Ashen God
Chapter 317 - 316: Material Transformation

Chapter 317: Chapter 316: Material Transformation

Although it was the second time Zhang Yanhang was using the Crimson Iron Ant Queen Hormone Essence, he still thought the Alchemist’s control over taste was really impressive; it was just a shame that after his promotion to Second Tier, he had already acquired the ability to fast, otherwise, he would certainly have delved into studying this technique.

When Zhang Yanhang was in Raccoon City and couldn’t find edible food, he had the idea of using alchemy to transform soil into regular food.

While this idea might seem outlandish to the average person, it was indeed possible to do with ease through alchemy, provided one researched the technique a bit.

After all, if the Haitians could turn soil into their staple by making mud cookies (commonly known as Guanyin Soil), then it was completely reasonable for Zhang Yanhang to transform soil into food using alchemy.

Although Zhang Yanhang didn’t use it often, material transformation was really the most basic and practical ability in alchemy; however, Zhang Yanhang seldom used it because he thought it consumed too much Energy Value and was utterly useless in combat.

For a beginner Alchemist like Zhang Yanhang, compared to abilities involving material transformation, soul reshaping, human body refinement, magic potion creation, puppet magic dolls, artifact creation, and position manipulation, the additional attribute fusion ability, which automatically appeared after he first obtained alchemy, was the most practical.

After opening each Treasure Box, Zhang Yanhang almost always used this fusion ability to enhance the bonus effects and the quality of the Equipment. He used it quite frequently; in fact, he just recently fused a Crimson Iron Ring +6 and a Crimson Iron Heart +6 using alchemy.

Of course, the main reason Zhang Yanhang didn’t use other accompanying abilities of alchemy was that he was lacking in knowledge in those areas.

Without the appropriate recipes, it was hardly realistic for him to independently develop new types of alchemy puppets, alchemy potions, or alchemy artifacts, relying solely on the inherent knowledge of alchemy.

That’s because it not only required finding suitable materials but also involved investing a lot of time in step-by-step improvements to the manufacturing methods in order to possibly create something truly useful for him.

For example, the Ant Acid Bullets Zhang Yanhang had previously developed could be considered a kind of rudimentary semi-finished alchemy artifact. Although its power was sufficient to kill most Second-tier Monsters without any issues, it was still far from a genuine alchemy artifact.

Other than that, real alchemy artifacts contain Energy and mainly rely on using energy proficiently to attack enemies, whereas the principal lethality of Ant Acid Bullets comes from the concentrated ant acid inside.

Thus, to a genuine Alchemist, this item might not even qualify as a semi-finished product; it’s considered a standard item that could be mass-produced on an assembly line after the molds are made.

Still, even this semi-finished Ant Acid Bullet, which Zhang Yanhang saw as quite rudimentary, took him several days to develop successfully.

By this rationale, if even just filling ant acid was so difficult, then expecting him to independently create alchemy artifacts entirely on his own would likely take at least ten days to half a month.

However, if he had ten days to half a month, Zhang Yanhang might have already advanced to Third Tier by then, and by that time, even if he genuinely developed something, Second Tier alchemy artifacts would probably not interest him anymore.

So, researching independently wasn’t something Zhang Yanhang couldn’t do; it was just that doing so was not cost-effective, which is why he thought independent research wasn’t very reliable.

Zhang Yanhang felt that unless he could later acquire some particularly useful recipes and blueprints, with his current level, he definitely couldn’t create anything useful. At most, he would use materials of the same quality to refine weapons of the same quality to serve as upgrade materials for the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist.

After consuming the ’Crimson Iron Ant Queen Hormone Essence (Solid Compressed)’, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened his attribute list to take a look.

[Strength: 50 (+5[-1])]

[Agility: 49 (+5)]

[Constitution: 50 (+5[-2])]

[Intelligence: 49 (+5)]

[Charm: 37 (+17)]

"Good, another three points added to my Charm attribute value, now my Charm attribute value is only three points away from the small goal of forty..."

But although it was only three points away and seemed easy to improve, Zhang Yanhang currently had no other methods to continue increasing his Charm attribute value. After all, he could no longer obtain more equipment or related artifacts that would enhance his Charm attribute in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest.

"Because these three points in the Charm attribute increase were solely from my base values, the deformed extent of this Charm attribute increase has once again fallen below fifty percent, even breaking the record. My previous lowest equipment bonus effect in my Charm attribute value was 47%, but this time it fell to 46%.

Although it’s just a 1% improvement, it indicates that the future development trend ofAppr Charm attribute is indeed moving steadily towards a healthier path."

Zhang Yanhang reasoned that just by increasing his Charm attribute values a bit more, he should be able to reduce the proportion of equipment bonus effects in his Charm attribute value to below forty percent quite soon.

After tallying up his gains in terms of equipment and artifacts, Zhang Yanhang continued to check his Soul points balance as he had opened more than a hundred treasure boxes and one Lord’s Treasure Chest, which provided him with a substantial amount of Soul points.

[Soul points: 74037 (+50550)]

"I remember that after opening the Tracker’s Treasure Box alongside other Monsters’ boxes, I only gathered over thirty thousand Soul points in total, out of which the Lord Monster Tracker contributed thirty thousand, and the other Monsters contributed only a fraction. This time, however, the situation was clearly different.

After opening the boxes this time, I gained a total of 50550 Soul points. But out of these, only 24000 Soul points came from the Crimson Iron Ant Queen, less than half of the total, with the rest barely occupied by Ordinary monsters and the Crimson Iron Ant King."

Apart from the Crimson Iron Ant Queen herself being rather lackluster, Zhang Yanhang felt that the reason for this outcome was mainly because he killed many Crimson Iron Ants this time, and their levels were also relatively higher compared to Ordinary zombies in Raccoon City.

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