Leaping down from the tall building, Jun Wangyou moved through the city like a ghost.
No one could detect him.
Before deciding to leave the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land, Jun Wangyou had estimated his own strength.
Relying on his cultivation alone, he should have no fear of Core Formation cultivators and could even contend with Golden Core cultivators.
This was mainly thanks to Jun Wangyou's terrifying reserves of Spiritual Power.
But if he made use of external items, such as controlling all his treasures—
Then, sorry, even a Deity Transformation cultivator would have to crawl.
This was also the confidence that gave Jun Wangyou the courage to come to the eastern region.
After all, who would have imagined that a Foundation Establishment cultivator could take on a Deity Transformation cultivator?
Very soon, Jun Wangyou spotted a patrol squad.
There were ten of them in total, and they seemed to be searching for survivors.
After all, the city was so large that there would always be some fish that slipped through the net.
Jun Wangyou followed them for a while and observed them.
He discovered that the strongest member of the squad was only at mid-stage Foundation Establishment.
In that case...
Jun Wangyou directly drew the Nine Heavens Scarlet Fire Sword and slashed at them!
"Clang!"
"Whoosh!"
Sword qi swept through the area. Before the ten-man squad could react, nine of them were already dead.
The sole survivor was scared senseless.
He fell to his knees and begged for mercy as he looked around.
"Senior, spare my life! I don't know anything!"
"Whoosh!"
A black shadow flashed past, and the remaining man vanished from where he stood.
Inside a dark alley.
Jun Wangyou pressed the tip of his sword against the man's throat and said coldly, "I ask, you answer. If your answers satisfy me, I can consider letting you live."
"P-please ask, young hero."
The man's eyes were filled with terror. Both hands were raised above his head, and he did not dare resist at all.
"Tell me, how many of your people are still in this city?" Jun Wangyou asked.
"T-there are a thousand of us left in total. There are another two thousand from the Demon Race."
"Who is the strongest? What is his cultivation realm, and where does he live?"
"The strongest is Thousand Commander Han Fei. He is at early-stage Golden Core and should currently be staying at the City Lord's Mansion."
"Where did your main force go?"
"I-I don't know that either. I'm just a nobody."
"Fine, then another question. How many Golden Core cultivators are in the city now, and who are they?"
"T-there are four in total: Thousand Commander Han Fei, Deputy Thousand Commander Zhuang Tong, and there should also be two from the Demon Race, though I don't know their names."
"What is the name of that mountain-sized Demonic Beast in the city, and how strong is it?"
"I-I don't know either. That Demonic Beast has been sleeping ever since we began attacking the city. It has never woken up. I truly don't know!"
"Very good. I'm very satisfied with your answers. Now you can die!"
"Didn't you say...?"
"Splurt!"
Jun Wangyou wiped the blood from his sword with the clothes of the dead man, his expression cold.
"I only said I would consider letting you live."
Jun Wangyou surveyed his surroundings. Once he was certain no one had noticed, he swiftly disappeared.
He returned to the abandoned house.
The moment he came back, Jun Wangyou saw Ye Lingtian sitting cross-legged on the ground, staring blankly at an illusory token before him.
"Lingtian!"
Jun Wangyou called out.
Ye Lingtian looked up and said in delight, "Big Brother, when did you get back?"
"Just now." Jun Wangyou shook his head, then pointed at the illusory token and asked, "What is that? I saw you staring at it the whole time."
Ye Lingtian immediately said excitedly, "Big Brother, this is called a Merit Record Token. It can record the merit earned from killing enemies, and merit can be used to exchange for supplies directly through the token."
"It just appeared in front of me. I wasn't spacing out earlier—I had entered the world inside it."
Ye Lingtian was extremely excited. Clearly, he had never seen such a thing before either.
Jun Wangyou was somewhat puzzled. Why don't I have one?
Could it be because I'm too handsome?
The next moment, an identical token appeared before Jun Wangyou.
It seemed to have condensed directly from the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
It was remarkably mystical.
"This..." Even Jun Wangyou was a little stunned.
"Huh? Big Brother, you have one too." Ye Lingtian's face was full of delight.
Jun Wangyou nodded, then reached out and grasped the token.
In an instant, Jun Wangyou's consciousness was pulled into a virtual space.
The space was not large. Only two enormous stone monuments stood within it.
At that moment, a stream of information flooded into Jun Wangyou's mind.
In an instant, Jun Wangyou understood the token's function and origin.
It turned out that this token had been created by a superpower in the eastern region.
Its main purpose was to record merit. As long as one killed a Demonic Cultivator or a member of the Demon Race, one could obtain a virtual token.
The token contained a small teleportation array.
Resources exchanged through the token could be directly teleported to the redeemer through this small teleportation array.
"Holy crap, isn't this a function only a system should have?"
Jun Wangyou was dumbfounded!
This was practically a simplified version of the Killing System.
The only limitation was that the exchangeable items were limited. Otherwise, Jun Wangyou would truly suspect that this was something created by some Child of Destiny.
After all, this thing was far too miraculous.
It did not seem like something people of this world could have created at all.
Jun Wangyou raised his head and looked at the two stone monuments.
The monument on the left was the merit leaderboard, while the one on the right displayed various resources.
There was a wide variety of resources: spirit stones, pills, weapons, spiritual herbs, cultivation techniques, dao arts, divine abilities, and even cities.
All the resources were provided by the six great sacred lands, so there was no fear of them being exchanged away completely.
"Interesting."
Jun Wangyou's eyes brimmed with interest.
He then looked toward the merit leaderboard.
The rankings did not distinguish between cultivation realms. They only considered who had killed the most enemies and earned the most merit.
Ranked first was someone named Gu Changqing, with more than three million merit points.
Jun Wangyou could not help checking his own.
Mm, not bad. He had a full twelve points...
Jun Wangyou looked toward the lower half of the monument.
Before long, he saw a familiar name.
Chen Tian, fifteen thousand merit points, ranked 230,000th.
"This guy's doing pretty well."
Jun Wangyou looked approvingly. A rank of 230,000 might seem low, but one had to consider how many people there were in the entire Eastern Continent.
Moreover, if Jun Wangyou's guess was correct, Chen Tian had not been fighting for very long.
This record was already quite impressive.
As he continued looking downward, Jun Wangyou's gaze suddenly sharpened.
He saw another familiar person.
Ye Chen, five thousand merit points, ranked 630,000th.
"This kid..."
Jun Wangyou's expression turned astonished. He had an exceptionally deep impression of this person.
He had not expected Ye Chen to be chosen as well, and his record was even quite good.
However, in Jun Wangyou's memory, Ye Chen's talent had not seemed particularly remarkable.
A little over a month ago, his cultivation had only been at Early Qi Refining.
Yet his current record showed that Ye Chen's strength was now far beyond that.
"In one month, an ordinary person underwent such earth-shaking changes... Damn, could this guy really be a Child of Destiny?"
Jun Wangyou's heart stirred.
He had previously suspected that Ye Chen might be a Child of Destiny.
But Ye Chen's earlier pathetic performance had dispelled that suspicion.
Yet Ye Chen's current record made Jun Wangyou increasingly certain of it.
"I hope you are. Otherwise... this world would be far too boring."
Jun Wangyou withdrew his thoughts and returned to reality.
Jun Wangyou looked at Ye Lingtian, the corners of his lips curling slightly as he said, "Second Brother, Big Brother is taking you to do something big."
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