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"Senior Brother Lu, Cao Haihua of Spirit Flood Peak is quite the arrogant sort. Don't take his attitude to heart." Wu Yan spoke to him privately. Given how close she was to Lu Xiaotian, she naturally took his side.
"Exactly. He thinks he's someone important just because he's the peak master of a region. Senior Brother Lu just doesn't want to argue with him." Peng Dayong seemed to have run into a wall with Cao Haihua earlier; there was some resentment in his voice, too.
"By the way, Senior Brother Lu, you just got back from outside, so you probably haven't heard about merit points yet." Peng Dayong suddenly remembered something and slapped his thigh.
"What are merit points?" Lu Xiaotian asked in surprise.
"They're divided into three tiers: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core. We can ignore the Golden Core tier; it has nothing to do with us, and we don't know what the rewards are yet. As for those of us in the Foundation Establishment Realm, since I'm at the middle stage, killing a cultivator at the same stage earns one merit point, while killing one at the early stage earns only half a point. If you're lucky enough to kill someone at the late stage, that's two points. Once you have fifty merit points, you can claim a Condensing Gold Pill. There's no upper limit."
Peng Dayong and Wu Yan looked excited, but also a little helpless.
Lu Xiaotian was somewhat speechless. The rewards for Qi Refining cultivators were probably similar, except that