Ashen God
Chapter 342 - 341 Sonic Punch

Chapter 342: Chapter 341 Sonic Punch

In some sense, Zhang Yanhang felt that his Sonic Punch was the real deal, for the Sonic Punch from Magic Treasure was obviously an adjective, while his was genuinely a fist that reached and even surpassed the speed of sound.

Moreover, the key point was that Zhang Yanhang even believed that he could throw a Sonic Punch now. After all, humans have a much faster acceleration in their punches than their movement speed, due to their body’s power generation structure.

Including a 15% Attack Speed Bonus, if Zhang Yanhang went all out and activated his Spiritual Energy enhancement, he estimated that he could indeed produce a sonic boom. The only reason he hadn’t tested it was his recent promotion to Second Tier and his rapidly increasing Agility attribute.

If he really did a field test, creating a sonic boom would probably not be difficult. After all, the speed of sound is only 340 meters per second, but his Movement Speed had already reached eighty-two meters per second.

Zhang Yanhang could just bolster himself with Spiritual Energy and immediately enhance his Movement Speed to 0.5 Mach. If his Movement Speed could reach 0.5 Mach, then reaching One Mach for his Attack Speed would be perfectly normal since everyone’s fists are faster than their legs.

Additionally, besides the intrinsic speed of the punch, if he swung in a full circle before striking, inertia would provide an additional acceleration. With this extra acceleration, a Sonic Punch was practically guaranteed.

If he weren’t currently climbing the Crimson Iron Chain, Zhang Yanhang would even want to punch out and listen to the sound it made. If he were successful, he wouldn’t need to buy firecrackers for New Year’s anymore.

The sonic booms produced from his punches could easily imitate the explosion of fireworks, and the ’explosion’ would be even faster, for a fully spiritually energized Zhang Yanhang could not only achieve a sonic boom but also throw a hundred punches per second. This punching speed would make him the ultimate king of firecracker simulations.

"Ah, it’s so long, ever since I reached below twenty kilometers deep, climbing the Crimson Iron Chain has become excruciatingly tedious and torturous."

Zhang Yanhang glanced at the markings he had made on the rock wall to measure distance. Although he had been contemplating his Sonic Punch for a moment, he had only just climbed from seventy-two kilometers to sixty-eight kilometers. He still needed about fifty minutes more to climb to the inner zone of the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu.

Regarding this Crimson Iron Chain, apart from aiding Zhang Yanhang’s movement, it served another important purpose: it acted as a plumb line.

As the saying goes, a miss is as good as a mile. Considering a depth of seventy-seven kilometers, if Zhang Yanhang dug just slightly off course, the deviation at the target location would be at least several hundred meters. Thus, at this time, a guide line to facilitate his vertical excavation was especially crucial.

Because of gravity, the Crimson Iron Chain would always remain perpendicular to the ground. If the chain started to slant, it would mean that Zhang Yanhang’s tunnel was off course. Therefore, from this perspective, using the Crimson Iron Chain as a guide line, while primitive and simple, was indeed very effective.

"Speaking of which, if an Awakener from a foreign country were to arrive in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu at this moment, they could simply break the chain or throw something down the tunnel and easily injure me.

Or the same could be said if I encountered a suddenly traitorous Awakener teammate. But thankfully, I’m the only Awakener in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguli. This relaxed feeling is quite nice."

Yet, despite the apparent leisure, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but hasten his climb; it was mainly because there were just about two hours left before the Transmission Channel closed. It would take him fifty minutes just to finish climbing, and then he would have to run all the way back to the Transmission Channel from the inner zone, leaving him quite pressed for time.

If Zhang Yanhang missed this ’last bus,’ he would have to stay within the Crimson Iron Ore Vein for another five days before the Transmission Channel reopened, which would be torturous. Even though his tunnel was about to break through, it would still be excruciating.

After a sleepless four-day dig in the Ashen World, Zhang Yanhang was truly physically and mentally exhausted. He wanted nothing more than to return to the Main World and rest, so the idea of staying here for another five days was utterly out of the question.

Moreover, besides feeling exhausted, Zhang Yanhang had only taken a five-day vacation, so even just from that perspective, he should choose to return.

...

October 19th, eleven days after the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays had ended and also Zhang Yanhang’s fifth day away from the Main World, 11 PM, Crimson Iron Ore Vein, the inner zone of the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu.

After nearly an hour of climbing, Zhang Yanhang was continuously pulling out Crimson Iron Ore pillars from his Waist Bag. A corner inside the cave was now filled with these pillars. However, compared to the overall volume of the cave, it still seemed somewhat insignificant.

After all, a depth of seventy-seven kilometers might seem lengthy, but it’s just so-so. Due to the narrow diameters involved, even if Zhang Yanhang excavated all the available Crimson Iron Ore here, it would only occupy a volume of around thirty or forty thousand cubic meters at most. Compared to the cave’s half square kilometer of space and more than two million cubic meters of volume, what Zhang Yanhang excavated would at most occupy two percent of it.

As such, Zhang Yanhang didn’t need to worry about where to place the harvested Crimson Iron Ore. He could just stack it randomly to the side.

After unloading the Crimson Iron Ore, Zhang Yanhang glanced at his watch. "One hour left. Returning to the C-shaped channel where the Transmission Channel is located shouldn’t be a problem. The real question is if there is enough time to clear out the Slot Machine’s jackpot."

Zhang Yanhang pondered for a moment, slung the Slot Machine on his shoulder, and started moving towards the C-shaped channel. The Slot Machine had initially been located in the Outer Zone, but he had moved it to the inner zone for faster clearing of the third prize pool.

Now, he planned to take the Slot Machine with him to the C-shaped channel. He would see if time allowed; if there was enough of it, he could clear out the prize pool before heading back to the Main World. If not, he would have to settle for whatever he’d managed to win.