Ashen God

After Zhang Yanhang finished checking the attribute list of the Movement Speed Coin and the Attack Speed Coin, he immediately placed both coins into his waist bag. As expected, he instantly enjoyed the related bonus effects. Truly, the Amulet equipment is indeed very powerful.

"Speaking of which, it seems like it's been a long time since I've opened a set, and I wonder when I will be able to open new set equipment."

And if you ask why Zhang Yanhang suddenly mentioned the set, it's naturally because the set effect is, to some extent, on par with the Amulet equipment, as both can be acquired for free.

"But set equipment, after all, can't be forced, so I'll just leave it to fate."

Of course, although he hasn't encountered a normal set for the time being, he does encounter the Tarot Card Set parts every time. Although it's currently only of dark purple quality, it can still easily surpass dark gold quality equipment in terms of additional attributes.

Every dark purple Tarot Card indeed offers stronger bonuses than dark gold quality equipment and can even compare to some lower-scoring orange quality equipment. Clearly, it's just third-tier equipment, yet it can rival fifth-tier, two major ranks ahead. You could say, having more set parts allows for such indulgence.

Although it is still just dark purple quality equipment for now, Zhang Yanhang estimates that after clearing the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, he should definitely be able to upgrade the Tarot Card Set to light golden quality, and by then, he will likely receive a significant boost in additional attributes.

He doesn't care much about other things, but the skill coverage and luck value bonuses are truly invaluable, and these are unique bonuses that can't be found elsewhere.

After successfully equipping the Movement Speed Coin and the Attack Speed Coin, Zhang Yanhang first began testing his own movement speed, which is relatively easy to test.

With a huge sonic boom roaring past, after running a few laps around, Zhang Yanhang skillfully estimated his current movement speed.

From the test results, Zhang Yanhang's current movement speed has increased to 5437 meters per second, whereas previously, it was only 4838 meters per second. So this time, his movement speed per second has increased by 599 meters, which is quite a substantial increase overall.

And when converted to the speed of sound, Zhang Yanhang's current movement speed, which was originally 14.23 Mach, has now increased to 16 Mach, with a total additional increase of 1.77 Mach in movement speed.

"Goodness, just one Movement Speed Coin has already increased my movement speed by nearly two Mach. If I get a few more Movement Speed Coins, wouldn't I break through twenty Mach at any moment under normal conditions?"

At this thought, Zhang Yanhang's only feeling is that the coin equipment is indeed amazing.

"And if I augment it with Spiritual Qi, my movement speed will reach a terrifying thirty-two Mach. You know, even the fastest terminal speed of an intercontinental ballistic missile is only twenty-seven Mach, which means I'm now a fifth faster than an intercontinental ballistic missile.

A standard rifle bullet is about three times the speed of sound, and currently, I'm ten times faster than a bullet, eleven times the bullet's speed, making it increasingly exaggerated."

Zhang Yanhang remembers the famous Voyager 1, the ridiculous spacecraft carrying the Golden Record with human information, whose flight speed, it seems, is only sixty thousand kilometers per hour, which when converted to Mach, is only forty-nine Mach.

In other words, he is currently only one-third the speed away from such a cosmic spacecraft.

"My current movement speed, when augmented with Spiritual Qi and calculated in meters, has reached 10874 meters per second, which rounds to about 10.9 kilometers. Even the second cosmic speed is only 11.2 kilometers per second.

Therefore, I'm now just 0.3 kilometers per second away from being able to leave Earth."

Of course, the escape velocity for becoming a solar orbital object at the second cosmic speed mainly applies to massive objects. For Zhang Yanhang, he has long been able to escape Earth's gravity, but the second cosmic speed is indeed a nice milestone. Zhang Yanhang estimates he will soon be able to surpass this speed.

Not else, he reckons that just any random Movement Speed Coin bonus will instantly allow him to reach the second cosmic speed.

If previously, there were some top-notch rockets that could compare with Zhang Yanhang, now, the only targets he can chase are various space probes and spacecraft. But he believes that as long as he continues to improve, he can eventually surpass the speed of all human-made objects.

"If my current movement speed is converted into kilometers, I can travel 19573 kilometers per hour, which means in just two hours, I can circle the equator, traveling around the entire Earth.

And this is without the augmentation of Spiritual Qi. If spiritually augmented, my movement speed can reach a terrifying 39146 kilometers per hour, which would allow me to circle the equator and return to the starting point in merely an hour and two minutes."

Previously, if Zhang Yanhang wanted to fly to the moon 400,000 kilometers away, it would take at least twelve hours, but now it's only ten and a half hours, shortening the time by about an hour and a half. Enough time for an easy round trip in a day, with enough leisure in between to lap around the equator three times.

"This improvement compared to last time is undeniably much greater. Since the movement speed under Spiritual Qi enhancement has reached thirty-two Mach per second, I believe my hunting efficiency will somewhat change."

Originally, Zhang Yanhang could clear five square kilometers per second, but he now thinks clearing six square kilometers per second might not be impossible; of course, the exact hunting efficiency still needs to be known after actual testing.

After finishing the movement speed test, Zhang Yanhang quickly turned his attention to his attack speed.

Currently speaking, his punch speed, after being augmented by Spiritual Qi, may nearly reach sixty Mach. Even in normal state, it's faster than an intercontinental ballistic missile, so his normal attack power can be said to be rapidly rising from megaton level to several megatons.

But precisely because of this, Zhang Yanhang increasingly doesn't want to use his fists to hit enemies, fearing accidentally pulverizing them, or worse, inadvertently smashing an entire area along with the monster corpses, given the lessons of breaking through the Earth's crust in the Main World feel as if they were just yesterday.

Oh, it seems like it was just yesterday.

Indeed, it's vividly in mind.

But those were the days of youthful ignorance, in other words, child's play.

But now he's different, he's matured, he can't waste the corpses like that anymore; he needs to be frugal.

Compared to the more vague and hard-to-measure punch speed, Zhang Yanhang is more interested in the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear here.

After successfully gaining the bonus from the Attack Speed Coin, the firing speed of the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear has grown from previously shooting 3390 cannon bullets per second to now shooting 3965 cannon bullets per second, with the shooting speed per second increasing by another 575 rounds.

"If before, it took me three seconds to empty a magazine with ten thousand rounds, now I can empty a machine gun magazine with ten thousand rounds in just 2.5 seconds, reducing the shooting time by a total of 0.5 seconds."

After upgrading the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear, Zhang Yanhang hadn't set a new minor goal yet. Now, he wants to set a new target of emptying a magazine within two seconds, so that with the double fire rate of the Six Roots Pure Skill, he can achieve emptying a magazine in just one second again.

If he can really achieve this, the cannon bullets, having evolved to the thickness of an adult's thigh and completely turned into shells, would definitely cause heavy metal poisoning on the spot for the enemy, with the corpse containing 99% heavy metal content.

Aside from the firing speed, the flying speed of the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear Cannon Bullet has also improved, increasing from the previous 81 Mach to 95 Mach, skyrocketing by 15 Mach once again.

"I have to say, the speed of the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear is really absurd. My own Movement Speed is only 16 Mach, but here it casually increased by 15 Mach, just one less Mach than mine..."

From the perspective of kinetic energy formulas, the 95 Mach Cannon Bullet in terms of power should be approximately 1.4 times that of the 81 Mach Cannon Bullet.

And if calculating from the initial 24 Mach, it has reached 15.7 times the initial state, whereas the original 81 Mach was only 11.4 times the initial state.

Well, this calculation is only in terms of kinetic energy, and in reality, considering various related bonuses, the effect is undoubtedly even greater.

Zhang Yanhang has always been quite satisfied with the power of the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear after upgrading to Orange Quality. After all, a single shot can destroy several streets. But precisely because he is too satisfied, it's easy to shatter monster corpses, which is why recently he has been using it less, opting for Death Wave most of the time.

But he feels that those Fourth Tier Monsters should be able to withstand more, so perhaps he can use the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear more when hunting these Fourth Tier Monsters. After all, he can't always rely on Death Wave.

After settling the issues with the Attack Speed Coin and Movement Speed Coin, Zhang Yanhang has finally accounted for everything from the Drop Treasure Box.

So, he immediately opened his Soul points balance to check how many Soul points he managed to get this time, and whether it's enough to upgrade both Gun Mastery and Fighting Mastery.

[Soul Points: 38565257 (+20589000)]

"Alas, ultimately it still isn't enough."

Although Zhang Yanhang had already expected this result, when he found that the Soul points balance indeed fell short of forty million, he couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed.

"This time, I obtained a total of 20,589,000 Soul points from the Drop Treasure Box, increasing my Soul points balance from the original 17,970,000 to 38,565,257."

Of course, Zhang Yanhang doesn't actually need to reach forty million Soul points. After all, upgrading only requires 19,660,000 Soul points, and doubling that would be 39,320,000 Soul points.

However, he hasn't even managed to gather thirty-nine million Soul points, only accumulating 38,565,000 Soul points, still lacking 760,000 to meet the needs.

"Just 760,000 Soul points away from simultaneously upgrading Gun Mastery and Fighting Mastery, it kind of makes me want to go for a quick rush. After all, for someone like me now, earning a little less than a million Soul points is quite easy, possibly obtainable within just a minute."

But upon further contemplation, Zhang Yanhang thought better of it; after all, it's just a matter of delaying the upgrade slightly, and it won't really affect anything.

"Since there's nothing else to do apart from upgrading skills, I should quickly go and upgrade the skills. Choose! Skill level enhancement!"

Zhang Yanhang immediately started to trigger the relevant options. With the arrival of Time Pause, a series of familiar textual option boxes instantly appeared before him.

[Proceed with Skill Level Enhancement?]

[Option One: Upgrade 'Gun Mastery LV.MAX' to 'Gun Master·Original LV.5' (Consumes 1 Ash Source, 1 Legendary Essence, and 6,553,600 Soul points.)]

[Option Two: Upgrade 'Fighting Master LV.MAX' to 'Martial Arts Master·Original LV.5' (Consumes 1 Ash Source, 1 Legendary Essence, and 6,553,600 Soul points.)]

...

[Option Five: Upgrade 'Limitless Universe Skill[Fourth Tier] LV.MAX' to '???' (Cannot be strengthened)]

...

[Option Seven: Upgrade 'Death Wave·Origin LV.6' to 'Death Wave·Origin LV.7' (Consumes 26,214,400 Soul points.)]

...

[Option Nine: Upgrade 'Indestructible Golden Body·Origin LV.6' to 'Indestructible Golden Body·Origin LV.7' (Consumes 26,214,400 Soul points.)]

...

[Option Thirteen: Upgrade 'No Taboos LV.MAX' to '???' (Cannot be strengthened)]

"After upgrading to Fourth Tier LV.MAX, the Limitless Universe Skill indeed once again became unenhanceable. According to past experience, it likely requires a promotion to the Fifth Tier before it can be further improved."

Of course, Zhang Yanhang estimates that if he had the capability to break through the Cultivation Technique bottleneck on his own, he should definitely be able to resume normal enhancements.

But clearly, he doesn't possess that kind of talent. Compared to true geniuses, he's just ordinary, and his rapid advancement so far has been entirely due to the Multiple Choice cheat, so it's better not to harbor any strange delusions.