The Best Solution

The old wizard watched Gao Jing disappear through the doorway, an inscrutable hint of something in his eyes.

"Great Venerable."

The middle-aged wizard beside him said indignantly, "This Gao Jing—did you see his attitude? Just because he has Huo Yan backing him, he doesn't even show you any respect!"

The old wizard gave him a cool glance.

The middle-aged wizard immediately grew fearful, beads of sweat involuntarily seeping out on his forehead.

The old wizard withdrew his gaze and said with a faint smile, "Interesting."

Meanwhile, after returning to the outer hall, Gao Jing soon received his rewards.

For successfully completing this punitive expedition against the Greywing Tribe, he first received a base reward of five hundred merit points.

Everyone received this reward; no one who had contributed went empty-handed.

Then came the thirty-five hundred merit points for killing Gray Ao.

Together, those amounted to a full four thousand merit points.

But that was only the smaller portion.

The bulk came from the spoils Gao Jing had handed over. The Merit Hall exchanged them for a whopping fifty-eight thousand four hundred merit points.

His total rewards reached sixty-two thousand four hundred merit points!

Gao Jing's "purse" suddenly swelled, and he finally had enough merit points to exchange for the items he wanted.

Of course, the thing he wanted most—a seed of the Tree of Ten Thousand Ancestors—was still beyond his reach. Even ten times that amount would not suffice.

In the Judgment Pavilion's exchange catalog, a single seed of the Tree of Ten Thousand Ancestors cost as much as one million merit points!

Gao Jing doubted he could accumulate that many merit points even over several decades.

Unless he only earned them and never spent any.

But that was impossible.

After receiving his merit points, he immediately exchanged them for