Ashen God
Chapter 374 - 373 Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass

Chapter 374: Chapter 373 Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass

After contemplating for a bit, Zhang Yanhang decided to take a gamble. After all, the consequences of losing weren’t too severe, but if he won, it would allow him to fall asleep smoothly.

So, in the end, Zhang Yanhang chose to put the Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass directly into his mouth, chewed it a few times randomly, and then swallowed it.

After eating the Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass, Zhang Yanhang found that although the taste was still somewhat bitter, it was better than the Sky Demon Green Crystal Grass, probably ranking somewhere between the Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass and the Sky Demon Green Crystal Grass.

Since he had become quite experienced with consuming Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that could enhance his physical strength and defensive power, Zhang Yanhang only briefly felt the warm current inside his body before estimating the approximate degree of enhancement this time.

Zhang Yanhang could clearly feel that the warm current from the Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass was slightly stronger than the Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass he had before, so it had likely enhanced his defensive power by about 6% to 7%, not bad at all.

"Since I’ve already finished the Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass, and I can’t obtain other Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures through fortuitous encounters today, I might as well just go home."

In the cave, while waiting for the Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass to mature, the effects of the previously consumed Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass and Sky Demon Green Crystal Grass had dissipated for the most part. Consequently, Zhang Yanhang once again felt a vague desire to sleep, though slight, at least breaking through the barrier from 0 to 1.

And rather luckily, although the Sky Demon Yellow Crystal Grass didn’t help with sleeping, it didn’t eliminate his drowsiness either. Therefore, Zhang Yanhang felt that he should hurry home and sleep while the drowsiness hadn’t dissipated.

But before heading home, Zhang Yanhang had to first use Alchemy to repair the vertical tunnel he had excavated.

After all, if left unattended, it would definitely be discovered by the on-duty staff in the morning, and would most likely be reported as a special incident to the relevant authorities. If that happened, he would, at the very least, end up paying a hefty fine.

Of course, the prospect of a fine didn’t scare Zhang Yanhang much; what he truly feared were punishments that money couldn’t solve.

Therefore, to prevent such situations, it would be better to take care of the tunnel’s repair right away.

As for the specific repair method, it was quite simple. All Zhang Yanhang had to do was stuff the cylindrical piece back into its place, then use Alchemy to reconnect the separated parts.

In this way, unless some High-level Awakened spontaneously decided to break the entire mountain, it’d be utterly impossible to discover that a tunnel had ever been excavated here.

After figuring out the exact method, Zhang Yanhang immediately climbed back up to the top of Xiang’er Mountain via the tunnel, then pulled out the cylindrical piece from his Waist Bag and stuffed it back in place.

Although the cylinder slid down a bit due to gravitational potential energy, with the lower half sliding into the cave, it wasn’t a big deal. A simple adjustment with Alchemy would do.

Specifically, Zhang Yanhang used the surrounding rocks at the bottom of the cylinder to Alchemically create a stone pillar of roughly the same height as the cave, to push it back to its original height. This made it much easier to handle.

Just like that, creating the stone pillar plus fusing the cylinder, it took Zhang Yanhang altogether just over ten seconds to restore the surface of Xiang’er Mountain, and it definitely maintained the same strength as before, ensuring there would be no issue of the cylinder falling down from someone stomping on it.

Not to mention there was a stone pillar underneath, just the fact that the cylinder had fused back with the surrounding rocks meant that even if the entire mountain summit was shattered by a High-level Awakened, it would definitely not fall, so there would unquestionably be no safety hazards. Zhang Yanhang’s work was always so safe and reliable.

Speaking of which, if Zhang Yanhang were to really attend an interview with the relevant authorities, alongside that strange woman from the graveyard, his Alchemy skills alone would surely land him in the logistics department, where he would then embark on the life of a corporate drone with an initial 996 schedule, a mid-term 007, and eventually no days off at all.

After all, with each promotion in Rank, Awakeners tend to need less sleep, so even First Tier Awakened can perfectly adapt to a 996 lifestyle.

Once promoted to Second Tier, especially someone like Zhang Yanhang who, unless doing heavy physical labor, could easily work non-stop for several days and nights, would most likely realize a perfect 007 schedule by Third Tier.

Just thinking about the possibility of being squeezed into that shape made Zhang Yanhang uncontrollably fear the prospect of job hunting after graduation, but luckily, he was only a sophomore, and graduation was still a long way off, with nearly three more years to go.

With those three years, although Zhang Yanhang might not grow to the point of being able to punch the Earth to smithereens, he figured that at least achieving the modest goal of retiring immediately after graduation should be quite simple.

Thinking of the blissful life after retirement made Zhang Yanhang involuntarily smile with happiness.

But in the next second, the smile vanished as he suddenly remembered that such a retired life was still a long way off, and that he had to keep working hard to achieve that beautiful retirement life.

"Forget about retirement, that’s still too far away from me. I should head to the 711 convenience store to buy something to eat now, hoping this little sleep-aid trick really works."

Yes, Zhang Yanhang ultimately chose the first option, mainly because he felt there was no harm in trying, and if it didn’t work, there would still be time to search the Internet for other sleep-aid tricks.

After all, it was just barely 2:30 AM now, and as long as he could fall asleep before 3:00 AM, that would be fine.

Desperate for sleep, Zhang Yanhang immediately used his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil ability to scan his surroundings and quickly found a 711 convenience store. After plotting a simple route, he started moving rapidly toward the 711.

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On October 20, the twelfth day after the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang returned to the Main World, at 2:40 AM, in Qin Island City, Xingfuli District.

By this time, Zhang Yanhang had finished buying his midnight snack from the 711 convenience store and was back in the district. He hadn’t yet reached the downstairs area of his building when he saw, from afar, a strange fellow crouching by the window of his home. No, that’s not right, it was by his neighbor’s window, as if they had just climbed out from there.

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