Starting With 100 Million Lives

Brother Cheng is now a First Grade Golden Immortal.

Under the support of so many BUFFs, his full-force strike was already not something the Golden Immortal level could withstand.

Even Immortal Venerables would be at risk of their lives.

What's more, he had triggered a tenfold Critical Strike.

The outcome of the battle was never in doubt from the beginning.

He just didn't understand why these people had to foolishly come to die.

Clearly, if they hadn't come, everyone could have stayed in peace.

The Ascension Battle was over; he wasn't brutal enough to go slaughtering the Great Immortal Cities.

But he couldn't resist when the other side offered themselves up.

The originally intended desperate fight from Gui Cang, Void Abyss, and Golden Dragon King stopped.

Everyone was staring blankly at the empty hole still exuding a destructive aura...

Was it resolved just like that?

With just one sword?

Over three hundred thousand immortals annihilated all at once?

Although Sect Leader Jiang had recently taken down an Immortal Emperor, far stronger than this group of immortals.

The level of visual shock it brought was still different.

The process of taking down the Immortal Emperor was too strange for them to understand at all.

But this sword strike now was an unmistakable frontal attack.

Immediately, they noticed Sect Leader Jiang's figure beginning to blur and fade.

"Ding, the system is overloaded, entering reboot and update state in advance!"

The others didn't know this; their first reaction was that it was over.

Sect Leader Jiang was about to fall.

"Sect Leader!"

"Sect Leader Jiang!"

The crowd screamed and wept, but it was of no use.

Brother Cheng was also in pain; damn, he hadn't collected the spoils yet!

He wanted to grab a few things before falling asleep, but it was impossible.

He couldn't touch anything, nor could he affect the outside world in any way.

It was as if he was no longer in the same plane as the world before him.

He could only struggle to signal Mo Chen, Ji Linghan, and Lan Ti, reminding them to be smart, and not let the profits flow to outsiders!

But at this time, all of Feixian Sect was immersed in deep sorrow and pain.

Crying filled the sky, tears like rain, like mourning...

No one was in the mood to think about taking advantage.

Even Gui Cang, Void Abyss, and others were hit hard.

"Sect Leader..."

"No..."

When Sect Leader Jiang's figure completely disappeared from this world, many disciples of Feixian Sect even fainted.

"Sect Leader Jiang... where did he go?"

Gui Cang Sword Immortal also became lost and looked blankly into the void, seeming even older.

Bi Chang's tiger eyes welled with tears, and his clenched fists trembled involuntarily.

Void Abyss bowed his proud head and remained silent for a long time.

Who could have guessed out of nowhere this was the so-called 'healing'? They only knew Sect Leader Jiang disappeared from this world.

He was... gone.

The Three-Eyed Tiger became serious for the first time.

Silently moving all the disciples of Feixian Sect onto his back.

"Let's go, let's go!"

The Golden Dragon King sighed deeply, looking at everyone present.

"Sooner or later, other Immortal Emperors will come, and if we don't leave now, our benefactor's sacrifice will be in vain."

Only then did people start leaving Dingtian City in twos and threes.

They dispersed in all directions of the Middle Immortal Realm.

Like droplets of water merging into the sea.

Soon after they left, Dingtian City was indeed once again covered by several terrifying auras.

But the people were gone, and they gained nothing this time.

...

Jiang Cheng's consciousness gradually fell into a deep sleep.

When he awoke again, stretching casually, he felt like he'd only slept for a night.

"Ding, the system update is complete, now fully compatible with the current plane."

The familiar system prompt sounded in his mind.

"Ding, the system has converted all Points to Merit Points, as the new upgrade material."

Brother Cheng wasn't surprised at all.

Merit Points, huh, another common thing.

However, they were quite valuable: 1 Merit Point = 10 billion Points.

He seriously suspected it was because the system panel couldn't fit so many zeros, hence this superficial change.

Now he only had 535 Merit Points.

Fortunately, the next system upgrade only required 100 Merit Points.

"Ding, from now on, hosts can ask questions without spending Merit."

Brother Cheng casually grumbled: "About time!"

"Ding, due to subordinates' upgrades that earned Points, which was a system bug, it's now fixed. In the future, you'll only get one-time rewards for recruiting new subordinates."

What the hell?

What does that mean?

No more Points or Merit from disciples' upgrades in the future?

Brother Cheng was about to curse; he was counting on waking up to billions more Points.

Given Ji Linghan, Lan Ti, and others' First-class Talent, they might have leveled up several times during his slumber.

"System, come out, what's going on? What's this about a bug?"

The system responded firmly with just one line: "The host knows full well."

It really wasn't wrong.

Brother Cheng had long discovered this bug.

Improving disciples' talents and then having them level up was essentially a money-making business.

A little cost yielded hundredfold and thousandfold returns.

The keystone was, these Points required no effort from him; it was like earning while lying down.

So he had maintained the habit of enhancing one disciple's Talent daily in previous years.

Frankly, it was farming a bug.

Unexpectedly, this loophole had long been noticed by the system, no wonder it kept demanding a restart.

"Due to incomplete system causes, no penalties for the host's malicious bug exploitation; the earned profits won't be reclaimed."

Brother Cheng, irritated, retorted: "Should I thank you then?"

"To compensate, the host will have unlimited daily resurrections, up to one billion uses."

"Now that sounds like a human being."

Brother Cheng's mood slightly improved, with no limit on daily resurrections, it was much freer.

"Then how will I earn Points—Oh no, Merits— from now on?"

"Catering to the host's preference, the system has thoughtfully introduced the Shock Value feature, which will score and reward Merit based on the level of shock you cause others."

Brother Cheng was dumbfounded.

Seriously, they developed this?

The system was quite skilled.

This feature was tailor-made for someone like him, the King Bi.

He used to regret that the system didn't evaluate based on acting cool, but now they actually satisfied this desire.

He was best at astonishing others by acting cool!

Though previously annoyed by the bug fix, he immediately found joy.

"Hahaha, my parents may have given birth to me, but it's the system that truly understands me!"

"That's good, I haven't wasted my time nurturing you, little thing."

System: "..."

Looking carefully at the system panel now, there were quite a few changes.

The previous lottery function remained, and the shop allowing direct exchanges of Merit for rewards was logically present.

It featured Level 4 Rule Fragments, Level 5 Rule Fragments, Immortal Beast Essence Blood, Immortal King Level Techniques, Ninth-grade Immortal Artifacts—all in one.

After watching for a while, he silently closed the shop.

Better find someone to shock, to earn some Merit!