November 1, Sunday, Halloween, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang entered Ashen World, at 6:42 PM, Ashen World, Demonized Swamp, Lucky Slot Machine.

"But to really know if we can get a drop treasure box, we'll have to give it a try."

As Zhang Yanhang spoke, he pulled the metal lever on the side of the Demonized Swamp Lucky Slot Machine. Time Pause instantly descended upon the Demonized Swamp, and a large text option box immediately appeared before him.

[Please select the specific content for the Lucky Slot Machine draw]

[Option One: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, Second Tier Three Stars, ordinary monster.)]

[Option Two: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Demonized Saber-toothed Tiger, First Tier Three Stars, ordinary monster.)]

...

[Option Forty-two: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Demonized Maned Tooth Beast, First Tier Three Stars, ordinary monster.)]

...

[Option Seventy-three: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Demonized Mammoth, Second Tier Two Stars, ordinary monster.)]

...

[Option One Hundred and Fifty-five: ✭✬✭ (Fourth Prize, thank you for your patronage, no tangible prize.)]

...

Although it seemed there wouldn't be any significant changes, Zhang Yanhang still carefully looked over the entire prize pool list, and indeed, nothing changed. The number of monsters in the prize pool remained the same as before.

That is, there were twenty Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers, Demonized Mammoths, Demonized Emperor Crocodiles, and Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars, while the weakest Demonized Maned Tooth Beast and Demonized Canine Giant Ape each only had ten.

"Judging by my current drop rate, I'm afraid it's really quite difficult. After all, the Third Prize pool in the Demonized Swamp has the strongest monster, which is only the Second Tier Three Star Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, still just a Second Tier Monster.

And I currently have to kill twenty-eight Second Tier monsters to drop a single treasure box, but even if the prize pool were to include all of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars, there would only be twenty, still lacking eight."

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang didn't accumulate any significant kill count previously, so obtaining a drop treasure box is indeed pretty slim.

"As for the monsters like Demonized Mammoths and Demonized Emperor Crocodiles, also Second Tier Two Stars, I fear it will be the same..."

It's fair to say that without the ability to drop treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang feels it's quite disadvantageous to spend time on this prize pool draw.

After all, if we're simply calculating the soul points earnings, this pool of monsters together would only give him a few thousand soul points at best, and he could easily gather this amount by killing a few Third Tier monsters.

"Thinking about it, I'm glad the prize pool on the Raccoon City side has changed due to time factors; otherwise, these low-level area Lucky Slot Machines would be completely useless to me."

Zhang Yanhang feels his only good news from this pool draw is the refresh of the First Prize and Second Prize, but aside from that, the Goblin Plain and Demonized Swamp are all bad news.

"So, I choose Option Forty-two, the First Tier Three Star ordinary monster Demonized Maned Tooth Beast."

After reviewing the prize pool list on the Demonized Swamp side, Zhang Yanhang immediately made his choice, and the icon on the Lucky Slot Machine screen began to slowly rotate, eventually stopping at the three '❂❂❂' symbols.

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[Successfully killed Second Tier Three Star monster 'Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar (ordinary)' ×1, soul points +120.]

[Successfully killed Second Tier Three Star monster 'Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar (ordinary)' ×1, soul points +120.]

[Successfully killed Second Tier Three Star monster 'Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar (ordinary)' ×1, soul points +120.]

...

After skillfully using a Death Wave to eliminate all the demonized creatures, Zhang Yanhang began to stand still and silently wait for the refresh of the drop treasure box. The result was similar to the Goblin Plain side; he waited for quite a while, and still, not a single drop treasure box refreshed.

"It seems they really won't refresh any treasure boxes. This is ridiculous; I spent ten minutes clearing two prize pools and ended up with not a single treasure box, and the soul points earnings from both pools combined didn't even reach ten thousand, or even six or seven thousand would be considered good."

Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but sigh at this outcome, but he still couldn't waste the monster corpses. Using the Swallowing Heaven and Earth skill, he directly devoured them on the spot. After swallowing three prize pools, he has become quite skillful at this.

Even though these monsters, due to their lower tier, aren't very resistant to absorption, it's nearly a thousand corpses, so they should be able to hold up for a dozen to twenty minutes without any problem.

"But thinking that I spent forty-five minutes on these corpses makes me feel quite at a loss; in a certain sense, the recovery rate is only about a third."

After realizing these low-tier monster corpses aren't very resistant to absorption, Zhang Yanhang thinks he should aim to absorb more high-level monster corpses in the future, like the new area's corpses. This time, he can't waste them; even if fragmented, he'll devour them along with the ground, anyway, his stomach space is large enough now, so there's no need to worry about not having enough room.

"I originally planned to open treasure boxes after clearing three zones' Lucky Slot Machines, but after clearing them, only the drop treasure boxes from Raccoon City can be opened."

Regarding this outcome, Zhang Yanhang can only say it's indeed a bit frustrating.

And because the drop treasure boxes remain at the original seventeen drop treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang doesn't need to count them again but directly dumped them from his Waist Bag and immediately picked up a blue quality drop treasure box to open.

[Do you want to open 'Drop Treasure Box (T-001 Prototype Tyrant)'?]

"Yes, open." As Zhang Yanhang made his choice, the familiar Time Pause descended once more upon the Demonized Swamp.

[Please select 'Drop Treasure Box (T-001 Prototype Tyrant)' specific content]

[Item One: ?]

[Item Two: ?]

[Item Three: ?]

[Item Four: ?]

[Item Five: ?]

...

After opening the Drop treasure box, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to tally the related gains from the treasure box, starting with the relatively important talents' gains. This time, Zhang Yanhang opened a total of twelve E-level Talents [Slow Corrosion].

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had stored a total of 285 E-level Slow Corrosion talents in his Waist Bag, and now, with the twelve Slow Corrosion he acquired this time, he now has a total of 297 Slow Corrosion talents.

"But unfortunately, upgrading the SS-level Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea talent to SSS level requires a total of 2187 Slow Corrosion, and now I only have about one-eighth, still short of 1890 Slow Corrosion.

Fortunately, the reason I came to the Ashen World to clear the new area this time was to increase the Talent Level of Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea, so there's no need to worry about leveling up."

Zhang Yanhang expects that this time he must at least raise the Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea talent to XX level, or even XXX level. After all, using high-level talent to upgrade such talent with E-level requirements needs only a small number of talents to increase the Talent Level, so as long as the number of monsters in the new area is not too few, reaching XX level is indeed quite easy.

After placing these twelve Slow Corrosion into the Waist Bag, Zhang Yanhang continued to tally the gains from the Artifacts, which were as diverse as always. First were three Red Herbs and three Green Medicine Grass, then two bottles of Emergency Spray, followed by six Blue Medicinal Herbs.

Lastly, the most important were the seven Yellow Medicine Grass, of which the Drop treasure box from the Licker provided three, and the Beta-type Hunter's Drop treasure box provided four.

Since Green Medicine Grass, Blue Medicinal Herbs, and Emergency Spray are of no use to Zhang Yanhang at the moment, he immediately stored them in the Waist Bag, leaving only the Red Herbs to synthesize the Red and Yellow Pills. However, due to the insufficient number of three Red Herbs, Zhang Yanhang took out four more Red Herbs from his Waist Bag to fill the gap.

After placing these seven Red Herbs and seven Yellow Medicine Grass into the Alchemy Array, Zhang Yanhang immediately began skillfully controlling the rapid fusion of the Red and Yellow Pills through Alchemy.

Having not used the Red and Yellow Pills for a long time, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but take a glance at its Attribute list after the successful fusion.

[Red and Yellow Pills]

[Quality: Blue]

[Type: Artifact]

[Origin: Ashen World, Demonized Swamp, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Usage effect: Increases Life Value Limit by 6 points.]

[Usage requirements: Constitution below 50 points.]

[Score: 33 (Blue item score ranges from 31 to 70.)]

[Introduction: The Red and Yellow Pills are crafted by newcomer Alchemist Zhang Yanhang using the Red Herbs and Yellow Medicine Grass sourced from the Umbrella company, showing a significantly enhanced effect compared to individual Red Herbs and Yellow Medicine Grass.]

"It's still the original formula, still the original taste, everything is so familiar."

As the Red and Yellow Pills are of Blue quality, belonging to Second Tier quality, and the Hundred Taboos allows him to use Artifacts lower than three Ranks from his own, theoretically, even if Zhang Yanhang is promoted to the Fifth Tier, he can still normally use the Red and Yellow Pills.

"But thinking that even the Fifth Tier has to use these originally First Tier and Second Tier Artifacts somehow feels inexplicably sad. Therefore, compared to the increasingly absurd Drop rate of Yellow Medicine Grass, it's indeed crucial to quickly open up a new channel for acquiring Artifacts that can increase Life Value Limit."

Regarding this, Zhang Yanhang believes the new area holds great promise, as that area, like Raccoon City, is zombie-related, and since Raccoon City has Yellow Medicine Grass, there's a chance that area might also have something else that can increase Life Value Limit.

After checking the Attribute list of the Red and Yellow Pills, Zhang Yanhang immediately stuffed the seven newly synthesized Red and Yellow Pills into his mouth and swallowed them.

Accompanied by a mild warm current merging into his body, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened up his Life Value Limit to start examining it.

[Life Value: 16924/16924 (Constitution × 58, current body fully datafied, Life Value Recovery Speed, 71 points per hour.)]

"Originally, my Life Value Limit was 16790 points, but now it has increased to 16924 points, a total increase of 134 Life Value Limit.

Previously, I said that if I could clear out the refreshed monsters in Raccoon City, the Yellow Medicine Grass obtained would increase the Life Value Limit by at least three figures.

As it turns out, before I got the chance to clear out the monsters that respawned in Raccoon City, just from the Yellow Medicine Grass dropped by monsters in the Lucky Slot Machine's third prize pool, I gained a 134 point increase in Life Value Limit."

Of course, the reason for the 134 points increase in Life Value Limit is clearly not the sole contribution of the Yellow Medicine Grass itself. Among these 134 points of Life Value Limit increase, the seven Red and Yellow Pills collectively only provided 42 points of Life Value Limit.

Then, the additional 25 points of Life Value Limit came from the 60% Artifact effect bonus of the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill, and the remaining 67 points of Life Value Limit were all provided by the 100% Life Value Limit bonus of the Indestructible Golden Body.

One could say that although the Red and Yellow Pills are the main component, their contribution becomes a smaller part compared to Zhang Yanhang's increasingly vast bonuses.

"Currently, I still have 76 points of Life Value Limit to reach the next small goal, which is 17,000 points of Life Value Limit, and it's not a lot.

Even if I can't find any Artifacts for increasing Life Value Limit in the new area, I can easily gather these 76 points of Life Value Limit from the prize pool refresh in Raccoon City tomorrow, achieving the small goal of 17,000 points of Life Value Limit."

Every time at this moment, Zhang Yanhang can feel how wise it is to set the small goal at just 1,000 points, as if it were set to 5,000 points per small goal, who knows when it could be achieved.

After all, even after being promoted to the Fourth Tier, he has less than 17,000 points of Life Value Limit, and a small goal of 5,000 points might require an entire Tier's effort to complete, which by then won't be a small goal but a long-term target.

After reviewing his Life Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang quickly moved on to check his Shield Value Limit, knowing that compared to the Life Value Limit, the Shield Value Limit would certainly gain more growth.

[Shield Value: 79543/79543 (Life Value Limit × 470%, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]

"With the growth of the Life Value Limit, my Shield Value Limit has correspondingly increased, from the previous 78913 points to 79543 points, a total increase of 630 points of Shield Value Limit, equivalent to about one-seventh of the Life Value Limit of the same Tier Awakener."

But although the Shield Value Limit has increased by 630 points, there's still a significant distance from raising Zhang Yanhang's Shield Value Limit from the previous 17.5 times of the same Tier Awakener to 18 times.

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