After that were the treasure boxes dropped by the Demonized Mammoth and the Demonized Emperor Crocodile. Zhang Yanhang estimated that together they had yielded about thirty thousand soul points. Although he had slain several thousand monsters, the contribution from the Lucky Slot Machine in the Demonized Swamp alone accounted for almost half of it—it was truly terrifying.

"On average, clearing the third prize pool of the Lucky Slot Machine in the Goblin Plain can yield about ten thousand soul points, and in the Demonized Swamp, it's around thirty thousand soul points each time. Of course, that's the current profit; once I promote my tier, the profit won't be so high."

Zhang Yanhang estimated that if he were to promote his tier, the profits from the Lucky Slot Machine would at least drop by half, or even drop to a third of the original.

"With these 122,380 soul points, my soul points' balance has grown from the initial 371,776 to 494,146 soul points, almost reaching five hundred thousand, and has set a new record again. Not bad."

Had he known that he was so close to reaching five hundred thousand soul points, Zhang Yanhang might have actually gone out to hunt some new monsters to rack up soul points—after all, reaching half a million does look very impressive.

After checking his soul points balance, Zhang Yanhang quickly began to tally this round's treasure box earnings, starting with the talents. Although the monsters he hunted in Raccoon City and Goblin Plain were mostly first tier, their large numbers still provided Zhang Yanhang with substantial benefits in this aspect.

According to Zhang Yanhang's tally, Raccoon City had provided him with 146 E-grade talents of "Slow Corrosion."

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had accumulated 139 extra Slow Corrosions in his waist bag. Now, with these additional 146 Slow Corrosions, he had a total of 285 Slow Corrosions, more than double the amount.

"That's why I say, accumulating slowly really has no future. You must rely on clearing large quantities of monsters to obtain more Slow Corrosions to enhance the talent level. My SS-grade talent 'Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea' needs a total of 2187 Slow Corrosions to be promoted to an SSS-grade, and after all this effort, I've finally managed to gather just a little bit."

But that was just a small fraction. After subtracting these 285 Slow Corrosions from my hands, I still need 1902 Slow Corrosions to promote 'Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea' to SSS-grade. It's going to take a long time and effort."

Zhang Yanhang said this while putting the hundred or so Slow Corrosions into his waist bag.

In addition to the Slow Corrosions from Raccoon City, Zhang Yanhang had also acquired 274 E-grade talents of "Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed)" in the process of clearing the Goblin Plain.

Moreover, compared to Slow Corrosions, Zhang Yanhang had accumulated many more Thin Dragon Veins. Initially, he had stored 308 Thin Dragon Veins in his waist bag. Now, with these newly acquired 274 Thin Dragon Veins, he had a total of 582 Thin Dragon Veins, more than double the number of the Slow Corrosions.

"My 'Scroll Dragon Bloodline' also needs a total of 2187 E-grade talents to promote from the current SS-grade to SSS-grade, the same as Slow Corrosion. After subtracting these 582 Thin Dragon Veins from my hands, I still need 1605 Thin Dragon Veins to promote 'Scroll Dragon Bloodline' to SSS-grade."

Although Zhang Yanhang's Scroll Dragon Bloodline did have twice the amount of talents compared to Slow Corrosion, in the grand scheme of his talent requirements, it was still only slightly better. He was still short by four-digit numbers of talents and needed a long time to gather the necessary amount for upgrading.

Compared to Slow Corrosion and the Thin Dragon Vein, the situation with talents from Demonized Swamp's Prehistoric Giant Beast was undoubtedly much better. This time, Zhang Yanhang had harvested 24 D-tier Prehistoric Giant Beast talents.

Although it was just a two-digit number and couldn't compare with the three-digit numbers of Slow Corrosion and Thin Dragon Vein, these 24 Prehistoric Giant Beast talents were a powerful supplement to his Rhythm Talent.

Before, Zhang Yanhang had accumulated a total of 624 Prehistoric Giant Beast talents. Now, with the addition of the recently obtained 24, he had a total of 648 Prehistoric Giant Beast talents, coincidentally coming up to 648, a number Zhang Yanhang was very familiar with.

"Because the Prehistoric Giant Beast talents are D-tier, I only need 729 of them to raise my Ocean Rhythm to SSS-tier. So, after deducting the 648 talents I have, I now fall short by just 81 Prehistoric Giant Beast talents to upgrade my talent level."

Based on the current situation, Zhang Yanhang had every reason to believe that he might successfully elevate his talent level to SSS-tier on his next venture into the Demonized Swamp.

After tallying the benefits related to talents, Zhang Yanhang quickly started to account for the weaponry benefits. Unfortunately, he still hadn't gained any weaponry benefits this time. Of course, there were options, but he chose not to pick any because he wanted to obtain the Divination Tarot Card - Moon.

Next were the material gains, which weren't much, consisting of only a single item but of high quality—a Golden quality material, the 'Demonized Crystal (Essence)', which was essentially destined to be used by Zhang Yanhang as upgrade material.

From its appearance, the Demonized Crystal looked like an ordinary black gemstone. However, if given some energy to activate it, it would likely soon transform into something surrounded by demonic energy.

Although essentially predetermined to be used as upgrade material, since he hadn't yet collected four Golden Weapons, Zhang Yanhang wasn't in a hurry to proceed with crafting. Or rather, this was his first Golden quality 'weapon,' and he still needed to compile three more Golden quality weapons or materials to continue enhancing the quality of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist.

Proceeding further were the gains regarding pets, which were quite disappointing. Zhang Yanhang originally went to the Demonized Swamp with the intention of finding pets, but, despite having cleared the entire swamp and even having cleaned up Raccoon City and Goblin Plain as a side task, he had still not obtained even a single pet.

Regarding the pet, Zhang Yanhang felt he could only try to put more effort into it later. Although he didn't expect much from them in combat, he was actually fine with having a purely adorable one. In this regard, he wanted to raise a Siberian hamster or perhaps a Siberian Gold Striped.

Next were the gains concerning artifacts, which were significantly more compared to the previous weapons, materials, and pets. Or rather, it was a varied and extensive mix of miscellaneous items.

However, despite their variety, because monsters in the Demonized Swamp did not drop treasure boxes, all the miscellaneous small artifacts came mostly from Raccoon City and Goblin Plain.

These included 165 Red Medicinal Herbs, 162 Green Medicinal Herbs, 17 bottles of Emergency Spray, 663 bottles of Medium Magic Recovery Potion, 1 Blue Medicinal Herb, and most importantly, 25 Yellow Medicine Grass.

Zhang Yanhang had not expected to accumulate so many yellow medicinal herbs after clearing Raccoon City. Initially, he had only hoped to surpass twenty herbs with the stock he already had, which would have been quite impressive. However, now he had alone obtained twenty-five herbs from the treasure boxes.

Among them, Zhang Yanhang felt that the Beta-type Hunters had contributed significantly. After all, he had gleaned six Beta-type Hunter's drop treasure boxes, each yielding two yellow medicinal herbs, totaling twelve herbs—almost half of the amount.

As for the other thirteen yellow medicinal herbs, naturally, they all came from the Lickers' drop treasure boxes.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had amassed nine yellow medicinal herbs in his waist bag, now totaling thirty-four herbs after adding them together.

Because he was about to promote his rank soon, Zhang Yanhang felt there was no time to delay. Therefore, he immediately took out the nine yellow medicinal herbs from his waist bag and placed them together with the other twenty-five herbs. He then counted out an equal number of thirty-four red medicinal herbs to put into the Alchemy Array.

After two batches of fusing the thirty-four yellow and red medicinal herbs into thirty-four red and yellow pills, Zhang Yanhang used another batch to rapidly fuse these into seventeen red and yellow pills +1.

Having successfully completed the fusion, Zhang Yanhang, instead of continuing with more fusions, nervously began reviewing the attribute list of the red and yellow pills +1, wanting to know how much Life Value enhancement had been lost in the fusion process.

[Red and Yellow Pills +1]

[Quality: Blue]

[Type: Artifact]

[Origin: Main World, Qin Island City, Xingfuli District, Room 505, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Usage Effect: Increases Life Value Limit by 12 points (+6 points).]

[Usage Requirements: Constitution under 55 points.]

[Score: 60 (Blue item scores range from 31 to 70.)]

[Introduction: Crafted by novice Alchemist Zhang Yanhang using red and yellow medicinal herbs produced by Umbrella company, its efficacy is significantly enhanced compared to the individual effects of red and yellow herbs.]

"Hmm? I really did succeed, though the usage requirement has only slightly relaxed by five Constitution points. But it represents a qualitative breakthrough, allowing even a Second Tier Peak Awakened like me, who has already hit the Tier limit of fifty Constitution points, to use it normally. Moreover, the fact that I got a full 12-point increase to Life Value Limit without any degradation in effect is truly remarkable," Zhang Yanhang thought to himself.

Although he had anticipated the change in usage requirements, Zhang Yanhang was genuinely surprised that there was no decrease in Life Value enhancement. Thus, he could fully enjoy the benefits of the red and yellow pills, allowing for a higher increase in his Life Value Limit.

After examining the attribute list, Zhang Yanhang did not hesitate. He immediately stuffed all seventeen bean-sized red and yellow pills +1 into his mouth, chewed them casually a few times, and swallowed them. After all, due to their nature, these artifacts always melted upon entering the mouth (physically) and disappeared before he could even taste them.

Having consumed the seventeen red and yellow pills +1, Zhang Yanhang did not immediately check his Life Value Limit. Instead, he picked up the only item produced from the Demonized Swamp, the golden quality Everlasting Golden Pill from the Demonized Swamp's EX-class Ashen Treasure Box.

Perhaps due to preservation needs, this Everlasting Golden Pill, unlike Alchemy potions that are liquids, was a solid pill but still had individual packaging, contained in a translucent jade pill bottle.

Zhang Yanhang poured the Everlasting Golden Pill from its jade bottle and scrutinized it, discovering that this pill indeed deserved its origin from the Heavenly Dao Mutant Era. Although predominantly golden, it faintly radiated a layer of blood light.

Moreover, the surface of the pill was etched with some peculiar black patterns resembling tentacles and wild beast claw marks, likely deriving from Heavenly Dao Mutant Era's pill patterns.

"Speaking of which, since that Resentment Puppet was crafted by Mourner using his own parents, siblings, and the big yellow dog's souls, could this Everlasting Golden Pill also contain some strange materials?" Zhang Yanhang speculated while examining the pill, feeling that it was very likely. As for what specifically, he ceased to imagine further, or rather, he dared not continue lest he nauseated himself. Regardless of the materials used, he was determined to consume it.

Although the Everlasting Golden Pill's appearance was slightly eerie, since its attribute list showed no side effects, Zhang Yanhang still placed it in his mouth, even chewing a few extra times to try to discern the rumored taste of mutation.

Regrettably, Zhang Yanhang failed to detect any special flavor, feeling only that the pill had a soft texture and balanced medicinal power. As for the taste, it was ordinary, subtly bitter due to its resemblance to traditional medicine, otherwise, it was flavorless.

"Despite being a pill crafted from miscellaneous and strange materials from the Heavenly Dao Mutant Era, it remarkably resembles a standard Taoist elixir. The Supreme Elder of Qingyun Sect, Mourner, who stepped into the path of immortality by killing his entire family, truly has extraordinary skills," Zhang Yanhang reflected with a sense of awe.

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