"So, here's the question, should we continue with the fusion of the Life Ring+5?"

During the previous fusion process, Zhang Yanhang could clearly feel that although the Life Ring had already been fused to +4, it was still far from its limit. Based on past experiences, it could probably be fused to +6 before reaching its limit.

However, if he kept the Life Ring+4 as it is, forty-seven Life Rings+4 could easily fill the equipment slots for his thirty fingers. But if he fused them to Life Ring+5, the number of rings would be halved, making it impossible to satisfy the thirty finger slots.

But Zhang Yanhang thought it over carefully and realized there weren't that many missing anyway, so he finally decided to continue the fusion.

After restarting the Alchemy Array, Zhang Yanhang used two rounds to complete the fusion of the last batch of Life Ring+4, resulting in a total of twenty-three Life Rings+5 and one leftover Life Ring+4.

"Twenty-three? Hmm? Twenty-three?! How is it twenty-three again? It's like saying I can satisfy my equipment requirements perfectly without even removing the Crimson Iron Ring. This is the epitome of coincidence!"

At first, Zhang Yanhang didn't expect this outcome. After all, who would have thought he would end up with twenty-three Life Rings twice? This level of variable control is truly astounding.

"Yet, the seven spare fingers aren't entirely useless, as besides the twenty-three Life Rings+5, I also have one Life Ring+4, one Life Ring+3, and one ordinary Life Ring to equip, leaving only four fingers without rings."

Zhang Yanhang recalls previously, after completing a fusion, he only managed to equip rings on twenty-five fingers, whereas this time, rings are on twenty-six fingers, so at least there's a bit of progress.

After the fusion, looking at the Life Ring+5 still glimmering with golden light, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened its attribute list to take a look.

[Life Ring+5]

[Quality: Golden]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, Terra City, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 67/67]

[Defensive Power: 52]

[Additional Attribute: Life Value Limit +1.38% (+0.24%).]

[Additional Attribute: Life Value Recovery Speed +54% (+12%)]

[Usage Requirements: Constitution 5 points.]

[Score: 415 (The score for golden items ranges from 351 to 440.)]

[Introduction: The Life Ring was developed, designed, and manufactured by Dr. Krees, the chief scientist at the A-3 integrated scientific research base, to ensure that he maintains his increasingly deteriorating health due to long hours of gaming and to prevent other scientists from sudden death during their overtime research while he's gaming.]

"Even after being fused to +5, the Life Ring remains at the golden quality, and its equipment score increased from the initial 365 to 415, a fifty-point increase, effectively moving from a low to a high golden-quality score.

"Averaging across the two fusions, there was a twenty-five point increase each time, maintaining the same rate of growth as before."

Zhang Yanhang had anticipated the growth of the Life Ring+5's equipment score since it is unlikely for any significant changes to occur with score increases in normal circumstances other than surpassing limits. Thus, each fusion typically raises the score by twenty-five points.

"Compared to the equipment score, the growth of the additional attributes is even more significant. This time, the life value limit from Additional Attribute One increased from the original 1.14% to 1.38%, a total increase of 0.24%. Averaging the two fusions results in a 0.12% increase in life value limit each time.

"Similarly, the growth in Additional Attribute Two is quite standard, with the life value recovery speed increasing from the initial 42% to 54%, a total increase of 12% in recovery speed, meaning each fusion contributed a 6% increase, maintaining the previous growth rate."

However, even with two additional fusions, the life value recovery speed provided by the Life Ring remains disappointingly low, which Zhang Yanhang found quite frustrating.

"Given the current situation, even with twenty-three Life Rings+5, I can only receive a mere 5.52% increase in life value limit.

"Although with my current life value limit nearing thirty thousand points, even a 5% boost can provide considerable benefits, 5.52% still feels somewhat underwhelming."

Besides, Zhang Yanhang also has one Life Ring+4, one Life Ring+3, and one ordinary Life Ring, so the actual increase wouldn't be as low as it seems.

After checking the attribute list of the Life Ring+5, Zhang Yanhang glanced at the Life Ring+4 as well, which increases the life value limit by 1.26% with an additional 48% life value recovery speed bonus.

Realistically, the twenty-six Life Rings of varying fusion times in Zhang Yanhang's possession can provide a total of 35.04% increase in life value limit, a 6.9% rise from the previous 28.14%, theoretically increasing his life limit significantly.

Furthermore, the life value recovery speed offered by the Life Rings jumped from 966% to 1362%, a total increase of 396% recovery speed.

But compared to Zhang Yanhang's recently skyrocketed life value limit, the growth speed of life value recovery still seems too slow, as if it didn't have the chance to demonstrate its strength before already lagging behind.

After completing the fusion of the Life Rings, Zhang Yanhang quickly put all twenty-six Life Rings back on his fingers, once again equipping his fingers to the fullest. Now, only four fingers remain empty. Zhang Yanhang believes that next time he opens a treasure chest, he will definitely be able to complete them without the same coincidence occurring again.

Successfully equipping the Life Rings and re-hiding them, Zhang Yanhang immediately reopened his Life Value Limit to check, wanting to know how much the 6.9% Life Value Limit bonus just now could increase his current Life Value Limit.

But no matter what, breaking the Life Value Limit through thirty thousand points should be absolutely no problem.

[Life Value: 30841/30841 (Constitution ×79, the current body has been formally digitized, Life Value Recovery Speed, 71 points per hour.)]

"My original Life Value Limit was 29,936 points, and now it has increased to 30,841 points, which is equivalent to an additional growth of 905 points in Life Value Limit. Indeed, as the base increases, even a casual 6.9% Life Value Limit bonus can grow the Life Value Limit by nearly a thousand points."

If it were before I drank the Ancestor Virus Enhancement Potion, Zhang Yanhang estimated that this 6.9% Life Value Limit could increase the Life Value Limit by five or six hundred points, which might have been quite good, but it can't be compared at all with the current nine hundred plus points.

"After the Life Value Limit grew to 30,841 points, I also successfully achieved the small target of a thirty thousand Life Value Limit. The next small target is still set at thirty-one thousand points, and currently, I am actually quite close to achieving this small target, just 159 points away in Life Value Limit."

For the current Zhang Yanhang, these 159 Life Value Limit points are just a matter of adding one or two more Life Rings, which should be easily achieved the next time he opens a treasure chest.

"My original Life Value Limit was 6.6 times that of an ordinary Fourth Tier Awakener, but now, it has increased to 6.8 times, equivalent to an additional growth of 0.2 times. I'm only 0.2 times away from the small target of seven times I set earlier."

This 0.2 times is equivalent to merely nine hundred points in Life Value Limit, and for this incomplete part of the Life Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang estimated that he could automatically fill it just by relying on the Life Rings, not needing to trouble Indestructible Golden Body.

"Compared to the Life Value Limit, my Life Value Recovery Speed still remains unchanged, maintaining at seventy-one points per hour. Of course, this is merely surface-level unchanged, but in reality, it still enjoys a high 1362% Life Value Recovery Speed bonus.

Originally, under the 966% bonus, the Life Value Recovery Speed was 757 points per hour, but now it has increased to 1,038 points per hour, equivalent to an increase of 281 points per hour in Life Value Recovery Speed. To be honest, this is quite a lot, but objectively speaking, it's not really that much."

After all, even though the Life Value Recovery Speed is already 1,038 points per hour, it still takes thirty hours to fully recover a bar of Life Value automatically.

"Previously, it only took twenty-six hours to fully recover a bar of Life Value, but now, even though the Life Value Recovery Speed has significantly increased, the overall Life Value Recovery Speed has decreased. It now takes four more hours than before to fully recover."

In response, Zhang Yanhang could only lament that his Life Value Limit grew too quickly, causing the Life Value Recovery Speed to completely fall behind the growth rate of the Life Value Limit.

Zhang Yanhang had already anticipated this situation before, so he's not surprised at all. His previous description of "falling behind before it even had time to make a difference" was indeed quite accurate.

"However, as of now, the target of fully recovering a bar of Life Value within one day is indeed becoming more and more unattainable, and it will likely be very difficult to achieve."

Zhang Yanhang believes that with his current Life Value Limit growth rate, this small target has great potential to become a long-term goal.

After all, from the current situation, the previous twenty-six hours might be the closest he will get to achieving this small target for a long time, and when the next opportunity to come so close or even achieve this goal will be is anyone's guess.

After checking the Life Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened his Shield Value Limit to start reviewing it.

[Shield Value: 144954/144954 (Life Value Limit ×470%, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]

"Compared to the Life Value Limit, indeed, the Shield Value Limit has grown much more. My Shield Value Limit was originally only 140,700 points, and now it has increased to 144,954 points, equivalent to an additional growth of 4,254 points in Shield Value Limit.

Unfortunately, the current 144,954 points Shield Value Limit still falls short of the small target of 145,000 points Shield Value Limit that I previously set, and it hasn't been directly achieved."

But saying there's a gap, it's actually only forty-six points away from the Shield Value Limit. Zhang Yanhang estimates that a few more Life Value Limit points should be enough to fill in this part of the deficiency.

"Now it seems that the 5,000-point Life Value Limit target is indeed not something that can be easily completed under normal circumstances."

Now Zhang Yanhang is a bit nostalgic for the times when each small target was just a thousand points. If it were those, it would definitely be easily completed, but unfortunately, a thousand points for his current self provides no challenge. Even if it could be set, it wouldn't hold much significance. In comparison, the five thousand points currently seem more suited for him.

"An ordinary Fourth Tier Awakener has a Life Value Limit of 4,500 points. Previously, when my Shield Value Limit was only 140,700 points, it was equivalent to 31.3 times the Life Value Limit of a Fourth Tier Awakener. Now that the Shield Value Limit has reached 144,954 points, it is equivalent to 32.2 times a Fourth Tier Awakener's Life Value Limit."

Thus, Zhang Yanhang's Shield Value Limit has once again increased by 0.9 times, but there still exists a certain gap to the previously set small target of thirty-five times the Life Value Limit. But at least it's only a 2.8 times gap, which is not much; he should certainly be able to complete it before advancing to the Fifth Tier.

Presumably, with the ensuing promotion of the Indestructible Golden Body and level advancements, he will certainly be able to easily achieve this small target.

After checking the Life Value Limit and Shield Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang quickly continued to assess the next item of equipment gains, which was the last of the treasure box gains this time. Besides Soul Points, the drop treasure box only yielded Muscle Regeneration Talent, Life Rings, and Neck Potential Activation Device as the three gains.

This time, Zhang Yanhang obtained a total of 196 Golden Quality [Neck Potential Activation Device (Magnetic Energy Embedded)] from the drop treasure box.

After counting them, Zhang Yanhang wasn't in a hurry to fuse them immediately. Instead, he first observed the appearance of this Neck Potential Activation Device to determine where exactly it should be equipped.

Only after understanding if it can be equipped and the specific location can he better proceed with the fusion, to prevent all of them from fusing into a single piece when they should have been four separate pieces.

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