Aside from the Limitless Universe Skill, Zhang Yanhang's previously enhanced Indestructible Golden Body can now be normally strengthened, but like other Origin LV.7 skills, it requires 26,214,400 Soul points, which he currently cannot afford. So, upgrading it is definitely not possible.

Even if he has extra Soul points left after clearing the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, Zhang Yanhang would definitely not use them to upgrade these skills. He prefers to save the surplus Soul points for promotion to the Fifth Tier, to improve his Profession Level and new professional skills.

After all, according to the law that each generation is stronger than the last, the skills of the new tier at least shouldn't be much weaker than Heaven and Earth Devourer and Hundred Taboos, even if not as strong.

"So, the question arises: since my current Soul points balance is only enough to upgrade one skill, should I upgrade Gun Mastery or Fighting Master first?"

Zhang Yanhang thought carefully and decided he should upgrade Gun Mastery first, with no particularly important reason—it's just simply upgrading in order.

"Once I finish upgrading Gun Mastery, I only have Fighting Master left to upgrade. After Fighting Master is done, I can save the extra Soul points."

Not to mention, at least the Profession Level is something Zhang Yanhang feels he needs to upgrade, which can yield a lot of free attribute points. This way, he can immediately reach the Peak Fifth Tier upon promotion, and not be bullied by same-tier and high-tier enemies.

"Therefore, I choose Option One, to upgrade Gun Mastery from LV.MAX to Original LV.5."

After a quick check of the skill list, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his choice, and the Time Pause immediately ended, but he quickly triggered a second selection.

...

November 2nd, Monday, the first day after Halloween, and the second day Zhang Yanhang entered the Ashen World, at zero fifteen past midnight, Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box.

After successfully upgrading Gun Mastery from LV.MAX to Original LV.6, Zhang Yanhang had just ended the Time Pause and was soon pulled into the Time Pause state again by randomly triggered additional attribute options.

[You have acquired the skill 'Gun Master·Original LV.6', now randomly drawing additional attributes.]

[Do you want to choose the additional attributes for the skill 'Gun Master·Original LV.6'?]

[Additional Attribute One: Soul Hunter Gunman (Choosing Soul Hunter Gunman will add a suffix 'Soul Hunter Gunman' and moderately specialize the skill's enhancement effects.

Specific specialization includes a slight reduction in Remote Attack Power Bonus, moderate increase in attributes like 'Precision', 'critical hit', 'Armor Penetration', extra 'Soul Shooting' effect…)]

[Additional Attribute Two: Atomic Energy Master (Choosing Atomic Energy Master will completely transform the 'Gun Master·Original LV.6' skill into 'Atomic Energy Master·Original LV.7'.

Specific transformation includes a significant reduction in Remote Attack Power Bonus when using Clean Energy and fossil fuel weapons to attack, moderate increase in Remote Attack Power Bonus when using Atomic energy (Nuclear energy) and Radiation energy attacks, moderate increase in attributes related to 'Nuclear Fission', 'Radiation', 'Explosion'…)]

[Additional Attribute Three: Remote Attack Power +80%]

"This time the additional attributes seem quite different. Previously, it was about things like Gunner and Sharpshooter, but this time there's a Soul Hunter Gunman, sounding like some kind of Transcendent profession targeting directed attacks on souls."

But since this isn't a real Profession, Zhang Yanhang isn't very interested in this Soul Hunter Gunman, even though attacking souls is indeed great, but he really doesn't need it.

Although Zhang Yanhang himself does not have any specialized soul attack abilities, he is an Awakener, able to overcome any Ghost by attaching Spiritual Energy to his fists, hence he doesn't really worry about such things, and the Death Wave is also effective against soul bodies. Thus, he never really cares about this aspect.

Additionally, he truly doesn't think any soul body can withstand his fists comparable to a megaton nuclear explosion, unless dealing with soul-type deities, but ordinary souls are utterly insignificant.

Due to possessing Supreme Will, he similarly doesn't worry about spiritual or soul attacks, implying that even with powerful deities with soul divine positions, even if they exceed by two or three tiers, just standing still for them to attack would not cause any harm, a natural position of invincibility.

"Besides the Soul Hunter Gunman in Additional Attribute One, the Atomic Energy Master in Additional Attribute Two is also quite absurd; is it because of my recent frequent encounters with atomic energy that this was unlocked?"

Though I've often been attacked with nuclear explosions recently, and my normal attacks are comparable to nuclear blasts, I myself do not possess atomic energy, not even radiation energy. Okay, maybe radiation energy is there."

Compared to atomic energy being narrowly a synonym for nuclear energy, the range of radiation energy is quite broad, such as electromagnetic energy, solar radiation. For example, the electromagnetic energy pump Zhang Yanhang is equipped with now is evidently related to this.

"But related is related, the electromagnetic energy pump is indeed not an offensive weapon. Hence, option two is not selectable."

If Zhang Yanhang encountered the Atomic Energy Master in the First or Second Tier, he would definitely choose it, as it sounds powerful. But for Zhang Yanhang at the Fourth Tier, whose normal attack is stronger than a nuclear blast, it's really unnecessary.

"So, indeed, the most straightforward Remote Attack Power Bonus is more useful. I choose Additional Attribute Three, Remote Attack Power +80%."

Zhang Yanhang made the relevant choice after reviewing the three additional attribute options.

With the end of Time Pause, Zhang Yanhang, having successfully upgraded his skills, didn't immediately view the additional attributes of Gun Master·Original LV.6, but first checked his Soul points balance.

[Soul points: 18,904,457 (-19,660,800)]

"I just had 38,560,000 soul points, but because I consumed 19,660,000 soul points to upgrade a skill, my soul point balance immediately dropped to 18,900,000 soul points, still lacking 760,000 soul points to upgrade the Fighting Master Skill."

Under the current circumstances, Zhang Yanhang estimates that after clearing the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, he should have no issue accumulating at least 50 million soul points, especially since he still has roughly two-fifths of the monsters left to clear.

"Even if the Fifth Tier profession level is expensive, these 50 million soul points should at least enable me to upgrade the initial level, and might even allow me to upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill too."

Zhang Yanhang has always liked upgrading these two together since both the profession level and cultivation method level are his most important channels for improving attribute values.

"Apart from the 19,660,000 soul points, I've also consumed one Legendary Essence and one Ash Source due to upgrading Gun Mastery to the Original Stage."

I originally had two points of Legendary Essence and three points of Ash Source, but now I only have one Legendary Essence and two points of Ash Source left, making it insufficient for upgrading Alchemy..."

Zhang Yanhang had actually been wanting to upgrade Alchemy for a long time, but unfortunately, it's been postponed due to insufficient Ash Source. Now it seems he'll have to wait until clearing the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field to upgrade.

The good news though is, if there's enough Ash Source leftover, he might be able to upgrade Alchemy twice after entering the Fifth Tier, which he's quite looking forward to for the additional attributes he might gain then.

Although the two additional attributes of Enchantment and Extraction he recently acquired have barely been used due to time constraints.

Of course, Enchantment is due to a lack of time, but for Extraction, there aren't suitable materials to utilize. Originally, he thought of making use of monster corpses to see if he could extract something useful.

But now, monster corpses have been fully utilized, constantly being absorbed by the Stomach Space.

Hence, Zhang Yanhang plans to retrieve some monster corpses from the Stomach Space once he returns to the Main World, to experiment with the extraction ability.

After checking the soul point balance, Zhang Yanhang immediately began reviewing the skill effects of the newly upgraded Gun Master·Original LV.6.

[Gun Master·Original LV.6 (Passive)]

[Skill Effect: Increase remote attack power by 240% (+40%), enhance proficiency in firearms and relevant remote combat skills.]

[Additional attribute: Remote attack power +230% (+80%).]

"After upgrading Gun Mastery to Original LV.6, the remote attack power bonus increased by another 40%, from 200% to 240%; the additional attribute also boosted remote attack power bonus by another 80%, from 150% to 230%.

When you add the base remote attack bonus and the additional attribute bonus, the total bonus increased from 350% to 470%, which is a good increase of 120%."

Although after upgrading to the Original Stage of Gun Mastery, there is no change in skill description apart from relevant bonuses, Zhang Yanhang thinks it's alright since changes have never occurred in them before, so it's something he's used to.

"But I must say, after being accustomed to other professional skills, coming back to observe the basic profession skill of Gun Master feels simple, straightforward, and oddly minimalistic, almost giving the impression of being weak due to fewer words."

Actually, the current Gun Master is not weak at all, given that the remote attack power bonus of 470% equals the combined bonus provided by ten pieces of Orange Quality Equipment, and Orange Quality is Fifth Tier Equipment.

If you compare it to Zhang Yanhang's same-tier Golden Quality Equipment, it's almost comparable to the combined bonus from sixteen pieces of Golden Quality Equipment.

So, the bonus it provides is indeed quite substantial, even more than the Tarot Card Set combined. If it seems weak, it's likely because of less text leading to such perception.

Alright, from a strength perspective, compared to Zhang Yanhang's other professional skills, it might be slightly weaker.

In this regard, it's true, considering this is a basic profession skill.

That's normal, as it's not feasible for basic profession skills to be more potent than advanced skills obtained after tier promotion like Technique Immunity, otherwise, tier promotion would lose its significance.

In a way, Zhang Yanhang also believes Gun Mastery and Fighting Mastery might have been chosen because he learned their low-tier versions from skill books originally, so Multiple Choice later reinforced and transformed them into professional skills during progression.

Initially, perhaps these skills weren't part of the Heavenly Destiny Master skill system, making them appear somewhat out of place, with slightly lower strength compared to other skills since these are the only ones in his skill list requiring attribute selection after promotion.

Obviously, this just means that compared to Zhang Yanhang's other normal professional skills, they are slightly weaker, but compared to the typical awakened skills of other ordinary professionals, these are certainly of extraordinary strength.

Given that their total bonus is equivalent to ten pieces of Orange Quality Equipment, and for typical awakened individuals who don't have the bonus equipment slots from possessing the Three-Headed Six-Armed skill, ten equipment slots should occupy the majority of their slots apart from rings and accessories.

Plus, Fighting Mastery, after promotion, should enhance similarly to Gun Mastery, effectively providing bonuses equivalent to twenty equipment slots, and for ordinary awakened individuals removing rings, even counting accessories, whether they have so many slots is uncertain.

Therefore, despite its simple and humble appearance, Gun Mastery is indeed extremely strong and provides Zhang Yanhang with a solid foundation in remote attacks, where any remote attack would be at least 4.7 times stronger, proving to be significant in both past and future.

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