"I initially thought that having around 80 million soul points before advancing to the Fifth Tier would already be quite good, but I didn't expect that now it seems I'm just shy of one million soul points, only twenty-eight thousand soul points away. I estimate I can easily gather them with a little effort."

Not to mention, Zhang Yanhang could likely easily gather this portion of soul points just by relying on the soul points obtained from killing the Ancestor Virus Infected.

After all, since even the Fourth Tier Two-star Electromagnetic Railgun is worth seven thousand soul points, it stands to reason that as a Fourth Tier Three-star Elite Monster, the Ancestor Virus Infected should be worth at least five figures in soul points. With fifty of them, gathering twenty-eight thousand soul points is indeed a breeze.

"In this case, wouldn't I have more than a hundred million soul points to use after advancing to the Fifth Tier?"

Although a hundred million soul points might only suffice to upgrade a Level 9 skill, for Zhang Yanhang, who just needs to improve his Profession Level and Cultivation Method Level upon advancing to the Fifth Tier, it should definitely be enough.

After briefly checking the soul point balance, Zhang Yanhang quickly started counting the various things he had just obtained from the treasure boxes.

First, naturally, was the B-level Talent [Muscle Regeneration] acquired from the drop treasure box. This time, Zhang Yanhang acquired a total of 1343 Muscle Regenerations.

And after upgrading the XXX Talent [Infinite Life] last time, he had a total of 664 Muscle Regenerations left, and with this acquisition of 1343 Muscle Regenerations, he now owns a total of 2007 Muscle Regenerations.

"If I want to upgrade the XXX-level Talent Infinite Life to an EX-level Talent or another higher-level Talent, I need to consume a total of 177,147 E-level Slow Corrotion; even after converting by a factor of twenty-seven into B-level Muscle Regenerations, it still requires 6561 Muscle Regeneration Talents, which is far from what I can gather at the moment."

Zhang Yanhang is currently 4554 Muscle Regenerations short of upgrading Infinite Life, and for these 4554 Muscle Regenerations, even with the drop rate of Fourth Tier Monsters, where you only need to kill 7.5 to get a drop treasure box, it would still require killing about 35,000 Fourth Tier Monsters to gather enough.

And if factoring in the drop rate of the Third Tier Monsters that make up the absolute majority of the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, where you need to kill seventeen to get a drop, it would require killing nearly 80,000 Third Tier Monsters to gather enough.

But the problem is that the total number of monsters in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field is only 90,000, meaning the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field would need to refresh again to completely gather enough Muscle Regenerations.

Moreover, this is considering the current drop rate of the Fourth Tier; given that the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field cannot refresh immediately, when he comes to clear again at the Fifth Tier, due to the corresponding rank penalty, it will require killing twenty-seven to get a drop treasure box, which translates to needing to kill 120,000 monsters to gather enough.

In other words, even if the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field refreshed once, it wouldn't be enough; it would take about three-quarters of an Umbrella Biochemical Test Field to gather enough.

Plus, since the Ashen World historically has a slow monster refresh rate, Zhang Yanhang feels he absolutely can't count on automatically refreshing to upgrade the XXX-level Talent Infinite Life, and will only have more hope when he finds related new areas in the future.

After counting the number of talents, Zhang Yanhang sighed silently, then packed all the small light balls into the waist bag, and continued counting the gains in artifacts. Speaking of the gains in artifacts, Zhang Yanhang literally only got one type of artifact gain.

That is the Dark Gold Quality Artifact [T/G Composite Virus Modification Medicine] acquired from the drop treasure box of the Electromagnetic Railgun.

This time, Zhang Yanhang once again acquired nine bottles of [T/G Composite Virus Modification Medicine] from the drop treasure box, and counting the previous six bottles of [T/G Composite Virus Modification Medicine], Zhang Yanhang now owns a total of fifteen bottles of [T/G Composite Virus Modification Medicine].

However, because the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill has not yet been upgraded, he currently still does not intend to use them and plans to wait until advancing to the Fifth Tier to use them.

So, [T/G Composite Virus Modification Medicine] was also put into the waist bag by Zhang Yanhang, packed together with the previous [T/G Composite Virus Modification Medicines].

After successively counting the talent and artifact gains, Zhang Yanhang promptly started counting the equipment gains.

First was the Life Ring dropped from the T-103 model Super Tyrant, this time Zhang Yanhang got a total of 708 Life Rings.

After the last fusion, besides the newly obtained Life Rings, Zhang Yanhang also has forty-one Life Rings+6, one Life Ring+5, one Life Ring+4, one Life Ring+2, one Life Ring+1, and one Ordinary Life Ring.

But because those forty-one Life Rings+6 are already fused to their limit, they do not need to be involved in this fusion; only considering the remaining loose Life Rings, they are equivalent to fifty-five Ordinary Life Rings, thus, adding them all up is equivalent to a total of 763 Ordinary Life Rings.

Of course, if he can fuse more than seven Life Rings+6 this time, Zhang Yanhang might still attempt to break through the limit and fuse a Dark Gold Quality Life Ring+7.

Upon completing the count, Zhang Yanhang quickly placed all the Life Rings into the Alchemy Array for fusion. In the first fusion round, Zhang Yanhang used eighteen batches to fuse 354 Life Rings+1, with the previously extra Life Ring not being utilized.

In the second fusion round, Zhang Yanhang used nine batches to fuse 177 Life Rings+2, with the previously extra Life Ring+1 still not being utilized.

But the third round was different, Zhang Yanhang finally used the leftover Life Ring+2, combining it with freshly synthesized Life Rings+2, using five batches to fuse eighty-nine Life Rings+3.

By the fourth fusion round, although Zhang Yanhang intended to use the leftover Life Ring+3 to fill the gap, unfortunately, such an item didn't exist, so after using two batches to fuse forty-four Life Rings+4, one Life Ring+3 was left unmatched.

In the following fifth round, only one batch was used to fuse twenty-two Life Rings+5, and in the final sixth fusion round, one batch again sufficed to fuse eleven Life Rings+6.

"I originally had forty-one Life Rings+6; now I have another eleven Life Rings+6, totaling fifty-two Life Rings. My goodness, I even have twelve more than needed."

Besides these fifty-two Life Rings+6, Zhang Yanhang has one Life Ring+5, one Life Ring+4, one Life Ring+3, one Life Ring+1, and one Ordinary Life Ring.

It's safe to say, apart from lacking one Life Ring+2 and having an extra Life Ring+3, the excess Life Rings were essentially not used in the process this time, maintaining nearly the same status as the original condition.

"Since there are already twelve excess Life Rings+6, it's indeed time to try breaking the limit by fusing a Dark Gold Quality Life Ring+7."

Zhang Yanhang was speaking while counting out eight Golden Quality Life Rings +6 and placing them into the Alchemy Array to begin fusion. Although it's about breaking through the limit, for Zhang Yanhang, who is now skillful to the extreme in alchemy, the difficulty of breaking through the limit is actually almost the same as ordinary fusion.

The only difference is probably that breaking through the limit involves eight pieces of equipment, so the fusion speed is relatively slow.

But Zhang Yanhang quickly completed the fusion, and looking at the Life Ring +7 in front of him that was flashing with dark gold light, he immediately began to check its attribute list.

[Life Ring +7]

[Quality: Dark Gold]

[Type: Equipment]

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

[Durability: 68/68]

[Defensive power: 53]

[Additional Attributes: Life Value Limit +4.5% (+3%).]

[Additional Attributes: Life Value Recovery Speed +60%]

[Usage requirements: Constitution ten points.]

[Score: 490 (Dark Gold Items score ranges from 441 to 530.)]

[Introduction: The Life Ring designed and manufactured by the chief scientist of the A-3 Comprehensive Scientific Research Base, Dr. Krees, aims to ensure his body, which becomes increasingly sluggish due to staying up all night playing games for a long time, and to prevent other scientists engaged in research during his gaming time from sudden death due to overwork.]

"Hmm? Hmm?! How come the Life Ring has suddenly increased the Life Value Limit by 3% after being upgraded to Dark Gold Quality through fusion +7? This is just ridiculous!"

Zhang Yanhang recalled that the Life Ring +6 only provided a total of 1.5% Life Value Limit increase before, and just by promoting it to Dark Gold Quality, it suddenly surged to 4.5%, equivalent to a tripling overall.

Considering that the Life Ring in its initial state only added a 0.9% Life Value Limit increase, now the life ring has enhanced the Life Value Limit to five times its original status, which indeed seems absurd any way you look at it.

"What exactly caused this situation? Is it because this time the other additional attribute Life Value Recovery Speed did not increase?"

Zhang Yanhang thought that is very likely, as the current situation indeed looks like the portion of enhancement originally belonging to the Life Value Recovery Speed was allocated to the Life Value Limit, resulting in what's happening now.

As for why the Life Value Recovery Speed did not get enhanced this time, Zhang Yanhang had no idea, since he only understood fusion, and apart from that, information related to forging was basically alien to him; after all, he is an Alchemist, not a blacksmith.

"But either way, giving up the enhancement of Life Value Recovery Speed is indeed a good thing for me currently, as a 3% Life Value Limit increase is still quite delightful."

Zhang Yanhang initially thought the small goal set for the Life Value Limit might actually be difficult to achieve, but now it seems entirely achievable.

"And besides the improvement of additional attributes, after the Life Ring +7 upgraded to Dark Gold Quality, the usage requirements unsurprisingly again saw an increase.

But it only symbolically increased by five Constitution Attributes, evolving from needing five Constitution Attributes to ten Constitution Attributes to be usable, which, although surpassing the Constitution Attributes of ordinary people, should not present a problem for those practicing Heaven and Earth Creation Technique in this Spiritual Qi Recovery Era."

Although currently, because the Spiritual Qi Recovery has only lasted a bit more than half a year, Zhang Yanhang thinks some ordinary people with initially better Constitution might possibly have already reached more than ten Constitution Attributes, even if they have barely started practicing the early parts of the Heaven and Earth Creation Technique.

Therefore, overall, though it technically belongs to the Fourth Tier Late Stage of the Dark Gold Quality, its inherent design principle remains intact, still allowing ordinary people to use it normally.

"But compared to usage requirements, the equipment score is even more important. Originally, the Life Ring +6's equipment score was only 440 points, but now after upgrading to Dark Gold Quality, it has increased to a score of 490, equivalent to a fifty-point surge through breaking the limit."

Zhang Yanhang recalled that previously, a single fusion of the Life Ring only increased the score by twenty-five points, whilst this time it equated to doubling the previous score increase, which was just bearable.

After all, a situation where the score jumped to triple the original had just occurred, so although the additional attributes of the Life Ring grew quite extraordinarily this time, its equipment score remained regular, with no abnormal growth beyond the typical range; it simply grew from Golden Quality full score to Dark Gold Quality medium score.

Only if it increased directly from Golden Quality full score to Dark Gold Quality high score, or even full score, would it be considered unusual.

"Nonetheless, given that the enhancement is substantial after the Life Ring breaks through the limit and upgrades to Dark Gold Quality, indeed, efforts should be made in the future to try and fuse Dark Gold Quality Life Ring +7."

That said, for Zhang Yanhang at present, it is actually impossible to fuse even if he wishes to, as he has already defeated all the T-103 type Super Tyrants in the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, with none left.

Therefore, the current Life Rings he can fuse practically represent the limit, and more Life Rings can only perhaps be obtained from the third prize pool of the Lucky Slot Machine, but there are only a total of one hundred monsters in the third prize pool, so even if obtainable, it wouldn't be much.

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