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Moreover, the gap between the two is equally remarkably evident. The Heaven and Earth Devourer over there, Zhang Yan promoted so many times, and even then could only achieve an energy absorption efficiency of 224 points per second.

But over here with the Eternal Demon Body, just by leveling up, relying solely on the Life Value Limit, it can already restore 8561 points of Life Value per second. If calculated by ratio, there's a huge difference, 38 times to be exact.

Regarding this, Zhang Yan could only say that the skill synergy for the Eternal Demon Body is very well done. If the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill could also have a synergy skill similar to the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body, then it could certainly reach a significant level, but unfortunately, that would have to wait until the Sixth Tier.

"Moreover, this 8561 points is only the recovery speed converted from the Life Value Limit, and the Life Value Recovery Speed also provides a considerable recovery speed after being converted.

The original conversion coefficient for the Life Value Recovery Speed was only 10%, but now it has already grown to 60%, directly increasing by 50% at once, also growing to six times the original speed. Thanks to this, the Life Value Recovery Speed now also provides me with a recovery speed of 1914 points per second."

Once these are combined, it forms the total recovery speed of Zhang Yan's breathing regeneration, also known as the Magic Energy Cycle effect, totaling an automatic recovery of 10475 points per second. Compared to the time before at LV.1, it's a dramatic increase of 9589 points, and it could be said that the original bonus was merely a small portion, not even reaching a thousand points.

"Currently, I have a total Life Value Limit of only 140,000 points, yet the breathing regeneration speed has already reached 10,000 points per second. Doesn't that mean I can automatically restore full Life Value in a maximum of 14 seconds now?"

Of course, this breathing regeneration is also split into stages. For example, he has 30,000 points of Life Value in the First Tier, so roughly three seconds are needed for automatic restoration, while the Second Tier requires five seconds and the Third Stage requires seven seconds for automatic restoration.

"Currently, my invincibility time from the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body is only 0.3 seconds, but if one day I can enhance the invincibility time to three seconds, wouldn't that mean I can continuously remain in the First Tier and be infinitely invincible?"

After all, no matter how fast the enemy depletes his Life Value, once it's emptied, it will enter an invincible dominator state and automatically shift to the next stage. After three seconds, when his Life Value is fully restored through breathing regeneration, it will automatically switch back to the First Tier.

Therefore, if such a situation could really be achieved, he would be able to infinitely cycle through the First Tier and Second Stage. Since the Third Stage couldn't be reached, he would never die, as he would always have a portion of his Life Value retained and never fully depleted.

"As it seems now, the name Eternal Demon Body indeed perfectly matches the skill effect. As long as I continuously enhance my recovery speed, and pair it with the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body, I could remain eternally in the infinite cycle of the First Tier and Second Stage, preventing the enemy from ever reaching a seemingly nonexistent Third Stage, thus ensuring they'll never be able to kill me."

After simple consideration, Zhang Yan unexpectedly realized that the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body and the Eternal Demon Body turned out to be his best shortcut to step onto the 'Path of Invincibility.'

Of course, shortcuts are still shortcuts. If relying solely on the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body and the Eternal Demon Body, he might be invincible to the enemy and immune to sealing, unable to be manipulated spatially with coordinates, nor affected by any negative status.

Being unkillable but subjected to endless torment from the enemy in place is not pleasant, so while this method is indeed quite 'invincible,' what Zhang Yan pursues is the true 'Path of Invincibility,' where not only can the enemy not kill him, but he also kills the enemy—that is the right path.

"Despite the shortcuts being highly tempting, despite saying it takes three seconds for automatic recovery, entering the First Tier grants me a Life Value Recovery Speed bonus buff. So even with the current 60% Life Value Recovery Speed Bonus, it may actually only take two seconds."

While three seconds might have been hard to achieve previously, now Zhang Yan feels two seconds would be much easier. Perhaps just another promotion or two is all he needs.

Furthermore, with continued upgrades to the skill levels of the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body and the Eternal Demon Body, while the invincibility effect duration increases, the automatic recovery speed will continue to accelerate. Simply put, it's a mutual enhancement, which might lead to achieving this long-term goal faster than he imagined.

"It can only be said that the Heavenly Destiny Dominator profession, or rather the Multiple Choice, was thoroughly considerate in selecting professional skills for me. Otherwise, it couldn't have come up with such well-matched skills."

Importantly, although it says it takes two seconds for the infinite loop, the problem is Zhang Yan also has an Energy Shield. So, as long as the enemy doesn't instantly kill him, but is momentarily blocked by the Energy Shield, the conditions, originally lax, requiring only two seconds for infinite cycle, would be further relaxed.

"Thinking this way, Technique Immunity, the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body, and the Eternal Demon Body are actually a survival ability set, amplifying each other's strength geometrically, forming a perfect combo."

Of course, currently, this combo is a bit far from completion, requiring Zhang Yan to continue striving forward. With the current Fifth Tier, it's definitely incomplete, and he estimates it would need at least reaching the Sixth Tier or even the Seventh Tier.

"After upgrading to LV.6, the Magic Power Surge effect gained enhancement again. Previously, it could only provide 303 points of additional damage bonus, but now it can directly offer an additional damage bonus of 1914 points, an increase of 1611 points compared to before.

Though the original 303 points were not substantial, now it's clearly much more useful, especially since a regular Fifth Tier Awakened only has a Life Value Limit of 8125 points, meaning the 1914-point additional damage bonus is close to a quarter of a Fifth Tier Awakened's total health."

However, Zhang Yan feels while this additional damage bonus is indeed quite high, it should be more of an embellishment for him, as when he was at the Peak Fourth Tier, he was already one-punching Fifth Tier enemies, let alone now after being promoted to Fifth Tier.

Therefore, although this additional damage bonus is indeed powerful, for him, most of the time it may only make the already excessive damage even more so.

"Thus, compared to the additional damage bonus from Magic Power Surge, the blood-sucking effect of Magic Energy Gathering is more important. After all, Magic Energy Gathering not only absorbs blood, but can also store surplus Life Value into Magic Energy Crystal.

But here comes the problem again: the bloodsucking effect of Magic Energy Gathering is related to the extra damage bonus of Magic Power Surge. The higher the extra damage bonus, the stronger the bloodsucking effect can be."

Therefore, from this perspective, the extra damage of Magic Power Surge is also very important. The extra damage of Magic Power Surge comes from the Life Value Recovery Speed, so it can be said that one thing leads to another: only by increasing the Life Value Recovery Speed can the extra damage bonus and subsequent bloodsucking effect be enhanced.

Moreover, the Life Value Recovery Speed is related to how fast he can breathe and replenish life, which is naturally extremely important.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yanhang previously said that it's difficult for him not to focus on Life Value Recovery Speed, as it is indeed a crucial major component for the Eternal Demon Body Skill.

"Originally, the Magic Energy Gathering bloodsucking effect could only absorb a mere thirty Life Value points per attack, which is practically nothing compared to my current Life Value Limit of 140,000 points. It would take slaying 5,000 monsters to fully replenish, which is quite impractical.

But now, after the upgrade, it's different. With the increase of the extra damage bonus and its conversion coefficient, the bloodsucking effect has increased from the previous thirty points per attack to 1,148 points per attack. Compared to before, it has increased by 1,118 points, which is nearly forty times the difference between the former and the latter."

And now the bloodsucking is obviously much more useful for Zhang Yanhang. Even with his high Life Value Limit of 140,000 points, he only needs to kill about 120 monsters to fully replenish a bar of Life Value, making it much easier, turning from impractical to a powerful recovery method.

Considering that 120 monsters for the current Zhang Yanhang is just a few more Death Waves, but 5,000 is a completely different story, requiring clearing a large area to gather that number.

"Moreover, the most important thing is that the bloodsucking effect is linked to the magic energy crystal's Life Value storage. Overflowing Life Value won't be wasted but stored in the magic energy crystal.

The original magic energy crystal could only store 11,657 Life Value points, but now the Life Value storage limit has directly increased to 171,227 points, which is an increase of 159,570 points compared to before, higher than my Life Value Limit."

When the magic energy crystal could only store 20% of Zhang Yanhang's Life Value Limit, he considered it merely a portable big health potion. But now, with the upgrade, the magic energy crystal can store 120% of his Life Value Limit, that's 20% more than his own Life Value Limit.

Therefore, looking at it now, this isn't just a portable big health potion; it's truly his second life!

After all, the skill effect of the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body is to automatically switch to the previous stage when the current stage Life Value is fully restored.

It can be said that with this magic energy crystal, he can completely use it to restore his Life Value instantly when being battered into the Third Stage Domineering body by enemies, where the entire Life Bar is zero, with only Domineering body hard resisting, one step away from death, and directly back to the First Stage to continue fighting the enemy.

Thus, to say he has a second life isn't an exaggeration at all. After all, taking potions takes time, but the magic energy crystal can instantly restore full health, and with his current Life Value Limit, even if there were enough potions to take, just consuming potions or using Stomach Space to absorb medicines would take quite some time.

So, this traditional way of recovering health with potions can be said to have been directly crushed by the magic energy crystal, and he might not use it in the future.

Alright, actually he didn't use it before either, since he hasn't lowered his Life Value after reaching the First Tier.

"It can be said, every 100% Life Value Limit storage effect of the magic energy crystal gives me another life, and this time the Additional Attributes provide an additional Life Value Limit storage effect, which is very important."

Zhang Yanhang simply glanced and noticed that this time the upgrade to LV.6 provides an Additional Attribute called 'Magic Energy Link'.

It allows him to spread the bloodsucking effect of Magic Energy Gathering through Magic Energy Link, and those linked by him can also enjoy the bloodsucking effect provided by the magic energy crystal to restore their Life Value. Moreover, the overflowing Life Value can also be stored in the magic energy crystal.

However, because the linked person does not have a magic energy crystal, it can only be stored in the magic energy crystal on his body, and the Life Value absorbed by these linkers counts as an extra Life Value Limit storage effect and does not count toward his storage limit. Besides, not only can linkers use it, but he as the controller can also use it.

To put it simply, Zhang Yanhang gets others to help him collect Life Value. The Life Value collected is used by those helping, but he can enjoy it for free, with priority, and can forcibly use it.

Currently, each target benefiting from the Magic Energy Link effect can provide him an extra 24% Life Value Limit storage effect, with a link limit of five. So, if linking five targets, it just allows him to gain another 120% of Life Value Limit storage effect, doubling his Life Value storage limit.

"120% plus another 120% makes a 240% Life Value storage limit, which means two and a half lives, which is really nice."

Moreover, if Zhang Yanhang is not mistaken, this Additional Attribute seems to be a growth type, which can continue to grow as his Skill Level increases, instead of only providing a fixed 24% extra Life Value Limit storage effect. To this point, Zhang Yanhang finds it very favorable for him.

"Sure enough, a Demon King needs underlings; without brothers, there's no demon. Where can there be a lone demon without companions? It's necessary to gather a few more underlings."

Of course, given Zhang Yanhang's narrow circle of friends, he thinks underlings might not come around easily, but getting a few demon little sisters shouldn't be a big problem.