Although it still feels a bit long even if it's just ten minutes, thinking about alchemy being able to ascend again immediately after reaching the fifth tier, Zhang Yanhang feels it's acceptable.

After all, unlike the fourth tier, his fifth-tier alchemy will definitely ascend immediately after promotion due to not lacking Ash Source.

Therefore, the current [Alchemy·Origin] is just a very short transitional phase, so short that it will disappear almost in about an hour, and by then, the upgraded alchemy will surely satisfy Zhang Yanhang.

At the same time, he hopes that the fifth-tier alchemy will come with a more useful additional attribute, strongly helping him quickly enhance his strength. Well, this kind of additional attribute may still be somewhat challenging for an auxiliary skill like alchemy.

"After working hard for so long, finally gathering six pieces of orange quality upgrade materials is really not easy."

Zhang Yanhang remembers that during his third tier, he easily upgraded the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist twice, relying on the large amount of minerals from the Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguna, while here he barely managed to gather the upgrade materials needed for the first upgrade after exhausting himself.

There is indeed some advantage from the environment of the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguna, but it's also due to the increasing upgrade requirements of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist each time.

This also made it increasingly difficult for Zhang Yanhang to gather enough upgrade materials, because previously at the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguna they only required four and five weapons of the same quality, but now it has increased to needing six.

If the upgrade requirements could still remain at four pieces of orange quality weapons, Zhang Yanhang reckons he would have already directly met the relevant requirements with the +5 orange quality Neck Potential Activation Device.

And the upcoming upgrade requirements will, unsurprisingly, change to needing seven pieces of red quality weapons after the upgrade, making it more difficult to gather, but there's no choice. The Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist is indeed very strong, so even if upgrading is challenging, it still must be done.

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang feels the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist does indeed fit his fighting style. Besides weapons like gloves, he really doesn't like using sword-type weapons.

Mainly because he has no relevant skills; after all, he's a Fighting Master, not a sword master. With skills upgraded to this level, temporarily shifting to another style is completely unrealistic.

"Forget it, let's proceed with the upgrade..."

As Zhang Yanhang said this, he removed the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist from his hand and placed it alongside the newly fused Omida Nuclear Energy Cannon +1.

But before that, there's another step to solve, which is to convert the newly fused orange quality Neck Potential Activation Device +5 into a weapon.

Zhang Yanhang is naturally already very familiar with this step and easily manages to convert it successfully into the short knife type weapon he is most familiar with. Each time, the upgrade materials are basically converted into this most basic and simplest weapon form, solved by simple shaping and sharpening.

After naming the two converted Neck Potential Activation Devices as Magnetic Energy Short Knives, Zhang Yanhang immediately placed them with the other upgrade materials and began triggering the related options, "Choose! Upgrade the quality of Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist!"

As Time Pause descended, a large frame of text options immediately floated in front of Zhang Yanhang.

[Do you want to upgrade the quality of the 'Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist'?]

[Option One: Yes (Consume six orange quality weapons: 'Magnetic Energy Short Knife', 'Magnetic Energy Short Knife', 'Omida Nuclear Energy Cannon +1', 'Omida Nuclear Energy Cannon +1', 'Omida Nuclear Energy Cannon +1', 'Omida Nuclear Energy Cannon +1' to enhance the quality of the 'Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist' to red.)]

[Option Two: Yes (Consume one 'Buddha Relic' to enhance the quality of the 'Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist' to red.)]

[Option Three: No (Although you already have six surplus orange quality weapons, you suddenly lose interest in upgrading the quality of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist for the time being, thinking you might find a way to make these orange weapons deliver greater value, even though you don't know what other uses these newly fused orange weapons might have.)]

"How should I put it, although options about Buddha Relics always appear each time, I indeed have no Buddha Relics to use."

Zhang Yanhang originally thought that with the technology of converting equipment into weapons from alchemy, gathering upgrade materials would be easy, but now it seems not at all like that; the acquisition difficulty of upgrade materials is still relatively high.

Before, he planned to find the Land of the Buddha Country after ascending the fourth tier but later thought that with the conversion technology, there shouldn't be a lack of upgrade materials, so he didn't go. But looking back now, indeed, Buddha Relics are the best upgrade choice.

Only, he's already reserved to upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline at the fifth tier because his current energy value limit and life value limit imbalance are quite severe, and the energy value limit is related to the strength limit of multiple choice, so he must prioritize upgrading as soon as possible. Only after upgrading the Scroll Dragon Bloodline will he have time to search for the Land of the Buddha Country.

"All things considered, compared to the increasingly high upgrade demands, one Buddha Relic at a time indeed seems more convenient to use."

Although Zhang Yanhang hasn't even seen a Buddha Relic yet and doesn't know what exactly it is, he believes that the difficulty of obtaining it shouldn't be too high, at least simpler than gathering a larger number of upgrade materials.

"So, I choose Option One, yes, to enhance the quality of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to red." After reviewing all the options, Zhang Yanhang quickly ignored the third option and immediately made his final choice.

As the Time Pause vanished, the Magnetic Energy Short Knives and Omida Nuclear Energy Cannon +1 stacked above the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist vanished instantly alongside it, and immediately after, the surface of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist, which had swallowed six weapons of the same quality, emanated a circle of dazzling red glow.

Upon confirming the successful upgrade, Zhang Yanhang promptly opened the attribute list of the red quality Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to view.

[Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist]

[Quality: Red]

[Type: Weapon]

[Origin: Ashen World, Land of the Buddha Country, Heretic Conversion Agency.]

[Durability: 270/270]

[Attack Power: 365 (+74)]

[Additional Attributes: Critical Strike Rate +30% (+6%)]

[Special Attributes: 1. All Four Elements are Void (Buddhist). 2. All Things are Impermanent (Buddhist).]

[All Four Elements are Void (Buddhist): Generates a Vajra (Gravity) Domain that draws in surrounding enemies, stunning them (Physical) for 4.8 seconds (+0.4 seconds).

Within 5 seconds after releasing this skill, the next attack will deal an additional 1127% (+127%) of Attack Power as physical attack to the target and its surrounding enemies and knock them into the air. Cooldown time 30 seconds, energy consumption 120 points (+15 points).]

[All Things are Impermanent (Buddhist): Increases total damage dealt to life form enemies by 52% (+12.4%), and the bonus is doubled when attacking targets with armor, clothing, or fur.]

[Upgradable, upgrade conditions: Consume Buddha Relics (0/1) or Red Quality Weapons (0/7).]

[Usage requirements: Strength 80, Agility 75, Constitution 75.]

[Score: 830 (Score for red items ranges from 681 to 830.)]

[Description: For some reason, a newcomer called me 'One Punch Man' after witnessing me wearing the Buddha-level Buddhist execution (conversion) gloves to perform routine conversion on heretics. — From an Arhat Level Heretic Conversion Agency Executioner]

"Since the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist was promoted to Red Quality, the Attack Power has increased quite a bit. I remember it was only about 291 points before, and now it has increased to 365 points, a total increase of 74 points in Attack Power, which is over a 25% increase. That's quite impressive."

As a weapon, the Attack Power marked on the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist can be likened to an amplifier for Zhang Yanhang's attack power, similar to an Attack Power Bonus, but much more complex than a mere Attack Power Bonus, leading Zhang Yanhang to never fully understand its calculation method.

However, due to its complexity, Zhang Yanhang usually just sees it as a simple power boost, understanding that any increase in Attack Power is proportionally amplified into a boost in his own Attack Power.

In other words, if the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist increases Attack Power by about 25%, then Zhang Yanhang's own Attack Strength should also increase by at least 25%, if not more. This is indeed quite impressive.

In terms of output capacity, previously he had to strike the Ancestor Virus Aggregation with full force for nearly a minute to forcibly kill it, but now he should at least save about ten seconds of time, which is a very significant improvement.

"Besides Attack Power, the Critical Strike Rate provided by the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist has also increased by 6%, from the original 24% to 30%. While this isn't much for me now, it actually equates to a bonus provided by a golden quality equipment if calculated individually."

For example, the Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask+7, fused by Zhang Yanhang through exceeding limits, provides a 32% Critical Strike Rate bonus, and the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist only falls 2% short of the bonus offered by the Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask+7.

"Since leaving the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano, I haven't gained any new equipment that can boost Critical Strike Rate and Critical Strike Damage, so my current Critical Strike Rate remains at the Third Tier Period level of 197%."

Of course, adding in the Green Ten-piece Set would increase both the Critical Strike Rate and Critical Strike Damage by about 3.5%, so Zhang Yanhang actually has a Critical Strike Rate of 200.5%, and with the 6% boost from the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist, he now has a total Critical Strike Rate of 206.5%.

The overflow of Critical Strike Rate beyond 100%, specifically the excess 106.5%, will be proportionally converted into a Critical Strike Damage bonus.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang's base Critical Strike Damage multiplier was 490%, accounting for the Green Ten-piece Set's 3.5% Critical Strike Damage bonus makes it 493.5%, adding on the additional bonus from Critical Strike Rate results in a Critical Strike Damage multiplier of 600%.

Therefore, it can be very accurately said that any attack Zhang Yanhang makes now can directly amplify the original damage by six times through Critical Strike Damage.

Yes, it's amplification, not a bonus, there's a difference. Amplification is increasing to six times the original damage, adding five times the damage, whereas a bonus directly adds six times more damage, resulting in a total of seven times the original damage. There's a difference of one time the damage between the two, so they are quite different.

"Compared to the Critical Strike Rate bonus, the increase in Attack Multiplier provided by the Four Great Emptiness is more important. The original Orange Quality Four Great Emptiness could cause exactly 1000% extra damage, and now it has increased to 1127%, an increase of 127% in damage multiplier bonus."

Moreover, unlike Critical Strike Damage, this is a bonus and thus needs to account for Zhang Yanhang's own base damage, resulting in a total of 12 times the damage.

"The XX-level Talent Longbo's power provides a Triple Strike Attack Multiplier of 1275%, while the Four Great Emptiness, including my own attack, can cause a total of 1227% damage, just 48% short of surpassing Triple Strike."

Since the XX-level Talent Longbo's power is far from an upgrade, Zhang Yanhang thinks upgrading to the Legendary level should easily allow the Four Great Emptiness' damage multiplier to surpass Longbo's power Triple Strike.

Moreover, compared to the difficult-to-trigger Triple Strike, Four Great Emptiness is more freely usable, which is its greatest advantage.

"With the increase in Attack Multiplier of the Four Great Emptiness Skill, energy consumption has also increased, with an additional consumption of fifteen energy points, increasing from 105 energy points per skill use to 120 energy points per use."

Yet, whether it's 105 energy points or 120 energy points, it makes little difference to Zhang Yanhang currently. After all, he has an energy value limit of over ten thousand points, and although slightly decreased due to a dual-choice, being able to use the skill over a hundred times consecutively should be absolutely no problem.

Additionally, due to the Heaven and Earth Devourer effect, he recovers dozens of energy points every second, and since Four Great Emptiness has a cooldown of thirty seconds, theoretically, as long as Zhang Yanhang stays alive, he can infinitely release Four Great Emptiness at thirty-second intervals without ceasing.

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