Ashen God
Chapter 358 - 357 Ancient Cemetery

Chapter 358: Chapter 357 Ancient Cemetery

Since he had only glanced at the group chat in passing, Zhang Yanhang only generally knew of the existence of a few sects and denominations but was not very familiar with their specific composition.

However, he had heard that in addition to the Imperial Elders, powerful sects from various places had also dispatched their sect elders to collaborate with the Imperial Elders in co-authoring the Limitless Universe Skill, which included Lao Mountain Taoism.

It was for this reason that Zhang Yanhang believed the most powerful local sect in Qin Island City must be Lao Mountain Taoism, after all, although Zhan Mountain Temple was popular and prosperous, it was ultimately just a branch of Buddhism and definitely could not compare with the cradle of Taoism like Lao Mountain Taoism.

"But the power of the sects has nothing to do with an ordinary Awakener like me with no background; I should hurry and think about my destination for night running."

When Zhang Yanhang was searching online for night running, he found out that this activity typically started with one to two hours of running. If calculated based on two hours, he could cover roughly six hundred kilometers, which was just about the distance from Qin Island City to Beijing.

Coincidentally, the straight-line distance to South Korea from Qin Island City also happened to be around six hundred kilometers. However, feeling that his strength was not yet sufficient, Zhang Yanhang was certainly not going to go there and destroy Han City.

Moreover, a more important reason lay in the fact that night running involved a round trip. For a two-hour run, one would inevitably need to allocate one hour for the return journey, meaning that the furthest distance Zhang Yanhang could actually reach was only about three hundred kilometers. This limited the number of potential destinations.

He could basically only run to some cities around Qin Island City, such as Dezhou and Heze Cao County. Speaking of Cao County, Zhang Yanhang had heard that if you bought ten pounds of beef there, nine and a half pounds of it would be exceptionally good, with the remaining half pound being poor quality – impressively powerful stuff.

Before setting his destination, Zhang Yanhang checked the time, "It’s already half past one in the morning. If I go out now for a two-hour run, won’t I be coming back at nearly half past three, close to four in the morning? Isn’t that too late?"

Zhang Yanhang had class at eight o’clock tomorrow morning. If he couldn’t sleep until half past three, he could only sleep for about four hours before going to school.

"I’ve been working for four days and nights and only resting for four hours, which seems too little. So, I should not choose cities around Qin Island City as the night running target. Running within the city itself is also quite good."

Zhang Yanhang felt that instead of tediously covering six hundred kilometers, it would be better to find a suitable uninhabited area nearby to deploy his Death Wave Skill several times. In doing so, he might only need a few minutes to exhaust his physical strength early, which would be much more efficient than just running in the night.

"If I start now, I might be able to fall asleep before two o’clock."

With that thought, Zhang Yanhang immediately got up from bed because as comfortable as a warm quilt was, it just couldn’t induce sleep.

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Two minutes later, Zhang Yanhang arrived at Beiling Mountain within Qin Island City. Although the highest part of Beiling Mountain was just over a hundred meters, it had twelve peaks and covered a sizable area, almost one square kilometer.

It must be said, though Zhang Yanhang often calculated the cleaning of monsters in square kilometers, one square kilometer was really quite large – converted into acres, it was a whopping 1,500 acres.

Most ordinary universities, apart from agricultural universities that require a large amount of farmland for their specializations, typically cover only a few hundred acres. Therefore, an area of one square kilometer could actually fit two or three universities.

Of course, this refers to universities located within the city. As for those in the suburbs, they can easily span thousands of acres as the land out there is cheaper.

For example, Zhang Yanhang’s university was divided into four campuses: the three inside the city only spanned a few hundred acres each and totalling just over two thousand acres. But the suburban campus was different – it was larger than the total of the three inside the city combined, resulting in an astonishing total coverage of over five thousand acres.

Of course, this "astonishing" refers to Zhang Yanhang’s perception from when he was an ordinary human. Now, more than five thousand acres didn’t seem much; after all, it was just under four square kilometers, which was not very large compared to the coverage of his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil skill, which had already reached 3,750 meters.

Beiling Mountain was quite busy during the day, but not so much at night, especially at one-thirty in the morning. Other than someone out of their mind, normal people would not choose to climb the mountain at this hour, so Beiling Mountain was quite silent.

Standing there, Zhang Yanhang could only hear the faint chirping of insects and the rustling of the night wind through the leaves; even small animals were scarce.

Of course, the quietness of the surroundings was not only due to the absence of people but perhaps also because Zhang Yanhang was standing in a graveyard.

Zhang Yanhang’s current location was on the backside of Beiling Mountain. Compared to other peaks that had been developed with pavilions and stone paths, this particular area, although occasionally visited, was mainly for grave visits.

Zhang Yanhang, being a local, had some understanding of the graveyard at the back of Beiling Mountain. In fact, this area had been a famous burying ground since the late Qing Dynasty. Poor families who could not afford funeral expenses would choose to dig a simple grave here on the backside of the mountain.

With the advent of the period of the Republic of China, and the frequent wars, the back of Beiling Mountain became increasingly renowned, attracting even those who lived further away to bury their dead here.

Then came the initial period of the Empire. At that time, the internal economic situation of the Empire was quite poor, and the graveyard on the back of Beiling Mountain thus welcomed its third boom.

As an Imperial Elder, the graveyard on the back of Beiling Mountain was quite well-known in the area. Up until the 1970s, people often came here to bury their dead, but after the enforcement of cremation policies, the number of burials decreased, and today, virtually no one comes here to bury the dead anymore.

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