Just as Zhang Yanhang was about to punch the God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena, again, he suddenly discovered that a hand made of energy had materialized around her neck.

Then, this light blue hand of energy seized her by the neck in the blink of an eye and executed a Void Shoulder Takedown, driving the God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena, back into the ground once more.

Boom!

There was a massive collision sound, and the surrounding rock layers within thousands of meters showed significant depressions and cracks, while the central point where the God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena, lay was further indented by several tens of meters. Most of the crater was particularly vivid, stained with splattered flesh and dark red viscous bodily fluid from her body.

But still, it wasn't over; a completely crimson but still uniquely translucent energy hand grabbed Crotena's neck, which was already close to completely dissipating after several shoulder takedowns and had no excess energy left for repair. Crotena was lifted high into the air and was viciously smashed back into the pit.

It was another Void Shoulder Takedown, only this time the Extra Attack multiplier was not just 425% but rather 850% for the Double Strike—almost equivalent to nine times the attack power.

Accompanied by a fierce explosion, the fiery body that the God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena, had formed, which had been smashed hundreds of meters deep and had its divine power depleted, unable to withstand any longer, burst apart into countless tiny sparkles that slowly dissipated into the air.

The remaining half, which was somewhat intact, of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's abdominal structure also scattered like dandelion seeds in the wind under the enormous impact force. They soared high, splashing against the rock ceiling a couple of hundred meters high and blossomed into blood-red plum flowers before succumbing to gravity and slowly dripping down...

[Successfully killed a Fourth Tier Four-star Monster 'Crimson Iron Queen Ant [God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena] (Lord Monster)' ×1, soul points +320000.]

"Holy shit! 320,000 soul points?! How can just one Fourth Tier Four-star Lord Monster provide so many soul points?"

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the Fourth Tier One Star Lord Monster, Molten Fire Demon, he had previously dispatched at the Permanent Teleportation Channel had only offered 35,000 soul points. Now, with just a three-star or three-level difference, the value of the soul points was almost ten times higher, which seemed completely unreasonable.

"Could it be that the God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena, I just killed provided some special bonus? That's quite possible."

Zhang Yanhang felt that this matter could indeed only make sense if it was attributed to the God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena. After all, she was still a god.

However, even though she called herself the God of the Scorching Sun, Zhang Yanhang guessed that her so-called sun was probably at most a branched divine position, something like the 'Sun God of the Arthropod Race,' otherwise, she couldn't possibly be so weak.

This is a common situation, for instance, almost every race has their own war god, like the Dwarf Clan's war god is Grimnir, and the Elf Clan's war god is Kane.

And Kane is also known as the Blood Hand God and the God of Violence, as well as the god of war, murder, hatred, and destruction revered by the elves, with war being just one of Kane's divine positions.

After all, there are usually few racial gods, so they can divide up more divine positions among themselves, hence they often hold a multitude of divine roles.

War god positions, in particular, are quite classic. Some racial gods even hold conflicting divine positions such as war, peace, brutality, and justice just to make up the numbers. Conflicts don't matter; more divine positions mean more sources of power and faith, which naturally is always better.

Of course, any racial god with a bit of common sense generally wouldn't take on such greatly conflicting divine positions, as that could lead to being corrupted by the power of faith into a schizophrenic or even physically splitting into two opposing twin gods, one good and one evil.

There are precedents for this, such as the Goddess of Fate of Divine Power Level splitting into the Goddess of Calamity and the Goddess of Luck of High-level Divine Power. Though they are sisters, they are incompatible and fight fiercely whenever they meet.

In any case, a legitimate war god occupying the majority of divine positions starts at High-level Divine Power and can easily reach Divine Power Level with a bit of effort. As for racial war gods, having Medium Divine Power is considered high, and some of the weaker races, such as the Half-Elf, might not even have Low-level Divine Power.

As for the God of Sun, Crotena, Zhang Yanhang estimated that it was probably a similar case, certainly a god of a race, and furthermore, a race that was not very powerful. That's why even though the Crimson Iron Queen Ant invoked the god's possession, she was still soundly defeated by him, with no power to fight back.

After all, if it were a legitimate Sun God, they would start at the Divine Power Level and are usually God King Level powerful beings in most mythical systems, with very few enemies that could match them.

If it were that kind of Sun God, Zhang Yanhang figured even a fraction of their power could easily crush him, not like this God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena, who started with a few harsh words and then clammed up in defeat, not uttering another word.

But even though the God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena, was weak, she was still a god, after all. So, in the end, Zhang Yanhang ended up gaining more soul points.

"Who would have thought that I'd be killing a god at only Third Tier? Outrageous! Or rather, who would have thought that in less than a month after entering the Ashen World, my strength has grown from just slightly stronger than an average person to a stage where I can slay gods?"

Of course, Zhang Yanhang guessed that the entity that had possessed the Crimson Iron Queen Ant – the God of the Scorching Sun, Crotena – could at most be considered a Saint Avatar, or perhaps a Divine Projection with a portion of Crotena's divine power. Therefore, he could, at best, be credited with defeating an avatar, still far from truly slaying a god.

But after all, he was only at Third Tier. Managing to do so much was already quite impressive; what more could he ask for? Proper god-slaying could wait until his promotion to Fourth Tier.

While Zhang Yanhang was pondering, a crater hundreds of meters deep slowly revealed a Dark Gold Quality Drop treasure box, twinkling with light. It was only then that he suddenly remembered he hadn't yet canceled the Heavenly Earth Skill, so he quickly dismissed Heavenly Earth and the Giant Transformation set to revert to his normal size and picked up the Dark Gold treasure box.

"Not bad for a Fourth Tier Four-star Lord Monster, it directly gave me a Dark Gold Quality Drop treasure box. With this, couldn't I immediately witness the quality above Dark Gold Quality?

Now that the last monster in the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano, the Lord Monster Crimson Iron Queen Ant, has been wiped out by me, the entire Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano can be considered completely cleared. My planned clearing strategy has been carried out quite smoothly after all."

If it weren't for the fact that opening treasure boxes and fusing equipment took too long, Zhang Yanhang would definitely have been able to complete the clearing plan for the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano before the transmission channel of the Small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu closed.

So, his plan on the whole still had no problems, it was just that there were some unchangeable objective factors that interfered with the execution of the plan.

"Now that the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano has been completely cleared, the next thing I'm looking forward to the most is opening treasure boxes!" But before opening treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang still first opened his Soul points balance to take a look.

[Soul points: 15699404 (+834850)]

"I only wiped out five hundred and sixty-three monsters, and the Soul points gained from killing alone totaled 834,850 points, raising my Soul points balance from the original 14,864,554 to 15,699,404."

In this respect, Zhang Yanhang felt the main credit must definitely go to the Peak Fourth Tier Lord Monster Crimson Iron Queen Ant. After all, it alone directly contributed 320,000 Soul points, nearly two-fifths of the total.

"These 320,000 Soul points really feel outrageous no matter how I think about it. Aside from the Fourth Tier One Star Lord Monster Molten Fire Demon I took down at the Permanent Teleportation Channel, the last proper Lord Monster I wiped out was the Third Tier One-star Demon Pig Peppa, which only gave me 8,000 Soul points. This Crimson Iron Queen Ant is actually forty times that of Demon Pig Peppa..."

However, although the Crimson Iron Queen Ant takes the main credit, it was not the monster that contributed the most Soul points. That title goes to the Third Tier Four-star strength Crimson Iron Prince Ants. Each of them could contribute 1,800 Soul points, and two hundred of them together contributed a total of 360,000 Soul points, 40,000 more than the Crimson Iron Queen Ant.

Then, the remaining hundred thousand or so Soul points were contributed by the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ants and the Crimson Iron Hell Ants. Both of these two types of ants only contributed five-digit Soul point gains and had to be added together to reach six digits.

Even then, they only totaled just under 160,000, still less than half the Soul point gain of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant, and could indeed only be considered a small amount.

"From the perspective of kill gains, I may actually still have a good chance of fulfilling my previous small goal of gathering twenty million Soul points.

After all, even if I put aside other Soul point gains, based on my past experience, just the Lord's Treasure Chest from the Crimson Iron Queen Ant should open up at least ten times the 320,000 Soul points, which is 3.2 million Soul points.

Now I have almost 15.7 million Soul points, and adding these 3.2 million Soul points makes a total of 18.9 million Soul points. So, the remaining treasure boxes just need to produce an additional 1.1 million Soul points, isn't that easy?"

Zhang Yanhang estimated that just the Drop treasure boxes from the Crimson Iron Prince Ants could open up more than a million Soul points to satisfy that need.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang quickly emptied out the treasure boxes from his Waist Bag and immediately began to tally them up. Since he only wiped out 563 monsters this time, he didn't have many treasure boxes.

But since all the monsters Zhang Yanhang hunted this time were Third Tier monsters of the Same Tier, so without Rank penalties, the number of treasure boxes wasn't embarrassingly small—it was still in the double digits. He obtained a total of eighty-four Drop treasure boxes this time, including the Lord's Treasure Chest from the Crimson Iron Queen Ant.

The majority, though only slightly larger in number, came from the "impressively numerous" 215 Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ants, which contributed 31 Dark Purple Quality Drop treasure boxes.

Next were the 30 Light Golden Quality Drop treasure boxes contributed by the Crimson Iron Prince Ants, which numbered nearly 200 but just slightly less than the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ants.

Following were 22 Dark Purple Quality Drop treasure boxes contributed by the 147 remaining Crimson Iron Hell Ants.

Last, of course, came the Dark Gold Quality Lord's Treasure Chest contributed by the Lord Monster Crimson Iron Queen Ant.

Although the number of Drop treasure boxes this time was only a fraction of the last, there was nothing that could be done about that since the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano had no more monsters left for him to hunt. It was truly a case of "an accomplished cook cannot prepare a meal without rice."

"To obtain 1,700 Drop treasure boxes in one go like last time, I'm afraid that's going to be a long wait. At least until I start clearing new areas, then it might be possible to replicate such a feat."

And honestly, replicating such an event is difficult because not every area can have 60,000 or 70,000 monsters like the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano for Zhang Yanhang to hunt. Therefore, it's very likely that it can't be replicated even in new regions.

But fortunately, it's not a big issue. As his Strength increases, completing such a feat won't be overly difficult. Moreover, by that time, not only replicating but setting new records should also be feasible—yes, that's assuming there's an increase in Strength, such as being promoted to Fourth Tier.

If he stays at Third Tier, then finding a new area with that scale of monster population could still be quite a challenge. After all, apart from this Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano, the area with the most monsters he encountered before was the Goblin Plain, which only had a little over 20,000 Dragon Vein Goblins.

"But compared to that matter, opening the treasure boxes right now is more important." Zhang Yanhang said as he picked up a Light Golden Quality Drop treasure box from a Crimson Iron Prince Ant.

[Do you want to open 'Drop Treasure Box (Crimson Iron Prince Ant)'?]

"Yes, open." Although he was eager to see what treasures a Dark Gold Quality Lord's Treasure Chest could contain, Zhang Yanhang chose to first open the Drop treasure box from the Crimson Iron Prince Ant. That's almost a tradition by now and has become a habit.

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