Ashen God

Chapter 1014: Mage Academy and Werewolf Sacrificial Altar


Due to the current cleaning speed being significantly higher than before, Zhang Yanhang took just one minute to clear more than half of the desert monsters originally distributed within several thousand kilometers.

During this period, the lord monsters in the area did attempt to counterattack, but unfortunately, they were too slow. Their attacks were launched but failed to hit anyone.

As one giant worm, each over ten meters long and covered with hard bristles, fell under the Death Wave, Zhang Yanhang soon reached the location of the lord monsters.

These ten colossal desert worms, each several tens of meters long, reminded Zhang Yanhang inexplicably of the electromagnetic railgun he had destroyed at the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field.

But sadly, these creatures seemed much weaker compared to the electromagnetic railgun, which was a Fourth Tier Two-star Monster with nuclear explosion attacks, capable of combining attacks, not something these Third Tier Lord Monsters could challenge.

Whether through prediction or sheer luck, the energy shield of Zhang Yanhang, who was advancing straight forward without any curve, was indeed hit a bit. Compared to the previous Second Tier desert worms, these Third Tier lord monsters were more like mobile high-pressure water cannons, continuously spraying him with acid liquid and toxins.

Zhang Yanhang was quite helpless about immediately encountering acid monsters just after removing most of his Crimson Iron Equipment, but thankfully, he was now a Fifth Tier Awakener. Even with just his basic defensive power, these Third Tier lord monsters couldn't break his defense, not to mention he had increased his defensive power tenfold with Infinite Life.

Zhang Yanhang estimated that now only Peak Fifth Tier Monsters or Fifth Tier Lord Monsters might have a slight chance of breaking his defense.

So, faced with this yellow-green acid, which looked like both gooey mucus and old phlegm, Zhang Yanhang chose to ignore it completely, stubbornly flying over these lord monsters and unleashing a Death Wave, bringing tranquility to the entire world.

[Successfully killed a Third Tier One-star Monster 'Desert Spiny Locust (Elite)' ×1, Soul Points +350.]

[Successfully killed a Third Tier Two-star Monster 'Desert Giant Hornet (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul Points +700.]

[Successfully killed a Third Tier Four-star Monster 'Desert Devourer·Festering Poison Worm (Lord Monster)' ×1, Soul Points +12000.]

......

After smoothly clearing the lord monsters, Zhang Yanhang scanned the surrounding environment once more, ensured that no monsters survived, and began to collect the corpses. This time the bodies were much more valuable than before, with at least over twenty thousand Third Tier Monster corpses out of a total of 200,000, undoubtedly capable of refining quite a few Subordinate Sage Stones.

Compared to the previous clearing, Zhang Yanhang spent more time on collecting; cleaning took a little over a minute, while collecting the bodies took two minutes. Well, it wasn't that much more time anyway.

Once the monster bodies were dealt with, Zhang Yanhang naturally began to check his Soul Point balance, wanting to know how many Soul Points he gained from slaying these 200,000 monsters. Of course, he believed that no matter how low, they should definitely exceed eight figures.

[Soul Points: 47903686 (+32943540)]

"No wonder the killing reward from a Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channel with 200,000 monsters is much higher than I expected.

I originally had 14,960,146 Soul Points, and now it has increased to 47,903,686, equivalent to gaining 32,943,540 Soul Points, almost reaching 50 million again."

This number was indeed much higher than Zhang Yanhang's initial estimate because he used the Soul Point value of ordinary monsters for the estimation. However, it seems the Soul Point value of monsters in the desert area is higher than that of normal monsters, possibly because they can fly and use long-range attacks.

But unfortunately, Zhang Yanhang couldn't check their attribute list, or else he would have known more clearly why their Soul Points were higher. After all, Soul Points are mostly related to the monster's strength. If a monster's Soul Points are high, it can only mean its strength is high.

Although he didn't feel any difference in strength between these desert monsters and other monsters, he thought it was possible that these desert monsters had some hidden attack methods. But unfortunately, since he killed them in seconds, the desert monsters didn't have a chance to use their hidden methods, leading to his inability to accurately judge their strength.

"But no matter what, the Soul Point gain is quite satisfying. Just clearing one Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channel has almost brought my Soul Point balance back to 50 million. If I clear a few more, I could potentially return to a hundred million Soul Points."

Of course, Zhang Yanhang knew that these Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channels were definitely fewer in number, while the eleven First and Second Tier low-level teleportation channels he cleared before were the mainstream, so they wouldn't be easy to find.

But trying is always worth it. Zhang Yanhang planned to search the surrounding areas later to see if he can find any useful Permanent Teleportation Channels to clear, considering just three minutes can yield 30 million Soul Points, earning ten million per minute—a deal he really wanted to experience more.

"I've finally truly experienced what speed at the Fifth Tier means. The efficiency of gaining Soul Points compared to the Fourth Tier is like heaven and earth, completely incomparable."

Although Zhang Yanhang felt the improvement in Soul Point acquisition efficiency with each tier promotion and should have been mentally prepared, he couldn't help but be astonished by the rapid increase.

If there were enough Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channels, he might be able to gather 100 million Soul Points in just ten minutes, instead of taking several hours as a Peak Fourth Tier, needing to clean the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field to finally accumulate 100 million Soul Points.

But now, thanks to the Ultimate Evolution's Soul Point acquisition efficiency, Zhang Yanhang felt that 100 million Soul Points seemed pretty achievable, and clearing a few more should easily accumulate them.

"Before, with just 14,960,000 Soul Points, I couldn't even upgrade my Profession Level since my current LV.43 to LV.44 requires consuming 15,000,000 Soul Points.

But now it's different. With 47,900,000 Soul Points, there's more than enough to upgrade my Profession Level."

Honestly, Zhang Yanhang wasn't in a hurry to upgrade his Profession Level or Limitless Universe Skill. Compared to that, he wanted to quickly enhance the Swallowing Heaven and Earth and Death Wave skills, as the Death Wave's fixed damage was essential—without enough damage, monsters couldn't be killed—and Swallowing Heaven and Earth needed no explanation: the earlier it's upgraded, the earlier the benefits can be enjoyed.

"But here's the problem, just upgrading the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill from LV.6 to LV.7 already requires more than 20 million Soul points. If it doubles with each upgrade, LV.8 alone would require over 50 million Soul points..."

Therefore, for the entire skill upgrade, Zhang Yanhang estimates that it would cost at least over a billion Soul points. His current Soul points balance is really not enough at all.

"Since I don't have enough Soul points to upgrade Swallowing Heaven and Earth now, I should save up for it first and enhance it all together later."

For the Fifth Tier upgrade plan, Zhang Yanhang plans to upgrade Swallowing Heaven and Earth and Death Wave first, while the others will have to be postponed.

Of course, if there are additional Soul points, it would also be a good idea to upgrade the Profession Level of Heavenly Destiny Master and the Skill Level of Limitless Universe Skill, because his current Main Attributes haven't reached the Tier limit yet. At the very least, he needs to raise each of his Main Attributes to the Tier limit, which is also a very high priority.

After a simple check of his Soul points balance, Zhang Yanhang conveniently used the Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channel to take a look at the Ashen World. It turned out that it was still the Land of Slumber on the other side. However, around this Third Tier Area, there are finally some Second Tier Areas mixed in, not just First Tier Areas.

But unfortunately, Zhang Yanhang is not interested in clearing the Land of Slumber at the moment. He is only thinking about farming more Soul points, so he won't be exploring those Low-level Areas on the other side.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang skillfully returned the same way and began scanning the Permanent Teleportation Channels within Niger again. Of course, he still kept Time Pause active, as saving time is a virtuous habit.

This time, because he wanted to find more Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channels, Zhang Yanhang deliberately traveled a bit farther and then came across an area named as a province but actually a large gathering place.

But anyway, there are quite a few cities in this province, and cities are likely to have Permanent Teleportation Channels. So, just under this one province, Zhang Yanhang found more than twenty Transmission Channels.

Unfortunately, although the quantity is large, there is only one Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channel among these channels. Moreover, this Permanent Teleportation Channel is unfamiliar to him, neither desert nor Nano-armored soldiers, but an area similar to that of Voodoo sect cultists.

Zhang Yanhang thinks that it might be related to some indigenous religions in Niger, which connected to this place. However, in Niger, the more prevalent religion is still the Peace Sect, with its Faith accounting for over ninety percent and possibly reaching ninety-nine percent.

But unfortunately, there is no government here to distribute food to maintain stability, because even the ancestral methods of the Peace Sect require enough food to push forward.

And almost the entire territory of Niger lies within the Sahara Desert, making its overall food self-sufficiency rate extremely poor. When external supplies are cut off, nearly half of the population would starve immediately, as nothing that can fill bellies and keep people alive can really be grown in the desert.

As for the remaining twenty or so Transmission Channels, they are all First-tier Permanent Transmission Channels and Second-tier Permanent Transmission Channels, these Low-level teleportation channels, but even a mosquito leg, no matter how small, is still meat. Zhang Yanhang doesn't really mind, as it's still some farming.

The makeup of monsters mostly includes desert monsters, Nano-armored soldiers, and some Low-level transmission channels from the Voodoo sect, which occupy more than two-thirds of these Low-level teleportation channels.

And the remaining one-third is various miscellaneous other Permanent Teleportation Channels, with themes being quite complex, ranging from primitive, blood-drinking indigenous humans to intelligent AI commanding unmanned aircraft.

Additionally, there are strange things like Mage Academy and Werewolf Sacrificial Altar, as the transmission channels are truly very random, so random that anything is possible.

[Successfully killed a First Tier Two-star Monster 'Blood-eyed Werewolf (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +10.]

[Successfully killed a Second-tier One-star Monster 'Silver Moon Werewolf (Elite)' ×1, Soul points +60.]

[Successfully killed a Second Tier Two Star Monster 'Butcher Werewolf (Elite)' ×1, Soul points +120.]

......

After spending ten minutes in total clearing all the monsters from these Permanent Teleportation Channels and recovering the corpses, Zhang Yanhang's Stomach Space was filled with an additional 1.3 million corpses.

Including the 200,000 corpses from the Third Tier Desert Permanent Teleportation Channel earlier and the 800,000 corpses he gained previously, Zhang Yanhang has acquired 2.3 million monster corpses just from casually farming a few Permanent Teleportation Channels.

In other words, he has killed 2.3 million monsters here in Niger, which is comparable to one-tenth of Niger's total population.

"Considering I killed so many monsters in Niger, the African Union really should award me a medal or something."

Even though there might have been a little collateral damage to some living humans along the way, Zhang Yanhang still feels that this major cleanup counts as a successful humanitarian intervention, just slightly delayed, arriving only after everyone was dead.

But as the saying goes, Justice never misses its appointment, it merely arrives a little late. As the delayed Justice, Zhang Yanhang feels that being able to help them clean up Permanent Teleportation Channels is already quite a good deed.

If Niger has any complaints, Zhang Yanhang doesn't mind wiping out their remaining ten percent population and eradicating the country.

Honestly speaking, exterminating a nation with one blow is indeed a faster way to farm Soul points. He just hasn't done it because he doesn't want to destroy Earth.

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang suspects that if he really were to throw a punch, the planet's crust on which Niger sits might crack open directly and fly into outer space like the fragments of Vesta, transforming into 'Wandering Niger'.

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