Ashen God

Chapter 891: Golden Body Barrier


Because the literal meaning of light cannot completely understand this additional attribute, Zhang Yanhang decided to first test what kind of usage effect this so-called physical manifestation can achieve.

As for how to use it, there's no need to worry. With the upgrade of the skill, this auxiliary ability can be used by him as instinctual, and if you want to know how to achieve this effect, you can refer to the large amount of alchemy knowledge automatically infused with each upgrade of Alchemy.

So, Zhang Yanhang simply snapped his fingers, and a thin golden light curtain immediately appeared in front of him. He touched it with his hand, and it was indeed completely physicalized, and it seemed to have inherited a part of his defensive power.

Although it couldn't completely inherit his original defensive power due to being separated from the main body, even inheriting a part was already quite good. After all, the inherited part is the defensive power after the amplification of the Indestructible Golden Body, which is naturally quite considerable.

Zhang Yanhang manipulated the golden light curtain to expand rapidly until it reached a height of several dozen meters, standing in front of him like a colossal barrier. Looking at this golden barrier, Zhang Yanhang was thoughtful.

"Since the golden light after manifesting can detach from my main body and can inherit a part of my defensive power, in the future, do I no longer need my main body to take hits? Can I just watch the enemies impotently rage against the Golden Body Barrier?"

But the golden body barrier after manifesting can only inherit a part of Zhang Yanhang's defensive power, so Zhang Yanhang felt that when facing some enemies with sufficient attack power to break through the golden body barrier, it still needs the main body to withstand the attack. After all, only the golden body effect attached to the main body can maintain the full defense bonus.

After testing the most basic defensive usage, Zhang Yanhang then tested a slightly frivolous attack usage. He shaped a large axe using golden body energy and manipulated this large axe to rotate rapidly around him like a halo.

Perhaps due to its essence being energy, Zhang Yanhang found that this large axe composed of golden body energy could fly freely under his manipulation and, like the golden body barrier, seemed to inherit a part of his attack power.

Zhang Yanhang snapped his fingers again, dispersing the golden body barrier while hundreds of energy weapons, completely constructed from golden body energy, of various shapes like axes, swords, hooks, and spears, floated behind him and instantly launched like golden missiles, starting an indiscriminate bombardment on the Gelijia City District ahead of Zhang Yanhang.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Accompanied by the continuous sound of explosions, buildings collapsed with a crash, and the golden body weapons constructed from golden body energy mowed through them like falling swords of Damocles, rapidly slicing through the skyscrapers made of reinforced concrete, reducing them to piles of irregular construction debris.

As for how the explosions came about, that naturally was because Zhang Yanhang discovered that merely slicing seemed to lack destructive power, so when the golden body weapons entered the interior of buildings unimpeded, he would choose to manipulate them to explode, scattering into countless golden body fragments to thus cause a large-scale destruction of surrounding buildings.

Indeed, the explosions can be freely manipulated, and the shaping ability can easily solve this problem.

With the destruction of numerous buildings, the fractured debris of buildings fell slowly to the ground like small meteors crossing the hundred-meter height, producing a series of noises akin to mountain rocks cracking, while causing massive tremors to the surrounding ground.

Amidst the waves of tremors perpetually emanating like earthquakes, the massive smoke and dust rising from the debris's fall also enveloped the entire sky like an abruptly appearing cloud, dark and oppressive.

However, smoke and dust are, after all, smoke and dust; due to density limitations, they briefly floated to high altitude but soon quickly descended and dispersed outward in a more violent manner, as if a local sandstorm emerged within the city district.

Compared to this 'fog' made of dust, without a doubt, the golden energy particles scattered after the golden body weapons exploded were more eye-catching, speckled like grains of gold scattered within the 'fog,' constantly twinkling with dazzling golden light.

"Unexpectedly, it seems quite good."

Zhang Yanhang felt that using the Indestructible Golden Body to attack enemies might be a bit frivolous, but from a visual effects perspective, it was still quite impressive.

As for the actual combat effect, Zhang Yanhang thought that since this thing was a derivative ability of the Indestructible Golden Body defensive skill, with high charm speaking, it might be more suitable for showing off, while at other times, Death Wave was more practical.

The reason Zhang Yanhang gave this evaluation was primarily because the physical exertion of that wave of attack was quite large, even several times higher than Death Wave.

Specifically, shaping required extra physical strength consumption, manifesting required extra physical strength consumption, controlling its flight also required extra physical strength consumption, not to mention manipulating it to explode.

So, ultimately, when all these were added together, the physical strength consumption was indeed particularly high and tended to be more flamboyant.

"Looking at it this way, the idea of gaining powerful attack abilities from a defensive skill is indeed quite unreliable."

Zhang Yanhang felt that besides showing off, he might only use this golden body attack when his main body was too lazy to move.

Of course, one thing must be admitted; although these golden body weapons consume more physical strength, because they inherently inherit a part of Zhang Yanhang's attack power, in terms of attack strength, they undoubtedly surpass Death Wave, which can only deal fixed damage.

Thus, using them to attack enemies is actually relatively reliable; however, the physical strength consumption is indeed high, and they can also damage buildings, impacting subsequent treasure box collection and corpse recovery.

Therefore, in mundane and unappreciated regular hunts, indeed, the Death Wave, which only harms lifeform enemies and has inherently low consumption, is more practical.

"Alas, I never thought that one day I would feel that the Death Wave's consumption is relatively low, where exactly did things go wrong?"

But no matter what, Zhang Yanhang finally had a more reliable energy attack than spells, allowing the energy attack bonus to come into play.

Previously, the reason he was lazy to use spell attacks on enemies was mainly because most of the spells he acquired were single-target attacks and required energy consumption. Naturally, he was a bit lazy to use them during hunts.

"Speaking of which, can I cosplay as King Shining in the future, given that I can now counterfeit the King's Treasure Vault..."

But, Zhang Yanhang had to admit that he felt his current strength had long surpassed that of King Shining. After all, King Shining struggled to destroy a city, whereas he could achieve nuclear explosions with his fists, easily destroying even provincial units. The gap between the two was truly astronomical.

After testing out the materialization ability, Zhang Yanhang found it quite useful for pulling off various tricks. However, he didn't have much time at the moment to think of better ways to utilize it. These issues would have to wait until he had more time.

So, after reviewing the skill effect of the Indestructible Golden Body, Zhang Yanhang quickly checked his Life Value Limit to see how much the 20% increase provided by the Indestructible Golden Body could boost his Life Value Limit.

[Life Value: 34029/34209 (Constitution ×79, the body is now officially datafied, Life Value Recovery Speed, 71 points per hour.)]

"My original Life Value Limit was only 31,526 points, and now it has increased to 34,209 points, with a total increase of 2,683 points in the Life Value Limit. This 20% Life Value Limit bonus certainly led to a significant increase in the Life Value Limit."

Previously, Zhang Yanhang's small goal was a Life Value Limit of 32,000 points. Now, this small goal was easily accomplished. Moreover, even the small goals of 33,000 and 34,000 points in the Life Value Limit were also accomplished.

"The next small goal is still set at 35,000 points. I am currently 791 Life Value Limit points short of this small goal, which doesn't seem to be a lot. Perhaps I can achieve this small goal simply by continuing to increase the Fusion Times and the number of Life Rings equipped."

Although the potential of the Life Ring is indeed nearing its end, Zhang Yanhang thought that if it was just under 1,000 Life Value Limit points, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

"With my original Life Value Limit of only 31,526 points, it was equivalent to 7 times that of the Same Tier Awakener. But now, with the Life Value Limit increased to 34,209 points, it is already equivalent to 7.6 times that of the Same Tier Awakener. Compared to before, it directly surged by 0.6 times.

I am still 0.4 times short of my previous small goal of an eight-fold Life Value Limit."

However, although he had already completed most of the progress, Zhang Yanhang was not very confident about the last 0.4 times. But fortunately, there was the Yellow Medicine Grass over in Raccoon City to fall back on, so even if there was a shortfall in the Life Value Limit, it could still compensate partially.

"However, with the increase in the Life Value Limit, my current Life Value Recovery Speed has decreased once more. Previously, under a 1578% boost, my Life Value Recovery Speed reached 1191 points per hour, capable of recovering a full Life Value in just twenty-six and a half hours.

But now, it has declined to the point where it requires twenty-nine hours to recover a full Life Value, decreasing by two and a half hours compared to before."

It can only be said that Zhang Yanhang's Life Value Recovery Speed, which was just half an hour shy of reaching its peak speed of twenty-six hours, is now approaching thirty hours due to the rapid increase in the Life Value Limit. He was truly at a loss because the growth of the Life Value Limit was too fast.

However, soon after checking the Life Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened his Shield Value Limit to take a look.

[Shield Value: 160784/160784 (Life Value Limit ×470%, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]

"My original Shield Value Limit was only 148,174 points, and now it has further increased by 12,610 points, allowing my Shield Value Limit to exceed the 150,000 threshold while simultaneously reaching 160,784 points.

My previous small goal was just a Shield Value Limit of 150,000, and not only was this target easily completed, but even the goals of 155,000 and 160,000 Shield Value Limits were also simultaneously achieved."

The next small goal that Zhang Yanhang intends to set is a Shield Value Limit of 165,000 points. He is currently 4,216 points away from this next small goal. It's neither too much nor too little, and he estimated that it would be similar to the Life Value Limit, where the automatic increase from the Life Ring should be sufficient to complete this part of the small goal.

It is worth noting that although Zhang Yanhang couldn't achieve the small goal related to the Life Value Limit, he definitely managed to achieve the small goal related to the Shield Value Limit with ease.

"When my original Shield Value Limit was only 148,174 points, it equated to 32.9 times that of the Fourth Tier Awakener's Life Value Limit. Now, as my Shield Value Limit increased to 160,784 points, it is equivalent to 35.7 times that of the Fourth Tier Awakener's Life Value Limit, a substantial increase of 2.8 times compared to before."

Zhang Yanhang previously set a small goal of thirty-five times, which was successfully achieved. Honestly, he was surprised to realize that he had completed this thirty-five times goal just by the 20% Life Value Limit bonus provided by the Indestructible Golden Body.

He originally thought that upgrading the Indestructible Golden Body and simultaneously enhancing the Fusion Times of the Life Ring was necessary to achieve this thirty-five times goal, but he didn't expect to complete it so effortlessly.

"Now, I can set my next small goal at a Shield Value Limit of forty times. I must say, my Shield Value Limit is becoming increasingly exaggerated, having reached a six-digit number. I wonder if it's possible to push further to seven digits in the future."

However, Zhang Yanhang knew he was very far from reaching a one-million Shield Value Limit.

Not to mention the approaching promotion to Fifth Tier, he estimated that even reaching the Sixth Tier wouldn't allow him to obtain a one-million Shield Value Limit.

After all, with each promotion, an Awakener's Life Value Limit would only increase partially based on the previous rank. Unlike his strength, it didn't inflate as quickly, with the gap between tiers reaching improbably high levels like tenfold difference. In terms of Life Value Limit, it wasn't realistic to inflate that much.

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