Under the empowerment of 9.8 billion merit points, he found it hard to believe how fast his movement technique could be. The scholar's sword definitely couldn't catch up to him. He was sure he'd need a lot of defensive magical treasures to handle it; otherwise, with such speed, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to control himself and might end up crashing to his death.
This wasn't an impossible occurrence.
In fact, one could say there was a high probability of it happening.
In the end,
As the ten breaths were about to end, he chose the "Merit Protection" entry. Not too shabby; he was quite satisfied with it. Although this entry didn't seem of much use now, when he broke through to a higher realm later and faced the Heavenly Tribulation, it would show its true value.
It could be considered a long-term entry.
After selecting the entry,
