Ashen God
Chapter 471 - 470 【Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original Scripture LV5】

Chapter 471: Chapter 470 【Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original Scripture LV5】

"Such a five-point gap, how can I catch up?" Zhang Yanhang pondered as he opened his attribute list.

[Strength: 50 (+5[-5])]

[Agility: 50 (+5[-2])]

[Constitution: 50 (+5[-4])]

[Intelligence: 50 (+5[-7])]

[Charm: 45 (+19)]

"After my strength attribute was enhanced by one point through the Limitless Universe Skill, it became my second main attribute to reach the Second Tier Limit. Now, of the four main attributes, only agility and constitution haven’t reached the Second Tier Limit.

However, I’m not worried about the constitution attribute, as it has already reached forty-nine points in my base state, just one point shy of the Second Tier Limit. I suppose this last point will soon be added with the subsequent upgrades of the Limitless Universe Skill.

So, the greatest issue now lies with the agility attribute, which currently stands at only forty-seven points in my base state, and more importantly, the maximum gap between agility and intelligence attributes has finally reached five points."

Despite the issue being quite apparent, just as he had mentioned earlier, Zhang Yanhang decided to address it later, for instance, when he next upgraded the Dragon Bloodline. Thus, after briefly checking the attribute list to confirm the attributes were in place, Zhang Yanhang abandoned contemplating this matter.

"Choose! Skill level enhancement!" After upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill LV.8, Zhang Yanhang immediately continued upgrading skills, this time upgrading three skills.

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After consuming fifty-one thousand two hundred soul points and one Ash Source, Zhang Yanhang successfully promoted Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil to the Original Stage.

"Another Ash Source consumed, but fortunately, I’d obtained three points of Ash Source from a small Ashen Treasure Box in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu earlier. Even after using one, I still have two left."

After promoting Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil to Original LV.5, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened its skill effects to review it.

[Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV5 (Passive/Active)]

[Passive effect: Neural Reflex Speed +25.0%]

[Active effect: Detects the location of enemies within the perception range and, to some extent, predicts their next attack. Current perception range is 2500 + 50×50 [Intelligence] (+25) = 5000 meters (+1250 meters). No cooldown time, minimal physical strength consumption.]

[Additional Attributes: Skillful — You can now skillfully control the coverage of your perception, and completely grasp the outlines of the enemies within your perception range.]

[Additional Attributes: Mastery — You have become very adept at controlling Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, enhancing its penetration power. By concentrating, you can gather colors within your perception range.]

"Uh? Uh?? Uh??! Well, I must say, after the promotion of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil to the Original Tier, the Intelligence Coefficient directly doubled, adding twenty-five points of intelligence coefficient, taking my intelligence coefficient straight to fifty points.

This increase in intelligence coefficient, along with my existing fifty points of Intelligence attribute, directly expanded my perception range from the original 3750 meters to 5000 meters, a significant increase of 1250 meters."

Zhang Yanhang never expected such a result; the perception range expanded by one-third compared to what it was initially. He had thought that this promotion would merely insignificantly increase the perception range just as a symbolic gesture.

After all, when the Technique Immunity Skill was promoted to Original LV.5 previously, despite it costing more than fifty thousand soul points and one Ash Source, it only yielded a few percent defense bonus and shield value hadn’t increased at all.

"It seems, perhaps upgrading skills to the Original Stage really is essential."

According to the upgrade plan set earlier, after promoting Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil to Original LV.6, Zhang Yanhang would begin promoting the Gun Master and Fighting Master to the Original Stage, hoping these skills would also show performance as remarkable as Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil.

"Expanding the perception range from 3750 meters to 5000 meters, although it seems like only one-third, if calculated based on the formula for the surface area of a circle, the overall area of the perception range has practically doubled."

Zhang Yanhang quickly calculated, and he figured that his previous perception range covered about eleven square kilometers.

Now, having expanded to five thousand meters, the area of his perception range had directly grown to twenty square kilometers, roughly an increase of nine square kilometers of coverage.

That means if Zhang Yanhang was to scan the Goblin Plain without overlapping areas, it previously required eleven passes; now, it just needs a maximum of six times.

For areas like the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu with a total area of forty square kilometers, Zhang Yanhang could achieve complete coverage with just two scans.

"It’s truly worthy of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil at the Original Stage; it’s incredibly strong. With my current perception range, even if I stand on the outskirts of the Goblin Plain, I can monitor the situations in the middle layer and even the core area at any time."

Of course, while he could indeed do that, due to physical strength consumption, Zhang Yanhang would definitely not keep the perception range at its maximum while hunting monsters; that would be unnecessary.

After all, he just needed to focus on hunting the monsters in the current sector. So, when hunting, he usually set his perception range to around three thousand meters, which was perfect for observing adjacent sectors.

Speaking of this problem of physical strength consumption, although Zhang Yanhang hadn’t tested it yet, his intuition told him that the physical strength consumption of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil must have risen after its promotion to Original LV.5.

Considering the perception range almost doubled, even as a skill of the Heavenly Destiny Master profession, while it would accommodate him as a Heavenly Destiny Master, there would definitely be an increase in physical strength consumption, perhaps not too drastically, but an increase was inevitable.

"Alas, I hope that this increase in physical strength consumption doesn’t grow too much, otherwise, my upcoming plan to clear the Goblin Plain might not go as smoothly."

The most serious outcome Zhang Yanhang envisaged was like during the First Tier Period when the increase in consumption due to Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil directly caused his endurance to drop from eight hours to two hours, a slump of seventy-five percent.