When it comes to Physical Recovery Speed, it’s impossible not to mention that boosting the Constitution Attribute is a purer improvement compared to simply devouring Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that increase the Stamina limit.
After all, the Constitution Attribute not only increases the Stamina limit but also enhances the Physical Recovery Speed, and additionally boosts defensive power, Life Value Limit, and various Abnormal State Resistances. However, as always, it’s a pity that the Attribute values have a limit and cannot be increased indefinitely, otherwise, there would be no need for anything else.
Moreover, it’s also worth mentioning that Zhang Yanhang discovered a hidden effect while enhancing the Constitution Attribute. During his previous clearance of the Fourth Tier Transmission Channel, he had nearly drained half of his stamina, but after adding points, his stamina seemed to be fully restored, uncovering a seemingly useless hidden effect.
Well, it’s actually somewhat useful. Initially, he was planning to go home and sleep after leveling up, especially since he had to hunt monsters in a new area of the Crimson Iron Ore Vein that afternoon, and it would be better to have his stamina fully restored.
But now, he could save that time for something else, although he didn’t really have any other matters to resolve.
"Suddenly, I feel like I have nothing to do again, so I might as well enhance my Skill Levels."
Having thought carefully, Zhang Yanhang felt there truly was nothing else to do. After all, his Cultivation Method Level, Profession Level, and Attribute Values had all been enhanced, and he could even start preparing for his promotion to Fourth Tier.
"After the last promotion, I worked hard for a few days, or rather a week before I began preparing for the Fourth Tier promotion. But this time, after promoting, it only took four and a half hours before I could start preparing for the Fourth Tier promotion; the progress is indeed exceptionally fast."
Zhang Yanhang was increasingly confident that he might be able to reach Fourth Tier within a week, at most ten days, certainly no longer. Read complete version only at NoveI~Fire.net
As for the upper limit of two weeks, that was similar to the worst-case scenario of three weeks he had predicted during the Second Tier, a situation that simply would not happen unless the Empire suddenly imploded.
Currently, the Empire clearly remains in its golden age far from its dynastic decline and chaos, with warlords carving up the realm; such events would belong to the 22nd or even the 23rd century, that is, if the Empire survives next year.
"Choose! Skill Level Enhancement!"
Zhang Yanhang remembered he still had 7,520,000 Soul points; more than enough for upgrading Skills. However, he was still unsure what to upgrade aside from Technique Immunity.
As Zhang Yanhang actively triggered the choice, Time Pause descended once again on this nameless barren island in the center of the Yellow Sea. Simultaneously, a large array of textual options that he had looked over several times and was very familiar with appeared before him.
[Would you like to enhance Skill Level?]
[Option One: ’Gun Mastery LV.6’ upgraded to ’Gun Mastery LV.7’ (Expends 204,800 Soul points.)]
[Option Three: ’Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original Scripture LV.6’ upgraded to ’Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original Scripture LV.7’ (Expends 204,800 Soul points.)]
[Option Four: ’Technique Immunity·Original LV.6’ upgraded to ’Technique Immunity·Original LV.7’ (Expends 204,800 Soul points.)]
[Option Five: ’Limitless Universe Skill[Third Tier]LV.MAX’ upgraded to ’???’ (Not strengthenable)]
[Option Ten: ’Fatian Xiangdi LV.6’ upgraded to ’Fatian Xiangdi LV.7’ (Expends 204,800 Soul points.)]
[Option Eleven: ’Three-Headed Six-Armed LV.6’ upgraded to ’Three-Headed Six-Armed LV.7’ (Expends 204,800 Soul points.)]
"Limitless Universe Skill, after being promoted to Third Tier LV.MAX, has become the familiar ’Not strengthenable’. For the subsequent Fourth Tier Limitless Universe Skill, based on previous experience, I definitely need to wait until after the Fourth Tier promotion to strengthen it.
Other Awakeners usually promote their Cultivation Technique first then their Rank, but I promote my Rank first and then my Cultivation Technique follows. Although I am already used to being Third Tier, it must be said, this is the real reason for my fast promotion speed."
Other Awakeners, once reaching the Rank Peak, begin accumulating strength to break through their Cultivation Technique bottleneck. On the other hand, Zhang Yanhang doesn’t need to accumulate strength; he simply progresses step by step and directly promotes with the help of Ash Source.
Now, although promoting to Fourth Tier requires a Legendary Essence, it’s still much faster than other Awakeners. The group leader, a talent, took two months to reach Fourth Tier, while he could do it in at most two weeks, maybe even one week, which is a four to eight times difference.
Zhang Yanhang felt that without directly promoting using the Ash Source, with his ordinary Qualification, not to mention being stuck at Fourth Tier, whether he could advance to Fifth Tier might indeed be a question, considering his Qualification had only ever been slightly above average.
Ordinary Awakened can continuously cultivate for six hours, while he can manage about eight hours; as for true talents, they start from twelve hours, clearly incomparable.
This is also why he no longer cultivates by himself. If he tried to compete in this area, he would always be crushed by various geniuses, rather than outperforming them.
Therefore, he chooses to transition his capabilities, empower upgrades, enter new tracks, find leverage points, and seize the narrative control.
If he really tried to compete in cultivation, not to mention the group leader poised to reach Fifth Tier soon and Zhou Muxi who will definitely promote to Fourth Tier today, Zhang Yanhang even doubted if he could outperform Zhao Yalan, so there was truly no need to participate in such a doomed and meaningless competition.
"Although I don’t know which skill to upgrade next, the first skill to be upgraded is quite clear. Thus, I choose Option Four, to upgrade Technique Immunity·Original from LV.6 to Technique Immunity·Original LV.7."
Because the importance of Technique Immunity was always the highest, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his choice. At the same time, Time Pause instantly vanished. However, he soon triggered a new choice, or rather, he needed to trigger it three more times to directly upgrade Technique Immunity to the Original Scripture LV.MAX stage.
After consecutively triggering four choices and upgrading Technique Immunity from Original LV.6 to Original LV.MAX, Zhang Yanhang didn’t hurry to check the attribute list of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV.MAX but first checked his remaining Soul points balance. There was no helping it—Soul points balance was truly important.
[Soul Points: 4453346 (-3072000)]
"As expected, my Soul points balance has once again dropped by 3,072,000 points, plunging directly from 7,525,346 to 4,453,346—literally halved.
But fortunately, it is still in the millions, not dropping back to five or even four, three, or two digits like it used to during previous upgrades. In this respect, it’s still very nice."
Zhang Yanhang felt that with his current Soul points balance, it was unlikely that this situation would occur again in the future, as the Soul points required for upgrading generally don’t need any change. Therefore, it shouldn’t be possible to suddenly fall back from six digits to two digits as before.
After briefly checking his Soul points balance, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened up the Skill Effect of Technique Immunity·Original LV.MAX to start checking it.
Although this time also did not trigger any options regarding Additional Attributes, Zhang Yanhang had gotten used to it. The additional attributes of Technique Immunity were always fixed rewards, and most likely, they would increase the Shield Value, which was both simple and exactly what he needed most.
[Technique Immunity·Original LV.MAX (Passive Skill)]
[Skill Effect: Generates an Energy Shield based on 200% (+80%) of the Life Value Limit of "Heavenly Destiny Master.", The defensive power of the Energy Shield equals that of the "Heavenly Destiny Master" (including bonuses from positive states, negative states will not decrease the Energy Shield’s defensive power).
The Energy Shield will automatically isolate all forms of attacks from the outside. Under no enemy attack causing damage, it regenerates 20% of the total Shield Value per second.
In addition to automatic isolation, the "Heavenly Destiny Master" can freely choose the objects to be isolated and can also switch the display form of the Energy Shield. In the manifest state, the Energy Shield inherits 200% (+40%) of the "Heavenly Destiny Master"’s defensive power, and in the normal state, the Energy Shield will have only 130% (+20%) of the "Heavenly Destiny Master"’s defensive power.
Energy Shield generation has no cooldown, no consumption, and cannot be dispelled or weakened. Energy Shield duration: ∞.]
[Additional Attribute: Shield Value Limit +150% (+60%).]
"Good lord, Technique Immunity truly lives up to its name, remaining fiercely extraordinary in this aspect."
The basic Shield Value conversion limit had already been boosted from the original 120% directly to 200%, a significant increase of 80% in the Shield Value Limit.
Moreover, the increase in the Additional Attributes had also jumped from the original 90% to 150%, further increasing the Shield Value conversion limit by 60%. Together, these upgrades directly added a terrifying 140% to the Shield Value Limit.
This development had elevated my Shield Value conversion limit straight from the initial 210% to 350%, almost a 70% increase in Shield Value conversion limit.
Zhang Yanhang remembered that the last time he enhanced the Technique Immunity to Original LV.6, just a total increase of 60% in the Shield Value Limit had significantly raised his Shield Value, marking the record increase at that time, until just four and a half hours ago when his advancement in Rank broke that record due to increased Attribute Values.
This time, Zhang Yanhang had a feeling that he could easily crush the previous record he set during his rank upgrade, which was an immediate increase of 4973 points in Shield Value Limit. This time, he would surely surpass it, and he reasoned that no one within the Third Tier could hope to break this new record, only a promotion to the Fourth Tier might make it possible.
The previous Energy Shield in its manifest state had a defensive power of 160% and this time it had grown to 200%, another increase of 40% in Energy Shield defensive power.
Thus, as long as the external manifest state was activated, the defensive power of my Energy Shield would directly double my own defensive power, not to mention with the addition of the twelve-fold defense bonus from the Indestructible Golden Body, just these two factors combined could reach twenty-four times the physical defense power.
Zhang Yanhang remembered that previously, by merely activating the most basic Indestructible Golden Body which tripled his defense, he had been able to withstand the Normal Attacks of the Molten Fire Demon. Only the Skill Attacks of the demon transformed into a Molten Lava Giant, namely the Molten Rock Bundle, could damage him.
But now, relying on the recently increased 40% defense along with significantly boosted Constitution Attributes, he estimated that his current defense could easily remain undamaged facing the Molten Rock Bundle as well, um, provided he activated the Indestructible Golden Body first.
Without activating the Indestructible Golden Body and relying only on the basic Energy Shield for defense, it definitely wouldn’t suffice, not even mentioning Skill Attacks; even withstanding a Normal Attack could be questionable.
After all, he had only just advanced to the Third Tier, albeit at its Peak, but indeed he hadn’t accumulated much, particularly in terms of defense.
Besides the enhancement to 200% defensive power in the manifest state, the Energy Shield’s defensive power in its normal state had also increased from the initial 110% to 130%, with an additional 20% defense bonus.
If initially the difference between Zhang Yanhang’s physical defense and the Energy Shield’s defense wasn’t significant, now a clear gap had definitely emerged—a difference of 10% versus one of 30% was entirely a different concept.
"Suddenly I feel my physical body is so weak, as the saying goes, ’Flesh is weak, mechanical ascension’... Ah, no, that’s not right, it should be ’Invest in Deep Blue!’ It’s just too bad I don’t have Deep Blue."
Zhang Yanhang had always wanted to become hugely muscular, but for now, development was primarily focused on scale, not yet showing signs of muscle, as his Multiple Choice Profession was designed for all-round development, even though making a choice, he theoretically could become hugely muscular, but he truly couldn’t compare to Deep Blue, a specialist in that regard.
As for the idea of ’Flesh is weak, mechanical ascension’, Zhang Yanhang had his ways too—such as turning a biological consciousness into data, discarding the physical body for a mechanical one to achieve immortality. He merely needed to die once, and then the Golden quality Equipment in his Waist Bag covering his Prosthetic Body would automatically fulfill this objective for him.
Then, the future direction would also focus on scale and robustness, modifying the Prosthetic Body into a Gundam-like entity and fitting it with things like a Ship-slicing Blade and mechanical tentacles, and afterwards, it would be following the massive, several-kilometers-tall mechanical Venerable route.