Ashen God
Chapter 663 - 662 Earth Bursting Golden Lotus Heavenly Treasure Cover

Chapter 663: Chapter 662 Earth Bursting Golden Lotus Heavenly Treasure Cover

"Please select ’Drop treasure box (Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar)’ specific content"

[Item One: ?]

[Item Two: ?]

[Item Three: ?]

[Item Four: ?]

[Item Five: ?]

"This time, the treasure box dropped by the demonized four-eyed wild boar is of purple quality because the demonized four-eyed wild boar is a second tier three-star monster. Based on my past experience of opening treasure boxes, I should definitely be able to fetch items of dark purple quality, or perhaps initially get new equipment of dark purple quality."

After continuously opening many treasure boxes dropped by the demonized swamp, Zhang Yanhang had basically given up on expecting any artifacts or weapons. Indeed, there had been no signs of those, so naturally, the only benefits left to consider were related to equipment.

Speaking of returns from equipment, it naturally made Zhang Yanhang think of his previous two minor goals, which were to increase his work-to-rest ratio to seven to four and to reduce the clearing time of the machine gun magazine to under two seconds.

So, from the perspective of accomplishing these two minor goals, Zhang Yanhang hoped that the new equipment from the treasure box dropped by the demonized four-eyed wild boar would enhance either physical recovery speed or attack speed. Well, it could probably only enhance one of those.

Unless the treasure box could drop multiple new equipment pieces or something like a full set from the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguli like the Makarov Earring, but that was unlikely. Otherwise, Zhang Yanhang wouldn’t still be lacking a full set of armor.

Thus, excluding the unlikely event of a full set or two new equipment pieces, the remaining possibility was that Zhang Yanhang might get two pieces of new equipment of the same dark purple quality from the treasure box, which meant he could directly fuse them into a new piece of equipment +1.

If the new equipment from the treasure box was of middle-score dark purple quality, fusing might not really have a significant effect.

But if he could acquire high-score or full-score dark purple quality equipment, then after fusion, Zhang Yanhang could immediately obtain a new piece of equipment of light golden quality, which would be quite impressive.

After all, he didn’t have many pieces of light golden quality equipment, or rather, just a few pieces, mainly because there were fewer high-level monsters, preventing him from gathering enough equipment for fusion. Otherwise, he could have assembled several pieces of golden quality equipment, not just light golden quality.

It’s all because the Ashen World’s refresh system isn’t very humane. If possible, he hoped the system would clean and refresh the monsters as quickly as they were cleared; this would suit his speed farming as an awakener.

Unfortunately, hoping for the Ashen World to humanely change its refresh system was like a fool’s dream until he might one day suddenly achieve enlightenment with purple qi coming from the east, sprouting golden lotuses from the land and covering him with heavenly treasures, attaining the Great Tao—that might give him a slight chance to interfere with the Ashen World.

By then, even if he really could interfere, it probably wouldn’t matter, as becoming a saint meant he was beyond such earthly matters.

"By the way, I’m not even sure which rank a saint corresponds to in the Awakener system. Seventh tier? Eighth tier? Anyway, it’s definitely not the sixth tier, because there are already fifth tier awakeners in the main world, and they’re not at the quasi-saint level. Better not to think about such distant matters."

For Zhang Yanhang, a humble second-tier awakener, the topic of saints was indeed too remote, and he also didn’t know whether the power system of Primordial was compatible with the Awakener system. Perhaps the Awakener system didn’t even have that kind of restrictive and unusual power system.

Unless there was an awakener who awakened such a talent ability, it might be possible to integrate with the power system of Primordial. But considering the high standards of power in Primordial, who knew how long an awakener needed to cultivate to reach the level of a saint.

Such a high-level figure might need to cultivate for several hundreds of thousands of Primordial Cycles, with one cycle lasting 129,600 years—adding up to billions of years. Maybe by the time Earth ceased to exist, they wouldn’t have reached the realm of a saint, given that Earth only had a few billion years left in its lifespan.

A saint might casually meditate or doze off, and the Earth would be gone. From this perspective, Zhang Yanhang thought it unlikely during his lifetime to encounter a saint born on Earth, at most meeting those whose power is close but easier to achieve quickly.

"Indeed, it’s a bit too remote. I’ve barely been in the Ashen World for less than a month, and I’ve already started thinking about things like thousands of Primordial Cycles. I might be getting a bit carried away, which is quite inappropriate.

Moreover, not to mention thousands of Primordial Cycles, even half a month from now seems immensely far for me as I might already be preparing to advance to the fourth tier by then or even already have advanced."

Since advancing to the third tier would take at most half a month, Zhang Yanhang felt optimistic about advancing to the fourth tier as well. He thought it would take up to three weeks, or as few as two weeks, ensuring that by next month, he would definitely reach the fourth tier.

As for the fifth tier, if nothing unexpected happened, he would certainly achieve it within the year. By the time his birthday came around, he might have advanced to the sixth tier, leaping from a rookie awakener to being a dominant force on Earth.

Okay, maybe that was a bit too optimistic. Otherwise, he might keep exaggerating and retire successfully even before he reached the legal marriage age in the Empire.

"No, I can’t keep letting my thoughts wander like this; this direction of thought is a bit strange. Let’s quickly check the specific items in the treasure box." Zhang Yanhang said as he clicked on the first item slot to start checking the items in the treasure box.

[Item One]

[Option One: Exotic Tusk Greatsword, Purple Quality, Equipment.]

[Option Two: 600 Soul Points]

[Option Three: 1200 Soul Points]

"The first item, as expected, is yet again soul points, but unexpectedly, I managed to obtain an exotic tusk greatsword, a weapon of purple quality. However, the problem is that, for me now, even purple quality isn’t of much use.

After all, purple quality only falls within second tier, and I’m about to be promoted to third tier soon, where the corresponding qualities are dark purple and light gold.

Moreover, I’m currently equipped with the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist, which corresponds to the fourth tier golden quality. So, there really is no need to go after a purple quality exotic tusk greatsword."

Considering his need for weapons, because of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist, Zhang Yanhang feels that only a dark purple quality weapon could possibly be of some use to him.

After all, if there are a significant number of weapons of dark purple quality, it would be possible to enhance them to light gold quality equipment and golden quality equipment through fusion and breaking limits. Once upgraded to golden quality, they would qualify to be materials for upgrading Zhang Yanhang’s Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist.

That point is fairly remarkable, and the logic is practically the same for light gold quality weapons.

However, unlike dark purple quality equipment, light gold quality does not require a large number of the same quality weapons for breaking limits; just a few fusions with equipments of the same quality are enough to promote them to golden quality and turn them into upgrade materials for the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist.

So, from this perspective, light gold quality equipment is much more useful to him than dark purple quality equipment. Of course, equipment that is initially of golden quality is definitely the most useful, as it can be directly used as upgrade material for the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist without the need for any fusion or modification processes.

"However, while golden quality weapons are excellent, I cannot currently obtain them freely due to insufficient rank level. Right now, I can only possibly get golden quality weapons from Ashen treasure boxes.

To freely obtain golden quality weapons, I have to wait until the third tier, hunt down late-stage third-tier monsters, and acquire light gold quality treasure boxes from them, then retrieve golden quality weapons from the boxes.

Of course, this assumes that the third-tier monsters in that area drop weapons; if not, it could be problematic."

Luckily, Zhang Yanhang isn’t in a rush to upgrade his Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to golden quality and beyond, so for now, it’s not a major issue.

"Speaking of which, I didn’t expect that the weapon obtained from the demonized four-eyed wild boar would also contain the word ’exotic.’ Could it be that the demonization skill of the demonized four-eyed wild boar is only at the mutant stage?

That’s very likely, since although the demonized four-eyed wild boar is somewhat stronger than the demonized emperor crocodile and the demonized mammoth, it’s only a difference of one star, still within the second tier, so it is indeed quite normal that it remains at the mutant stage.

But compared to the second-tier three-star demonized four-eyed wild boar, the third-tier two-star lord monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi clearly has a different demonization skill and has definitely entered a completely new stage. It’s just a shame I didn’t check the attribute list."

Zhang Yanhang decided to resume his previous habit of checking the attribute list next time he hunted new regional monsters; this time, he couldn’t be bothered.

[Item Two]

[Option One: Fang of demonized four-eyed wild boar, purple quality, material]

[Option Two: 600 Soul Points]

[Option Three: 1200 Soul Points]

"The second item place is similarly predictable, still featuring an option related to soul points, or rather to materials. The fang of the demonized four-eyed wild boar, being a purple quality item, should still hold some value, but unfortunately, I had previously smashed the heads of those seven demonized four-eyed wild boars.

So, the most valuable fangs are certainly nowhere to be found, at most I could only collect some other parts like pigskin, pig bones, pig hearts, pig lungs, etc."

Yet for some reason, whenever he thinks of collecting materials, he always first thinks of things like braised, deep-fried, or stewed, and as for the already shattered corpse of the lord monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, he figured it could be made into buns, potstickers, and dumplings.

In this regard, he ensured that the body of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi was crushed directly to be used as dumpling filling without the need for second processing; it was precisely because it was crushed to this extent that Zhang Yanhang couldn’t be bothered to collect materials—it really was as fragmented as dumpling filling.

Although he had taken up fasting, Zhang Yanhang felt he could collect some demonized creature’s materials after returning to the Main World and cook something, as the meat from demonized creatures, although corrosive to regular creatures, didn’t affect him.

Besides, even if there were any unknown toxins, he still had his energy shield to fall back on. As long as the shield value of the energy shield didn’t drop to zero, damage from toxins or viruses definitely couldn’t harm Zhang Yanhang.

However, since he’s currently opening a treasure box and in a state of Time Pause, he definitely cannot collect materials now; he would have to wait until after opening the treasure box for Zhang Yanhang to collect materials.

Moreover, besides the materials from the corpses of demonized creatures, Zhang Yanhang felt he needed to also collect materials naturally grown in the Demonized Forest, like the demonized steel umbrella mushrooms he had seen in the options before.

Such materials, he thought, must be plentiful in the environment of the Demonized Swamp, which is named a swamp but is actually a forest; he could gather more of these later to practice his alchemy, to see if he could refine some useful alchemy potions himself.

Of course, refining alchemy potions would depend on Zhang Yanhang having free time, but it might be challenging upon his return to the Main World, unless he gives up the next trip through the transmission channel to the miniature Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu.

If that were the case, then he would indeed have plenty of free time; at least several days, as this time upon returning to the Main World, he wouldn’t need to continue learning other spells, at most just needing some time to fuse a thermo-baric bomb.

So, if he really decides to give up going to the miniature Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, then he would indeed have a lot of free time; however, under normal circumstances unless something special happens, he really wouldn’t be likely to give up going to the miniature Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu.