Ashen God
Chapter 387 - 386: Isn’t This Bullying the Honest People?!

Chapter 387: Chapter 386: Isn’t This Bullying the Honest People?!

Theoretically speaking, if an Awakener possessed infinite Energy Value, even a First Tier with Talents that yet to show any evolution could easily destroy the world.

After all, once one has infinite Energy Value, it means that they could activate their abilities without any limits. Based on the principle that quantity changes lead to qualitative changes, an infinite amount of Energy Value could very easily create at least a Creator God-level powerful Awakener.

Moreover, in this process, it wouldn’t matter in the slightest whether the innate Talent Ability of the Awakener was useless, since the Energy itself could cause vast Destruction.

For example, the simplest would be to use a Spiritual Qi Blessing. With infinite Energy Value, something like punching to explode the Earth would probably be very easy to achieve.

Therefore, this infinite Energy Value that Zhang Yanhang always brings up and constantly ruminates over is a truly ridiculous notion; there’s absolutely no chance of it being realized, purely wishful thinking.

Thus, although the strength of an Awakener’s ability and the potential for its development are indeed closely related, the most important influential factor is still the Awakener’s Energy Value limit. Without sufficient Energy Value, no matter how strong the ability, it can’t be utilized to its full extent and is essentially equal to zero.

Besides the Chaos Power of the First Tier and the Illusion Projection of the Second Tier, at the Third Tier, the ascent of Clear Qi (Yang Qi) forming the sky also gave Zhou Muxi a powerful Attack Power, ’True Sun Fire.’

Yes, it is that True Sun Fire originating from the mythology of the Three-legged Golden Crow, a fire that burns mountains, boils seas, there’s nothing it cannot burn, with peerless power, even capable of easily destroying the physical bodies of Daluo Golden Immortals.

Of course, restricted by Rank, Zhou Muxi’s version of True Sun Fire couldn’t even be considered a poor imitation; it was merely something superlative among the worst types under the name of True Sun Fire.

So, in terms of power, it wasn’t as exaggerated as it could be. It was still pretty effective against Third Tier Awakened, but not so much for Fourth Tier, since the Fourth Tier, the Earth Immortal Stage, represents a transformational phase where the strength increase for an Awakener is far more substantial than any previous ranks.

However, even though it’s superlative among the worst, Zhou Muxi’s True Sun Fire had the ability to never go out. Once it touched an enemy’s body, it would continue Burning and spreading until the enemy was dead or Zhou Muxi actively canceled the True Sun Fire.

Additionally, because her Chaotic Eye genuinely contained a small-world reality inside, Zhou Muxi could actually put things inside, which essentially meant she had a Storage Equipment with an extremely large capacity (an entire continent).

This was truly convenient, though in normal circumstances she definitely wouldn’t have that many things to store; more regretfully, because the rules of the world were not yet perfected and couldn’t sustain living creatures, this small-world couldn’t be used as a refuge in times of crisis.

Therefore, this small-world, which should have been absolutely Versailles-level, could only serve as an oversized Storage Space at this stage.

Honestly, Zhang Yanhang felt that Storage Spaces, a few dozen cubic meters would already be plenty sufficient; anything more and the cost-benefit ratio would seriously overflow.

Take, for instance, his nearly a thousand-grid Equipment, even after moving a bunch of stuff from Raccoon City, he ended up using only about forty to fifty grids, with all the remaining spaces remaining empty, unable to serve any purpose.

It was only because he had encountered the special circumstance of digging a passage that he felt it was somewhat inadequate. Under normal conditions, it would be impossible to ever run out of space.

Thus, although carrying around an entire small-world as a Storage Space seems appealing, Zhang Yanhang didn’t really envy it. After all, it wasn’t like he had nothing better to do than want to stuff a mountain or a river on his person.

Therefore, compared to this accompanying Storage Ability, Zhang Yanhang preferred the Chaos Power that protected against Energy attacks and the Illusion Projection that guarded against Physical Attacks.

If possible, he would like to develop specialist protection of this Type as well. If he could succeed, then his Defense Power would surely surge, reaching a level where even a Lord Monster couldn’t break through.

Unfortunately, while the ideal was indeed beautiful, achieving it would be quite difficult, or rather, there currently was no possibility of realization; it could only be taken as a long-term goal to be achieved gradually.

After roughly introducing her abilities at various stages, Zhou Muxi began to stare at Zhang Yanhang with round, eager eyes, seemingly expecting something.

Although he didn’t interact much with other Awakeners normally, Zhang Yanhang understood what she was looking forward to. Hence, to respond to this anticipation, Zhang Yanhang also prepared a self-introduction.

Perhaps because his past experiences had been so impactful, every time he had to introduce himself, Zhang Yanhang inevitably felt a psychological shadow born from the forced self-introductions in middle and high school when teachers called him up.

This irresponsible behavior of the teachers meant that every time Zhang Yanhang had to introduce himself to others, he would feel an involuntary sense of embarrassment.

But thankfully, since college didn’t require self-introductions, Zhang Yanhang’s psychological shadow didn’t deepen and stayed at a barely tolerable level.

If the college head teacher or counselor had dared to pull the same move, Zhang Yanhang was confident enough to evolve this psychological shadow into social anxiety, consequently becoming a character even more reclusive and socially fearful.

Of course, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t shy about saying his own name; that was definitely impossible. His main reluctance was to make up his hobbies, interests, and especially strengths in front of a bunch of strangers. The latter, the so-called strengths which clearly didn’t exist but still had to be contrived, always made him feel exceedingly awkward.

Even now, Zhang Yanhang didn’t feel he had any strengths, perhaps the only thing close to it being his ability to work hard and endure hardships (relentlessly hunting Monsters without sleep).

But the starting point of this endurance was selfish (to gather Soul points to enhance his own power), so whether it can be considered as a strength is a philosophical question.

Moreover, the key point, according to Zhang Yanhang, was that strengths are something that should be summarized by others after spending a long time together; talking about one’s own strengths always seems somewhat self-aggrandizing and uncomfortable.

Therefore, for Zhang Yanhang, who had not introduced himself to others for a long time, deciding what to talk about was quite a dilemma. First of all, talking about strengths was definitely out of the question; not only did he lack them, but mentioning them would be useless anyway since this wasn’t about some job interview.

As for hobbies and interests, there was no need to introduce those either, and Zhang Yanhang also had his psychological shadows in this regard. Back in high school, he had planned to apply for a major in computer science, so he mentioned computers as his interest during self-introductions.

It wasn’t long before a female classmate asked him to fix her computer, while he barely had enough time to play games on his days off. The girl even purposefully wasted his rest time with the "Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage" treatment, insisting he fix her computer three times.

Each time she complained the internet connection was bad. On the first visit, the router was unplugged; the second time, the internet was fine at first, but mysteriously disconnected later on, and after a thorough check, it turned out the girl had "accidentally" kicked out the network cable.

The third time was even more unbelievable: some "unknown person" had cut her home’s internet cable, but fortunately, Zhang Yanhang’s expertise allowed him to swiftly attach a new RJ-45 connector using the remaining cable, solving the problem in less than two minutes.

Zhang Yanhang still remembers the deep resentment on the girl’s face when she saw how skillfully he separated the twisted pair, stripped off the insulation, and inserted the wires into the eight slots by color.

Zhang Yanhang always thought her expression was a silent protest against the modern-day peril of being without the internet, something an ordinary person could absolutely not endure.

So, to avoid disturbing her pleasure of regaining what she had lost—a joy completely opposite to the deep resentment experienced during an outage—Zhang Yanhang quietly slipped away back home as soon as he fixed the cable and the girl went to get a drink.

After that, the girl never asked Zhang Yanhang to fix her computer again. He always believed this was because of his proficient skills; after the repair, the internet connection never had issues again, so she no longer needed his help.

Therefore, this time Zhang Yanhang was ready to simply introduce his name and Talent Ability. After all, hobbies and interests were definitely out of the question for an introduction, and moreover, the primary reason was that Zhang Yanhang’s interests had changed.

Zhang Yanhang used to enjoy computers and games, which is why he chose a major in computer science, but after he became an Awakener, although he still liked playing games, his greatest hobbies and interests had become hunting monsters and enhancing his own strength; that’s what truly brought him joy.

Everyone envies those who can derive happiness from their work, and Zhang Yanhang was precisely that type of person. He had always liked turning hobbies into a career, and it was for this reason that he maintained the strong will to adhere to an eight-hour workday hunting monsters in the Ashen World.

If it were someone else, adhering to an eight-hours-of-work and eight-hours-of-sleep routine without any entertainment, they’d probably go insane after working for just a day or two, but Zhang Yanhang felt just fine even after clearing all monsters in the area.

By the way, Zhang Yanhang’s interests had already begun to shift right at the start of the Spiritual Qi Recovery when the computer industry had abruptly changed from a highly sought-after field to a sunset industry with bleak future prospects.

The magnitude of this disparity was so great that Zhang Yanhang, just starting his freshman year, couldn’t help but plan a new path in life. After all, with the recovery of Spiritual Qi, it would be pointless to persist in a major like computer science, which clearly would offer no future prospects after graduation.

Therefore, from then on, Zhang Yanhang grew fond of cultivation. However, limited by the constraints of the Heaven and Earth Creation Technique and his own Talent, he could only cultivate a little over an hour each day.

It wasn’t until a little over a month ago that he inexplicably awakened his Talent ability and became an Awakener, thus changing his practice to the Limitless Universe Skill. This newfound love for cultivation fully burst forth.

At that time, aside from sleeping, he spent all his time cultivating, and due to being able to increase his cultivation speed, he gradually became familiar with the Female Awakened who had dribbled saliva on him the night before.

But all the hard work cultivating was really just preparatory work. It wasn’t until later, when he began hunting monsters in the Ashen World, that Zhang Yanhang truly embarked on the path of an Awakener—up until then, he was at most a cultivator.

Under the expectant gaze of Zhou Muxi, Zhang Yanhang began his introduction, "My name is Zhang Yanhang, I’m a Second Tier Awakened, and my Talent Ability is ’Heavenly Destiny Master.’"

After the brief introduction, Zhang Yanhang turned his gaze back to Zhou Muxi.

Zhou Muxi initially thought that Zhang Yanhang was silent because he was considering how to introduce his ability. However, after waiting for a while, she realized he had no intention of continuing to speak at all. "Is that it?" she asked.

"What else would you like to hear?" Zhang Yanhang felt that he had already covered the important parts in his introduction.

"Your ability! I’ve introduced my own ability, but you haven’t introduced yours?! Do you really think that’s fair?" Zhou Muxi, seeing the innocent look on his face, suddenly felt an urge to vent her frustration. Since when does an Awakener only introduce their name in a self-introduction? Isn’t that just taking advantage of honest people?!

"Are you sure you want me to talk about my ability?" Because Zhang Yanhang had been strangely accused by the group leader of being overly ostentatious when he previously introduced his ability, he hadn’t planned on talking about it anymore. But now, it seemed he had no choice.

"Absolutely sure! Get started; I’m somewhat impatient already."

Since the name alone did not reveal much, Zhou Muxi was very curious about what kind of ability ’Heavenly Destiny Master’ really was.

Although the Talent Ability sounded quite impressive just by its name, Zhou Muxi was prepared this time. No matter how much he boasted, it was impossible to breach her psychological defenses again.

"Even if you say that, my ability really isn’t much to talk about; it’s just that I’m a bit luckier than average," Zhang Yanhang genuinely felt there was not much to say about his ability, nothing like Zhou Muxi’s "Chaotic Eye," which could unfold into a host of capabilities with just a casual mention.

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