Ashen God
Chapter 570 - 569: Supersonic Mobile

Chapter 570: Chapter 569: Supersonic Mobile

October 22nd, fourteen days after the end of the Mid-Autumn holiday and National Day holiday, and also the second day since Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, 1:30 am, Xingfuli District, apartment 505, bedroom.

Having returned home, Zhang Yanhang did not rush to study spells or manufacture thermo-baric bombs, but first opened his cellphone – he planned to report the locations of those fierce ghosts he had encountered earlier to Zhou Muxi.

Heavenly Destiny Master: "At the top of the hill on Miaofu Road, there’s a hanging ghost in a withered tree, near a six-way intersection by the First Seaside Bathing Place there’s an abandoned house hiding an old ghost, a gutter oil fierce ghost is lurking in the drainage under the barbecue stall on Deshan Road, and in the soil behind the hill on the west side of Sangqiu Road, there’s a century-old ghost buried..."

As Zhou Muxi, who was cultivating, was once again interrupted by a new message notification from her phone, although she had already expected it to be Zhang Yanhang bothering her with weird messages in the middle of the night instead of sleeping, she frowned upon reading the content and couldn’t help but make a ’subway_elderly_cellphone.JPG’ face.

Although she found him slightly annoying, she still reluctantly sent him a question mark, considering that, after all, he is a friend.

Chaotic Eye: "?"

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Those twenty fierce ghosts I just messaged you about, can your department handle them quickly? As an ordinary citizen – and a Second Tier Awakened at that – I am really scared. If you think the locations aren’t precise enough, I can send you the map with the marks directly."

Chaotic Eye: "?"

Chaotic Eye: "You, scared? Am I dreaming?"

Chaotic Eye: "Besides, if you’re so scared, wouldn’t I be terrified to the point of shaking in a corner when facing those ghosts?"

Heavenly Destiny Master: "I’m just a Second Tier Awakened and also an ordinary citizen, why can’t I be scared? It’d be abnormal for you, a Third Tier Awakened and a member of the relevant department, to be scared."

Chaotic Eye: "Alright, alright."

Chaotic Eye: "But I still want to say, with the effort it takes to find them, why can’t you just take care of them too? If it were you, those ghosts probably wouldn’t last a second in your presence, right?"

Heavenly Destiny Master: "Under the floor tile at the entrance of that abandoned house near the six-way intersection by the First Seaside Bathing Place, there are two cubic meters of Corpse Nourishing Soil with Yin Qi, and it even contains some Spirit Stones. I think you might be interested. If not, then I’ll just dig up those two cubic meters of Corpse Nourishing Soil and take it home to grow moss."

Chaotic Eye: "Ah, what?"

Chaotic Eye: "You should’ve said so sooner! I’ll go take care of those ghosts right now."

Zhou Muxi originally thought this was purely a volunteer job. Even though it was within the responsibilities of her department, it was hard to get excited about it. But upon discovering she could get rewarded for casually wiping out a few ghosts, she suddenly felt her enthusiasm surge.

After all, she had only joined the department two days ago and had not yet cultivated the noble sentiment to strive for the people and the Empire for life; she was still driven by self-interest.

She was originally motivated by resources to join the department, and although she might change later, such a transformation can’t happen so quickly.

Heavenly Destiny Master: "..."

Heavenly Destiny Master: "I’ll send you the detailed map marks next."

After choosing the precise locations and setting the markers on the map, Zhang Yanhang sent Zhou Muxi twenty coordinates one after another. Because he had visited those places during the Time Pause, the locations were extremely precise – according to map accuracy, they wouldn’t be off by more than five meters at most.

After sending the message to Zhou Muxi, Zhang Yanhang guessed that the fierce ghosts he had encountered before would probably not survive the night, or to put it more accurately, they might not even last an hour.

After all, although Third Tier Awakened individuals’ Movement Speed may vary from person to person, generally speaking, with Spiritual Qi Blessing, even at the lowest, they’d be at the sonic level. With such a degree of speed, those ghosts might not even last half an hour.

Just by spending such a little amount of time to obtain two cubic meters of Corpse Nourishing Soil and some Spirit Stones would certainly seem like a good deal to Zhou Muxi.

"Since the fierce ghosts are as good as dead, what should I do next? It’s only 1:30 am now, and my class tomorrow doesn’t start until ten, so I effectively have eight and a half hours to kill. The total study time needed for the Third Tier Spell Silent Field is eight hours.

So now the question is, should I start with fusing the +7 thermo-baric bomb or start learning the Third Tier Spell Silent Field?"

After giving it some thought, Zhang Yanhang figured that maybe he should start with fusing the +7 thermo-baric bomb. After all, you can’t just interrupt the fusion process whenever you want; it’s better to complete it all at once.

As for learning the Third Tier Spell Silent Field, it’s not a big deal – you can learn it anytime, anywhere, and start and stop whenever you want without any impact.

"I’m really looking forward to the performance of the +7 thermo-baric bombs, even though they can’t be tested in the Main World. Or rather, testing them in the Main World would be too wasteful. Better to let the monsters in the Ashen World become the test subjects for the +7 thermo-baric bombs; otherwise, it would be too much of a waste."

Merging one +7 thermo-baric bomb would consume 128 regular thermo-baric bombs, and producing one regular thermo-baric bomb requires 75 Energy Value points. This means that just in terms of Energy Value cost base, one +7 thermo-baric bomb would consume 9600 Energy Value points.

Moreover, these bombs would also consume some Energy Value during the fusion process, so in actuality, a +7 thermo-baric bomb would require Zhang Yanhang to use more than ten thousand Energy Value points. Given Zhang Yanhang’s current stock of Medium Magic Recovery Potions, he could barely manage to manufacture about twenty or so bombs.

Moreover, considering that other places would also require the consumption of Energy Value, Zhang Yanhang might only be able to manufacture about fifteen Thermo-baric Bombs +7 at most, and it would be impossible for him to use up all the Medium Magic Recovery Potions.

More importantly, aside from Energy Value, he also had to spend time cost. Currently, he had spent four hundred minutes, which was six hours and forty minutes, just on fusing two Thermo-baric Bombs +6, and for sure, the time cost would rise again when he progressed to fusing +7.

Although it was only six hours and forty minutes at present, Zhang Yanhang felt it was highly likely that it could soar past ten hours later on.

"Yesterday, fusing one Thermo-baric Bomb +6 took me eighty minutes, and this time, it feels like fusing the +7 will require at least two to three hours, no matter how low that is."

Upon thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but sigh, but he still immediately took out two Thermo-baric Bombs +6 from his Waist Bag, placed them on the bed, and started the Alchemy process for fusion skillfully.

Despite Zhang Yanhang being extremely skillful in the entire process of Thermo-baric Bomb fusion, when it came to the specific fusion process, the speed of fusion just wouldn’t increase, which was quite normal. However, during this normal process, he noticed something abnormal.

During this fusion process, Zhang Yanhang inexplicably felt a strong resistance opposing the fusion between the Thermo-baric Bombs +6, something that had never occurred before.

But after all, Zhang Yanhang had been using Alchemy for so long, and he was naturally very experienced in this area. He guessed that the reason for this might be because the Thermo-baric Bombs were approaching their limit after being fused to +7.

Although this Thermo-baric Bomb +7 should be successfully completed, based on Zhang Yanhang’s experience with fusion, perhaps at most, he could only continue fusing one or two more times before reaching the real limit, which meant Thermo-baric Bomb +8 or +9.

"I originally thought Thermo-baric Bombs were one of those items with no resistance during the fusion process, that I could infinitely stack them by slowly grinding time, becoming my first item to reach double-digit fusion times. But unexpectedly, even Thermo-baric Bombs have a limit.

But on second thought, that’s reasonable. It’s impossible for any substance to have infinite enhancement. After all, the Rebirth in Pure Bliss Realm Prison Suppression Cannon is only a Light Golden Quality weapon, and it still falls within the Third Tier category. Its power being comparable to a Fourth Tier Awakened’s One Strike Destruction of a County Level might already be its upper limit."

Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but reflect on this, but he quickly refocused his attention on the fusion of the Thermo-baric Bomb because of the strong resistance generated between the Thermo-baric Bombs +6. The time required for this fusion to +7 was bound to increase significantly and certainly wouldn’t just take two or three hours to complete.

...

Zhang Yanhang, who felt more spirited despite staying up late, looked at the Thermo-baric Bomb +7 on the bed and could not help but exhale a long breath.

"Over five hours, ah, it’s finally successfully fused. I didn’t expect it to take so much time in the end. I originally thought that even if the time required for fusion increased substantially, it would at most take four hours, but it ended up taking over an hour more."

Zhang Yanhang, who had just finished fusing the Thermo-baric Bomb +7 and was about to check the time on his phone, suddenly felt a bit overwhelmed by the feeling of the autumn sun beaming in through the window, "Just one Thermo-baric Bomb +7 kept me fusing from the middle of the night until the morning, from when the full moon hung in the sky until the blazing sun shone high."

"Sigh, if the power isn’t enough, that’s really such a letdown for me."

After he couldn’t help but let out a sigh, Zhang Yanhang immediately put the Thermo-baric Bomb +7, which looked no different from an ordinary bomb, into his waist bag and checked the time on his phone. It turned out that it was only a few minutes away from seven o’clock in the morning.

"So it seems that fusing a Thermo-baric Bomb +7 takes about five and a half hours, but that’s just the time needed for the fusion. Considering the preparation time for two Thermo-baric Bombs +6, it’s as if I’m consuming twelve hours just to fuse one Thermo-baric Bomb +7.

Just fusing one Thermo-baric Bomb +7 takes twelve hours and over ten thousand Energy Value, then what about a +8 or even a +9?"

Based on the current situation, Zhang Yanhang reckoned that even just fusing a +8 would probably take at least a whole day, and as for a +9, it might take several days.

Of course, that’s assuming success. If +8 turned out to be the limit, then there would be no need to think about +9. However, from the perspective of firepower, Zhang Yanhang would definitely still hope to successfully fuse up to +9 if possible.

"But let’s leave fusing +8 and +9 until after I reach the Third Tier. After all, I don’t have that much time to mess around with this. Next, I need to learn the Third Tier Spell Silent Field."

Zhang Yanhang had already calculated the time before. The Transmission Channel to the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu and Raccoon City would open on October 24th, and today was already October 22nd. He had only two days left and simply couldn’t spare a whole day to fuse a Thermo-baric Bomb +8.

After all, the Third Tier Spell Silent Field takes 8 hours to learn, and the Fifth Tier Spell High-level Silence Field takes 39 hours to learn. He thought it would be better to learn the silence spells first.

After all, if he dragged it out, today’s delay would spill over to tomorrow, and tomorrow to the day after tomorrow, and so on. There are so many ’day after tomorrows,’ dragging on indefinitely, who knows when these two spells will be learned.

"There are still three hours before class, so let’s start learning the Third Tier Spell Silent Field first."

After spending a whole night dealing with Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and fusing the Thermo-baric Bomb +7, Zhang Yanhang was prepared to focus his attention first on learning the Third Tier Spell Silent Field and the Fifth Tier Spell High-level Silence Field before dealing with Alchemy Potions.

"Busy, busy, why am I so busy? Logically, I should be resting in the Main World, and in fact, I did just rest when I was in the Main World before. But why have I made myself so busy? This is a question worth pondering."

Although Zhang Yanhang said this, he had no intention of pondering this complex problem. Instead, he simply pushed it out of his mind and immediately closed his eyes to start learning the Third Tier Spell Silent Field.

...

October 22nd, the fourteenth day after the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, and also the second day since Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, 3:30 in the afternoon, university lecture building, professional classroom.

After a day of effort, as the progress bar slowly climbed from 99.99% to 100%, Zhang Yanhang finally learned the Third Tier Spell Silent Field. The total time taken was exactly as projected by the progress bar, a solid eight hours.