Ashen God

"This time, the choices, how to say, are still as familiar as ever, and still as vague as ever. Although it told me I could obtain the Divination Tarot Cards I wanted, it didn't tell me the number of Tarot Cards or their specific names at all. It would be troublesome if it gave me some Tarot Cards that aren't from the same set."

Currently, Zhang Yanhang still has two options for upgrading the Divination Tarot Card. The first upgrade condition is to find the three Divination Tarot Cards: Justice, Strength, and The Hanged Man. The second upgrade condition is to find the three Divination Tarot Cards: Hermit, Death God, and Demon.

Zhang Yanhang is quite worried that if he suddenly receives one Justice and one Hermit separately, it might be a bit awkward, completely unable to complete the set effect.

Of course, Zhang Yanhang is not even sure if this time he will still receive two Tarot Cards, because maybe the last time was just an accident. If only one Tarot Card is given this time, then the above thoughts are purely self-indulgent.

But since he has already ascended to the Fourth Tier, based on the improved talent strength of Multiple Choice, Zhang Yanhang is still quite confident in replicating the previous occurrence where two Tarot Cards were opened simultaneously in the God of Sun's lord's treasure chest, after all, it's his inner wish, and the options have mentioned fulfilling his wish.

"As for the second option and the third option, they are relatively insignificant, simply telling me there are no existing Divination Tarot Cards in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, but even if it doesn't say, I surely know this."

So, I choose Option One, which is to obtain the Divination Tarot Cards I want from the Red Quality drop treasure box dropped by the Fifth Tier Four-star Lord Monster 'Ancestor Virus Aggregation [God of Flesh and Corruption]."

After checking all the options, Zhang Yanhang quickly made a choice, after all, there was only that one option that made sense. If two options were useful, his choice difficulty might act up.

After making the choice, Time Pause instantly disappeared, and simultaneously, Zhang Yanhang immediately picked up that Red Quality lord's treasure chest.

[Will you open the 'Drop treasure box (Ancestor Virus Aggregation [God of Flesh and Corruption])'?]

"Yes, open it."

For this Red Quality lord's treasure chest from the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, Zhang Yanhang is undoubtedly very much looking forward to it, after all, the highest quality he has currently encountered is Red Quality, and beyond Red Quality is completely unknown.

And now, according to past patterns, this Red Quality lord's treasure box is sure to produce items of a higher quality than Red Quality, which naturally makes Zhang Yanhang have no choice but to look forward to it, this means he can finally know what's above Red Quality.

However, seeing as he jumped straight from Orange to Red Quality, Zhang Yanhang believes the quality above will certainly not be something like Dark Red, but definitely a brand new color, maybe Blood Color or Black or even Colorful equipment, all of these are possible.

[Select the specific contents of 'Drop treasure box (Ancestor Virus Aggregation [God of Flesh and Corruption])']

[Item One: ?]

[Item Two: ?]

[Item Three: ?]

[Item Four: ?]

[Item Five: ?]

"Aside from items of higher quality, there are also other more essential things worth looking forward to, such as Legendary Essence and Ash Source."

Though Zhang Yanhang feels somewhat uneasy about whether the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, having reached Divine Level, will still drop Legendary Essence, he thinks since Ancestor Virus Aggregation itself is determined only to be Fifth Tier, and the God of Sun previously dropped Legendary Essence, perhaps he doesn't need to worry too much.

Still, he has to admit, if the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's lord's treasure chest doesn't produce Legendary Essence, he won't be able to ascend to the Fifth Tier, after all, Legendary Essence can only be obtained from lord's treasure chests, while Ashen Treasure Boxes are more advanced but definitely don't yield Legendary Essence, only Ash Source.

Thus, if the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's lord's treasure chest doesn't produce Legendary Essence, Zhang Yanhang might need to temporarily find a lower-level new area to clear to obtain Legendary Essence accordingly.

After all, its name suggests Legendary Essence is surely only a transitional material of mid-level, and afterward, he would need to get some divine-related items if he wants to ascend to the Divine Stage, just like needing Legendary Essence to progress from the Legendary Stage to the Fourth Tier.

"But whether there is a Legendary Essence or not is only known after viewing." So, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened the first item slot in the lord's treasure box to start checking.

[Item One]

[Option One: 3 points of Ash Source]

[Option Two: 6 points of Ash Source]

[Option Three: 9 points of Ash Source]

"Hmm? Ash Source? Did Ash Source appear again this time? I thought getting Ash Source from the God of Sun Crotena's lord's treasure chest last time was just Multiple Choice exceeding expectations, but didn't expect it may actually be normalized options?"

For Zhang Yanhang, this is indeed very good news, after all, he is almost always lacking Ash Source, like for Alchemy, which should have upgraded long ago, but hasn't due to insufficient Ash Source, yet presumably this issue will be resolved after opening the lord's treasure chest.

"Moreover, this time all three options are Ash Source. What did Ash Source squeeze out from the lord's treasure box to occupy so many slots? Is it equipment? Or artifact? Hopefully it's not squeezing out Legendary Essence?"

Of course, if something really has to be squeezed, Zhang Yanhang hopes Ash Source pushes out the talent option in the lord's treasure chest, since it's just a matter of having one more Muscle Regeneration or one less Muscle Regeneration, completely indifferent.

"But although I don't know exactly what item's original position Ash Source forcibly occupied, with Dual-choice, this time I'm bound to collect a whole bunch of Ash Source."

Zhang Yanhang needs ten points of Ash Source to advance to the Fifth Tier. Before this, he still had one point of Ash Source left. So, as long as he chooses the nine points of Ash Source in Option Three, he can immediately meet the promotion requirements, and the six points of Ash Source in Option Two would count as pure profit and can be entirely converted into stock.

Although the Dual-choice will consume Energy value limit, it is noted above that it will only consume up to one hundred points of Energy value limit at most, so even if the six points of Ash Source in Option Two are charged at a rate of one point of Ash Source consuming one hundred points of Energy value limit, he would accept it.

After all, compared to six hundred points of Energy value limit, the Ash Source is undoubtedly more precious.

There's no way around it; after all, Zhang Yanhang's Ash Source, in the face of skyrocketing promotion consumption and an ever-increasing number of Skills, is likely to never be adequate.

"But although directly harvesting fifteen points of Ash Source is indeed very nice, next he will have to pray that it doesn't squeeze out the slot meant for Legendary Essence."

If this time he can really, successfully open the Legendary Essence, then Zhang Yanhang can truly advance to the Fifth Tier immediately after returning to the Main World.

By then, it would take four days to ascend to the Fifth Tier. Although it pales compared to the previous fastest record of advancing in a day, looking at the past where it took a week or two to advance, it is definitely considered very fast.

Moreover, the reason why his advancement is relatively slower this time is mainly due to the cooldown issue of the Transmission Channel. If he could immediately find a newly opened Transmission Channel and promptly find a suitable new area inside, he might have been able to advance a Rank in half a day, but unfortunately, that's not realistic.

Even though his luck is off the charts, he still can't do such an outrageous thing.

[Item Two]

[Option One: 9 points of Legendary Essence]

[Option Two: 6 points of Legendary Essence]

[Option Three: 50,000,000 Soul points]

"Luckily, the second option directly opened up the Legendary Essence, so it looks like the previous item slot's Ash Source didn't squeeze out the slot for Legendary Essence.

Then, the question arises, which choice did the squeezed-out slot from the first item position originally belong to?

It couldn't be that it squeezed out the position for the Divination Tarot Card, right? But I already made multiple choices in advance for the Divination Tarot Card position, so there's no need to worry."

I can only say, because all three options got squeezed out, Zhang Yanhang really can't tell. He probably needs to review all five item positions to find relevant clues. By then, whatever was supposed to be there but isn't, is what got squeezed out.

"But fortunately, the Legendary Essence here is relatively easy to distinguish, although Option One and Option Two are Legendary Essence, Option Three finally appears to be a normal option, a choice concerning Soul points, and there are a whopping fifty million Soul points!"

Although Zhang Yanhang had some prior predictions from the kill value of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, when he actually saw an option where he could obtain fifty million Soul points, it was still inevitably a bit shocking.

After all, this is fifty million Soul points. If it were during his Third Tier period, working himself to death for a month wouldn't have gathered this many Soul points, but now he can get this many Soul points just by making a simple choice.

"Merely one option worth fifty million Soul points, and the estimated total Soul points earnings of the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field are only two to three hundred million Soul points. In other words, this single option is equivalent to one-sixth or even one-fifth of the total earnings of the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field."

And now, Zhang Yanhang has a total Soul points balance of only one hundred million after clearing the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field. If he could get the fifty million Soul points here, he could immediately turn it into one hundred fifty million, and then ranking up would undoubtedly be more exciting, substantially increasing the probability of maximizing it.

Moreover, if the Lord's Treasure Chest also had three Soul points options like the ordinary Drop treasure chest, he could then acquire one hundred fifty million Soul points, equivalent to acquiring half of the total Umbrella Biochemical Test Field's total profits from just one Lord's Treasure Chest, which is indeed quite terrifying.

But unfortunately, the Lord's Treasure Chest has only one Soul point option.

And while Soul points are good, Zhang Yanhang still feels that the Legendary Essence is more important. After all, Soul points are something he can certainly gather in the Main World by diligently clearing Permanent Teleportation Channels, but Legendary Essence is different. It can only be obtained in Lord's Treasure Chests and it's about to become obsolete.

After all, from the Fourth Tier and above, or the Legendary Stage and above, Lord Monsters drop Legendary Essence. He estimates that in the future he is destined to encounter stronger and real Divine Level Lord Monsters that perhaps will not drop Legendary Essence, but something even more advanced.

Therefore, these items which are soon to be outdated and limited edition are naturally far more valuable than mere Soul points. Not to mention, he still needs Legendary Essence whether for advancing ranks or upgrading Skills, so these highly demanded and soon-to-be obsolete items naturally appear more valuable.

Of course, this so-called obsolescence is just pseudo-obsolescence, after all, if Zhang Yanhang really wants it, he can still obtain it by clearing some current Same-Tier areas. However, he finds it cumbersome and will only resolve it when it is genuinely not enough.

"To advance to the Fifth Tier, I need ten points of Ash Source and four points of Legendary Essence. Compared to the remaining one point of Ash Source, I truly have no Legendary Essence left, as it has been completely squeezed dry."

But this time, Option One provides nine points of Legendary Essence, Option Two provides six points of Legendary Essence, adding up to a total of fifteen points of Legendary Essence. Even after advancing, Zhang Yanhang can still have eleven points of Legendary Essence left for future Skill Promotion.

This is indeed very nice, I can only say, Dual-choice does change life in that it belongs to.

With Dual-choice, although it may not be useful for opening treasure chests on regular occasions, when encountering this kind of crucial moment, it always allows Zhang Yanhang to appreciate life's beauty.

"If Skill Promotion didn't require Legendary Essence, I might have considered choosing the fifty million Soul points along with the nine points of Legendary Essence, but unfortunately, Skill Promotion indeed consumes a lot of Legendary Essence. Therefore, I must pick the six points of Legendary Essence and the nine points of Legendary Essence together."

But no matter how you slice it, since now there are enough Legendary Essence in the Lord's Treasure Chest, he can really advance ranks immediately after returning to the Main World. This matter is a sure thing.