Two Worlds: Demonic Cultivator with His Zombie Materials-Chapter 58 - 57: Slaying Demons and Accumulating Merit

Chapter 58: Chapter 57: Slaying Demons and Accumulating Merit

Life in this world nourishes with the grains of the earth.

Cultivators are no exception. Although they gain immense magical power and great divine techniques, their potential for world destruction is greater, so the karmic force on high-tier cultivators is not something ordinary people can imagine.

Generally speaking, righteous cultivators have less karmic force, while those Demon Dao Lords, the top old demons who roam the Demon Realm, have hands stained with blood, and are burdened with blood fiends.

This makes it even more difficult for them to cross the tribulation.

Heaven and earth resonate, and the thunder tribulations that strike are several times stronger than usual.

But the power of merit can eliminate the karmic force and resolve the blood fiends on cultivators, making crossing the tribulation much easier.

However, the power of merit comes from subtle resonance feedback and can’t be obtained just through sheer effort, with only high-tier cultivators paying deliberate attention.

Many low-tier cultivators have not even heard of it.

Zheng Yi also read about it in a miscellaneous book.

And superior to the power of merit is the merit golden light.

That is formed from performing deeds extremely beneficial to the Human Dao or Heavenly Dao, where resonance feedback condenses the power of merit into merit golden light.

Merit golden light offers no direct help to cultivation but is a natural nemesis to all kinds of evil karmic force, resentment, and backlash.

Zheng Yi has already seen this firsthand and personally felt that even the Yin Soldiers and Fierce Ghosts in the Soul-Catching Banner are suppressed by the golden light.

The seemingly calm and powerless golden light harbors an unimaginable purifying effect on evil traits, even resolving the blood fiend grudge power and karmic backlash that demon cultivators find most challenging.

Just this one trait is already extraordinary.

From the day he entered the demon cultivation path, Zheng Yi never imagined he would have the chance to gain the power of merit someday.

A demon cultivator full of heinous crimes and blood debts would receive the feedback of the heavenly resonance of merit power? Isn’t that a joke?

But on slight reflection, Zheng Yi found it wasn’t entirely impossible.

Ordinary demon cultivators are laden with blood fiends and karmic forces, and heaven would barely tolerate them, much less grant them merit feedback.

However, Zheng Yi is different, as he has always been committed to cultivation, rarely causing slaughter, and not harming ordinary people.

As for battles between cultivators, that’s a separate matter.

They are the parasites between heaven and earth, seldom generating blood fiend karmic force.

The true slaughter where Zheng Yi partook was during the Doomsday World, where he extensively massacred zombies and resentful ghosts.

To the normal beings of the world, this is not harmful and is beneficial instead.

"Could this power of merit stem from this?"

On careful reflection, it’s evident that in the Great Yi City Immortal Realm, where Zheng Yi was originally a Demon Dao cultivator, not doing evil is already commendable, so how could the world’s eye grant the so-called power of merit?

Yet in the Doomsday World, the targets of Zheng Yi’s slaughter were merely walking corpses and resentful ghosts devoid of self-consciousness.

These ghosts and zombies are not true beings in essence, resembling more so tiny viruses clinging to this world, spreading a plague.

To the entire normal world, they are parasites and diseases.

Slaughtering these threats to the world’s operation, invisibly, aids the world consciousness repair, hence receiving a reward isn’t too unimaginable.

Of course, this perhaps relates to Zheng Yi not being a native of this world.

As an outsider, the world consciousness may perceive him as an outer realm evil demon, akin to these zombies and fierce ghosts, all regarded as viruses.

But with Zheng Yi’s arrival in this Doomsday World, frenetically slaughtering hordes of zombies and destroying ghost nests filled with evil ghosts and resentful spirits, beneficial to the world, he thus gains the reward from the world consciousness.

This is akin to exploiting a big bug in a game.

Local natives slaying evil ghosts and zombies is a fight for survival, as their essence is inherently linked to the world.

To live, humans must first save themselves, hence heaven’s help follows.

Zheng Yi is different. He is like a mercenary from outside, working others’ tasks selflessly, naturally warranting compensation.

This is Heavenly Dao’s cycle, the world consciousness in chaos follows fixed balancing principles.

Moreover, during this period, Zheng Yi was like a huge bulldozer, eradicating swathes of zombies, demolishing demon caves, exterminating countless numbers of zombies and resentful ghosts—a vast number beyond count for sure.

Thus, cumulatively, Zheng Yi became the first to exploit this and establish a feedback loop with the world consciousness, acquiring such enormous benefits.

Eventually, due to the immense power of merit, the world’s feedback manifested as a merit seed within the Sea of Consciousness.

This is the benefit for the one who breaks new ground. If others wish to emulate Zheng Yi later, they cannot replicate this path, as the world’s self-consciousness won’t be fooled twice.

It’s like fleecing off the world’s wool—the first may succeed.

Subsequent attempts would only result in rejection.

Of course, these are not matters Zheng Yi ponders over now.

Yet, he knows one thing for sure: the power of merit is indeed a lucrative resource, the more, the better.

Though it doesn’t aid cultivation or enhance strength, the sole attribute of dissolving sinful karmic force alone is godly.

"The power of merit is truly a valuable thing. At least for now, I can use the Merit Seed within my Sea of Consciousness to continuously purify the Blood Evil Qi of the Soul-Catching Banner..."

"The Yin Soldiers and Fierce Ghosts within, under the radiance of the golden light, seem to gradually regain their senses, leaving behind mere vicious instincts."

"Moreover, it helps stabilize the Soul-Catching Banner, giving me time to continue sourcing materials for advancement."

As it stands, Zheng Yi can only think of these many things for now.

After all, although the Great Yi City Immortal Realm mentions the power of merit and merit golden light, the records are brief.

These are matters only concerning high-tier cultivators, unqualified even for Foundation Establishment Stage or Purple Mansion Stage cultivators.

Such things are of no concern to ordinary cultivators.

Zheng Yi’s state is still too low, merely in the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer, far from reaching Foundation Establishment Stage, unable to fully access the true utility of the power of merit.

However, it is certain that this merit golden light is highly useful even for Golden Core Realm cultivators and those beyond.

Knowing it’s a precious resource is sufficient. When reaching a certain realm, Zheng Yi will discover the merit golden light’s utility.

There’s no need to hurry!

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