Ashen God

Chapter 711: Slaying the Lord Monster [Molten Fire Demon·Purgatory Walker]


"No, it's nothing, I just think it's fun to tease a little," Zhang Yanhang said as he hit the Molten Iron Demon with a Death Wave. Despite the Molten Iron Demon being on the brink of death and likely couldn't last a few more minutes, it was still better to let it die sooner rather than later.

However, this Molten Iron Demon truly made Zhang Yanhang understand why some people liked playing Frisbee with their dogs; it could be quite amusing at times.

[Successfully killed the Fourth Tier One-star Monster 'Molten Fire Demon·Purgatory Walker (Lord Monster)' ×1, Soul points +35000.]

"The Molten Fire Demon's thirty-five thousand soul points might have been not bad in the past, but now they seem pitifully small."

And in the past, after killing a Lord Monster, Zhang Yanhang could also get a Lord's Treasure Chest and thus more soul points, but now he gets squat, nothing at all. You have to take the bad with the good, I suppose. While this Fourth Tier Transmission Channel had given Zhang Yanhang a huge number of soul points, the price was he got nothing else.

But luckily, Zhang Yanhang came here with the sole purpose of farming some soul points, so no big deal.

"Thirty-five thousand soul points is indeed not a lot, but there are still nine Molten Iron Demons coming up, and three hundred fifty thousand soul points should be about right. But, you weren't bragging at all; you really did kill a Fourth Tier One-star Lord Monster with such ease."

Zhou Muxi usually had several colleagues with her to mutually support each other when they came out to clean the Permanent Teleportation Channels, mainly because it was somewhat difficult for one person to kill all the monsters.

But perhaps it was because of Zhang Yanhang's strength this time, he had cleaned out this Fourth Tier Permanent Teleportation Channel smoothly from start to finish, turning it almost into a tower defense game; a complete change from her own monster-hunting experience.

After all, she definitely needed to dodge if faced with a horde of monsters, but Zhang Yanhang dodged nothing and took it all on directly, handling everything with ease.

"Nine more, huh? That's right, since it's a forced tenfold refresh, other than ordinary monsters, Lord Monsters would definitely be ten times as many."

Just as Zhang Yanhang spoke, through the Teleportation Channel, nine additional Molten Fire Demons appeared within the scope of the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil scan and quickly passed through the Transmission Channel to the Parallel Space after several flashes.

"Stand on my hand."

Zhang Yanhang stretched out a palm to Zhou Muxi, wanting to test Heavenly Earth's combat effectiveness now that nine new Molten Fire Demons had appeared.

"What?"

Zhou Muxi looked at Zhang Yanhang with a puzzled face, not understanding his sudden peculiar request.

"I said, stand on my hand so I won't accidentally crush you later."

Despite the Shield within Shield isolation, the inner shield isolated Zhou Muxi but not him. In other words, Zhou Muxi couldn't attack him, but he could freely attack her. With Zhou Muxi being so close to him under these circumstances, he was genuinely worried about accidentally crushing her during his transformation.

"At this point, can you stop playing these strange games? If you really want to play, we can do it after we've cleared the Permanent Teleportation Channel, alright?"

Zhou Muxi couldn't help but show a look of helplessness. To her, it seemed like Zhang Yanhang was starting to get reckless upon seeing the strongest Fourth Tier One-star Lord Monster, the Molten Fire Demon, couldn't hurt him, but recklessness was a big taboo.

"So you're completely ignoring the second half of what I said?"

Zhang Yanhang sighed and then manipulated his Energy Shield to directly transfer Zhou Muxi onto his palm. Since she was inside the Energy Shield, any notion of personal freedom was merely a dream. His prior inquiry had only been a formality.

"Ah, you know, forcefully twisting a melon makes it not sweet..."

Zhou Muxi knew that the Energy Shield could be freely manipulated by Zhang Yanhang but still didn't expect such a slick move.

"Forcefully twisted melons may not be sweet, but they quench thirst," Zhang Yanhang muttered as he began to cast his spells.

Giant Transformation!

High-level Giant Transformation Technique!

Frenzy Skill!

High-level Frenzy Technique!

Heavenly Earth!

Ten meters! Thirty meters! One hundred meters! Three hundred meters!

Zhang Yanhang's body grew wildly, his bones stretching rapidly, muscles grotesquely bulging, and stature swiftly inflating until he stabilized at a tremendous height of three hundred sixty meters.

The wild expansion of his height pushed the surrounding air out at high speed, creating a powerful shockwave. Towering over Beiling Mountain, Zhang Yanhang's mountainous body emerged into the Parallel Space.

"Thick gift crab! Are you some reincarnation of The Immortal of Colossal Spirit?!"

Completely bewildered, Zhou Muxi finally realized why Zhang Yanhang had said it was easy to crush her as she stood on his palm the size of a basketball court.

"Not The Immortal of Colossal Spirit, just simply Heavenly Earth."

Now, looking at the Molten Iron Demons, who were a mere fifteen meters tall, Zhang Yanhang felt them to be incredibly insignificant, not even as big as one of his fingertips.

The colossal voice like distant thunder traveled across the hundred meters to Zhou Muxi atop Zhang Yanhang's palm.

"Heavenly Earth?! Isn't that even more exaggerated?!"

Although Zhou Muxi didn't know Zhang Yanhang's actual combat strength, just the sight of his stature made her feel that perhaps even a Peak Fourth Tier might not be able to defeat him.

Thinking this, Zhou Muxi suddenly found herself contemplating that even if she were to advance in rank, she might still not be able to defeat Zhang Yanhang, which brought on a wave of sadness. She had anticipated this, but when Zhang Yanhang truly displayed his power, she couldn't help feeling unable to accept it.

She made up her mind that if the End of Dharma Era ever came again, she would definitely become a Lucky Awakened in her next reincarnation.

"It's alright, I guess?"

Due to the big drain on his physical strength, Zhang Yanhang decided to end the casual conversation with Zhou Muxi. After placing her on his shoulder, he charged directly towards those Molten Fire Demons that had just stepped out of the Teleportation Channel.

But when he said 'charged', that mere few hundred meters of distance could now be crossed by Zhang Yanhang with a simple step, which naturally allowed him to achieve sound speed movement due to his physical size alone.

Moreover, thanks to his body being rather lightweight, an advantage or perhaps a disadvantage, he found that his movement speed seemed even faster than normal, at least two or three times faster.

Facing these Molten Fire Demons that were like big flies, Zhang Yanhang immediately stretched out his palm and, with a terrifying speed that was over ten times the speed of sound, he smacked at those Molten Fire Demons flying in the sky.

However, Fourth Tier Monsters are Fourth Tier Monsters, after all, they reacted immediately and tried to use Fire Jump, but was an Instant Strong Space Anchor something to be taken lightly?

With a flash of white light, all teleportation abilities within thousands of kilometers were forbidden, and the Molten Fire Demon Zhang Yanhang had targeted flickered briefly and then immediately stiffened on the spot.

If it were any normal time, this slight stiffness might not mean much, but now, Zhang Yanhang's hand was attacking it at more than ten times the speed of sound, and a moment of stiffness meant obliteration.

Pop!

Accompanied by a booming sound, like the collision of a mountain, Zhang Yanhang brought his hands together and hit the Molten Fire Demon, whose resistance was no different from an ordinary mosquito and was instantly crushed into an indistinguishable mess of flesh and blood.

[Successfully killed Fourth Tier One-star Monster 'Molten Fire Demon·Purgatory Walker (Lord Monster)' ×1, Soul points +35000.]

Pop! Pop! Pop!

After a series of consecutive smacks, those Molten Fire Demons, which could easily damage his energy shield without the support of the Indestructible Golden Body, stood no chance against his terrifying speed and even more terrifying strength, and in an instant, six more Molten Fire Demons fell.

[Successfully killed Fourth Tier One-star Monster 'Molten Fire Demon·Purgatory Walker (Lord Monster)' ×1, Soul points +35000.]

[Successfully killed Fourth Tier One-star Monster 'Molten Fire Demon·Purgatory Walker (Lord Monster)' ×1, Soul points +35000.]

[Successfully killed Fourth Tier One-star Monster 'Molten Fire Demon·Purgatory Walker (Lord Monster)' ×1, Soul points +35000.]

...

The two remaining Molten Fire Demons, one flew high into the sky while the other fled back through the Teleportation Channel.

Boom!

Zhang Yanhang's leg muscles bulged as he powerfully stomped on the ground and then leapt high into the air, two huge and solid footprints appeared on the ground. Reinforced concrete and asphalt roads around him instantly developed huge cracks, and a massive amount of earth, counted in tons, was shaken up by the reactive force.

Amidst kicked-up dust, Zhang Yanhang, surrounded by a gigantic airflow, easily broke through the sound barrier. Accompanied by the piercing sound of the sonic boom and the characteristic cloud, he effortlessly leapt to thousands of meters in height and precisely caught the Molten Fire Demon soaring toward the sky. Then, with a light pinch of his palm, he had already successfully killed the Molten Fire Demon.

[Successfully killed a Peak Fourth Tier One-star Monster 'Molten Fire Demon·Purgatory Walker (Lord Monster)'×1, Soul points +35000.]

But this was still not the limit of his jump. Zhang Yanhang continued to ascend violently at a speed multiple times that of a fighter jet, and then, with a 'boom', his head hit a transparent shell, or rather, the boundary of a parallel space, instantly causing the originally solid boundary to become somewhat ghostified.

Zhou Muxi, who had been carrying an Array Plate filled with a sack of Spirit Stones, suddenly found it acting like a vacuum pump, draining a large amount of energy from the abundant Spirit Stones to repair the damage caused by Zhang Yanhang's collision.

Zhang Yanhang, who had been scanning the surroundings with 'Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil', found this rather speechless. Initially, although he had detected the boundary, he had not expected himself to leap so high as to hit the Barrier.

Even more speechless was Zhou Muxi, who had been holding the Array Plate. The person who gave her the plate had clearly stated that it could withstand an attack from a peak Fourth Tier monster for at least a quarter of an hour, yet Zhang Yanhang's light headbutt had just directly consumed one-tenth of the Spirit Stones.

She seriously doubted whether she had received a counterfeit and substandard product. Once she got back, she decided she must report it properly and prevent such malpractices from spreading.

Zhang Yanhang, who weighed tens of thousands of tons, created an even bigger shockwave when he freefell back to the ground. Countless amounts of reinforced concrete, molten lava, soil, and trees soared high into the sky. Gigantic cracks appeared on the ground within a radius of several thousand kilometers, and the entire coverage area of the parallel space felt a clearly discernible tremor.

Seeing this effect, Zhang Yanhang began to consider that if his weight increased even further, he could quite possibly just cosplay 'Meteorite Fall', and indeed, it seemed like a decent area-of-effect attack method. Plus, with the protection of his Energy Shield, he didn't need to worry about getting hurt.

The more Zhang Yanhang thought about it, the better it seemed. It was only a pity that there were no suitable experiment subjects here; he would wait until he found a new area before trying out this idea.

By the way, he was starting to feel more and more that being 'light' might actually be a good thing. Normally, his normal attacks were only three times the speed of sound, but now, because his body was 'light'—relatively light, that is—he could easily make attacks at ten times the speed of sound or more.

Moreover, that was without even adding Spiritual Energy. If he added Spiritual Energy, he probably could easily reach twenty times the speed of sound, which was almost comparable to the terminal maximum speed of an intercontinental missile at full acceleration.

He also felt that his Movement Speed had increased several times, but he wouldn't test it just yet—after all, there was a rush on time, as he still had to continue hunting the last Molten Fire Demon.

However, when Zhang Yanhang approached the Transmission Channel intending to enter the Ashen World, he found that he seemingly couldn't get in. The Transmission Channel was only thirty to forty meters tall, while he was three hundred and sixty meters tall. Even lying on the ground, he couldn't squeeze through.

Thus, Zhang Yanhang had to first cancel his Heavenly Earth Skill. While the skill had a high energy consumption, killing those eight Molten Fire Demons had only taken a few seconds, so it wasn't a big problem.

Reduced to just twenty meters tall after canceling the Spell, Zhang Yanhang was still tall enough—at least much taller than the fifteen-meter-tall Molten Fire Demons.

"How did you suddenly shrink?"

Zhou Muxi had actually been quite enjoying the special feeling of looking down on the earth from "atop a giant's shoulders," but now that Zhang Yanhang had shrunk to twenty meters, though his shoulders were still as wide as a double bed for her to sit on, that feeling of domination had vanished in an instant.

"Didn't you see? The Teleportation Channel is too small, I can't fit in."

Zhang Yanhang himself hadn't expected to be unable to enter. After all, when he had traveled to various places before, even if the Transmission Channel was just a point, he had been able to teleport right through it. It must be considered a flaw of the Permanent Transmission Channels after they became fixed.

"Oh, I get it; yours is too big, it can't fit."

Zhou Muxi also truly thought that the towering mountain-like stature of hundreds of meters as The Immortal of Colossal Spirit from just moments ago wasn't something that could simply adapt to a Transmission Channel by telling it he was too large and asking for a little tolerance.

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