Ashen God

Chapter 833: Super Earthquake! Breaking Through the Crust!


Just as Zhang Yanhang thought he might have to experience what it feels like to have his limbs severed or even his skull shattered this time, the Resentment Puppet in his waist bag suddenly activated. A small puppet phantom, only a few dozens of centimeters tall, appeared above Zhang Yanhang's head, and instantly exploded, turning into a dense black light that enveloped Zhang Yanhang entirely.

It was because Zhang Yanhang knew that the Resentment Puppet would help save his life at crucial moments that he courageously collided head-on with Greenland. Otherwise, given the recent performance of his Energy Shield, he would only break apart even more swiftly, like the Blood Robe Bishop who turned into a blood mist, merging with the earth and sky.

And while Zhang Yanhang himself was already in such a miserable state, Greenland, being the target of impact, certainly wouldn't fare any better.

When Zhang Yanhang struck Greenland, targeting the Transmission Channel, the continental glacier occupying 85% of Greenland's area, accompanied by the massive impact force, instantly manifested gigantic cracks, swiftly spreading over hundreds of kilometers.

In the distance, the cracks on the endless continental ice sheet continued to spread rapidly with a dense 'crackling' sound, forming enormous icy abysses with depths reaching two to three kilometers.

Though the glacier segment directly hit by him was over three kilometers thick, it shattered instantly and was melted into steam by the high-temperature halo surrounding Zhang Yanhang, continuously drifting towards the sky.

With the fusion of hot and cold air, a vast rain cloud gradually formed, seemingly attempting to pour a never-before-seen torrential rain on the permafrost below.

While most of the glaciers vaporized and ascended high, a small portion formed streams, flowing into the massive crevices created by the splitting glaciers. If left unchecked, these streams might become natural adhesives, refreezing as ice crystals and resealing the glacier fissures as temperatures cool down.

But before these glacier melts could flow very far, centered around Zhang Yanhang's impact zone, billions of tons of ice crystals, formed from fractured glaciers over a hundred square kilometers, shot skyward.

Enormous ice crystals, several hundred to thousands of meters in size, soared into the air under unparalleled powerful impact, like insignificant dust, blocking out the sky and sun.

The colossal rain cloud that was forming collapsed in an instant as huge ice crystals shot skyward, puncturing huge holes, and dissipating into the air due to the low temperature of the ice crystals.

In its place, these enormous ice crystals stretched across the sky, forming a continuous 'Sky Ice Cover,' shrouding the surrounding hundreds of kilometers, reminiscent of an icy hell from a mythical legend, veiling the heavens and the earth.

At this point, Zhang Yanhang, covered in black light, had already penetrated the continental glacier, solidly striking Greenland's actual ground, a vast mountain range hidden beneath the glacier.

Due to the glacier above, the soil here had always been frozen, extremely hard, but in the face of Zhang Yanhang's surrounding blazing high-temperature halo, it instantly melted into a muddy puddle upon contact.

Zhang Yanhang, driven by inertia and massive impact force, continued rapidly advancing, soon reaching the crust below the muddy layer. Since it was continental crust, he initially encountered the granite layer, the highest content in the crust.

Granite, harder than steel, formed a solid rock layer encircling the entire crust, enclosing the crust below within.

But this granite, harder than steel, appeared so frail and powerless before Zhang Yanhang, crumbling like crumbling dry leaves, with large granite layers shattering like fragile glass, propelled by the strong impact, flying in all directions.

The tremendous impact force generated by Zhang Yanhang's fall created concentric seismic waves upon ground impact, rapidly spreading along the surrounding rock layers into the distance, forcibly fracturing everything, opening deep fissures akin to the East African Rift.

The already fractured continental glacier above, under the influence of this earthquake wave, greatly accelerated its spreading speed, with large chunks of glacier breaking into tens to hundreds of meters wide ice crystals, tumbling into the abyss created by the fractured rock layers below.

But Zhang Yanhang was temporarily unconcerned with these matters, as he remained encased in black light, swiftly advancing through the crust, driven by inertia and the immense impact force.

Even though he had long ceased using the Flying Technique, the residual inertia alone had driven him through the ten-plus-kilometer thick granite layer within less than a second, penetrating into the basalt layer below.

When facing granite, harder than steel, Zhang Yanhang had no trouble, let alone dealing with the basalt layer, which was about the same hardness as steel.

Though Zhang Yanhang had already dug fifteen kilometers into the crust, the colossal impact force continued to drive him through the basalt layer as if it were endless.

Large basalt chunks, accompanied by the forcibly penetrated granite, splashed around, under the mighty impact force, boring through surrounding rock layers, embedding deeply within them like expansion screws, forcefully opening vast fractures.

And continuously transmitting the seismic waves generated by the tremendous impact force to the distance, fanning the flames of the already spreading super earthquake.

Under Zhang Yanhang's impact, the massive, hundreds-of-kilometers-long arc-shaped mountain range was forcibly dented in, with surrounding rock layers melted by the scorching high-temperature light, presenting a lava-like molten state.

Meanwhile, the previously airborne, massive ice crystals, gradually returned to the ground, shattering upon impact, yet transmitting the earth-shaking seismic waves once more upon landing, spreading further outward.

Despite the short time elapsed, the continental glaciers and crust within hundreds of kilometers now lay crisscrossed with enormous fissures.

Though most ice crystals merely landed on the ground, a few fell into crevices, forming icy chasms and abysses, with no chance of resealing due to the continually widening and expanding glacier and crustal fissures over time.

Simultaneously, part of the shattered ice crystals fell into the molten rock layers, cooling the lava-like, wondrous substance. As the rock layers gradually cooled, the ice crystals almost completely evaporated, transforming into steam, ascending once more into the sky.

This time, however, the prior cold air had vanished, replaced by the hot air from Zhang Yanhang's impact, rendering cloud formation difficult. Thus, this time the water vapor was merely steam.

Subsequently, the cooled molten rock layers formed a smooth red crystal layer, shimmering like radiant gemstones.

However, due to the seismic waves, these rock layers, which have transformed from a molten state and still contain high temperatures, quickly began to fracture again.

At this time, Zhang Yanhang, located underground, had the black light on his body dissipate after maintaining it for two seconds. But because of these two seconds, Zhang Yanhang's Energy Shield has now been restored to 40% of its Shield Value.

Due to the Resentment Puppet's fatal attack protection having a cooldown time of twenty-four hours, Zhang Yanhang definitely won't be able to enjoy this layer of black light protection again for a while.

Even with Zhang Yanhang having a Skill cooldown time reduction, because twenty-four hours is a significant amount of time, there would still be at least a dozen hours of cooldown time left, making it impossible for this layer of black light protection to be triggered continuously.

So, to avoid experiencing something as ridiculous as having his limbs severed or even crashing to his own death, Zhang Yanhang immediately activated the Indestructible Golden Body Skill, completely enveloping the Energy Shield and enhancing defensive power through compression.

[Successfully killed Third Tier Three-star Monster 'Electric Chainsaw Gingerbread Man (Normal)' ×1, Soul points +1050.]

[Successfully killed Third Tier Two-star Monster 'Evil Snowman (Normal)' ×1, Soul points +630.]

[Successfully killed Fourth Tier One-star Monster 'Zombie Santa (Normal)' ×1, Soul points +3500.]

[Successfully killed Third Tier One-star Monster 'Bloody Reindeer (Normal)' ×1, Soul points +300.]

[Successfully killed Third Tier Two-star Monster 'Evil Snowman (Normal)' ×1, Soul points +630.]

...

But just as Zhang Yanhang had finished using the Indestructible Golden Body Skill, his mind was suddenly bombarded with countless notifications numbering tens of thousands. Having never experienced such a high-frequency influx of kill alerts, Zhang Yanhang's brain instantly froze.

When Zhang Yanhang regained consciousness, he found himself unknowingly in a warm, soft, and viscous place—the mantle layer beneath the Earth's crust.

Looking around at the surroundings, Zhang Yanhang was a bit dazed. Fortunately, his Energy Shield was still intact, and had even recovered to a level higher than the original 40%. Perhaps it was due to the surrounding soft mantle layer, or more precisely, the magma's very low damage to him, coupled with its non-Newtonian fluid buffering effect being quite good.

According to Zhang Yanhang's scanning results of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, after he plunged into the mantle layer, due to the buffering from the magma, he didn't manage to rush out much further. Now, he's only penetrated the thirty-five kilometer crust layer and gone down another five kilometers, which means he's about forty kilometers underground.

Based on his memory before his brain's freeze, Zhang Yanhang estimated that most of the monsters in the Permanent Teleportation Channel were probably dead by now.

After all, those ten Fifth Tier Two-star Lord Monsters, including the Blood Robe Bishop Nicholas, were already killed by him at the very onset, bearing no ability to resist.

The remaining monsters were at most just the Fourth Tier One-star Zombie Santa, and apart from that, whether it was the Electric Chainsaw Gingerbread Man, the Evil Snowman, or the Bloody Reindeer, they were merely Third Tier Monsters, clearly unlikely to survive an attack of such magnitude.

However, considering the Electric Chainsaw Gingerbread Men can fly, maybe they could evade this attack using their Flying Ability, so perhaps there might still be some Electric Chainsaw Gingerbread Men left after he goes out.

Yet, faced with such a massive meteor-drop level range attack, even if some survived, it should only be a small portion. Ultimately, the reaction capabilities of Third Tier Monsters under such disastrous conditions are insufficient.

Exactly how many monsters remain that are lucky enough not to have died on the spot will only be known after scanning.

Though the warm, soft, and viscous mantle layer somehow gives him a feeling reminiscent of being back in the womb and unexpectedly quite comfortable, he indeed can't linger here for too long since he has plenty of matters to handle.

Incidentally, since the magma only reaches about a thousand degrees, not even as high as natural gas temperatures, Zhang Yanhang has long been immune to the high temperature damage of the magma, allowing him to swim freely within it. This time, he simply found a suitable opportunity.

As a result, the magma currently for him, is merely slightly warm. Being enveloped by it isn't a concern; drinking it directly poses no challenge.

"Speaking of which, would the Energy Value from absorbing magma be higher than from seawater or rocks? Though it seems unlikely..."

Nevertheless, out of caution, Zhang Yanhang decided to test it a little, opening his mouth to take a big gulp of magma.

Accompanied by the inexorable suction from the spatial tunnel in his mouth akin to a black hole, Zhang Yanhang endlessly devoured the fiery, scorching magma like a Long Whale Sucking Water.

But soon, he abandoned absorbing magma upon realizing that the Energy Value gained by the Stomach Space from the magma was similar to that from seawater or rocks, without any special treatment despite the higher heat.

The brief delay this provided allowed Zhang Yanhang's Energy Shield to fully restore to 100% Shield Value, once again enveloping him in a sense of security.

Considering the risks involved in crashing to death and the brain freeze after killing a massive number of monsters, Zhang Yanhang believes that he certainly can't frequently use this tactic anymore, as it feels a bit like courting death.

Moreover, the most crucial point is that the Resentment Puppet provides only five protection opportunities in total; he has used one just now, leaving only four. If he doesn't want to crash to death one day, he should indeed use it sparingly.

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