Ashen God
Chapter 567 - 566: Yin Yang Mother-Child Tree

Chapter 567: Chapter 566: Yin Yang Mother-Child Tree

"As for the third option, Cherry Valley, all I can say is that tonight I finally came across a place where heavenly materials and earthly treasures grow that has nothing to do with the mountain. There’s a mutated big cherry there that can increase spiritual resistance... but the problem is that it seems useless for me."

At first, Zhang Yanhang had hoped that he might trigger something related to heavenly materials and earthly treasures that can increase the Life Value Limit, but unfortunately, the options presented a Yin Yang Mother-Child Tree that increased Yin Qi and a Yingzi Fruit that increased Spirit Resistance, neither of which was useful to him.

"Even though they’re not useful to me, I feel the Yin Yang Mother-Child Tree is still more valuable. After all, I have a channel to dump it, while the Yingzi Fruit, it seems hard to find someone willing to take it off my hands."

After a brief comparison, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his decision, but he wasn’t in a rush to make a choice immediately because he wanted to take advantage of the time pause to look for other heavenly materials and earthly treasures on the various small hills in Qin Island City.

Zhang Yanhang first visited Lou Mountain Forest Park, which was very close to him, hoping to find the two Yin Yang Mother-Child Trees ahead of time.

However, to his discomfort, he meticulously scanned the entire Lou Mountain Forest Park three times and did not find any sign of the Yin Yang Mother-Child Tree mentioned in the options. He even scanned the underground and the interior of the mountain several times, but still found no trace of the so-called Yin Yang Mother-Child Tree.

"Ah, it seems that the heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the options really do appear out of nowhere. Although I’m not sure about passive-triggered options, judging by the conspicuous location of the previously mentioned Sky Demon Blue Crystal Grass, at least the heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the actively-triggered options are indeed popping up out of nowhere."

Zhang Yanhang already knew about this issue of the multiple-choice heavenly materials and earthly treasures appearing out of thin air, but this was the first time he truly verified it.

To further verify this problem, Zhang Yanhang took another trip to Cherry Valley in search of the Yingzi Fruit mentioned in the third option. Unfortunately, as expected, there wasn’t any so-called Yingzi Fruit there.

Or rather, that place didn’t even have normal cherries, especially since the end of October is not the season for cherries, which typically ripen from May or June at most and are off the market by July or August.

"As expected, the corresponding heavenly materials and earthly treasures will appear only after making a specific choice, but I wonder if the fierce ghosts are also refreshed in real-time."

When Zhang Yanhang thought of this, he immediately made another trip to Deshan Road. Somewhat surprisingly, the middle-aged greasy bald fierce ghost was not spawned by the multiple-choice options but had been in the sewer from the start.

After finding the whereabouts of the middle-aged greasy bald fierce ghost, Zhang Yanhang did not stop but went to the places mentioned in the previous options where fierce ghosts were found. After scanning all three small hills, he discovered that the ghosts there indeed existed for real.

"Ah, it would be so much better if the fierce ghosts also appeared out of nowhere."

If fierce ghosts were spawned by the options Zhang Yanhang chose, it would mean the Main World’s environment wasn’t as bad as it seemed. Regrettably, this was not the case with the fierce ghosts, showing that a large number of ghosts had emerged in the Main World due to the permanent opening of the Transmission Channel.

"But if you think about it, compared to the minor threat posed by individual Second-Tier fierce ghosts, there’s no doubt that the larger threat to humans are the hordes of monsters pouring out of the Ashen World ever since the Transmission Channel was permanently opened, causing mild to severe destruction or even city-wide slaughters.

And fierce ghosts definitely don’t have that capability. Let alone fierce ghosts, even hundred-year-old ghosts or thousand-year-old ghost kings can’t cause more damage than monsters collectively emerging from the Ashen World."

Zhang Yanhang figured that if this trend continues, he might run into new fierce ghosts during his search, but he didn’t want to deal with them himself. He’d probably remember their locations and leave them to Zhou Muxi to handle.

After all, dealing with these kinds of things was the responsibility of the relevant departments. He, a regular person living a monotonous life mostly at home, would be better off not getting involved.

After checking out the locations of fierce ghosts mentioned in the previous options, Zhang Yanhang began to methodically search the positions of the small hills within Qin Island City that he had noted down before.

But whether it was due to the environment of the hills or just Zhang Yanhang’s bad luck, he did not find any heavenly materials and earthly treasures on the first twenty small hills he checked.

Zhang Yanhang wasn’t too disappointed by this result; after all, Qin Island City was only so large, yet it was home to twenty thousand Awakeners. If it weren’t for his multiple choice skill, he definitely wouldn’t have found any heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

After all, if you divide it by the average area, there’s an Awakener every 0.6 square kilometers under the jurisdiction of Qin Island City. Most of these Awakeners, unlike solitary people like him, would probably go out often and encounter nearby heavenly materials and earthly treasures by chance.

So, from this perspective, it’s perfectly normal not to find any heavenly materials and earthly treasures on the first twenty small hills. Also, now ordinary people are also cultivating the Heaven and Earth Creation Technique, and they have a certain perception ability for heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Therefore, if one doesn’t cheat, it is indeed very difficult to find heavenly materials and earthly treasures in such a large city with a permanent population of twenty million. And besides, heavenly materials and earthly treasures aren’t cabbages; they are limited in quantity and extremely scarce, further increasing the difficulty of acquiring them.

Although he found no heavenly materials and earthly treasures on the first twenty hills, Zhang Yanhang was not disheartened and decided to press on, checking another thirty small hills. But to his despair, after scanning a total of fifty hills, he still found no trace of any heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

"Qin Island City only has about a hundred small hills, and I’ve almost scanned half of them, but still nothing. Is it really impossible to find heavenly materials and earthly treasures without cheating?"

"No, I won’t believe that ordinary Awakeners can occasionally stumble upon Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Could someone like me, a Heavenly Destiny Master with maxed-out luck, really have worse fortune in this regard?"

Zhang Yanhang would see Awakeners in the group chat flaunt photos of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures they had found every few days. Thus, he believed that Qin Island City was rich in unexplored potential for such treasures patiently awaiting his discovery.

Therefore, if he hadn’t discovered any Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures yet, it must be due to a lack of effort on his part. He was certain that scanning a few more hills would yield new finds.

Reinvigorated, Zhang Yanhang put forth renewed effort and continuously scanned fifty hills. This time, the hills didn’t disappoint him; he actually found two Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

One resembled a rotten peach, while the other looked like a leftover pit that someone had eaten (seemingly from a peach).

By the way, these two treasures were found on two mountains ten kilometers apart, with no cause and effect relationship between them.

Unless a super strong and incredibly bored Awakener happened to eat the fruit and casually flick the pit onto a hill ten kilometers away, the probability of such an event is practically zero, not worth worrying about. Even if Murphy rose from his grave, such a ridiculous event could not occur.

"I can’t believe I really found Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. It seems my luck isn’t a fluke. I must grab those two Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures right after picking the Yin Yang Mother-Child Trees. There’s no multiple-choice guarantee for these items; if I’m late, other Awakeners might just take them away,"

Having made up his mind, Zhang Yanhang immediately resumed his search of other hills. Although he had about twenty or thirty hills left to scan, and the chances of finding more treasures weren’t high, he continued scanning, as people can’t help but hope for the uncertain.

After some time, standing on the hilltop of the last hill, Zhang Yanhang had to accept one thing: hope aside, reality is reality. Even someone with his fortune only found those two shabby-looking treasures after scanning more than a hundred hills.

Fortunately, appearances didn’t matter to Zhang Yanhang; he’d never scorn the look of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. After all, the Evil Odor Blood Absorption Moss was still stored in his house. As a pragmatist, as long as the treasures were effective, all flaws were tolerable.

"Ah, I hope these shabby-looking materials prove useful, or my efforts would really be in vain. Choice! I choose Option One, heading to Lou Mountain Forest Park."

After scanning the last hill within Qin Island City, Zhang Yanhang made his decision right away. The entire scanning process surprised him, partly because he actually found Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and partly because he managed to scan all the hills in Qin Island City with just one Time Pause.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang always thought he might need two Time Pauses to finish scanning all the hills.

He felt the main reason for this efficiency was the recent upgrade of his Limitless Universe Skill to the Original LV.6, which increased his scanning intensity and decreased the time needed to scan all the hills.

Once the Time Pause ended, Zhang Yanhang immediately headed towards Lou Mountain Forest Park, which was less than two kilometers away from him. He scanned the area right after Time Pause ended and found the two Yin Yang Mother-Child Trees in a very obvious spot.

During Zhang Yanhang’s previous scans, the top of Lou Mountain was barren with only large stretches of rock. Now, on the originally empty rock layer of the mountaintop, two Yin Yang Mother-Child Trees stood out conspicuously, and they looked different from what Zhang Yanhang had imagined.

Zhang Yanhang originally thought that the so-called Yin Yang Mother-Child Trees were more like miniature landscape trees in pot plants, possibly a meter tall at most.

But to his complete bewilderment, they turned out to be two large trees, towering trees. At the barren mountaintop, two trees stood tall—they seemed to be at least a dozen meters high and thick enough for several adults to encircle them. These trees growing on the rocky mountaintop were such an odd and outrageous sight.

If these had not been manifested from a Multiple Choice out of thin air, they would definitely be the most outrageous Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures I’ve ever seen, even more so than the Smelly blood-sucking scab."

After scanning these two giant trees, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but ponder a question: generally, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures need to be consumed to take effect, but how could one possibly eat these two Yin Yang Mother-Child Trees?

"Even with a rough estimate, these two trees make up many cubic meters; can someone actually fit the two Yin Yang Mother-Child Trees in their stomach? It seems unlikely to absorb their Yin Qi by eating them without some kind of ability related to eating and digestion."

Zhang Yanhang felt that even he didn’t have any good way to eat them, as even with his High-level Frenzy Technique boosting him to ten meters, it would still be tough to eat such towering trees taller than him, and using Spiritual Energy to force gastric consumption was probably futile.

"Forget it, let’s not think about this for now. After all, I’m not the one who’s going to use these trees; the user can figure it out. The urgent matter is to dig out these two trees and stuff them in my Waist Bag."

Zhang Yanhang immediately set off towards Lou Mountain Forest Park. Within a minute, he had reached the foot of Lou Mountain. This place was also without streetlights and, just like the other park, devoid of people at this hour.

Unlike Niumao Mountain, where there’s a village next to the forest park, this was a very typical forest park. Even though several small hills branched off from Lou Mountain, they were all part of Lou Mountain Forest Park, with no separate functions like factories or residential buildings.

Zhang Yanhang then hurried to the mountaintop nonstop. The mountaintop was quite desolate; there were no man-made structures like pavilions, no signs of plants or any biological life, and the barren area stretched for dozens of meters.

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