63: Chapter 63 Territory Coordinates, Merit Ranking

It had been ten days since Lin Xiao last opened the regional channel.

His private messages were still overflowing.

He continued to clear them all with a single click.

Only then did Lin Xiao begin to review the messages from the past ten days to understand the situation outside.

"Yun Zhiyue and the others have already upgraded to Level 3 territories, and thirty of them promoted simultaneously."

"A trap?"

Jin Ruxuan, Qin Yiyi, Wei Xuanqi, and others had sent many messages. Among them, the most significant news was naturally the upgrade of Yun Zhiyue and her group, as well as the matter of the trap.

Opening the prodigy ranking to take a look, sure enough, there were already thirty-one Prodigies with Level 3 territories.

A look of realization appeared on Lin Xiao's face: "No wonder I always felt that the invasions by the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race were all thunder but little rain."

In the past ten days, he had only been invaded four times, once by each race.

This frequency of invasion was not low, but given the current situation where the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race were going all out to hunt down Prodigies, it was undoubtedly too low.

Based on Pang Lingfeng's situation, the number of invasions on Lin Xiao's territory should have been at least several dozen times.

"Using me as bait."

"What nerve."

Lin Xiao's gaze turned cold, and a murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

Yun Zhiyue and the others chose to upgrade to Level 3 territories and fell into the trap; that was their own choice, and Lin Xiao would not force himself to take the blame for it.

But the fact that the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race were actually using him as bait to entrap Human Race Prodigies...

They simply didn't take him seriously.

Lin Xiao could not tolerate this.

He had to strike back hard.

Of course, saying that was one thing, but Lin Xiao did not act in haste.

As the main combat force, the Burning Sky Flame Dragons had a limited number of times they could summon Meteorites. Even if he had unlocked the barracks technology to accelerate mana recovery and equipped them with items to restore mana, it was impossible for them to use their skills frequently.

Therefore, the targets he chose to attack should preferably be veteran lords and top-tier lords.

They posed the greatest threat to the Human Race, and at the same time, the rewards for eliminating them were the best.

If there were a few more like Yager, he would be soaring directly.

However, Lin Xiao did not have the territory coordinates of those veteran lords and top-tier lords from the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race. If he searched randomly, even with keywords and spending a large amount of Source Crystals for a targeted search, there was a high probability that he would only invade ordinary lords.

After all, whether they were Second-Tier Lords or Third-Tier Lords, the number of ordinary lords was the largest.

"I'm back."

Opening the dialogue box, Lin Xiao sent a message to Jin Ruxuan.

Jin Ruxuan still had a Level 2 territory, and at this moment, he had not been invaded. As a merchant lord, he was online most of the time, so he saw Lin Xiao's message immediately.

"That's great, Lin Xiao, have you dealt with the invaders?"

"But you need to be careful from now on. The Purgatory Race and the Sin Race's trap has been triggered; they certainly won't let you go and will significantly increase their invasions against you."

"They might have already pinpointed your territory coordinates."

"If there's anything you need help with, just say the word."

Jin Ruxuan quickly sent a string of messages.

Lin Xiao shook his head; he didn't say much else: "Do you have the territory coordinates of those alien lords who destroyed the Jinshi Chamber of Commerce?"

"I don't want the ordinary ones; you handle the ordinary lords yourselves. I only want the veteran lords and top-tier lords."

"You..."

Seeing Lin Xiao's words, Jin Ruxuan's pupils contracted sharply.

Did Lin Xiao mean that he was preparing to take action against the alien lords who destroyed the Jinshi Chamber of Commerce?

But how was that possible?

In Jin Ruxuan's view, because Lin Xiao had been acting as bait, although he hadn't suffered too many invasions, his overall development wouldn't be very good, and he would face crazy invasions next.

Just being able to save his life under the siege of the Purgatory Race and Sin Race lords would require his full effort.

How could he have any spare capacity to invade others?

Lin Xiao remained silent, simply urging him to send the territory coordinates.

With no other choice, Jin Ruxuan could only send over the territory coordinates of a few alien lords, all of whom were the weakest veteran lords he had selected.

Those veteran lords and top-tier lords who had stayed in the First Source Sea for years, or even decades, had experienced countless invasion battles, some victories and some defeats.

Even if there were undefeated top-tier lords, their territories had long since been targeted, investigated, and located.

For a major faction Prodigy like Jin Ruxuan, obtaining their territory coordinates was by no means difficult.

"No more nonsense; just watch what happens next."

"Remember our contract."

After saying this, Lin Xiao closed the dialogue box.

The next person to contact was Qin Yiyi.

Before he could speak, he saw a message full of shock sent by Qin Yiyi.

"Lin Xiao, you actually made it onto the Merit Ranking!"

"Merit Ranking?"

Lin Xiao was stunned; he had never heard of any Merit Ranking, and when did he get on it?

Under Qin Yiyi's explanation, he finally understood what was going on.

The Merit Ranking was not a list similar to the prodigy ranking, but a special building.

It was not in the First Source Sea, nor the Second or Third Source Sea, but located in the Main World.

The ability of the Merit Ranking was very simple and singular. It could detect invasions and wars conducted by all Human Race lords located in the Chaos Source Sea. As long as a kill occurred, it would grant corresponding merit based on certain criteria.

"Even if this Merit Ranking isn't Mythical grade, it must be top-tier Legendary grade."

Lin Xiao gasped. To be able to detect the invasions and wars of all Human Race lords in the Chaos Source Sea—what kind of great power was this?

"Lin Xiao, you are the first among this batch of lords to obtain merit."

Qin Yiyi was incredibly shocked.

Merit was extremely hard to come by.

The standard set by the Lord Association for the Merit Ranking was that one must kill enemy lords who met the requirements to obtain the corresponding merit.

This standard was very high.

Taking the First Source Sea as an example, one had to kill veteran and top-tier Third-Tier Lords, as well as Prodigies on the prodigy ranking, to gain merit.

Ordinary Third-Tier Lords, as well as lords below the Third-Tier, would not grant merit unless they were Prodigies.

From this, it was evident how high the difficulty of obtaining merit was.

Since merit was so hard to come by, its value naturally lived up to that difficulty.

Every point of merit was equivalent to 10 million Source Crystals.

Of course, no one would ever use merit to exchange for Source Crystals; that would be too wasteful.

The true function of merit was to exchange for various rare treasures in the Merit Treasury.

World Wonders, Legendary grade items, high-tier Heaven And Earth Treasures that increased attributes, rare special buildings, etc.—these things could not be found on the market at all, but as long as one had enough merit, they could be exchanged in the Merit Shop.

"There's such a good thing?"

Lin Xiao was pleasantly surprised. Killing the veteran and top-tier lords of the Purgatory Race and the Sin Race would not only allow him to continuously receive investment from the Lord Association but also grant him additional merit.

Double the benefits; wasn't that a win-win?

Originally, Lin Xiao was still considering that while it was simple for him to eliminate enemy lords, proving that it was his doing was not so easy. Now, with the Merit Ranking, he didn't have to worry about his battle achievements being swallowed up.