As for asking what's special about the little ghost and why it can stay clear-headed, actually Zhang Yanhang felt that the little ghost did not stay clear-headed at all, because Zhang Yanhang suspected that the little ghost might have been an idiot before death, which led to retaining only some eating instincts after death.

And precisely because only some instincts exist, it might be the main reason that it can stay 'clear-headed'.

And if you want to know why Zhang Yanhang judged it to be an idiot, let's just say, the appearance of the little ghost was somewhat abstract, giving people an abnormal feeling at first sight, quite peculiar.

"So, the problem arises, what kind of incredible thing did this idiot little ghost do before death to perish along with family, creating this kind of three-in-one fused ghost?"

For this question, Zhang Yanhang found it hard to imagine, as normal people can never understand the world of lunatics.

Moreover, compared to the mysterious emergence of such a three-in-one ghost, Zhang Yanhang was more concerned about the human-faced corpse fragrance Devil's Tongue in front of him.

Initially, Zhang Yanhang thought this thing shouldn't be very big, but upon actual inspection found that the above-ground part of this human-faced corpse fragrance Devil's Tongue was seven or eight meters high, with the roots below being over ten meters deep.

At the same time, after scanning the underground part, Zhang Yanhang finally understood why this ordinary cellar turned into a cold place, it was because the underground was densely buried with human remains, and the tendrils of the human-faced corpse fragrance Devil's Tongue were tightly wrapped around these bones, absorbing the Yin Qi and grievances born from them.

From the formation principle, Zhang Yanhang guessed that most of those remains were not modern, but might be some kind of mass grave from wartime.

Feeling like those bones underground might have some value, Zhang Yanhang simply swallowed the entire cellar including the soil beneath it into the stomach space.

Although the human-faced corpse fragrance Devil's Tongue was obviously useless to him, but at least it was a Fifth Tier Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, certainly couldn't be wasted here, so Zhang Yanhang decided to temporarily store it in the stomach space, might come in handy later.

As Zhang Yanhang stopped the devouring, a large pit with hundreds of meters wide and tens of meters deep appeared on the ground, after all, since he decided to swallow, might as well swallow more to avoid waste.

After dealing with the human-faced corpse fragrance Devil's Tongue, Zhang Yanhang didn't waste any time and immediately started capturing the remaining ghosts in Guangyang City.

......

November 2, Monday, the first day after Halloween, and also Zhang Yanhang's first day leaving the Ashen World, at ten fifty in the morning, Guangyang City.

After spending some time capturing all the ghosts in Guangyang City, the number of ghosts in Zhang Yanhang's Demon Refining Pot finally broke through the three-digit limit and directly increased to around four hundred and fifty.

But this still couldn't satisfy Zhang Yanhang's refining needs, so he started to search for ghosts in the surrounding cities and towns of Guangyang City.

Zhang Yanhang caught ghosts for about an hour, stopping at noon, and by then his Demon Refining Pot contained approximately fifteen hundred or so ghosts unfortunately he still didn't find any Fourth Tier ghosts, the highest was only Third Tier.

However, he caught several of those Peak Third Tier three-in-one ghosts, but Zhang Yanhang thought, in this case, quality indeed wasn't as good as quantity, after all, he only needed the Soul Power, for that, even strong Third Tier ghosts can at most compare to a dozen Second-tier ghosts, much better to have more low-level ghosts.

Regardless, fifteen hundred ghosts definitely met his temporary refining needs, he planned to first attempt refining the Wise Man's Stone, to see how powerful the genuine Wise Man's Stone really was.

Having made up his mind, Zhang Yanhang immediately set up the Alchemy Array in the internal space of the Demon Refining Pot, indeed, besides the stomach space, he could also set up an alchemy array in other different spaces.

Therefore, the new ability of Truth Alchemy he obtained this time actually unlocked some space dimension limitations, allowing him to directly interfere across the space barrier.

Zhang Yanhang liked this new function before, now using it in the Demon Refining Pot made him like it even more.

Incidentally, the Demon Refining Pot itself also had some refining ability, after all, given its name, it couldn't lack related ability.

However, Zhang Yanhang considered the Demon Refining Pot's mere Fourth Tier Spiritual Artifact to have far inferior ability in this aspect compared to his Fifth Tier Truth Alchemy's additional attributes, after all, his extraction was specifically designed as pre-technology for refining the Wise Man's Stone, he believed such professional content should be handled by professionals.

Possibly because the rank of ghosts in the Demon Refining Pot were relatively low, although the total number was as high as fifteen hundred, Zhang Yanhang only took a few minutes to transform them into Soul Power.

And subsequently transforming Soul Power into Wise Man's Stone had even less difficulty, activating the special additional attribute 'crystallization', even if he simply left it running passively, he could successfully refine the Wise Man's Stone, as the Wise Man's Stone itself wasn't hard to refine, the main difficulty lay in the early stages of material gathering.

Looking at the blood-red genuine Wise Man's Stone in front of him, Zhang Yanhang could clearly distinguish the difference between it and the Subordinate Sage Stone.

Considering the Subordinate Sage Stone always gave a mysterious illusory feeling, while the genuine Wise Man's Stone condensed from Soul Power was noticeably heavier, this was the substantial feel from the condensation of a large amount of Soul Power.

Additionally, compared to the irregular crystal form of the Subordinate Sage Stone, the genuine Wise Man's Stone looked like a carefully polished blood-red gemstone, much more attractive.

"However, this single Wise Man's Stone not even as large as a pinky has consumed fifteen hundred ghosts to condense, does this refining efficiency count as too weak or too strong?"

Simultaneously, Zhang Yanhang somehow understood the inexplicable heaviness, as fifteen hundred ghosts compressed into a pinky-sized Wise Man's Stone, such high compression ratio, the energy density must be significant.

"In terms of usage, other alchemists seem to embed the Wise Man's Stone into their bodies or some objects, carrying it around to slowly absorb its energy, ensuring their immortality."

Yet Zhang Yanhang felt he probably didn't need to be so troublesome, he should just directly swallow the Wise Man's Stone into the stomach space for it to automatically absorb.

Of course, his relatively innovative absorption method might encounter problems, but it did not matter, after all, it was only fifteen hundred ghosts, even if the experiment failed, so be it, if it truly failed, he would resort to the regular method to absorb the energy from the Wise Man's Stone in the future.

After swallowing the Wise Man's Stone into the stomach space, Zhang Yanhang instantly felt a surge of energy current was cleansing his body continuously, like a spa massage for his entire body.

Meanwhile, Zhang Yanhang noticed his physical size was rapidly increasing at almost one centimeter per second.

But unfortunately, before Zhang Yanhang could fully enjoy it, the Wise Man's Stone was absorbed in just a few seconds.

"I originally thought of trying the Wise Man's Stone later to enhance my body's strength, but it was absorbed so quickly without giving me a chance to react at all. It was at least fifteen hundred ghosts; isn't it too lacking in endurance? Hundreds of ghosts combined might only be enough for one second of absorption."

But in any case, since it's all absorbed now, Zhang Yanhang can only hope to increase his life span limit as much as possible this time.

He immediately activated his XXX-level Talent Immortal Life's Talent Effect to check it.

[Infinite Life]

[Quality: XXX (0/177147)]

[Ability One: Unwearied — Constitution +19.]

[Ability Two: Energetic — Physical Strength +760%.]

[Ability Three: Longevity — Life Span +500 years +20 years ×123[Constitution]=2960 years.]

[Ability Four: Source and Flow — When remaining life span is greater than 1000 years [currently 6107 years (+167 years)], increase 6107 years (life span) ×0.2%=1221% (+33%) attack power, increase 6107 years (life span) ×0.2%=1221% (+33%) defensive power.]

[Ability Five: Heavenly Mandate — Luck +1, when remaining life span is greater than 10000 years [currently 6107 years (+167 years)], every 10000 years life span additionally increases 1 point luck, current additional luck value bonus is [0].]

"I originally thought it would be nice to increase my life span by a few dozen years this time, but I didn't expect my life span to increase by 167 years, raising my total life span from 5940 years to 6107 years, which is quite a lot."

It's worth noting that Zhang Yanhang increased his life span by over a hundred years in just over an hour. If he continues capturing ghosts without rest, wouldn't he easily gather the remaining 3900 years of life span in just two or three days?

"Calculating this way, it really seems possible to gather a life span of ten thousand years before entering the Ashen World."

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang feels he might need to focus on capturing ghosts to increase his life span in the future. Of course, this kind of thing should wait until he finishes clearing the Permanent Teleportation Channel, which has higher priority. Mainly, he's always wanted to boost the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill.

Only earlier, he was unable to focus on the Permanent Teleportation Channel because he incidentally triggered an event option.

"After increasing my life span by 167 years, Ability Four Source and Flow's attack power and defensive power bonuses also increased from the previous 1188% to 1221%, equivalent to an additional 33% attack power and defense bonuses."

Zhang Yanhang has always enjoyed such free bonuses.

After simply trying the effects of the Wise Man's Stone and discovering it's incredibly useful, Zhang Yanhang captured some ghosts around him to restore the number of ghosts in the Demon Refining Pot to over five hundred before stopping.

"Clearly, I've directly triggered events before without doing anything, but now that I'm capturing ghosts, I can't trigger any more. Why is that?"

Indeed, Zhang Yanhang has been capturing ghosts here with the intention of triggering more event options and completing today's options in one go, but surprisingly, even after capturing ghosts from ten o'clock till now, at twelve-thirty in the afternoon, there are no signs of triggering any events.

"So, the question is, what should I do next? Continue capturing ghosts? No, it's better to go home first."

Zhang Yanhang thinks that if he starts capturing ghosts on a large scale next, it's best to have a plan, like gradually cleaning the ghosts in surrounding provinces and cities starting from Qin Island City, instead of capturing randomly like now.

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November 2, Monday, the first day after Halloween, also the first day Zhang Yanhang leaves the Ashen World, at twelve-thirty-eight noon, Qin Island City, Xingfuli District, Unit 505, Bedroom.

On the way back to Qin Island City, or rather, after arriving and scanning the surrounding environment of Qin Island City, Zhang Yanhang was surprised to find Zhao Yalan's presence beginning to appear on many street billboards and advertisements at bus and subway stations.

Moreover, Zhao Yalan's presence also began appearing on electronic screen advertisements in pedestrian street commercial circles and large supermarkets, areas with heavy foot traffic.

In less than a day, Zhang Yanhang finds Zhao Yalan's ads mysteriously appearing and filling Qin Island City's streets and alleys.

Is this reasonable?

It's definitely completely unreasonable.

"I haven't had a chance to help Zhao Yalan pull some strings. Where did she get so many promotional resources? Even if the leaders favor her, it shouldn't be this way just on her second day in the department, right?"

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang notices that over time, Zhao Yalan's advertisements continue to increase progressively.

"If this continues, it may be hard for anyone in Qin Island City to go several days without seeing Zhao Yalan's photo and name or hearing about Zhao Yalan's existence in conversations."

Earlier, Zhang Yanhang thought Zhao Yalan's faith transmission via public service messages might struggle to develop higher-level believers, but from this online and offline combined approach, Zhao Yalan clearly understands far better than the divine reserve how to acquire Power of Faith.

"I feel as if I haven't had a chance to exert effort, yet it seems everything is already done. Is this what it feels like to have official support?"

Zhang Yanhang has to admit that although the Empire's domestic publicity is somewhat lacking, once this official machinery starts, when it comes to sheer promotional coverage, there is truly no match for it. And Zhao Yalan precisely doesn't need to consider quality but only needs enough density to continuously harvest Power of Faith.

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