the many students watching on the bridge and along the shore. Many applauded and whistled as well.

Clearly, everyone greatly admired Gao Wu's righteous deed and expressed their praise in various ways.

Several flushed girls even clustered around Gao Wu, chattering away nonstop.

Some boys also came over to strike up conversations, offering flattering words.

Gao Wu politely dealt with them for a few moments, but most of his attention remained on the Boundless Merit Book that no one else could see.

As everyone warmly greeted him, his merits continued to increase.

He sighed inwardly. Saving someone in public really was the best way to accumulate merits. Unfortunately, such opportunities were something that could be encountered but not sought.

Roughly calculating it, he had gained at least five hundred merits from saving her this time, pushing his total merits past ten thousand—enough to upgrade the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation.

When he was fourteen, Strange Beasts had stormed into the town, slaughtering freely and destroying the entire place. He had been severely injured and had only survived by sheer luck after someone saved him.

The threat of death had awakened the memories of his past life, and the sect's secret tome from that life, the "Boundless Merit Book," had surfaced as well.

Technology had been advanced in his previous life, but there had been no supernatural power.

Buddhism and Daoism had at most offered spiritual comfort. He had never expected the Boundless Merit Book his teacher had left behind to truly be a divine artifact, allowing him to be reborn in this parallel universe.

This world possessed supernatural source power, so the Boundless Merit Book revealed its true form.

Others could not see the Boundless Merit Book, and this was not a convenient place to study the transformations of its divine powers.

With a thought from Gao Wu, the ancient book that had appeared vanished without a trace.

The skinny Shen Yue fought his way through the crowd and squeezed over to Gao Wu's side. He raised a thumb and praised him sincerely. "Awesome!"

Gao Wu looked at the phone clenched in Shen Yue's hand and asked quietly, "Did you capture my heroic rescue on camera?"

Shen Yue said nothing. He merely gave a smug yet restrained smile.

What a joke. He might not be any good at martial arts, but as a Kuaiyin content creator, he was practically a semi-professional at shooting videos!

Gao Wu was relieved. With Shen Yue's help, they could add music, edit the video, and upload it to online platforms. That should earn him some merits too.

As for videos shot by other people, that was harder to say. Maybe someone would even use a video to smear him.

Human nature was complicated, especially among teenagers. They acted more out of likes and dislikes than calculations of gain and loss, making them even harder to predict.

The girl was escorted to the infirmary by a group of people. Gao Wu told Shen Yue to follow along and check on her, while he returned to the dormitory alone.

As a member of the Martial Arts Team, even if only a reserve, Gao Wu had a single room on the top floor of the men's dormitory.

With a bedroom, living room, and bathroom, the dorm was over twenty square meters and quite spacious for one person. The bathroom even had a water heater and washing machine, making it very convenient.

Gao Wu took a hot shower, changed into clean clothes, tossed his soaked clothing into the washing machine, and only after dealing with all the chores did he lazily lie down on his single bed.

Saving her had taken only a few minutes, yet it had drained a great deal of his energy. Once the excitement faded, Gao Wu felt a deep exhaustion.

He took out his phone and saw that many people had already posted short videos of him saving the girl on Kuaiyin's local channel.

When he opened the comment section, most comments praised him, though there were also some discordant criticisms and doubts.

For instance, some asked why his movements had been so rough while rescuing her, saying the intimate physical contact had been inappropriate. Others suspected that he had some unspeakable relationship with the girl he had saved.

Fortunately, most people were still decent. Such doubts and criticisms were met with all manner of mockery and abuse.

Gao Wu liked several of the harshest comments attacking those critics. He had worked so hard to save someone, yet people actually suspected him of putting on an act. He really wanted to punch their dog heads apart!

He reread the especially pleasant comments praising him several times before finally closing Kuaiyin in satisfaction.

When he opened the Boundless Merit Book again, lines of "Merit +1" were still appearing in large numbers across the blank page. His total merits had already reached 10307, and the number was still steadily climbing... This put Gao Wu in an even better mood.

As his thoughts shifted, the Boundless Merit Book slowly turned a page, displaying his name and various related data.

Gao Wu

Lifespan: 99

Spirit: 6.9

Constitution: 8.3

Strength: 7.1

Agility: 6.2

Root Foundation: 6.5

Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation: Mastery+

Nine Dragon Forms: Proficient

Ever since awakening the Boundless Merit Book, he had activated one of the spells within it: the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation.

According to the Boundless Merit Book, the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation could guide the Qi of Eastern Azure into the form of an Azure Dragon, cleansing body and mind. It possessed inconceivable divine powers and was a supreme Divine Mantra.

When the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation had activated, the azure-green spiritual radiance it released instantly healed his gravely injured internal organs, allowing him to survive that catastrophe by sheer luck.

Ever since then, Gao Wu had recognized the wonder of the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation and cultivated it every day without fail.

The incantation text of the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation contained more than a thousand characters. At first, silently reciting it once in full took around eight minutes. At the same time, he had to visualize the Azure Dragon Divine Image.

The entire process of chanting the mantra was rather complicated, and Gao Wu had stumbled again and again when he first began cultivating it.

At the beginning, he could not succeed even once out of ten attempts. Fortunately, he had cultivated at a Daoist temple in his previous life. Having lived two lives also made him far steadier than an ordinary teenager, and he had immense faith in the Boundless Merit Book.

Through constant practice, the time needed to recite the mantra grew shorter and shorter.

Gao Wu discovered that the most direct effect of the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation was improving his constitution, strengthening his muscles and bones, and repairing injuries.

The ordinary Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation could not rapidly heal severe injuries. His swift recovery after the disaster had clearly been a special change brought about by the first activation of the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation.

The data format in the Boundless Merit Book had also adjusted itself many times before finally settling into the most intuitive form Gao Wu could understand.

An ordinary healthy adult man had a constitution of around five points. Gao Wu's constitution was as high as eight points, three times that of an ordinary healthy adult man. This was entirely thanks to his day-and-night cultivation of the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation.

Constitution was a complex concept encompassing vitality, endurance, resilience, and other aspects.

For martial arts training, good constitution meant being able to withstand hardship and quickly recover after high-intensity training.

It was precisely because of his extraordinary constitution that, despite lacking outstanding talent in martial arts, Gao Wu had become an intermediate Martial Artist at seventeen through diligent study and bitter training.

Dongjiang had one city and nine counties, with a total of one million middle school students. In terms of individual combat strength, Gao Wu could steadily rank among the top hundred at the very least.

It was only because the coach suppressed him at school and gave him no chance to perform that his ranking was so low.

Next year would be the college entrance examination. Only the top ten on the middle school martial arts points leaderboard could directly receive guaranteed admission into the Martial Arts Academy of a first-rate university.

Gao Wu had no particularly good solution to this either. Fortunately, he had the Boundless Merit Book. There would always be a chance for him to rise above the crowd.

The Boundless Merit Book could gather merits, but merits could only be used to upgrade Divine Mantras. They could not enhance other martial arts, much less directly raise his basic physical data. Even so, it was still an extraordinary peerless divine artifact.

After several years of pondering and experimentation, Gao Wu discovered that the way to gain merits was by doing good deeds.

These good deeds had to align with his simple and plain moral principles.

The more people knew of a good deed, the more merits he gained. Conversely, the fewer people who knew, the fewer merits he received.

Just like saving someone in public this time, he had gained several hundred merits. If it spread through online platforms such as short videos, he could gain even more merits.

With his total merits exceeding ten thousand, he had enough to raise the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation by one realm.

That would make his chanting faster, and the Divine Mantra's effect in strengthening his constitution would become even greater. He might even be able to chant the mantra during combat.

At the Martial Artist level, battles were contests of strength, speed, skill, and endurance.

If he could chant the mantra during battle, then with the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation, he could grind every opponent of the same level to death in a three-round arena match.

However, perhaps ten thousand merits could activate several other Divine Mantras?

Based on experience, activating a Divine Mantra for the first time would draw in wondrous power to cleanse the body and improve its basic attributes.

If that happened, it would be enough to cause a qualitative leap in his strength.

This moment was extremely, extremely important to him. He had to choose carefully...

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