As for why Zhang Yanhang suddenly started checking his Soul Points balance and the energy consumption of the Death Wave Skill, it was mainly because the monsters around him had just died off in one wave, and the others were still squeezing their way out of the Transmission Channel.

After all, although the whole process seemed slow, the Transmission Channel had only been open for a dozen seconds, and very few monsters had made their way out.

So, because standing around waiting was a bit boring, he started to check his Soul Points balance.

After checking his Soul Points balance, Zhang Yanhang started standing around waiting silently again, due to having nothing else to do, both for the next wave of monsters to encircle him and for the refresh of the Drop Treasure Box.

Although Zhang Yanhang didn't know the exact Treasure Box drop rate after being promoted to the Third Tier when hunting Second Tier Monsters, he estimated based on past experience that, no matter how low, it should still yield several dozen Drop Treasure Boxes. After all, there were a good fourteen hundred monsters; even if only one dropped every fifty, that would be twenty-eight.

But as Zhang Yanhang waited and waited for several seconds, all he got was the disappearance of the monsters' corpses, with no refresh of the Drop Treasure Boxes in sight.

From Zhang Yanhang's point of view, around the fifth second of waiting, the bodies of the recently slain Molten Fire Giant Lizards on the ground, which had been continually emanating steam, suddenly began to turn into grey dust. To put it another way, from their limbs to their torso and head, they slowly turned to ash and spread inward until the entire body disintegrated into the air.

If Zhang Yanhang remembered correctly, this should be the kind of behavior shown only when corpses are refreshed, but he clearly recalled that in the Ashen World, monster corpses usually took an hour to refresh. Yet these Molten Fire Giant Lizards refreshed after just five seconds, which was practically the same as starting to refresh as soon as they were killed.

Since Zhou Muxi had previously mentioned that these forcefully refreshed monsters had defects, Zhang Yanhang guessed that this situation was likely also due to defects.

As for the specifics, Zhang Yanhang didn't ask, to save himself from being teased by Zhou Muxi.

But while he could indeed endure the question about the corpses, since they were actually not of much use to him, he couldn't just stand by after fourteen hundred Molten Fire Giant Lizards died and their corpses refreshed without a single Drop Treasure Box appearing.

He felt he must inquire Zhou Muxi about this, regardless of whether he'd be teased, as it could seriously impact his strength enhancement.

"Why didn't these Molten Fire Giant Lizards drop any Treasure Boxes after they died?"

Although Zhang Yanhang felt this probably had a lot to do with the forced refresh, guessing was just guessing, and he needed to ask directly to be sure, especially since if the problem was with him, he might be able to quickly change something using the Multiple Choice system.

"Didn't you say you wanted to come here to farm Soul Points? After seeing how confident you were, don't tell me you have no idea what's going on?"

Zhou Muxi initially thought that Zhang Yanhang, wanting to farm Soul Points, must have understood something about the Permanent Teleportation Channel's situation, but now it turned out that Zhang Yanhang's understanding was entirely based on her simple explanation, and he knew nothing else.

"I admit my knowledge is limited, just spill it already. If you're going to mock me, then let's have a quick end to it."

If Zhang Yanhang had known he would run into such a situation, he would have learned more about the Permanent Teleportation Channel from the group owner, instead of asking questions about everything like a 'hundred thousand whys'.

At least with the group owner, she knew she was reclusive by nature, and besides lying at home or going to the Ashen World to hunt monsters, she didn't bother with anything else. He wouldn't even have to bring it up himself; she would launch into an explanation and clarify everything just with a slight prompt.

Thinking about it, although he had just finished chatting less than an hour ago, he somewhat missed the group owner all of a sudden—her hands, small, fragrant, soft... Ah, wrong, not those, what he missed was her reliability and responsibility.

"I've told you before about the defects of the monsters that come out of a tenfold forced refresh, right? The defect is that, no matter who kills them, even a Lucky Awakener like you, they will only yield Soul Points. All other gains are nonexistent.

No matter whether it's Treasure Boxes or anything else, there's nothing at all. Even the materials on the corpses cannot be secured, as they refresh in five seconds. Basically, apart from Soul Points, these monsters have nothing. But isn't that exactly what you wanted? After all, you came here just to farm Soul Points, didn't you?"

Zhou Muxi actually had held a glimmer of hope for a Lucky Awakener, especially someone outrageous like Zhang Yanhang, to see if they could obtain Drop Treasure Boxes from these forcibly refreshed monsters.

After all, if they really could get Treasure Boxes and open them, maybe she could share in the profits. But it seemed her faint hopes were purely fantastical and completely unattainable, which made her confirm responsibly that the monsters from the forced refresh would never drop boxes for anyone.

"That's what you say, but..."

Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but sigh, feeling quite sad about the inability to gain from Treasure Boxes, as they have always provided a significant supplement to his total Soul Points gains.

Or, to put it another way, compared to the gains from killing, the gains from Drop Treasure Boxes had always been the main part, and they could also yield new equipment and new talents. But now, all that was gone.

Then, suddenly, Zhang Yanhang remembered something even more important, "Since you said that aside from Soul Points gains, all other gains are gone, does that mean things like the Lucky Slot Machine, the Achievement Vending Machine, and the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box are all gone too?"

"Yes, when the Ashen World starts a forced refresh, not only does it refresh the original monsters, but it also refreshes the entire region. Simply put, it's a full map refresh, restoring the area to its original state, regardless of how it was destroyed before.

But the defect or, rather, the cost is, as you said, the complete disappearance of those things."

It was precisely because of the disappearance of these things that Zhou Muxi wasn't very enthusiastic about clearing the Permanent Teleportation Channel, after all, since she certainly wasn't lacking in Soul Points, and it would be better to find a quiet place to concentrate on cultivation and strive for an early breakthrough.

"Alright then."

Although Soul points were quite good, they could only be used to upgrade Skills. If Zhang Yanhang wanted to further enhance his own strength, especially to advance his Rank, he definitely needed to clean normal areas.

After all, only in the normal areas could he obtain Ashen Treasure Boxes, and from those Ashen Treasure Boxes, he could get Ash Source to advance his Rank.

Even if he ignored everything else, didn't want any Equipment, and didn't acquire any Talent, just this point alone would bottleneck him severely. After all, compared to those things, the most important thing for an Awakener is always Rank advancement. Only by advancing in Rank could one improve the Awakening Talent they relied on to survive.

The majority of Awakeners, rather than saying they were improving their strength, it would be more accurate to say they were further developing their Talents. This situation was the absolute mainstream; the few Awakeners that Zhang Yanhang knew, such as the group leader, Zhou Muxi, and Zhao Yalan, all followed this path, and it was indeed the correct path.

After all, the basic restriction that only those with Awakening Talents could become Awakeners was enough to illustrate how important Talents really were. This wasn't like genuine Cultivation where one could easily renounce their sect to change their Cultivation Technique and freely choose their own path.

For most Awakeners, whatever Talent they awakened, that meant they could only follow that single path to the end, with no possibility of changing to another. After all, Talents couldn't be replaced.

Moreover, although Zhang Yanhang didn't normally use Multiple Choice to fight, he was actually following this mainstream path as well; he was also trying hard to develop Multiple Choice.

It was only that his current Energy Value limit was too low, temporarily unable to utilize the full power of Multiple Choice. However, one day, he absolutely wanted to try the joy of simply speaking and making his enemies die on the spot without any reason.

Zhang Yanhang initially thought that if the Permanent Teleportation Channel could also obtain Ashen Treasure Boxes, he could farm several Permanent Teleportation Channels to stockpile Ash Source for himself, but now it seemed that his idea, detached from reality, was completely impractical and had no possibility of becoming reality.

"It seems I really can only put all my energy into obtaining Soul points," Zhang Yanhang sighed again, but fortunately, although the Permanent Teleportation Channel wasn't very effective, the channel had opened quite early.

Zhang Yanhang estimated that at the current pace, he should be able to clear the entire Permanent Teleportation Channel in an hour or two, which meant before noon, without delaying the cleanup of a new area in the lower layer of the Crimson Iron Ore Vein in the afternoon.

Zhang Yanhang had been somewhat hesitant about whether to go to the new area of the Crimson Iron Ore Vein, but now, there was no hesitation at all. Since the Permanent Teleportation Channel couldn't provide Ash Source, he had to go clean the new area located 77 kilometers underground. He was still waiting to use the Ash Source to promote his Alchemy.

As Zhang Yanhang was thinking, other Molten Fire Giant Lizards also started to gather around again. Although they were not too many, less than a thousand, probably only seven or eight hundred, he had plenty of Physical Strength and wasn't afraid of consumption, so without hesitation, he directly released a Death Wave and wiped them out.

[Successfully killed a Second Tier Three Stars 'Molten Fire Giant Lizard (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +100.]

[Successfully killed a Second Tier Three Stars 'Molten Fire Giant Lizard (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +100.]

[Successfully killed a Second Tier Three Stars 'Molten Fire Giant Lizard (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +100.]

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It was unknown whether it was because of some obsession these monsters from the Ashen World had against Awakeners, but they tend to head straight towards Zhang Yanhang and Zhou Muxi as soon as they came out of the Transmission Channel.

Of course, it might not be due to any obsession, but simply because they discovered Zhou Muxi had an Array Plate in his possession. Only by destroying the Array Plate could they break out of this Parallel Space Barrier and go to the real Main World to hunt Humans just as Zhang Yanhang hunted them.

Well, what Zhang Yanhang really wanted to say was that it was extremely comfortable for them to charge at him wave after wave mindlessly like this. He could just stand still without moving and keep releasing Death Waves.

If this semi-automatic Soul point farming method could continue indefinitely, Zhang Yanhang even doubted if he could reach Peak Third Tier today.

But soon, things changed. Of course, it wasn't the monsters that changed; they were still as rash as ever, but rather, Zhang Yanhang underwent a Transformation.

After killing about ten thousand Molten Fire Giant Lizards, acquiring nearly a million Soul points, Zhang Yanhang realized that the 200-meter distance was really not so great, as it couldn't truly exploit the range advantage of the Death Wave.

Though he now had plenty of Physical Strength, he had to go fight at the Crimson Iron Ore Vein in the afternoon, so he couldn't be too reckless and should save some energy. Thus, he moved back another hundred meters, to a distance of three hundred meters from the Teleportation gate.

But whether it was because the monsters misunderstood Zhang Yanhang's retreat as a sign of weakness, the previously weakening charge momentum of the Molten Fire Giant Lizards surged once again, charging even more fiercely.

Although Zhang Yanhang did not understand why the Molten Fire Giant Lizards were so keen on suicide charges, he was, at the very least, very happy about it.

The previous few waves of charges had already been reduced to the point where each Death Wave could only kill five to six hundred Molten Fire Giant Lizards, but now, due to the increased distance and the surge of the Molten Fire Giant Lizards, nearly a thousand could be killed with each Death Wave, greatly increasing the efficiency of obtaining Soul points.

Zhang Yanhang estimated that if they could continue to charge crazily like this, he would need at most fifteen minutes to gather the three million Soul points required to elevate Death Wave Skill to Original LV.MAX.

After all, although the Molten Fire Giant Lizards appeared weak in front of Zhang Yanhang, they were still Second Tier Three Star Monsters, with a Movement Speed reaching dozens of meters per second, twice the average car, basically at the level of a sports car.

Such high Movement Speed meant that they could quickly surround Zhang Yanhang in mere seconds when charging at him.

Although these Molten Fire Giant Lizards appeared very weak in front of Zhang Yanhang, and couldn't cause any harm to him, there were plenty that couldn't harm him. Even the Peak Third Tier Lord Monster, the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, couldn't harm him, so it really wasn't fitting to judge a monster's strength based on this.

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