Ashen God
Chapter 290 - 289: Green Quality Pet

Chapter 290: Chapter 289: Green Quality Pet

"The first option is, as expected, the familiar Soul points, and what also feels incredibly familiar is the Crimson Iron Flying Ant mentioned in Option Two. Although I had already anticipated this, I didn’t expect that I could actually get Crimson Iron Flying Ants.

Even more importantly, the Crimson Iron Flying Ant, as a First Tier One-star Elite Monster, is no longer a White quality pet. Although a Green quality isn’t that much stronger, it’s still a step up in quality."

As for the fact that the Crimson Iron Flying Ants have reached Green quality, Zhang Yanhang is not surprised at all. After all, even though the overall strength of the Crimson Iron Flying Ants is weak, they are certainly much stronger than the First Tier Zero Star Crimson Iron Young Ants and Crimson Iron Ruo Ants.

Zhang Yanhang had thought that he might be able to get a Crimson Iron Ant Queen from the Treasure box of the Ant Queen, but now it seems unlikely. He guesses that getting a Crimson Iron Ant King from the Ant Queen’s Treasure box would be the limit.

But fortunately, Zhang Yanhang didn’t particularly like ants, so whether or not he could get a Crimson Iron Ant Queen didn’t make much difference to him.

"Now that even Crimson Iron Flying Ants can be considered Green quality pets, if I could get Second Tier Crimson Iron Soldier Ants or First Tier Three Stars Crimson Iron Breeding Ants later on, they should also be Green quality pets, right?"

Since the corresponding quality for First Tier is White and Green, Zhang Yanhang feels that although Crimson Iron Soldier Ants and Crimson Iron Breeding Ants could easily overpower Crimson Iron Flying Ants in terms of strength, they would still be limited to Green quality. After all, they are just First Tier Monsters, and it is unrealistic to expect to obtain the Blue quality that corresponds to Second Tier strength.

Logically speaking, only the Second Tier Crimson Iron Ant King and Crimson Iron Ant Queen could possibly obtain Blue quality or even higher Purple quality after becoming pets.

[Item Two]

[Option One: Crimson Iron Residue (500 grams), White quality, Material]

[Option Two: 60 Soul points]

[Option Three: 120 Soul points]

"The second option is still Soul points, only this White quality Crimson Iron Residue is a bit of an eyesore."

Zhang Yanhang initially thought that the stronger digestion ability of the Crimson Iron Breeding Ant would allow it to digest more substances from the Crimson Iron ore, or even completely absorb it, but unfortunately, he overestimated the Crimson Iron Breeding Ant.

Even though the Crimson Iron Breeding Ant has fully developed physically and its digestive ability has indeed reached its peak, it still wastes resources when consuming the Crimson Iron ore.

While the digestive ability of the Crimson Iron Breeding Ant is indeed somewhat insufficient, Zhang Yanhang thinks that the Second Tier Crimson Iron Ant King and Crimson Iron Ant Queen should easily achieve this, unlocking the high-end realm ’eat without excretion,’ which is completely unreachable by normal living organisms.

Zhang Yanhang once longed for this realm because he found it bothersome to spend time going to the bathroom every day. If he could save this part of his time, he could do more meaningful things.

Of course, this ’once’ refers to the early days when Zhang Yanhang had just awakened and had yet to enter the Ashen World.

Now, Zhang Yanhang, although still unable to achieve ’eat without excretion,’ can easily achieve ’neither eat nor excrete.’

Since he acquired the Fasting ability after advancing to the Second Tier, he no longer needs to consume ordinary food. Drinking just a mouthful of Spiritual Energy-filled northwest wind every day to nourish his body is enough to maintain vitality for the entire day.

Therefore, since he no longer needs to intake food, the related digestive system naturally has to stop producing waste—after all, the stomach can’t create feces out of thin air without food, right?

So, although the solution is different, Zhang Yanhang still easily solved the toilet problem he wanted to fix before. Of course, this only applies to defecation; despite having the Fasting ability, Zhang Yanhang still needs to maintain sufficient water intake and produce urine accordingly.

Zhang Yanhang had specially looked into this water intake issue. While Second Tier Awakeners can only perform simple Fasting, with the advancement in Rank, Awakeners will gradually free themselves from the constraints of water and even oxygen, becoming ultimate lifeforms capable of physically traversing the void.

If he truly reaches that extent, then an Awakener’s retirement life would be extraordinarily simple. One could casually find a mountain to use as a blanket to cover themselves and then sleep until the end of time—oh, no, that should not be called retirement, it is merely waiting to die.

Compared to such a simplistic waiting-to-die retirement process, Zhang Yanhang hoped that his retirement life could be much more colorful. For example, researching things like "From Entry to Burial—The Origin of the Universe" or "Teaching You How to Be a Creator from Zero," or perhaps "Three Years to God, Five Years Simulated."

[Item Three]

[Option One: Ant Power, Quality E, Talent]

[Option Two: Crimson Iron Ant (Breeding Ant), D-Level Quality, Talent]

[Option Three: Crimson Iron Ant (Soldier Ant), Quality E, Talent]

"Just as I had estimated before, the First Tier Three Stars Crimson Iron Breeding Ant is finally not an E-Level Talent..."

With the Talent of the Crimson Iron Breeding Ant reaching D-Level, Zhang Yanhang can only say it makes perfect sense, as it already has First Tier Three Stars strength. If its Talent quality were still maintained at E-Level, it would be unreasonable.

"So, here comes the question: I’ve never chosen a Racial Talent before, should I take this opportunity to try one out?"

Zhang Yanhang thought carefully for a while, but eventually decided against this bold idea. His intuition told him that if he used this Racial Talent, there might be some unpleasant consequences.

Zhang Yanhang felt that if he really used this Racial Talent, he might not be able to utilize it due to a mismatch with his species, or it might act in strange ways, such as making him grow ant compound eyes or antennas, which would be terrible.

Moreover, because there is a limit on the number of Talents that can be used at each Rank, Zhang Yanhang would still prefer to fill his limited Talent slots with more useful Talents.