Terra Martial God and Merit System

"At least, I won't disappear until I make this world a better place."

"Is it okay?"

"You all know that I keep my promises."

Luo Chen patted his chest and promised. Everyone calmed down. Then Luo Chen urged them to go to work.

Tallulah gave Luo Chen a change of clothes and urged him to take a shower.

..........

"It's still not mature enough, everyone."

Luo Chen returned to the basement of the City Lord's Mansion.

He sat down cross-legged, only to feel that Kamsiko could no longer move after leaving him.

There are two ways to deal with this problem.

One is to make his subordinates mature quickly and be able to take charge of their own affairs.

This way you can go out and have fun without any worries.

But this is not very reasonable. Because they are not Luo Chen, experience and qualifications need to be cultivated bit by bit. It is impossible to achieve it overnight.

This can only be achieved little by little over time.

The other direction is much easier...

That is to let Luo Chen improve his strength.

If Luo Chen’s own strength reached a level that was unprecedented and unrivaled, he would be able to blow up Lentinim with one punch.

Then don't worry about anything.

Even when facing a powerful enemy or a fire in his own backyard, Luo Chen can suppress it with a raise of his hand.

So--

How do we do this?

The first thing Luo Chen thought of was the system's skills.

After just a few turns, he found that although these skills were powerful, they were of little use to him.

For example, this one——

[Explosive Fist: Price??? Minimum 5000 Merit]

[One-time skill. Compresses energy and releases it, causing horrific damage.]

Luo Chen asked the system and found out that if he had used this skill yesterday, he wouldn't have needed to kill anyone. He could just use a blasting punch and an army would be wiped out.

but!

To achieve this level requires tens of thousands of merits.

Even to ensure that no one survives, the merit must be at least 50,000.

Luo Chen's ultimate goal is to earn merit. After spending so much, the gain may be less than 50,000.

It is natural not to choose such a situation where the income is not enough to make ends meet.

There are many similar skills in the system. All of them are extremely powerful, but they consume a lot of merit. However, if they can be used without limit, Luo Chen would have kicked the evil demon's head like a ball long ago.

In this case, is there a way to permanently enhance one's abilities without consuming merit?

It really does.

That is.....

Luo Chen opened the lottery page.

Luo Chen hasn't participated in a lottery for a long time.

Or maybe it was just a taste of it before, and the probability of this kind of thing being completely unclear. Once you get into it, it’s bad.

"Come on..."

Luo Chen hardened his heart. "Charge!"

【Drip-】

[You have drawn a newspaper]

[The handwriting is blurred, no one knows what is written on it]

........

[You have drawn——an old T-shirt]

【100% polyester. Nothing special. 】

........

[You have drawn——Sacred Food Production Manual]

[Potatoes are truly sacred food. This manual tells you how to prepare potatoes to make them even more delicious.]

"Why aren't you coming out yet?"

Luo Chen had already drawn a full hundred shots, but his luck seemed particularly bad this time. It seemed that only rubbish was waiting for him. The only thing of some value was the recipe.

However, Luo Chen was not interested in that thing. He just took a look at it and put it aside.

Large and small pieces of junk were piled up into a small mountain in the basement. Luo Chen frowned, staring at the system screen. He kept muttering, "Get out, get out quickly!"

"By the way, can't this system block all this garbage?"

[You can choose] the system's text floats by.

"Really?" Luo Chen was stunned, "Then I will block these useless garbage... and only give me useful things."

[Please confirm the lower limit. Items exceeding the lower limit will be automatically cancelled and part of the merit will be refunded.] The text appears.

"The lower limit is..." Luo Chen thought for a moment and took out a pair of dirty-looking stockings that were lying nearby. "These stockings are useless except that they can't be torn. Let's take this as the lower limit. I don't want anything rubbishier than this."

[Rules have been loaded]

Luo Chen continued to draw the lottery, and this time the page was much cleaner. Then the screen flashed -

[You have drawn——Junior High School Autumn Uniform Jacket]

[I don't know which student dropped it on the playground. But this coat is indeed a genuine product of the high martial arts world. ]

【It has self-adaptive and self-cleaning repair functions. 】

A plain-looking black jacket appeared in front of Luo Chen. The surface of the jacket was smooth and slightly shiny. There was no extra decoration, only a low-key pocket on each side. There was a layer of fine fluff inside, which felt very comfortable.

There is a badge on the chest of the school uniform, a ferocious tiger head. It looks like a school badge or something like that.

Although Luo Chen didn’t know why someone would choose to use a tiger’s head as the school emblem.

"Junior high school uniform..." Luo Chen realized that this dress was not that simple.

So he drew out Liuyun and chopped it down directly.

"Puff." A hole was cut in the school uniform, but Luo Chen could clearly feel a sense of dullness.

You know, even if the shields of those shield guards were split in half, Luo Chen did not feel such sluggishness.

"It's really extraordinary." Luo Chen put away the knife, looked down and saw that the damage on his jacket was slowly repairing.

"Good stuff." Luo Chen picked it up and put it on. A wave-like ripple appeared on the jacket, and then it stuck to Luo Chen's body.

Luo Chen turned his attention back to the lottery page.

This dress is really useful.

During the battle, Luo Chen was confident that he could stop the frontal attack, but the aftermath was not so convenient.

In fact, some of his previous injuries were caused by some soldiers' random attacks during the chaos, which ended up hitting Luo Chen.

With this, Luo Chen no longer had to worry about those minor attacks and could instead focus on more important situations.

But it's not enough.

Luo Chen's goal is to improve his own strength. And it must be improved "substantially".

Another hundred hits were thrown in, but Luo Chen didn't see any splashes. The system didn't even bother to prompt the item. Luo Chen was a little nervous.

He pressed his temples, preparing that this lottery would only cost him 100,000 merits at most.

This is the upper limit...otherwise you will really lose a lot of money.

"When people are unlucky, it's too bad..." Luo Chen complained. Just as he was mechanically choosing the lottery, an unusual item appeared.

[You have extracted——Fragment 5 of the Advanced Meditation Manual]

[The Advanced Meditation Manual. This is the work of a philosophical master. It can help you go one step further on the path of meditation...]

[Everyone is discussing the limits of human beings. But perhaps the simple physical level cannot completely solve this problem. ]

Luo Chen searched carefully and found that he had already collected all the fragments.

So he immediately chose to load the skill.

New knowledge flowed into his brain. Luo Chen felt that his spirit became more active.

And...this knowledge is not just knowledge, it also comes with some common sense of the high-level martial arts world.

In the world of high martial arts, the practice of skills and routines is not completely necessary, or in other words, it is not the first priority.

The skill about [Cold Weapons] that Luo Chen had loaded before was also shown.

In the world of high-level martial arts, the most important thing... is 'momentum'.

The original meaning of “势” refers to the power that can suppress or control others. It is also extended to refer to the objective power that can influence and control people.

In the world of high-level martial arts, it can be understood as 'momentum'.

Whoever has stronger momentum and a more resolute heart will be stronger.

In essence...Luo Chen feels that this thing is very idealistic.

If you think about blowing someone up, you can actually blow them up. What kind of heaven-defying existence is this?

Luo Chen's ideas from his previous life made him not believe these things at first.

Moreover, many skills in the high-level martial arts world involve "divine martial arts energy", which exists objectively. Luo Chen can use merit simulation. This can't be idealistic, right?

Anyway, Luo Chen began to absorb the new knowledge of [Meditation].

The advanced version is not only able to stimulate physical growth, but also has great benefits mentally.

even.....

If it weren't for long-term meditation, many of Luo Chen's skills would not be so convenient to use.

Luo Chen could feel that if the foundation of the high-level martial arts world was idealism, then this so-called [meditation method] should be some method pointing to the core. It was the foundation of all technologies in the high-level martial arts world.

Since it is the foundation of everything... then what is Luo Chen's own 'momentum'?

[Meditation Method] shows that only by finding your own "momentum" can you truly become a strong person.

One's own momentum...is it to move forward recklessly for the sake of merit?

No! The ultimate goal is to find the true limit of human beings, and then...reach the top.

That was his ultimate goal. To reach the top! To reach the top of everything!

Not for power and fame, but just for...

Explore the limits and go beyond!

Luo Chen calmed down.

Finding one's own "momentum" cannot be achieved overnight; it requires a long time of thinking and analysis.

This is not only useful for me now, but also will be of great benefit to me even if I return to the high-level martial arts world.

After all, Luo Chen had already asked the system. It was not normal for his physical body to travel through time. Generally speaking, if he went to a high-level martial arts world, his soul would go there.

Many of the things I gained in Terra cannot be taken back with me, I can only take my soul and insights with me.

Luo Chen continued to draw, but his luck seemed to have run out.