Two days later, across the boundless Quicksand Wasteland, two dusty figures trekked forward through the sand.0

"This isn't working. These scattered enemies out here are getting rarer. If we keep hunting like this, there's no way we'll collect another two thousand!" Chu Kui growled, clearly agitated. His expression was dark; clearly, he was frustrated.0

Luo Chen silently tallied their current merit points. After many days of effort, he and Chu Kui had managed to accumulate a full eight thousand points. It was an astonishing feat. It meant that dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators had already died at their hands. From surprise attacks and ambushes to frontal assaults and even kill-steals, they'd used nearly every tactic available, yet it still wasn't enough.0

Chu Kui muttered darkly, "Before long, you're going to leave the frontlines and head to the rear. Based on your analysis, once the Four-Sect Alliance takes the eighth mountain, they'll probably...1