Helping an old lady cross the street is obviously a joke; even if it happened, it probably wouldn’t earn any merit.

After all, merit isn’t that cheap!

After numerous attempts, Guo Mo and Pan Yang ultimately confirmed that it’s indeed challenging to receive Heavenly Dao’s merit in the game "Cultivation Fantasy."

Although the channels are quite broad...

Having broad channels does not mean merit awards are like wholesale.

For example, in the Cultivation Realm, taking the most common demon slaying as an example, in order to earn merit rewards, you need to kill demons with "Karmic Force," which is a prerequisite.

After meeting this prerequisite, you must also meet another condition, which is that the player’s cultivation realm cannot be greater than the demon’s.

What does that mean?

In layman’s terms, demon slaying is meant for you to battle demons in your realm or even more powerful ones, not for mindless mowing down.

Does mowing down earn merit?

Of course it does, but the rate is so pathetic even a dog would shake its head at it; slaying a thousand low-realm demons barely earns enough to equal one of your realm.

Looking at this rate, anyone with a discerning eye knows that to earn merit, you’d better slay demons of your realm or higher, as lower realm ones are purely a waste of time.

By the way...

The merit obtained from demon slaying isn’t as high as imagined. The specific amount of merit awarded mainly depends on the extent of the demon’s karmic force and the demon’s strength.

"Killing a demon with karmic force greater than third level while crossing at least three minor realms can earn a pretty good merit reward."

Guo Mo calculated: "In other words, being at the early Qi Cultivation stage, we need to kill a demon at the full Qi Cultivation to have a fairly ideal harvest."

"Forget it!"

Upon hearing this, Pan Yang immediately chickened out, and even the viewers in Guo Mo’s streaming channel found the requirement too rigid.

Early Qi Cultivation killing full Qi Cultivation demon?

Come on, are you drunk?

How many dishes would you need to say something so outrageous? Do you know how many realms are in between? Do you know how hard it is to kill across realms?

"You can team up..."

Guo Mo also realized that wanting to slay demons and gain merits at this stage is kind of wishful thinking.

But you can team up for monster slaying; as the saying goes, many ants can bite an elephant to death. Teaming up with several players to fight demons across realms shouldn’t be a problem.

"What’s the use? So many people teaming up for the kill, and when the merit reward is divided, you still get very little..."

Pan Yang felt it would be better to focus on improving the cultivation realm honestly, consider all this when stronger.

"Leveling is leveling, but I think merit still needs to be worked on; otherwise, the item drop rate is appalling and also low experience efficiency!"

Guo Mo had a different opinion.

He felt that since merit has many wonders, it should be accumulated now and increased later.

If you don’t work hard now, when you need merit later, it’ll be too late to start accumulating it; after all, it’s quite a lengthy process.

"Sounds good, who doesn’t know merit is useful? But the game just launched, where are you gonna get merit?"

"Forget it, you play around yourself."

Pan Yang didn’t want to waste time on such pointless things; he wanted to quickly level up and reach mid Qi Cultivation to play dungeons with friends.

The two officially parted ways.

Pan Yang wanted to explore the secret realms quickly, so he’s focused on leveling and dismisses merit rewards.

While Guo Mo firmly believed merit was the most crucial in "Cultivation Fantasy." Falling behind in realm and strength early isn’t an issue, but merit must be earned.

Forget about demon slaying.

Being in the early Qi Cultivation, just embarked on the cultivation path as a rookie, can’t even protect himself, let alone others.

Then just try wandering around various towns or sect maps, looking for opportunities to do good deeds!

The scope of good deeds is vast.

Plus, the game’s judgment is quite sensitive, with high player freedom, which makes Guo Mo find it quite interesting to explore.

For instance, while wandering around a town map, he randomly helped an old man retrieve a cat, and this mission was even judged as a good deed.

Unfortunately, no merit.

But this gave Guo Mo some inspiration, prompting him to search for more opportunities in the game to do good deeds, hoping to trigger Heavenly Dao rewards.

"Oh! It’s three in the afternoon?"

Unbeknownst to him, Guo Mo had been playing the game for six hours, and it was now the afternoon.

Stretching lazily, Guo Mo also didn’t plan to continue playing, as he was hungry by then. As they say, ’humans are like iron, food is like steel, skip a meal and one gets hungry’; there’s no sense in playing games with an empty stomach.

"See you folks tonight!"

"I’ll head off for now; I’ll explore ’Cultivation Fantasy’ later. Everyone do your own thing..."

After bidding farewell to the live viewers, Guo Mo closed the streaming channel.

He has a habit; each time he ends a stream, he opens the computer’s task manager to see what software is still running in the background, especially streaming and recording software.

This is something every streamer does.

Don’t ask why he developed this habit; just know that the streaming circle has had many jokes due to lack of attention in closing software in the background.

Some singing streamer forgot to close OBS and other streaming software after finishing - she thought the stream had ended, but viewers who stayed in the room couldn’t see her image but could still hear sounds.