Experience had taught him never to underestimate any powerful world newly born.
You never knew just how powerful their talents might be.
Far too many powerhouses played the pig to eat the tiger.
Only fools exposed their strength.
Demon Emperor Daochen returned to the Merit Exchange and immediately exchanged his merit points for Soul-Luring Lamps.
Each cost one million merit points, but a twenty-percent discount brought the price down to eight hundred thousand.
In other words, each required at least ten Aggregates.
Moreover, Soul-Luring Lamps consumed Hongmeng liquid, which cost one hundred thousand merit points per drop and could sustain a lamp for roughly a hundred days.
After asking, the Demon Emperor learned that this batch contained ten thousand Soul-Luring Lamps.
That meant they would need to spend at least eight billion merit points.
With the consumption of Primordial Purple Qi and Hongmeng liquid added in, even eight billion merit points would not be enough.
Each person could earn roughly two hundred thousand merit points a day.
Ten thousand people would need to fight continuously for more than four days to gather enough merit points.
The Demon Emperor immediately felt a mountain of pressure weighing on him.
His trip there and back had already taken more than two days.
According to his estimates, if they went all out to earn merit points,
the Aggregates would charge at them within five days at most.
Time was desperately short.
The task was immense.
Still, over those two days, they had assembled a reserve force of thirty thousand.
The Demon Emperor changed his strategy. "Keep twenty thousand in reserve and twenty thousand on the battlefield. Stop wasting time and speed up the hunt."
"Everyone's merit points will temporarily go to the Primordial World. Once the situation stabilizes, the Primordial World will compensate you."