But now, Zhang Yanhang decided not to check his magic strength yet. It seemed better to wait until he had teleported to the deserted island in the sea.

Initially, Zhang Yanhang thought he might need two teleports to reach the uninhabited island 350 kilometers away from Qin Island City, but now he only needed one teleport to get there directly.

Before teleporting, Zhang Yanhang tidied up various things on his bed and packed them all into his waist bag, then he activated his teleportation technique while looking at the map on his mobile phone.

...

October 29th, Thursday, the fourth day after the Double Ninth Festival, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, at 6:25 AM in the central Yellow Sea, on a deserted island.

The island Zhang Yanhang arrived at was so desolate it didn't even have a name; on the map, it was merely a pixel point. Moreover, it was actually closer to South Korea than to the Empire.

After all, Qin Island City was only 500 kilometers away from the border of South Korea, which wasn't far at all. Even before his promotion, Zhang Yanhang could have run back and forth three times in an hour, averaging twenty minutes per trip. As for now, although he had not started testing yet, it was certainly going to be even faster, probably less than ten minutes each trip without any issue.

"Speaking of which, I haven't triggered any fortuitous encounter today. I wonder what a Third Tier encounter would look like."

When he thought about this fortuitous encounter, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered an issue – although he temporarily could not verify the strength of a Third Tier Multiple Choice through other means, a simple assessment through his energy value was definitely no problem.

Thus, specifically speaking, if he only assessed from the energy value aspect, the strength of his current Multiple Choice should be about twenty times that of the Second Tier, as his base strength had increased by tenfold, and the energy value limit had nearly doubled. Twenty times indeed wasn't an exaggeration.

What was truly outrageous was the First Tier part, where he had only 250 points of energy value limit, and the Third Tier was 5325 points, 21.3 times that of the First Tier. Furthermore, the strength of one point of energy value at the Third Tier was fifty times that of the First Tier.

Thus, a simple calculation would reveal that Zhang Yanhang's current Multiple Choice strength was at least 1065 times that of the First Tier, rounding it would be 1100 times, truly quite exaggerated.

"1065 times, the growth rate of this power system for Awakeners is really outrageous. It feels like I might already be able to make some very good choices now, like randomly triggering a meteor falling to destroy human cities..."

Of course, this test was not urgent, as Zhang Yanhang temporarily had no such demand to resolve. His main point was that since the strength had become twenty times that of the Second Tier and 1100 times that of the First Tier, would the intensity of fortuitous encounters change too?

Zhang Yanhang felt it was very likely, given that it couldn't be possible that although he had reached the Third Tier, the encounters would still only trigger Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures of Second Tier level? It definitely needed to be enhanced, starting to trigger those of the Third Tier level.

"But I just don't know if apart from the strength, the number of daily encounters would also increase?" Although he felt the probability wasn't high, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but look forward to it.

"Never mind, let's not think about these things now. Let's first test my current movement speed."

The deserted island Zhang Yanhang chose was a rocky island. Apart from rocks and sand near the sea, there was nothing else, be it plants or animals, so there wasn't need to worry about causing destruction.

...

Zhang Yanhang was very satisfied with the sonic booms that kept occurring during his running. Now, he had truly broken the sound barrier with his flesh, even without the need for a Spiritual Qi blessing to easily break through the sound speed to form a Mach Ring.

As for how fast, according to his test results, his movement speed had reached 556 meters per second, compared to 200 meters per second before his promotion, Zhang Yanhang's movement speed per second had increased by 356 meters per second, making it 2.8 times his pre-promotion speed, a net increase of 1.8 times.

And if converted to Mach, that would be a speed of 1.64 Mach, surpassing most military aircraft in the world. However, there was a significant gap from the world's fastest Concorde, which had a flight speed of two Mach.

But if Zhang Yanhang simply activated Spiritual Qi blessing, he could easily exceed the Concorde. After all, with a Spiritual Qi blessing, he would have a speed of 1112 meters per second, or 3.3 Mach. It wasn't just any Concorde; even the renowned stainless-steel-welded MiG-25 could be surpassed.

After all, the MiG-25 had only 3.2 Mach, and even the world's fastest manned SR-71 Blackbird had only a speed of 3.3 Mach, virtually the same as his.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, although he had just been promoted, Zhang Yanhang had almost reached the human speed limit. Going further would only involve various unmanned aircraft, and those were few and mostly of experimental nature.

As for the active F22 and F35 of the United States, they were even less impressive. The F35 had a speed of only 1.6 Mach, not even as fast as his pre-Spiritual Qi enhanced speed, and the F22 was just at the same speed as the Concorde, naturally not worth mentioning. So, as far as aircraft were concerned, he virtually had no competitors now.

And if he switched to another reference object, like the high-speed train traveling at 250 kilometers per hour, then Zhang Yanhang's current movement speed was already 16 times that of the high-speed train, not even on the same scale.

And even if not using actual speed, but using a theoretical speed of 300 kilometers per hour to calculate, it would still be 13 times that of the high-speed train, just catching up by three times, not much difference.

Currently, if Zhang Yanhang's movement speed were calculated in kilometers per hour, even without a Spiritual Qi enhancement, he could travel 2003 kilometers per hour. So, even if he ran back and forth between South Korea and Qin Island City, which were only 500 kilometers apart, he could make two round trips in an hour.

If he were to add a bit more Spiritual Qi, Zhang Yanhang's Movement Speed could reach a staggering 4006 kilometers per hour. To put that into perspective, he could travel from Qin Island City, traverse all the provinces along the Empire, and cross Kashgar to reach Tajikistan within an hour.

For another example, the coastal city of Qin Island is only about 3000 kilometers away from the Himalayas, which isn't even enough distance for him in one hour. He would need to climb over the Himalayas and reach New Delhi, the capital of India, to barely complete a distance of 4000 kilometers.

As for now traveling from Qin Island City to South Korea, one hour would be enough for him to make four round trips, each round trip taking only fifteen minutes, and reaching South Korea in just seven and a half minutes, which is much faster than any commercial aircraft by countless times.

"But the reason my speed could break the sound barrier immediately upon promotion is primarily due to the numerous Movement Speed bonuses I have. An ordinary Third Tier Awakened with Agility attribute raised to seventy-five points would still face a substantial gap."

Now with practical experience, Zhang Yanhang could almost accurately estimate the normal speed range of a Third Tier Awakened.

It should be similar to his speed during the Second Tier Period, around only two hundred meters per second, and he needed a Spiritual Qi Blessing to break the sound barrier. To really break through the sound barrier physically, he guessed it would only be possible at Fourth Tier, which was consistent with the information he had learned from the group.

"Although I've just ascended to the Third Tier, I wonder whether my speed now is faster than the group leader's.

It seems unlikely that I could surpass the group leader immediately, but after the Spiritual Qi Blessing, surpassing the group leader's regular speed should definitely not be a problem, given that my speed with Spiritual Qi Blessing has already reached 1112 meters per second. It's hard to believe that even a Fourth Tier Awakened could suddenly get so much stronger, right?"

Of course, because he didn't know the actual situation, Zhang Yanhang couldn't jump to conclusions. After all, the increase from reaching Fourth Tier might indeed be significant.

But he had just advanced to the new rank less than an hour ago. By next week, after a week of growth, he was confident he could surpass the speed of Fourth Tier Awakened. Rome wasn't built in a day, after all; it required days and months of accumulation to grow gradually, although his accumulation process was indeed fast.

After testing his Movement Speed, Zhang Yanhang soon began testing his Strength. He took out forty cubic meters, or one hundred tons, of Reinforced Concrete from his Waist Bag. However, because the mass was scattered and hard to handle, he immediately used Alchemy to melt it into a single mass.

Facing this hundred-ton mass of Reinforced Concrete, Zhang Yanhang originally thought it exaggerated to use such a heavy mass to test his Strength at first, but after actually handling it, he found it surprisingly light! He could feel plenty of leeway!

"Before advancing to the Third Tier, my strength was only about 15.8 tons, not even reaching sixteen tons," he mused. "But just after ascending to this rank, with the increase in Attribute value alone, my strength has easily exceeded a hundred tons. The gap between ranks is truly staggering."

This was an old tradition, however, and Zhang Yanhang wasn't surprised. He simply reflected on this as he remelted another fifty tons of Reinforced Concrete and added it to his right hand.

To his surprise, he still felt the Reinforced Concrete in his right hand was light, with plenty of leeway remaining. Based on his past test experience, he could still stack dozens more tons of Reinforced Concrete before reaching the limit.

"So, not reaching the limit with one hundred fifty tons? That's almost ten times what it was before my promotion…"

After briefly pondering, Zhang Yanhang added another thirty tons of Reinforced Concrete to his hand. Surprisingly, even though his right hand was now bearing a weight of one hundred eighty tons, he could still feel some leeway.

Thus, he continued to gradually stack small one-ton blocks of Reinforced Concrete until, on the ninth block, he finally felt the leeway in his hand disappear.

"So from this situation, my single-handed strength is now at 189 tons? That's roughly twelve times more than before I moved up to this rank.

But this is just my regular single-handed strength, far short of my true limit.

After all, before ascending to this rank, I could also achieve nearly two hundred tons of Double-handed strength under extreme enhanced states…"

Of course, the limits couldn't be compared to regular scenarios, but this also showed that even at Second Tier, Zhang Yanhang had already possessed strength far exceeding that of a normal Third Tier Awakened.

Considering his regular strength was now only 189 tons, other normal Third Tier Awakened would definitely be much weaker than him, perhaps even several times weaker.

That was exactly why Zhang Yanhang could instantly kill a Lord Monster with Peak Third Tier strength—the Demonized Four-Eyed Wild Boar Queen. Since he could kill a Lord Monster, it followed naturally that ordinary Awakened were even less of a challenge; they would end up even more pulverized than the Demonized Four-Eyed Wild Boar Queen.

"Previously, in various cultural and film portrayals, the protagonist's strength would casually be described in tens of thousands of pounds. Now, I can finally use that descriptor too…

My strength is now roughly thirty-eight thousand pounds. Rounding it up a bit for the sound of it, it's like having single-handed strength of forty thousand pounds. Even in a Mystical World, that would at least qualify as a Mid-stage BOSS, certainly not an early stage one at least.

Moreover, others typically measure Double-handed strength, and even under regular conditions, mine is at least several million pounds of strength, which surely wouldn't face such a powerful BOSS at an early stage, right?"

Zhang Yanhang felt that even if he were thrown directly into a Mystical World, he would still hold some clout, since just his regular state already possessed several million pounds of strength. In a critical moment, he could definitely "Burst Seed" stronger than any protagonist sent to kill him.

Of course, someone as reclusive and friendless as Zhang Yanhang, who would stay indoors unless absolutely necessary, was unlikely to be randomly sought out for a fight. After all, without any notoriety, how could anyone specifically come to kill him?

The only likely scenario where he could be forced into a fight would be if others were fighting nearby, and he happened to be accidentally injured, prompting him to join the fray.

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