Prepare for War

This time, Chen Xiaobei did not absorb the blood essence and the souls of the dozen of men. He chose to claim the merit points instead. 

He had done so because he had already used up a sum of merit points to purchase the raw ingredients to make Heavenly Dog Biscuits. After killing Yap Tianlin and his men, not only was he able to replenish all of the merit points that he had used, he was able to earn a little extra.

After he had spoken to Xiao Tianquan, Chen Xiaobei discovered that merit points were very important. But it was equally essential to absorb blood essence and souls to power up his Chaos Blood Sword. This created a 'can't have your cake and eat it' problem. Chen Xiaobei could only choose one or the other. That meant that he had to give up one for the other.

But Chen Xiaobei did not make a fuss of it.