After using the Starry Stone to leave the barren field, Zhang Xiaoman was directly teleported to Rebirth Island.
As for the anti-gravity car, he would use the wristband to send it back later.
The harvest tonight was quite abundant; he now had nearly 40 points again. To enhance his strength as quickly as possible, he decided to use two upgrades first.
Then, as he clicked twice consecutively on the system interface, the results of the upgrades were also displayed.
"Randomly drawing upgrade, please wait...."
"Upgrade completed! Green Skill—Harmonizing Yin and Yang, has been successfully upgraded to Green Skill—Harmonizing Yin and Yang·Second Level."
"Randomly drawing upgrade, please wait...."
"Upgrade completed! Blue Item—Mountain and River Sword, has been successfully upgraded to Blue Item—Mountain and River Sword·Refined."
Zhang Xiaoman examined the attributes of the two upgraded items and was quite satisfied, especially with the second Mountain and River Sword.
The original effect of the Harmonizing Yin and Yang skill was to create a Sword Array with a radius of 5 meters, in which friendly units could increase their speed by 5%.
Now, after the upgrade, it had turned into a 10-meter radius, and the speed increase had also risen to 10%.
This attribute was actually quite good, but humans themselves have a low base speed, so a 10% increase was hardly noticeable.
Zhang Xiaoman didn’t need to participate in world-class sprint races measured in milliseconds, so he really couldn’t make use of this 10% speed increase.
Moreover, the skill’s radius was only 10 meters, a rather small area, equivalent to a small intersection, which was quite inconvenient.
Despite this, he still experimented with this skill on the open ground in front of the Final Gate.
What surprised Zhang Xiaoman was that the increase in movement speed was not just a simple "running speed" as he had previously imagined, but a comprehensive boost to all his movement aspects.
Whether he was running, spinning, jumping, or even making sharp turns, his agility had improved compared to before, although the improvement was not very noticeable.
Zhang Xiaoman immediately thought of characters in films and TV shows who possessed extremely high speeds, which filled him with anticipation. He gained a new respect for a skill he had not taken very seriously before.
The upgrade of the other item, the Mountain and River Sword, was of even greater concern to him.
This weapon was forged from Olharast Steel. Although he could not directly see its specific attack power value, its sharpness was indeed rarely seen in the world.
Even those monsters capable of devouring Dragon Sleep Stones could not withstand a single blow from it, a testament to its formidable power.
Over these past days, Zhang Xiaoman had also used its sharpness to easily slay several monsters, reaping many benefits.
The attribute panel of the Mountain and River Sword after the upgrade was similar to before, but its appearance had undergone minor changes; it looked even more refined, and the blade seemed much lighter.
He swung the treasure sword around wildly on the spot, creating a whooshing sound, and only stopped when he was tired. Resting his hands on his hips, he caught his breath for a moment before packing up and heading home.
His figure appeared silently in the living room, and Zhang Xiaoman plunked down on the sofa, grabbing a pot of cool boiled water beside him and guzzling down more than half of it.
He checked the time, and it was almost midnight. He had originally planned to go straight to his room to sleep. However, thinking about the monster he encountered today, he temporarily shelved that idea and instead picked up a pen to write in the notebook he previously used for recording intelligence.
"Esa... Level 2 monster, possesses control abilities, upper-middle physical strength, unknown spiritual strength, extremely high regeneration rate... Weakness is the core in the chest area. Attacking it can cause significant damage..."
Zhang Xiaoman paused here and then continued, "Esa claims to be a ’Death Apostle,’ which is suspected to be its status and identity in the Alien Species universe, but more intelligence data is needed to support this information."
He then reviewed all the monster data he had recorded over the past few days, categorizing them.
"’Demon Series’ Alien Species, include Shadow Demon, Corpse Demon, Bone-eating Demon, Little Refining Demon, Horror Demon, etc. A characteristic is that the name ends with the word ’demon,’ suspected to have undying characteristics similar to Elemental Puppets, and is suppressed by Holy Water."
"The higher the level of ’demon,’ the less effective Holy Water is, requiring higher-level Divine Grace and superior items to be effective."
"’Biological Species’ Alien Species, include Fog Heart, toad crocodile, Blood Butterfly, Wandering Spirit, Horror Claw, Mineral Essence, etc. Currently found to consist of both biological and energy bodies, characterized by life forms that humans can understand, and can be effectively killed with physical attacks; no obvious weaknesses have been discovered."
"’Biological Series’ Alien Species seem to have a well-developed species assistance mechanism, as evidenced by Fog Heart and the toad crocodile, but further evidence is necessary due to the scant data."
Zhang Xiaoman paused here, thinking about the two remaining monsters.
These two monsters puzzled him, as their existence seemed more unique compared to the ’Demon Series’ and ’Biological Species.’
After pondering for quite a while, he finally began to write:
"’Calamity Species’ Alien Species, so far only two types, Ete and Esa, have been found, and according to the current intelligence, Esa’s level is significantly higher than Ete’s, though individual variations cannot be ruled out."
"’Calamity Species’ Alien Species are more like mutant bodies, preliminarily judged to have non-unique forms, bizarre behaviors, strong individual combat power, with the weakness being their internal core, which requires Spirit Detection Technique to locate and destroy."
Zhang Xiaoman wrote a lot in one go, summarizing all the monsters he had recently encountered and their classifications, and listing as many of their characteristics and weaknesses as possible for future reference.
He did this, of course, to better counter these Alien Species. As the saying goes, forewarned is forearmed, and the importance of intelligence information always comes first.
As for the numbers representing the monsters’ levels, those were temporarily added by Zhang Xiaoman himself, which allowed him to differentiate the strength of the monsters to devise coping strategies.
As for the detailed conditions of the monster levels, he used the points obtained after killing them for categorization, which so far has been given only three levels, ascending from low to high as follows:
Level 1 monster, absorbing after killing can provide 1-20 points.
Level 2 monster, absorbing after killing can provide 21-50 points.
Level 3 monster, absorbing after killing can provide over 50 points.
Of course, these so-called levels did not represent the actual combat power of the monsters, and were only used as a conceptual distinction.
So far, the only Level 3 monsters Zhang Xiaoman had discovered were two, one being the Blood Butterfly killed at Huangkou Hospital; the other was the Horror Demon he encountered last time in the northern city’s small forest.
Of course, whether the Horror Demon reached Level 3 or higher was yet to be determined, but the fact that just one of its arms provided him with a double-digit score makes it easy to infer how formidable its overall strength must be.
With that, he had more or less finished recording everything necessary, and after organizing all these details, Zhang Xiaoman shook his somewhat sore arm and went back to his room.