Ashen God
Chapter 532 - 531 [Limitless Universe Skill LV.MAX]

Chapter 532: Chapter 531 [Limitless Universe Skill LV.MAX]

"Even if we were to only calculate the earnings from the Lord Monster, Goblin Chief Nu Shan, the combined treasure box and killing rewards amount to a total of 44,000 soul points, instantly diminishing the value of other earnings to 3,652 points.

Moreover, if we exclude the 3,100 points gained from Goblin Chief Shaman Maka Baga, the killing rewards and soul point earnings from the remaining one hundred monsters would add up to only 552 points. Zombies truly continue to be as disappointing as always."

By the way, it’s worth mentioning that if the lottery didn’t consume 1 soul point each time, and if the earnings from killing an ordinary zombie was indeed 1 soul point, then the combined earnings from these zombies could have been 100 soul points higher. Well, maybe there is still no fundamental difference between 652 and 552.

Zhang Yanhang was overall quite satisfied with his soul point earnings this time. At the very least, he had amassed enough to promote his skills to the Original LV.5 and Grandmaster LV.5, as required. Moreover, this amount was also sufficient to upgrade his Limitless Universe Skill to LV.10.

"So, the question arises, should I first upgrade my skills or upgrade my Limitless Universe Skill to LV.10?"

Zhang Yanhang thought for a moment, the skill he needed to upgrade next, the Fighting Master, would not yield any benefit even if raised to Grandmaster LV.5. He would only gain a significant Attack Power Bonus if he promoted it all at once to Grandmaster LV.6.

As for the Limitless Universe Skill, it was already at LV.8, just two levels away from LV.10. Upgrading it should continue to bring him a portion of attribute point gains.

"With that in mind, let’s first upgrade the skill level of the Limitless Universe Skill. Sooner or later, it must be done. Choose! Skill Level Enhancement!" Having decided on which skill to upgrade, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to trigger the autonomous choice system.

Time Pause descended once more upon Raccoon City, and a familiar array of text options appeared in front of Zhang Yanhang’s eyes.

[Do you want to enhance the skill level?]

[Option One: ’Gun Mastery LV.6’ to ’Gun Mastery LV.7’ (consumes 204,800 soul points).]

[Option Two: ’Fighting Master LV.MAX’ to ’Fighting Grandmaster LV.5’ (consumes 1 Ash Source and 51,200 soul points).]

[Option Three: ’Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV.6’ to ’Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV.7’ (consumes 204,800 soul points).]

[Option Four: ’Technique Immunity·Original LV.6’ to ’Technique Immunity·Original LV.7’ (consumes 204,800 soul points).]

[Option Five: ’Limitless Universe Skill[Second Order]LV.8’ to ’Limitless Universe Skill[Second Order]LV.9’ (consumes 25,860 soul points).]

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[Option Nine: ’Indestructible Golden Body LV.MAX’ to ’Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.5’ (consumes 1 Ash Source and 51,200 soul points).]

"The soul point requirement for upgrading Gun Mastery to LV.7 is predictably the same as Technique Immunity·Original LV.7 and Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV.7, doubling to 204,800 points, a figure I currently can’t afford.

I have a total of 63,415 soul points, and upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill from LV.8 to LV.9 only requires 25,860 soul points. Even if the demand for upgrading to Limitless Universe Skill LV.10 increases, my balance of soul points should still be more than sufficient.

Ah, I wish the growth patterns of other skills were consistent with Limitless Universe Skill. Upgrading and doubling each level is truly frustrating. Though I’ve almost gotten used to it, getting used to it is one thing—the feeling of frustration remains.

Therefore, I choose Option Five, to elevate the skill level of the Limitless Universe Skill to LV.9."

Zhang Yanhang gauged that directly upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill from LV.8 to LV.10 this time might further increase the gap between the Agility attribute and the Intelligence attribute.

But as the saying goes, "When you’re covered in lice, a few more won’t itch." At this point, he was already significantly above that threshold, so what harm would one or two more points do? As long as it wouldn’t affect his Rank Promotion or the increase in Attribute points, it should be fine.

After successfully upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill to LV.10 through two consecutive levels, Zhang Yanhang first opened his Soul points balance to take a look.

[Soul points: 6295 (-57120)]

"Upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill to LV.9 consumed 25860 Soul points, and the subsequent upgrade to LV.10 consumed another 31260 Soul points. This combined upgrade cost of 57120 points has knocked my Soul points balance down from five to four figures, even lower than before I opened the treasure box.

Those 6295 Soul points don’t seem to be enough for anything now, not even enough for upgrading my Profession Level. If I wanted to go from LV.14 to LV.15 right now, I would need 8000 Soul points."

After quickly checking his Soul points balance, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened the Skill Effect of the Limitless Universe Skill LV.10 to start reviewing it.

[Limitless Universe Skill [Second Order] LV.MAX (Passive/Active)]

[Passive Effect: Strength +1, Agility +1, Constitution +1, Intelligence +1, Charm +1.]

[Active Effect: Actively operate the cultivation technique, using Spiritual Energy to enhance one’s defensive power, Attack Power, and Movement Speed. No cooldown time, consuming a certain amount of Energy Value based on the specific bonus effect.]

[Additional Attributes: First Tier — Strength +6, Agility +6, Constitution +6, Intelligence +10, Charm +2.]

[Additional Attributes: Second Tier — Strength +6 (+1), Agility +6 (+1), Constitution +6 (+1), Intelligence +10 (+2), Charm +2 (+1).]

"Limitless Universe Skill went up two levels from LV.8 directly to LV.MAX, and in total, I gained one point in Strength, one in Agility, one in Constitution, one in Charm, and two in Intelligence. The gap between Intelligence attribute and Agility attribute has indeed widened again.

Of course, the gap and all that doesn’t matter now. Since I’ve already upgraded the Limitless Universe Skill to LV.MAX, the next step in my upgrade plan is to raise my Profession Level to LV.20.

Looking at the previous upgrade pattern, to raise the Profession Level directly from LV.14 to LV.20, I will probably need around six figures worth of Soul points. Yet, my current Soul points balance is only 6295 points. Even though the first character in both is 6, they couldn’t be more different; there’s a two-order-of-magnitude difference."

Zhang Yanhang felt that he should now officially start preparing for advancing to Third Tier. If nothing unexpected happened, he should be able to advance to Third Tier after clearing the forest to the north of Raccoon City since the only thing he’s lacking now are Agility attributes and Profession Level. He would find a way to upgrade both of those later.

After checking the Skill Effect of Limitless Universe Skill LV.MAX, Zhang Yanhang went on to open his Attribute list.

[Strength: 50 (+5[-6])]

[Agility: 50 (+5[-3])]

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

[Intelligence: 50 (+5[-10])]

[Charm: 46 (+19)]

"After raising the skill level of the Limitless Universe Skill to Second Tier LV.MAX, my Constitution attribute, which was originally only forty-nine points in naked state, has also been supplemented with that final attribute point to reach the Second Tier limit.

Now, among my four main attributes, Strength, Constitution, and Intelligence have all reached the Second Tier limit, only Agility is consistently lagging behind, with just forty-eight points in naked state, still two points short of the Second Tier limit.

Moreover, the gap between the Agility attribute and the Intelligence attribute has widened by one more point due to the skill level increase of the Limitless Universe Skill, from the original six points to now seven points."

Zhang Yanhang planned to wait until he returned to the Main World before carefully thinking of ways to solve this Agility attribute problem, to see if he could use the Multiple Choice to help acquire artifacts or Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that could improve Agility.

"Out of my four main attributes, now in addition to the overflow of the Intelligence attribute, Strength has also begun to overflow, though one overflowed by five points while the other only by one.

But there shouldn’t be any chances for the overflow to continue to increase, after all, the Limitless Universe Skill has now been upgraded to Second Tier LV.MAX, and talents have also stopped increasing."

Compared to the overflowing main attributes, Zhang Yanhang still felt that the increase of sub-attributes like Charm, which don’t require naked attributes, would be more noticeable.

After just gaining one point of Charm attribute from the Limitless Universe Skill, Zhang Yanhang’s long-static Charm attribute finally increased from forty-five points to forty-six points.

The increase in Charm attribute also meant that the fixed damage caused by the Death Wave Skill increased by another five points, from 725 points to 730 points, only twenty points shy from the 750-point Fixed Damage Limit.

"After this increase in Charm attribute value, my Charm attribute value has become slightly healthier, I remember the equipment bonus used to account for forty-two percent of the Charm attribute, and now it has dropped to about forty-one percent.

If it can continue to develop like this, my Charm attribute value will inevitably become healthier and healthier. I estimate that after increasing another one or two points of Charm, I should be able to reduce the proportion to below forty percent."

Although Zhang Yanhang currently had no idea how to continue to increase the Charm attribute value, he thought it shouldn’t be a big problem, since it’s just a sub-attribute after all.

After all, even without further increases, the current forty-six points were already more than enough, at most it would just mean that he couldn’t maximize the last twenty points of the fixed damage limit of the Death Wave Skill.

After checking the attribute values, Zhang Yanhang felt like he had dealt with everything that came out of the treasure box, and truly had nothing to do, so he opened his data panel to take a look.

[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Second Order)]

[Race: Human]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 20]

[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]

[Level: LV.14 (0/8000)]

[Soul Points: 6295]

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

[Life Value: 2612/2612 (Constitution × 21, the body has been officially dataized, Life Value recovery speed: 15 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 2560/2560 (Intelligence × 21, the body has been officially dataized, Energy Value recovery speed: 45 points per hour.)]

[Strength: 50 (+5[-6])]

[Agility: 50 (+5[-3])]

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

[Intelligence: 50 (+5[-10])]

[Charm: 46 (+19)]

[Luck: ??? (This attribute is hidden)]

[Talent: 1. Multiple Choice (???). 2. Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea (SS Rank). 3. Bear Power (S Rank). 4. Mature Scroll Dragon [Bloodline Purification] (SS Rank).]

[Skill: 1. Limitless Universe Skill[Second Order]LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 2. Alchemy (Active Skill). 3. Gun Mastery LV.6 (Passive Skill). 4. Fighting Master LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 5. Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active). 6. Technique Immunity·Original LV.6 (Passive Skill). 7. Death Wave LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 8. Supreme Will LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 9. Indestructible Golden Body LV.MAX (Passive/Active).]

"I was promoted to Second Order on October 13th, and now it’s October 21st, just over a week, and I’m already about to start preparing for Third Order. Looking at it this way, I will definitely be promoted to Third Order next week, and it will take at most half a month altogether.

It took half a month to be promoted from First to Second Order, and at most another half a month from Second to Third Order. If this continues, it won’t take just half a month to go from Third to Fourth Order, will it?"

Since the difficulty of advancing to the Fourth Tier Land of True Immortal seemed to be somewhat higher compared to other ranks, Zhang Yanhang felt it was unlikely that he could maintain this pace and so, it should take a bit longer, maybe around three weeks or so.

"Now only the skills Fighting Master LV.MAX, Indestructible Golden Body LV.MAX, and Death Wave LV.MAX need to be promoted and raised to LV.6. I should be able to gather enough soul points in the process of clearing the forest later, so there’s no need to worry."

After checking the data panel to his satisfaction, Zhang Yanhang nodded, then glanced at the time on his watch and found that only two minutes had passed, since he hadn’t done anything too time-consuming just now.

"There are still nine minutes left until the transmission channel closes, so I might as well go exchange for achievements." To save time, Zhang Yanhang directly opened an Arbitrary Gate to teleport himself next to the Achievement Vending Machine.

Looking at the machine that looked exactly like the one in Raccoon City and the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, Zhang Yanhang immediately started checking the achievements within. Not surprisingly, there were also three achievements in the Goblin Plain’s machine.

However, Zhang Yanhang was surprised to find that the quality of the achievements in this machine was one level higher than those in Raccoon City and Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu.

The achievements in the previous two machines were one Blue, one Purple, and one Dark Purple, but here the lowest quality was Purple, followed by Dark Purple Quality Achievement and Light Golden Quality Achievement.