My clan is super powerful

(I traveled back to Shenzhen from home yesterday, changing buses three times. I left home at 9:30 am and arrived at my accommodation at 12:40 am, so I didn't update. I hope you all understand.)
However, if we were to tell Professor Zhuangzi about Yanbo's current situation, Yanbo's true colors would be revealed!
I was even thinking of keeping this guy for myself.

The reason I reported Yanbo's information to Professor Zhuangzi and the others was mainly to take advantage of the favorable winds from the main world so that Yanbo would have the opportunity to condense the third flower of merit.

However, Yanbo has now inexplicably discovered that he is showing signs of condensing the third flower of merit. In that case, he doesn't need to rely on the power of the main world to condense the third flower of merit.

Given this situation, Zhang Zhi began to hesitate: should he allow Yanbo to appear within Professor Zhuangzi's and their line of sight?
After all, if Professor Zhuangzi and the others knew that a human race was actually condensing a third flower of merit, they would surely spare no effort to bring Yanbo to the main world region.

Let's not even talk about how the hard-won God-level combat power that could be used for our own purposes might just fly away.

If things go wrong, my true identity as the master of this Trial Tower might be revealed.

Therefore, he was now hesitant about whether or not to inform Professor Zhuangzi and the others about Yanbo's progress in achieving sainthood through merit.

Or should we not ask Professor Zhuangzi about the relevant situation?

I'll use my access to the library later to see if I can find any information related to achieving sainthood through merit. That way, I can avoid exposing Yanbo's current situation.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Zhi decided to spend some time finding information about achieving sainthood through merit.

At the grand gathering, Professor Zhuangzi, the old man, set out the plan for the future of humankind to achieve sainthood through merit. Therefore, there must be a lot of relevant information in the library. Otherwise, if people don't even understand the concept of achieving sainthood through merit, how can they achieve it?

As for Professor Zhuangzi's earlier request to see Yanbo, that's easy to handle.

He is currently exploring other regions of the world, and it's normal that he won't be back for eight or ten years.

He might not even remember this when he returns, and even if he does, he'll just say he's in seclusion and can't be contacted.

It's perfectly normal for beings in the Divine Realm to spend a hundred or two hundred years in seclusion.

In a hundred or eighty years, as long as I don't mention Yanbo to Professor Zhuangzi, the old man may have already forgotten about Yanbo's existence.

Professor Zhuangzi's matter was easy to handle, but Zhang Zhi was very puzzled at the moment. How could Yanbo possibly start to condense the third flower of merit now?
If Zhang Zhi hadn't been absolutely certain that Yan Bo couldn't possibly be deceiving him, he would never have believed that Yan Bo was actually able to begin condensing the third flower of merit.

Logically speaking, He could not possibly possess enough merit to condense the third flower of merit. Otherwise, Zhang Zhi would not have been so eager to use the power of the main world to help Him condense the third flower of merit.

Because, currently, it is almost impossible for the human race within the Tengu World region to meet the conditions for Yanbo to achieve sainthood through merit.

Putting aside everything else, the total known human population in the Tengu world region does not exceed two billion.

With such a small number of humans representing the will of humanity, even if they highly approve of Yanbo, it is impossible for them to provide enough merit for Him to condense the third flower of merit.

This is the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, Merit Achieving Sainthood, an immense blessing that allows any living being to unconditionally and directly advance to the realm of a main god.

Such a small number of humans is simply not enough to support Yanbo in condensing the third Flower of Merit!

It should be noted that the human population in many of the Middle Thousand Worlds exceeds two billion.

If saving two billion people could earn one the approval of the human race's will and lead to sainthood, countless people in the human world would have already achieved sainthood.

According to Zhang Zhi's preliminary understanding of Professor Zhuangzi's process of achieving sainthood, the number of humans saved must be at least in the trillions.

The number of humans saved by Yanbo is probably less than one-thousandth of that saved by Professor Zhuangzi.

However, He is now preparing to condense the third flower of merit!
Although the accumulation of merit is not based on the number of people saved, but rather on the proportion of people saved.

The higher the percentage of people saved, the higher the probability of being recognized by the human consciousness. However, if the population is too small, how can it possibly provide enough merit?

Could it be that this flower that gathers merit has a mechanism and key point that I was unaware of before?

Could it be that this flower of merit is determined solely by the approval of the human race's will, rather than by the size of the population?
But that's not right. If that's really the case, what if there are only a few hundred people left in a certain region of the world? Would saving just those few hundred people be enough to achieve sainthood?

But that's simply impossible. Zhang Zhi thinks it's impossible, not just for a few hundred people, but even for hundreds of billions.

If that were truly the case, over the years, many races would surely have discovered this pattern, and the multiverse would already be filled with beings who have attained sainthood through merit.

There are very few beings in the multiverse who have attained sainthood through merit, which means that such a loophole certainly does not exist.

Therefore, Yanbo is now beginning to condense this third flower of merit, and there must be some points in it that he does not understand.

If we can find this crucial point, it will definitely be of great benefit to the main world's plan for achieving sainthood through merit.

But what exactly is this node?
Zhang Zhi pondered for a long time. Based on the information he had previously obtained, it was almost certain that due to the special environment of the Tengu World region, there were not many humans still alive, and the population was not enough to support Yan Bo in condensing the third flower of merit.

However, Yanbo was about to condense the third flower of merit.

Deceiving himself would do Yanbo no good. He never said he wanted any resources from him. He said he was beginning to advance and condense the third flower of merit, and he would not give him any extra reward.

Moreover, this matter is very serious, and He certainly wouldn't deceive Him for such a small immediate benefit.

After all, if he knew that he was lying to him, cultivators from the Tengu World region would no longer be able to enter the Trial Tower.

Therefore, it can be confirmed that Yanbo did not lie to himself.

Why does this happen?
Is it due to the unique characteristics of different regions of the world? Or are there other reasons?

Zhang Zhi pondered for a long time and felt that there were probably a few reasons why this situation might occur.

One method is the condensation of the third flower of merit, which is a slow process that requires the gradual consumption of merit.

Yanbo's merits, which he gained from being recognized by the will of humanity, were perhaps only enough for him to begin condensing the third flower of merit, and not enough to support him in completing the condensation of the third flower of merit.

Judging from the time it took Yanbo to condense the first and second flowers of merit, this possibility is quite significant, considering that it took him several decades to condense the first two flowers. However, it's perfectly normal for such a great blessing as a flower of merit to take a long time to condense.

Therefore, we might need to ask Yanbo about his insights when he condensed the first two flowers of merit.

If He Himself cannot determine whether the Flower of Merit is formed when merit has accumulated to a critical point, or whether it will begin to form as long as it is recognized by the will of humanity and has accumulated a certain amount of merit, then He would need to go to the library to find information related to becoming a saint through merit in order to determine this.

We might even have to consult Professor Zhuangzi directly.

The second possibility is that Yanbo was not only recognized by the will of the human race!
If the recognition of the human race's consciousness is not enough to support Yanbo in condensing the third flower of merit, then he is indeed condensing the third flower of merit now.

Meanwhile, if it is true that the flower of merit can only be formed after one has accumulated enough merit, then there is only one truth: the third flower of merit that Yanbo formed contained merit of unknown origin.

If that's the case, then the answer is obvious: other races have also recognized Yanbo!

Zhang Zhi had no idea whether a similar situation existed in the multiverse.

It is also unknown whether saving other races in the multiverse would be recognized by the will of those races.

However, this is the only explanation for why Yanbo began to condense the flower of merit.

Perhaps because Yanbo brought light back to the entire Tengu world, it is very likely that some other races, after learning about Yanbo's actions, also came to approve of them.

In addition, the production environment in the Tengu world region is too harsh, and countless races that have lived in darkness for a long time may have been praying for a savior to rescue them from eternal darkness.

Yanbo's current actions are a perfect response to the prayers of those races.

So, by chance, he was recognized by those races?

Only by gaining the approval of the wills of a large number of different races can Yanbo accumulate enough merit to condense the third flower of merit.

That makes sense, but Zhang Zhi isn't sure if this kind of racial will will accept alien creatures.

In any case, Zhang Zhi had never heard of such a story.

The third possibility is actually similar to the second one: Yanbo was not recognized by the will of the human race to begin condensing the third flower of merit, but was more likely recognized by the consciousness of the Heavenly Dog World region.

Because the sun array, which represented light, was eaten by the Tengu, a large number of intelligent races throughout the world perished.

As an aggregate of the thoughts of intelligent beings across the entire world region, the consciousness of the Tengu world region certainly hopes that some beings can change the current situation.

At this moment, Yanbo stepped forward. Although He initially only brought light to the areas where humans lived, as time went on, more and more worlds were found to have traces of humans, and more and more trial towers were occupied by humans.

As the saying goes, "Planting willows unintentionally yields unexpected shade," and due to the expansion of the human race, light has appeared in more and more worlds.

The consciousness of the Tengu world region must have been overjoyed by this. Therefore, as the instigator and promoter, Yanbo gained a lot of merit, which led to the formation of the third flower of merit.

Zhang Zhi pondered for a long time, but he was still unsure which situation Yanbo was in.

However, if being recognized by enough alien races can lead to sainthood through merit, then the human race's plan for sainthood through merit might be able to exceed its previous goals.

Putting everything else aside, there's a huge merit treasury right here: the Multi-Armed Slaughter Clan.

The multi-armed ghouls are currently invading several world regions. Once we find those world regions that are still being invaded by the multi-armed ghouls, there will naturally be countless ways to gain the recognition of those races' wills.

In that case, the human race might become the first public-spirited race in the multiverse.

Moreover, it seems there must be some drawbacks to doing this.

Your attainment of sainthood is due to the recognition of certain races. If these races cease to recognize you in the future, you may face retribution.

Such a problem would not occur if the human race recognized the race.

After taking a deep breath, Zhang Zhi composed himself, his emotions still surging from learning that Yan Bo was beginning to condense his third flower of merit. He thought that if he had the chance, he should have a good talk with Yan Bo to see what was going on.

If Yanbo can successfully condense the third flower of merit, achieving the gathering of three flowers at the top and attaining sainthood through merit, then he will have much more confidence when connecting with other world regions and communicating with them.

After carefully putting away the information he had reviewed about the Tengu World region, Zhang Zhi turned to look at the Trial Battlefield teleportation array. After a slight hesitation, he slowly walked towards the teleportation array.

It will take Yanbo quite a while to condense the third flower of merit, so there's no rush to go to the library to find information on achieving sainthood through merit; we can go to the library tomorrow.

However, I need to go and take a look at this trial battlefield.

In the past few days, he has only been to the Myriad Races World Region twice through the Trial Battlefield. All the other times, he has been to other regions outside the Myriad Races World Region. Even the Demon Refiner World Region, which was previously the most difficult to reach, has been visited twice during this period.

Zhang Zhi pondered that, based on the previous pattern, he might be able to travel to the new world region in the next few days, so he planned to miss any of the trial battlefields.

However, the trial battlefield they were heading to this time was still the same trial battlefield they had connected to before.

Five hours later, accompanied by a flash of white light, Zhang Zhi appeared in the teleportation array of the trial battlefield.

He shook his head slightly, then with a thought, returned to the main world.

The next morning, Zhang Zhi went to the library and began searching for information related to achieving sainthood through merit.

Due to the plan for achieving sainthood through merit, the library now contains a lot of materials related to this, many of which were compiled by Professor Zhuangzi.

As the only human being to achieve sainthood through merit, the information He compiled is essential reading for any cultivator aspiring to secure a place on the palace's production planning list.

Zhang Zhi's focus wasn't on this before, so it wasn't until he came to the library today to look up relevant information that he discovered there was more than ten times the amount of material he had previously seen related to achieving sainthood through merit. (End of Chapter)