Ashen God
Chapter 359 - 358: The Ancient Zombie King

Chapter 359: Chapter 358: The Ancient Zombie King

After all, urns are relatively small, and even if a gravesite is unaffordable, they can still be stored in the related facilities at the crematorium, costing only about a hundred bucks a year. Thus, instead of digging a wild grave on the back mountain of Beiling Mountain to bury an urn, it might as well be deposited at the crematorium, which is more convenient for when one visits to pay respects.

Facing such a famous and ancient gravesite that spanned three dynasties beneath his feet, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but let his thoughts run wild.

"Since the Spiritual Qi Recovery has already taken place, wouldn’t some Qing Dynasty Zombie just pop out of here?

If they really exist, that would be a genuine Century-old Zombie, with strength that certainly wouldn’t be weak.

But it should be okay, as long as there isn’t a Zombie King Jiang Chen who’s been sleeping for a century buried underneath. Ordinary zombies definitely wouldn’t be a match for me.

Besides, apart from the Qing Dynasty Century-old Zombies, I might also encounter soldier zombies from the period of the Republic of China and Ghoul peasants from the early days after the establishment of the nation."

Just to be safe, Zhang Yanhang silently scanned the underground of the cemetery with his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill for any Qing Dynasty ancient corpses. Unexpectedly, he did find an aged corpse, and what shocked him more was that he also found a Young female corpse.

"No, this one seems not only to be cultivating but also breathing on the side; she looks more like a living person. Could it be some bored Awakener trying to experience life in the cemetery? But even if they wanted to experience life, they wouldn’t bury themselves in a grave, right?"

Zhang Yanhang observed the Young female corpse’s lung expansion pattern and the circulation of blood in her heart and felt she was most likely an Awakener, as zombies wouldn’t have such fresh blood in their system.

"Good thing I took a look in advance, or this unnamed Awakener might have died without knowing why...

But maybe not, after all. Although this unnamed female Awakener doesn’t seem to have strong physical quality, I feel she’s much stronger than me—he must be at least a Third Tier Awakened.

So, an Awakener of her strength would at most be seriously injured after taking one of my Death Waves.

But sometimes, serious injury is actually the most terrifying; after all, being randomly injured could lead this unnamed Awakener to retaliate against me. Although I should be able to handle her, it would be quite troublesome if she had some self-destruction trick up her sleeve wanting to take me down with her."

Initially, Zhang Yanhang intended to release his Death Wave Skill directly over this cemetery, as he felt that unleashing it here certainly wouldn’t harm any living people, at worst just accidentally hurting some zombies and Resentful Spirits.

He didn’t have the slightest psychological burden about such accidental injuries since it could be considered as removing a menace for the public.

But accidentally harming an active person would still put some psychological pressure on Zhang Yanhang, who wasn’t some bloodthirsty fiend (the Crimson Iron Ant Queen goes ’huh?’), as the other party hadn’t provoked him—she was just innocently cultivating lying in a cemetery, yet he’d have attacked her unprovoked, which seemed somewhat inappropriate no matter how he thought about it.

"Sigh, since there’s a living person buried under this cemetery, I should go somewhere else to release my Death Wave Skill. I remember the neighboring mountain seems pretty good; there’s an open clearing halfway up."

Just as Zhang Yanhang was about to lift his foot, Time Pause abruptly descended, and a vast array of text options sprung out of nowhere before him.

"Huh? Is today’s adventure finally here? Is it the aged corpse that triggered the adventure, or the Young female corpse?"

Zhang Yanhang really hadn’t expected that the adventure task he’d struggled so hard in bed to trigger would be accidentally triggered here; he immediately began to check the textual option boxes.

[Would you like to interact with the Awakener in the cemetery?]

[Option One: Ignore (Since you feel that any Awakeners who like to cultivate in a cemetery must not be normal, you choose to ignore them, although you really want to know what motives they have for cultivating in a grave like a zombie.

However, your strong self-control successfully suppresses this unnecessary curiosity, and you never forget your original purpose. Compared to ’digging up a grave and then finding a beautiful female Awakener,’ an irrelevant matter, you care more about your sleep status; you just want to use up your stamina and return home to sleep.

So, after giving up the idea of flirting with the beautiful female Awakener, you immediately ran to another nearby mountain and started releasing your Death Wave Skill at high frequency to deplete your stamina. On the way down the mountain, you unexpectedly discovered a Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass that could increase your Stamina limit buried five meters below the flattop in a small pile of rocks.)]

[Option Two: Death Wave (Even though you’re well aware that there’s a female Awakened with Third Tier strength buried in this cemetery behind Beiling Mountain, you still released your Death Wave Skill in the cemetery without care. Apart from seriously injuring this female Awakened, you also incidentally took out a forming Qing Dynasty Zombie.

Although after releasing the Death Wave Skill, you fled the scene before she could react, the female Awakened had already reported to the relevant authorities in advance and was about to join them soon to become an Imperial Civil Servant. Thus, because of a moment of foolishness, you have become a fugitive wanted by the Empire.)]

[Option Three: Xuanyin Fruit (You feel that a female Awakened who can cultivate in a cemetery must be no ordinary character, so you chose to get along with her peacefully. To save time, you immediately used Alchemy to dig out this Third Tier Awakened buried underground and in a state of Cultivation and greeted her bewildered expression.

After the greeting, you learned her name, Zhou Muxi. To show goodwill, you fed her a Xuanyin Fruit you had picked up earlier. Faced with a stranger’s sudden gesture of friendship, she seemed somewhat at a loss but still accepted the Xuanyin Fruit, which was very useful to her.

Just like that, although you didn’t talk much, you still became friends with her. She will invite you to apply with her at the related department tomorrow. Because of your better performance, both of you were recruited together, successfully joining the government and picked up a stable job, becoming an Imperial Civil Servant guaranteed against droughts and floods.)]

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