Ashen God

Therefore, if possible, Zhang Yanhang thought it best not to personally engage in any creative endeavors, as he indeed had no confidence in his related abilities.

"I had always said that when I reached the Fourth Tier, I would look for the Land of the Buddha Country to try and obtain the Buddha Relics. Now, even though I haven't found the Land of the Buddha Country, I've directly obtained the Buddha Relics as the final result, so it's a small goal achieved in a way, although the manner of achieving it is really odd."

But since he has indeed obtained the Buddha Relics now, Zhang Yanhang started to consider whether it's possible to continue obtaining Buddha Relics from future Ashen Treasure Boxes. He felt there was a certain possibility, provided his Multiple Choice abilities were strong enough.

However, since this cannot be tested in advance, Zhang Yanhang anticipated that it would only be when he truly encountered the next Ashen Treasure Box that he could know whether there was a chance to obtain Buddha Relics again. If not, the option would likely not be triggered at all.

"Forget it, let's not think about future matters now. Next, I'll first upgrade the quality of the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist. So, I choose Option Two, using the Buddha Relics (Vajra) to upgrade the quality of the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist to Legendary level."

After reviewing all the options, Zhang Yanhang immediately chose the only reliable one, or rather the only option that allowed for a quality upgrade.

With the end of Time Pause, unlike before, the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist was shrouded in a golden Buddhist glow, and one could faintly hear the low murmur of chants, seemingly reciting some Buddhist scripture.

Zhang Yanhang wasn't very knowledgeable about scriptures, but he vaguely heard a familiar phrase, 'Prajnaparamita,' so he suspected that the chant was reciting the Diamond Sutra.

As for why the Diamond Sutra and Prajnaparamita are related, it's because the full name of the Diamond Sutra is "The Buddha Speaks Diamond Prajnaparamita Sutra," commonly known as "The Diamond Prajnaparamita Sutra," and the abbreviation is "Diamond Sutra."

"Since the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist was upgraded with Vajra Relics, it's reasonable that the chant is the Diamond Sutra, isn't it?"

From this upgrade, Zhang Yanhang could also see that using Buddha Relics to upgrade the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist was likely a high compatibility choice, especially given the exclusive effects that emerged, whereas upgrading with weapons of the same quality would trigger no effects, at most causing the natural glow of the equipment quality to flicker slightly.

Now that the upgrade was complete, Zhang Yanhang didn't dwell too much on effects or similar concerns but immediately began reviewing the attribute list of the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist post-upgrade, eager to know how formidable the Legendary level Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist could be.

[Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Type: Weapon]

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

[Durability: 290/290]

[Attack Power: 513 (+148)]

[Additional Attributes: Critical Strike Rate +42% (+12%)]

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

[All Four Elements are Void (Buddha): Generates a Vajra (Gravity) Domain that pulls surrounding enemies and stuns (physical) them for 5.2 seconds (+0.4 seconds).

Within 5 seconds of releasing this skill, the next attack will deal 1280% (+153%) Attack Power in physical damage to the target and surrounding enemies, knocking them away. Cooldown time is 30 seconds, consuming 150 points (+30 points) of Energy Value.]

[All Things are Impermanent (Buddha): All damage to life form enemies increases by 76.8% (+24.8%), and bonuses double against targets like Attack Armor, Clothing, and Beimao.]

[Upgradable, Upgrade Conditions: Consume Legendary or higher Buddha Relics (0/2) or Legendary Weapons (0/7).]

[Usage requirements: Strength 95, Agility 90, Constitution 90.]

[Score: 980 (Legendary item score ranges from 831 to 980.)]

[Description: For some reason, recently an outsider inexplicably started calling me 'One Punch Man' after seeing me wearing Buddha-level Buddhist Sect Executioner (Conversion) gloves to conduct routine conversion of heretics. — From an Arhat Level Heretic Conversion Agency Executioner]

"Impressive, as expected of Legendary level quality, the weapon's attack power has directly doubled in increase..."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the original attack power of the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist was merely 365 points, and now it had directly risen by 148 points, pushing the total attack power of the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist to 513 points.

Previously, the last time it was upgraded to Red Quality, the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist only gained 74 points in attack power, so when Zhang Yanhang said this time it doubled the attack power, he truly wasn't exaggerating.

"Compared to the original 365 points of attack power, these 148 points of attack power this time directly translate to an over 40% increase in attack power, a substantial boost indeed."

Although the calculation method for weapon attack power is overly complex, this 40% increase here likewise genuinely assures Zhang Yanhang over a 40% attack power boost overall, which can't merely be described as significant, as it marks a massive leap in gains.

"In addition to attack power, this time, the critical strike rate's increase has also directly doubled. Originally, each upgrade only added a 6% Critical Strike Rate bonus, while this time it has directly grown to a 12% Critical Strike Rate bonus, thereby increasing my total Critical Strike Rate bonus from 30% to 42%."

If considering only the Critical Strike Rate bonus, the sheer bonus from the current Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist is comparable to an individual Dark Gold Quality piece of equipment, and still of the mid-high rating variety. Zhang Yanhang could only once more marvel that Legendary was indeed Legendary, definitely much more outstanding than Red Quality.

"Just now, I relied on the bonus from the Divination Tarot Card Set to raise my critical strike rate to 248%. And now, I've gained an additional 12% critical strike rate bonus, bringing my current total critical strike rate bonus to 260%."

And the surplus 160% critical strike rate bonus is directly converted into a critical strike damage bonus passively, so this additional 12% critical strike rate bonus for Zhang Yanhang is essentially equivalent to a 12% critical strike damage bonus.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang's pure critical strike damage multiplier was 580%, but now, with the overflow of this 160% critical strike rate bonus, the critical strike damage multiplier has increased from 728% to 740%.

This means that any attack Zhang Yanhang makes will directly deal 7.4 times the damage due to the guaranteed critical hits, which has indeed become increasingly exaggerated.

"However, although my attack power and critical strike rate have both increased to twice their original levels, the Four Great Emptiness Skill doesn't seem to have grown that much.

Firstly, I recall the dizziness duration increased by only 0.4 seconds each upgrade, and even though it's reached the legendary level this time, it still only increased by 0.4 seconds.

Hence, the increase just extended the dizziness duration from the original 4.8 seconds to 5.2 seconds."

Of course, though it hasn't increased much, the growth multiplier of the Four Great Emptiness is indeed significant compared to before.

Zhang Yanhang remembers that the last upgrade to Red Quality increased the attack bonus by 127%, but this time it increased by 153%, 26% more than before, whereas previously, each enhancement would at most only exceed the last by a dozen or so percent.

Thus, while one can noticeably feel the increasing growth rate of attack bonuses, it does somewhat fall short of the doubling seen in attack power.

After gaining this 153% attack bonus, the increase in Zhang Yanhang's Four Great Emptiness attack bonus grew from the original 1127% to 1280%.

Zhang Yanhang thinks it might be because the attack multiplier of Four Great Emptiness is already nearing its limit, hence it couldn't double like the attack power. After all, even for a legendary quality, 1280% attack bonus is still extremely exaggerated. At least, Zhang Yanhang has never seen such an outrageous multiplier on other weapons.

"The Triple Strike attack multiplier provided by the XXX-level Longbo's power is 1275%, and now, I have finally surpassed the Triple Strike with Four Great Emptiness attack bonus, regaining the title for the strongest attack."

Moreover, although it only superficially surpassed by 5% of the attack, in truth it already surpassed by 105%, which amounts to a significant gap.

After all, Triple Strike is a multiplier increase, totaling only 1275%, whereas Four Great Emptiness is a mere additive, thus one must also account for Zhang Yanhang's inherent 100% attack power, making the total roughly 1380% of the attack total multiplier.

One can say that, should Zhang Yanhang use the Four Great Emptiness Skill right now, a single punch could impart an attack 13.8 times its strength, and coupled with a 7.4 times critical multiplier, it could deal exactly 102 times the attack force.

"Currently, my single-hand strength is 18623 tons. If I slightly enhance it with spiritual energy, it's 37246 tons. Even calculating the most basic single-hand 13.8 times attack, it can impart kinetic impact exceeding half a million tons, precisely 513994.8 tons."

According to the kinetic energy formula and Zhang Yanhang's current punch speed exceeding 100 Mach with spiritual energy enhancement, he believes even a single punch could easily produce an impact equivalent to 71 million tons of TNT.

And, as everyone knows, the renowned Tsar Bomb only yields a burst of 50 million tons of TNT, thus, in a way, Zhang Yanhang has already easily surpassed the peak destructive capability of humankind.

Of course, he considers such skill attacks should not count, and only when his pure physical attack without spiritual energy enhancement reaches tens of millions of tons would he be regarded as completely surpassing the Tsar Bomb.

After all, the Four Great Emptiness with spiritual energy enhancement is, in a way, currently his most potent attack measure, and such a grand move naturally isn't practical to compare.

Alright, the normal Four Great Emptiness state isn't considered the ultimate method. At least, Zhang Yanhang would need to activate Fatian Xiangdi and Three-Headed Six-Armed to be truly full force; however, such a level of full force might really repeat the past destruction of Greenland, annihilating the continental shelf.

Moreover, times have changed; back then, Zhang Yanhang was merely entering the Fourth Tier, with insufficient improvements in his abilities.

But now Zhang Yanhang is truly at the peak of the Fourth Tier, at least tenfolding his destruction capabilities compared to before, leading to significantly more exaggerated results. If he doesn't wish to inadvertently destroy the human living environment, it's best not to do so.

"But although the attack bonus of Four Great Emptiness hasn't reached as exaggerated as doubling, the growth rate of energy consumption is enthusiastically doubled, why so keen? Is it because you can't think of improving service quality, just thinking of extorting money from me?"

Previously, each upgrade of the Four Great Emptiness Quality only increased energy consumption by fifteen points, but now, upon reaching the legendary level, it doubled, directly increasing by thirty points of energy consumption, making the skill consumption of Four Great Emptiness increase from the original 120 points to 150 points.

If Zhang Yanhang used to not care about Four Great Emptiness' energy consumption, he's now gradually starting to mind.

Initially, he disregarded energy consumption because he cast Four Great Emptiness every thirty seconds, and with his energy value limit, a skill over 100 points could be used fully without concern.

But things are different now. With the skill cooldown reduction, Four Great Emptiness is genuinely approaching the trend of reducing a grand move to a cooldown-free normal attack, hence Zhang Yanhang has no choice but to start caring about the energy consumption.

Honestly, given his current energy value limit, the 150-point Four Great Emptiness just allows him to deliver over a hundred punches, and frankly, at his current hand speed, he can exhaust that in a second—it's not much.

But unfortunately, even if he cares, it's useless. The energy consumption of Four Great Emptiness will inevitably increase, so what he needs to do is still strive to enhance his energy recovery speed—if he had infinite energy, would he even need to worry?

Alright, perhaps instead of striving for infinite energy, maybe raising his energy value limit or slowing the energy consumption growth of the Four Great Emptiness Skill could be somewhat simpler.

Truthfully, mere energy recovery and infinite energy are entirely different dimensions of capability. Unless in the future, the Heavenly Destiny Master could kindly grant Zhang Yanhang a direct infinite energy skill, otherwise trying to achieve infinite energy merely by enhancing energy recovery speed seems nothing short of wishful thinking.