Queen Mother of the West Refuses the Appointment

As the Great Dao of Earth and the Earth Veins Great Dao flowed into the ground beneath his feet, Chen Yu frowned slightly. The earth veins of this ancient battlefield had been damaged too severely; less than one-tenth remained intact.

Chen Yu took a deep breath and activated the Earth Veins Great Dao, repairing them bit by bit. This was both a task and a form of cultivation.

Over these past several thousand years, every Dao law he had used to repair the earth veins had improved considerably. If he had simply cultivated in seclusion, achieving the same progress would likely have taken ten thousand years, perhaps even tens of thousands. This was also one reason he had been able to persist for so long.

Time drifted by, and a thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.

Looking at the fully restored ancient battlefield, Chen Yu slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

This ancient battlefield stretched across both the Western Continent and the Northern Continent, covering an unimaginably vast area. Perhaps it had been one of the main battlefields during the Calamity of the Ferocious Beasts. Coupled with the severe damage, it had taken him a full thousand years to restore it.

Just then, the sky above trembled slightly, and a vast expanse of merit descended.

"Great Dao merit?!"

Seeing the merit descending from the sky, Chen Yu cried out in surprise, several question marks practically appearing above his head. Hadn't the Great Dao withdrawn? Why was it bestowing Great Dao merit?

He turned to look at the restored ancient battlefield, then at the wisps of Great Dao merit descending from above, and shook his head.

"There's too little Great Dao merit. The returns don't match the effort at all—I can't even work up the motivation. The