Chapter 2: Pressing 1 can add merit!

Merit Lin Muyu?

What kind of thing is this?

Lin Mo was stunned for a moment, then reacted, taking a deep breath:

"Hiss~! Could this be the golden finger that arrived eighteen years late?"

He saw that in his field of vision, a screen similar to a holographic projection had actually appeared.

And in the screen, except for a small but simple-looking wooden fish, there was nothing else.

This is a wooden fish?

What's the use?

Doubt arose in Lin Mo's heart. He tentatively reached out his hand, wanting to touch the small wooden fish on the projection, and then he saw a prompt refresh on the screen when his finger just touched the wooden fish:

【Do you want to press 1 to knock the wooden fish?】

Ah, this...

Is it really praying to Buddha online!?

The next second, his finger bent slightly and then straightened—press 1.

"Dong!"

A crisp and pleasant knocking sound entered his ears, followed by the message on the interface refreshing again:

【Ding! Merit +1】

As the prompt floated up, Lin Mo only felt a warmth all over his body, and his pores seemed to open up.

"Hoo hoo~!"

The summer night breeze brushed past his face, and a few beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Although his body didn't seem to have changed much, his head, which had been numb from the hard cultivation during late-night self-study, instantly regained a trace of clarity.

Good fellow, pressing 1 can really add merit?

Lin Mo was a bit surprised in his heart.

You must know that the so-called 【Merit】 is not only real in "After the Great Desolation," but it is also a "top-level resource" that ancient Great Desolation powers fight over.

Under normal circumstances, only some great cultivators who accumulate virtue and do good can obtain this "scarce resource" of merit.

The legendary Supreme Mother was the one who accumulated merit by creating humans, and finally attained sainthood through merit, achieving the position of one of the six saints of the heavens.

"So I can also attain sainthood through merit?"

Lin Mo thought of this possibility, and his heart suddenly became hot.

Then, he reached out his finger again to click on the small wooden fish on the interface.

【Ding! Cooling countdown: 29, 28, 27...】

The prompt refreshed.

Well, there is a cooldown...

Lin Mo touched his chin. Counting the time he just thought, the cooldown time is about 1 minute?

Will the cooldown time stack?

He stared intently at the countdown on the interface, and in the last second of the countdown, he reached out and quickly clicked on the wooden fish twice.

【Ding! Merit +1】

【Ding! Cooling time: 59, 58, 57...】

One minute.

Moreover, the cooling time did not stack up.

Lin Mo tried a few more times and found that the cooling time did not change each time.

So he was very certain that the cooling time was a constant 1 minute.

Then, calculated this way, he can knock 60 times an hour, and 1440 times a day.

Even if he excludes eating, sleeping, and all unavoidable factors, he can still accumulate about 1000 merit points!

Lin Mo said "Wuhu," and then lowered his head and pondered.

Then the question comes—

How much merit value is needed to attain sainthood through merit?

Lin Mo thought for a long time but couldn't get an answer.

Mainly because there is a lack of reference objects, he can't go to the Nuwa Temple to ask the Saint Mother, right?

He thought while walking home.

Of course, the finger placed on the interface did not stop the action of "pressing 1."

【Merit +1】

【Merit +1】

【...】

Along the way, prompts kept refreshing on the interface.

By the time he returned home, the merit on his panel had accumulated to 29 points.

Lin Mo was a day student. His parents rented a small single room for him in the city, which was only about half an hour's walk from Nanshan No. 4 High School.

This distance is too short to take a car, and too far to walk. The main reason is that the rent is cheap.

By the time he was about to walk to the residential area, he suddenly glanced at the time on his phone—

"It's 11 o'clock!"

He woke up from the interface and looked up at the gate of the residential area.

Old Man Qin, the gatekeeper, clearly saw him, but still resolutely chose to close the gate and lock it.

"Hehe."

Lin Mo was already used to this situation.

He lived in an old-fashioned residential area, and there wasn't even a smart access control.

So the old man guarding the gate used his own schedule as an excuse to set a "curfew" of 11 o'clock at night for the entire residential area.

Anyone who enters the residential area after this time must pay one yuan.

It's called compensating for his "mental loss."

Lin Mo curled his lips, skillfully walked a few steps faster, walked to the gate of the residential area, and first glanced at the old man who was pretending to walk into the guard room but hadn't started resting yet.

"Old Man Qin, tsk tsk~!"

He took out a coin, reached out a hand through the gap in the gate, and shook it, just like teasing a dog.

Sure enough, a moment later, Old Man Qin with a gloomy face walked out of the guard room.

"Don't come back so late in the future!"

Old Man Qin snatched the coin unhappily, but still skillfully opened the lock.

And the couple behind him who wanted to take the opportunity to slip in were blocked outside the gate again by his quick eyes and hands.

"What are you doing, what are you doing? Pay up! One yuan each!"

You are still you, old man. Even at 11 o'clock at night, your eyesight is still so good, and you won't let any fish slip through the net.

"You're already up, why do we still have to pay?"

The yellow-haired boy was clearly unconvinced and wanted to use his flexible figure to cross the old man and squeeze into the gate on the spot.

But he didn't expect to be blocked outside by Lin Mo, who was one step ahead.

The yellow-haired boy looked at Lin Mo in surprise.

The latter also glanced over at the same time; did this mere little yellow-hair think he could get a free ride from me?

Before the yellow-haired boy could react, the old man seized the opportunity, put his hands on his waist, stood horizontally at the gate, held his head high and chest out, and started to confront him, having a sense of "my rules are rules."

The old man looked at him with apparent gratitude.

Lin Mo chuckled in his heart, hiding his merit and fame.

If it were normal, he would definitely stop and eat some melon.

But now merit is the most important thing. He was too lazy to listen to the couple and the old man's battle, walked straight through the atrium of the residential area, and ran quickly toward the old-fashioned building on the right.

Stomp to control the lights, go upstairs and open the door...

Done in one go.

The whole process took less than thirty seconds, just in time to reach the last second of the countdown on the interface, and press 1 again.

【Merit +1】

The message prompt refreshed.

Perfect!

Lin Mo hooked the corner of his mouth. Although he didn't know what the specific effect of merit was, in short, just keep "+1" and it will be right.

The rented room is the simplest small suite. Although it is an old-fashioned residential area, it basically has all the necessary appliances and furniture.

He washed up and went to bed skillfully, and of course, he wouldn't forget to keep "pressing 1" during the process.

By the time he finished everything, the merit value on his interface had accumulated to 35 points.

Then...

He began to stare at the merit value on the interface in a daze.

What can this thing be used for?

Lin Mo propped his chin and fell into thought.

Mainly because the problems involved in merit are too high-end, and he, a little shrimp who hasn't even completed Qi Refinement Level 2, really has no ideas.

If merit can really attain the holy fruit, the merit value required must also be massive, not just these dozens of points on the panel.

"Good fellow, I have the golden finger, at least give me an instruction manual!"

Lin Mo couldn't help but complain, then opened his personal panel and found the new attribute column—

【Merit】: 42

It seems that the Merit Lin Muyu and the cultivation system interface are connected...

He thought secretly in his heart, then a flash of inspiration came, and he controlled the merit on the interface to be invested into the cultivation technique 【National 108th Set of Five Elements Qi Refinement Technique】.

Just heard a crisp prompt from his ear:

【Ding! You have invested 42 points of merit into the cultivation technique, cultivation technique experience value +8.4 (42*20%)】

It really works!

Lin Mo's eyes lit up, and his gaze turned to the experience bar on the panel.

He saw the number behind Qi Refinement Level 2 on the interface jump directly from "249/300" to "258/300." ===== CHAPTER 3 =====