Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Chapter 491: Chapter 259: Substantial Battle Merits, Successor to the Clan Leader [Subscribe Please]

The battle merit statistics of the three major sects have finally been released!

As it involved many immortal cultivation families, this time they didn’t send people to deliver messages to each family individually but instead directly announced the results of the battle merit statistics in the marketplaces everywhere, allowing any cultivator to see the results on the huge noticeboards within the marketplaces.

The Zhou Family owned shops in Hongya Marketplace, so the shopkeeper quickly copied the information concerning the Zhou Family and sent it back to the clan.

In this war against the Dragon Transformation Sect, there’s no doubt that the Zhou Family made significant contributions and achieved numerous feats.

All evidence that could prove their achievements had been submitted promptly and verified at that time.

When the statistical results came out, they were extremely satisfying and joyful.

According to the standards of the three major sects, slaying a cultivator at the beginning of the Foundation Establishment Stage or a second-rank lower-grade Demon Beast could earn two hundred battle merits, which was roughly equivalent to two thousand Spirit Coins.

A cultivator in the middle phase of the Foundation Establishment Stage or a second-rank mid-grade Demon Beast would earn three hundred battle merits, while those in the late phase of Foundation Establishment and a second-rank upper-grade Demon Beast would earn four hundred battle merits.

For cultivators in the early phase of the Purple Mansion Phase and third-rank lower-grade Demon Beasts, it would be as much as one thousand battle merits, and for those in the middle phase of Purple Mansion and third-rank mid-grade Demon Beasts, it would be one thousand five hundred battle merits.

Additionally, participating in some major tasks and submitting some important materials could earn varying amounts of battle merits.

So, the final tally was that Zhou Mingde alone obtained six thousand seven hundred battle merits. @@novelbin@@

The second in battle merits was Zhou Daoyi, who obtained four thousand six hundred fifty battle merits.

Their ability to earn so many battle merits must have come from the merits they reported during the Beast Tide and the internal dissension among the Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators at the Golden Dragon Branch Altar.

Naturally, the third in battle merits was Zhou Chun, who earned three thousand three hundred seventy battle merits.

Zhou Daoquan, who was fourth, also earned two thousand nine hundred fifty battle merits.

Zhou Chongshan, who was fifth, secured one thousand six hundred fifty battle merits.

Zhou Jiapeng, ranked sixth, obtained one thousand four hundred fifty battle merits.

Zhou Jiarui, who was seventh, garnered nine hundred eighty battle merits.

Zhou Jiahe, coming in eighth, received five hundred seventy battle merits.

Following them, every Qi Refinement Realm cultivator from the Zhou Family who participated in the war managed to gain dozens of battle merits.

The compensation for the fallen cultivators was uniformly given according to the major realm they belonged to, with their earned battle merits during their lifetime being issued to their families along with the compensation.

The compensation for a Qi Refinement Realm cultivator was fifty battle merits, for a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, it was five hundred battle merits, and for a Purple Mansion Phase cultivator, it was three thousand battle merits.

With that calculation, the Zhou Family received an additional one thousand three hundred fifty battle merits in compensation, as well as roughly another one thousand five hundred from the merits earned by the fallen cultivators before their death.

However, although the battle merit statistics have come out and the rough value of the battle merits has been announced, the reward for the battle merits has not yet been directly issued.

According to the three major sects, they themselves expended a great deal in the annihilation of the Dragon Transformation Sect, and currently, they can’t produce enough Spirit Coins and treasures to provide as rewards.

Thus, for now, only the battle merit statistics have been announced, with the specific rewards expected to be given out in the next three to five years.

In the meantime, the alchemists, artifact refiners, and talisman makers of the three major sects will fully mobilize to convert the resources obtained from the Dragon Transformation Sect and the Beast Tide into elixirs, magic artifacts, and talismans, which will then be distributed as rewards.

But the Zhou Family is somewhat special.

Because Zhou Mingde had taken the opportunity to transport a few third-rank Demon Beast corpses and inner cores, he expressed his requests to the Green Lotus Temple.

Now, he was able to use the third-rank lower-grade Azure-Eyed Civet Cat inner core and two thousand battle merits he had initially obtained to successfully exchange for the One-Horned Fire Wolf inner core, which had been slain by Master Qingling.

With the aid of this same-grade third-rank mid-grade Demon Beast Inner Core, the Fire Divine Jackal should soon ascend to become a third-rank mid-grade Demon Beast.

It’s just a pity that those fourth-rank Flood Dragon inner cores could not be exchanged, as the Zhou Family couldn’t afford them; otherwise, even if it meant selling everything they owned, they probably would have tried.

Apart from the normal battle merit statistics and compensation, the three major sects also announced another matter: currency exchange.

The “Dragon Coins” issued by the Dragon Transformation Sect could be brought to the exchange offices set up by the three major sects in the marketplaces and exchanged for Spirit Coins or accumulated as battle merits.

But the exchange rate was much lower than what Zhou Chun had initially anticipated—ten “Dragon Coins” could only be exchanged for three “Moon Coins” in circulation in Jingguo Country.

Some might wonder why the three major sects would exchange those “Dragon Coins,” expending a large number of Spirit Coins and battle merits in the process.

But if one were to thoroughly understand the sacrifices made by the various immortal cultivation families and loose cultivators during the war, there wouldn’t be any doubt.

You see, at the time of enlisting for the war, the immortal cultivation families didn’t receive any talismans or elixirs from the three major sects; they all fought with rations and weapons they provided themselves.

Take the Zhou Family, for example; to gather enough supplies for the war, they virtually emptied the personal purses of people like Zhou Chun, only managing to amass such a quantity due to their early knowledge and low purchasing prices.

Although their battle merit gain this time fully justified their expenditure, not every family achieved such a return!

And those who earned the most Spirit Coins were undoubtedly the three major sects.

Since they had collected so many Spirit Coins before the war, if they didn’t initiate such an exchange and release some Spirit Coins afterward, many immortal cultivation families, whose input greatly outweighed their gains, would surely harbor grudges.