Ashen God-Chapter 672 - 671 Light Gold Achievement

"Speaking of which, I wonder if it will be possible to obtain achievements related to critical strike rates later, but on second thought, it seems quite unlikely."

Although the Divination Tarot Card·Star, which boosts critical strike rates, was obtained from the Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi in the Demonized Swamp Zone, it was through Zhang Yanhang’s use of multiple options and cheating that he was able to acquire it, so from this perspective, it is unlikely that achievements related to critical strike rates would be available from the Achievement Vending Machine.

"Forget it, let’s not think about critical strike rates for now; let it be." Zhang Yanhang has always been quite open-minded about this, after all, unless critical strike rates could be increased to one hundred percent, they typically manifest randomly and can’t really be considered a regular means of attack.

"Now that the treasure box is opened, the talents, artifacts, and equipment have all been accounted for, it feels like there’s nothing left to do. After all, I don’t have any skills that need upgrading..." Zhang Yanhang pondered for a moment and then opened his data panel to take a look.

[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Second Tier)]

[Race: Human]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 20]

[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]

[Level: LV.20 (0/4)]

[Soul Points: 314973]

[Shield Value: 7867/7867 (Life Value Limit ×210%, Recovery Rate: 20% per second.)]

[Life Value: 3746/3746 (Constitution ×21, the current body has been officially digitalized, Life Value Recovery Speed, 15 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 2720/2720 (Intelligence ×21, the current body has been officially digitalized, Energy Value Recovery Speed, 48 points per hour.)]

[Strength: 50 (+4[-5])]

[Agility: 50 (+4[-4])]

[Constitution: 50 (+4[-4])]

[Intelligence: 50 (+4[-9])]

[Charm: 50 (+17)]

[Luck: ??? (This attribute is a hidden attribute)]

[Talent: 1. Multiple Choice (???). 2. Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea (SS grade). 3. Bear Power (S grade). 4. Mature Scroll Dragon [Bloodline Purification] (SS grade). 5. Ocean Rhythm (SS grade).]

[Skill: 1. Limitless Universe Skill[Second Tier]LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 2. Alchemy (Active Skills). 3. Gun Mastery LV.6 (Passive Skill). 4. Fighting Master LV.6 (Passive Skill). 5. Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active). 6. Technique Immunity·Original LV.6 (Passive Skill). 7. Death Wave·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active). 8. Supreme Will LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 9. Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active).]

"Compared to before, the data panel hasn’t changed much, or rather, only the Life Value Limit, Shield Value Limit, and Soul Points balance have changed, while the rest are..."

But no changes were what Zhang Yanhang considered normal, since he was about to advance to a higher rank soon, and it was indeed difficult for any significant changes to occur during this period.

"So, here comes the question, since I have now cleared the entire Demonized Swamp Zone, what should I do now? Just sleep? No, sleeping is not an option. Although I have been working continuously for ten hours, I am not yet completely exhausted."

Zhang Yanhang felt that he should first go to the Achievement Vending Machine by the lake area to exchange achievements, something he had already planned before.

Thus, after briefly cleaning up the items on the ground and putting them into his waist bag, Zhang Yanhang immediately began heading towards the lake area.

...

October 27, Tuesday, the day after the Double Ninth Festival, also the third day since Zhang Yanhang entered the Ashen World, at 10:30 PM, Demonized Swamp, lake area, Lake Heart Island.

Looking at the big metal cabinet in front of him, identical to other Achievement Vending Machines in different areas, Zhang Yanhang didn’t dawdle and immediately began checking the achievements within.

As expected, the Demonized Swamp Zone’s Achievement Vending Machine contained three achievements, just like the previous Goblin Plain Region, all of which were of Purple, Dark Purple, and Light Golden Qualities.

Regarding the quality of achievements within the vending machine, Zhang Yanhang had previously deduced it was related to the strength of the weakest monsters in the region.

The Demonized Monsters in the Demonized Swamp here, although the weakest were First Tier Three Stars, stronger by one star compared to the Big Saber Goblins from the Goblin Plain, which had the strength of First Tier Two Stars, both still fell within the Green Quality category, naturally leading to similar qualities of achievements in the two regions’ vending machines.

After briefly paying attention to the quality of the achievements in the vending machine, Zhang Yanhang quickly started reviewing the attributes list of the lowest quality Purple Achievement.

[Mystery of Prehistoric Extinction]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Achievement]

[Acquisition Conditions: Kill Demonized Maned Beast 3000/3000, Kill Demonized Canine Giant Ape 2750/2750, Kill Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger 2500/2500.]

[Content Description: Concerning prehistoric creatures’ simultaneous extinction within a short period, BIologists have been mostly baffled and subsequently proposed several theories potentially leading to massive extinctions, such as meteor impact theory, supernova explosion theory, climate change theory, infectious disease theory, volcanic activity, desertification, and more.

However, they would never imagine that the reason for the extinction of these prehistoric creatures is exceedingly simple—it was merely the result of a highly efficient slaughter by a super life form. They always assume themselves to be on the second layer, while the massive extinctions occur on the fifth layer, but in reality, the super life form lies on the eighteenth subterranean level.]

[Achievement Reward: Movement Speed +10%.]

"Goodness, a super life form lurking in the eighteenth subterranean level, Living Yama, right?"

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the descriptions of previous achievements were relatively normal, but this time, it felt as if they were indirectly scolding him, since he was the super life form, or perhaps the Living Yama, with his body in the mortal world but his heart eighteen layers underground.

By the way, among the many hypotheses, Zhang Yanhang thought that only the meteor impact and climate change seemed slightly plausible.

After all, if the climate change reduced oxygen levels, it would cause dinosaurs, even those on the plains, to be as if they were on highlands, constantly in a state of hypoxia, which would lead to the inability to sustain their massive bodies and ultimately their deaths or, in other words, being suffocated alive.

This also led to the evolution of smaller life form sizes afterward, because the oxygen concentration was not enough to maintain their large bodies, especially since larger bodies have a higher demand for oxygen.

But now Zhang Yanhang was in the Spiritual Qi Recovery Era, so, he thought there was another possibility, that the End of Dharma Era had arrived unexpectedly, causing dinosaurs that previously relied on spiritual energy to sustain their bodies, to suddenly lose their external source of spiritual energy and thus result in massive and rapid deaths, especially the powerful ones died quicker.

However, for such a situation, Zhang Yanhang thought he should not worry, since the recovery of spiritual energy had just begun half a year ago, far from its peak period, let alone declining into the End of Dharma Era.

So, it was definitely not possible for him to be suffocated after the decline of spiritual energy. If it ever happened in the future, he could simply move out of the Main World and find a transmission channel to hide in the Ashen World.

Moreover, if he couldn’t stay in the Ashen World, he could find a remote place to seal himself and wait to awaken after the recovery of spiritual energy, which many powerful beings did.

As for how remote is remote?

Zhang Yanhang thought that sealing himself on Mars might suffice to avoid easy disturbance. If that failed, he could pick any constellation from the sky to seal himself in.

But even the nearest Centaurus Star System was several light-years away, and while that was certainly remote enough, it was also easy to be sealed there and die unnoticed.

Besides sealing, he could also undergo reincarnation. Zhang Yanhang had heard several urban legend-like stories about powerful beings leveling up quickly through reincarnation from the group owner, so theoretically, if he was strong enough, wanting to survive shouldn’t be difficult, it’d just require choosing exactly how to live.

"Suddenly thinking of such a distant thing as the return of the End of Dharma Era, is it because I’m about to advance to the third tier, hence my thoughts are more active?" Compared to the extremely distant return of the End of Dharma Era, Zhang Yanhang was more concerned about the achievements reward of this purple achievement.

"This achievement reward is very much as expected. After all, the talents here all add to the movement speed, and it would be somewhat unreasonable if there weren’t a movement speed in the achievement, although a 10% increase is not much compared to talent upgrading, but it should still be more than enough to help me achieve my minor goal."

Zhang Yanhang had long wanted to accomplish that minor goal of increasing his movement speed to two hundred meters per second.

After checking the attribute list of the purple quality achievement[Mystery of Prehistoric Extinction], Zhang Yanhang immediately began checking the attribute list of the second-ranked dark purple quality achievement.

[Rise of Mammals]

[Quality: Dark Purple]

[Type: Achievement]

[Acquisition Conditions: Kill a Demonized Emperor Crocodile 200/200, Kill a Demonized Mammoth 100/100.]

[Description: In the long era of one hundred and fifty million years after the appearance of mammals, they lived under the immense pressure of top predatory large reptiles, struggling for survival in the cracks.]

Until the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, an important extinction event had occurred on Earth, where the vast majority of large reptiles vanished from the planet, freeing up a considerable amount of ecological space and providing opportunities for the development of mammals.

However, whether it was the super life forms that were mammals themselves that led to the extinction of large reptiles and then the appearance of more super life forms leading to the further extinction of various other prehistoric creatures—thus giving smaller mammals a chance to develop—remained a deeply thought-provoking question.

[Achievement Reward: Physical Recovery Speed +30%.]

"Previously it was about the Mystery of Prehistoric Extinction, and this time it has become about the rise of mammals. Although humans are indeed members of the mammal group, we are not quite like most mammals, especially considering the non-stop mating seasons that are quite unique.

And, shouldn’t the demonized mammoths logically also be counted as mammals? Demonized Emperor Crocodile, on the other hand, is somehow considered a large reptile from the same era as the Horror Crocodile, both being as famous as dinosaurs..."

Zhang Yanhang felt that super life forms were neither born before nor after the extinction of reptiles, but rather in the middle part, especially since he had upgraded his Rhythm series Talent to SS grade by the mid-term of cleaning the Demonized Swamp.

"The reward for this Dark Purple Quality Achievement is a 30% bonus to Physical Recovery Speed. Although it’s not much compared to my Light Golden Quality Demon Pig Leg Ring, compared to the other two pieces of equipment, it really is a lot.

It even offers an additional 1% compared to the 29% provided by the fully fused Dark Purple Quality Gray Mane Armor +6. It really is quite excellent."

Based on previous experience, Zhang Yanhang guessed that the small goal he had just set up with a nine-to-four work/rest ratio should be achieved immediately after redeeming it.

"Moreover, it’s also not surprising that achievements related to Physical Recovery Speed appeared in the Achievement Vending Machine this time. After all, even the equipment dropped by the Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi boosts Physical Recovery Speed.

As a result, the appearance of achievements related to this bonus is completely normal."

Zhang Yanhang’s past experiences told him that achievements usually relate to monsters in the region itself, and this time it was no exception.

After having checked both the Purple Quality Achievement and the Dark Purple Quality Achievement, Zhang Yanhang immediately started examining the last and most important achievement, the Light Golden Quality Achievement.

[The Arrival of the Terrifying Upright Ape]

[Quality: Light Golden]

[Type: Achievement]

[Obtain Conditions: Slaughter Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar 7/7, Slaughter Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi 1/1.]

[Content Description: About 65 million years ago, most prehistoric creatures disappeared due to a massive extinction event, allowing mammals to step onto the stage of history. About 50 million years ago, one of the most important branches of mammals, the primates, began to radiate rapidly and propagate. Over tens of thousands of years of evolution, the first ancient primates emerged 30 million years ago, followed by forest primates 20 million years ago, southern primates 10 million years ago, officially marking the appearance of humanoid primates. Two million years ago, Homo erectus emerged; 1.5 million years ago, capable man emerged; 1 million years ago, upright man was born. 250,000 years ago, early modern humans appeared; 50,000 years ago, late modern humans appeared. At the same time, prehistoric creatures like the saber-toothed tiger and mammoth began to extinct, and 10,000 years ago, modern humans emerged, with the Terrifying Upright Ape officially dominating the stage of history and gradually occupying other mammals’ territories, becoming the leader of all spirits, reigning supreme over all animals.]

[Achievement Reward: Attack Speed +20%.]