"Only 85 instances of muscle regeneration left, it's not a lot. With a bit more effort, I should be able to gather them all next time."

Zhang Yanhang thought that the next time he went to clear monsters, he would easily gather the talent numbers needed to upgrade the Heavenly Protection Nine Lives from X level to XX level.

"This time, with Ability One Unwearied upgrading to X level, there's indeed a growth as expected. Initially, each upgrade only increased the Constitution Attribute by two points, but this time, upgrading to X level resulted in an additional increase, totaling three points. This raised Ability One's total boost from nine points to twelve points in the Constitution Attribute."

For Zhang Yanhang, this was considered a normal growth since the Dragon Power of the XX level talent also provided a three-point attribute value bonus upon reaching the X level.

"It's just that my original Constitution Attribute had already exceeded a bit, and now with another three points of Constitution Attribute, it's likely to overflow even more. And this is just at the X level."

From the current situation, Zhang Yanhang felt that upgrading the Heavenly Protection Nine Lives to XXX level was almost a certainty. Therefore, with the increase in talent level, there would definitely be more significant overflow. However, overflow aside, it was still an increase in attribute value, which was actually a good thing.

"Ability Two Energetic, after upgrading to X level, also had a substantial increase. Previously, each upgrade could only boost the stamina limit by 60%, but now it has directly doubled, raising to an increase of 120% in stamina limit per upgrade. This improved my total stamina limit bonus from 280% to 400%."

No matter how he looked at it, Zhang Yanhang felt that the stamina limit bonus obtained through this talent upgrade was quite substantial.

"Previously, I could only cast the Death Wave Skill 7,900 times, but now, with so much stamina limit bonus, I feel I can release it at least around 11,000 times continuously, roughly increasing the release times by 3,100 times in one go."

Moreover, if Zhang Yanhang was willing to reduce the range by a certain degree, this already substantial number of releases could double again, reaching about 22,000 times. From now on, Death Wave truly became as casual as a normal attack.

The only pity was that Death Wave couldn't stack damage like a real normal attack, so an enemy could only suffer damage once.

Although the cooldown time had been halved from 24 to 12 hours, for Zhang Yanhang, it was still quite long and virtually made no difference compared to before. Therefore, in normal battles, enemies could only suffer damage once, unable to receive repeated damage.

Speaking of the cooldown time for the Death Wave Skill, Zhang Yanhang suspected that it would be reduced again when the Death Wave Skill was upgraded next time. After all, the previous cooldown reduction was due to the skill's promotion, so this time, it was indeed likely to be replicated.

If it could really be replicated, he hoped the Death Wave Skill could reduce the cooldown time as much as possible, ideally halving it by another 12 hours to achieve zero cooldown time. That way, he could use Death Wave to forcibly eliminate any enemy he encountered and become unrivaled henceforth.

Well, perhaps that's a bit unrealistic. After all, his current rank and strength might not support that level of skill intensity.

If it was in the hands of the original Death God, Zhang Yanhang believed this skill would definitely have no cooldown, and possibly no consumption either. Unfortunately, the Death Wave in his hands, compared to the authentic Death Wave held by the Death God, could only be considered a stripped version that needed continuous promotion to gradually complete itself.

As for what level it needed to reach to completely eliminate the cooldown time, only the Ghost (Death God) might know.

"Currently, at the Original LV.MAX stage, my Death Wave can cover an area of 2.38 square kilometers per release. Thus, if I release it continuously 11,000 times, it can cover a total area of 26,180 square kilometers, which is larger than two Qin Island Cities combined.

If released at the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, such a range of coverage could easily encompass the entire suburban area."

Zhang Yanhang felt that if this situation continued to develop, he would eventually be able to clear the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field using just the Death Wave.

After all, aside from the mountainous regions without monsters, the remaining Umbrella City and suburban areas only totaled 40,000 square kilometers. He's already quite close now, needing less than 14,000 square kilometers more.

He planned to continue upgrading the talent level of the X level talent Heavenly Protection Nine Lives, ensuring his stamina limit continued to increase and consequently upping the number of releases.

Furthermore, after tallying the rewards from the treasure box, he would enhance the Death Wave's skill level, further increasing its coverage area following the skill level promotion.

Thus, with both aspects growing synchronously, Zhang Yanhang genuinely felt that covering 40,000 square kilometers shouldn't be too difficult.

More importantly, the biggest issue previously with Death Wave—not being able to instantly kill Fourth Tier monsters—would also be resolved as the skill's level improved. He could use the Death Wave skill to hunt monsters more recklessly.

In addition to the significant increase in the release count of Death Wave, Zhang Yanhang estimated that with the increased stamina limit, his duration in the Dharma Body state could finally extend from the original 11 to 12 minutes to around the long-anticipated 15 minutes.

This was indeed quite good, finally being able to last a quarter of an hour. Next, Zhang Yanhang's small goal would be to grow into a real man who could hold on for half an hour. Although it might seem challenging in the current situation, the harder it is, the more one must strive forward.

"The life span increase from Ability Three Longevity this time is frankly a bit absurd. Initially, the basic life span upgrade only enhanced by 40 years each time, but now it's directly doubled, making it 80 years per upgrade.

Thus, my basic life span alone has increased from the previous 140 years to 260 years.

Apart from that, the lifespan conversion factor has also been greatly improved. Previously, each upgrade could only increase the lifespan conversion factor by two years, but now it has doubled, increasing the lifespan conversion factor by four years with each upgrade.

This further doubled my lifespan conversion factor, jumping from a mere four years to eight years. Multiplying that by my Fourth Tier's tier limit of 100 Constitution Attribute points, it immediately increased the lifespan bonus from 400 years to 800 years.

And when you add up the basic lifespan and the lifespan conversion factor, it results in Zhang Yan Hang gaining a total of 480 years of lifespan, increasing the total lifespan provided by Longevity from the original 580 years to 1060 years.

Keep in mind, this is just the X-level. Based on Zhang Yan Hang's previous experience, when advancing to the XX-level, there will be at least another 480 years added. So, Zhang Yan Hang finds these lifespan bonuses a bit outrageous.

After all, when he advanced to the Fourth Tier, he only gained 800 years of lifespan. Yet here, just by casually upgrading, he has almost achieved two-thirds of a tier advancement.

Moreover, the lifespan provided by the X-level Heavenly Protection Nine Lives is already higher than the total lifespan bonus he gained from advancing in tiers before.

"But compared to Ability Three Longevity, the most important is Ability Four Longevity. Surprisingly, when Heavenly Protection Nine Lives advanced to the X-level, it gained a new ability, while even upgrading the XX-level Talent Longbo's Power to the X-level merely made the original Ability Three slightly stronger."

In this regard, Zhang Yan Hang, who has only upgraded two X-level talents with hardly any experience, can only explain that there might be differences between X-level talents, leading to different evolutionary paths. As for the specific reasons why, he certainly could not know.

"This new ability Longevity seems to provide extra attack power bonus and defense bonus based on the length of my lifespan. Although it's not the physical recovery speed boost I most desired, this new ability is significantly stronger than any physical recovery speed increase.

Even at just the X-level, it can already provide a 102% attack power bonus and a 102% defense bonus.

Although there's a condition requiring the lifespan to exceed a thousand years to take effect, this condition is basically nonexistent for me as I have no means to quickly exhaust lifespan. Therefore, it can be considered as getting a 102% attack and defense bonus for free."

It is worth mentioning that although Zhang Yan Hang has a slew of various bonuses such as energy attack bonus, physical attack bonus, remote attack bonus, melee attack bonus, critical strike damage bonus, lifeform enemy damage bonus... he lacks the most basic attack power bonus.

At least he never obtained an attack power bonus from various achievements, nor did his equipment provide this most basic attack power bonus.

Of course, if you insist on saying that the green set provides a 3.5% attack power bonus, then technically, there is. However, Zhang Yan Hang usually just ignores that small bonus.

Besides, the only equipment on him that can provide an attack power bonus is the Dark Purple Quality Tarot Card Set, which only offers a 45% attack power bonus. Compared to various specialized attack bonuses, this amount is pitifully small.

In this regard, Zhang Yan Hang is quite perplexed, as logically, an attribute as basic as attack power bonus should be quite abundant.

So, Zhang Yan Hang believes it's very likely that Multiple Choice considers the attack power bonus too basic, thus preferring to provide him with other rarer specialized bonuses.

But blessings also come with their drawbacks. Because of this, despite being Fourth Tier, the only equipment on him that enhances attack power is the second-hand green ten-piece set, and only the Dark Purple Quality Tarot Card Set, making it quite an odd situation.

In terms of skills, the only one that passively boosts attack power is the Three-Headed Six-Armed Skill, and even then, the boost is not much, only 60%. Plus, this is obtained through the Additional Attributes 'Copper Head Iron Forehead' by exploiting a bug, counting his own head as a 'Manifested Skull' for a passive bonus.

You could say Zhang Yan Hang relies on his base strength and specialized bonuses to fight hard battles.

But from now on, it's different. Having reached the Fourth Tier and become an Immortal Land realm strong Awakener, Zhang Yan Hang finally obtained the most basic attack power bonus.

"Despite having the strength to destroy Greenland, it's only now that I've finally got the most basic attack power bonus. This feeling is quite subtle."

Still, because he previously only had a 105% attack power bonus on him, the additional 102% attack power this time resulted in an incredibly large increase in Zhang Yan Hang's attack power. In terms of percentage, it's equivalent to doubling his own attack power, which truly is quite ridiculous.

Since the attack power bonus, being a basic bonus, has a very low priority and is at the bottom, it can therefore benefit from all higher prioritization bonuses, resulting in Zhang Yan Hang's attack power capabilities overall increasing by more than double.

It's safe to say, this previously nonexistent bonus, when first obtained and not yet diluted, has an extremely terrifying efficiency in enhancing strength.

"Moreover, besides the attack power bonus, my defense bonus is just as pitiful, as the Dark Purple Quality Tarot Card Set only boosts attack power without boosting defense."

Aside from the soon-to-retire new green ten-piece set's 3.5% defense bonus, Zhang Yan Hang only has one piece of equipment providing a defense bonus, and the increase is exceptionally low.

As for which piece of equipment, it naturally is the Demon Ape Leg Armor that Zhang Yan Hang obtained earlier in the Demonized Swamp.

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