Ashen God
Chapter 371 - 370: Azure Dragon Mountain

Chapter 371: Chapter 370: Azure Dragon Mountain

October 20, a dozen days after the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday had ended, and also the first day that Zhang Yanhang had returned to the Main World. At two o’clock in the morning, in the Licang District of Qin Island City, he arrived at Xiang’er Mountain Forest Park.

After spending a little over a minute traveling to Xiang’er Mountain Forest Park, Zhang Yanhang immediately conducted a general scan of it with his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill. All he could say was that this time it was indeed a bona fide natural park.

Unlike Shuiqing Gully East Mountain Forest Park, which was misleadingly presented as a natural park, designed merely with landscaped trees and entirely enclosed by fences, the trees and various vegetation here were mostly natural growth, occupying the vast majority of the park’s area.

Only a small portion of the level land had been developed with things like elephant slides, celebrity tombs, observation towers, and wooden planked walkways.

Hence, the overall environment was quite satisfying. Although it was significantly smaller in size than Beiling Mountain Forest Park, with only about 0.4 square kilometers, the elevation of Xiang’er Mountain was much higher than that of Beiling Mountain, roughly around one hundred and sixty meters, making it one of the taller hills within the city.

Just based on vegetation coverage, Zhang Yanhang felt that the likelihood of this place producing Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures was indisputably several times greater than at Shuiqing Gully East Mountain.

By the way, when Zhang Yanhang had previously been checking the location, he also discovered the origin of the name Xiang’er Mountain. It seemed that it had originally been an ordinary, unnamed barren hill, referred to as Zao’er Mountain by the locals because of the abundance of red dates normally found there.

But later, a celebrity whose tomb was there thought the hill looked like an elephant’s ear from afar, so he named it Xiang’er Mountain. The name had stuck ever since.

"0.4 square kilometers. This time it definitely won’t be possible to scan it in just a few seconds like Shuiqing Gully East Mountain Forest Park. It’s going to take at least, what, ten seconds or more?"

It’s worth mentioning that even though Zhang Yanhang’s scan range for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures was relatively small, the speed of scanning remained as fast as before, scanning several times every second.

Just as Zhang Yanhang was about to start the scan of Xiang’er Mountain, the all-too-familiar Time Pause descended once more, and a large array of text options that also seemed somewhat familiar appeared before him.

"Wow, a third time! Am I actually triggering three strange encounters in a row today? Is this some kind of magic?" Zhang Yanhang had previously experienced a maximum of two encounters in a single day, so this was a record-breaking occurrence for him.

"Could this be the true power of Multiple Choice after its promotion to Second Tier? To be able to consecutively trigger three strange encounters..."

Zhang Yanhang had always assumed that the enhancement of Multiple Choice mainly improved the strength of the options, but unexpectedly, even a secondary function like daily encounters had been amplified.

Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but fantasize about how marvelous it would be if he could trigger three encounters a day on the level of Sky Demon Green Crystal Grass. Undoubtedly, if that were possible, he would maintain an exceptionally rapid pace of power growth just by relying on these encounters.

"But what a pity, there probably isn’t such a thing as triggering three lucky encounters every day." Although Zhang Yanhang really wished for that to happen daily, his rational mind told him it was not at all realistic.

"Let’s just see what the options are for now," Zhang Yanhang sighed to himself before starting to check the specific details of the encounter he had triggered.

[Do you want to go to Azure Dragon Mountain for a climbing adventure?]

[Option One: Yes (Although you haven’t yet formally used the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill to scan the foothills of the southwest branch of the Lao Mountain Range, including Xiang’er Mountain, for some inexplicable reason you feel that there won’t be any Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in Xiang’er Mountain. With this thought, you decide to head to Azure Dragon Mountain, also part of the southwest branch of the Lao Mountain Range. After reaching there, you spend a considerable amount of time scanning the entirety of Azure Dragon Mountain with the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill. Unfortunately, you do not find the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures you were looking for.)]

[Option Two: No (Since scanning Xiang’er Mountain with the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill won’t take much time, you decide to scan it first and then make a decision based on what you find. To your disappointment, although the environment of Xiang’er Mountain is indeed very good, there are no Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to be found. Feeling very disheartened, you suddenly feel sleep overtaking you. You reckon that searching each mountain like this is like looking for a needle in a haystack, so you choose to go home, sleep, and rest. Later, when you have more time, you’ll come out again to search for the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures you desire.)]

[Option Three: Stay on Xiang’er Mountain (After scanning the entirety of Xiang’er Mountain, you are somewhat disappointed to find there are no Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. However, since Xiang’er Mountain is one of the only two mountains left within the city, you cannot help but feel reluctant to leave and decide to do another thorough scan of the mountain. The first time you only scanned the surface layer of Xiang’er Mountain, but this time you chose to delve deeper. Your persistence pays off as you find a hollow cave within the belly of the mountain, which shelters a Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass that will mature in half an hour. When it matures, it will possess the usage effect of enhancing defensive power. Thus, after discovering the Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass in the cave, you decide to stay on Xiang’er Mountain for another half hour to wait for its maturation. After a tedious half-hour wait, you feel that it’s getting quite late and decide to explore the remaining branches of the Lao Mountain Range some other time when you’re free.)]

"It’s actually asking me to go to Azure Dragon Mountain? But the first option is telling me that going there is useless."

Zhang Yanhang initially thought the option would be similar to the one at Jiading Mountain, guiding him to look for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures at Azure Dragon Mountain, but it ended up being just a warning that there were no such treasures there.

"This second option is similar to the previous ones, suggesting I hurry home to sleep."

If it were up to him, Zhang Yanhang would love to just go home and sleep, but unfortunately, that option did not involve finding any Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, so he would not choose it.