Ashen God
Chapter 366 - 365 Jiading Mountain

Chapter 366: Chapter 365 Jiading Mountain

So, theoretically speaking, although there are many small mountains within the Qin Island City area, totaling several dozens, most of them belong to the Lao Mountain Range, like Beiling Mountain where Zhang Yanhang just went, which is a typical subsidiary ridge developed from the southwest branch of the Lao Mountain Range.

Even as a subsidiary ridge of the Lao Mountain Range, Beiling Mountain not only inherited the mountain springs from the Lao Mountain Range but also developed a small lake within it. Zhang Yanhang often went there to drink springwater when he was young, and he had to admit, it indeed tasted completely different from the chlorinated tap water.

Regarding the subsidiary ridges of the Lao Mountain Range, Zhan Mountain Temple, which was mentioned earlier among the local sects of Qingdao City, was established relying on one of these ridgelines—"Zhan Mountain"—from the southwest branch.

Because these subsidiary ridges of Wushan, which are the subsidiary ridges of the southwest branch, are all located within the city area, it is quite convenient and quick for the current Zhang Yanhang to make a visit, which led him to think about running around in these ridges of the Lao Mountain Range to see if he could find other Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

"I can’t sleep now anyway, and if it’s just a simple nighttime run, even if I don’t find anything useful in the end, apart from wasting some time, it wouldn’t cause me much loss."

In fact, the reason why Zhang Yanhang wanted to visit the other ridges of the Lao Mountain Range was mainly that the distances between these ridges are really close—how close, you ask?

So close that Zhang Yanhang only had to cross one street from the entrance of Beiling Mountain Forest Park to reach another subsidiary ridge of the southwest branch, Jiading Mountain.

Yes, the distance between the two is just that—they are only separated by a single street. Therefore, since he had already come to Beiling Mountain, why would Zhang Yanhang not visit Jiading Mountain?

By the way, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t very familiar with Jiading Mountain. The facilities built there weren’t great, and there were few trees. Moreover, it was only separated by one road from Beiling Mountain, which is where he usually went mountain climbing when he was young.

After all, the environment there was much better, with mountains, water, forests, and various brightly colored plants and flowers whose names Zhang Yanhang couldn’t recall. He especially liked to go to Beiling Mountain during autumn when the hills were covered with fiery red maple leaves, which looked exceptionally beautiful.

But Jiading Mountain was not the same; during autumn, due to the different types of trees planted there, when he visited, the leaves were usually all fallen, leaving nothing but bare dark trunks.

Additionally, since various plants and grass had also started to turn yellow by then, overall, visiting Jiading Mountain during autumn felt like going to a barren mountain.

Why did Zhang Yanhang specifically mention autumn? Because the current date was October 20, which is squarely within autumn, so when Zhang Yanhang arrived at Jiading Mountain, he was immediately reminded of the desolate feeling he had experienced seeing this barren mountain in the past.

In some respects, although both are subsidiary ridges of the Lao Mountain Range, Jiading Mountain can only be considered a lesser version of Beiling Mountain in all aspects. Not only is its elevation lower than Beiling Mountain’s, but its land area is also much smaller, granting it only a few peaks.

And unfortunately, Jiading Mountain didn’t inherit the mountain springs from the Lao Mountain Range.

But although Jiading Mountain is somewhat disappointing in many areas, it is still a mountain with potential for producing Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Hence, Zhang Yanhang started rushing toward the highest point of Jiading Mountain, planning to begin his search from top to bottom.

It’s worth mentioning that, although the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill can easily scan the entirety of Jiading Mountain, such scanning would only allow a general overview, and to acquire more detailed information, Zhang Yanhang would have to reduce the scanning area and search bit by bit.

Of course, this wasn’t due to any special restrictions of the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill but rather because Zhang Yanhang’s brain capacity wasn’t enough to scan too many things simultaneously.

This situation is quite easy to understand. The scanning precision of Zhang Yanhang’s Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill had already reached the capability of scanning down to the cellular level. And how many cells does a plant have? Since human cells and plant cells are roughly the same size, one can estimate by analogy with the number of cells in the human body.

And how many cells are there in the human body? The answer is tens of trillions. Differences in body size can lead to differences in cell counts, but a typical adult human body usually contains at least forty trillion cells and, at most, sixty trillion cells.

Therefore, if calculating from this perspective and considering the number of plant cells, which are measured in micrometers, there would be at least hundreds of millions.

Thus, for this reason, if Zhang Yanhang were to narrow his scanning precision to the cellular level, then just scanning a single plant could exhaust him enormously,_ as he is indeed an Awakener, even a Second Tier one. But still, his brain had not evolved into a super-computer.

Not to mention that Zhang Yanhang’s Intelligence Attribute is currently only fifty points, even if it doubled and reached the Fourth Tier level of a hundred points, Zhang Yanhang felt that it wouldn’t be likely for him to reach that level, since super-computers, as one of the modern human’s high-end intellectual creations, are indeed quite impressive.

All in all, the higher the scanning precision that Zhang Yanhang used, the more detail information he could obtain, but his brain’s computational capacity is fixed, so the more details there are, the smaller the range he could handle simultaneously.

Of course, if he was just scanning to see if there was any spiritual energy fluctuation within the plants, such precision to the level of individual cells wouldn’t be necessary, but the required precision was still quite high, certainly different from the precision he usually used when scanning enemies.

The difference between the two is like looking at a map of the entire Empire and trying to locate each province or looking at a map of Qin Island City to pinpoint various districts.

Unless there are specially marked capitals and directly governed cities, it’s generally impossible to find a specific city on such a national map, let alone pinpoint the locations of districts within that città, as they simply don’t appear on the map.

To put it more simply, it’s like looking at a mini-map in a game. Normally, you can see the entire map, but to see more detail, you need to zoom in. After zooming in, the area you can see at once also reduces. Yes, broadly speaking, that’s roughly the principle.

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