Ashen God

But correspondingly, if Zhang Yanhang chooses higher-level orange quality items belonging to the Fifth Tier, it might lead to a surge in consumption because it exceeds the range of capabilities.

Of course, these are just possibilities. The specifics will only be known after Zhang Yanhang practices several times. Only more sample sizes can let him understand what the consumption standard of this new ability is all about.

After checking the Energy Value limit, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to inventory the various things recently opened from the drop treasure boxes, starting naturally with the benefits in the Talent aspect.

After inventorying, Zhang Yanhang found out he had opened a total of 854 B-level Muscle Regeneration Talents this time. Previously, after upgrading the XX-level [Sea House Addition], he had 1013 Muscle Regeneration Talents remaining, so all added up, Zhang Yanhang now has a total of 1867 Muscle Regenerations.

"Currently, to upgrade my XX-level Talent [Sea House Addition] to XXX-level, I need 59049 E-level Slow Corruption Talents, which is certainly an impossible number to gather. But fortunately, I am now using B-level Muscle Regeneration Talents.

After converting to B-level Muscle Regeneration, it only requires 2187 B-level Muscle Regeneration Talents to upgrade the XX-level Talent [Sea House Addition] to XXX-level.

But unfortunately, even though 2187 Muscle Regenerations isn't that many, I haven't gathered them yet."

Currently, Zhang Yanhang has only 1867 Muscle Regenerations, which is still 320 short of the 2187 needed for the upgrade. It's not much of a gap, and Zhang Yanhang is confident he can gather the remaining Muscle Regeneration once he completes the Fourth Stage clearing plan.

But for now, it's indeed impossible to upgrade the Talent. It can only wait until the relevant needs are gathered next time.

Since upgrading the Talent is not possible, Zhang Yanhang quickly stored all the recently inventoried Muscle Regeneration Talents into his Waist Bag along with the previous Muscle Regeneration Talents.

After inventorying the Talent aspect benefits, Zhang Yanhang immediately began inventorying the equipment side benefits, as the variety of rewards was more diverse due to opening the drop treasure boxes of four kinds of monsters this time.

Firstly, Zhang Yanhang opened a Light Golden Quality Life Ring from the Dark Purple Quality drop treasure box of the T-103 type Super Tyrant, totaling 556 Life Rings this time.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had a total of twenty-three Life Rings +6 and six Life Rings +1. All these Life Rings together total up to the equivalent of 1484 Life Rings. Therefore, if all added, Zhang Yanhang now has a total equivalent of 2040 Life Rings.

However, since the twenty-three Life Rings +6 have been fused to the limit and he is far from gathering forty Life Rings +6, Zhang Yanhang will not attempt to break the limit shortly.

Therefore, only the six Life Rings +1 will participate in this fusion.

After inventorying, Zhang Yanhang immediately took off the six Life Rings +1 from his hand, determined to finally fill all thirty-one empty fingers with Life Rings this time.

After putting these six Life Rings +1 into the Alchemy Array together with the five hundred fifty-six Ordinary Life Rings, Zhang Yanhang immediately activated Alchemy to start the fusion.

In the first round of fusion, Zhang Yanhang took about fourteen batches to complete the fusion. Although it was already quite a few, compared to last time, the number of batches used was significantly reduced. In the end, Zhang Yanhang fused a total of 278 Life Rings +1.

However, although only 278 Life Rings +1 were fused, in fact, due to six remaining Life Rings +1, Zhang Yanhang currently has a total of 284 Life Rings +1, and after using seven batches to complete their fusion, Zhang Yanhang fused a total of 142 Life Rings +2.

Subsequently, Zhang Yanhang immediately began the third round of fusion, using four batches this time to fuse 71 Life Rings +3. Following this was the fourth round of fusion, where Zhang Yanhang used two batches to fuse 35 Life Rings +4, with one Life Ring +3 left alone this round.

Then, in the fifth and sixth rounds, Zhang Yanhang used one batch each to fuse 17 Life Rings +5 and 8 Life Rings +6, but also had one Life Ring +4 and one Life Ring +5 left alone respectively.

In the end, Zhang Yanhang fused a total of eight Life Rings +6, along with one Life Ring +5, one Life Ring +4, and one Life Ring +3.

"I now have a total of thirty-one fingers that have taken off the Crimson Iron Rings, and currently, twenty-three of them are already wearing Life Rings +6 fused to the limit, leaving only eight fingers vacant. But this time, I happened to fuse eight Life Rings +6. Not bad."

Zhang Yanhang can finally put Life Rings +6 on all the vacant fingers.

"It would be great if there were eight more ordinary Life Rings in this fusion, then I could have fused one more Life Ring +6."

Although Zhang Yanhang can only wear thirty-one Life Rings +6 for now, he will definitely take off all the Crimson Iron Rings later, so he must prepare enough Life Rings +6 for the future now. That means he must gather forty Life Rings +6.

Currently, he's only nine Life Rings +6 short of gathering forty Life Rings +6, which he estimates can be gathered after completing the Fourth Stage clearing plan.

After fusing the Life Rings, Zhang Yanhang immediately put those eight freshly fused Life Rings +6 on the empty fingers, finally achieving the previous small goal of filling all the fingers.

"The eight Life Rings +6 I equipped this time can provide a total of 12% Life Value Limit increase. After subtracting the 5.76% Life Value Limit provided by the previous six Life Rings +1, there remains a 6.24% Life Value Limit increase."

In other words, compared to before, these eight Life Rings +6 provide Zhang Yanhang with a total of 6.24% Life Value Limit increase, and his relevant total Life Value Limit increase has risen from 40.26% to 46.5%.

In addition to the life value cap bonus, these eight life rings +6 also provided Zhang Yanhang with a 480% life value recovery speed bonus. After removing the 198% life value recovery speed bonus provided by the previous six life rings +1, this represents a 282% increase compared with before.

Zhang Yanhang's life value recovery speed bonus was previously a total of 1578%, and now it has increased to 1860%, quite a significant increase, far faster than the growth of the life value cap. Therefore, Zhang Yanhang feels that perhaps this time he will become closer to achieving his small goal.

After equipping those eight life rings +6, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened his life value cap to check how much the newly added bonus could help him increase his life value cap.

[Life Value: 35029/35029 (Constitution×79, the current body has been formally digitized, life value recovery speed, 71 points per hour.)]

"I previously had a total life value cap of only 34209 points, and now it has increased to a life value cap of 35029 points, a total increase of 820 points in life value cap, and incidentally completed the small goal of a 35000 life value cap."

Zhang Yanhang previously thought that this small goal could be completed automatically relying on the life rings, and now it truly is effortlessly, while his next small goal is set at a life value cap of 36000 points. He is currently 971 points away from completing this small goal.

Although 971 points of life value cap is not much, his thirty-one fingers are already completely equipped with life rings +6, so it is impossible to increase it solely through life rings unless Zhang Yanhang can immediately remove the remaining nine crimson iron rings and replace them with life rings.

But that is definitely not possible, as he still needs the charm attribute bonus from the crimson iron rings to increase the fixed damage limit of death wave.

"With a life value cap of only 34209 before, it was equivalent to 7.6 times the life value cap of a Fourth Tier Awakened, and now with the life value cap increased to 35029, it is equivalent to 7.8 times the life value cap of a Fourth Tier Awakened, an increase of 0.2 times the life value cap compared to before.

I am currently only 0.2 times away from completing the small goal of eight times the life value cap of a Fourth Tier Awakened, but this 0.2 times is quite difficult to increase, still requiring me to increase nearly a thousand points in life value cap to complete it. But where can I find this thousand points of life value cap?"

Zhang Yanhang estimated that once he completed the small goal of a 36000 life value cap, this small goal of achieving eight times the life value cap of a Fourth Tier Awakened would also naturally be completed. However, currently, he indeed has no means left to continue increasing his life value cap.

After all, Zhang Yanhang's Indestructible Golden Body has already been upgraded, unable to further upgrade and increase the life value cap, and the life rings are already fully equipped. Unless more crimson iron rings can be removed, it will be challenging to further increase a thousand points in life value cap.

"If it's really impossible, perhaps the yellow herbs over in Raccoon City are worth hoping for, but solely relying on yellow herbs to increase a thousand points in life value cap is indeed unlikely."

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang feels it might be more beneficial to hope for something else in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field that could potentially increase the life value cap. After all, since even coins were revealed, following traditions and revealing an item that can increase the life value cap does seem very possible.

"Previously, my life value recovery speed increased to 1191 points per hour after a 1578% life value recovery speed bonus.

And now, with my life value recovery speed bonus elevated to 1860%, my life value recovery speed has increased to 1392 points per hour, an increase of 201 points in life value recovery speed per hour compared to before."

Due to the massive increase in life value cap caused by upgrading the Indestructible Golden Body, the time to restore a full life value cap rose to 29 hours.

But now, because of yet another large increase in life value recovery speed, it has decreased to only 25 hours to restore a full life value cap, a reduction of four hours compared to before, even faster than Zhang Yanhang's previous peak speed of 26 hours by one hour.

Currently, Zhang Yanhang is just one hour away from fulfilling the small goal of restoring a full life value cap within 24 hours.

"The life value recovery speed does increase far more quickly than the life value cap, and if this trend continues, perhaps this small goal will indeed be completed."

But Zhang Yanhang believes he will certainly achieve the small goal of eight times the life value cap before completing this small goal, causing this small goal to collapse prematurely. Hmm, probably.

After checking the life value cap, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened his shield value limit to begin checking.

[Shield Value: 164638/164638 (Life Value Limit×470%, Recovery speed: 20% per second.)]

"My initial shield value limit was only 160784 points, and now it has increased to a shield value limit of 164638 points, an increase of 3854 points in shield value limit.

Unfortunately though, there is still a gap between the previous small goal of a shield value limit of 165000 points, still lacking 362 points in shield value limit to complete this small goal."

If the previous small goal of a 36000 life value cap perhaps gave Zhang Yanhang little confidence, then the shield value goal of a 165000 shield value limit is something Zhang Yanhang is quite confident in achieving.

After all, only 362 points in shield value limit remain, just needing a few dozen points increment in life value cap can make up for this shortfall. Even just relying on yellow herbs can easily fill it, so there really is nothing to worry about.

"Previously, my shield value limit was only 160784 points, equivalent to 35.7 times the life value cap of a Fourth Tier Awakened, and now as my shield value limit is increased to 164638 points, my shield value limit is equivalent to 36.6 times the life value cap of a Fourth Tier Awakened, compared to before, an increase of 0.9 times the shield value limit.

But even though the shield value limit increased by 0.9 times again, the gap to the small goal previously set of forty times is still 3.4 times away."

If the eight times small goal for the life value cap perhaps might be achieved with some effort, then the forty times small goal for the shield value limit is something Zhang Yanhang has basically ceased counting on, because the gap is indeed too significant to fill, no amount of effort could bridge such a wide gap.