Ashen God
Chapter 553 - 552: Ultimate Biological Entity

Chapter 553: Chapter 552: Ultimate Biological Entity

October 21st, thirteen days after the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang left Ashen World. At 1:20 p.m., dormitory building, room 604.

Zhang Yanhang had successfully fused the remaining two +5 Thermo-baric Bombs. During this time, he had sent two more messages to the group leader at a frequency of once every twenty minutes, but the group leader still hadn’t replied to him, so Zhang Yanhang decided to wait a little longer.

By now, Zhang Yanhang had started preparing for the fusion of the +6 Thermo-baric Bomb. This was his first attempt at fusing a +6 Thermo-baric Bomb, and if nothing went wrong, the time needed for the fusion process was expected to increase significantly once again.

Fortunately, although he was short on time, he wasn’t that short on time. It was just the fusion of a +6 Thermo-baric Bomb, and he had plenty of time for that.

But soon, Zhang Yanhang realized he might have been a bit too arrogant.

Because right from the start, he noticed the speed at which the +5 Thermo-baric Bombs fused with each other was exceptionally slow, so much so that it was beyond his expectations. Originally, Zhang Yanhang had estimated that fusing a +6 Thermo-baric Bomb would at most take twice as long, around forty minutes to fuse one, but now it seemed he might have been too optimistic, and perhaps even one hour wouldn’t be enough.

Since it was his first time fusing a +6 Thermo-baric Bomb and he coincidentally didn’t have class during the first period in the afternoon, Zhang Yanhang started the fusion process with full concentration. But when he finally completed the fusion, he found that the estimated one-hour time was still too optimistic.

It took a whole eighty minutes, which is one hour and twenty minutes, for Zhang Yanhang to finally produce the first +6 Thermo-baric Bomb.

"It took me eighty minutes to fuse a +6 Thermo-baric Bomb... This is four times the twenty minutes required to fuse a +5 Thermo-baric Bomb. With this rate, wouldn’t I need a total of one hundred and sixty minutes just to fuse two +6 Thermo-baric Bombs...

So the question arises, if just fusing a +6 Thermo-baric Bomb takes this long, how long will fusing a +7 Thermo-baric Bomb take?"

Zhang Yanhang felt that based on the current situation, the best outcome might be an increase to one hundred and sixty minutes, but as for the worst-case scenario, the upper limit was quite high, and a huge increase in fusion time was not out of the question.

"All I can say is, the power of the Thermo-baric Bomb after fusion better not disappoint me, or else it truly wouldn’t be worth such a lengthy fusion time." Although Zhang Yanhang was thinking about the Thermo-baric Bombs, for some reason, he felt like he had forgotten something important.

"What is it?" After recalling carefully, Zhang Yanhang glanced at his phone involuntarily, "Right, since another hour and twenty minutes have passed, the group leader should have replied to me by now, right?"

The moment Zhang Yanhang thought of this, he immediately checked his phone for messages and found to his surprise that the group leader had actually replied to him, although the messages were a bit strange.

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Are you there?"

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Are you there?"

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Are you there?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "I’m here."

Curse Binding Vajra: "What’s the matter? Can’t you just say it directly?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "Come on, speak up. How am I supposed to know what it is if you don’t say anything?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "Why aren’t you replying to me now?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "Are you still chatting with that woman?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "Are you there?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "I just had the Divination system Awakeners in the group divine your account, it seems like you’re not chatting with any other woman, so what exactly are you doing?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "I had the Divination system Awakeners try to divine what you’re doing, but the divination failed. A Fourth Tier Awakened failing to divine a Second Tier Awakened is unheard of. Do you have any protective skills related to this?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "Do you find playing this sort of idle game amusing?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "You could just reply!!!"

Heavenly Destiny Master: "..."

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Since you didn’t reply, I got busy with some other things."

Heavenly Destiny Master: "I thought you wouldn’t reply until tonight... And what the heck is idle play? Can’t you stop making strange assumptions on your own? It makes me feel like I’m passively providing some special service."

Regarding the issue of the Fourth Tier Divination system Awakener’s failed divination of him, Zhang Yanhang didn’t have a clue. If he had to pick a highly likely reason, Zhang Yanhang thought it might be related to the Supreme Will LV.MAX, since that was the only skill he had related to the spirit.

As for why the Supreme Will could only protect himself and not his account, that might be because the Supreme Will had not kept up with the times and did not protect the data sent out by the account.

Or it could be that, although the account appeared to belong to him, it actually belonged to the company according to the user agreement, which might be why it couldn’t be protected. Both these possibilities seemed quite likely at the moment.

Zhang Yanhang sent his message and thought the group leader would take a while to reply, but to his surprise, the group leader replied immediately after he sent his message.

Curse Binding Vajra: "If you don’t have anything serious to tell me, I’ll teleport over later and beat you up."

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Why did you reply so quickly this time? Have you been staring at your phone screen the whole time? Or did you set me as a special concern?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "Hmph! You know nothing about the reaction speed of a Fourth Tier Awakened."

Curse Binding Vajra: "What’s the matter? Speak up, or I’ll teleport over there and give you a beating right now."

Heavenly Destiny Master: "I just learned a spell called ’Strong Dimension Anchor,’ which can lock down the surrounding space. Only a Fifth Tier Awakened can break through the lockdown and teleport into the locked area. So, unless I allow it, you simply won’t be able to teleport over."

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Moreover, this Strong Dimension Anchor of mine is an Instant Cast Spell. Even if you teleport next to me before I cast the spell, I can immediately stop your subsequent teleportation, while I myself am not restricted and can teleport away directly."

Curse Binding Vajra: "If it’s such a powerful lockdown spell, then the range must be very small, huh? Humph! You know nothing about the speed of a Fourth Tier Awakened. I could easily teleport outside the lockdown range, and before you even have time to react, I’d have already pinned you down and given you a beating."

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Alright, my bad."

Zhang Yanhang finally had to admit that the movement speed of a Fourth Tier Awakened was indeed something he couldn’t compare with; at that rank with a Spiritual Qi Blessing, they could achieve flight speeds of several times the speed of sound, while he couldn’t even reach 0.6 mach.

Curse Binding Vajra: "Also, who was the woman you were chatting with before? Don’t tell me you, the loner, also have female friends you can talk to for an extended time?"

Although Gu Mingyue hadn’t known Zhang Yanhang for long, during this short period, she had managed to fully realize just how socially isolated he usually was. She had even suspected she might be his only female friend, or perhaps his only friend at all.

If Zhang Yanhang knew what Gu Mingyue thought, he would certainly loudly refute her and use his woefully short friends’ list to prove that he did indeed have friends before meeting her, even if there were very few, and that they hardly ever contacted each other.

So, Gu Mingyue could at most be considered the only friend he frequently contacted on a regular basis; adding the qualifier ’frequently contacted on a regular basis’ made it sound a bit more credible. Oh, wait, maybe not even that credible, because he had already known his senior sister who gave him the ’Yangzhi Ganlu’ drink, even before meeting Gu Mingyue.

Although he hadn’t been in touch with that senior sister much lately, he had to admit that from this perspective, Gu Mingyue was indeed Zhang Yanhang’s ’only frequently contacted friend’ for a period of time before.

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Hey! That’s so rude! Even someone as socially isolated as me has two or three female friends I can chat with for a long time!"

Although previously Gu Mingyue was the only female friend he regularly kept in contact with, Zhang Yanhang had recently gotten to know Zhou Muxi and Zhao Yalan, so indeed, his circle of friends gradually grew larger.

Curse Binding Vajra: "I didn’t expect you to have such a surprising number of friends... But you weren’t discussing some inappropriate topics with that woman, were you?"

Heavenly Destiny Master: "..."

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Can’t you be a bit more normal? Jokes like that actually scare me a little."

If the group leader was Zhang Yanhang’s girlfriend, he would probably not just be a little scared now, but very afraid of suddenly having an extra kitchen knife stick out of his side or something.

But fortunately, Zhang Yanhang was following the ultimate biological path of Self-Immortality, without the need to reproduce offspring. Thus, he didn’t need a girlfriend—at least not currently. As for the future, that remains unknown. Who knows, if one day he randomly decided he wanted offspring, he might start thinking of getting a girlfriend.

Curse Binding Vajra: "A man who has done nothing wrong is not afraid of ghosts knocking at his door at midnight."

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Actually, I was kind of hoping that ghost would come knocking on my door, because my Demon Refining Pot has been sitting empty for far too long. I had a chance to catch that ghost last time, but I ultimately gave up because time was tight. But next time I get the chance, I’m definitely going to catch that ghost and stuff it into the Demon Refining Pot."

Curse Binding Vajra: "?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "Who’s talking about that with you! Can’t you understand anything beyond the literal meaning? And you only got the second half? What about the first half? Clearly, the first half is the main point, isn’t it? Did you score zero for reading comprehension in your exams?"

Heavenly Destiny Master: "You’re the one with a reading comprehension problem, okay? Since I’m not even afraid of the consequences, and I’m even looking forward to them, what significance does the first half hold for me? If it’s meaningless, then naturally, this sentence also loses any binding effect on me."

Curse Binding Vajra: "..."

Curse Binding Vajra: "So, are you trying to tell me you were actually discussing some indecent topics with that woman?"

Heavenly Destiny Master: "I was chatting with a Third Tier Female Awakened from a relevant department – do you think it’s possible I was discussing anything inappropriate?"

Curse Binding Vajra: "Oh, a Female Awakened from a relevant department, huh? Then never mind, I was actually worried you might have dialed some strange number from those weird cards that hire women to chat with you."

Although Zhang Yanhang had said he still had two or three female contacts to chat with, Gu Mingyue didn’t quite believe him. She felt it was very likely just an exaggeration, a way for him not to lose face. He might have other female friends to chat with besides her, but three was definitely impossible.

Even two seemed rather unlikely. One, on the other hand, was perhaps borderline believable, and if there was just one, it would have to be the Third Tier Female Awakened from the relevant department he just mentioned.

As for how a loner like Zhang Yanhang could come to know a Third Tier Female Awakened from a relevant department, Gu Mingyue thought it might have been through campus recruitment. Her cousin had told her about this – yesterday, an Awakener from a relevant department had given a public lecture at their school and carried out an expansion recruitment.

So, Gu Mingyue figured that perhaps the Third Tier Female Awakened who had gone to Zhang Yanhang’s school had seen his information and thought he might be a good prospect. After the lecture, she reached out to him by adding him as a friend and had just started chatting with him to try to recruit him to work in their department.

After making this connection, Gu Mingyue suddenly felt everything seemed to make more sense. After all, a super-genius like Zhang Yanhang, who managed to promote to Second Tier in just half a month, really was a very desirable catch. If he were focused on and nurtured, he likely stood a great chance of becoming a pillar in the relevant department.

With this thought, Gu Mingyue couldn’t help but nod to herself. If he had met the Third Tier Female Awakened through such a channel, it really was unlikely he was discussing anything indecent with Zhang Yanhang, and that was a very good outcome.

As for the call girls hired solely to chat, that was the worst-case scenario she had imagined, as it indicated that Zhang Yanhang’s mental state might be in trouble due to his excessive reclusiveness. As a friend, of course she hoped Zhang Yanhang could grow up smoothly and be as healthy as possible.

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Am I crazy to spend money on hiring a woman just to chat with me? It seems so pointless, and even if it were interesting, I wouldn’t have the spare time for it. Seriously, I’ve got lots of things that need doing."

Zhang Yanhang had no idea what kind of impression he had left on the group owner to spawn such strange ideas, but his intuition was telling him it probably wasn’t great.

This made him really want to cast a Thought Detection spell or something to see what the group owner was really thinking, but alas, mind control was Zhao Yalan’s forte. He was only good at more combat-related and legitimate spells.

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