"Double Strike's attack power bonus has once again increased by 100%, from the original 350% to 450%, which is quite nice, but unfortunately, the trigger probability is still quite disappointing, with just another 1.5% increase in trigger chance from the original 4.5% to 6%,"

Although a 6% trigger chance might seem decent under normal circumstances, the problem now is that Double Strike can only be triggered after an extra attack, so the true chance of Double Strike actually triggering is less than 1%, merely 7.2‰.

Such a trigger probability, although significantly improved from the previous one double strike every 250 attacks, has only improved to the point where it's about one double strike every 150 attacks, which is still a far cry from being sufficiently reliable in combat. There's still a lot of effort needed, yes, effort to increase the Talent Level.

Of course, if it really can be triggered, the damage will be very high. If all bonuses are considered as a 1x multiplier, then it's possible to deal a true normal attack's tenfold damage with a critical hit, which is indeed very good, but the pity is that it's too hard to trigger.

"Aside from the growth in Double Strike, the strength effect bonus provided by the skill Three-Headed Six-Armed has also increased from the original 115% to 145%, a further increase of 30% in strength effect bonus, which should definitely help me gain a good amount of strength,"

As he spoke, Zhang Yanhang took out the previously collected Crimson Iron Ore from his Waist Bag to test his strength. Confident, he began by directly placing 400 tons of the ore on his right hand, and as expected, he soon felt his reserve strength dwindling.

After adding a few smaller pieces of the ore, Zhang Yanhang instantly completed his strength test. His one-handed strength had increased from the original 368 tons to 403 tons, an increase of about 35 tons, which was fairly good.

"The way things are going, just with the improvements to my Talent Level, I should be able to achieve huge power of one million jin in one hand pretty quickly. After all, I already have a one-hand strength of eight hundred thousand jin right now, and this is just the most basic one-handed strength under normal conditions."

With Zhang Yanhang's current one-handed strength, a slight application of Spiritual Energy would turn it into one-handed strength of 1.6 million jin, allowing him to experience even more of the joy of the Mystical World.

When it comes to the more universally applicable two-handed strength, Zhang Yanhang could now achieve a strength of four million jin with both hands, a mid-to-late-stage level of power in most worlds. But in the Awakeners' power system, he was still considered in the early tier, the Third Tier, far from the mid-stage Fourth Tier.

Though it's just the early stage, if you put Zhang Yanhang into a normal world that was still developing basic technology without the revival of Spiritual Qi, with his current strength and speed, he could definitely achieve the destruction of nations. It would be like implementing a scorched earth policy, clearing out monsters, where leaving even one survivor would count as a loss for him.

However, such tasks would certainly take a long time, and this mainly applies to small countries. For large countries, he would probably choose to destroy major cities, because while it's feasible to inch across the land, that would likely take years to accomplish.'

"Every time we talk about this kind of nation-destroying business I always get this weird sense of déjà vu, as if I've done it myself before, which is strange. Is it a unique hallucination for Paradox Interactive players?"

But compared to computer games, Zhang Yanhang felt that his sense of déjà vu seemed even more realistic, and that strange feeling involuntarily made him think of the man in the military uniform he saw but couldn't describe in the Divination Tarot Card. It was indeed very odd.

After upgrading his SSS-rank Talent Kua'e Power, Zhang Yanhang quickly put the remaining Mystical Steed Power into his Waist Bag with the ones he had received before, and he was quite confident about gathering another five hundred Mystical Steed Powers to elevate Kua'e Power to a level above SSS-rank.

"Although Kua'e Power did not undergo a transformation at the SSS level, I believe that once Kua'e Power is elevated to a level above SSS, it will definitely experience a transformation,"

Regarding a level above SSS, Zhang Yanhang could only hope that it wouldn't turn into SSSS level; otherwise, we might actually end up with SSSSSSSSS level Talent, which looks as if the 'S' key on the keyboard got stuck and broke because of playing too many games.

After tallying the most important Talent-related gains, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to count his equipment gains. Compared to the monotonous gains from the last time, the variety in equipment was slightly richer this time, starting with the Dark Purple Quality Equipment, the Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask provided by the Crimson Iron Destruction Ants.

This time, Zhang Yanhang obtained a total of four hundred thirty-seven Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks. Although it might not be enough for a breakthrough, at least there shouldn't be too much of a problem to fuse Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +6.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had a Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +4, a Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +3, and a Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +1 in his Waist Bag, equivalent to twenty-six ordinary Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks, and he was also wearing three Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks +5 on his face, equivalent to ninety-six ordinary masks. Together, that amounted to one hundred twenty-two Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks.

Adding the four hundred thirty-seven Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks he had just acquired, the total came to five hundred forty-nine Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks.

Zhang Yanhang did a quick calculation and figured that this many masks should be just about enough for him to fuse eight Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks +6. At the very least, he could attempt to push beyond the limit and fuse a Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +7.

After placing all the masks from his head and Waist Bag into the Alchemy Array, Zhang Yanhang immediately began the fusion process. Due to the large quantity, he even felt that the prep work for fusion was going to take longer than the actual breakthrough.

This made him more inclined to want to raise his Alchemy Skill Level. Currently, the pace of Alchemy felt quite slow; he believed that an upgrade would significantly improve melting speed because the current fusion speed wasn't really up to par.

Unfortunately, he had no extra Ash Source on hand, and could only wait until after clearing the entire Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano to obtain Ash Source from the Ashen Treasure Box.

After fusing for a good while, Zhang Yanhang finally completed the fusion, with eight Light Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks +6, one Light Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +5, one Dark Purple Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +2, and the remaining ordinary Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask appearing before him.

The result of this fusion was close to Zhang Yanhang's initial estimate. As expected, he felt that he couldn't continue fusing once he reached +6 and that a breakthrough was necessary to fuse the subsequent +7.

"But even though I should fuse up to +7, do I really need a Golden Quality +7?"

Zhang Yanhang was mainly considering upgrading his Three-Headed Six-Armed Skill in the future, raising it to LV.MAX to achieve the complete Four-Headed Eight-Armed Form. By that time, he would need four heads to equip the Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks, and one Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +7 wasn't enough to go around.

Rather than that, he felt it might be better to just temporarily wear four Light Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks +6 to tide him over until later when he could fuse the Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +7.

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang was mainly contemplating another matter related to fusion. Previously, when breaking the limit due to the limited number of equipment, he only broke through one piece at a time. But doing it one piece at a time was really time-consuming. Could it be possible to break the limits of two or even more pieces of equipment simultaneously?

Based on Zhang Yanhang's past experience, controlling one piece of equipment for fusion and controlling several pieces of equipment for fusion actually took about the same amount of time, it just required a bit more concentration.

And since he could simultaneously operate thirty pieces of equipment for fusion, was it possible for him to combine these two methods and, at the same time, control the fusion of thirty-two Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +6 to break through and fuse into four Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +7?

Although Zhang Yanhang didn't know the success rate of this experiment, he felt that if it really worked, it would definitely save a lot of time.

Actually, Zhang Yanhang had thought about this before, but he had never attempted it because he was only fusing one piece of equipment at a time.

Of course, the main reason was the fear of failure. After all, his success rate for normal fusion was almost one hundred percent, but for multiple pieces, the probability of failure was still an unknown. If the failure rate was high, it would mean instant destruction of all equipment and a direct game over.

But out of the principle that practice is the sole criterion for testing truth, he still felt he should give it a try, since it truly saved time.

"Since that's the case, I won't upgrade this Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask for now. I'll wait until I collect a few more and then enhance them together."

Since he didn't immediately need to upgrade to a Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +7, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to check the attribute list of the Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +6. He had been thinking about breaking the limits and hadn't had the chance to look at it yet.

[Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +6]

[Quality: Light Golden]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Crimson Iron Ore Vein, Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 62/62]

[Defensive Power: 46]

[Additional Attributes: Critical Strike Rate +24.0%（+1.5%）.]

[Usage Requirements: Agility 45 points.]

[Score: 350 (Light golden items score from 261 to 350.)]

[Introduction: After hiding in the deep mountains, I suddenly feel that indeed, it's freer here. Not only can I obtain forging materials at will, but also no one will come to disturb me. The situation outside is very tight anyway, so I think I'd rather stay inside the Crimson Iron Ore Vein and focus on honing my forging skills...]

"This Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +6 is just as expected, after upgrading to +6, it indeed increased the score by 25, raising the equipment score from the high score of a Light Golden Quality of 325 points directly to the full score of Light Golden Quality of 350 points. Clearly, just need to break through the limits step by step and it will surely upgrade to Golden quality."

Unfortunately, Zhang Yanhang currently could not directly fuse a Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +7 due to time-saving concerns.

"After the equipment score reached the full score of Light Golden Quality of three hundred fifty points, the critical strike rate provided by the Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +6 increased from the original 22.5% to 24%, adding another 1.5% to the Critical Strike Rate bonus."

After checking the attribute list of the Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +6, Zhang Yanhang quickly materialized his other two heads and put on the freshly fused Light Golden Quality full score Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks +6.

"Upgrading all three Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks from the original +5 to +6, it's like each Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask is providing an additional 1.5% Critical Strike Rate bonus. Combined, the three Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks provide a 4.5% Critical Strike Rate bonus.

I originally had a 92% Critical Strike Rate, and now with this additional 4.5% bonus, the total is now 96.5% Critical Strike Rate, significantly increasing the probability of triggering a critical hit."

Before, Zhang Yanhang would have one attack not trigger a critical hit out of every ten attacks, but now it's one attack out of twenty not triggering a critical hit, making it more robust, with only three or four out of a hundred attacks not triggering a critical hit.

"Although this 96.5% Critical Strike Rate is already quite sturdy, it can become even more so in a moment."

Zhang Yanhang believed that after he finished improving the Skill Level of his Three-Headed Six-Armed, surely the third extra head would easily increase his Critical Strike Rate to over one hundred percent.

After equipping three full-score Light Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Masks +6, Zhang Yanhang quickly continued to tally up the other equipment gains. However, when it came to the remaining pieces of equipment, there were only six Dark Purple Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Claws left.

Although six Crimson Marrow Ghost Claws could just form three Crimson Marrow Ghost Claws +1, considering the Three-Headed Six-Armed Skill, Zhang Yanhang only planned to first fuse two Crimson Marrow Ghost Claws +1 and leave two ordinary ones, equipping all eight hands.

Even though the quality was low, it was better than nothing. Moreover, due to the low number of fusion times, the bonuses provided by three fused +1 claws would definitely not compare to four ordinary Crimson Marrow Ghost Claws.

However, even though he talked about fusing, the first thing Zhang Yanhang did was to observe what this so-called Crimson Marrow Ghost Claw actually was, because mindless fusion was useless without the ability to equip it.

He first had to try equipping it to see if he could do so normally. If not, he would have to modify it. Only after the modification could he begin the normal fusion process. That was what he did when he transformed the Crimson Iron Teeth into Crimson Iron Shark Teeth.

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