"Draw your blade." Beneath the great tree, the man leaning against the trunk looked at Lu Ye with a calm expression.
Lu Ye looked at him quietly.
"I am at Cloud River Stage, Seventh Layer. Your cultivation shouldn't be too high. Kill me, and at the very least you can get several hundred Merit. Consider it the last Xie Li I give you, fellow Daoist."
In the Spirit Stream Battlefield, there was a reward whose base value multiplied when one killed enemies above one's level. This Rule did not only apply in the Spirit Stream Battlefield, but also in the Cloud River Battlefield, and even throughout the entire Nine Provinces Cultivation World.
Moreover, the base value a Cloud River Realm cultivator represented in Merit was far higher than that of a Spirit Stream Realm cultivator.
At the level of the Spirit Stream Realm, the base value of one's cultivation tier was simply the number of that tier. For example, a Spirit Stream Realm Tier Five cultivator represented a base value of five Merit. The base value for Spirit Stream Tier Nine was nine points, Heaven Seven was ten points, and Heaven Nine was twelve points.
Once one reached the Cloud River Realm, the base value increased greatly.
The base value for Cloud River Realm Tier One was twenty Merit, and for every layer one rose after that, the base value increased by five points.
Like the dying man before him, with cultivation at Cloud River Stage, Seventh Layer, his base value alone was fifty Merit. If Lu Ye, with his cultivation at Cloud River Realm Tier One, killed him, then he would have killed an enemy six minor levels above him, and the Merit he obtained would be seven times the base value—that was, three hundred and fifty Merit.
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