In addition, Zhang Yanhang's dark purple quality Tarot Card Set provides an additional 45% skill range bonus, so now the actual coverage area of the Death Wave Skill is 2784 meters, compared to the original 1740 meters after the bonus; it's been enhanced by 1044 meters in skill coverage.

"In terms of coverage area, my previous Death Wave Skill could only cover an area of 2.38 square kilometers, but now it can cover 6.1 square kilometers, which is an increase of 3.72 square kilometers, equating to a total increase of over 1.5 times, turning into 2.5 times the original."

Regarding the substantial increase in coverage area for the Death Wave Skill this time, Zhang Yanhang had indeed not anticipated it; all he could say is that the 40% coverage range bonus provided by the additional attributes is exceedingly generous, far exceeding his expectations, considering the previous enhancement was only 20%, and this time it's suddenly doubled to 40%.

It can be said that the growth rate of this additional attribute, compared to any other additional attribute enhancement Zhang Yanhang has seen in the past, is indeed greater.

"Besides the fixed damage and coverage range, the cooldown time for the Death Wave has again decreased following promotion. Previously, it required twelve hours before the enemy could once again experience the fixed damage of the Death Wave, but now it's been reduced by six hours, allowing the fixed damage to refresh in just six hours."

To be honest, even a cooldown of six hours still seems long for Zhang Yanhang, given that he could clear the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field multiple times in six hours without picking up treasure boxes, devouring monster corpses, or opening boxes.

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang doesn't think any monster can survive more than six hours in his presence, so even with a reduction to six hours, it seems not very meaningful to him, unless it can be further reduced.

If it could be lowered to less than one hour, Zhang Yanhang thinks it might be useful, as although a six-hour battle seems utterly fanciful and unlikely, a one-hour battle does have some probability of occurring. Well, probably.

Therefore, compared to cooldown time, Zhang Yanhang is more interested in skill consumption.

"I've already promoted to the Fourth Tier, and the skill consumption of the Death Wave has finally changed, from previously minor stamina consumption to moderate stamina consumption."

But judging from the previous minimal and minor stamina consumption, Zhang Yanhang thinks this moderate stamina consumption will likely cover a broader range than the earlier minor consumption and is expected to accompany him for quite a while.

"So the question arises, exactly how much stamina does this so-called moderate consumption require?"

Theoretically speaking, even if there's a tenfold increase in stamina consumption, Zhang Yanhang can handle it, as he's missing everything except stamina, especially with his talent upgrade having just increased his stamina limit considerably.

Adhering to the principle that practice yields true knowledge, Zhang Yanhang immediately cast an empty Death Wave Skill and assessed the stamina consumption. He soon discovered that the increase was much lower than the tenfold he had previously estimated.

And, not to mention tenfold or even ninefold, it didn't even reach threefold; it roughly increased by only twofold, which can be considered quite amicable.

"Goodness, fixed damage significantly increased, coverage area expanded to 2.5 times the original, yet stamina only increased by twofold? What is this? A friendly giveaway, increased quantity without increased cost?"

Zhang Yanhang could initially cast the Death Wave roughly 11,000 times, but now with a twofold increase in stamina consumption, it has reduced to only 3,700 casts, but fortunately, the reduction in coverage is not substantial.

Originally, Zhang Yanhang's 11,000 Death Wave casts could cover 26,180 square kilometers, but now, although only capable of 3,700 casts, it still can cover 22,570 square kilometers, reducing only by 3,610 square kilometers.

Correspondingly, it's equivalent to initially being able to entirely cover two Qin Island Cities with some surplus, now it can only cover 1.9 Qin Island Cities; overall, it's still substantial.

"Considering that there will still continue to be upgrades to the X-level talent Heavenly Protection Nine Lives in the future, replenishing this part of the coverage area surely won't be a problem."

Zhang Yanhang believes that although the stamina consumption has increased, he can still achieve the small goal of covering the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field with just the Death Wave.

"While it may seem on the surface that my endurance has indeed decreased, the additional attributes of this Death Wave Skill, besides the upper limit slaying and coverage range, have also introduced a new 'Life Drain' ability, allowing me to recover minor stamina through absorbing the life energy of enemies."

Therefore, in terms of effect, when Zhang Yanhang uses the Death Wave Skill, he actually can plunder some stamina from the enemies to replenish his consumption, so overall, his endurance will surely increase.

As for exactly how much life energy can this Life Drain ability extract from enemies for stamina recovery, that can only be determined through future testing.

"The additional attributes indicate that a 'cross-reference' approach was used to understand 'some principles' of 'Life Drain'; although I don't feel much similarity between the two, since only partial principles were understood, is the potential to understand all principles possible in the future?"

Zhang Yanhang thinks that since this ability is called Life Drain, it's unreasonable for the drained life energy to only restore stamina; surely it can also restore life value, he just hasn't yet completed it.

As for how to obtain complete Life Drain, Zhang Yanhang speculates it certainly involves future skill levels, such as upgrading the Death Wave Skill to Origin LV.MAX, when with new additional attributes, perhaps the complete Life Drain ability can be obtained.

"It so happens that I currently don't have any life value recovery abilities, although under normal circumstances I don't take damage often, but if a blood-sucking ability can be achieved, that would surely be excellent."

For abilities that can provide protection for his life safety, Zhang Yanhang always has one attitude—that is to have an abundance!

"So the question arises, now that the Death Wave skill has been upgraded, what should I do next?"

Zhang Yanhang thought carefully and felt that the only thing left to do should be upgrading the cultivation method level of the Limitless Universe Skill, apart from that, there's indeed nothing else to resolve, considering the rewards from opening dropped treasure boxes have all been accounted for.

"Choice! Skill level upgrade!"

Since he had enough Soul points, Zhang Yanhang immediately began triggering the relevant option, and with the advent of Time Pause, a long line of text options he just saw appeared again before him.

......

November 1st, Sunday, Halloween, marking Zhang Yanhang's first day entering the Ashen World, 7:40 pm, Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, Terra City, Lucky Slot Machine.

After successfully upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill to LV.8, Zhang Yanhang opened his soul point balance and took a look.

[Soul Points: 3,479,807 (-6,300,000)]

"Originally, after upgrading the Death Wave skill, I still had 9.77 million soul points left, but just now I upgraded the Limitless Universe Skill, so I consumed another 6.3 million soul points, leaving me with only 3.47 million soul points now."

If it were at the Third Tier, Zhang Yanhang could definitely spend these 3.47 million soul points, but now, it's impossible to spend them, as even the lowest soul point consumption for simply promoting a skill requires 6.55 million soul points.

For the upcoming upgrade plan, Zhang Yanhang plans to first increase the skill level of Indestructible Golden Body, striving to upgrade it to Origin LV.6 in one go, and then see if there's any soul points left to upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill after upgrading the Indestructible Golden Body skill.

If there's just enough, then upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill. If not, then save it for later to upgrade Gun Mastery and Fighting Master, after all, there are only these three skills left, so they definitely need to be upgraded in sequence.

"Speaking of which, ever since the monster levels increased, the soul points gained have mostly become integers, and the last digit of '7' in the soul point balance '3,479,807' hasn't changed for a long time."

Sometimes, Zhang Yanhang's OCD flares up, and he always wants to make that 7 into a 3, turning it into 10. Unfortunately, the weakest monster in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, the T-103 Super Tyrant, is worth 550 soul points, so it doesn't give him the chance. He can only hope to achieve this idea when he later cleans up Raccoon City.

After checking the soul point balance, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened the skill effect of the Limitless Universe Skill to check again, wanting to know which part of the attribute value increased after the upgrade just now.

[Limitless Universe Skill[4th Tier]LV.8 (Passive/Active)]

[Passive Effect: Strength +2, Agility +2, Constitution +2, Intelligence +2, Charm +2.]

[Active Effect: Actively operate the cultivation technique to enhance one's defensive power, attack power, and movement speed using spiritual energy. No cooldown time, consumes a certain amount of energy value based on the specific bonus 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, Agility +6, Constitution +6, Intelligence +10, Charm +2.]

[Additional Attributes: Fourth Tier——Strength +5 (+1), Agility +5, Constitution +5 (+1), Intelligence +8 (+1), Charm +1.]

"This time, after the Limitless Universe Skill upgraded from LV.7 to LV.8, a total of three attribute values were increased, with the Strength attribute, Constitution attribute, and Intelligence attribute each increasing by one point.

The Limitless Universe Skill is currently expected to be upgraded two more times and increase six attribute points, among which, if nothing unexpected happens, surely one point would include the Charm attribute. If it can really be increased, then by that time I should be able to take off one more Crimson Iron Ring."

Zhang Yanhang originally had thirty fingers freed up in total, with only the ten fingers on the two original hands still wearing Crimson Iron Rings. But later, if he can take off one more Crimson Iron Ring, then only nine fingers would still be wearing the Crimson Iron Ring, freeing up a total of thirty-one fingers.

"But unfortunately, even if I manage to free up thirty-one fingers, I currently only have twenty-six Life Rings to wear."

But luckily, next time, after clearing the entire Gelijia City, Zhang Yanhang thinks he will probably be able to gather enough Life Rings to wear on all fingers.

Moreover, even if he doesn't gather enough, at the very least, this time, he certainly has to prepare enough Ordinary Life Rings for all fingers in advance, absolutely filling all the fingers. After all, having fingers but no rings to wear is really unbearable.

"But I just don't know if I'll be able to break the limit of the Life Rings in the future..."

But honestly, Zhang Yanhang feels it's rather unpromising, considering his ultimate goal is to completely replace the Crimson Iron Rings with Life Rings, which would require at least wearing forty Life Rings +6 simultaneously.

In the situation where forty Life Rings +6 have already been assembled, Zhang Yanhang thinks that the remaining number of monsters would indeed make it very difficult to gather a large number of additional Life Rings +6 to break the limit and fuse to Life Rings +7.

Moreover, this is assuming that Life Rings +6 is the fusion limit. If Life Rings +7 is the fusion limit, then it's even more impossible to gather enough Life Rings to break the limit.

"Forget it, when the time comes, things will work themselves out. I'll talk about this later. For now, let's check the attribute list first."

Zhang Yanhang said while opening his attribute list to examine it.

[Strength: 100 (+5[-8])]

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

[Constitution: 100 (+5[-10])]

[Intelligence: 100 (+5[-8])]

[Charm: 100 (+28)]

"Previously, my Strength only exceeded by seven points, and now it has increased by one more point, resulting in a total overflow of eight points, meaning the distance to overflowing two digits is indeed getting closer and closer.

Compared to the Strength attribute, the Constitution attribute has genuinely overflowed by two digits..."

Previously, Zhang Yanhang's Constitution attribute, despite receiving bonuses from talents, only overflowed by nine points. However, just now, the Limitless Universe Skill increased the Constitution attribute bonus by one more point, turning Zhang Yanhang's Constitution attribute into an overflow of ten points, completely transitioning to double-digit overflow.

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