Ashen God
Chapter 540 - 539 Golden Quality [Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist]

Chapter 540: Chapter 539 Golden Quality [Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist]

Zhang Yanhang took out the Heavenly Martial Soul-devouring Sword and Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Sword from his waist bag, placing them alongside the Voodoo Red Face Shovel. Then, he removed the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist from his arm and piled it on top of the three light golden weapons.

"Choose! Upgrade the quality of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist!" Once ready, Zhang Yanhang didn’t hesitate to trigger the related options. With the arrival of Time Pause, that familiar text option box appeared again in front of Zhang Yanhang.

[Would you like to upgrade the quality of the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’?]

[Option One: Yes (Use three light golden quality weapons ’Heavenly Martial Soul-devouring Sword,’ ’Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Sword,’ and ’Voodoo Red Face Shovel’ to enhance the quality of ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ to golden.)]

[Option Two: Yes (Use one ’Buddha Relics’ to enhance the quality of ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ to golden.)]

[Option Three: No (Although you already have three extra light golden quality weapons, you suddenly lack interest in upgrading the quality of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist, thinking that you might find a way to extract more value from these light golden weapons.)]

"The pathway to extract more value... why don’t you just tell me directly?" he muttered, "If you told me directly, I really might give up on this upgrade. But you don’t tell me, and even suggest that I might find a way myself, just this ’might’ already suggests that I am likely not to find the correct pathway."

Based on Zhang Yanhang’s experience, if Multiple Choice would help him accomplish something, it usually spelled out very clearly. In contrast, vague options such as this third choice seemed unreliable because no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t conceive of any other better way to realize profits.

"To upgrade the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist from purple quality to dark purple quality only ever needed one Buddha Relics, and likewise only one Buddha Relics were needed to upgrade from dark purple quality to light golden quality.

Now, even upgrading from light golden quality to golden quality still only requires one Buddha Relics, meaning, the upgrade requirements for Buddha Relics don’t seem to increase with quality but are fixed at this count.

Compared to this, adding a weapon requirement per quality upgrade might just be the wrong path."

From any perspective, Zhang Yanhang felt that Buddha Relics, which matched the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist better and always required a fixed count, was the right path.

"But unfortunately, even though Buddha Relics are the right path, it’s a path I just can’t walk because I have no way to obtain Buddha Relics at all. Therefore, having already started down this misguided path of using same quality weapons for enhancement, I can only follow it to the end."

Although Zhang Yanhang had always harbored a small desire to hunt in the Land of the Buddha Country, unfortunately, such a high-level map was beyond his current reach.

Previously, he had thought that perhaps Buddha Relics were just a three-tier item of light golden quality, but now, as his horizons broadened, Zhang Yanhang began to suspect that the lowest quality of Buddha Relics is likely a dark golden four-tier item.

After all, the fact that just one Buddha Relics could elevate the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to golden quality suggested that Buddha Relics must be at least a golden quality item, otherwise how could they directly enhance the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to golden?

"So, I choose Option One, using three light golden weapons to upgrade the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to golden quality." After reviewing all three options, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his choice, as truly, only the first option would fulfill his intention of upgrading the weapon’s quality.

After Zhang Yanhang made his final choice, the three light golden weapons that had been placed under the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist suddenly disappeared. The Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist then lit up with a ring of golden light, signifying that it had successfully completed its quality upgrade.

Immediately after the quality upgrade was complete, Zhang Yanhang began checking the attribute list of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist.

[Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist]

[Quality: Golden]

[Type: Weapon]

[Origin: Ashen World, Land of the Buddha Country, Heretic Conversion Agency.]

[Durability: 225/225]

[Attack Power: 185 (+33)]

[Additional Attributes: Critical Strike Rate +12% (+2%)]

[Special Attributes: 1. All Four Elements are Void (Buddhist). 2. All Things are Impermanent (Buddhist).]

[All Four Elements are Void (Buddhist): Creates a Vajra (Gravity) Domain that pulls nearby enemies and dizzies them (Physical) for 3.6 seconds (+0.4 seconds).

After using this skill, the next attack within 5 seconds will deal 788% (+89%) additional physical attack power to the target and its nearby enemies and knock them back. Cooldown 30 seconds, consumes 75 energy points (+15 points).]

[All Things are Impermanent (Buddhist): Increases all damage dealt to life form enemies by 23.7% (+3.5%), and doubles the bonus when attacking targets such as armor, clothing, and fur.]

[Upgradable, Upgrade Conditions: Consume Buddha Relics (0/1) or golden quality weapons (0/4).]

[Usage Requirements: Strength 50, Agility 45, Constitution 45.]

[Score: 440 (Golden items score from 351 to 440.)]

[Introduction: For some reason, recently there has been an outsider who, after seeing me wearing the Buddhist Sect Execution (Conversion) Gloves designated for heretics of the Buddha level to regularly convert heretics, mysteriously started calling me "One Punch Man." ——From an Arhat Level Conversion Agency Executioner]

"The usage requirements are indeed kept within the second tier, with the strength requirement exactly on the border of the second tier limit at fifty points. If it were even slightly higher, I would become unable to use it."

Zhang Yanhang was not surprised by this outcome, or rather, he had felt even before asking multiple choice that this upgrade likely wouldn’t exceed the second tier limit.

After all, the pattern of increase in usage requirements for the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist was quite clear; it only ever increased by ten points each time, starting from a purple quality requirement of 20 points of strength, 15 points of agility, and 15 points of constitution. Then it moved to a dark purple, increasing by ten points to 30 points of strength, 25 points of agility, and 25 points of constitution.

The subsequent light golden quality also just increased by ten points, bringing strength to forty points. Thus, the current figures of 50 points of strength, 45 points of agility, and 45 points of constitution are naturally expected.

It was for this reason that Zhang Yanhang dared to enhance the quality of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to golden.

"After the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist was upgraded to golden quality, its attack power surged significantly again, increasing by 33 points, from the original 152 points to now 185 points, an increase of about 20 percent, which was quite impressive.

Moreover, not only did the attack power increase, but the critical strike rate bonus from the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist also increased, rising by 2%, from the original 10% to 12%.

And since my white ten-piece set and green ten-piece set combined also provided an additional 6% critical strike rate bonus, I now have a total of 18% critical strike rate bonus, enabling an average of one critical hit every 5.5 attacks.

Even before the upgrade, I had a 16% critical strike rate, allowing me to average one critical hit every six attacks—it’s no wonder that when I was fighting the Goblin Chief, I inadvertently landed a critical hit when I wasn’t particularly aiming for it. It was really because my critical strike rate was too high."

Zhang Yanhang felt somewhat disheartened as he spoke of this, since the heart was truly the highest quality part of the Goblin Chief’s body, at least a dark purple quality.

If it could have been used to concoct a magic potion, even with his unskilled technique, he should have been able to produce at least one bottle of purple quality Alchemy Potion, which would definitely have been significantly useful.

But unfortunately, a single critical hit directly destroyed the Goblin Chief’s heart, and the other remaining parts of its body that could qualify as purple quality were already quite good, thus the overall value significantly dropped.

"Besides the basic increases in attack power and critical strike rate bonus, the skills All Things are Impermanent and All Four Elements are Void also saw enhancements due to the quality upgrade. The dizziness duration of All Four Elements are Void increased again by 0.4 seconds, from the original 3.2 seconds to 3.6.

Of course, compared to the dizziness duration, what’s even more important is the enhancement of the physical attack range; this time the physical attack bonus increased fiercely by 89%, raising the overall bonus from the original 699% to 788%, 38% higher than my earlier estimate of 750%. It was truly deserving of being a golden quality weapon, absolutely strong.

If this increase in attack range was merely calculated based on the power effect, then this punch, which would have an original force of 15.5 tons, could easily achieve an effect of 138 tons, effortlessly breaking through one hundred tons.

This is a genuine one-handed one hundred tons, not the kind of dubious one hundred tons that needs both hands combined. And if supplemented with the Giant Transformation and Frenzy Skill, this punch could even achieve a force of 250 tons."

Of course, Zhang Yanhang had said before that the calculation method for the physical attack bonus was very complex. It was definitely not as simple as bluntly stacking an additional hundred or even two hundred tons of force; thus, this computational method was rather unreliable and could only be said to have a somewhat similar expression.

"Although the increase in the physical attack power from the ’All Four Elements are Void’ skill has raised its energy consumption by 15 points, from the original 60 points to 75 points, it’s not a big problem, just a mere 75 points of energy consumption. With my current energy value limit of 2560 points, I can still release it consecutively 34 times."

Compared to the increase in energy consumption from the ’All Four Elements are Void,’ Zhang Yanhang was more concerned about the damage amplification from ’All Things are Impermanent.’ This time, the bonus provided by ’All Things are Impermanent’ for damage inflicted on life forms had increased again by 3.5%, raising the overall amplification from 20.2% to 23.7%.

Moreover, because the damage amplification, equivalent to a Special Attack on all things, is attached to armor, clothing, and fur characteristics in ’All Things are Impermanent,’ this 23.7% damage increase could actually be considered a full 47.4% damage amplification. After all, as long as it is a life form, it generally cannot escape these three characteristics of armor, clothing, and fur.

"This time, after the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ was promoted to golden quality, the number of weapons required for the upgrade conditions has indeed increased by one, now requiring four golden quality weapons. Ah, I don’t know how long it will take to gather them again."

Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but sigh when he thought about how difficult it was to even gather three light golden weapons, and now he needed to gather four golden quality weapons.

"Four golden quality weapons are definitely not something that can be gathered in a short time; it’s certainly not possible within the second tier, and must wait until I’m promoted to the third tier."

Zhang Yanhang estimated that with his current pace, it might take half a month to gather that many golden quality weapons.

"Indeed, the evil path is not easy to take, while for the orthodox path, even after the Buddha Relics in the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ have been promoted to golden quality, it still only requires one relic. This alone basically confirms that these relics must be of dark gold quality or above—items of a high-level that I definitely cannot obtain for the time being."

But fortunately, because currently just being of golden quality requires fifty points of strength to use, Zhang Yanhang hadn’t even considered promoting the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ to dark golden quality during the second tier, as he definitely wouldn’t be able to use it once promoted.

Therefore, for this small goal that was destined to be completed only upon reaching the third tier, Zhang Yanhang had already planned to treat it as a long-term goal and accumulate it gradually.

Therefore, although four pieces of golden quality weapons seemed like a lot, for him at the moment, it was just manageable; after all, it surely could be accomplished—it would just require some more time.

"Speaking of which, the score of the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist’ is still as fierce as ever. After the promotion, it directly went from a full score in light golden quality to a full score in golden quality, increasing by nearly ninety points.

Sigh, if only the other equipment I got from the drop treasure boxes could be as fierce, allowing me to reach a full score with just one fusion, then with just a few fusions, I might have a bunch of golden quality and even dark golden quality items in my hands.

Well, I’m just daydreaming. If I could really achieve that level, I would probably become invincible in no more than a month."

Regarding the rapid increase in the score of the ’Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist,’ Zhang Yanhang had almost gotten used to it, since it was already the third time it had been promoted in quality.

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