After testing the improvement in strength, Zhang Yanhang then focused on the growth of energy defense and physical defense.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had gained a total of 60% energy defense and physical defense from the light golden quality Divination Tarot Card, and now it has increased by another 30%, raising the total bonus to 90%, which is a significant improvement compared to before.

Correspondingly, because of the additional 30% increase in energy defense and physical defense, his defensive capability has been greatly enhanced once again.

Taking the Nuclear Fusion Fist as an example, under normal circumstances, a single punch from the Nuclear Fusion Fist would take about a hundred points of shield value from Zhang Yanhang. Previously, with 60% energy defense and physical defense, it could reduce this hundred points of damage to sixty points.

Now, with 90% energy defense and physical defense, this hundred points of damage is roughly reduced to around fifty points.

As for why an increase of half resulted in only an additional reduction of ten points of damage, it's mainly because this defense bonus is not a percentage reduction but provides a bonus based on his original defensive power, thus naturally becoming harder to increase further.

Overall, this 90% bonus to energy defense and physical defense is still very useful. Although it can't compare to the XXX-level Talent Immortal Life which adds a whopping 696% defense bonus, they're meant to complement each other, so there's no need for comparison.

Just like how Zhang Yanhang never compares attack power bonus with critical strike multiplier, it makes no sense.

After focusing on the growth of energy defense and physical defense, Zhang Yanhang immediately turned his attention to the increase in attack speed. This time, he relied on upgrading the Divination Tarot Card to gain a 30% attack speed bonus, which is quite nice and should help him improve his attack speed significantly.

Speaking of attack speed, one must mention the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun. With the 30% attack speed bonus, the shooting speed of his Six Roots Pure Soul Gun has naturally increased as well.

Zhang Yanhang's Six Roots Pure Soul Gun could previously only shoot 7580 cannon bullets per second, but now the shooting speed has increased to 7880 cannon bullets per second, equivalent to an increase of 300 cannon bullets per second.

"However, it's a pity that although this 30% attack speed bonus indeed increased the shooting speed of the cannon bullets, it didn't enhance the speed at which I empty the machine gun magazine. Previously, I could empty a machine gun magazine in 1.3 seconds, and now it still takes 1.3 seconds to empty one."

To this, Zhang Yanhang expressed understanding, knowing that improving the speed of emptying the machine gun magazine becomes harder as it progresses. Therefore, his mid-stage goal of reducing the emptying speed to within one second is completely unattainable at the Fourth Tier. He'll have to wait until the Fifth Tier to accomplish it.

Presumably, after advancing to the Fifth Tier, this mid-stage goal should not be too difficult to achieve.

Along with the increase in the shooting speed of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun Cannon Bullets, the flight speed of the cannon bullets naturally also increased. Previously, the flight speed of the cannon bullets was only 182 Mach, but now it has increased to 189 Mach, thus enhancing the flight speed by 7 Mach.

If one converts Mach to meters for calculation, Zhang Yanhang's cannon bullets can now traverse a distance of 64,260 meters per second, which brings Zhang Yanhang one step closer to hitting the ghost's command post 800 miles away with one shot.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang could only achieve one-seventh of this minor goal, but now he can already accomplish one-sixth of it, which is quite a noticeable progress. However, the revolution is not yet successful; comrades still need to work hard.

Calculated from the kinetic energy formula, the kinetic energy of the cannon bullets has increased from 24 Mach's 57.5 times to 62 times, thus boosting the damage by another 4.5 times compared to before.

As for Zhang Yanhang's punching speed, it has naturally also improved. However, Zhang Yanhang doesn't bother to test it; he finds it troublesome, and compared to testing punching speed, Zhang Yanhang is now more concerned with skill cooldown time.

"Previously, I only earned a 30% skill cooldown time reduction by relying on the Divination Tarot Card Set, but now it has been reduced by another 15%, enhancing the reduction to 45% of the skill cooldown time."

With the reduction in skill cooldown time, the cooldown time of Zhang Yanhang's Four Great Emptiness Skill has finally been reduced to under twenty seconds.

Although Zhang Yanhang has always been upgrading the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist, the cooldown time of the Four Great Emptiness Skill has always been fixed at thirty seconds. Previously, the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist was reduced to a cooldown time of twenty-one seconds, but now it has been further reduced to 16.5 seconds, which is an additional reduction of 4.5 seconds in cooldown time.

"Initially, I thought skill cooldown time improvement would be slow, but now it seems it's actually much faster than I imagined, quite the opposite, it's actually pretty quick."

Zhang Yanhang made a simple estimate and found that perhaps by the Sixth Tier he could already increase the cooldown time reduction to over 100%, achieving completely cooldown-free use of the Four Great Emptiness.

"But there's a problem. The Divination Tarot Card Set seems to only be upgradable three more times. What if it maxes out before reaching 100% reduction?"

About this, Zhang Yanhang's assessment was that there will always be a way when the time comes. He doesn't need to worry about Sixth Tier issues for now.

Yet, despite saying there's no need to worry, it's indeed hard not to worry. Hence, Zhang Yanhang feels that if things become infeasible, he might need to look for other means to gain skill cooldown time reduction, like related equipment or achievements to help him out.

Of course, due to his high confidence in the Divination Tarot Card, Zhang Yanhang believes that the improvement in the Divination Tarot Card aspect still has a great chance of directly helping him achieve a 100% skill cooldown time reduction.

"In any case, with the Four Great Emptiness now reduced to 16.5 seconds, it has undoubtedly become more useful to me. At least the probability of triggering extra attacks with the Four Great Emptiness has indeed significantly increased with the cooldown time reduction."

Although Zhang Yanhang has not yet managed to trigger an extra attack with the Four Great Emptiness, he is undoubtedly very much looking forward to it.

After solving the issue with skill cooldown times, Zhang Yanhang continued to focus on improving the skill range increase.

Compared to the skill cooldown time with only a 15% increase, the Tarot Card Set undeniably offers a much higher boost in skill range increase.

Directly providing a 30% skill coverage range bonus, it increases Zhang Yanhang's total skill range bonus from the initial 60% to 90%, which definitely brings a significant enhancement to the skill range.

Speaking of skill range matters, the most important thing is the coverage area of the Death Wave, as it directly correlates with his hunting efficiency and is closely linked to his rate of power growth, making it impossible not to care.

"After upgrading my Death Wave skill to Origin LV.6, the base coverage range reached 1920 meters, and previously, with the 60% skill range bonus from the Tarot Card set, the actual coverage range of the Death Wave was 3072 meters."

And now, due to an additional 30% skill range bonus, Zhang Yanhang's skill coverage range has grown from the previous 3072 meters to 3648 meters, marking an increase of 576 meters in coverage range, which is about a one-fifth increase.

Zhang Yanhang remembers the last time he upgraded the Death Wave skill to Origin LV.6, benefiting from a large bonus of additional attributes, it only gained a coverage range increase of 720 meters, whereas this time, merely upgrading the quality of the Tarot Card set gained 576 meters of skill range increase, which is indeed quite astonishing.

It can be said that specialization has its advantages, the skill range bonus has a magical effect in enhancing the strength of range-based attack skills like the Death Wave.

Even though a simple calculation of the coverage range shows a significant increase, calculating the coverage area of the Death Wave offers even more improvement.

Previously, a full-power version of Zhang Yanhang's Death Wave could only cover an area of 7.4 square kilometers, but now it can cover 10.5 square kilometers, marking an increase of 3.1 square kilometers in coverage area, approximately representing a one-half increase.

Alright, calling it a one-half increase is a bit exaggerated, but three-sevenths is exactly correct, so it is indeed very close to one-half.

Although he had anticipated the swift growth in coverage area this time, when it truly grew this quickly, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but focus on the maximum region he could cover with one full stamina bar, feeling the growth here would be even more outrageous.

Because he hasn't increased the stamina limit since upgrading to XXX level Talent Infinite Life, Zhang Yanhang's maximum usage of the Death Wave skill still remains around seven thousand four hundred times, with a past total coverage area of 71,188 square kilometers through the Life Drain enhancement.

And now, undoubtedly receiving enormous growth in this aspect, even without counting the Life Drain ability, he can already achieve a total coverage area of 77,700 square kilometers.

And factoring in about a thirty percent proportion of Life Drain ability, he can now cover a total area of 101,010 square kilometers, registering a coverage area increase of 29,822 square kilometers compared to before, roughly achieving a direct growth of thirty thousand square kilometers.

That is to say, the additional coverage area Zhang Yanhang gained this time almost matches half of Hainan.

Initially, Zhang Yanhang compared it to Ningxia, which covers an area of 66,000 square kilometers, while Hainan covers 34,000 square kilometers, indicating that Zhang Yanhang's coverage range could surpass the combined size of Ningxia and Hainan.

Currently, the coverage area of Qin Island City where Zhang Yanhang is now present is 12,000 square kilometers, and with his now enhanced Death Wave skill, a full exertion would cover roughly eight and a half Qin Island Cities.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang compared his range against Chongqing, which covers roughly 82,000 square kilometers, but now Chongqing has undoubtedly been easily surpassed.

However, although he has easily surpassed the twenty-sixth ranked Chongqing, there is still a slight gap to surpass the twenty-fifth ranked Zhejiang, indeed, just a tiny bit.

Zhejiang's total area is approximately 102,000 square kilometers, whereas his total Death Wave coverage area is 101,000 square kilometers, leaving just a one thousand square kilometer gap.

Zhang Yanhang's ambition to one-time cover the entire South Korea is also very close, considering South Korea's total area is only 103,000 square kilometers, leaving him a mere two thousand square kilometers away.

It can be said that as long as Zhang Yanhang can further increase the coverage range, or slightly enhance the stamina limit, he will certainly easily surpass Zhejiang, this small target.

Zhang Yanhang initially thought surpassing Zhejiang was hopeless, but the subsequent increase in skill coverage range once again ignited his hope, yet to his surprise, when it seemed on the brink of achievement, he stumbled at the final step, though trying his utmost to enhance the coverage area by thirty thousand square kilometers, it still unfortunately fell short.

Having not been able to achieve this small target at Fourth Tier is slightly regretful for Zhang Yanhang, as just a little bit was lacking, yet fortunately, following rank promotion, he should be able to easily make up this coverage area through attribute value enhancement and successfully achieve this target.

Certainly, Zhang Yanhang considered whether he could promptly increase the stamina limit, and honestly, this is doable, such as encountering a Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures option, which might quickly lead him to discover relevant treasures to boost stamina limit.

However, due to a bit of laziness again, or rather not wanting to engage in less important matters before the rank promotion, Zhang Yanhang feels adventures of this sort would be better executed post-rank promotion, with even higher efficiency at that time.

After all, once rank promotion is completed, options in Multiple Choice will surely strengthen alongside tier promotion, and with stronger options, naturally more powerful Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures will be obtained, hence not much necessity to tax oneself for adventures now.

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