This young blonde white woman is dressed in armor similar to that of a medieval knight, holding a cross long sword in her hand, while wearing a black and white yin-yang mask on her face. This mask is the complete opposite of Zhang Yanhang's, only covering the upper part above the nose, while Zhang Yanhang's mask is more like a mask covering the mouth.

At the moment, this person is speaking excitedly, with a flushed face, to a man standing in the shadows beside her.

Although he didn't know the specifics of the situation, Zhang Yanhang's intuition still told him that this person was most probably talking about some odd things.

Moreover, even though the appearance of the man in the shadows looked quite vague and only a rough outline could be seen, Zhang Yanhang recognized at once that this person was the same as the image in the Divination Tarot Card·Strength from before.

However, this time, Zhang Yanhang still couldn't see this man's face clearly, he could only vaguely discern his physique. Using the female knight beside him as a reference, this person should be quite tall, estimated to be close to two meters, and his body is quite sturdy, one could even say he is burly and powerful.

In some sense, this guy's physique might be comparable to how he was before entering the Ashen World, both had the appearance of a stalwart man, but other than that, Zhang Yanhang couldn't discern any more details.

After checking another tarot card illustration that seemed meaningless but somehow familiar, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to look at the illustration of the third tarot card.

This Divination Tarot Card·The Hanged Man originally depicted a young blonde white man, or rather a spirited youth in bright red long johns, tying a rope around his right foot, and hanging himself upside down from a branch of a big tree. To be honest, it looked quite silly.

As for what it represents, it's said to be seeing the world from a different angle, but in reality, it's just that same old notion of feeling "the world goes mad while I stay wise." Although there is a halo symbolizing wisdom hanging behind his head, it still couldn't cover up his horrendous taste in clothing.

After all, bright red long johns paired with a bright blue top is really more of a circus clown standard, not quite fitting the mainstream human aesthetics, yeah, it can be simply described as alternative.

And the illustration of the Divination Tarot Card·The Hanged Man depicted a little girl in a skirt being hung upside down from a tree. She was trying to cover her skirt with one hand while reaching out to hit someone on the ground with the other, seemingly caught in a prank, accidentally stepping into a snare on the ground and being hung up.

Obviously, there was no ancestral anti-gravity skirt from the two-dimensional world here, so although she covered the front, the back sagged down, revealing her plain white bear-patterned panties, which had a brown bear head pattern printed on the rear part, it was just an ordinary elementary school girl's underwear, nothing particularly exciting about it.

If the setting could be changed, say, the short-haired, flat-chested girl was actually a cute boy with a cross-dressing fetish or something, that kind of priority might be higher, after all, blonde white girls don't really score high in the rankings of political correctness, not as much as minorities.

And ordinary little girls didn't rank very high in Zhang Yanhang's XP priority either, one could even say they were amongst the lowest categories, for he preferred more mature women.

This time around, the illustration didn't again showcase the man who felt so familiar yet utterly unknown to Zhang Yanhang, it was just an ordinary illustration of a little girl being pranked.

But, it must be said, this illustration was perhaps the one that most closely followed the original tarot card depiction, as at least she was genuinely hanging upside down, while the other illustrations all depicted some weird things.

After consecutively checking the Divination Tarot Card of Strength, Justice, and The Hanged Man, Zhang Yanhang gathered them together, then glanced at the attribute list, because before upgrading, it was only prudent to check what the activated set effects would be.

[Divination Tarot Card·Justice[Fragment] (Gate of Truth)]

[Quality: Dark Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Heavenly God Continent, Sizitak Empire, Akbar Village underground black workshop.]

[Durability: 45/45]

[Defensive power: 33]

[Additional Attributes: Energy Defense +15%.]

[Upgradable, Upgrade Condition 1: Own 'Divination Tarot Card·Magician[Fragment] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), own 'Divination Tarot Card·Priestess[Fragment] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), own 'Divination Tarot Card·Empress[Fragment] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).

Upgrade Condition 2: Own 'Divination Tarot Card·Pope[Fragment] (Gate of Truth)' (1/1), own 'Divination Tarot Card·Wheel of Fortune[Fragment] (Gate of Truth)' (1/1), own 'Divination Tarot Card·Judgment[Fragment] (Gate of Truth)' (1/1).]

[Usage requirements: Possess Alchemy or other related Alchemy skills.]

[Score: 260 (The score of Dark Purple items ranges from 151 to 260.)]

[Set Effect One: Taboo Spell (Source of Calamity) – Energy Value Limit +11.25%, Energy Defense +22.5%.]

[Set Effect Two: Sinful Judgment (Humanity's Balance) – Energy Value Limit +3.75%, Energy Defense +7.5%, Energy Value Recovery Speed +60%]

[Introduction: Justice is one of the 78 tarot cards, ranking 11th among the 22 Major Arcana cards, located right in the middle of the 22 Major Arcana cards, representing principles of balance and equality. Once Justice appears, all unfair treatments will be exposed, all causes and effects will receive a fair and balanced judgment...]

"Set Effect One after activation, which is Taboo Spell (Source of Calamity), provides an 11.25% Energy Value Limit increase and a 22.5% Energy Defense increase, while Set Effect Two, Sinful Judgment (Humanity's Balance), gives a 3.75% Energy Value Limit increase and a 7.5% Energy Defense increase.

Together, these two set effects provide a total of a 15% Energy Value Limit increase and a 30% Energy Defense increase, but besides the set effects, the tarot card itself also gives me a 7.5% Energy Value Limit and a 15% Energy Defense increase."

Therefore, as long as Zhang Yanhang successfully equips these Divination Tarot Cards, he can obtain a total of a 22.5% Energy Value Limit increase and a 45% Energy Defense increase.

"Based on one Golden Life Ring +6 providing a 1.5% Life Value Limit increase, just the Energy Value Limit increase correlated with a single Divination Tarot Card·Strength is equivalent to fifteen Life Rings +6, which is equivalent to half of my Life Rings +6.

Furthermore, this is still with it being in the Dark Purple Quality state, once the Divination Tarot Card is upgraded to Light Golden Quality, the associated Energy Value Limit increase will continue to rise."

Though the Divination Tarot Card is admittedly strong, the Life Ring is indeed weak, which is why currently a single Dark Purple Quality tarot card can compare to fifteen Golden Quality Life Rings +6 in terms of their scenario.

There is clearly a gap of two qualities and a difference of double digits in quantity between them, yet they are magically equal. One can only say, Krees, what on earth are you doing, Krees!

Although it is basically confirmed that Dr. Krees is indeed a sycophant researcher, the Krees who developed the Life Ring is obviously not the Krees who developed the nuclear fusion reactor during the same period.

Zhang Yanhang believes that the Krees who developed the nuclear fusion reactor should still be in his energetic late thirties to early forties. It was probably during this time that Krees only understood work every day, which is why he was able to tirelessly research and develop the nuclear fusion reactor.

Just perhaps, after developing the nuclear fusion reactor, Krees might have achieved fame and success, so he might have started to slack off. From the description of the Life Ring, it seems Krees developed it because of feeling physically exhausted after staying up late playing games every day, so he created the Life Ring to prevent sudden death from staying up too late habitually.

Judging from his situation of slacking off, Zhang Yanhang seriously suspects that Krees might have already entered his forties at that time, starting to experience a decline in energy, and after developing the nuclear fusion reactor, he couldn't be bothered to work on other things, hence he started to slack off. This indeed is very likely to happen.

Of course, compared to Krees's situation, currently, the Divination Tarot Card is more pressing.

"Apart from the increase in the Energy Value limit, the enhancement in energy defense is equally important. After all, I previously had no energy defense whatsoever, so this 45% energy defense can basically ensure that I can withstand half of the damage from energy attacks directly."

For example, previously, the nuclear fusion fist of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation could reduce Zhang Yanhang's Shield Value Limit by over a hundred points, but now, with the increase in energy defense, it can only reduce the Shield Value Limit by around seventy points. It's really useful to the point that Zhang Yanhang wishes he could have acquired it prior to the battle.

"Of course, aside from the Energy Value limit and energy defense, the most important thing for me is the enhancement in Energy Value recovery speed. This time, the Set Effect Two People's Balance directly boosts my Energy Value recovery speed by 60%, and Divination Tarot Card·Hanged Man itself provides a 30% enhancement in Energy Value recovery speed.

With this, Divination Tarot Card·Hanged Man can provide a total of 90% enhancement in Energy Value recovery speed, which is equal to half a legendary Small Nuclear Fusion Reactor, as a Small Nuclear Fusion Reactor provides only an 180% enhancement in Energy Value recovery speed."

Now, Zhang Yanhang is indeed confident in boosting his growth rate to over eight meters in height, perhaps even nine meters isn't out of the question.

"The upgrade condition one for the nine-piece set of my original Dark Purple Quality Divination Tarot Card was to gather the Divination Tarot Card Strength, Justice, and Hanged Man. Now that it has been successfully gathered, I should quickly upgrade the Equipment Quality."

Zhang Yanhang took out all the nine cards of Dark Purple Quality Divination Tarot Cards stored in his Waist Bag and placed them together with the three Dark Purple Quality Divination Tarot Cards obtained earlier and immediately made an upgrade option.

After the upgrade, the Divination Tarot Cards remained the same, but the Divination Tarot Card began to glow with a Light Golden light, and the mysterious aura contained within became deeper.

Having long awaited the upgrade, Zhang Yanhang immediately selected a Divination Tarot Card at random and began to examine the attribute list after upgrading.

[Divination Tarot Card·Strength [Missing] (Gate of Truth)]

[Quality: Light Golden]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Heavenly God Continent, Sizitak Empire, Akbar Village underground black workshop.]

[Durability: 48/48]

[defensive power: 35]

[Additional Attributes: Energy Value limit +10% (+2.5%).]

[Upgradable, Upgrade Condition 1: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Magician [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Priestess [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Empress [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).

Upgrade Condition 2: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Hermit [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (1/1), possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Death [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Demon [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).]

[Usage requirements: Possess Alchemy or other related Alchemy skills.]

[Score: 350 (Light Golden Items range from scores of 261 to 350.)]

[Set Effect One: Power is Justice (Hanged Man forever!) — Power Effect +30% (+7.5%), Attack Power +30% (+7.5%).]

[Set Effect Two: Trinity (Star Gathering) — Power Effect +10% (+2.5%), Attack Power +10% (+2.5%), Attack Speed +40% (+10%).]

[Set Effect Three: Unrivaled (Conqueror's Journey) — Critical Strike Rate +30% (+7.5%), Critical Strike Damage +60% (+15%).]

[Set Effect Four: In the Name of God (Fate Judgement upon Heresy) — Critical Strike Rate +10% (+2.5%), Critical Strike Damage +20% (+5%), Skill Coverage +40% (+10%).]

[Set Effect Five: Mother of All Things (Praise the Sun!) — Skill cooldown time -15% (+3.75%), Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient +5 (+1).]

[Set Effect Six: Abyssal Purgatory (Demon God Birth) — Skill cooldown time -5% (+1.25%), Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient +3 (+1), Maximum Energy Value Conversion Coefficient +8 (+2).]

[Set Effect Seven: Taboo Spell (Source of Calamity) — Energy Value limit +15% (+3.75%), Energy Defense +30% (+7.5%).]

[Set Effect Eight: Sinful Judgment (Humanity's Balance) — Energy Value limit +5% (+1.25%), Energy Defense +10% (+2.5%), Energy Value Recovery Speed +80% (+20%).]

[Set Effect Nine: Heavenly Destiny Gathering (Deserved) — Luck +3 (+1).]

[Description: Strength is one of the 78 cards in the Tarot, ranked 8th among the 22 Major Arcana. It symbolizes the inner strength adequate to face any difficulty; you shall possess strong will, vigorous fighting spirit, extraordinary courage, and not yield, combatting any challenge with full force...]

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