Ashen God

Of course, they couldn't be called mountains anymore. They were now just remnants of mountains, being rapidly carried away like relay batons by the growing shockwaves, transforming the once mountain-peaked area into a dirt-yellow plain covered with cracks and gaps.

With a loud boom, a pale blue energy fist suddenly emerged and completely annihilated the body of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation.

At this moment, Zhang Yanhang finally stopped what felt like a strangely lengthy bombardment to him.

After this practical battle, he unexpectedly discovered that with the full setup of the Indestructible Golden Body, Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, and Three-Headed Six-Armed stance supplemented by Spiritual Energy, his physical strength consumption was far higher than he had imagined.

After all, the four-digit punching speed per second combined with skill consumption was entirely different from his normal casual punch, akin to opening floodgates, and in some ways, it was even higher than the skill consumption of Death Wave.

However, with an XXX-level Talent [Infinite Life] allowing Zhang Yanhang to increase his stamina limit to a reservoir level, even if he opened the floodgates, it was still manageable, allowing for combat time to be calculated in hours. Therefore, combat time wasn't a concern, and he could still engage in long battles.

Of course, the method of Fatian Xiangdi is an exception; it indeed couldn't hold up.

As for finally exhausting the divine power of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation to kill it, it wasn't that Zhang Yanhang didn't want to kill it quickly; he simply couldn't.

Initially, Zhang Yanhang intended to test the recovery limits and divine power levels of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, but after testing for a long time without seeing any signs of depletion, he thought about trying to forcibly destroy the Ancestor Virus Aggregation by breaking its divine position.

Unexpectedly, after dozens of consecutive punches, the divine position, which internally seemed fractured and fragile, showed no reaction at all, with no signs of breaking.

Moreover, during this period, several instances of 425% attack power extra attacks were triggered, yet they failed to damage it.

At the time, Zhang Yanhang thought that perhaps even the 425% attack power extra attack wasn't enough.

So, he decided to concentrate half of his punches to fully strike its chest area divine position, delivering hundreds of punches. Not only were many instances of 850% attack power double attacks triggered, but even the long-awaited 1275% attack power triple strike was successfully triggered.

Yet even then, the divine position wasn't destroyed. Even after the triple strike, the divine position showed no reaction.

This led Zhang Yanhang to give up; he felt the divine position might have some special mechanism preventing it from being broken, or maybe it was simply that his rank and strength were insufficient to destroy it.

After all, the 1275% attack power triple strike couldn't break it, nor did it yield any trace of transformation, indicating that it truly wasn't within his current ability to destroy.

As for using All Four Elements are Void...

The orange quality of All Four Elements are Void could only cause 1000% damage, which was less than the amplification rate of the triple strike. Since the triple strike was ineffective, All Four Elements are Void was unlikely to work either.

One could only say that if the triple strike could slightly worsen the cracks on the divine position or at least chip off even a trivial amount of fragments, Zhang Yanhang would have the confidence to try again.

For instance, by activating Fatian Xiangdi, entering the Dharma Body state, and then unleashing all attack power bonuses for a shot of All Four Elements are Void on this guy. But unfortunately, there was not even the slightest change.

Thus, Zhang Yanhang could only resort to the cumbersome method of completely draining its divine power, eventually forcibly killing it after exterminating it at least hundreds of times.

In this regard, compared to the simple issue of insufficient strength, Zhang Yanhang felt it was more likely due to insufficient rank. Perhaps promoting to Sixth Tier might bring some special transformation, enabling him to slay these divine enemies more easily.

Primarily, aside from this explanation, Zhang Yanhang couldn't think of any other reasons. From the perspective of strength and attack power, Zhang Yanhang with various bonuses definitely overwhelmed the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, yet still couldn't destroy the divine position, indicating its uniqueness.

By the way, Zhang Yanhang also attempted to separate the divine position from the Ancestor Virus Aggregation during the process, trying methods like physical pulling, flesh stripping, and space transfer, all without success.

The location of the divine position seemed like another space, completely immovable, despite the surrounding bones and heart being stripped away. Yet the divine position stubbornly remained in place, silently regenerating the surrounding flesh to reform the body of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation.

Zhang Yanhang even tried using Death Wave to attack the divine position or aimed at zeroing out the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's health through fixed damage for forced execution.

But unexpectedly, this divine position seemed to have a locked health hang, as the remaining flesh was utterly destroyed by Death Wave, and the health was indeed zeroed out upon checking the attribute list. Yet it wouldn't die; the divine position continued regenerating the flesh, seemingly unaffected by Death Wave.

With something immune to fixed damage like this, Zhang Yanhang really had nothing to say, feeling entirely discouraged.

Of course, it could be because Death Wave was not adept against such solid material. After all, Death Wave targets life forms but never damages the environment.

Logically, a divine position, as part of a life form, should certainly be subject to attack. Therefore, it left Zhang Yanhang bewildered, unable to discern whether it had taken effect or produced no effect; though these are completely different concepts, the result appeared identical, completely indistinguishable.

After all, he had no convenient system prompts here to inform him of the related effects and damage caused.

After successfully killing the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, Zhang Yanhang finally heard the long-awaited kill prompt in his ears.

[Successfully killed Fifth Tier Four Star Monster 'Ancestor Virus Aggregation [God of Flesh and Corruption] (Lord Monster)' ×1, Soul points +5000000.]

"Huh? Huh?! Huh?!! Five million? Why is it worth five million? Isn't that a bit too ridiculous?"

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the God of Sun he took down in the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano was only valued at 320,000 soul points at the time, as it was rated as a Fourth Tier Four-star Lord Monster.

Yet, the Ancestor Virus Aggregation here, also known as the God of Flesh and Corruption, just happened to be one rank higher but its value increased more than tenfold, reaching a difference of about sixteen times, which indeed left Zhang Yanhang a bit baffled.

"Moreover, the Ancestor Virus Aggregation is actually the 'God of Flesh and Corruption'? I thought for sure it would be something like the God of Biochemical Viruses or the Blood Sun God...

Now, it seems that although most of the abilities on the Ancestor Virus Aggregation are truly related to the sun, it might not fit the definition of the sun in the magical worldview, which is why it didn't acquire the divine position of the Sun God."

Of course, compared to such a clash of worldviews, Zhang Yanhang thought it might simply be because the Ancestor Virus Aggregation is still relatively weak, which is why it couldn't condense a powerful Sun divine position yet.

After all, the Ancestor Virus Aggregation itself is only at the Fifth Tier Four Stars in terms of level, still a bit short of truly becoming a god at the Sixth Tier.

But no matter what, the current Ancestor Virus Aggregation has eventually been successfully slain by Zhang Yanhang, and he just needs to wrap up some minor tasks to happily return to the Main World and be promoted to the Fifth Tier.

Furthermore, compared to the incarnation of the God of Sun he took down last time, Zhang Yanhang felt that this time truly felt like god-slaying, as the Ancestor Virus Aggregation was indeed already a god, possessing the strength of the Sixth Tier and Second Star.

Yet he also believed this was just the beginning. If nothing unexpected happens, as his rank increases, he will surely encounter more divines in the future and take them all down. He feels that if the Ashen World could implement a title system, he would probably immediately earn the title of 'God Slayer.'

After pondering a bunch of random thoughts, Zhang Yanhang glanced at the time on his watch and realized that only a little more than a minute had passed. But that was normal, after all, the pace of a Sixth Tier level battle was indeed quite fast.

"It's just 4:50 AM now, and there's still a whole hour and ten minutes until the transmission channel to Raccoon City closes, so there's plenty of time.

Given this ample time, maybe I can open a treasure box first, and then go clear out the monsters and lucky slot machines in Raccoon City, the Goblin Plain, and the Demonized Swamp."

After making up his mind, Zhang Yanhang looked toward a drop treasure box on the ground in the distance, or rather, a Lord's Treasure Chest glowing with red light, which naturally came from the Ancestor Virus Aggregation.

However, Zhang Yanhang was a bit regretful to find that the divine of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, or God of Flesh and Corruption, eventually shattered and couldn't be captured. Otherwise, he felt that thing would have been a great supplement to consume.

Though Zhang Yanhang tried to salvage it at the time, it was impossible. The godhead had already shattered into energy photons before the God of Flesh and Corruption completely died, dissipating into the air, making it truly impossible for Zhang Yanhang to scoop up.

As for using the Heaven and Earth Devourer to swallow it directly on the spot, that's even less feasible. He couldn't alter the position of the godhead with so many methods before, and naturally, Heaven and Earth Devourer wouldn't work either.

So, he could only watch as this godhead dispersed, feeling a bit heartbroken, as it was indeed the most valuable thing on the God of Flesh and Corruption.

Honestly, before the battle started, Zhang Yanhang even thought about devouring a wave of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's corpses to replenish the stomach space, but unexpectedly, in the end, nothing remained.

However, luckily the body was gone, but the Lord's Treasure Chest still actually refreshed. Compared to the godhead of unknown use or a divine corpse that could only be digested into energy if consumed, this was the real tangible benefit.

Zhang Yanhang immediately picked it up and spat out other drop treasure boxes from the stomach space to open them together, for opening treasure boxes after defeating a boss is a time-honored tradition, and few can resist not opening them after finally defeating a boss; it's only human nature.

But before opening a treasure box, Zhang Yanhang first took a look at his soul point balance, wanting to know how many soul points he had just obtained in total.

[Soul Points: 105622907 (+5900000)]

"Just as expected, my soul point balance easily surpassed one billion, growing from the previous ninety-nine million seven hundred twenty thousand soul points directly to one billion fifty-six million two hundred ninety-seven thousand soul points, increasing by five million nine hundred thousand soul points again."

It can be said that this time, the soul point income had the Ancestor Virus Aggregation in an absolutely leading position since it alone contributed five million kill soul points, and the other fifty Ancestor Virus Infected together only provided just ninety hundred thousand soul points.

"Since the kill soul points of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation alone are worth five million... then according to the pattern that the treasure box yields ten times more, when I open the Lord's Treasure Chest, I might encounter a soul point option worth fifty million soul points directly?

Good heavens, a single option could be equivalent to me clearing out tens of thousands of monsters."

In this regard, Zhang Yanhang could only lament that the higher the strength, the more exaggerated the increase in soul points.

"And even if we don't count the potential fifty million soul points that might come out of the Lord's Treasure Chest later, I already have a balance of one billion soul points now, which is yet another new record."

This was the first time Zhang Yanhang's soul point balance surpassed one billion, increasing from eight digits to nine digits, indeed making him quite happy, as this way, after being promoted to the Fifth Tier, he would have one billion soul points to use.

After checking his soul point balance, Zhang Yanhang quickly started tallying up the drop treasure boxes. To say 'tallying' is actually unnecessary, as this time he only defeated two types of monsters in total, namely fifty Ancestor Virus Infected and the Lord Monster Ancestor Virus Aggregation.

The Ancestor Virus Infected previously yielded nine Dark Gold Quality drop treasure boxes, while the Lord Monster Ancestor Virus Aggregation once again yielded a Lord's Treasure Chest, making a total of just ten treasure boxes altogether.