As for what exactly Zhang Yanhang scanned, of course, it was some Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that hadn't been taken by the destined yet.
However, after sensing carefully again, Zhang Yanhang discovered that the quality of these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures was generally low, only at the First Tier or Second Tier level, which was basically useless to him at the moment.
Although he did just acquire the Hundred Taboos Skill, which theoretically should ensure the consumption effect of such Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, making them not ineffective, the problem is that their potency is so low that eating them makes little difference.
After all, Zhang Yanhang's strength is at least tens of thousands of times more than during his First Tier Period.
So, a fitting example would be that he is now worth tens of millions and couldn't be bothered to bend down to pick up a 50 cents coin on the ground; this 50 cents coin might have been useful when he was worth a thousand yuan or even just a few hundred yuan, perhaps enough to buy a pack of ice to cool off, but for him now, it makes little difference whether he has it or not.
For low-quality Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, or low-quality artifacts, Zhang Yanhang thinks it's definitely about quantity to achieve a valuable enhancement, and he has only scanned seven or eight Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in total, which isn't much.
"However, despite that, if you can reach out and grab it directly, it's still worth grabbing. It's good to have a snack, and besides, having something is better than having nothing."
Zhang Yanhang ultimately decided to follow the principle of accumulating little by little and go for those few Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
With this thought, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened an Arbitrary Gate to the first piece of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, which was a garlic in a kindergarten flower bed. Don't ask him why someone would plant garlic in a kindergarten flower bed; he doesn't know either.
Zhang Yanhang reached out and grabbed the garlic, then immediately closed the Arbitrary Gate to prevent children from having unrealistic magical fantasies.
During the process of opening the Arbitrary Gate, Zhang Yanhang also discovered that the teleportation distance of the Arbitrary Gate had increased once again due to rank promotion, from the previous twenty kilometers to fifty kilometers, an increase of thirty kilometers, which is 1.5 times more. This is still quite decent and more than sufficient for most applications of the Arbitrary Gate.
Looking at this wet garlic with green shoots, Zhang Yanhang suddenly wondered if it's possible this could actually be a narcissus?
"But it seems to be planted in the soil, just with a high moisture content around it."
Although it might very well be a mutated narcissus, Zhang Yanhang still felt it resembled garlic more. But whether it's garlic or narcissus, it couldn't escape being swallowed whole by Zhang Yanhang.
In the past, Zhang Yanhang might have minded the dirt on this mutated garlic, but now, things are different. The Stomach Space of the Hundred Taboos can absorb anything, so he swallowed it whole with the skin and dirt, retaining its original flavor and full nutritional value!
Perhaps because the absorption efficiency of the Stomach Space is too high, the moment he placed it inside, the mutated garlic had already disappeared, swallowed directly by the Stomach Space, while he also felt a tiny, almost unnoticeable warm current inside his body.
But the direction of this warm current's enhancement wasn't quite right, something Zhang Yanhang had never seen before, so he used Multiple Choice to inquire about the effect of the mutated garlic he just consumed, and the result was an increase in poison resistance. Needless to say, this effect turned out to be pretty useless.
Although Zhang Yanhang hadn't acquired poison-related abilities before, he genuinely believed that ordinary poisons could do nothing against him, as his body was always wrapped in an Energy Shield, and any poison would have to break through this shield to harm him.
And most poisons, targeting physical bodies, wouldn't react with the Energy Shield, so it's incredibly difficult for him to suffer from poison damage.
At least, up to the current time in his Fourth Tier stage, he hadn't suffered any poison damage, and it probably wouldn't happen in the future either.
"Unexpectedly, it's a poison resistance boost. What is this? A stroke of bad luck? Probably."
But since it was something he could grab with his hand, Zhang Yanhang didn't give up and quickly opened another Arbitrary Gate to the second piece of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, which was a Second Tier Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, resembling a cicada pupa from its appearance.
However, it was a failed cicada pupa, dissolved into some kind of special gel, looking like a large-sized gummy candy.
After fetching some more specific information through Multiple Choice, Zhang Yanhang found out that it was a Seventeen-year-old Cicada, which stayed underground for seventeen years but failed to hatch due to the Spiritual Qi Recovery, ultimately turning into this transparent gel-like 'White Jade Cicada' under the influence of spiritual energy.
As for its specific effects, it can make a person's hearing and vision exceptionally sharp and... boost Yang Qi.
The boost effect is straightforward, enhancing Yang Qi, and the sharp senses are similar, improving a person's hearing and vision.
Of course, this is for a Second Tier Awakener. Normally, if a Second Tier Awakener consumed it, their vision could be enhanced by at least 0.5 times, and hearing would also greatly improve.
But for Zhang Yanhang now, it's just better than nothing, because the thing limiting what he can see isn't his vision but Earth's curvature.
Constrained by Earth's curvature, even if he stood on the ground, with no obstructions around, he could only see a maximum of a little over twenty kilometers into the distance. It's only by flying that the powerful vision from his Fourth Tier truly becomes effective.
As the saying goes, "The higher you stand, the farther you see," this proverb perfectly suits Zhang Yanhang's current situation.
But although this White Jade Cicada is indeed only marginally better than nothing, Zhang Yanhang still ate it. Mainly because this thing couldn't be sold, given that the male Awakeners he knew were quite few. As for Li Zerui, having a tongue was already enough, more than enough to serve rich women, no need for enhancement.
After finding two Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that couldn't be called useless but were at least marginally useful, Zhang Yanhang quickly continued to open arbitrary gates, swiftly finding the remaining six Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Thɪs chapter is updated by novel※fire.net
Among these six Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, one could enhance physical recovery speed, two could enhance defensive power, and the other three would slightly increase spirit resistance, slightly increase body agility, and slightly increase bone strength respectively.
How should I put it, if it were traditional cultivation, the latter three Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures might indeed be useful, but for an Awakener, especially a data-based Awakener like him, they were approximately useless.
It could be said that among the eight Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures found this time, only those that could enhance physical recovery speed and defensive power were truly useful to Zhang Yanhang.
In fact, most of the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures he had encountered before were the same, such as enhancing Yin Qi, enhancing Demonic Beasts' bloodline strength, enhancing willpower, which were not very useful to him. This always led to the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures related to physical and defensive power being the most prominent, as only these aspects were truly useful.
Of course, besides these, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that could increase Life Value and Energy Value were also quite useful. However, this type of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures was relatively rare to encounter so far, in his memory only the Sky Demon Crystal Grass series had such effects.
After consuming all six of these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Zhang Yanhang discovered something interesting. Previously, he wasn't very familiar with the poison resistance enhancement from the mutated garlic and the keen senses from the White Jade Cicada, but he was very familiar with attributes related to physical strength and defense.
So after eating these three Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, he immediately felt a bit awkward, as if something was off. After careful perception, he realized it was because their warm current was thicker than he had estimated.
Upon realizing this, Zhang Yanhang immediately thought of the passive attribute from Heaven and Earth Devourer, which for augmenting tools increases their effectiveness by 50%. "It seems that not only items in the Ashen World are included, but even Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures from the Main World are calculated in, which is very considerate."
Initially useless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, after such an amplification, were still not very useful, but this was mainly because the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures he had just consumed were of too low a quality. When he ate high-quality Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the future, they would definitely be quite useful.
"So, when will today's random encounter finally trigger? I feel like it's been a long time since I've had a random encounter."
Zhang Yanhang skillfully picked up his phone and started randomly tapping on the apps, trying to trigger a random encounter this way, since he indeed had triggered several random encounters through his phone before.
When Zhang Yanhang tapped on a certain pink app, beep... oh, don't misunderstand, it was a pop-up ad on Bilibili. When the Double 11 opening advertisement appeared in front of him, time suddenly froze, and a large text option box gradually floated in front of him.
Glancing at his phone, it was October 30th, and Double 11 was starting on November 1st. This time, just two days before the opening of Double 11, was precisely when the promotional intensity was greatest. So, seeing related content on Bilibili's opening ad was reasonable, and his finger was tapping on a plate of nuts in the ad.
It might be precisely because of this that this option was triggered. After all, tapping on digital appliances beside it, generally speaking, had nothing to do with Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Understanding the reason, Zhang Yanhang quickly began to check out the random encounter options triggered this time.
[Would you like to go to Qingfeng City to seek Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures?]
[Option One: Go to Qingfeng City (Although you long gained the grain avoidance ability upon reaching Second Tier, enabling you to function normally without food, you inexplicably felt a bit tempted seeing the nut advertisement. You had a craving for this very delicious-looking nut platter.
Yet, after searching extensively, you discovered that the platter of nuts was digitally processed, with no actual existence. As a result, you decided to head to Qingfeng City, the main production area of these nuts, attempting to find and mix almonds, peanuts, sunflower seeds, pistachios, almonds, chestnuts... from the image.
In your quest, continuously using Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil to scan Qingfeng City, you quickly gathered all the necessary materials. Besides that, you also discovered a dried tree on a small hill near Qingfeng City bearing a fist-sized Heavenly Fragrant Fruit capable of enhancing energy recovery speed.]
[Option Two: Go to Gulan Village (Although you truly wanted to eat that large plate of nuts, the discovered distance between Qin Island City and Qingfeng City made you a bit reluctant. Just then, you discovered a small village suburb under Jiaozhou City, a county-level city under Qin Island City, also growing nuts.
Checking out this Gulan Village's position, you found it very close to Xingfuli District, barely fifty kilometers away, only needing to open an arbitrary gate to transfer directly. Thus, without hesitation, you went to Gulan Village. Near Gulan Village, you found an ancient mystical tomb possibly dating back several centuries.
Driven by curiosity, you explored this underground tomb, and possibly due to Spiritual Qi Recovery, the original fungal invasion had unknowingly transformed its sub-tomb room, growing a piece of Earth Evil Corpse Spirit Mushroom which boosts stamina limit after consumption. You immediately picked it.]
[Option Three: Go to Outer Xing'an Ridge (After pondering for a moment, you started to doubt whether you really wanted to eat that nut platter rather than being lured into consumerism by advertisements. You felt that trying to buy the nuts would undoubtedly trap you in consumerism, which you wanted to avoid.
Believing it was momentary excitement leading to such strange thoughts, you decided to calm down somewhere. Therefore, you headed to Outer Xing'an Ridge. Although it's merely late October, the extreme winter temperatures there could drop to -60 degrees, now it's already below zero.
In this area already snow-covered in autumn, while finding the tallest nearby mountain and attempting to bury yourself in snow to calm your head, you accidentally stumbled into a cave inside the mountain, where you discovered a thousand-year-old stalactite solution capable of enhancing Life Value recovery speed.]