"The Fifth Tier truly deserves to be called the True Immortal Stage. An immortal should indeed have the demeanor of an immortal; only with such prowess can one be called an immortal."

Upon truly entering this stage, Zhang Yan had to admit that compared to a True Immortal, the so-called Land of True Immortal was just child's play, lacking any real gravitas.

"If calculated in jin, the amount of rice I can now lift with both hands has increased to 542 million, 350 thousand jin. If used to supply the Empire's population of two billion, it would be enough for a quarter of the population.

If it were only for the twenty million population of Qin Island City, it would last for twenty-seven days, nearly a month."

After a simple strength test, Zhang Yan looked thoughtfully at the Land of Fallen before him, considering whether to unleash a normal attack to test his current attack power.

After some thought, he decided it would be better to test it together with the attack speed later.

Having tested his strength under relatively basic conditions, Zhang Yan was ready to test his strength after applying the Giant Transformation Spell set.

Giant Transformation Spell!

High-level Giant Transformation Technique!

Frenzy Skill!

High-level Frenzy Technique!

A series of pale blue spiritual lights flickered over Zhang Yan's body, and with the blessings of these spells, his body continuously soared. From an original height of fifteen meters, he quickly surpassed thirty meters and then fifty meters, before finally stopping at ninety-five meters.

"Upon reaching the Fifth Tier, not unexpectedly, with related rank bonuses and intelligence bonuses, the additional length from the Giant Transformation Spell set has doubled again, originally only increasing my height by about forty meters, but now it raises it by eighty meters."

However, when compared to the height increase, the enhancement in strength effects is more critical. Originally each spell in the Giant Transformation Spell set could only provide me with an 80% Strength Effect Bonus, combining to a total of 320%.

Now, each spell can provide a 160% Strength Effect Bonus, resulting in a ridiculous total of 640% Strength Effect Bonus, doubling once again compared to before.

"My Heavenly Earth Skill could only provide a 600% Strength Effect Bonus, yet now the Giant Transformation Spell set's boost has surpassed it..."

This indeed surprised Zhang Yan a bit, but it was just a surprise. Zhang Yan felt there wasn't much comparison between the two, as the Heavenly Earth Skill had a higher priority, and its synergy with the Giant Transformation Spell set was multiplicative; the higher the bonus from the Giant Transformation Spell set, the higher the bonus provided by the Heavenly Earth Skill.

The Giant Transformation Spell set, relative to his own strength, also maintained a priority status, hence taking a multipliers role, so the three formed a complementary relationship, much like Zhang Yan never comparing his own strength effect boost against the Heavenly Earth Skill—there's no point.

Therefore, for Zhang Yan right now, it was more important to quickly test the current strength limits under the Giant Transformation state.

Zhang Yan immediately placed the recently-forged five hundred thousand tons of steel cube along with the ten thousand tons steel cube from Stomach Space onto his right hand, but unsurprisingly, there was basically no reaction; they even felt light as a feather.

"Alas, I really shouldn't have absorbed those steel cubes into the Stomach Space before."

When Zhang Yan ascended to the Fourth Tier last time, he had already crafted a million tons of steel cube, but later, for testing the absorption efficiency of the Stomach Space, he allowed it to absorb several times, leaving just ten thousand tons.

It's not that Zhang Yan tested it excessively; at most, he only tested a few times.

The issue was that the absorption efficiency of the Stomach Space was incredibly fast. Even for ordinary materials like steel cubes, ones without any energy, it could absorb several tens of thousands of tons per minute.

Adding to it the relatively slow growth rate of his body previously, which often took several minutes to grow a centimeter, he couldn't help but have tens of thousands of tons of steel cubes devoured by the Stomach Space after just a small attempt.

Now, the speed with which he absorbs ordinary materials has become even more exaggerated; for instance, whether a million tons of steel cube can last five minutes is uncertain.

Zhang Yan felt this might be one reason why the Stomach Space in the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill is relatively large; after all, the absorption was so fast that if the Stomach Space weren't big enough, he'd constantly need to replenish the absorbable materials.

"Looks like I'll have to forge more steel cubes once again."

Zhang Yan silently sighed, then began to massively wield Alchemy, letting the Alchemy Array cover a radius of kilometers, converting the recently cooled magma rock entirely into steel cubes, or rather simply forcefully alchemizing it into a piece of Steel Land, now it's truly available on demand, digging as much as needed.

Additionally, it's worth mentioning that previously performing such large-scale alchemy would consume a lot of Energy Value, but now the consumption for creating hasn't caught up to the recovery speed, partly due to the decrease in Truth Alchemy's consumption, and also thanks to a huge increase in Swallowing Heaven and Earth's recovery speed.

Thus, Zhang Yan found that the Truth Alchemy now inexplicably meshes well with Swallowing Heaven and Earth, or rather, after being able to craft the Wise Man's Stone, in a certain sense, Truth Alchemy and Swallowing Heaven and Earth have become a paired set of skills, even though this interaction is quite odd and full of serendipitous coincidences.

Of course, it's also possible that it wasn't random chance, but rather the Multiple Choice playing a role in the promo process, choosing from a vast array of options to promote the originally ordinary Alchemy to the optimal solution as Truth Alchemy, rather than some other branch Alchemy like Undead Alchemy, Void Alchemy, Elemental Alchemy, or Demon Alchemy.

This situation certainly has the possibility of occurring. Take the example of Eight Arms and Eight Feet, an enhancement achieved by relying on the strength of the Fifth Tier to forcefully create a promotion option. After all, during the Fourth Tier, the Three-Headed Six-Armed was always an unenhanceable special skill.

As for why Zhang Yanhang knows about Undead Alchemy and Demon Alchemy, it's naturally because after ascending to Truth Alchemy, related alchemical knowledge mentions these special alchemical techniques, though often as counterexamples highlighting the orthodox identity of Truth Alchemy and its related advantages.

It can be said that although there is not a single offensive word in the entire body of related knowledge, it almost gives any reader an uncanny feeling that all other alchemies are mere tricks, while only Truth Alchemy is the true orthodox one.

It's precisely because of this that Zhang Yanhang has a deeper impression of those counterexample names.

Of course, in practical terms, Undead Alchemy, which refines Netherworld creatures and manipulates them, and Demon Alchemy, which refines Abyss creatures and manipulates them, indeed aren't very useful for him, as he truly doesn't need summons or things of that sort.

In comparison, he thinks Void Alchemy might be slightly useful, as Void Alchemy can extract energy from the void.

But the void is filled with various polluted mixed energy, and what alchemy pursues, such as the 'Eternal Energy' of the Wise Man's Stone and the 'Truth of All Things,' is obviously incomparable. At most, it merely exists as an advantage of infinite use.

Moreover, although void energy is said to be used infinitely, Zhang Yanhang learned the principle from Miserla's Core earlier; it is actually more like infinite use within the diameter of a water pipe. It's useful, yes, but not exceedingly so, ultimately just generally useful and certainly inferior to the Wise Man's Stone.

Furthermore, due to the mixed and ferocious nature of void energy, filled with various pollution, even if one truly needs to use it, installing a water purifier to filter and purify this void energy is necessary. Miserla's Core actually plays this role, essentially being a high-level water tap with a purifier function.

As for whether unpurified void energy can be absorbed, it isn't that it can't, just that absorbing it leads to easy assimilation with the void. If assimilation succeeds, one becomes a part of the void; if it fails, one becomes a mindless void monster, forever drifting aimlessly within the void.

Only by forcibly resisting assimilation can one absorb unpurified void energy.

However, this is the normal method of absorption, but for Zhang Yanhang, given the unrestricted nature of the Stomach Space, he doesn't need to worry much about these issues.

Therefore, if he gets the chance later, he feels he could really play around with the Void Channel; then his Stomach Space should never feel hunger again, though absorbing ordinary void energy might have lower efficiency than ordinary monster corpses, let alone rivaling the Wise Man's Stone.

So, it truly can only serve to momentarily stave off hunger, preventing the Stomach Space from lacking anything to absorb.

And this is Zhang Yanhang's reasoning as to why although Void Alchemy is useful to him, it's not overly so.

After briefly contemplating the matter of Void Alchemy, Zhang Yanhang picked up a fifty-thousand-ton standard steel cube from the ground again and placed it in his right hand, but unsurprisingly, it was still far from the limit. So, he immediately picked up another fifty-thousand-ton steel cube and placed it in his right hand, yet it still didn't reach the limit.

Of course, Zhang Yanhang could feel his margin diminishing, but he still felt he was far from the limit, so he straightforwardly stacked another fifty-thousand-ton steel cube onto his right hand.

This time, it slightly exceeded the limit, a state where just a little spiritual energy infusion could forcibly sustain it. Thus, he extended his hand and chipped off two thousand tons of steel cube.

During the Third Tier, ordinary steel to Zhang Yanhang seemed almost like clay, naturally even less worth mentioning now. Without bothering with alchemy, with an ear-piercing metallic twist, he casually chipped away about two thousand tons of steel cube, leaving the remaining steel cube almost precisely at his limit.

"Every promotion brings a level of enhancement that always exceeds my estimations. Though I merely used the Giant Transformation four-piece set, my strength has now risen to 2.08 million tons, is this reasonable?"

According to Zhang Yanhang's estimation, his current body weight is roughly ten thousand tons, not too heavy, but still relatively considerable. Therefore, his original strength plus his current situation has reached this 2.08 million-ton level.

"Most importantly, this 2.08 million tons is single-handed strength. With a simple infusion of spiritual energy, it directly reaches 4.16 million tons, and if considering double-handed strength, it has reached a staggering 10.40 million tons. In other words, I can now achieve a level of tens of millions of tons of power."

Though he hasn't tested attack speed, Zhang Yanhang estimates his current attack speed should be at least several hundred Mach. Thus, with this level of attack speed paired with the tens of millions of tons of power, Zhang Yanhang believes he could possibly punch through an asteroid.

Though perhaps not too large an asteroid, if it is one with a diameter less than 1000 kilometers, Zhang Yanhang feels he should at least be able to try.

"Speaking of which, Pluto seems to be only about 2400 kilometers in diameter. Could it be that I can now punch through a third of Pluto?"

Of course, that's definitely not possible to calculate like that, since the larger the diameter of the sphere, the larger the volume, making the difficulty curve for punching through the latter sharply rise, so he is unlikely to be able to punch through Pluto at the Fifth Tier.

"However, thinking about it this way, it definitely makes me more tempted to go to outer space. Even if I can't punch an asteroid for fun, punching a meteorite or comet would be good too."

Having developed a flying ability powered by planetary magnetic fields, Zhang Yanhang now can't help but want to fly into space.

Of course, primarily because Zhang Yanhang indeed feels the current Earth is struggling to endure his antics.

While testing his strength is certainly feasible, cleaning up after feels troublesome.

But if it's in space, punching through asteroids and such doesn't matter, at most forming a new meteor belt in space, though considering the time cost makes him rather hesitant.

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