Ashen God
Chapter 268 - 267 【All Things are Impermanent (Buddha)】

Chapter 268: Chapter 267 【All Things are Impermanent (Buddha)】

"Of course, the most important aspect is the upgrade condition, which has increased again, requiring three light golden quality weapons to upgrade the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ to a golden quality."

Zhang Yanhang came up with a rather bold idea, feeling that the upgrade requirements for the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ probably increased in number with each upgrade.

Initially, a purple quality required just one weapon, then dark purple quality required two, and now having reached light golden quality, it required three weapons, an increase of one weapon each time.

"If that’s really the case, then won’t my subsequent upgrades require assembling four golden quality weapons to possibly enhance it? And then after that, five dark golden weapons. Forget it, the more I think about it, the scarier it gets; better to not think about such matters that will happen far in the future."

For the current Zhang Yanhang, just assembling three light golden quality weapons was estimated to take a very long time, not to mention golden weapons; rushing to imagine the difficulties of the future would only add to the sorrow.

"Moreover, for the current me, weapons of light golden quality are already sufficient. If I were to quickly upgrade to golden quality, I might not even meet the equipment requirements later, and that would really be a big problem."

But Zhang Yanhang also knew that this concern was entirely superfluous, as his only way to obtain light gold weapons at present was through the Ashen Treasure Box.

Unless he could open three light golden weapons in one go from the Ashen Treasure Box in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, upgrading the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ to a golden quality in the short term was clearly impossible.

Zhang Yanhang had previously only managed to open one light golden weapon from a treasure box in Raccoon City, and since the Crimson Iron Ant Nest was of similar rank to Raccoon City, expecting to consecutively open three light golden weapons from the Ashen Treasure Box in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest was simply fool’s talk.

In other words, for the current Zhang Yanhang, the light golden quality ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ was already the highest quality he could achieve, and it was unlikely he would be able to upgrade it again any time soon.

After reviewing the upgrade requirements at the bottom, Zhang Yanhang began examining the changes in attributes after upgrading the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ to light golden quality; the most important for him was the increase in the attack power bonus.

"Simply elevating from dark purple quality to light golden quality, the skill’s damage bonus leaped from 621% to 699%, a 78% increase in damage bonus. Rounding up, if I use this skill now, I can directly deliver an eight-fold damage range attack with a single punch...

With my current one-handed strength being eight and a half tons, multiplied by eight times, a punch would at least let the enemy feel the impact of dozens of tons, similar to being struck on the head with a main battle tank that’s been swung around, seeing as America’s main battle tanks weigh just around sixty to seventy tons.

Not to mention that this is a fist, which has a smaller impact surface area, so the pressure would be much greater. Thus, the corresponding damage would be much more substantial in reality compared to being hit on the head with a swung-around main battle tank.

However, the damage bonus doesn’t seem to simply amplify strength, but involves some more complex calculation methods. No matter how complex it gets, the amplification of strength shouldn’t reach as exaggerated as eight times, but it should still be quite absurd."

Zhang Yanhang was quite satisfied with the damage bonuses of All Four Elements are Void; he estimated that the Crimson Iron Ant Queen, as a client object, would also be quite satisfied, since she could die painlessly.

In addition to All Four Elements are Void, Zhang Yanhang also noticed that the damage bonus of All Things Are Impermanent had increased from 16.9% to 20.2%. The damage bonus of All Things Are Impermanent, when facing special targets that is armor, clothing, and fur, these three types, would double the damage from 20.2% to 40.4%.

Regarding this fur, Zhang Yanhang had specifically looked it up while in the Main World and found it to be a biological term that essentially covers 99% of mammals, being a special attack against mammals.

Besides ordinary fur, this includes characteristics like eyelashes, spines, tentacles, and even things like rhinoceros horns, which are also part of the fur characteristics since rhino horns are produced by the epidermal layer.

It could be said that, except for a very small number of marine mammals, such as whales which completely live in the ocean yet retain vivipary, are unable to enjoy the special attack bonus—all other mammals living on land would generally be unable to escape the special attack bonus.

Even just with fur, Zhang Yanhang could target quite a number of monsters, and together with armor and clothing, Zhang Yanhang felt that he could almost achieve an All Things Special Attack—as long as it is a life form, it generally cannot escape these three characteristics.

By the by, the special attack target for the Crimson Iron Ants in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest is armor; after all, Crimson Iron Ants are covered with an exoskeletal armor—if this isn’t considered armor, then what is?

Moreover, the special attack bonus provided by All Four Elements are Void has a mechanism that isn’t special but yet surprising.

That is, as long as one wears All Four Elements are Void, even without using it to attack the enemy and instead using the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun to attack, the cannon bullets can also enjoy this 40.4% damage bonus.

Furthermore, Zhang Yanhang also has a dark purple-quality Attack Coin, which can also provide a 25-point physical damage bonus to the cannon bullets of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun.

But it still hadn’t ended, because aside from these bonuses from equipment and weapons, Zhang Yanhang’s Gun Master LV.MAX also provides a 150% bonus to remote attack power.

That’s precisely why Zhang Yanhang felt that the ordinary cannon bullets fired by the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun should definitely be sufficient for a while, because the bonuses he currently had were truly numerous. Even just relying on these bonuses could elevate the power of the cannon bullets to a level that even high-level monsters absolutely couldn’t withstand.

Besides that, Zhang Yanhang also had some other various bonuses on him, such as a 6% attack power bonus from both the white set and the green set.

The above bonuses were constantly effective, playing a critical role in enhancing Zhang Yanhang’s strength.

After reviewing the attribute list of the upgraded light golden All Four Elements are Void, Zhang Yanhang quietly sat on the ground, feeling strangely empty, "Now that the All Four Elements are Void has been upgraded, what should I do next? Should I open a treasure box or continue hunting monsters?"

"I just killed about two thousand monsters, and the number of treasure boxes has just reached triple digits, so I might as well wait and open them all at once later."

Zhang Yanhang was preparing to continue hunting monsters because the recent fusion and refinement of Refined Crimson Iron +7 was consuming Energy Value but had virtually no impact on Physical Value. Moreover, he had been sitting the whole time, so instead of using up physical strength, he had actually recovered a good portion of it.

Therefore, for Zhang Yanhang, the previous episode was almost equivalent to resting for more than three hours. He estimated that he could continue working for at least another five or six hours, and cleaning about eight square kilometers should not be a problem.

"If that’s the case, then let’s go hunt monsters immediately."

Since he had just completed the first stage of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest cleaning plan, if Zhang Yanhang were to continue clearing monsters, he would start heading towards the location of the slot machine. According to his estimate, this would cover an area of about ten square kilometers.

"I didn’t expect to start the second stage of the cleaning plan so soon. The previous first stage was divided into eight areas, but this time, the second stage could be divided into about ten areas."

Although Zhang Yanhang needed to divide the areas again this time, he didn’t need to rely on Time Pause to scout in advance because during the last Time Pause, he had already explored the second stage area after exploring the first stage area.

Zhang Yanhang stood up silently, quickly left the cave, and ran towards the starting point of the second stage cleaning plan.

...

October 15, the seventh day after the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday, 9 AM, small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, outer zone.

After working continuously for another five-plus hours, Zhang Yanhang, exhausted, lay at the deepest part of a cave. He struggled to his feet, used alchemy to seal the entrance with crimson iron ore, and then, even more strenuously, pulled out a large bed from his waist bag.

Facing the soft and comfortable bed, Zhang Yanhang immediately fell asleep; he was just too tired. He had been hunting monsters from six o’clock last evening until nine this morning, having worked for a total of fifteen hours.

Even though his endurance had significantly improved after promoting to the second tier, he couldn’t withstand such intense consumption.

In the past five-plus hours, Zhang Yanhang had originally estimated that he could clear an area of eight square kilometers. However, it turned out that he had overestimated himself, having only cleared about seven square kilometers of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, one square kilometer less than he had predicted.

But seven square kilometers was still quite a bit, thanks to which the progress of Zhang Yanhang’s Crimson Iron Ant nest cleaning plan had once again surged significantly.

Zhang Yanhang’s plan for the second stage had only planned for ten areas, but he had already cleared seven areas in one go, leaving only the last three areas before reaching the slot machine. Therefore, the overall progress was quite satisfying.

However, all these required physical strength and time as a price. Although normal people might hate overtime, such a concept didn’t exist for Zhang Yanhang; in fact, it was quite the opposite - he actually rather enjoyed working overtime.

Normal people hate overtime because they despise being exploited by their bosses for surplus value, but Zhang Yanhang liked it because he was working for himself.

He was his own boss, and all the profit he generated would be perfectly reflected back onto himself transforming into combat power. If he still didn’t like working hard under such circumstances, it would only mean that something was not quite right with him.

Actually, Zhang Yanhang had wanted to push himself to work for another hour or so to clear the remaining three areas of the second stage cleaning plan, but he was just too tired.

Even though he could use Green Medicine Grass to restore physical strength, after working for fifteen hours, Zhang Yanhang urgently wanted to rest, so after clearing the seventh area, he immediately sealed the cave and went straight to sleep.

By the way, just three meters away from the large bed where Zhang Yanhang lay, there were unusually intact corpses of three Crimson Iron Worker Ants, so Zhang Yanhang peacefully entered deep sleep accompanied by these corpses.

As for corpses of monsters, Zhang Yanhang’s mental endurance was exceptionally strong, since he wasn’t afraid when they were alive, and even less so after he himself had turned them into corpses.

Not to mention the current situation, even if Zhang Yanhang were to use Crimson Iron Ant corpses as pillows, he would feel absolutely no psychological pressure - after all, the Energy Shield could isolate everything, ensuring he wouldn’t be contaminated with any dirt or purely disgusting things like parasites.

Most importantly, in the Ashen World, the corpses of monsters did not rot because after about an hour, their corpses would be automatically refreshed by the Ashen World, so there was even less to be afraid of.

Most people’s fear of corpses fundamentally stems from their decay, as decaying corpses release harmful gases, which genetically are not accepted by humans.

As for fresh corpses, especially animal corpses, most ordinary people aren’t very scared because fresh animal corpses are mostly just considered food ingredients.

Thus, in the Ashen World, the lack of the scariest step of decomposition significantly reduces the disgusting level of monster corpses.

Of course, even if the corpses in the Ashen World were to rot, it wouldn’t be a big deal for Zhang Yanhang, who had killed all the men in Raccoon City.

He had smashed six or seven thousand rotting corpses in Raccoon City, and was now habituated to it. His only reaction to rotting corpses was a subconscious expectation that they might reanimate, prompting him to preemptively start desecrating the corpses.

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