Undying and Imperishable

Butcher was taken aback. After a moment's thought, he said, "Perhaps the exchange rate is very low?"

He was not taking the blame for this!

The City Lord's expression darkened, and he could not say anything more.

It was he who had asked the Heavenly Mechanism to grant Lu Ye the authority to exchange Battle Merit for Soul Water. Now that things had turned out this way, there was nothing he could do to change it. He could only pray that Lu Ye had limited Battle Merit and would not be able to exchange for too much Soul Water. Otherwise, it would truly affect the foundation of the Soul Pool.

A little while later, beneath the Soul Pool, Lu Ye, who was happily collecting Soul Water, suddenly discovered that the Spirit Gathering Funnel before him twisted and collapsed.

Instinctively, he constructed another Spirit Gathering Funnel. Yet the second funnel had barely taken shape when some inexplicable force seemed to disrupt it, preventing it from serving any purpose at all.

He began to realize what had happened and hurriedly checked his Battlefield Mark. Within the information recorded there, his Battle Merit had astonishingly dwindled to just eight hundred and thirty-six points.

It took one thousand points of Battle Merit to collect a single drop of Soul Water. The remaining eight hundred and thirty-six points were clearly not enough for even one drop.

More than three hundred thousand Battle Merit had dwindled to so little in such a short time. It would be a lie to say it did not hurt. This was Battle Merit, after all, not Merit. But compared to what he had gained, the price he had paid was absolutely worth it.

The Water Pouch was not full, but it contained over three hundred drops of Soul Water. Such