"That's why I say, the increase in power after ascending to the Fourth Tier is just ridiculous. Casually reaching such a high number of Death Wave releases is absurd."

Even the Fourth Tier is already so exaggerated. Zhang Yanhang finds it hard to imagine how powerful the Fifth Tier that the leader is at currently must be, probably like an immortal, doing whatever they please.

"Sigh, I've just ascended to the Fourth Tier and already I'm working hard towards the Fifth Tier. I'm truly diligent, diligent, indeed diligent... so diligent I feel my brain tremble~."

After experiencing the effects of the Earth Evil Corpse Spirit Mushroom he consumed earlier, Zhang Yanhang quickly searched for Qingfeng City's location and started teleporting there, without lingering overly long.

As for why he didn't just fly there directly, it's because, even with his current movement speed of 14 Mach supported by spiritual energy, teleporting via the Arbitrary Gate is faster. After all, flying across the United States is fine as he would quickly cross the national border.

But within the borders, he might be subject to monitoring by local authorities, so if possible, teleporting is indeed more convenient.

After all, although Zhang Yanhang has both the Invisibility Technique and the Fifth Tier Spell High-level Silence Field as a safeguard, it's difficult to ensure that authorities don't have other monitoring methods, such as energy fluctuations and energy source monitoring.

...

October 30th, Friday, the fifth day after the Double Ninth Festival, and also Zhang Yanhang's first day out of the Ashen World, 12:40 PM, the Main World, Qingfeng City, suburbs.

Since the options stated that there were only ordinary nuts within Qingfeng City, and Zhang Yanhang was looking for the Heavenly Fragrant Fruit which was said to be on a nearby small hill, he did not enter Qingfeng City but directly teleported to the suburbs of Qingfeng City.

Zhang Yanhang tried searching within a few kilometers range but unfortunately, he could not find the mentioned withered tree or Heavenly Fragrant Fruit in the options.

After expanding his search area by approximately seven to eight kilometers, Zhang Yanhang finally saw that inconspicuous little hill with the mentioned withered tree. It was a pitch-black withered tree throughout its body, looking awkwardly as if someone had directly painted it black using PS.

And at the top of this pitch-black withered tree, a purple fruit, approximately the size of an apple, was continually emitting a peculiar fragrance.

"Goodness, such an obvious Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure doesn't show any signs of being coveted by other creatures. It certainly shows a special fondness towards me; we definitely have a strong connection. Maybe it was forcibly cultivated in a short time, thus not discovered by other creatures..."

Zhang Yanhang now is indeed a Fourth Tier Awakened, far from his novice days, so he is very familiar with the principles behind the options of Multiple Choice, complete non-existence until he selects them.

Of course, if by coincidence related Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures appear while he's making a choice, they might also appear in the options. However, the probability of this happening is quite low, so most of the time he's harvesting those impossibly conjured Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures from Multiple Choice.

For instance, Outer Xing'an Ridge and such; Zhang Yanhang has ninety-nine percent confidence that there's no Thousand-year-old stalactite solution mentioned in the options there, not even a limestone cave might exist.

Nonetheless, considering there's still a one percent chance for natural Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures options to appear, Zhang Yanhang plans to visit Outer Xing'an Ridge later to look for related Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures since he has nothing else to do now; finding them means profit.

After briefly pondering, a mini black-hole-like deep tunnel emerged from Zhang Yanhang's mouth, swallowing the black withered tree bearing the Heavenly Fragrant Fruit along with the entire small hill into his Stomach Space, ensuring zero nutritional loss.

Perhaps because the small hill was rather large, Zhang Yanhang waited on the spot for a short while; well, he didn't wait long, just about a dozen seconds before his Stomach Space absorbed the whole small hill, approximately four to fifty meters high, along with the black withered tree and Heavenly Fragrant Fruit.

After the absorption was complete, Zhang Yanhang immediately felt a warm current emerging within his body, but this time since it's about boosting Energy Value Recovery Speed, this warm current is still quite unfamiliar to Zhang Yanhang, far less familiar than stamina limit or defensive power.

Fortunately, practice makes perfect. Next time when consuming Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures with similar effects, Zhang Yanhang should not feel unfamiliar.

However, this time it was a bit unfamiliar; Zhang Yanhang couldn't completely gauge how much his energy value recovery speed had increased, so he quickly opened up his Energy value limit to check. He felt that this boost in energy value recovery speed this time should be reflected in the related data.

[Energy Value: 13919/13919 (Intelligence × 58, current body has been officially datafied, Energy Value recovery speed, 222 points (+54 points) per hour.)]

"Sure enough, my energy value recovery speed has increased, by 54 points directly, from the original 168 points to 222 points.

It's almost catching up with tier promotion; when I ascend tiers, the increase in attribute value only added 75 points to the energy value recovery speed, and now simply consuming a Heavenly Fragrant Fruit only falls short by twenty-one points compared to then..."

In response, Zhang Yanhang can only say that Multiple Choice is really amazing; such level Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures just require a symbolic contribution of a little Energy value limit to obtain, even if he didn't choose the Earth Evil Corpse Spirit Mushroom, he could gain it freely.

Of course, this also reflects that energy value recovery speed is indeed somewhat worthless and unpopular, only consuming a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure increased it so much, merely because Zhang Yanhang has related skills, he can augment his energy value recovery speed to three hundred times that of before.

Otherwise, actually no matter how much energy value recovery speed increases, it has little significance for the combat endurance of an Awakened.

After all, this thing is calculated by the hour. It looks like 222 points per hour might be okay, but in reality, it can only recover less than four points per minute. This energy value, for an Awakener's combat consumption, is insignificant. It's precisely because of this that he can easily gain a substantial increase.

"Well, maybe it's not really that easy, because although these fifty-four points look high, it's actually the effect after the enhancement of the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill.

If you remove that fifty percent enhancement, which is the extra eighteen points of energy value recovery speed, the Heavenly Fragrant Fruit could only help me increase the energy value recovery speed by thirty-six points.

Calculating it this way, the strength of this Heavenly Fragrant Fruit seems more normal, or you could say, it's just like that, even less than half of the Rank Promotion reward over there. So, fundamentally, it's not that the Heavenly Fragrant Fruit is powerful, but my Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill is too powerful."

After checking the changes in energy value recovery speed on the data panel, Zhang Yanhang then opened the Skill Effect of Swallowing Heaven and Earth to examine it, because regardless of how much growth occurred in energy recovery speed here, his related energy growth and body size growth speed ultimately still need to be determined by Swallowing Heaven and Earth.

[Swallowing Heaven and Earth LV.MAX (Passive/Active)]

[Passive effect: Artifact (enhancement) usage (consumption) effect +50%]

[Active effect: After activating the skill, the Heavenly Destiny Master will be able to swallow substances and energy into the Stomach Space through the mouth entrance and increase physical size and recover energy value by digesting the matter and energy in the Stomach Space, with no cooldown time and a slight consumption of physical strength.

The current capacity of the Stomach Space is 1000×1000×1000=10,000,000,000 cubic meters.

The current absorption efficiency of the Stomach Space is 577 (+140) [Energy Value Recovery Speed] ×5%=29 points (+7 points) Energy Value/second.]

[Additional Attributes: Skillful — You can now skillfully control the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill. You've obtained the ability to freely manipulate Stomach Space absorption efficiency (0-100%). You can set different absorption efficiencies for different substances and energies, substances, and energies with 0% absorption efficiency will remain static.]

[Additional Attributes: Mastery — Your mastery of the Indestructible Golden Body Skill has become rather proficient. You've obtained the ability 'Ruminant', in which you can release, at any time, the substances and energy you have swallowed into the Stomach Space back through the mouth entrance.

Using the 'Ruminant' ability will accelerate physical strength consumption at varying degrees based on the volume and energy level of the substances and energy.]

"The increase on the side of Swallowing Heaven and Earth is quite substantial; the overall energy value recovery speed has grown by as much as 140 points, from the original 437 points directly to 577 points. Only, it's a bit unfortunate that currently, due to related conversion coefficient reasons, only 5% of the energy value recovery speed can be converted into energy value absorption efficiency.

So, although energy value recovery speed increased by one hundred and forty points, when divided by twenty times, my Stomach Space energy absorption efficiency has only increased by seven points, from the original 22 points to 29 points."

Although it seems like not much on the surface, the ratio has actually grown by about one-third, which can be said to be quite a lot. After all, increasing by one-third here means that Zhang Yanhang's overall energy value recovery efficiency and physical size growth efficiency have all increased by one-third.

"With the current energy value absorption efficiency of 29 points per second, I can now recover 1740 energy points per minute, 104400 energy points per hour, and even 2505600 energy points in one full day."

If he uses these more than two million energy points to print money, Zhang Yanhang estimates that he could print around 1.2 trillion, instantly becoming the Empire's richest man.

"But, Hengda alone owes two trillion. With this calculation, my 1.2 trillion doesn't seem like much, and even feels a little lacking. Me, a dignified Peak Fourth Tier Awakener, Immortal Land-level powerhouse, can't even match Hengda. I need to print money continuously for two days, absurd!

Moreover, just considering my method of printing money is still inferior to the nuclear-powered printing machine of the United States. If I want to print out the GDP of the United States, even at a rate of 1.2 trillion per day, it would take half a year. By then, I might have become a god beyond gods..."

Zhang Yanhang suddenly felt he might not be as strong as he imagined. He could only say that the Fourth Tier 'Immortal Land' indeed carries the word 'Land' and can't truly be considered a deity. He still needs to advance to the Fifth Tier.

"Once I advance to the Fifth Tier, I should definitely be able to surpass the United States' nuclear-powered printing machine, but advancing to the Fifth Tier at least has to wait till next week, still somewhat distant for the time being."

To advance quickly to the Fifth Tier, Zhang Yanhang felt he still needs to work harder. He decided to search for more Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures today and then, early tomorrow, find a Permanent Teleportation Channel to clean up a bit and accumulate soul points to upgrade skills.

"Who would have thought it could be the nuclear-powered printing machine giving me higher advancement pressure..." Of course, aside from the monetary printing matter, Zhang Yanhang also continues to focus on other more important matters.

"Now that the energy value recovery speed has increased to 29 seconds per point, the time needed to restore one vial of energy value has successfully shortened from the original 10.5 minutes to 8 minutes, almost reduced by 2.5 minutes. It's very close to the initial seven and a half minutes where one vial of energy value could be restored. After this, just casually increasing energy value recovery speed a bit should return to peak performance."

Additionally, Zhang Yanhang calculated the difference between his current energy recovery speed enhanced by the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill and the energy recovery speed noted on the data panel; it's roughly around 470 times, which is indeed extremely exaggerated, much more outrageous than the previous 300 times, nearly reaching 500 times.

But this excessively exaggerated energy recovery speed is precisely what Zhang Yanhang should aim to improve. If it were still like the original minute where even less than four points of energy value could be recovered, Zhang Yanhang probably would never actively strive to enhance his energy value recovery speed.

After checking the skill effect of Swallowing Heaven and Earth LV.MAX, Zhang Yanhang did not immediately teleport to Outer Xing'an Ridge but began quietly experiencing the growth rate of his physical size while standing still. He wanted to know his current physical size growth speed.

After all, he had just increased energy absorption efficiency by quite a bit, so his physical size growth speed should definitely have increased significantly too.

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