After briefly reviewing the kill notification messages, Zhang Yanhang quietly activated the Heaven and Earth Devourer skill, swallowing the corpses of the Electric Chainsaw Gingerbread Man and the Zombie Santa, along with the snow and glacier, into the Stomach Space.

As for why he swallowed the monster corpses, it was naturally because he found during the previous absorption process that the corpses of monsters, due to containing a large amount of energy, are indeed much more nutritious than stones and seawater, and also more resistant to absorption.

Of course, the most important point is that Zhang Yanhang discovered that when he absorbed corpses, his growth rate was much faster than simply absorbing stones and seawater, at least one-half times faster.

To put it simply, previously, when he absorbed stones and seawater, he could only increase his body size by ten centimeters in one hour, but now, he could increase it by fifteen centimeters in one hour.

If he could absorb monster corpses all day long, his growth could increase from the original two meters four per day to three meters six per day.

Honestly speaking, this level of increase is quite considerable, so most of the time, if the corpses are still in a relatively surface state, Zhang Yanhang would opt to slow down his hunting speed to absorb them.

The result of slowing down is that although Zhang Yanhang has consecutively hunted monsters for nearly seventy minutes this time, the number of monsters he killed is still less than the number he killed in the first fifty minutes. Overall, in order to devour the monster corpses, his killing efficiency has slowed down by at least half.

"Previously, it took me about five hours to clear all the surrounding monsters. Now that the clearing speed has slowed down so much, won't it take more than ten hours to complete the clearing?"

Zhang Yanhang was hoping to complete the clearing work and return to Qin Island City before noon, but now it seems that the chances are slim?

However, Zhang Yanhang really wanted to finish this clearing work before noon, so a daring idea couldn't help but pop up in his mind.

Zhang Yanhang looked up at the azure sky, pondering a question he had been thinking about for a while: if he exerted all his force to unleash a punch from the sky with the help of gravitational potential energy, would it be possible to destroy the entire area near the transmission channel with one blow?

Zhang Yanhang roughly estimated that as long as he wasn't afraid of dying, even if he couldn't annihilate the entire area, he could at least destroy most of it, probably.

To realize this plan, Zhang Yanhang thought he would need to prioritize upgrading the Heavenly Earth Skill to increase the transformation limit to meet his needs better.

So, Zhang Yanhang immediately checked his soul point balance.

[Soul Points: 28265837（+11856780）]

In the first fifty minutes, Zhang Yanhang killed about 40,000 monsters, and in the recent seventy minutes, he killed nearly 30,000 more.

Among these, the Third Tier One-star Bloody Reindeers were undoubtedly the most common, totaling over 20,000. Ranked second were about six or seven thousand Evil Snowmen, and then over a thousand Electric Chainsaw Gingerbread Men, and finally, a few of the Fourth Tier One-star Monster Zombie Santas, which were killed just for the first time.

Therefore, due to the relatively low number of monsters killed, the growth rate of the soul point balance is unsurprisingly much slower than before.

"I remember last time I gained over 14 million soul points, but this time, it's less than 12 million soul points, but the gain of 11856780 soul points still increased my soul point balance from the original 16409057 to 28265837 soul points.

It might not be sufficient to upgrade something else, but if it's just to upgrade the Heavenly Earth Form·Original LV.6, it should be completely sufficient."

Zhang Yanhang was very much looking forward to the upgraded Heavenly Earth Skill.

"Since the soul points are sufficient, let's quickly upgrade the Heavenly Earth Skill's Skill Level. Choose! Skill Level Enhancement!" Zhang Yanhang immediately started triggering the relevant options.

[Would you like to proceed with the skill level enhancement?]

[Option One: Upgrade 'Gun Mastery LV.MAX' to 'Gun Master·Original LV.5' (costs 1 Ash Source, 1 Legendary Essence, 6553600 soul points.)]

...

[Option Five: Upgrade 'Limitless Universe Skill[Fourth Rank]LV.6' to 'Limitless Universe Skill[Fourth Rank]LV.7' (costs 4.9 million soul points.)]

...

[Option Nine: Upgrade 'Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.MAX' to 'Indestructible Golden Body·Origin LV.5' (costs 1 Ash Source, 1 Legendary Essence, 6553600 soul points.)]

[Option Ten: Upgrade 'Heavenly Earth Skill LV.MAX' to 'Heavenly Earth Form · Original Scripture LV.5' (costs 1 Ash Source, 1 Legendary Essence, 6553600 soul points.)]

...

[Option Twelve: Upgrade 'Swallowing Heaven and Earth LV.MAX' to 'Heaven and Earth Devourer·Original LV.5' (costs 1 Ash Source, 1 Legendary Essence, 6553600 soul points.)]

[Option Thirteen: Upgrade 'No Taboos LV.MAX' to '???' (cannot be enhanced)]

"Just to upgrade Limitless Universe Skill of the Fourth Rank from LV.6 to LV.7 requires 4.9 million soul points. If I continue to upgrade it further, each upgrade might require tens of millions as a baseline."

Zhang Yanhang initially thought that if there were any soul points left after upgrading Heavenly Earth Form·Original LV.5, he would upgrade Limitless Universe Skill in passing.

But unexpectedly, it was laughably impossible. Just upgrading from LV.6 to LV.7 requires 4.9 million soul points. Based on his previous experiences, upgrading from LV.7 to LV.8 would least require six to seven million soul points.

In other words, just leveling up the Limitless Universe Skill from LV.6 to LV.8 already requires over ten million Soul points. I really can't afford it; it requires even more Soul points than upgrading the Skill Levels of Professional skills.

"After my previous Rank promotion, I was left with eight points of Legendary Essence and nine points of Ash Source. Now, to promote Heavenly Earth Skill LV.MAX to Heavenly Earth Form · Original Scripture LV.5, it only requires consuming one point of Legendary Essence and one point of Ash Source. It's very easy to meet the promotion requirements.

So, I choose Option Ten, consuming one point of Ash Source, one point of Legendary Essence, and 6,553,600 Soul points to elevate Heavenly Earth Skill LV.MAX to Heavenly Earth Form · Original Scripture LV.5."

As he had already planned, Zhang Yanhang made the decision without hesitation.

......

October 31, Saturday, the sixth day after the Double Ninth Festival, and also the second day since Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, at 10:08 AM, Main World, Greenland, Kerisotto Icefield.

After consecutively leveling up two levels and promoting Heavenly Earth Skill LV.MAX directly to Heavenly Earth Form · Original Scripture LV.6, Zhang Yanhang didn't rush to check the Skill Effect of Heavenly Earth Skill LV.MAX, but instead first opened his Soul points balance to take a look.

[Soul points: 8,605,037 (-19,660,800)]

"Indeed, it consumed nearly twenty million of my Soul points. The 19,660,800 Soul points consumed for this upgrade of the Heavenly Earth Skill brought my Soul points down from an eight-digit to a seven-digit number, dropping from the previous 28,265,837 Soul points to 8,605,037 Soul points."

The 19,660,800 Soul points that Zhang Yanhang consumed this time upgraded the Heavenly Earth Skill to Original LV.5, consuming 6,553,600 Soul points, while the upgrade to Original LV.6 unexpectedly doubled, rising to a requirement of 13,107,200 Soul points.

"Just upgrading the Heavenly Earth Skill to Original LV.6 already cost me about twenty million Soul points, and from past experience, the Soul points requirement doubles each time. Wanting to continue upgrading to LV.MAX without at least a hundred million Soul points is simply unthinkable, something completely beyond my current capacity to upgrade."

For Zhang Yanhang, who had just slain over seventy thousand monsters to barely gather over twenty million Soul points, it was clearly unrealistic to continue upgrading further from Original LV.6 to Original LV.7.

However, fortunately, upgrading was not Zhang Yanhang's initial plan. His upgrade goal after the Fourth Tier promotion was simply to promote all skills and then upgrade to LV.6 to gain some Additional Attributes or such.

As for promoting all skills and directly upgrading to LV.MAX, from Zhang Yanhang's Third Tier experiences, undoubtedly, this was something only necessary to complete at Fifth Tier, given that with his current Fourth Tier Soul point acquisition efficiency, even if he wanted to upgrade, he couldn't.

"The total number of monsters in this Christmas Transmission Channel in Greenland is only slightly over two hundred thousand. In other words, the over seventy thousand I just dealt with already account for more than a third. Yet, even a third of the monsters only helped gather just over twenty million Soul points for me.

Calculating this way, even if I kill all these two hundred thousand monsters, it might barely gather seventy or eighty million Soul points, not even reaching a hundred million. So, upgrading to higher Skill Levels and such is indeed not worth thinking about."

Based on the current Fourth Tier Soul point acquisition efficiency, it's not just a matter of Zhang Yanhang clearing this Christmas Transmission Channel, but even if Zhang Yanhang worked non-stop worldwide until his promotion to Fifth Tier, he still wouldn't be confident of gathering enough Soul points for an upgrade, let alone just gathering Soul points for one skill.

Therefore, I can only say that with Zhang Yanhang's current Fourth Tier Soul point acquisition efficiency, any thought of upgrading subsequent levels is indeed quite thankless. It's better to wait until the promotion to Fifth Tier for completion, which should undoubtedly be much easier by then.

"Having just promoted the Heavenly Earth Skill, I consumed one point of Ash Source and one point of Legendary Essence. So now, I only have eight points of Ash Source and seven points of Legendary Essence left. But fortunately, it's still sufficient, at least for upgrading skills without promoting the Rank."

However, considering the Rank promotion issue, it's necessary to strive to acquire more Ash Source. Fortunately, Zhang Yanhang now has the Dual-choice ability, which should definitely allow him to surpass previous Ash Source acquisition efficiency.

After all, two options providing Ash Source will certainly yield more than one option. While it might not directly double, if it increases by half, based on past experience, it's absolutely easy to achieve.

Perhaps no other option might be worth Zhang Yanhang consuming the Energy value limit, but if additional Ash Source can be acquired, consuming a full one hundred points of Energy value limit is no big deal. After all, Ash Source is indeed more useful than a simple Energy value limit.

After checking the Soul points balance, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened the Skill Effect of Heavenly Earth Form · Original Scripture LV.6 and began to examine it because it also unsurprisingly didn't trigger any related Additional Attributes options this time, leading him to estimate that he had obtained another fixed reward.

[Heavenly Earth Form · Original Scripture LV.6 (Active skills)]

[Active Effect: After Skill Activation, the Heavenly Destiny Master can freely transform (enlarge) the body, with the highest transformation limit being 2400% (+400%) + 2700% (+1200%) = 5100% (+1600%) [current is 219 meters (+79 meters)], Power Effect +600% (+100%). No cooldown time, consumes a small amount of Physical Strength.]

[Additional Attributes: Highest transformation limit +2700% (+1200%).]

"Having just spent twenty million Soul points plus one point of Ash Source and one point of Legendary Essence to upgrade to Original LV.6, the Original Stage of the Heavenly Earth Form is indeed much stronger."

Originally, the highest transformation limit of the Heavenly Earth Skill's base was only 2000%. Now, with the upgrade to Original LV.6, it increased by 400%, improving the highest transformation limit to 2400%.

Furthermore, due to upgrading to LV.6, the Additional Attributes also enhanced the highest transformation limit by 1200%, increasing it from the original 1500% to 2700%.

This way, the highest transformation limit of Heavenly Earth Form becomes 2400%+2700%=5100%, whereas previously, it was only 3500%. This upgrade to Original LV.6 has improved the highest transformation limit by 1600%."

In terms of proportion, Zhang Yanhang only increased two levels, yet the Skill Effect grew by nearly half, which is indeed quite impressive.

"And after the highest transformation limit conversion coefficient increased, my size limit also grew significantly, increasing from the original 140 meters to 219 meters, an increase of 79 meters directly."

It must be noted that when Zhang Yanhang first promoted to the Rank, the total highest transformation limit was only seventy meters. Now, in just a day, through automatic growth and skill level enhancements, the highest transformation limit has increased directly to more than three times the initial size, which is indeed quite extraordinary.

"This time, the 79 meters increase in the highest transformation limit resulted from the related conversion coefficient growing by 70 meters, while the remaining nine meters were increased through the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill."

In the past approximately two hours, Zhang Yanhang's current size has again shown an increase due to automatic growth, enlarging by another 28 centimeters, from the original 401 centimeters to 429 centimeters.

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