Xu Nian sneered. "If he has the life to take them, then let him have not just two, but half of them. I'll give them to him. I only fear that some people are like frogs at the bottom of a well, ignorant of the vastness of the world, yet think that a few tricks and petty techniques will let them sweep all beneath heaven."
Dongfang Tuo said, "It seems Brother Xu has agreed. Good. Brother Wang, you may claim these two Origin Beads yourself. If you really have a way to retrieve those eight Black Origin Beads, I'll surely ask Immortal Lord Chen to grant you a special merit."
As soon as Dongfang Tuo finished speaking, the whole hall was shaken. The purple-robed trial disciples were especially stunned, their eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets.
Among them were those who had only recently become trial disciples, as well as those who had been tested more than ten times and still hadn't been promoted. In the end, wasn't the root of it all that they hadn't accumulated enough merit?
Yet the legendary special merit could let someone leap straight over the impassable barrier of "ten rounds of testing and three accumulated merits."
Afterward, a trial disciple who earned this merit would only need to pass the Inner Sect Disciple examination to become an Outer Sect Disciple in one fell swoop.
But even great merit was hard to come by, and special merit was the stuff of legends.
If Wang Qianqiu really claimed the special merit today, he would become a legendary figure among the trial disciples of the Eight Great Immortal Sects.
Xu Nian was also greatly shocked. He raised his voice and said, "Brother Dongfang, this proposal is improper. Besides, neither of us has the authority to make