Ashen God
Chapter 599 - 598 Li Ou’s Sanctuary

Chapter 599: Chapter 598 Li Ou’s Sanctuary

After standing still for a few seconds, Zhang Yanhang found that the thirty-two demonized dogtooth giant apes he had just killed had dropped two treasure boxes, one in the north and one in the west, so he immediately went to those spots to pick up the drop treasure boxes.

After releasing the Death Wave Skill just now, Zhang Yanhang had once again cleared an area of seven square kilometers, adding up to the three square kilometers he had cleared earlier for a total of ten square kilometers.

Therefore, his current progress on clearing the first stage of the demonized swamp in the southern part had increased from 3.3% to 11.1%, successfully achieving a 10% clearance before going to sleep, and Zhang Yanhang felt that he should be able to clear the remaining 88.9% in one go after waking up next time.

"It took nearly an hour and a half to clear just ten square kilometers, the hunting efficiency is still a bit slow."

Zhang Yanhang could only say that he had somewhat overestimated the group behavior of the demonized dogtooth giant apes before. Although there are indeed some that like to gather together, there are many more that prefer to move in pairs or even solo, and though they are less evolved than humans, in this respect, they are much like human society.

The ones that gather together are like the families that combine two households to raise a child or have second or third children, while the others are the type who either don’t want children or neither marry nor want children.

So, it’s because of this that, although the efficiency of clearing demonized dogtooth giant apes is indeed faster than that of maned tooth beasts, it’s not much faster, only going from cleaning one square kilometer every nine minutes to about every eight minutes—just less than a minute faster.

"If most of the demonized dogtooth giant apes could group together, then my clearing efficiency would definitely be much higher, but unfortunately, that’s not the case."

Since his physical strength had almost been depleted, Zhang Yanhang decided not to continue clearing and planned to rest first, then go to clear the remaining 88.9% area after waking up.

Speaking of physical strength, during the previous clearing process, Zhang Yanhang found that the 15% increase in physical recovery speed was indeed quite useful, offsetting some of the consumption from the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil skill, enabling him to hunt monsters for a longer time.

However, since the hunting time was relatively short this time, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t test out the specific endurance just yet; after a longer hunting period upon waking up, he should be able to truly test it out, as practice brings true knowledge.

"So, the question is, should I set up a sanctuary here or just go back to sleep in Raccoon City?"

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Yanhang felt more reassured in Raccoon City. Although it wasn’t very comforting initially, it now felt like the safest place in the Ashen World. Moreover, he also wanted to check on the repair status of the abandoned transmission channel, to see if there were any issues.

With that thought, Zhang Yanhang immediately teleported back to the shabby wooden bed in Dulda Apartment room 301. After resting comfortably for a while, Zhang Yanhang didn’t go to any sewers, as there was no need to install any repair talisman paper; just a simple scan was enough to check the situation.

After the scan, Zhang Yanhang found that there were indeed no unexpected incidents on site; no zombies or bizarre monsters had spawned in the small space hidden behind the earthen wall, and the blue talisman paper buried deep in the wall was still stably performing its function.

The progress bar on the bottom of the blue talisman paper had risen significantly compared to over an hour ago, although overall it wasn’t much, but it had improved from something that was barely noticeable by ordinary people to something easily noticeable.

"Since the abandoned transmission channel is still being repaired, I might as well get some sleep," Zhang Yanhang decided to wait until after waking up to open the treasure box, feeling somewhat tired now.

Perhaps because he was already very accustomed to the old wooden bed in apartment 301 at Dulda Apartment, his initial safe house, Zhang Yanhang fell into a deep sleep within less than a minute of lying down.

Of course, besides being used to it, he was genuinely tired, mainly because he had previously overexerted himself while hunting in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu.

During the clearing process in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, he wanted to finish clearing before the transmission channel closed, hence, he had increased the frequency of using the Death Wave Skill, which led to greater physical exhaustion, making him need to rest shortly after starting to clear the Demonized Swamp.

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October 25, Sunday, Double Ninth Festival, which also marked Zhang Yanhang’s first day shuttling back and forth between the Main World and Ashen World, 1:30 PM, Raccoon City, Dulda Apartment, apartment 301.

Waking up naturally, the first thing Zhang Yanhang did upon opening his eyes was to check the time on his watch, "I can’t believe I slept from a little after three in the morning till half-past one in the afternoon. By this count, did I sleep for ten hours?"

"I didn’t even hunt for very long yesterday, and also had the Purple Quality Gray Mane Arm Guard +2 that boosted my Physical Recovery Speed by 15%, but still, sleeping for ten hours seems quite a lot, it probably really was because I exerted too much energy at the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu."

However, Zhang Yanhang didn’t dwell too much on the increased physical consumption, what he really wanted to do now was open treasure boxes. He had initially thought if the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Apes liked gathering together, then the hunting efficiency would greatly improve, and there was a good chance of upgrading the Biological Rhythm Talent from Level C to Level A before sleeping.

Regrettably, although the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Apes had gathered, they hadn’t completely convened, preventing him from collecting enough treasure boxes.

Originally, if he had gathered enough, Zhang Yanhang would have definitely chosen to open the treasure boxes before sleeping, as thinking about the treasure box might have kept him awake, but it didn’t matter much since he had not gathered enough and he was very tired, so he chose to sleep first and open the treasure boxes after waking up.

Zhang Yanhang immediately poured out a small pile of green quality Drop Treasure Boxes from his Waist Bag, but before counting the treasure boxes, he first checked his balance of Soul Points.

[Soul Points: 11977 (+6402)]

"Just from the killing benefits, there is a profit of 6402 Soul Points, boosting my Soul Points balance from the original 5575 to 11977. It seems that after opening the treasure boxes, I should definitely be able to gather the 18000 Soul Points required to elevate the Profession Level of Heavenly Destiny Master from LV.18 to LV.19."

Zhang Yanhang had previously said that he wanted to gather all the soul points needed to reach level 19 before going to sleep, and now it seemed that this small goal was indeed quite easy to achieve.

Because he had only cleared an area of ten square kilometers this time, the number of soul points he reaped was not very many, mainly because the density of monsters in the Demonized Swamp was relatively low, generally about fifty to eighty demonized creatures per square kilometer.

Thus, before going to sleep, Zhang Yanhang had only managed to kill about two hundred first tier three-star ordinary monsters, the Demonized Maned Tooth Beast, and four to five hundred of the same level and type, the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape, which together didn’t even amount to a four-digit number.

"The monster density in the Demonized Swamp really can’t compare to the Goblin Plain, but fortunately, the quality of monsters here is higher. Even if the density is slightly lower, the overall soul point gain is definitely far superior to that of the Goblin Plain."

After checking the soul point gains, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to tally the drop treasure boxes. Since the number of treasure boxes gained this time was not very many, Zhang Yanhang quickly finished the tally; he found that he had acquired a total of thirty-three drop treasure boxes.

Of these thirty-three drop treasure boxes, the dominant contributors were naturally the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Apes, which had given Zhang Yanhang twenty-three drop treasure boxes, and the remaining ten drop treasure boxes all came from the Demonized Maned Tooth Beasts.

After a simple tally, Zhang Yanhang immediately picked up a drop treasure box from the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape and chose to open it directly.

[Would you like to open ’Drop Treasure Box (Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape)’?]

"Yes, open it."

Accompanying Zhang Yanhang’s choice, the familiar time pause descended once more over Raccoon City, unknowingly for how many times now. Whenever this happened, he couldn’t help but nostalgically recall the good old times when he once opened a three-digit number of drop treasure boxes in Raccoon City in one go. Unfortunately, recreating those good times was quite difficult; otherwise, he would love to relive that moment all the time.

[Please select ’Drop Treasure Box (Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape)’ specific contents]

[Item One: ?]

[Item Two: ?]

[Item Three: ?]

[Item Four: ?]

[Item Five: ?]

"As a first tier three-star ordinary monster, the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape is slightly stronger than the Demonized Maned Tooth Beast, and its soul points value is also slightly higher, reaching the same value as ordinary first tier three-star monsters. Therefore, logically speaking, the items that can be obtained from this Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape’s treasure box should definitely not be disappointing.

Moreover, based on the experience I accrued from opening treasure boxes in the Goblin Plain, if nothing unexpected happens, the items that can be obtained from this Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape’s box should be roughly of the same value as the Gray Maned Arm Guard I got from the Demonized Maned Tooth Beast’s drop treasure box.

So, the question arises, since the additional attribute of the Gray Maned Arm Guard obtained from the Demonized Maned Beast was to increase Physical Recovery Speed, then, will the new equipment from this Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape’s drop treasure box also possibly have additional attributes related to Physical Recovery Speed or other Constitution Attributes?"

If possible, Zhang Yanhang definitely still hoped that the drop treasure box from the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape could yield new equipment related to Physical Recovery Speed, considering he was currently both lacking and not lacking in physical strength.

He wasn’t lacking physical strength because if he didn’t use the Death Wave Skill and only used the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill, then he could hunt monsters continuously for a whole day without much problem, though the hunting efficiency would be relatively slow.

If he used the Death Wave Skill, then he would be short on physical strength, being able to continuously hunt for ten or maybe eleven hours was considered a lot, but the advantage was that the hunting efficiency was higher. If there were situations where the nearby monsters were numerous but quite dispersed, he could simply release a Death Wave to annihilate them all at once without having to run back and forth to hunt them individually.

If Zhang Yanhang’s physical strength was really in abundance then he would even want to rely solely on the Death Wave Skill to hunt monsters, but unfortunately, his coverage area for the Death Wave was still too small. Although it had a diameter of five hundred meters, the coverage area was only 0.2 square kilometers.

Thus, even if every single Death Wave could be precisely targeted to previously uncovered parts, clearing a single square kilometer would still require releasing the Death Wave Skill five times consecutively, which was quite impractical.

Although Zhang Yanhang had just eaten a Cat’s Eye Gemstone early this morning that could increase his stamina limit, a maximum range Death Wave could only be used about ninety times in total.

Therefore, if he used this method to clear out monsters, he could at most clear an area of 18 square kilometers each time, but based on an efficiency rate of clearing one square kilometer every eight minutes, it would normally take only two and a half hours.

To rapidly clear 18 square kilometers in a few minutes and then sleep for more than ten hours after clearing it seemed very uneconomical.

Moreover, if Zhang Yanhang wanted to solve this problem, the only way would be to continue to increase the level of the Death Wave Skill until its coverage could reach about one thousand meters.

At that time, almost one release of the Death Wave Skill could clear nearly all areas within each square kilometer, with only some corners not covered needing additional checks.

But unfortunately, although this could indeed be realized, it definitely wouldn’t be at the second tier. Currently, Zhang Yanhang didn’t have enough soul points, and it would probably only be possible after being promoted to the third tier.

"Thinking about it this way, I really do lack physical strength," he contemplated, hoping for a new piece of equipment that could increase physical recovery speed. If he could obtain another piece of equipment related to the Physical Recovery Speed Bonus, then Zhang Yanhang would be even more confident in clearing the entire Demonized Swamp in four days.

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