Two Hundred and Sixteen Apertures, the Lotus Platform Mystic Body Method!

Inside the Merit Hall, the steward on duty hurriedly rose and saluted when he saw Yang Xiao enter.

Yang Xiao handed over the mission dossier and proof of Huiming's death.

"The Golden Buddha Temple has been destroyed. Its abbot, Huiming, was killed, and all the monks were captured. The full account is in the dossier."

The steward took the dossier and flipped through a few pages, surprise spreading across his face.

"Huiming was in the aperture-opening realm... Deputy General Yang killed him with his own hands?"

He looked up at Yang Xiao, a little more awe in his eyes.

"How will the Merit be calculated?"

The steward hurriedly checked the ledger. After a moment's reckoning, he answered.

"The Golden Buddha Temple mission is rated at aperture-opening realm level, with a base reward of 2,000 Merit points."

"With another 1,000 Merit points for capturing the aperture-opening realm Huiming, that comes to 3,000 points."

Yang Xiao nodded slightly.

Aperture-opening realm missions carried risks and rewards far beyond those of the liquid condensation realm.

One mission had earned him 3,000 Merit points, enough to exchange for three liquid condensation realm manuals. But for him now, aperture-opening realm techniques would be far more useful.

"One more thing,"

the steward added. "The valuables seized from the Golden Buddha Temple are worth approximately twenty thousand taels of silver. By the rules, thirty percent belongs to Deputy General Yang."

"That comes to six thousand taels of silver."

"Six thousand taels!?" Yang Xiao was stunned, the corner of his mouth twitching.

An ordinary family in Xiangyun County spent at most half a tael a month to get by. Six thousand taels could sustain them for 1,200 years. Even after becoming a deputy general, his monthly salary was only two hundred taels; earning that much would still take thirty