Military merit was soon disbursed, and most of the Third Squad received rewards.
Since Carson Flores had previously expressed a desire to exchange military merit for training within the Spirit Ascension Array, his military merit reward was straightforward.
“Reward Carson Flores with two months of training within the Spirit Ascension Array!”
Carson Flores heard the reward, showing no reaction, but beside him, Carradine and others exclaimed, their eyes filled with envy.
Carson Flores turned his head, surprised, and asked, “Why are you all looking like that?”
Carradine chuckled, “The Spirit Ascension Array enhances power extremely quickly. Normally, entry is calculated by the day, but you get two months all at once! How could one not be envious?”
Carson Flores had no specific concept of the Spirit Ascension Array, curiously asking, “To what level can one cultivate in two months? Let’s say using my Lower Grade Grand Luo Initial Immortal level as an example.”
Carradine replied, “Typically, in the Spirit Ascension Array, half a year would reach the bottleneck of Lower Grade Grand Luo Initial Immortal level!”
Carson Flores widened his eyes, “That fast?”
Jarett Roth laughed, “Yes, that fast! Otherwise, why do so many people want to use military merit to gain entry into the Spirit Ascension Array?”
Being a Grand Luo Initial Immortal is already the peak of immortals. Normally, reaching perfection at a minor realm and approaching the bottleneck requires hundreds of years, even longer in cultivation, but in the Spirit Ascension Array, it only requires half a year!
It’s easy to imagine that for anything below Grand Luo Initial Immortal, the time required might be even shorter!
For levels like Golden Immortal and Celestial Level, it might only take three to five days to advance one realm. How could such speed not drive people crazy?
Carson Flores asked curiously, “The Spirit Ascension Array helps enhance power; are there military merit rewards that help comprehend a breakthrough?”
Jarett Roth replied, “Of course there are, but exchanging for these things requires a lot more military merit. After all, enhancing is easy, breaking through is hard. Enhancing can be slowly endured over long years, but breaking through can’t be achieved just by waiting. Without opportunities or the aid of breakthrough-promoting Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, one could remain stuck at the bottleneck for life, never progressing.”
Carson Flores’s eyes lit up.
Can breakthrough-assisting Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures be exchanged?
With a smile, Carradine said, “Sect Master, don’t get too excited yet. Breakthrough items are relatively rare, and they’re more targeted at lower-level immortals. For someone like you, Grand Luo Initial Immortal, breakthrough items are extremely rare. Unless you have a lot of military merit, they’re basically unattainable.”
Yackey Decker chimed in, “It’s said that in the garden’s small lake behind the War God Mansion, there are Heavenly Immortal Lotuses; their lotus seeds can aid in comprehending the Heavenly Dao to facilitate a breakthrough, but to exchange for a lotus seed, you must slay at least dozens of Demon Lords on the battlefield. Only then is it somewhat possible…”
Carson Flores widened his eyes, Heavenly Immortal Lotus Seed?
Dozens of Demon Lords?
When I boldly asked Norric for a Heavenly Immortal Lotus Seed, he casually gave me one. Originally, I thought it was just a stroke of luck, but now it seems Norric acknowledged my achievements of slaying hundreds of the Demon Race, disrupting their teleportation plans, preventing rivers of blood in the Bitter Sea Immortal Domain, and averting a dual-front war between the Immortal Realm. That’s why he gave it to me.
If I hadn’t been bold enough to ask, I wouldn’t have gotten the seed!
Killing dozens of Demon Lords for one seed? Earlier, during a sudden attack with fifty Great Demons charging, although I killed quite a few Demon Lords and weaker Demon Race members, nearly twenty Demon Lords managed to escape.
Demon Lords aren’t that easy to kill!
So, calculating roughly, even with two months of training in the Spirit Ascension Array, I might not be able to trade for one seed.
My journey to the Bitter Sea Immortal Domain definitely paid off!
“Since military merit has arrived, I won’t waste time, I’ll head to the Spirit Ascension Array for training!”
Carradine laughed, “Sect Master, wait a moment, let me organize who will go for training, and you can take them together.”
“Alright!”
Soon, a fifty-person team set out from the camp, heading toward the War God Mansion.
Carradine and others had battle achievements, but their strength had already reached the superior bottleneck. Without the chance to become Quasi-Saint, their power would remain stagnant for life. Thus, they naturally didn’t need training; military merit was exchanged for other rewards instead.
Military merit at the War God Mansion can be exchanged for everything an immortal needs—cultivation resources, magical treasure for cultivation, cultivation technique manuals, etc. As long as you have enough military merit, anything can be exchanged. Even cultivation techniques from the Demon Race can be exchanged.
From repeated Immortal Demon Wars, War God Mansion has collected numerous Demon Race-related items, although most immortals find them unusable or unsuitable.
Carson Flores led the team to the city, bypassing the War God Temple, arriving at an impeccably guarded, towering Bronze Great Hall.
Spirit Ascension Hall!