October 30, Friday, the fifth day after the Double Ninth Festival, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, at 1:10 PM, Main World, Qingfeng City, outskirts.

After spending roughly half an hour experiencing his physical condition, Zhang Yanhang basically confirmed his current body growth rate.

Indeed, it is much stronger than before. Initially, Zhang Yanhang needed about seven and a half to even eight minutes to grow one centimeter in body size, but now it only takes six minutes.

This means Zhang Yanhang's body growth speed increased from eight centimeters per hour to ten centimeters per hour, approximately an increase of two centimeters. Correspondingly, the daily growth has increased from the original one hundred ninety-two centimeters to two hundred forty centimeters, an increase of forty-eight centimeters.

"In other words, I initially grew almost two meters a day, but now I grow half a meter more than before...

because of the increased Energy Value recovery speed, the skill effect of Heaven and Earth Devourer is gradually becoming much stronger."

Counting the half hour just now and the previous one hour, Zhang Yanhang's body size has successfully grown from the original 202 centimeters to 215 centimeters, an increase of thirteen centimeters.

"By this time tomorrow, I should be over three meters tall, but as the body size increases, it will inevitably bring many problems, like by this time tomorrow I'll be taller than the ceiling, continue to live at home where I can't even lift my head, only bend over."

But fortunately, Zhang Yanhang naturally has his solution for this, and this solution is very simple.

Of course, the solution is not that Zhang Yanhang won't live in buildings from now on, it's not like randomly finding a piece of wild land and using Li Ou's Sanctuary as a house, that would definitely be somewhat impractical.

His solution is undoubtedly much more reliable, and when his body size really grows to that extent, he thinks he should just use a Transformation Technique to shrink his body back down, and then release the Transformation Skill state during combat.

Although the Transformation Skill as a Fourth Tier Magic isn't very good at enlarging, it can't exceed the size by much, but shrinking is definitely no problem; he can easily transform into a frog or crow and other small animals, so using it purely for body shrinking, although not exactly specialized, at least it's pinpointed enough.

Moreover, his current Transformation Technique has been amplified by rank, ensuring that its effect is several times greater than before, definitely sufficient for use; he estimates that even if his height reaches scores of meters, he can easily shrink down to a normal two-meter height.

As for ever growing taller, that's something to worry about next year, worrying about next year's matters next year. At worst, find a higher tiered Transformation Technique, like High-level Transformation Technique, so it's definitely not much of a problem.

After simply experiencing the current body growth speed, Zhang Yanhang casually opened the skill effect of Heavenly Earth Transformation·LV.MAX to take a look.

[Heavenly Earth Transformation LV.MAX (Active Skill)]

[Active Effect: After activation, the Heavenly Destiny Master can freely transform (grow larger) their body, the maximum transformation limit is 2000%+1500%=3500% [currently 75 meters (+5 meters)], Power Effect +500%. No cooldown time, slight stamina consumption.]

[Additional Attributes: Maximum transformation limit +1500%.]

"Although my current height is only 215 centimeters, the maximum transformation limit, after amplified by the Heavenly Earth skill by a 3500% increase multiplier, has grown from the original seventy meters to seventy-five meters, an increase of five meters for the maximum transformation limit, really nice."

Even though today only has less than eleven hours left, Zhang Yanhang estimates that before the end of today, raising the maximum transformation limit to over one hundred meters would definitely be easy.

But a mere hundred meters certainly cannot satisfy Zhang Yanhang, knowing that it's even less than the 240 meters tall Ancestor Giant in Giant.

Of course, the most important thing is that it's not taller than Earthquake Allen, the big grievance, Earthquake Allen although only of bones isn't very strong, or rather against the promoted Fourth Tier Zhang Yanhang, weak as hell; he estimates a nuclear bomb A could instantly destroy it. But its sheer height alone is as high as 1000 meters.

Zhang Yanhang thinks that his ultimate goal should be to surpass Allen, the big grievance in height.

"However, though reaching 240 meters may not be difficult, probably can catch up in two or three days, yet 1000 meters is indeed slightly challenging for me.

Therefore, simply relying on automatically growing body size to fill such a large gap would require waiting until mid-next month, hence wanting to quickly enhance to one thousand meters body size still needs coordination with skill level improvement of Heavenly Earth skill."

Based on Zhang Yanhang's past experience, as long as he can simply upgrade Heavenly Earth Transformation LV.MAX, then up to Heavenly Earth Form · Original Scripture LV.6, by then the massively increased maximum transformation limit conversion factor can definitely compress the time from mid-month to early month.

That is, if lucky, he might elevate his height to one thousand meters before rank promotion; even if luck isn't that good, he can probably grow his body size to one thousand meters during the early stage of Fifth Tier promotion.

"But although following step-by-step can easily achieve this, considering the time factor, it does count as a long-term goal."

Zhang Yanhang can only hope to complete this before promoting to Fifth Tier.

"Time, oh time, the thing I most lack now is time, but what I lack least is also time...

The reason for lacking time is too rapid promotion speed leading to insufficient time for growth, while not lacking time is due to having nothing much to do before the Transmission Channel opens, really contradictory and complex."

Due to the desire to upgrade the Heavenly Earth skill level, Zhang Yanhang became more determined to find a Permanent Teleportation Channel for cleaning.

After solving the issue of the Heavenly Fragrant Fruit, Zhang Yanhang immediately began teleporting towards the Outer Xing'an Ridge, not to mention, pretty far away, roughly about two thousand five hundred kilometers.

But no matter how far it was, after all, he wasn't flying but teleporting, so it only took a few seconds to smoothly arrive at the location of the Outer Xing'an Ridge.

If you're wondering where the Outer Xing'an Ridge is, naturally, it refers to all mountain ranges outside the Great Xingan Mountain.

Although it's only October, this area near Siberia, or rather, completely part of Siberia in a conventional sense, is already covered in heavy snow, with large snowflakes swirling in the air and continuously deepening and solidifying the snow layer on the nearby ground.

Looking at this desolate area covered in snow, showing no signs of development, Zhang Yanhang didn't have much reaction.

Honestly, the environment of the Outer Xing'an Ridge is actually pretty decent; at least there are a few people living here. The place he went to before, Greenland, was truly absurd; the snow and the cold environment there were far more extreme than here.

So after experiencing Greenland and then coming to the Outer Xing'an Ridge, Zhang Yanhang even felt it was not too bad.

Of course, it's worth mentioning that next to the Outer Xing'an Ridge is the famous Ningguta, where Xingzhen, someone who enjoys gardening and doesn't like to reveal their name, likes to send people. It's known as the ultimate cold land.

But the location of the Outer Xing'an Ridge is even farther out than Ningguta, and the environment is worse. In ancient times, apart from prisoners and garrisons, people with a clear mind wouldn't choose to live here. This has led to few residents even in the 21st century.

Moreover, to be honest, the area of the Outer Xing'an Ridge is quite large, at least a hundred thousand square kilometers, and if you include the surrounding areas, it's probably hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. Looking for a mountain range and cave here without any distinctive features is indeed extremely difficult.

However, luckily, Zhang Yanhang has just been promoted in rank, greatly increasing his power, with a movement speed of 14 Mach, and the coverage of his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil spans 165 square kilometers, so even though scanning the area would consume some time, it's still attainable if desired.

It's just that the process might waste a lot of time, so to avoid wasting time, Zhang Yanhang immediately chose randomly to trigger Time Pause, preparing to scan the Outer Xing'an Ridge in a paused time.

Though it's not the same location, it's the same Time Pause. Zhang Yanhang is quite adept at scanning in this state.

However, despite his adeptness, having nothing is truly having nothing. Even after multiple scans driven by his persistent hope, he found no evidence of mountains with cave formations.

"It seems my luck isn't that great; the Thousand-year-old Stalactite Solution in the options indeed requires the option 'Conjure Something from Nothing' to obtain."

But fortunately, although he didn't find the Thousand-year-old Stalactite Solution, Zhang Yanhang had scanned an area of several hundred thousand square kilometers and found quite a few heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

It's just that the situation here is similar to before in Qin Island City; most are First Tier and Second Tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures, so their usefulness to him is limited, and their quantity is not significant.

The reason lies in the relatively low concentration of spiritual energy in the Outer Xing'an Ridge, making mass cultivation of heavenly materials and earthly treasures impossible. As for why the spiritual energy concentration is low despite the absence of anyone absorbing spiritual energy here, against intuition.

That's naturally because there are no Awakeners around here, nor any permanent transmission channels.

Due to some related reasons, there exists a special relationship between transmission channels and Awakeners; they can only be entered by Awakeners and often appear in places with a higher density of Awakeners.

Qin Island City is the best example, where despite twenty million people absorbing spiritual energy daily, due to the transmission channels and the greater influx of spiritual energy through permanent channels, the absorption cannot catch up with the influx, leading to continuous increases in spiritual energy concentration.

This is also why the empire keeps increasing urbanization levels; only by relocating more Awakeners from rural areas to urban areas, forming a cluster effect with transmission channels and spiritual energy, can the safety of remote areas truly be guaranteed.

Otherwise, if even remote areas constantly open permanent transmission channels like Qin Island City does, it would be necessary to disperse defensive forces, something even a powerful empire cannot support with such an absurd defensive plan.

In comparison, promoting urbanization to 'concentrate resources for major tasks' is a more cost-effective option.

Moreover, in a sense, the higher the density of Awakeners, instead of causing spiritual energy depletion like conventional power systems do, it only results in higher spiritual energy density.

With higher spiritual energy density, the awakening probability of Awakeners increases, and the more Awakeners there are, the more transmission channels exist, thus more spiritual energy. Therefore, it's a completely positive cycle.

Correspondingly, in sparsely populated remote areas, especially in desolate and cold Siberian lands like the Outer Xing'an Ridge, it's naturally understandable that heavenly materials and earthly treasures are even fewer than in urban areas, given that there are truly no idle Awakeners settling around here.

Even so, since the area spans hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, Zhang Yanhang finally found three-digit numbers of heavenly materials and earthly treasures in one shot. Perhaps because there are truly few people around here, even demonic beasts are few. After all, in the wild, heavenly materials and earthly treasures are most frequently acquired by demonic beasts compared to cities.

"Although I didn't find the Thousand-year-old Stalactite Solution mentioned in the options, since there are other heavenly materials and earthly treasures available, I might as well pick them up first."

Zhang Yanhang quickly deactivated Multiple Choice and began continuously teleporting to collect heavenly materials and earthly treasures based on the previously scanned locations.

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October 30, Friday, the fifth day after the Double Ninth Festival, also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, at 3:25 PM, Main World, Outer Xing'an Ridge, Nameless Mountain Range.

Due to the vast coverage of tens of thousands of square kilometers around the Outer Xing'an Ridge and the considerable number of heavenly materials and earthly treasures contained therein, Zhang Yanhang spent over two hours to finally gather all the heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

The whole process was quite mentally torturous, with constant determination of direction and position, along with locking onto the coordinates and related markings of heavenly materials and earthly treasures. Zhang Yanhang never imagined that merely collecting heavenly materials and earthly treasures could become such a painful task.

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