Ashen God
Chapter 370 - 369: Longevity

Chapter 370: Chapter 369: Longevity

Slightly disappointed, Zhang Yanhang silently opened the GPS navigation on his phone and quickly made his way toward Shuiqing Gully East Mountain, which, like Beiling Mountain and Jiading Mountain, had been developed into a forest park.

Because Shuiqing Gully East Mountain was in the same North City District as Beiling Mountain, it took Zhang Yanhang less than a minute to go from Shuangshan to Shuiqing Gully East Mountain. Although he hadn’t held much hope for a small hill like Shuiqing Gully East Mountain in the first place, he couldn’t help but feel a profound sense of disappointment upon seeing its actual condition.

The elevation here turned out to be even lower than adjacent buildings, and its area was a minuscule 0.1 square kilometers. Most crucially, there were barely any native tree species on the mountain. Not only were all the trees planted by the government for landscaping, but most were also enclosed within fences.

Clutching at straws, Zhang Yanhang quickly scanned the area and found that most of the meager 0.1 square kilometers had been taken over by various artificial structures such as plazas, sculptures, pavilions, rockeries, restrooms, and recreational facilities.

The trees and various other plants merely filled in the gaps between these artificial structures, symbolically serving as decoration. You could say that their only reason for existence was that the name of the park contained the word ’forest’.

Unlike Beiling Mountain and Jiading Mountain, which focused on their forest aspects, this place was more like an ordinary park with no real connection to a forest. If a visitor came here, they probably wouldn’t realize it was a forest park; at most, they might think there were just slightly more trees than in a typical park.

"Although I haven’t started to carefully scan the plants here, just from these circumstances alone, it seems rather unlikely that Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures like Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass or Sky Demon Green Crystal Grass would exist.

But since I’m here, I might as well scan the area. What if there really is something? Even though the chances are indeed small..."

Due to the small size of the area, it only took Zhang Yanhang a few seconds to completely scan Shuiqing Gully East Mountain. As expected, there were indeed no Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Given the environment, instead of feeling disappointed about this result, Zhang Yanhang experienced a sense of relief.

"As I thought, there are no Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. After all, in this environment, it would be strange if things like Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass or Sky Demon Green Crystal Grass grew here.

So, the question now is, where should I go next in search of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures? Xiang’er Mountain? Or Azure Dragon Mountain?"

Zhang Yanhang reopened his phone and searched for the locations of these two mountains. After comparing their distances from Shuiqing Gully East Mountain, he found that Xiang’er Mountain was a bit closer, only five kilometers away in a straight line, while Azure Dragon Mountain was six kilometers away.

"Since Xiang’er Mountain is closer, I’ll go there first. Five kilometers... should only take about a minute or two, even though it’s a mountain in the Licang District, it surprisingly feels very close to North City District."

Before setting off, Zhang Yanhang glanced at the time on his phone and realized it was already about 2 a.m. He thought that, at the latest, he should be asleep by 3 a.m.

So, he had roughly an hour to sort out his sleep, which should be quite sufficient. Yes, as long as nothing unexpected happened, it should definitely be enough.

And what if something unexpected did occur and time wasn’t enough? Well, there was no choice but to delay his bedtime accordingly.

"Who would have thought that I, a computer science university student who should have been stuck with a perennial 996 schedule after graduation, would also be plagued by insomnia one day. Sigh, perhaps these are just the troubles that come with becoming powerful..."

Zhang Yanhang felt that his inability to sleep was not only due to his body’s functions being disrupted after working without sleep for four consecutive days and nights but also because Awakeners’ sleep duration decreases with each Rank promotion.

For instance, when Zhang Yanhang had just become an Awakener, his sleep time reduced from the original eight hours to six hours, and after his recent promotion to Second Tier, it dropped by another two hours, leaving him with just four hours of sleep.

If this trend continued, Zhang Yanhang figured that by the time he reached Fourth Tier, or the Earth Immortal rank, he should be able to completely abandon sleep.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang suddenly realized why the group leader was so idle every day – without needing to spend much time sleeping, how could he not be?

"While these may be the troubles that come with strength, if it only gets to this level, then I hope my troubles grow more and more, like worrying about why I can never finish using up my life span..."

Speaking of the issue of lifespan, one cannot help but mention the third ability of the SS-tier Talent Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea, Longevity, which, after evolving to SS-tier, gained a new coefficient that increased lifespan based on the Constitution Attribute.

And Zhang Yanhang’s Constitution Attribute had just improved, so, although only six days had passed, his life span limit had already increased by another six years, averaging an increase of one year per day, oddly giving him a sense of ’a day in heaven is a year on earth.’

So, the lifespan increase granted by Longevity, which originally added 234 years to Zhang Yanhang, had now reached 240 years. According to Guinness World Records, the lifespan boost from Longevity alone was equivalent to twice the life span of the record holder.

Additionally, after his promotion to Second Tier, Zhang Yanhang automatically gained an extra twenty years on his life span, which meant that he now had an extra 260 years of life.

"If I calculate it like this, even if I originally belonged to the type of ’cost-saving talent’ who would die suddenly of a heart attack at the age of sixty without even getting the retirement procedures sorted, I could still live for over three hundred more years.

If my original lifespan could reach the average life expectancy of eighty years, then I could live for another three hundred and twenty years.

With these three hundred and twenty years of life, even if I was utterly useless, becoming an influential figure before dying of old age shouldn’t be difficult, right?"

For some reason, Zhang Yanhang felt that his ’dying wish’ seemed excessively plain and unambitious.