Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

Merit-------

What can it be used for?

Gu Qing Shan silently asked in his mind.

But no red text appeared to answer him.

The Highest Sequence didn't answer his question.

The Sequence was still in a slumbering state that can only randomly appear to inform him with some basic knowledge.

In that case, the only other choice is-------

Gu Qing Shan took out the Book of the Sea again and asked it the same question.

The Book of the Sea said: [This is a very crucial question, I can only tell you the current usage of Merit, which will cost you another day's worth of wealth]

"Then, I'll owe you 3000 years and two days' worth of wealth?" Gu Qing Shan asked.

[Correct] the Book of the Sea answered.

"Deal" Gu Qing Shan readily agreed.

After all, I already owe it so much, one more or one less day of wealth is nothing.

Lines of text written in common human language then appeared on the Book of the Sea:

[The Five Elements are rampaging, the ten spirits became demons, the Human realm had just been established, and the Samsara had begun]

[After Chosen Saints accumulate a certain amount of Merit, they will awaken their own Samsara Divine Skills and cause it to undergo new changes]

Samsara Divine Skills?

Gu Qing Shan's eyes suddenly became sharp as he quickly recalled this matter.

The first step of participating in the Samsara Clash for Supremacy was to achieve Impossibly Unknown realm.

Once they reached this realm, each Chosen Saint would be able to convert one of their Thaumaturgies into a Samsara Divine Skill.

-----indeed, a Samsara Divine Skill!

When I gave up on choosing the Huang Quan realm to choose the Wraith realm, my fully evolved [Dreamjolt] Thaumaturgy had fused with the unfathomable ultimate Guise Hex [Past Wraithy Form] to create the Wraith realm Samsara Divine Skill: [Mountain Wraith]

At the time, the UI had reminded me that since I was the only Chosen Saint of the Wraith Realm, this Iris Technique was a Divine Skill that the Wraith realm's essence had fully supported to manifest.

Under the current circumstances, all of the Chosen Saints' powers had been tightly sealed away, so if I could awaken the Wraith realm Divine Skill [Mountain Wraith], I would be able to win no matter who I face!

Gu Qing Shan then started making more considerations.

-----strange.

That County Magistrate was clearly a Chosen Saint, so why didn't he use Merit to awaken his original Samsara Divine Skill?

While he was thinking that, another line of text written in common human language appeared on the Book of the Sea:

[Every Chosen Saint will need 100 points of Merit in order to awaken a Samsara Divine Skill]

[This is a secret that cannot be arbitrarily revealed, revealing it would result in the total subtraction of one's Merit]

100 points!

Gu Qing Shan was completely speechless.

Killing a Lizard of Three Yin only earned me one point of Merit.

Without Ye Fei Li, as a Chosen Saint whose power had been sealed away, what kind of price would I have had to pay in order to kill that lizard?

------I wouldn't have been able to.

I might have even lost my life.

It was only because I had Ye Fei Li carry me around that I managed to evade its attacks so easily, and it still ended with our lives barely hanging by a thread when I managed to kill it.

This single point of Merit was obtained through braving indiscernible danger, and you're telling me a total of one hundred points would be necessary?

-------in other words, I need to kill one hundred Lizards of Three Yin.

That's an impossible mission.

But only by completing such an impossible mission would one be able to awaken their Divine Skill!

No wonder that County Magistrate was no match for me.

Gu Qing Shan suddenly realized something.

From the looks of it, there had actually been many Chosen Saints who were already eliminated at this step.

-----only those who had awoken Samsara Divine Skills would be qualified to kill more powerful monsters, stabilize the rampaging Five Elements, and settle the chaos in the Human realm.

As time goes by, the strong would only grow stronger, while the weak would remain weak.

Comparatively.

If the County Magistrate had earned a hundred points of Merit and was successful in awakening his Samsara Divine Skill, what chance would I have against him?

I would have been killed as soon as I saw him!

Other than that, there is another crucial point.

I only managed to learn of this secret through the Soul Artifact of the Water Pillar of the Four Saint Pillars------ the Book of the Sea.

-----how many Chosen Saints would be clueless about this secret itself?

After all, anyone who knows about this secret would have to give up all of their Merit in order to reveal it to someone else.

This represents the fact that the Samsara forbids anyone from arbitrarily discussing the topic of Merit.

--------not to mention how no one would ever discuss it!

Gu Qing Shan suddenly felt his back being drenched in cold sweat as he silently felt relieved, then heavily sighed.

"…Who would have thought? So it has already begun" he muttered.

"What?" Ye Fei Li asked.

"It's nothing" Gu Qing Shan shook his head.

The Samsara has been reset.

The Human realm has yet to be settled.

But the Samsara Clash for Supremacy has already begun.

It was using an exceptionally harsh method to filter out the majority of Chosen Saints, leaving only the exceptional seeds and candidates behind.

This entire process was silent, without any warnings, cold, and cruel.

Only the tiny portion of those who are truly exceptional would be able to obtain an almost insurmountable advantage from the very beginning.

Those who had awoken Divine Skills would wield the right to kill in their hands and command all other Chosen Saints.

While other Chosen Saints would still be obscured in the fog, clueless of what they need to do.

With that in mind, Gu Qing Shan felt some clarity.

Just as Li An had said, I already arrived late, so if I can't immediately set out and move forward, I wouldn't have a chance.

I need to seize my time…

As he was thinking this, Ye Fei Li suddenly asked: "What are we eating tonight?"

Gu Qing Shan regained his senses and asked: "Are you hungry?"

Ye Fei Li rubbed his belly and grinned: "Not especially hungry, just that I want to eat something since it's rare for me to be awake"

Gu Qing Shan checked his rations bag and said: "I have a few steamed buns here, let's have one each, then we're heading out to kill the next monster"