Ashen God
Chapter 560 - 559: Crowdfunding to Become a God

Chapter 560: Chapter 559: Crowdfunding to Become a God

"So, did anything memorable happen between the two of you?" Zhang Yanhang had heard that the former Li Zerui was an upbeat and lively show-off, but now he seemed like a psychopath who stayed at home year-round, committing crimes relying on his smart brain, not only looking gloomy but also with his eye sockets full of bloodshot veins.

"Yeah, a lot actually, and to be precise, every day I spent with her was unforgettable. I remember the first time I met her, she immediately wanted to kiss me, and during the process, I accidentally sucked down her dental calculus, which was a bit smelly, a bit yellow, and somewhat hard."

Li Zerui originally didn’t want to bring up these sad past events, but considering he was sitting across from Zhang Yanhang, he was worried that provoking Zhang Yanhang might result in him not performing the surgery. Wouldn’t all his previous suffering be in vain? So, in the end, Li Zerui started to recount those little incidents that happened between them.

"Dental calculus sucked down? Your skills are quite impressive, no wonder you are a Second Tier Awakened with the ’Tongue Twister’ skill." Zhang Yanhang felt that just with this skill alone, Li Zerui could set up a little stall to remove dental calculus for people and make a fortune.

Li Zerui didn’t care about Zhang Yanhang’s comments, and instead, continued his story, "It was still the first meeting, and she seemed to be quite surprised by the dental calculus thing, but then quickly didn’t care about it, and asked me to kiss her again. This time, I accidentally sucked down her dentures."

"Wait, dentures? Do dentures have dental calculus too?" Zhang Yanhang felt that this suddenly touched upon an area of his own ignorance.

"She didn’t have a full set of dentures; there were still a few real teeth, and the previous dental calculus was on one of the real teeth," Li Zerui explained. If he had known she had a mouth full of dentures beforehand, he definitely wouldn’t have gone all out like that.

"I see." Zhang Yanhang had always thought that the wealthy lady Li Zerui was with would be the type who was in her thirties or forties, at most fifties. But now, considering her full set of dentures, her age became uncertain—it could be anywhere from sixty to one hundred.

"It was still during the first meeting, after she took off the dentures, she still insisted on kissing me. Holding the attitude of ’earn the money, do the job with all your heart’, I went along with her, and accidentally ended up sucking down one of the real teeth that seemed to be a bit loose."

Perhaps it was these unforeseen incidents that made Li Zerui particularly remember his first meeting with the wealthy lady.

"Then what?" If even real teeth were accidentally sucked down, Zhang Yanhang felt that if these ’accidental’ mishaps continued, it might turn into a horror story—like accidentally sucking down the tonsils, or even the gums...

Li Zerui shook his head, "After that, there was no after that... she went to the hospital to see a dentist."

"That’s good, otherwise it might get a bit scary moving forward, like accidentally sucking down the tongue."

Zhang Yanhang felt that there might not be any part of the human mouth that Li Zerui couldn’t suck down, after all, he was a Second Tier Awakened with the ’Tongue Twister’ ability, or you could say an ’Extraordinary’ stage Awakened.

After hearing Zhang Yanhang’s words, Li Zerui couldn’t help but fall back into his memories, "Ah, the tongue... that happened on the third time I saw her. She had already gotten full dental implants by then and started asking me to kiss her again, and this time I accidentally sucked down her old tongue plaque, which was a bit smelly, a bit yellow, and kind of sticky."

"Wow, dental calculus plus years of tongue plaque, this rich lady you’re with is really a treasure trove, old baby..." Zhang Yanhang initially thought Li Zerui had sucked down the lady’s tongue and then pillaged her for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, but it turned out he was just removing tongue plaque.

Earlier, removing dental calculus might serve only a small group of people, but if you add tongue plaque to the service, Zhang Yanhang felt that the customer base would multiply manyfold. If you set up a small stall in the night market, you could easily earn a five-figure sum in a month.

"Alright, let’s not talk about that anymore, let’s start the treatment. Just find any bed to lie down on, or on the table if you prefer. The hard floor is okay too, whatever you like."

Zhang Yanhang felt continuing the conversation might indeed lead to some horrifying content, so he decided to waste no time and get straight to the procedure.

Li Zerui obediently found a lower bunk and lay down, then looked at Zhang Yanhang with a puzzled expression, "Do I need to take off my pants?"

"No need." Zhang Yanhang was doing Alchemy, not an actual surgery; it didn’t matter if it was through pants or even a wall—Human Body Refinement naturally doesn’t require taking off pants.

"Alright." Li Zerui nodded and then closed his eyes to wait for the treatment.

"By the way, let me ask you something, do you need me to provide a gender transformation service? For free." Considering Li Zerui brought three Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Zhang Yanhang was willing to offer him a free upgrade on related services.

Li Zerui felt torn upon hearing Zhang Yanhang’s offer and started to seriously consider the question. After struggling inside for a long time, it seemed like he suddenly thought of something and finally gave a firm answer, "No, I still want to be a man."

"Okay then." Since Li Zerui didn’t want the gender transformation service, Zhang Yanhang didn’t bother saying more and immediately started the Alchemy Array and began conducting Human Body Refinement while sitting on a chair about half a meter away.

Because the whole process was quite boring, Zhang Yanhang put his phone on the table, intending to casually browse TikTok when he turned it on, but was immediately greeted with Zhao Yalan’s new video.

After her editing, most of the useless parts of the video were deleted, and the essence, such as Zhao Yalan immobilizing him and slapping a huge cheque on him, was all retained, as well as standing on seemingly thin air after breaking the rock beneath her feet.

Afterward, it went straight to Zhang Yanhang suddenly ’releasing the immobilization’ and immobilizing Zhao Yalan in return. The dialogue in this part was heavily trimmed, leaving only a few lines, turning it into Zhao Yalan initially asking who he was, and then Zhang Yanhang directly saying he was a passing Jedi Knight without much conversation before teleporting away.

After watching the video, Zhang Yanhang felt that the overall effect was indeed pretty good; no wonder it had garnered so many likes. He remembered Zhao Yalan mentioning this morning that this video might hit five hundred thousand likes, but now it had not just reached five hundred thousand but had jumped straight to six hundred thousand likes. He had no idea how much Power of Faith she was able to gain from this.

After finishing the video, Zhang Yanhang took a look at Zhao Yalan’s follower count and found that it seemed to have risen from the original four hundred thousand to five hundred fifty thousand. Although this was partly due to Zhao Yalan’s own efforts, it was largely driven by the newly released video.

"It was just posted this morning, and it’s already got six hundred thousand likes by five in the afternoon. It feels like the number could increase a lot by evening, potentially reaching seven to eight hundred thousand. That would definitely give Zhao Yalan’s strength a huge boost. Ah, I really wish I had the ability to gather faith through posting short videos."

While Zhang Yanhang was pondering the disparities between individuals, the short video kept looping seamlessly. Eventually, Li Zerui at his side noticed something amiss.

Li Zerui couldn’t help but open his eyes and scolded Zhang Yanhang, "Can’t you show some professional integrity? Shouldn’t you be focusing on the healing? Why have you suddenly started scrolling through short videos?"

"No big deal, given my understanding of the human body, there’s no way anything could go wrong. Just keep lying there and relax. The healing process is already one-third complete, and it should be completely healed in around another ten minutes. Biological Immobilization Technique!"

To prevent Li Zerui from moving around and affecting the regeneration process, Zhang Yanhang pointed a finger and a golden ray shot into Li Zerui’s body. Moreover, this was the full version of the Biological Immobilization Technique.

Unlike the weakened version used on Zhao Yalan that allowed her to speak, a proper Human Immobilization Technique meant the subject couldn’t do anything, not even blink, let alone vibrate their vocal cords.

But when he saw Li Zerui’s chest suddenly stop rising, Zhang Yanhang felt he should perhaps ease some restrictions. If he couldn’t even breathe, wouldn’t he suffocate to death?

Although a Second Tier Awakened had a tolerance for such matters that was undoubtedly many times stronger than that of an ordinary person, there was still a risk of suffocation. So, in the end, Zhang Yanhang relaxed some of the restrictions concerning breathing, but speaking was still out of the question.

After realizing that not being able to breathe could also be lethal, Zhang Yanhang suddenly felt that the Biological Immobilization Technique, a spell of the Sixth Circle, might truly be an attack magic. After all, a full-strength Biological Immobilization Technique, once successful, could even stop blood circulation and heartbeat.

"If the Biological Immobilization Technique was effective against undead creatures and puppets, it really could have become my seventh ray skill."

Zhang Yanhang hadn’t used the Biological Immobilization Technique much before, so he wasn’t too familiar with the details. But, having truly understood its effects, he could only acknowledge that Sixth Circle magic truly deserved its status. Even a control type spell possessed considerable attack power.

For the rest of the time, Li Zerui, immobilized by the Biological Immobilization Technique, was unable to speak, so Zhang Yanhang started happily scrolling through TikTok. Of course, the healing process would not be compromised, as something trivial as TikTok could not possibly affect his use of Alchemy.

After all, if TikTok could affect his alchemy, he wouldn’t have dared to fuse a Thermo-baric Bomb while chatting with Zhao Yalan before. He was, after all, a Second Tier Peak Awakened with an intelligence score of fifty—such a degree of distraction was no trouble at all.

After spending fifteen minutes, Zhang Yanhang successfully healed Li Zerui’s injuries, ensuring that he no longer needed to carry a urinary bag around his leg.

Once the healing was done, Zhang Yanhang immediately released the Human Immobilization Technique from Li Zerui and shooed him away because the guy seemed to want to perform some eye-watering deed on the spot, like taking off his pants. Zhang Yanhang told him to go home and check himself, and if there were any issues, come back to him.

But due to Zhang Yanhang’s confidence in his Alchemy, he estimated that Li Zerui definitely wouldn’t find any problems, thus completely resolving Li Zerui’s issue.

"Before my promotion to Second Tier, I took on this job, but who would’ve thought I would have already advanced to Second Tier and become a Second Tier Peak, even beginning preparations to advance to Third Tier, before resolving the issue."

However, despite seeming like it took a long time, in reality, it was only half a month. Considering the time Li Zerui obtained the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Zhang Yanhang had actually healed him just two to three days after Li Zerui acquired them, which couldn’t really be considered slow.

"Although I still don’t know why Li Zerui gave me three Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, since he rejected my offer for a free upgrade, I feel perfectly justified in making a profit from that extra one."

Just as Zhang Yanhang was thinking about consuming the three Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the refrigerator, it suddenly occurred to him - what if the three of them combined were as effective as two regular ones, or even less effective, which was why he was given three?

"Although I feel like there’s a surprisingly high chance of that, Li Zerui wouldn’t do such a thing, would he?"

Zhang Yanhang did trust Li Zerui to an extent, but trust aside, he was determined that if the effects of the three Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were about the same as two regular ones, nothing more would be done. However, if they were worse, then he must seek out Li Zerui for a beating and demand an additional new Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure.

As a Second Tier Awakened with the "Tongue Twister" skill, the range of wealthy women Li Zerui could charm was sure to increase significantly after the healing.

Looking at the three Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures before him that would decide Li Zerui’s future fate, Zhang Yanhang first picked up a pear-shaped one to eat. To his surprise, the pear-shaped Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure actually tasted very much like a normal pear.

But Zhang Yanhang was more concerned with the specific effects of the pear-shaped Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure than its elusive taste and consistency, which was typical of such treasures.

So, after briefly experiencing the warm current inside him, the experienced Zhang Yanhang immediately concluded that it was a perfectly normal Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, increasing his stamina limit by roughly 5%, equivalent to consuming one Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass.

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