Before, Zhang Yanhang could achieve about twice the efficiency of energy value restoration by actively running the Limitless Universe Skill compared to the panel’s recovery speed, but now, it was only left at once the speed.
However, fortunately, although the recovery efficiency of the Limitless Universe Skill dropped by half, the effects of the bonuses from the Gathering Spirit Jade and the Ice Silk Cool Mattress remained unchanged, each still providing about twice the efficiency boost. In other words, his overall energy value recovery efficiency was now approximately three times that of the panel data.
Before his promotion to Second Tier, Zhang Yanhang only needed four to five hours to recover all of his energy value, but now, it took about six to seven hours.
But this problem with recovery efficiency was actually quite easy to solve. As long as Zhang Yanhang upgraded the Limitless Universe Skill to the Second Tier as well, then the recovery efficiency would naturally return to its original speed, and perhaps, it might even improve compared to before.
"Too bad I don’t have 2100 soul points right now, or else I would definitely upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill immediately." After learning about the specific recovery efficiency, Zhang Yanhang temporarily stopped running the Limitless Universe Skill, because he had other issues to address next.
"I always feel like I’ve forgotten something. What am I forgetting?" After thinking carefully for a while, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered that he had not upgraded his S-rank Talent "Chunling Endless."
Zhang Yanhang took out a large box of Little Black Balls from his Waist Bag. This time, he needed 729 Subordinate Talents of Slow Corrosion to upgrade, which obviously meant he could no longer crush all of them in one go; he had to do it in batches.
Fortunately, using just the Slow Corrosion didn’t take too much time, so Zhang Yanhang quickly received a prompt message.
[Detected the presence of an Subordinate Talent ’Chunling Endless’ in your talent list. Do you want to merge the talents?]
"Yes, merge." Zhang Yanhang made a rough estimate of the requirements after the upgrade. If it was still tripled and he wanted to continue upgrading, he would need 2187 Subordinate Talents of Slow Corrosion.
Calculating based on the probability of a Treasure Box dropping from every seven to eight Zombies, he would need to slay about 17,000 Zombies to get that many Slow Corrosion Talents, which was equivalent to slaughtering all the Zombies in Raccoon City three times over.
Unfortunately, there was only one Raccoon City, and besides, the monsters didn’t respawn immediately after being killed, so slaughtering them three times over was definitely not possible. Zhang Yanhang reckoned that he probably wouldn’t be able to continue upgrading this talent, unless he found another new area that also granted the related talents.
Speaking of this new area, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but remember the abandoned Transmission Channel he found in the sewers of Raccoon City before. If he could reactivate it, there was a certain chance it would connect to an area related to Raccoon City, and he might be able to continue obtaining talents related to Slow Corrosion from there. Thᴇ link to the origɪn of this information rᴇsts ɪn N0veI.Fiɾe.net
Regrettably, Zhang Yanhang had no clue about spatial technology, and although Alchemy knowledge did touch upon spatial technology, it did not contain any information on how to reactivate Transmission Channels. Therefore, even if he could continue to upgrade the talent, it would likely be something for the distant future.
[You have obtained the SS-rank Talent ’Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea’.]
"SS-rank Talent? So above the S-rank is SS-rank; following that pattern, I guess the next level would be SSS-rank." Zhang Yanhang felt there was a high possibility it would be SSS-rank. After all, it wouldn’t make sense to suddenly have an LV.MAX, right?
After upgrading his talent, Zhang Yanhang immediately checked the talent effect of Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea.
[Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea]
[Quality: SS (0/2187)]
[Ability One: Unwearied - Constitution +7 (+2).]
[Ability Two: Energetic - Physical Strength +220% (+60%).]
[Ability Three: Longevity - Life Span +140 years (+40 years) +2 years × 47 (Constitution) = 234 years (+134 years).]
"Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea... This name seems quite straightforward, being a condensed version of ’Fortune as vast as the Eastern Sea and life as enduring as Southern Mountain’..."
Zhang Yanhang checked with his phone and found that Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea was actually a standalone idiom, truly meaning a life as long as a mountain and fortune as deep as the sea.
"Before, it was just the thousand-year-old Chun Tree, but now it has become the mountain that starts with tens of thousands of years of life, it feels like a huge improvement." After looking at the name, Zhang Yanhang then started to check how much Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea had enhanced him.
"It actually directly added two Constitution Attributes as well as a 60% Physical Strength bonus, isn’t that too strong?" With this 60% bonus, Zhang Yanhang’s Stamina limit had increased by at least forty percent compared to before, significantly extending his endurance.
For example, if Zhang Yanhang had upgraded his Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea Talent before his promotion to Second Tier, then his endurance time would have jumped from over two hours to nearly four hours in one go.
But now, Zhang Yanhang had no idea because he had not hunted any monster since his promotion to Second Tier, so the exact endurance time would have to wait until he next went to the Crimson Iron Ant Nest to hunt monsters to figure out.
After all, his Constitution Attribute had increased so much, and he had also received a Physical Recovery Speed Bonus from his Main Attribute reward; coupled with the recent Physical Strength bonus from Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea, Zhang Yanhang felt that if he wanted to go back to the original eight-hour work system, it should definitely not be a problem.
"Moreover, in addition to the two Constitution Attributes and the 60% Stamina limit bonus, I’ve also gained an extra 134 years of life, wow, just got that much of an increase?
Just one level up has increased my life by more than a hundred years, and along with my subsequent increases in Constitution Attribute, Longevity will continue to provide me with more Life Span bonuses. The effect of Longevity finally lives up to its name."
Zhang Yanhang was quite satisfied with his Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea upgrade after leveling up; indeed, as an SS-level Talent, it was indeed much stronger than the previous Chunling Endless.
"234 years of life span, plus the 20 years of life span I gained from being promoted to Second Tier, I now have an additional 254 years."
Zhang Yanhang did a quick calculation; he was only twenty years old now, and with the extra life span on top of his original one, living for another three hundred years shouldn’t be a problem at all.
"Three hundred years, how nice, based on a generation every thirty years, if I start having kids now, by the day I die of old age, I should at least have ten generations under one roof.
But unfortunately, I don’t have a wife. If I want to have kids, I’ll have to resort to a Multiple Choice to force birth one, but conceiving life feels quite difficult; it shouldn’t be something a Second Tier Awakened like me could do."
Zhang Yanhang felt that if his life could reach an endless point, then there really was no need to have kids, after all, the significance of having kids is to extend the existence of one’s Race.
However, if he could maintain an eternal state, then there’s no need for a wife or kids, because he could ensure Eternal Immortality on his own, his very existence is an infinite extension of his Race’s duration.