Occult Arts: Starting with Paper-Cut Soldiers

Merit is too abstract. It's better to kill people and beasts to obtain resources.

Hilarious! While others grind low-level monsters to reduce experience, this novel allows you to fight high-level monsters to reduce experience. The Willow Tree Demon killed over a thousand villagers, which alone should earn him over a thousand merit points, and he's a ten-thousand-year-old demon! What's even funnier is that the bandits can hide themselves so well that no one can find them.

Summoning is one thing, but paper cutting is another.

Is this paper-cutting soldiers? It looks so awkward.

Having fought and killed his way through, such a meritorious executioner would have already ascended to heaven in broad daylight.

I think the paper-cutting should be removed, since it's a talisman soldier.

Magical arts and martial arts are considered unorthodox paths. Why are they called unorthodox? Because they cannot lead to immortality and ascension. Their martial prowess may be considerable, but their lifespan will certainly be short. If someone were to straighten out these unorthodox paths and attain the path to longevity, they would no longer be considered unorthodox, but rather the righteous path.

Trash! You can still tolerate being bullied like this? Author, are you a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?

This is some really good food for cultivating immortality; even the fox at the Qi Refining stage can't defeat the protagonist's hundred mortals.

It's similar to a game I read where you can turn beans into soldiers; you also level up by killing monsters and everything is restored the next day, except there's no option for different troop types.