Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 370 - 24: Is His Speed of Advancement in Military Merit Reasonable?

Chapter 370: Chapter 24: Is His Speed of Advancement in Military Merit Reasonable?

[Divine Might Army Zhao Xing, you completed the planting of ’Desert Elemental Fruit’ (20,000 pieces), gaining 10,000 merit points (this task cannot be submitted again this month).]

[Divine Might Army Zhao Xing, you completed the planting of ’Golden Radiance Pillar’ (1,000 roots), gaining 10,000 merit points (this task cannot be submitted again this month).]

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The notifications from the Earth Mirror rapidly flashed by, and in the blink of an eye, when the tally was complete, Zhao Xing had increased by 71,000 merit points.

"Patti, you have given such a generous gift."

"I will look for a chance to send more Sha Clan people down, let them accompany you."

Looking at the increased merit points, Zhao Xing couldn’t help but feel moved.

Sha Clan’s Patti, after raiding two cities, swept everything from the internal treasury, including the Minister of Agriculture’s internal treasury in the cities.

Originally, these were materials for other military town Ministers of Agriculture to complete tasks, but now Zhao Xing got them all cheaply.

71,000 merit points!

To kill a Seventh Grade Earth Evil Realm Perfection, one would need to kill 18 of them!

The initial stage of the Earthly Evil Realm, it would require killing 71 of them!

At this stage, the seventh-grade was the second-tier battle strength, either chief generals or deputy generals, staying within defensive fortresses, not that easily killed.

This wave of Zhao Xing directly fattened him up.

"Robbing indeed is faster."

Looking at the merit points rising rapidly, Zhao Xing laughed happily.

Ordinary raids on various tribes in the Southern Desolate now would not yield much merit, and killing people might not be this fast.

It was only Patti and his three brothers who first raided two other cities of Great Zhou, and before they could deal with the spoils, they were killed by Zhao Xing.

"Let’s see my ranking."

When the task notifications from the Earth Mirror stopped refreshing, Zhao Xing immediately opened the merit ranking list.

[Divine Might Army Zhao Xing, seventh-rank official]

[Merit: 86,000]

[Overall ranking: 65,712]

"Over 60,000th place?"

"Before arriving, it was still over five millionth place, now it directly surpassed more than five million people."

"Overall ranking over 60,000th, even surpassing some sixth-rank ones, but now the court is continuously adding troops, the competition is intense." Zhao Xing thought.

At the beginning of the Pacifying Barbarian Battle Merit List, the number of participants was around seven million.

At that time, Zhao Xing had not yet exited his seclusion.

A month later, the number had doubled, approaching fifteen million.

It kept increasing, at its peak, the total number exceeded fifty million!

The expedition was effective, the training efficiency high, and the Military Realm kept adding soldiers to expand the war results.

Although nominally still five Grotto Heavens, it had already filled many people within.

Everyone wanted to fight in an advantageous situation, and various princes also requested to join the battle, sending their soldiers into the fray.

Causing the numbers to increase rapidly.

"Soon, the number of sixth-rank officials will increase from fifty thousand to over sixty thousand."

"Seventh-rank officials from two hundred thousand to one and a half million."

"Eighth and ninth ranks combined, exceeding thirty million."

"By the end of Jingxin’s eighteenth year, this number surpassed fifty million."

"Officials from ninth to seventh rank are all low-tier battle strength, only sixth rank is considered mid-tier, so the increase in sixth rank is not much, the Military Realm intentionally controlled the pace, even at its peak, it never exceeded eighty thousand." Zhao Xing thought.

"Let’s check the seventh-rank list."

[Divine Might Army Zhao Xing, seventh-rank official]

[Merit: 86,000]

[Seventh-rank merit list ranking: 4,524]

"Already in the top five thousand." Zhao Xing thought. "The number one in the seventh-rank merit list, Qi Yuan Army, their merit exceeded 330,000, really exaggerated, in less than a day, they increased by over sixty thousand."

The strong remained strong, the top-ranked seventh-rank officials were basically frontline chief generals, strong armies.

Charging at the frontline, fighting in advantageous situations, gaining merit quickly.

"Dropped twelve ranks in the blink of an eye." Zhao Xing thought as his ranking dropped twelve places.

"Now my primary tasks, because of these materials, are mostly completed."

"Next, quickly complete this month’s primary tasks, max out the basic merit, and then start preparing to complete ’general tasks’ for extra merit, general tasks are where the gap stretches, they are hard, but can be repeatedly done."

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South of Canglan River, Tiger Flood Dragon Army war zone.

City No. 162.

Zhuang Ziqing was planting ’Spiritual Wing Bamboo’ in the city, the main material for creating ’Silver Wing Battle Armor’, which allowed the Martial Artist to have the ability to fly.

The fourth-rank Spiritual Wing Bamboo could bring a hundred merit points for each piece, Zhuang Ziqing was planting a bamboo grove, but only a small portion reached the fourth-rank.

Previously, Zhuang Ziqing had fought two encirclement battles with the Tiger Flood Dragon Army Guard Hong unit, but later was assigned here as the Agricultural Supervision Order.

The Tiger Flood Dragon Army was a strong military unit, and although Zhuang Ziqing had talent, he still could not compare to those veteran seventh-rank Ministers of Agriculture. Seeing he couldn’t get big merit, he voluntarily applied to return to the city to farm.

"Li Feng, Feng Qiu." Zhuang Ziqing called his two Assistant Officers. "Take a break, no need to push so hard, you have been working for twenty-four hours straight without rest."

Li Feng and Feng Qiu, both from the Tiger Flood Dragon Army, were now assisting Zhuang Ziqing as Assistant Officers. As for Shi Yong, he was with the Tiger Flood Dragon Army fighting on the front line.

"I can still go on." Feng Qiu said indifferently.

Li Feng also didn’t stop, continuing to cast spells.

They both had followed and fought twice alongside Zhuang Ziqing, only to be sent back later.

Unlike Zhuang Ziqing, Li Feng and Feng Qiu were persuaded to come back.

Because on the front line, they couldn’t play a significant role.

In a strong military unit with abundant talent, the two newly trained Ministers of Agriculture from Ten Suns Cave Heaven’s reserve geniuses found their competitiveness weakened compared to veteran seventh-rank individuals on the battlefield.