Ashen God
Chapter 531 - 530: Increase in Energy Value Recovery Speed

Chapter 531: Chapter 530: Increase in Energy Value Recovery Speed

After spending less than half a minute opening the treasure box, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to organize his loot, starting naturally with the gains in Talent, where he received six E-tier Talents in total, specifically two "Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed)" and four "Slow Corrosion."

"I previously had 270 Thin Dragon Veins left, and now with these two, it totals 272 Thin Dragon Veins. I am still 1915 Thin Dragon Veins away from gathering the 2187 needed to upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline to SSS tier—a number so vast it feels quite hopeless."

Zhang Yanhang indeed said he would seek other monsters possessing the Thin Dragon Vein Talent to hunt and continue upgrading the Quality of the Scroll Dragon Bloodline, but that was a matter for later, at least not until after he had cleared the northern forest.

However, the problem was that by that time, he would likely be Third Tier. The rank penalty of a Second Tier killing First Tier monsters reduces the treasure box drop rate to one out of every twenty kills.

And if he were Third Tier and still continued to hunt First Tier monsters, the least it would cause is a further drop in the treasure box drop rate, and in severe cases, it might even result in direct cancellation of treasure box drops. Such events were quite possible.

Therefore, the subsequent task of continuing to upgrade the Quality of the Scroll Dragon Bloodline Talent truly was fraught with difficulties, but fortunately, he had multiple choices which should somewhat help Zhang Yanhang address this issue.

"As for Slow Corrosion, I previously had 117 of them, and now with these four, it totals 121. I still need 2066 more Slow Corrosion Talents to accumulate the 2187 required to upgrade the SS tier talent Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea to SSS, an even more despairing number than the Thin Dragon Veins."

Zhang Yanhang sighed quietly, placed all six small light balls into his waist bag, and began to tally up his weapons. In terms of weapons, he had only managed to obtain a single Light Gold Quality Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Sword this time, which he could not use due to attribute restrictions.

"I already had one Light Gold Quality Heavenly Martial Soul-devouring Sword, and now I have a Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Sword of the same quality. To promote my Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to Golden Quality, I need three Light Gold Quality weapons.

So now, I only need one more Light Gold weapon to elevate my Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to Golden Quality. So, the question is, where should I go to obtain that last Light Gold weapon?"

Zhang Yanhang thought about it, feeling that the Ashen Treasure Boxes he would encounter later might give him another chance to obtain a Light Gold Quality weapon. If that happened, the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist, which hadn’t been upgraded for a long time, could finally embrace its third promotion.

After finishing the tally of his only weapon, Zhang Yanhang directly packed it into his waist bag and then continued to check this session’s collection of equipment.

Compared to weapons, there were naturally many more pieces of equipment—well, perhaps not that many, just four times the number of weapons, meaning there were only four pieces of equipment in total.

Firstly, the first piece of equipment was naturally the classic stylish small waist bag from the Police Zombie’s drop treasure box, which successfully added +2 to Zhang Yanhang’s slot tally.

Zhang Yanhang counted the waist bags he had on him; besides the five fused waist bags +4, there were also six single ordinary waist bags, and with this newly opened one, it totaled seven ordinary waist bags.

"I didn’t expect it to still be short of eight. I might as well keep saving them then, waiting to fuse them into a +3 once I gather eight."

While saying this, Zhang Yanhang placed the classic stylish small waist bag into the waist bag +4 along with the other ordinary waist bags.

Then the second and third pieces of equipment were also from the Police Zombie’s drop treasure box, two set parts of the standard Raccoon City Police Department official police gear.

Although these White Quality set parts were no longer of much use to Zhang Yanhang, they were still great as inlay materials and could help carry out quite a few monster corpses.

Thus, he similarly ignored their functionality and chose the two largest set parts since larger ones naturally have more volume.

The last piece of equipment was the most important— a Light Gold Quality Magic Totem Pole. After seeing the actual item, Zhang Yanhang realized it was only as big as one of his finger joints, much smaller than the large Lightning Totem Pole as thick as a club.

"I could accept that the previous Lightning Totem Pole was not Protective Talisman Equipment, but such a small totem pole can’t possibly not be Protective Talisman Equipment too, right?" Zhang Yanhang hardly regarded it as proper equipment.

Then, Zhang Yanhang immediately packed the Magic Totem Pole into his waist bag to try and directly obtain any related attribute bonus, and indeed, it was successful. He distinctly felt an enhancement in his Energy Value Recovery Speed from the Magic Totem Pole.

"My current maximum Energy Value is 2240 points, and the total enhancement for my Energy Value Recovery Speed after adding the 60% provided by the Lightning Totem Pole and the 90% provided by the Magic Totem Pole is 150%."

Zhang Yanhang quickly calculated; given his current automatic recovery rate, he could recover just over a hundred Energy Points every hour, which meant he needed only about twenty hours to fully restore his Energy Value by automatic recovery, finally compressing the recovery time to within twenty-four hours.

Previously, he needed twenty-eight hours for automatic recovery, meaning the 90% Energy Value Recovery Speed Enhancement saved him an additional eight hours.

Of course, what was still most crucial was the speed at which Zhang Yanhang recovered Energy Value through running his Limitless Universe Skill. Calculating at a fivefold efficiency, Zhang Yanhang could recover five or six hundred Energy Points every hour, needing at most just four hours to fully replenish his Energy Value.

"I remember calculating before that it would take six hours to fully recover; with this, the 90% Energy Value Recovery Speed Enhancement from the Magic Totem Pole seems to have saved me two hours, making the recovery speed faster than before.

Zhang Yanhang previously needed nearly five hours, but now he needed at most only four hours, almost an hour faster than before.

"Really nice, from now on in the Main World, I shouldn’t need to worry about the issue of Energy Value restoration. Although using the Scroll Dragon Essence Blood later might further increase my maximum Energy Value and accordingly reduce the recovery speed, there shouldn’t be a big problem."

Speaking of the Scroll Dragon Essence Blood, after finishing the inventory check of his equipment, Zhang Yanhang immediately started to count the artifacts he obtained this time, totaling nine items.

First and foremost, the most numerous were naturally the Three Green Medicinal Herbs and Three Red Medicinal Herbs from the ordinary zombie drop treasure boxes; then, the remainder were one Emergency Spray from a Zombie Dog Treasure Box and one Yellow Medicine Grass from a Licker Treasure Box.

Lastly, the most important item for Zhang Yanhang was a bottle of light gold quality artifact named ’Scroll Dragon Essence Blood (Holy Spirit Blessing)’, which could increase his Maximum Energy Value.

After setting aside one Red Medicinal Herb, Zhang Yanhang packed the rest of the Green Medicinal Herbs, Red Medicinal Herbs, and the Emergency Spray into his Waist Bag and immediately took up the Yellow Medicine Grass and combined it with the Red Medicine Herb, placing them in the Alchemy Array to start synthesizing Red and Yellow Pills.

After quickly completing the synthesis, Zhang Yanhang immediately put the freshly made Red and Yellow Pill directly into his mouth, chewed it slightly, and then swallowed it.

Having consumed the Red and Yellow Pill, Zhang Yanhang did not hurry to check his Life Value Limit immediately but went on to drink the ’Scroll Dragon Essence Blood (Holy Spirit Blessing)’ right beside him.

The overall situation was much like last time; Zhang Yanhang still felt as if he had swallowed a large gulp of air, unable to taste anything before it completely "evaporated" in his mouth.

Only after consuming both the Red and Yellow Pill and the Scroll Dragon Essence Blood did Zhang Yanhang open up his Life Value Limit and Energy Value Limit to start checking them.

[Shield Value: 5485/5485 (Life Value Limit ×210%, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]

[Life Value: 2612/2612 (Constitution ×21, current body has been formally digitized, Life Value Recovery Speed, 15 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 2560/2560 (Intelligence ×21(+2), current body has been formally digitized, Energy Value Recovery Speed, 45 points per hour.)]

"After just having one Red and Yellow Pill, my Life Value Limit increased from the original 2603 points to 2612 points, a growth of nine Life Value points, of which six points were the original effect from the Red and Yellow Medicinal Herbs, while the additional three points came from the 50% Life Value Limit bonus effect provided by the Indestructible Golden Body."

Zhang Yanhang reckoned that by the time he returned to Ashen World next time, he should be able to kill more monsters to acquire some more Red and Yellow Pills to continue to increase his Life Value Limit, but that might be his last opportunity before that route becomes completely unusable.

"After an increase in my Life Value Limit, my Shield Value Limit also correspondingly increased from the original 5466 points to 5485 points, a total increase of nineteen Shield Value points. Although the increase was indeed not much, it still slightly moved me closer towards my goal of a tenfold Shield Value Limit."

Zhang Yanhang felt that he needed to actively seek more channels to increase his Life Value Limit in the future; only by doing so, could he meet his milestone.

"Compared to the Life Value Limit and Shield Value Limit, the growth rate of the Energy Value Limit this time was dozens of times theirs, shockingly increasing from the original 2240 points straight to the current 2560 points, basically a direct increase of 320 Energy Value points.

Of which, the Scroll Dragon Essence Blood directly added only a hundred points, then another hundred points were due to the Maximum Energy Value Conversion Coefficient increment from originally 19 points to 21, and the remaining extra 120 Energy Value points were all derived from the SS-Grade Scroll Dragon Bloodline providing the Energy Value Limit bonus."

Zhang Yanhang indeed did not expect that in the end, he could boost the Energy Value Limit by this much in one go, directly achieving his previous small target of two hundred and fifty points and even exceeding it by sixty points.

"Since it has come to this, let’s set the next small target at three thousand points, but this time without Scroll Dragon’s Blood, Scroll Dragon Essence Blood, and Scroll Dragon Bloodline’s help, the growth will likely become incredibly slow.

Looking back, the days when my Energy Value Limit was less than a thousand points seem like just yesterday. Oh, actually, they were indeed just yesterday.

Just a day apart—oh, actually, just ten hours apart—now my Energy Value Limit has rapidly increased by 1.5 times, from the initial one thousand points to two thousand five hundred, relying almost entirely on the Scroll Dragon, almost making me wish to turn myself into a Scroll Dragon.

Now, my Life Value Limit is only 2612 points, while my Energy Value Limit is 2560 points, with the two figure already having only a slight difference of fifty-two points.

Moreover, although there is a slight difference in specific figures, the Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient and Maximum Energy Value Conversion Coefficient are already balanced—both at twenty-one points—I didn’t expect my previous small target to be achieved so effortlessly."

Zhang Yanhang initially thought that balancing the Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient and the Maximum Energy Value Conversion Coefficient would only be possible at the Third Tier, but surprisingly, just cleansing the Goblin Plain immediately completed this small milestone.

And catching up the Life Value Limit with the Energy Value Limit was something he thought wouldn’t be possible even at the Third Tier, yet now, it was almost solved.

"Of course, it just seems to be solved for now, as the growth speed of the Life Value Limit is indeed significantly faster than that of the Energy Value Limit. Not to mention the soon-to-be-upgraded Indestructible Golden Body LV.6, just acquiring more Red and Yellow Pills in a few days will once again widen the gap between Life Value Limit and Energy Value Limit."

After reviewing the growth situation of the Life Value Limit and Energy Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang looked at the empty floor feeling that he had already finished checking everything from the treasure boxes, so he directly opened up his Soul Points balance to take a look.

[Soul Points: 63415(+47652)]

"Soul Points balance increased from the original 15763 points to 63415 points, a total increase of 47652 Soul Points; undoubtedly, the Lord’s Treasure Chest dominates the earnings, with one treasure box choice worth forty thousand Soul Points, while the collective returns from other kills and treasure boxes are just mere scraps."

Sometimes Zhang Yanhang really wanted to kill more Lord Monsters, but unfortunately, these creatures are within any one area.