Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Earth Spirit Fruit
This isolation power was extremely strong, so much so that Zhang Yanhang had once been seized by a whim to climb a towering skyscraper standing at 240 meters tall, and leaped from the top, only to land on his two legs completely unharmed, steady as could be, maintaining the exact same posture upon landing as when he jumped.
What did Zhang Yanhang feel in that moment, you ask? It was freaking awesome! The act of looking down at the world from above and then jumping was truly stress-relieving. It was pretty much like a super bungee jump with no chance of survival.
Although it was the Spiritual Qi Recovery Era now, it had only been half a year since the resurgence began, and it was safe to say that only an exceedingly small number of cultivators could experience the thrill of jumping from such heights.
If he had the chance in the future, Zhang Yanhang even wanted to try jumping directly from an airplane tens of thousands of meters high in the sky.
Moreover, aside from being immune to harm, this mysterious power also maintained Zhang Yanhang's body in a subtle state, where once he entered a Time Pause, he would enter a state similar to a Time Pause himself, with no apparent way to break the fixed status for the time being.
This might be a bit difficult to understand, but to give you a couple of simple examples, for instance, once Zhang Yanhang entered a Time Pause, he wouldn't feel hunger or fatigue and would always keep a clear mind. He could run for an hour straight without catching his breath, not even figuratively but literally not needing to breathe.
Thanks to the fixation of his own state, once he entered a Time Pause, Zhang Yanhang could halt necessary human activities such as breathing, blinking, and excreting.
Also, precisely because he lacked the interference of important factors like breathing, blinking, excreting (sweating is also a common excretory activity), and Physical Strength, Zhang Yanhang was able to scale a 240-meter-high skyscraper with his bare hands.
After flicking away that White Striped Mosquito which tried to bite him, Zhang Yanhang took a right turn and headed towards the 'apricot tree protruding from the wall' mentioned in the second option; he planned to first observe it in detail before cautiously making his choice.
While the benefits from the other two options were useless to Zhang Yanhang, since he was currently in a Time Pause state with plenty of time, spending a bit of it on observation wouldn't result in any loss whatsoever.
This was one of the reasons why Zhang Yanhang developed the hobby of observing humans; after all, if he didn't do something during a Time Pause, he'd always feel like he was losing out, and not just losing out, but bleeding out.
Although it was a Time Pause, Zhang Yanhang's Movement Speed wasn't too greatly affected – a mere fifteen meters could be covered in just a few seconds, even on foot.
The description from the text option was indeed precise because there was an apricot tree protruding from the wall, so Zhang Yanhang was now standing next to a short wall about two meters tall; for someone who was 1.9 meters tall and weighed 100 kilograms like Zhang Yanhang, even before the Spiritual Qi Recovery this height would have been easy to climb.
Of course, Zhang Yanhang wouldn't need to climb the wall this time, for this was an apricot tree that had grown beyond the wall, with the branches extending outside at about two and a half meters high, easily reachable by Zhang Yanhang with a simple stretch of his arm.
But honestly, at that height, it's something most people wouldn't normally notice since most people walking don't idly look up at the sky, and now that people like to look down at their phones, it made sense that, despite being a rare Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, no one noticed the Earth Spirit Fruit.
Moreover, besides these two key elements, the Earth Spirit Fruit itself grew in a rather concealed way, among the deep golden apricot leaves, as a strange, thumb-sized fruit of a dirt-yellow color.
Even if a normal person happened to look up and see the Earth Spirit Fruit, unless they examined it closely, at first glance they'd probably just think it was some kind of tree bump or a bug or something.
"Should I say it's deserving of being a Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures? It's grown completely out-of-season. Normal apricot trees bear fruit in the summer, but this one has fruit in autumn..." After observing the Earth Spirit Fruit in front of him, Zhang Yanhang made a slight complaint about the miraculous nature of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Since awakening his superpower, Zhang Yanhang, who had never seen Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in his lifetime, found them suddenly reproducing like they had abandoned family planning, and now he was basically able to eat different Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures every day.
Moreover, the environments and locations where these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures grew were mostly quite extraordinary. For example, the day before yesterday, he couldn't sleep late at night and coincidentally triggered an option, so he sneaked into a nearby high school's first-floor girls' bathroom in the dark, and dug up something called Evil Odor Blood Absorption Moss underneath one of the damaged floor tiles in the penultimate stall.
This Evil Odor Blood Absorption Moss was, according to the option's description, a Yin attribute Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that had grown out of absorbing a large quantity of dirty blood full of Yin Qi, such as Hemorrhoids blood, Menstrual blood, and Pus, benefiting Resentful Spirits and the like as a Big Replenishing Pill that could quickly improve their Cultivation.
But for a normal person like Zhang Yanhang who was neither a Resentful Spirit nor practiced Yin attribute Cultivation Techniques, this was not very useful; even if he braced himself to eat this whole bunch, it would only slightly improve his resistance to spiritual attacks.
But not only did this Evil Odor Blood Absorption Moss emit a stench unbearable for humans, its growth manner was also so off-putting that Zhang Yanhang ultimately didn't eat it because of psychological reasons.
In fact, when Zhang Yanhang actually dug out this bunch of Evil Odor Blood Absorption Moss, he immediately felt a strong impulse to toss it into the nearby squat toilet and flush it away with water.
Though it truly was disgusting, after all, it was still a Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, so asking Zhang Yanhang to flush it away or leave it be still hurt his heart, and thus he later chose to seal the Evil Odor Blood Absorption Moss and bring it home; although it was useless now, it might come in handy later.
Therefore, from the example of this Evil Odor Blood Absorption Moss, one could see that the growth method of the Earth Spirit Fruit was relatively normal in comparison; it was just an out-of-season growth, that's all.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone