Ashen God
Chapter 511 - 510: SS-Rank Talent [Mature Scroll Dragon (Bloodline Purification)]

Chapter 511: Chapter 510: SS-Rank Talent [Mature Scroll Dragon (Bloodline Purification)]

"But even though it’s indeed reduced by four hours, even 28 hours is still a bit too slow," he mused. "It seems I should still think of a way to increase my energy value recovery efficiency in the future.

Although the automatic recovery time isn’t really significant to me, increasing the energy value recovery speed can also improve the operational efficiency of the Limitless Universe Skill."

Zhang Yanhang didn’t have extraordinarily high requirements in this regard; he felt that if he could compress the current six-hour recovery time back to the original four to five hours, that would suffice.

As for going further, Zhang Yanhang harbored no illusions about achieving such a nearly impossible minor goal; he did have some self-awareness in this respect.

"Previously, my efficiency in operating the Limitless Universe Skill was five times the rate indicated on the panel, which is about a recovery of over two hundred points in an hour.

Now, after gaining a 60% boost to energy value recovery, the operational efficiency of the Limitless Universe Skill has reached eight times the data on the panel, equating to over three hundred points per hour."

After some rough calculations, Zhang Yanhang estimated that he would need to improve the recovery efficiency of the Limitless Universe Skill to ten times the panel’s indicated data to compress the energy value recovery time back to the original four to five hours.

By then, he should be able to recover over four hundred points of energy value every hour by relying on the Limitless Universe Skill.

"So, the question arises, where can one find equipment or other items that can increase the speed of energy value recovery?"

Because he hadn’t paid much attention to this matter before, Zhang Yanhang was completely clueless at the moment; he planned to see later if he could use the Multiple Choice mechanism to resolve this.

After all, Multiple Choice had previously helped him find items like the Gathering Spirit Jade and Ice Silk Cool Mattress, which increase the recovery speed of spiritual energy through option selection. But since both were spiritual artifacts of the Main World and couldn’t be taken into the Ashen World, their status was slightly awkward.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang wanted the Multiple Choice mechanism to help him find items that could also be used within the Ashen World.

While it might be a bit difficult, he was no longer who he used to be. His energy value limit had more than doubled since entering the Ashen World, and naturally, the increase in energy value limit meant that the power of Multiple Choice had also grown more than twice as much.

With this in mind, finding some items of relatively low value that could amplify the energy value recovery speed should not be too difficult.

Moreover, if all else failed, he could find some spiritual artifacts, similar to the Gathering Spirit Jade and Ice Silk Cool Mattress, that were only usable in the Main World to fill the gap—at least that would solve the recovery issue in the Main World.

In any case, as long as he kept his expectations as low as possible, solving this problem really shouldn’t be too difficult.

"But that’s an issue to be resolved upon returning to the Main World; I’m not in any particular hurry right now...

Now that I’ve inventoried all the artifacts and equipment, naturally, what’s next is to count the most important item—my E-grade Talent ’Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed)’ quantity."

As he spoke, Zhang Yanhang began to tally, and after completing the inventory, he found he had acquired a total of 394 E-grade Talents ’Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed)’.

Zhang Yanhang had been storing an additional 605 Thin Dragon Veins in his waist bag. Now added together, he had a total of 999 Thin Dragon Veins.

"Well, 999 thin dragon veins, just one shy of hitting the four digits, fitting for the profit obtained after clearing out nearly half of the Goblin Plain.

Okay, perhaps this profit isn’t really that high after all, considering the sheer 729 thin dragon veins needed to upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline to SS grade."

Zhang Yanhang did the math, and if he were to upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline to SS grade, he should still have about 270 thin dragon veins left to save for upgrading the upcoming SSS grade.

However, the issue is that if everything goes as expected, the SSS grade will probably require 2,187 thin dragon veins, a colossal number that not even clearing the entire Goblin Plain of all its Dragon Vein Goblins could amass.

Based on the drop rate that one needed to kill nineteen First Tier Dragon Vein Goblins to get a treasure box, it would require Zhang Yanhang to slay almost over forty thousand Dragon Vein Goblins to gather such a tremendous number of thin dragon veins.

"Upgrading to SSS grade talent is as difficult as ever; otherwise, my S grade talent ’Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea’ wouldn’t still be at a standstill at its SSS stage."

It was precisely because of the extensive number of talents needed in the SSS grade upgrade process of ordinary E grade talents that Zhang Yanhang always thought about obtaining talents that initially had D or C qualities to avoid such nightmarish difficulty of upgrading.

"Forget it, let’s not dwell on these unhappy thoughts for now; next, I should immediately start upgrading the talent quality of the Scroll Dragon Bloodline."

As Zhang Yanhang spoke, he began to burst those piled-up, bluish-purple small light balls continuously. Due to the need to use 729 thin dragon veins consecutively, Zhang Yanhang could no longer manage to burst them all in one go, and it took him quite a while to accumulate the 729 thin dragon veins necessary for the upgrade.

Of course, there is a very important point worthy of mention, which is that Zhang Yanhang had already found a way to prevent the gap between his Intelligence and Agility attributes from affecting the talent upgrade.

The main reason was that he had thought of this while opening treasure boxes and casually inquired with Multiple Choice, who decisively provided an answer.

Therefore, he began the direct enhancement of the Scroll Dragon Bloodline talent, otherwise, he would not risk wasting his Intelligence attribute to improve the quality of the Scroll Dragon Bloodline talent. As for the specific method, it’s actually quite simple—just four words, ’let nature take its course.’

[Detection of a Subordinate Talent ’Adult Scroll Dragon (Bloodline Purification)’ of S grade in your talent list, would you like to merge talents?]

"Yes, merge."

Because it was an upgrade to SS grade, from Zhang Yanhang’s previous experience with upgrading ’Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea,’ his first expectation, to increase the energy value limit bonus, should certainly be achievable, given that it’s already an SS grade, and it would be somewhat unreasonable not to enhance it at this point.

Then there was Zhang Yanhang’s second expectation; because it was an SS grade, he speculated that the Scroll Dragon Bloodline might undergo some new transformations, just like when ’Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea’ was upgraded to SS grade.

He remembered that Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea added an extra conversion factor that could increase life span, resulting in a substantial increase in Zhang Yan’s life span. This time, although the Scroll Dragon Bloodline had nothing to do with life span, the Spell List might show some significant changes.

Thus, in addition to hoping for the free count of the Spell List to increase, Zhang Yanhang also wished for the Spell List to refresh with stronger Sixth Circle Magic. Of course, if the new change were an increase in the number of spell refreshes, Zhang Yanhang would accept that too.

[Merge complete.]

[You have acquired the SS grade talent ’Mature Scroll Dragon (Bloodline Purification)’].