"I was promoted to a higher rank at about six in the morning, but now it's just half past ten in the morning, and only four and a half hours have passed, and I'm already about to return to the peak condition? This time it really is exceptionally fast."
Zhang Yanhang felt this should be considered a good thing. He had originally thought that his promotion to the Fourth Tier might indeed take three weeks to complete, but now, he felt that it was entirely possible for him to still only need two weeks to reach the Fourth Tier, or even a little over a week was not impossible, given that the speed of his return to peak condition was indeed too fast.
"Forget it, let's not think about this for now. Let's upgrade the skill level first. Choose! Skill Level Enhancement."
Zhang Yanhang immediately began to trigger the self-choice option, Time Pause descended, and at the same time, a long, very familiar list of text options appeared before Zhang Yanhang's eyes again.
[Do you wish to enhance the skill level?]
[Option One: 'Gun Mastery LV.6' to 'Gun Mastery LV.7' (Consumes 204,800 Soul points.)]
...
[Option Five: 'Limitless Universe Skill[Second Order]LV.MAX' to 'Limitless Universe Skill[Third Rank]LV.1' (Consumes 50,000 Soul points.)]
[Option Six: 'Alchemy' to 'Alchemy·Original' (Consumes 2 points of Ash Source)]
[Option Seven: 'Death Wave·Original LV.MAX' to '???' (Cannot be enhanced)]
...
[Option Ten: 'Fatian Xiangdi LV.6' to 'Fatian Xiangdi LV.7' (Consumes 204,800 Soul points.)]
[Option Eleven: 'Three-Headed Six-Armed LV.6' to 'Three-Headed Six-Armed LV.7' (Consumes 204,800 Soul points.)]
"As expected, 'Death Wave·Original LV.MAX' has once again become unenhanceable."
Based on past experiences, Zhang Yanhang guessed that once he was promoted to the Fourth Tier, 'Death Wave·Original LV.MAX' should be unlockable for the next stage of promotion and enhancement, but for the Third Tier, the Original LV.MAX should be the limit state of Death Wave.
"Although I have a hunch that the consumption of Limitless Universe Skill won't be too high, given the six-figure numbers just for Profession Level upgrades, the soul point requirements for Limitless Universe Skill would likely only be higher."
Zhang Yanhang estimated that this time, to enhance Limitless Universe Skill to Third Tier LV.MAX would at least require a seven-figure number, which meant millions of Soul points. However, fortunately for him, who now possessed ten million nine hundred and ninety-three thousand Soul points, such a level of consumption was not considered too great.
"Therefore, I choose Option Five, to upgrade 'Limitless Universe Skill[Second Order]LV.MAX' to 'Limitless Universe Skill[Third Rank]LV.1.'"
Because he had already thought about upgrading his Limitless Universe Skill first, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his final choice.
...
On October 29th, Thursday, the fourth day after the Double Ninth Festival, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, 10:32 am, at the center of the Yellow Sea, on an uninhabited desert island.
After leveling up ten times in a row, Zhang Yanhang finally upgraded his Limitless Universe Skill from the original Second Order LV.MAX to Third Tier LV.MAX.
But compared to checking the Skill Effect of the Limitless Universe Skill, Zhang Yanhang was now more concerned about the consumption of his Soul points. So, after upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill, he immediately reopened his Soul points balance to review it.
[Soul points: 8785346 (-2150000)]
"I never expected it would consume two million one hundred and fifty thousand Soul points, bringing my Soul points balance down from ten million ninety-three thousand to eight million seven hundred eighty-eight thousand in an instant. That's not enough to upgrade three Skills to Original LV.MAX; at most, it's only sufficient for two."
Zhang Yanhang had hoped that if the Skill consumption for upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill could be a little less, he might have been able to directly upgrade three Skills. But as it stood, he could indeed only upgrade two.
The remaining Soul points would just suffice to upgrade the Profession Level of Heavenly Destiny Master. Since the upgrade of the Limitless Universe Skill only consumed two million one hundred and fifty thousand Soul points, he estimated that upgrading the Profession Level of Heavenly Destiny Master would at most require just over one million Soul points, which was well within his current balance.
Zhang Yanhang remembered feeling very happy when he had just spent fifty thousand Soul points to promote the Limitless Universe Skill from Second Tier LV.MAX to Third Tier LV.1 and discovered that upgrading from LV.1 to LV.2 only needed a mere sixty thousand Soul points because it had increased by only ten thousand Soul points.
If this trend continued, he might be able to upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill to Third Tier LV.MAX for less than one million.
But later, he found that the increase became more significant the further he progressed. It started at sixty thousand, then climbing to eighty thousand for LV.3, followed by one hundred and ten thousand, one hundred and fifty thousand, two hundred thousand, two hundred and sixty thousand, and three hundred and thirty thousand. Each upgrade would add ten thousand Soul points more than the previous level.
Finally, at LV.9 and LV.MAX, it had astonishingly risen to four hundred and ten thousand and five hundred thousand Soul points respectively, which was a tenfold increase in Soul points required compared to the initial cost of fifty thousand.
Fortunately, Zhang Yanhang had already upgraded the Limitless Universe Skill to LV.MAX this time, so he no longer had to worry about any more demands for Soul points.
With this in mind, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened the Skill Effect of the Limitless Universe Skill to start reviewing it. After being promoted to Third Tier LV.MAX, the Limitless Universe Skill should have once again gained a substantial increase in Attribute bonuses, and it was entirely possible for him to advance directly to the peak of the Third Tier.
[Limitless Universe Skill[Third Tier]LV.MAX (Passive/Active)]
[Passive effect: Strength +1, Agility +1, Constitution +1, Intelligence +1, Charm +1.]
[Active Effect: Actively operate the Cultivation Technique, using Spiritual Energy to enhance one's defensive power, Attack Power, and Movement Speed. No cooldown time, consumption of a certain amount of Energy Value based on the specific enhancement effect.]
[Additional Attributes: First Tier — Strength +6, Agility +6, Constitution +6, Intelligence +10, Charm +2.]
[Additional Attributes: Second Tier — Strength +6, Agility +6, Constitution +6, Intelligence +10, Charm +2.]
[Additional Attributes: Third Tier — Strength +6 (+6), Agility +6 (+6), Constitution +6 (+6), Intelligence +10 (+10), Charm +2 (+2).]
"What can I say, the improvement in Additional Attributes is very much as expected, indeed adding another six points to Strength, six points to Agility, six points to Constitution, as well as ten points to Intelligence and two points to Charm. With this part of the Attribute bonus, I should indeed be able to advance to the peak of the Third Tier immediately.
But, despite having advanced to Third Tier LV.MAX, the Active Effect of the Limitless Universe Skill still hasn't changed—at least the description hasn't."
Even though the Active Effect of the Limitless Universe Skill remained unchanged, Zhang Yanhang could still clearly feel that after his Limitless Universe Skill was genuinely promoted to the Third Tier, he had gained the ability of Water Resistance very smoothly.
In the past, he had needed to drink a bottle of water every month. Now, he wouldn't have any problems even if he didn't drink water for a year or even a lifetime, as long as there was an ample supply of Spiritual Energy as an energy substitute. Water had become completely useless to him.
Zhang Yanhang even began to suspect that if this trend continued, his body might further undergo Energy Quantification, meaning that more of his consumption would be replenished by Energy.
But Zhang Yanhang believed that while other things could be quantified in terms of Energy Value, Physical Strength was absolutely not one of them, because his Energy Value recovery efficiency was far from as high as his Physical Recovery Speed.
Therefore, this really couldn't be quantified in terms of Energy Value, unless one day his Energy Value Recovery Speed became faster than his Physical Recovery Speed, then there might be a possibility.
"After paying 2.15 million Soul points as the price, I received a total of thirty Attribute points as a bonus, a very cost-effective ratio of seventy thousand Soul points per Attribute point.
However, it's a bit regrettable that the Passive effect of the Limitless Universe Skill has still not changed at all, still maintaining the most basic All Attributes +1."
Previously, when he was at Second Tier, Zhang Yanhang had hoped that the Passive effect of the Limitless Universe Skill would be improved after promoting to Third Tier, and now, after the promotion, he was looking forward to the possibility that it could be improved when promoting to Fourth Tier. Compared to the Third Tier, he believed that the realm known as the Immortal Land Realm of the Fourth Tier had a much greater possibility of this.
After quickly checking the Skill Effect of the Limitless Universe Skill at Third Tier, Zhang Yanhang then promptly opened his Attribute list to review, estimating that he could definitely reach the peak of the Third Tier straight away.
[Strength: 75 (+3[-1])]
[Agility: 75 (+3[-2])]
[Constitution: 75 (+3[-1])]
[Intelligence: 75 (+3[-2])]
[Charm: 67 (+26)]
"As expected, I've smoothly grown to seventy-five points, and now I'm truly at the peak of the Third Tier. And indeed, main Attributes and the like, it really does seem more appealing to keep them all the same.
Most importantly, now that all four Attributes have reached seventy-five points, the next goal is pursuing the Tier limit in a gear-less state."
Compared to the First and Second Tiers before, the Tier limit in a gear-less state for Zhang Yanhang this time should be easy to achieve after all, since the total sum of the four main Attributes is only short by six Free attribute points – two points in Strength, one in Agility, two in Constitution, and one in Intelligence.
It was precisely because he anticipated this situation that Zhang Yanhang had initially thought about improving the Profession Level of Heavenly Destiny Master, even if just by one level, allowing him to immediately gain six Free attribute points and boost all his Four main attributes to the Tier limit of seventy-five points.
"Previously, Intelligence was the lowest of my main Attributes at sixty-seven points, but now with the Skill Level increase of the Limitless Universe Skill, the newly gained ten points of Intelligence Attribute Value bonus suddenly pushed my Intelligence Attribute from sixty-seven to seventy-seven points.
This let my Intelligence Attribute, together with Agility, which also became seventy-seven points, be the highest main Attributes I have. However, due to Tier restrictions, the overflowing two points from equipment bonus can only remain at seventy-five points."
If we're talking about gear-less Attributes, Zhang Yanhang's Strength and Constitution are now at seventy-three points, while Agility and Intelligence are at seventy-four points.
"Aside from the four main Attributes, my Sub-attribute, Charm, also grew again by two points, increasing from the original sixty-five points to sixty-seven points. The previously interrupted path to Health has unexpectedly obtained new vitality, truly outrageous.
Before, the equipment bonus for Charm Attribute Value accounted for forty percent of my Charm attribute, and I initially thought that this forty percent would soon return to over fifty percent with the acquisition of more Charm increasing equipment.
Yet unexpectedly, instead of rising it fell, becoming an inexplicable further reduction to thirty-nine percent, making it even healthier."
But Zhang Yanhang had reason to believe that this was merely the final flash before death of the path to Health, and that he would begin to see an increase in the abnormality level of his Charm Attribute Value with new equipment related to Charm Attribute Value bonuses like, for example, the Crimson Iron Ring.
"Now, the question is, do I first improve the Profession Level of Heavenly Destiny Master or enhance the Skill Level of other skills first?"
Zhang Yanhang thought for a moment, since the balance of Soul points left definitely wasn't enough for three skills, he could completely improve the Profession Level of Heavenly Destiny Master first.
After making up his mind, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened his Level panel to start reviewing.
[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Third Tier)]
[Race: Human]
[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]
[Level: LV.23 (0/90000)]
[Soul points: 8785346]
"To level up from LV.23 to LV.24 requires ninety thousand Soul points, and according to previous experiences, each time the Profession Level of Heavenly Destiny Master is increased, it seems to only add thirty thousand more Soul points. So, if everything goes as expected, advancing from LV.24 to LV.25 should only cost a hundred and twenty thousand Soul points."
By this reasoning, Zhang Yanhang estimated that if he wanted to directly boost his Profession Level to LV.30, the total amount of Soul points needed would probably be just over a million at most, which indeed didn't seem too much.
"If I want to go straight from LV.23 to LV.30 now, I need to level up seven times. Since I have enough Soul points on balance, let's start upgrading right away."
As Zhang Yanhang spoke, he clicked to upgrade on his Level panel.
[Would you like to consume 90000 Soul points to increase the Profession Level to LV.24?]
"Yes, increase the Profession Level to LV.24." Zhang Yanhang hadn't actually thought that his Profession Level would rise so quickly this time; it must be said that the Fourth Tier Transmission Channel had really given too many Soul points.
[Profession Level successfully increased to LV.24, Free attribute points +6.]
"Although the six Free attribute points gained by leveling up to LV.24 are already enough for me to boost all four main attributes to the Tier limit, but still, as before, there are plenty of Soul points, so just level up and it's done."
As he spoke, Zhang Yanhang reviewed his Level panel again.
[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Third Tier)]
[Race: Human]
[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]
[Level: LV.24 (0/120000)]
[Soul points: 8695346 (-90000)]
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