Ashen God
Chapter 258 - 257: Crimson Iron Ant Nest Cleanup Plan

Chapter 258: Chapter 257: Crimson Iron Ant Nest Cleanup Plan

Having made up his mind, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to activate options, "Choose! Skill Level Up!"

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After using the remaining soul points to upgrade the Supreme Will Skill, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but let out a sigh, "All the last soul points are used up, and now my balance of soul points is probably down to double digits, right?"

Zhang Yanhang silently opened his soul point balance to take a look.

[Soul Points: 74 (-150)]

"Sure enough, it’s gone from three digits down to two. Only 74 soul points are left, which isn’t enough to do anything. I remember last time it seemed like I had 44 left, so this time I was able to save 30 more than last time. I wonder if that counts as progress to some extent..."

Although Zhang Yanhang was able to gain five-digit soul points after every monster hunt, once the skills and other things were upgraded, the balance of soul points would fall back to three digits or even two, which was quite frustrating.

[Supreme Will LV.3 (Passive)]

[Skill Effect: Immune to spiritual attacks, charm, control, transformation, curses, weakening... and other negative (spiritual) attack effects, if the Intelligence Attribute Value is lower than that of the Heavenly Destiny Master.

When facing negative (spiritual) attack effects from a source with higher Intelligence Attribute Value than the Heavenly Destiny Master, negative status immunity is greatly strengthened. Reduces the effect of negative (spiritual) attacks by 75% if Intelligence Attribute Value is 9 points (+6) or higher and reduces by 50% if Intelligence Attribute Value is 18 points (+12) or higher.]

"Wow, it’s just been upgraded to LV.3, and I feel like I can almost ignore third tier monsters’ spiritual attacks. Supreme Will truly deserves its name; the effect is too powerful."

Now that it had been over two weeks since Zhang Yanhang first entered the Ashen World, he had noticed something that might or might not be a pattern. Unlike Talents, which often did not live up to their name, skills were indeed as powerful as their names suggested.

Take for instance that most outrageous Technique Immunity that Zhang Yanhang had; the skill effect really lived up to its name. Merely relying on the Energy Shield that could recover to full strength in five seconds, Technique Immunity would always be his favorite skill.

"But as strong as Supreme Will is, I just don’t know what kind of Additional Attributes I would get if I raised the skill to LV.6."

Based on his experiences, Zhang Yanhang believed that Supreme Will and Technique Immunity likely belonged to the same type of skill, and he guessed that upon upgrading to LV.6, they would likely grant some sort of fixed bonus.

In any case, as long as it was not the kind of Additional Attributes at Death Wave LV.6 that were not very helpful for monster hunting, he could accept it.

"Now that even the last of the Supreme Will has been upgraded, there really shouldn’t be anything else that needs dealing with, right?" After carefully pondering for a while, Zhang Yanhang packed away various items into his Waist Bag and stood up.

"Next, I should start hunting the monsters in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest properly, but the specific cleanup plan for the Crimson Iron Ant Nest might still need some improvement." Previously, Zhang Yanhang had set three anchors for the Crimson Iron Ant Nest cleanup plan and divided it into three stages based on those anchors.

The three anchors were the slot machine, the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box, and the entrance to the inner zone; now, Zhang Yanhang planned to switch the third anchor from the entrance of the inner zone to the Achievement Vending Machine.

The last time he came to the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, Zhang Yanhang didn’t know what it was used for, but now it was different. He knew that the Achievement Vending Machine could be used to exchange for achievements, and since it was conveniently located in the inner zone, the Achievement Vending Machine could replace the original anchor.

Moreover, in addition to the original three anchors, Zhang Yanhang planned to set another new anchor as the new First Tier, with the original three anchors becoming the Second, Third, and Fourth Stages, respectively.

And what was this new anchor? Of course, it was the cave that Zhang Yanhang had mentioned before, used by the Crimson Iron Ants to store Crimson Iron and Refined Crimson Iron.

This cave was extremely important to Zhang Yanhang because the Refined Crimson Iron stored inside could help him promote his Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to Light Golden Quality.

"After all four stages of the plan are executed, I should have almost completely cleared the entire Crimson Iron Ant Nest, and then I can focus on facing the Lord Monster, the Crimson Iron Ant Queen."

Although he had already crafted the Crimson Iron Ant Nest cleanup plan, what Zhang Yanhang hoped for the most was encountering some unexpected event while executing the plan, like a large group of Advanced Crimson Iron Ants suddenly organizing to besiege him.

If that were really possible, Zhang Yanhang’s hunting efficiency would greatly increase, and he’d save a considerable amount of time to look for other Crimson Iron Ant Nests.

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Half an hour later, at the outer zone of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, a three-way intersection.

Zhang Yanhang stood at the intersection, briefly recalled the route map he had noted down during his previous exploration of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, and then confidently took the left path.

Although the Intelligence Attribute doesn’t have much to do with IQ, it can enhance calculation ability, memory, and logical thinking — the most basic stuff. Previously, in his First Tier Period, Zhang Yanhang was perhaps only several times better than an ordinary person, but now he had an almost photographic memory.

Thus, getting lost was definitely out of the question. Even without activating the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill, he could freely navigate inside the Crimson Iron Ant Nest with the route map he had noted earlier.

Unlike the previous time, Zhang Yanhang walked in a straight line throughout his last visit to the Crimson Iron Ant Nest because he knew he couldn’t clear the entire nest in a short amount of time. Then, wherever there were more Crimson Iron Ants, he went; he could go any way he wanted as long as he could hunt monsters.

But this time, if Zhang Yanhang were to continue using this method to hunt monsters, it wouldn’t quite work.

Because last time, his visit to the Crimson Iron Ant Nest to hunt monsters was just a by-product of exploration, but this time his goal had changed. What he needed to do now was to eradicate all the Crimson Iron Ants in the entire nest.

Therefore, he spent this half-hour traversing various forks of the same area. He would move to the next area only after he had killed every single Crimson Iron Ant in this section.

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