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Lin Zhu drifted leisurely through the clouds while sending a thread of his consciousness inward to inspect his current state.
[Realm]. Half-step Quasi-Saint. Estimated Merit still required to absorb and refine before the next major breakthrough: approximately seven hundred thousand. [Main Cultivation Art]. Nine Revolutions Pangu True Body Art. [Artifact Inventory]. - Chaos Supreme Treasure. Eastern Emperor Bell Fragment. - Heavenly Dao Supreme Strange Treasure. Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus. - Top-Grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure. Azure Lotus Precious Color Flag. - Innate Spiritual Treasure. Three Lights Divine Water, Muni Light Pearl. - Merit Artifact. Measuring Sky Ruler. - Houtian Supreme Treasure. Taiyi Soaring Snake Shears, Yu Yi Xian's Feather Wing Sword, Golden Light Sarira. - Acquired Spiritual Treasure. Qiankun Bow, Zhentian Arrow, Eye-Poking Pearl, Throat-Sealing Needle, White Lotus Boy's Nameless Short Blade, and more. Three Primordial Fierce Beast Bloodline Origin Crystals, approximately two hundred thousand plus one hundred thousand Merit Divine Water remaining, seven hundred thousand Merit of Faith exchanged from the Jade Emperor, along with various other Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and spiritual extracts.
Looking at this overflowing "family fortune," especially the cultivation requirements that were about to demand another breakthrough, Lin Zhu rubbed his chin and suddenly felt that things were... going a little too smoothly?
It seemed like it had not been long since his last breakthrough to the Half-step Quasi-Saint realm, yet he was already about to gather enough "provisions" for his next advancement? Seven hundred thousand Merit was neither an enormous amount nor a small one. In the past, he might have needed to scheme painstakingly and enforce the law everywhere for a long time to accumulate it. But now... Merit seemed to be coming in a little too fiercely.
"This system..."
Lin Zhu muttered to himself.
"It's practically hounding me to