Ashen God
Chapter 535 - 534 Original Body

Chapter 535: Chapter 534 Original Body

During the hunting process, whenever Zhang Yanhang tracked the Dragon Vein Goblins, he would scan their bodies and internal structures as well, so with this familiarity, Zhang Yanhang nearly effortlessly separated some of the more valuable parts from Maka Baga and the Goblin Chief Nu Shan.

After manually dissecting the bodies, Zhang Yanhang then pulled out several anti-riot shields and other large equipment from his waist bag to begin the work of embedding the flesh and tissues.

As the alchemy was activated, the fusion of the mere white quality equipment with the flesh of Maka Baga and Goblin Chief Nu Shan happened much faster than Zhang Yanhang had anticipated, or to put it another way, it was several times faster than when he had fused the Crimson Iron Ant flesh.

If nothing went wrong, this increased speed wasn’t due to Zhang Yanhang’s improved skill, but mainly because his alchemy had been upgraded and updated from its incomplete version to a complete version.

However, even though the speed of fusion was significantly faster than expected, the massive size of Maka Baga and Goblin Chief Nu Shan, one being two and a half meters tall and the other three meters, meant that there was still a large amount left even after Zhang Yanhang spent four minutes embedding.

Having already spent two minutes dissecting, and now four minutes embedding, Zhang Yanhang glanced at his watch, which was about to align its minute hand, and abandoned the idea of continuing in the last remaining minute. Instead, he packed up his workbench back into his waist bag and lay back down on the bed.

After all, if it was just for research, the materials embedded earlier would definitely suffice.

Time passed quickly, and within a mere minute, as Zhang Yanhang felt he had barely laid down for long, time suddenly came to a halt, and a familiar array of text options appeared before him.

"Return to the Main World?"

[Option One: Yes (After having cleared the Goblin Plain of all Dragon Vein Goblins and also defeated the Chief Shaman Goblin Maka Baga and Lord Monster Goblin Chief Nu Shan, you feel the need to go home and rest. After prolonged work, you dearly miss the soft, large bed at home.

Thus, you immediately return to your home in Xingfuli District, Apartment 505, and uncontrollably fall into a deep sleep. Given the lengthy work in the Goblin Plain, you will sleep till almost nightfall, but because you didn’t ask for leave, you’re marked as having missed a day of classes.)]

[Option Two: No (Although it was your first official time entering the Goblin Plain to clear out the monsters, you were neither panicked nor disoriented, but started exploring the environment of the entire Goblin Plain very calmly and even devised a detailed ’Goblin Plain Clearance Plan’ after finishing the exploration to efficiently hunt the Dragon Vein Goblins.

As most of the time was spent strictly following the Goblin Plain Clearance Plan, you quickly cleared out the Goblin Plain entirely, but even though you have cleared it, you decide not to leave Ashen World immediately but to stay a bit longer, not allowing even the impending closure of the transmission channel to deter you.)

Although the transmission channel closure had left you stranded in Ashen World, you did not immediately venture into new areas to hunt monsters. Instead, you decided to sleep and rest first; after waking up, you returned to Goblin Plain and unexpectedly discovered a transmission channel leading to the Main World. Driven by curiosity, you entered the transmission channel but discovered that it unexpectedly led to India.

Option Three: Go home (Due to the prolonged hunting in Goblin Plain, you were physically and mentally exhausted. Without hesitation, you returned to the Main World and after briefly resting on your bed, you didn’t rush to sleep because today you still had school, with the first class at eight in the morning.

You figured you could catch up on sleep during class rather than missing school to sleep at home. At 7:40 a.m., you left home and chose to walk to school; on the way, you unexpectedly found a Sky Demon Purple Crystal Grass, which could enhance both spatial abilities and related comprehension.)

"If I had chosen the first option, I would have fallen asleep as soon as I got home, and I would have slept for at least ten hours, not waking up until the evening from six in the morning, and, for that, I would have to pay the price of missing a day of school."

Zhang Yanhang had been a bit conflicted about whether to continue hunting monsters in Ashen World or to return to the Main World, primarily because he hadn’t asked for leave beforehand.

Thus, if he had stayed for a long time in Ashen World under these circumstances, not only would he have been marked absent by his supervisor, but he might also have been considered missing and reported to the authorities, which would have been troublesome.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang now preferred to return to the Main World as compared to staying in Ashen World to continue hunting monsters.

"Then there’s the second option, which also doesn’t seem very reliable. What’s with this India? Although I know that the connection points of transmission channels can lead anywhere and usually ignore geographical distances in the Main World,

but Raccoon City is connected to Qin Island City, and right next door, Goblin Plain is connected to India, which is somewhat absurd.

After all, the Empire is the world’s largest in terms of area. Normally, even if it doesn’t connect to Qin Island City, it should at least connect to the northern provinces of the Empire, or even the southern provinces. But now, it’s bizarrely connected to India."

Zhang Yanhang truly couldn’t understand this situation, but fortunately, it wasn’t a big problem. Although the transmission channel indeed connected to India, there were presumably no Awakeners from India who had entered Ashen World’s Goblin Plain to compete with Zhang Yanhang for monsters.

After all, if there had been, how could Zhang Yanhang possibly have hunted enough Dragon Vein Goblins to reach his quota?

"Moreover, if the option hadn’t mentioned where the transmission channel on the other side was connected, I might have actually gone in out of curiosity to check it out. But since the option already informed me that it leads to India, then I definitely wouldn’t go in."

Zhang Yanhang really didn’t want to go to India, especially since he occasionally saw news about food being contaminated with human feces and urine.

Like that so-called Indian death sphere; regarding such unscrupulous practices of reducing materials without using cow dung and cow urine, although this matter had nothing to do with Zhang Yanhang, he couldn’t help but condemn it from a bystander’s perspective. These people, their consciences were completely corrupted.

Although Zhang Yanhang had previously mentioned wanting to experience the Indian style by visiting the teleportation channel in India, as the saying goes, times change and so do people’s thoughts, becoming contradictory or even entirely conflicting over time.

For example, there used to be hype about how in the United States, the water from the faucets was drinkable straight from the tap and was clear and sweet, comparable to spring water, even getting sweeter the more you drank. From the most superficial point of view, Zhang Yanhang thought this indeed seemed true.

However, the taste is supposed to remain constant, but the main reason it gets sweeter might be that they’ve literally fried their brains, with the secondary reason possibly being due to the continuous aging of the water pipes. Of course, I’m not cursing them here; I’m just stating a fact.

After all, it’s well known that excessive lead intake can at least cause brain damage or at worst turn them into VIP clients at the funeral home, and the United States has been using lead pipes to deliver tap water since last century (popular in the 20s to 70s) due to cost reasons, and they haven’t been replaced to this day.

As the lead pipes age and corrode over time, the lead content in the tap water significantly exceeds the standards. What do you call this? The Roman tradition alive in America! Pure Roman ecstasy! Proud.JPG.

Ancient Romans guzzle down lead powder sweeteners, modern Americans suck up mineral lead through lead pipes.

The exceeding lead content might also be one of the reasons for the prevalence of anti-intellectualism in America, as it’s true their brains are sick. This might also be one of the reasons why the average life span of Americans is amongst the lowest in developed countries.

Furthermore, the excessive lead content helps explain why some Americans, despite having water purifiers installed at home, still drink bottled mineral water obsessively every time they go to the supermarket because they just want to protect their brains.

By the way, before the era of lead pipes, the tap water situation was even worse due to the limitations of the times. Many people, including those in the White House, were literally drinking fecal water, causing lots of people to suffer from diarrhea and inflammation for no reason.

So in comparison to that era of fecal water, the modern America’s mineral lead water has really improved by leaps and bounds. From this perspective, the overall progress of America is extraordinarily noticeable. America is really too amazing.

As such, once everyone became aware of the mineral lead water situation, naturally, the initial hype couldn’t hold up anymore less they be publicly embarrassed — this is what’s called a change in thought over time.

"Since I can’t choose either of the first two options, it looks like I can only pick option three this time around. Oddly enough, this choice is just like the first time I left the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu; it also turned into an adventure option."

"I remember last time I obtained a Gathering Spirit Jade, and this time I can obtain a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure ’Sky Demon Purple Crystal Grass’ which after consumption increases relevant space abilities and perception."

Somehow it feels like those Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in Immortal Worlds that can alter constitution — eat it and you’ll gain special constitutions like Innate Taoist Body, Original Body, Five Elements Sacred Body.

And this one granting spatial enhancement could perhaps be referred to as Space Spirit Divine Body. Geez, it’s so chuunibyou.

So, I choose option three, to go home." After quietly mocking it, Zhang Yanhang ultimately chose the third option as it seemed the most reliable.

After making his choice, everything went black before his eyes, and then bright again, as Zhang Yanhang didn’t draw the curtains before he went to bed last night, the rising sun was leisurely spreading warm golden rays throughout the room.

However, regretfully Zhang Yanhang wasn’t grateful at all. He summoned a Mage’s Hand, drew the curtains, and directly started to sleep deeply as he was really tired and indeed needed a good rest.

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The 21st of October, the thirteenth day after the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays had ended, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World. 7:05 am, Xingfuli District, unit 505, bedroom.

Perhaps, because he had to go to school at 7:40 am, having only slept for an hour, Zhang Yanhang somehow felt it was time to wake up and immediately opened his eyes.

After waking up, Zhang Yanhang glanced at the time on his phone, "Just woke up at seven, all thanks to Multiple Choices. Otherwise, sleeping until it got dark might have been more appropriate."

Zhang Yanhang was well aware of his own waking abilities; alarms aren’t very effective. If it weren’t for Multiple Choices intervening, him waking up early would be an extremely rare occurrence.

"The time it took to clear the Goblin Plain was unexpectedly tight despite it not only being a vast plain environment but also merely 110 square kilometers. It looks like, for the new areas, I need to be prepared for a long-term battle."

Zhang Yanhang’s preferred area is the forest north of Raccoon City. Although he hasn’t thoroughly explored it yet, at the very least, it should be five times larger than Goblin Plain and plus, it’s a forest which isn’t conducive to rapid movement.

Indeed, preparations for prolonged fighting are required; even using a whole complete cooldown period for the transmission channel to intensively hunt the creatures within might be needed, as it’s just not feasible to clean hundreds of kilometers in a day or two.

"And, it’s entirely possible that even the entire period combined might not be enough, especially since I need to use half of the time to sleep for rapid recovery of physical strength."

As for whether Zhang Yanhang could choose an area that’s smaller? Such an area doesn’t exist, whether it’s the southern mountains or eastern giant wall, each area is larger than the last.