Ashen God
Chapter 350 - 349: Rapid Progress

Chapter 350: Chapter 349: Rapid Progress

So, it’s actually not that surprising to be able to scan a horde of Awakeners. What really surprised Zhang Yanhang was that among this horde of Awakeners, he saw an acquaintance. As for who this acquaintance was?

There are only two Awakeners Zhang Yanhang could consider acquaintances, one being the group owner and the other naturally Zhao Yalan. Therefore, upon seeing that familiar pink lace, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but complain, "Why is it always this one? I really don’t want to complain, but why is it always the same one?"

"It’s getting a bit boring to see the same thing over and over again. She can afford branded shoes, so why can’t she spend a little money to change to a different style?" If it weren’t for not having Zhao Yalan’s WeChat, Zhang Yanhang even felt the urge to immediately send her some money and candidly suggest that she buy a new one. After all, while money might be somewhat scarce for Zhao Yalan, it has almost become useless for Zhang Yanhang.

After all, once food expenses were no longer a concern, Zhang Yanhang rarely had any use for money in his daily life, not even transportation costs, with the only expenses being utilities like water and electricity. And how much could that possibly cost?

So, even though Multiple Choice couldn’t be used to make money, even with just the Empire’s subsistence allowance, Zhang Yanhang really didn’t lack money.

If he were still in the capitalist era, someone like Zhang Yanhang might be regarded as a ’layabout’ among the inferior leeks, but now it’s the Spiritual Qi Recovery Era. For Awakeners like him, maintaining a low-desire state is quite normal. After all, being ’extraordinary’ to a certain extent also implies shedding mundane desires.

Awakeners with great power can easily have their threshold for desires elevated to a level unimaginable to ordinary people. Most things filled with endless temptation for mortals are useless to them.

Take a simple example: for many ordinary people, the ultimate life goal is to buy a house, for which they are generally willing to shoulder decades of mortgage.

But for Awakeners, especially high-level Awakeners who have completely forsaken sleep, a house, primarily used for sleeping, really holds little significance. More importantly, houses are extremely fragile.

Modern reinforced concrete can withstand ordinary attacks and some firearms well in terms of strength, but high-level Awakeners might just need a simple sneeze to blow a house into rubble like the hungry wolf in a fairy tale.

Therefore, it seems impossible for such fragile and worthless items to attract high-level Awakeners in any substantial way; at most, it could be the vanity inherited from their mortal days that might still drive some lower-ranked Awakeners to pursue things like big houses and individual villas.

Here’s another example: after acquiring a house, many people often need to buy a car. But what kind of car could surpass the movement speed of an Awakener? A rocket car? Still not fast enough.

Take Zhang Yanhang, for example, who is only a Second Tier but has already surpassed high-speed rail in terms of movement speed. High-level Awakeners can easily reach sonic levels of mobility.

Hence, cars on a certain level are even less valuable to Awakeners than houses, after all, houses can still serve as a place to rest after returning from the Ashen World, while clearly, living in a car doesn’t make sense, unless it’s some super spacious mobile home.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, Awakeners like Zhang Yanhang, who maintain a low-desire state, make up a considerable proportion, especially some young, single Awakeners who don’t need to provide for a family and thus have no burdens, leading to a passive ’layabout’ lifestyle.

Since we’ve mentioned cars and houses, we must also address something important to single male Awakeners like Zhang Yanhang: a wife. Due to certain physiological reactions, this thing pursued by ordinary people still retains its appeal from their pre-Awakener days for some Awakeners.

But as for Zhang Yanhang, not really, as he had long been prepared to become ’eternal,’ so wives and children held little attraction for him.

Unless he encountered a strong female who was not only beautiful but also gentle and considerate and took forceful initiative, like the Empress, otherwise, Zhang Yanhang felt he was likely to have little chance of marrying in this lifetime.

Besides that, Zhang Yanhang might at most find a companionable partner to while away the leisurely life after retirement when bored.

Aside from being surprised to find out that Zhao Yalan had returned from the Ashen World, there was another thing that surprised Zhang Yanhang: Zhao Yalan’s strength had progressed far too rapidly.

Zhang Yanhang remembered that before entering the Ashen World, Zhao Yalan’s strength was at most First Tier Third Level, in the Early First Tier Stage. Yet now, Zhao Yalan was on the verge of advancing to Peak First Tier and had solidly entered the Late First Tier Stage.

How could such a rate of progress not surprise Zhang Yanhang? But surprise aside, after thinking carefully about the relevant factors, he felt that such a rate of progress was actually quite normal.

After all, for an ordinary Awakener just leveling up, it only takes 4,500 soul points to go from LV.1 to LV.10. Such an amount of soul points is relatively easy to gather.

If one were to kill only First Tier One Star Monsters, each yielding three soul points, one would only need to kill fifteen hundred to have enough, not to mention Zhao Yalan would definitely kill higher-level monsters, which provide even more soul points.

Although Zhang Yanhang didn’t know exactly when Zhao Yalan came back, he estimated that she had stayed in the Ashen World for at least five days. With such an extended period and the help of a Second Order One Star Elite Monster, that level of accomplishment was naturally not difficult.

After all, over five days, averaging nine hundred soul points per day would do the trick. Over an entire day, one would only need to kill three hundred First Tier One Star Monsters, which should indeed be quite manageable for Awakeners with far superior physical abilities.