November 2, Monday, the first day after Halloween, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, at 10:20 AM, Earth, Qin Island City, Xingfuli District, Unit 505, Bedroom.

"So, the question is, what should I do next?" Although logically there are many things that need to be dealt with, Zhang Yanhang inexplicably feels a bit lost on where to start because there are just too many things.

After all, there are indeed quite a few tasks on his to-do list, at least more than ten, including but not limited to going on adventures to find heavenly materials and earthly treasures, capturing female ghosts to refine the Wise Man's Stone, researching the additional attributes of Alchemy to explore more possibilities, clearing the permanent transmission channel, and finding Linkers for the Eternal Demon Body...

"Forget it, I should deal with one thing at a time. Since I'm relatively free now, I might as well try catching some female ghosts for fun first. However, is it really possible to catch female ghosts in broad daylight? I feel like this kind of thing should be done at night."

Just as Zhang Yanhang was thinking this, time suddenly paused, and a large text option box instantly appeared before him. Perhaps the Multiple Choice sensed Zhang Yanhang's intentions, as it triggered today's first adventure at this moment, and he immediately began to seriously review the relevant information for this adventure.

[Would you like to go to Guangyang City in search of heavenly materials and earthly treasures?]

[Option One: Go to Guangyang City (Perhaps due to significant enhancement in spiritual sense after promoting to the Fifth Tier, while planning to capture ghostly creatures to extract soul power for the manufacturing of the Wise Man's Stone, you suddenly had an impulse to look up the name of Guangyang City on your phone, and felt that going there might yield results.

Even though the name Guangyang City might not suggest a plentiful supply of ghosts, and you have never heard of Guangyang City before, your spiritual sense tells you that something you desire exists here. After searching all over the city center without any find, you continued to the suburbs.

In an abandoned cellar in a remote area of the suburbs, you discovered a hint. Below it lies a cold and eerie place where, unbeknownst to you, a group of evil ghosts had gathered, guarding a heavenly material and earthly treasure with human face patterns on its leaves. You don't know what it is, but you know it's definitely something good.]

[Option Two: Go to Juyang County (Feeling a bit bored, you suddenly had the whim to embark on an impromptu trip. You had no expectations or plans for your journey; you just wanted to visit a new environment to relieve some stress, so you arbitrarily picked a place with an upbeat name on the map.

As this was a spontaneous trip, you made no preparations nor informed anyone, you simply used the teleportation technique to go to Juyang County. No sooner had you arrived than you found out that the Yang Qi here is surprisingly abundant.

The Yang Qi is so abundant that by just casually selecting a small hill nearby for a climb, you inexplicably discovered a Nine Yang Heavenly Heart Grass growing within the hill's heart. After harvesting and consuming this Nine Yang Heavenly Heart Grass, you discovered an increase in your stamina limit.]

[Option Three: Go to Niger (Having accidentally seen a hell-themed joke about black ghosts on your phone, you suddenly developed an interest in the origin of the word "nigger," planning to go to Nigeria to explore what the relationship between this country and black ghosts truly is.

However, perhaps due to the high speed of flight post-Fifth Tier promotion, you accidentally flew past the border of Nigeria, reaching its neighboring West African country, Niger. Initially, you thought this was the same country, but later you discovered that Niger is much poorer, and a significant portion of its territory lies within the Sahara Desert.

This stark contrast with neighboring Nigeria, a major power in West Africa, did not catch your attention due to economic concerns; you were solely interested in possible special natural resources. After a search, you indeed found an unrecognized heavenly material and earthly treasure.

Upon consuming the unnamed heavenly material and earthly treasure, supposedly hidden in a safe by the Niger rebels' leader, you found your manipulation of Spiritual Energy within your body to become much more precise, and the circulation speed of Spiritual Energy within also increased considerably, enhancing your cultivation speed.)]

"These three options seem surprisingly reasonable this time. First is Guangyang City, where I can obtain a heavenly material and earthly treasure with unknown purposes. Although I don't know its use, the evil ghosts guarding it will certainly be quite useful to me."

Zhang Yanhang felt that this adventure choice seemed specifically tailored for him by the Multiple Choice. If he didn't choose it, it would seem disrespectful to their thoughtful consideration.

"As for the second option, Juyang County seems similarly useful to me, where I can find a Nine Yang Heavenly Heart Grass on a small hill nearby, which can increase my stamina limit, which is quite nice."

Meanwhile, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but marvel at how heavenly materials and earthly treasures that increase stamina and defensive power are always the most common. Just upon the first encounter after advancing to the Fifth Tier, he had already stumbled upon a heavenly material and earthly treasure that boosts stamina limit.

However, compared to the stamina limit, Zhang Yanhang now prefers the heavenly materials and earthly treasures that increase Life Value Recovery Speed and Energy Value Recovery Speed, which he once discarded like useless chaff.

To this day, Zhang Yanhang still remembers that when he was in the Fourth Tier, without the Eternal Demon Body and ignorant of the rarity of Life Value Recovery Speed, he irresponsibly abandoned the thousand-year-old stalactite solution that could boost it for one that increased the stamina limit.

Looking back now, he feels he suffered a great loss.

"So, here's the question: is it still possible for me to have another chance at obtaining a heavenly material and earthly treasure that increases Life Value Recovery Speed during a chance encounter now that I'm in the Fifth Tier?"

Zhang Yanhang believes it's possible, but the premise is that the encounters need to be frequent enough, though he has no way of knowing when that condition would be met.

"Come to think of it, logically, now that I've advanced to the Fifth Tier, the frequency of triggered encounters should also increase. Back in the Fourth Tier, I could enjoy three free encounters in a day, so asking for four free encounters a day now in the Fifth Tier doesn't seem unreasonable, right?"

Even so, the specifics can only be confirmed through practice, and Zhang Yanhang couldn't guarantee whether the Multiple Choice would oblige him.

"And the third option is for me to go to Niger."

Honestly, before the multiple choice mentioned this country, Zhang Yanhang always thought Niger was just Nigeria with a different translation. After all, the two countries border each other, have similar names, and even share the Niger River, considering it their mother river. It's just like how he can't differentiate between Congo (Kinshasa) and Congo (Brazzaville).

"But whether it's Niger or Nigeria, it makes no difference to me. Besides, the 'heavenly materials and earthly treasures' in this third option are useless to me. What's the point of cultivation speed? I don't even cultivate."

For Zhang Yanhang, who is quite mediocre in talent, he can proudly say that cultivation is pointless for him. If he relied solely on cultivation, he wouldn't even be able to reach the fifth tier, and his promotion speed wouldn't even match Zhao Yalan's.

"So, although the treasures in Niger's third option seem more precious, the group of evil ghosts in option one is more useful to me.

Speaking of which, why not just directly write out the hell joke? If the hell joke is funny enough, I might really choose that option."

Compared to the treasures in Niger, Zhang Yanhang thinks a sufficiently interesting hell joke might make him happier, like the most popular product of the 19th century, an old-fashioned cotton picker made entirely by ancient handcrafts that reminds the farm owner of their beautiful childhood memories.

By the way, Nigeria is directly linked to black ghosts because its ancestors were involved in the black slave trade. They used guns and cannons traded from colonizers to capture black ghosts from surrounding backward tribes for slavery, earning foreign exchange.

This cycle continued, and Nigeria quickly became a regional power through advanced technology, the pure master of the West Coast, thriving on its Western dominance. In the later stages, it was prioritized as a colony by Great Britain, gaining extensive aid and maintaining its strategic advantage to this day.

"So, I'm choosing option one and option two."

At these times, Zhang Yanhang always feels disappointed for not unlocking three-choice options yet. It only means he needs to work harder, as the current multiple choice is not vigorous enough to unlock the more sophisticated three-choice options. He's confident that with enough effort, the multiple choice could eventually become a true multiple choice.

After Zhang Yanhang made his choice, the time pause vanished instantly, but he wasn't in a hurry to search for heavenly materials and earthly treasures. After all, if it's his, it won't run away, thanks to the safeguard of multiple choice.

He waited a moment to see if a hell joke, which he heard about somewhere, would appear. If he saw it, it would indicate that the treasures in the Niger rebel leader's possession might really exist and weren't just forcefully generated by the multiple-choice.

Thus, Zhang Yanhang scanned the surrounding area and checked his phone for videos, but there was no sign of a hell joke. "It seems I'm not fated with hell jokes, nor with heavenly materials and earthly treasures."

Realizing that Niger's treasures might also be forcefully generated by multiple choice and wouldn't exist if not chosen, Zhang Yanhang immediately started searching for the location of Juyang County on the map. He planned to visit Juyang County first, then head to Guangyang City.

Zhang Yanhang quickly found that Juyang County isn't that far from Qin Island City, less than a thousand kilometers. If he were in the fourth tier, it might take several minutes to fly there, but now in the fifth tier, it takes him only about twenty seconds to arrive.

However, because his flying speed reaches a staggering 145 Mach, which might disturb the public, Zhang Yanhang cast a silence technique on himself before flying. To be honest, after learning this silent spell painstakingly, he hadn't had many opportunities to use it, which makes his initial efforts seem wasted.

But it's mainly because learning spells is too laborious for him that Zhang Yanhang hasn't attempted to learn any new spells thus far.

Of course, besides the difficulty, those low-cycle spells are outdated for him at this level, lacking learning value. Being in the fifth tier, he finds it hard to extract much utility from studying those second-tier spells of the fifth cycle.

Hence, with spells, Zhang Yanhang believes that relying on the Innate Talent Level of his Scroll Dragon Bloodline to automatically acquire them is actually more reliable than self-study. Auto-acquired spells usually are quite practical, meeting his needs most of the time.

After taking just twenty seconds to reach Juyang County, Zhang Yanhang quickly started scanning the environment around Juyang County to locate the specific location of the heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

But in terms of a search, the current Zhang Yanhang is not what he used to be. For a small town like Juyang County, Zhang Yanhang only needs to unfold the full range of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil to cover the entire county.

So, with just a simple scan, Zhang Yanhang immediately found the small mountain harboring the heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

It's a small mountain named Juyang Mountain, and Zhang Yanhang detected the trace of Nine Yang Heavenly Heart Grass in a cave within its belly.

Of course, given the full map scan, Zhang Yanhang also found a few lower-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures, but these first and second-tier treasures no longer interest him. Eating them would be useless, merely a waste, so he decided to leave them for a destined person.

Actually, the main reason Zhang Yanhang didn't bother to collect them was that he found it a waste of time without any benefits.

Upon arriving at Juyang Mountain, Zhang Yanhang chose not to destroy it. Since the name suggests it might have a connection to Juyang City, for this particular heavenly material in the mountain's belly, he decided to extract it directly using alchemy.

This was an old trick he used before to acquire a Gathering Spirit Jade underground. The jade had long since been useless to him but was replaced not long ago because it remained on his Green Ten-piece Set.