Although Zhang Yanhang had already merged the Demon Ape Leg Armor through limit-breaking to +6, thus achieving a Dark Purple Quality.

However, the Dark Purple Quality Demon Ape Leg Armor is, after all, just a piece of leg equipment, and Zhang Yanhang, who still falls within the general category of 'human', normally has only two legs, unlike the upper body where there can be eight arms to use four pieces of equipment simultaneously.

Therefore, he can only equip one Demon Ape Leg Armor +6 on his body, and this Demon Ape Leg Armor +6 can only provide him with a measly 16% defense bonus.

There's no helping it, the Dark Purple Quality equipment that was once not bad for Zhang Yanhang has indeed already become outdated, after all, it's just a Third Tier equipment, and normally, it would become ineffective as soon as he advances to the Fifth Tier.

But now that he has the Hundred Taboos, he can forcibly make it continue to serve beyond its time, albeit with a low bonus.

Moreover, besides the Dark Purple Quality Demon Ape Leg Armor +6, Zhang Yanhang had not been able to achieve any defense-increasing accomplishments, and it can be said that he is similarly lacking in defense bonuses.

During battles, he still relies on a body full of base strength (Technique Immunity) to resist strong attacks, or mainly thanks to the big heap of heavenly materials and earthly treasures eaten in the Main World, which increased his defense, allowing Zhang Yanhang to maintain defense capabilities far exceeding his fellow awakened of the same tier despite low defense bonuses.

Of course, Zhang Yanhang does not have no defense bonuses at all, in fact, from a skill perspective, he has a certain amount of passive effect bonuses, and this passive effect bonus comes, naturally, just like the attack power bonus, from the Three-Headed Six-Armed skill.

At level LV.MAX, the Three-Headed Six-Armed skill gains an additional attribute named 'Impenetrable', which can increase his defense bonus by an additional 90% when his arms are in manifest state, which is quite significant.

And Zhang Yanhang uses a bug similar to 'Copper Head Iron Forehead', allowing the typically non-manifest arms to be deemed manifested, thereby granting him the passive 90% defense bonus.

Therefore, excluding the 3.5% defense bonus from the Green Ten-piece Set, the Dark Purple Quality Demon Ape Leg Armor +6 Zhang Yanhang wears plus the Impenetrable additional attribute actually provides him with a total of 106% defense bonus, about the same as his attack power, or perhaps slightly higher by 1%, as the total bonus there is 105%.

Thus, although Zhang Yanhang does not have significant related bonuses on him, he still manages to forcibly increase both the attack power bonus and defense bonus to over 100% through the Three-Headed Six-Armed skill.

"But it's a pity that the Three-Headed Six-Armed skill can't be promoted; if it could be promoted, then the strength of the Three-Headed Six-Armed skill would definitely completely outclass skills like Heaven and Earth Devourer and Technique Immunity.

For if there could be another round of promotion, perhaps it would be Eight-Headed Sixteen-Armed, and just by relying on the immense equipment bonus, I could stack my strength to a terrifying level."

However, for now, the Three-Headed Six-Armed skill is indeed temporarily unpromotable; Zhang Yanhang thinks he may have to wait until advancing to a higher rank to unlock subsequent promotions, perhaps not until the Fifth or even Sixth Tier can the subsequent promotions be unlocked.

"But nonetheless, the 102% defense bonus provided by Ability Four Source and Flow is a huge boost to even my traditionally strong defense, roughly doubling my overall defense."

Previously, if Zhang Yanhang could only defend against skill attacks from early Fourth Tier monsters, now, it might even be possible to withstand skill attacks from late Fourth Tier monsters unscathed.

Of course, that's on the condition that the opponent does not engage in martial-less behavior by using armor-penetration attacks, as no amount of defense stacking can stop that.

"And this is only at X level, already able to directly boost attack and defense bonuses by 102%; if it were upgraded to XX level or even XXX level, surely even more attack and defense bonuses could be obtained."

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang also noticed that this new ability is actually providing attack and defense bonuses based on the length of his life span, making his lifespan a relevant conversion coefficient, which means that in the future, even without enhancing his Talent Level, he can still automatically obtain relevant bonuses by relying on his own lifespan growth.

In this aspect, one could say this Source and Flow seems almost like Zhang Yanhang's initial concept for the optimal solution; only instead of increasing physical recovery speed, it provides attack and defense bonuses, yet the overall enhancement approach is much the same.

Additionally, since it uses lifespan, which originally had no use for Zhang Yanhang, as a conversion coefficient, it's even more advantageous than using Constitution Attribute as the conversion coefficient, as he initially conceived.

After all, Constitution Attributes and such have rank limits with each promotion, but lifespan is completely unlimited; it increases as much as it can, and with each promotion, it automatically grows substantially, growing even more with each one, making the lifesteal process really much more convenient than Constitution or the like.

"Without Spiritual Qi Recovery, the lifespan only kept me alive; it had no other utility for me, so I was never motivated to improve it proactively. But now, it's different; now that lifespan can add bonuses to attack and defense, perhaps it would be beneficial to collect more lifespan-increasing treasures in the Main World."

Zhang Yanhang previously dismissed Earth Vein Essence that could increase lifespan in the Main World, but now, it would definitely be different.

"Speaking of which, Ability Four seems to have calculated my total lifespan as well; how exactly was this calculated? My total lifespan is actually 2040 years?"

After subtracting the 1060 years provided by Heavenly Protection Nine Lives and over eight hundred years gained from rank advancement, Zhang Yanhang wonders how it seems like there's an extra hundred years.

"Could it be that I could originally live to 120 years? So, there's an extra hundred years of lifespan here?"

Zhang Yanhang feels that it is quite possible, although he doesn't think that without Spiritual Qi Recovery, someone who should have gone the programmer route and by thirty-five become the high-quality worker to be released (graduated) into society to transmit 'excellent experience' could live so long to begin with.

"However, on second thought, maybe becoming a programmer was precisely what reduced longevity. After all, staying up late nightly; but if I found a nice, relaxed job like drinking tea and reading newspapers in an office, maybe I could indeed live to 120.

But then again, there's the impossibility of competing for a civil service position with hundreds pining for just one spot; passing the exam is simply out of the question."

However, considering the awakening of Spiritual Qi, Zhang Yanhang feels he no longer needs to contemplate the so-called Iron Rice Bowl; with his current strength, the Iron Rice Bowl holds no real allure for him.

After all, if the Ashen World truly opens permanent teleportation channels on a large scale, it's uncertain whether the Empire can withstand it. Once the Empire falls, the secure job would naturally no longer exist.

Therefore, something like this job, with a shelf life of only half a year, can't be called a secure job at all; it's just temporary work. He simply couldn't care less about it.

"I didn't expect that I now have a lifespan of 2040 years. Does that mean I can live directly into the BCE era? My lifespan is equivalent to living from 20 BCE to the present.

The last time I upgraded my Talent, I said I might directly live into the Qinhan period, and now I've actually lived into the Western Han. Although 20 BCE might already be the late Western Han, with only a few decades left before Wang Mang took power, after all, it's still the Han Dynasty."

Zhang Yanhang feels that with the next Talent upgrade, he might indeed live into the Qin Dynasty or even further back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

"As for foreign countries, they probably were truly 'barbaric' at that time. After all, 'Savior' Jesus, who spread the 'gospel of civilization,' wouldn't be born for another twenty years. But fortunately, he lived only thirty years before being crucified on the cross."

Well, maybe it wasn't entirely savage because, by that time, the Roman Empire had been established for seven years.

After Caesar's assassination, Octavian, Caesar's adopted son, succeeded in reaching the pinnacle of political power through 'hard efforts' and his status as the 'first heir' designated in Caesar's will, officially becoming the Emperor of the Roman Empire and receiving the emperor's surname 'Augustus (the Holy Great).'

After reviewing the Talent Effect of the X-level Talent [Heavenly Protection Nine Lives], Zhang Yanhang quickly glanced at his Attribute list. Earlier, Heavenly Protection Nine Lives provided him with some Constitution Attribute bonus.

[Strength: 100 (+5[-7])]

[Agility: 100 (+5[-5])]

[Constitution: 100 (+5[-9])]

[Intelligence: 100 (+5[-7])]

[Charm: 100 (+28)]

"Due to the equipment bonus, my Constitution Attribute initially only exceeded by six points, but just now, because of the Heavenly Protection Nine Lives upgrade, it increased by another three points, causing my Constitution Attribute to overrun by nine points, only one point away from overrunning into double digits."

If nothing unexpected happens later, he'll enhance the Skill Level of the Limitless Universe Skill, so maybe after upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill, it will indeed overrun into double digits.

"But this is mainly because I have too many attributes boosted by equipment, a total of five points. If I take away these five points, the overrun Attribute value certainly wouldn't look as exaggerated.

Removing the five points of equipment bonus, my Constitution Attribute actually only increases from 101 points to 104 points. However, due to the Fourth Tier max being one hundred points, it only overruns by four points, still far from double digits."

But considering that the Heavenly Protection Nine Lives Talent will continue to upgrade, there is a high probability that even if those five Attribute bonus points are removed, he will still have more than double-digit overruns in his Constitution Attribute. After all, post-X-level Talents provide a substantial increase in Attribute values.

After looking over the Attribute list, Zhang Yanhang quickly tallied other treasure box gains, but since no weapons or Artifacts were drawn from the box, aside from Talent earnings, there's only Equipment gains left.

Speaking of Equipment gains, the first to mention is the Life Ring Zhang Yanhang got from the Dark Purple Quality drop treasure box of the T-103 Super Tyrant. This time, Zhang Yanhang obtained a total of 572 light golden quality Life Rings.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had 23 golden quality Life Rings +3, one light golden quality Life Ring +2, and one ordinary light golden quality Life Ring. These all add up to the equivalent of 189 Life Rings.

So, if we include these 189 ordinary Life Rings from the last time, Zhang Yanhang currently holds a total of 761 Life Rings.

"This is precisely because I have forty fingers; otherwise, under normal circumstances, with such a quantity, it would've far exceeded the limit long ago."

After counting the Life Rings, Zhang Yanhang didn't delay and immediately took all the Life Rings off his hands and put them into the Alchemy Array together with the newly acquired Life Rings.

As the Alchemy Array activated, the Life Rings soon turned into pools of colorful liquid metal and paired with each other, reshaping again after successful fusion...

This repetitive cycle went on for a full fourteen rounds, after which Zhang Yanhang finally fused all the Life Rings he had just obtained to +1.

However, one ordinary Life Ring, which was an odd one out last time, was still lonely this time as well. After fourteen rounds of fusion, he had fused a total of 286 Life Rings +1.

Then, in the second fusion, Zhang Yanhang performed seven more rounds to fuse out 143 Life Rings +2. Added to the one Life Ring +2 left over from last time, it totaled 144 Life Rings +2, still an even number with none left alone.

As a result, Zhang Yanhang quickly starts the third fusion again. Compared to last time, this time was much easier because only 144 Life Rings +2 required just four rounds to complete this fusion, producing a total of 72 Life Rings +3.

Adding in the 23 Life Rings +3 previously fused by Zhang Yanhang, there are now a total of 95 Life Rings +3.

Since the number of Life Rings +3 in hand is quite large, and the Life Rings +3 haven't reached the fusion limit, Zhang Yanhang quickly commenced the fourth fusion, which couldn't be done last time. This time, it took Zhang Yanhang three rounds to fuse out 47 Life Rings +4, leaving one Life Ring +3 alone.

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