This time, Wu Yu and Nangong Wei spent a whole year in the Unrivaled Sea of Swords. Wu Yu defeated around 100 Shadow Puppets and earned 60,000 merits, whereas Nangong Wei only defeated half of that number. However, Nangong Wei's enemies were stronger and their remains were worth more, so she obtained around 60,000 merits as well. She wanted to give these 60,000 sword cores to Wu Yu, so she framed her words differently, "This is not from my father. It's the merits that I've earned with my own hard work and I want to give them to you. You're not allowed to reject me."

Nangong Wei looked at him expectantly. She was sincere about this, so Wu Yu felt like he had to accept this “gift” from her.

Nangong Wei did not actually need to kill any Sword Puppets here. However, the fact that she did so for Wu Yu's sake was something that Wu Yu took to heart.

As such, Wu Yu now had 120,000 merits. He was richer than ever before.

He first traded 40,000 of them for immortal medicine refining materials, and the two of them returned to the Heaven's Equal Cave Abode. Nangong Wei continued to work on her second mystique, whereas Wu Yu focused on refining immortal medicines in the medicine refining room. He spent a period of two months continuously refining Golden Essence Pills and was about to repeat...