"Forget it. Let's not think about these things for now and start by tallying up the various gains from the treasure box."

Zhang Yanhang immediately began tallying the relevant gains, starting with the most important—Talent gains. This time, he had acquired a total of 1732 Mystic Steed Powers, and if he added the remaining 650 Mystic Steed Powers from before, Zhang Yanhang now held a total of 2382 Mystic Steed Powers.

Such a vast number broke his previous record once again, but unfortunately, even with so many Mystic Steed Powers, the Talent Level's requirement to triple with each upgrade made this amount just passable.

"To upgrade the X-level Power of Bixi to XX-level, 19683 E-level Ant Power Talents are required. However, as I am currently using C-level Mystic Steed Power, I only need 2187 Mystic Steed Powers to meet the current upgrade requirement for X-level Power of Bixi.

And I had only just barely met this part of the upgrade requirement after virtually clearing out 95% of the monsters in the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano..."

Zhang Yanhang had previously anticipated that XX-level would likely be the last Talent Quality upgrade, and it seems he was right. After the next upgrade, the upgrade requirements would triple again, far beyond what the remaining monsters in the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano could satisfy.

After tallying up the number of Mystic Steed Powers, Zhang Yanhang quickly began popping the crimson little light balls. After all, he needed exactly 2187 Mystic Steed Powers. Even with his current speed of hand, it still took him quite a while—the main issue being that his hands weren't big enough to grasp a large quantity at once.

[Detected a Subordinate Talent "Power of Bixi" at level X in your Talent list. Do you wish to merge Talents?]

"Yes, merge."

After pinching for quite a while, Zhang Yanhang finally heard the familiar upgrade prompt sound. For this XX-level Talent upgrade, Zhang Yanhang's expectations weren't too high; he just hoped to increase the extra attack's trigger chance as much as possible, which would in turn increase the chances for Double Strike and Triple Strike.

After all, Double Strike was still reasonable, being able to trigger once every sixty attacks, but Triple Strike might not even trigger once in a thousand attacks, which was truly too low.

Zhang Yanhang felt that, at the very least, the trigger chance for Triple Strike should be increased to within a thousand attacks, or even to trigger once every five hundred attacks, syncing perfectly with emptying a clip to trigger a Triple Strike once.

[Merge completed.]

[You have acquired the XX-level Talent "Longbo's Power."]

"After level X comes level XX. If this naming pattern continues, then after this XX-level Talent 'Longbo's Power', if I were to upgrade it again, it should be upgraded to a XXX-level Talent. Now, the question arises: If SSS-level Talent upgrades to X-level Talent, what would a XXX-level Talent upgrade to?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered that although he had always been unable to see the Talent Level of "Multiple Choice," which was still marked by question marks even now, there once seemed to be a labeled section of Talent Levels, namely 'F~EX'.

"If the completion of the Talent Level upgrade from XXX doesn't lead to any other XXX level Talents, does that mean reaching the ultimate EX level?" Zhang Yanhang thought.

But Zhang Yanhang felt that even the EX level should not be the limit of Talent upgrading. His intuition told him that there should definitely be even higher levels in the future.

As for what those higher levels were, Zhang Yanhang had no idea, as they were clearly beyond the reach of a mere Third Tier Awakened like himself. After all, he couldn't even advance to the XXX level, let alone talk about the EX level or anything beyond it—it was truly 'meaningless ahead.'

"As for this Power of Longbo, it indeed seems to be much more well-known than the SSS level Kua'e's twins and the X level Bixi, and it's among the most famous parts of the mythical creatures in the Classic of Mountains and Seas."

Speaking of Longbo, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but mention the Returning Ruins and the Five Immortal Mountains, starting with the Returning Ruins. According to the records, 'To the east of the Bohai Sea, billions of miles away, there is a great chasm. It is an abyss with no bottom, named Returning Ruins. The waters from the Eight Ropes and Nine Fields, and the flow of the Milky Way, all pour into it without increase or decrease.'

Simply put, there is a massive bottomless abyss called Returning Ruins billions of miles east of the Bohai Sea, which serves as the endpoint of heaven and earth. All the water from the oceans and rivers of the world flows towards this endpoint to complete the great cycle of heaven and earth, obliterating everything. Everything will face its end there.

Near the Bohai Sea are five large mountains, namely Daiyu, Yuanjiao, Fanghu, Ying State, and Penglai, which are abundant in Spiritual Energy and home to countless rare treasures, exotic animals, and birds. They are inhabited by Immortals, comparable to a paradise on earth, where even a random fruit picked by mortals from a tree along the road can grant eternal youth and everlasting happiness.

However, these five Immortal Mountains are not fixed on the land but float near the sea, moving up and down with the tides and even shifting positions.

Thus, the Immortals living on these mountains were concerned that one day the mountains might be swept into the Returning Ruins along with the currents, leading to their end. So, they asked the Heavenly Emperor for help in securing these five Immortal Mountains near the sea to prevent them from flowing into the Returning Ruins.

Upon hearing the requests of the Immortals, the Heavenly Emperor sent fifteen ancient giant turtles with the power to carry mountains to support the five Immortal Mountains near the sea, preventing them from drifting towards the Returning Ruins. They are divided into three shifts, rotating every sixty thousand years.

After this comes the story of Longbo's People, who, in ancient times, lived in a nation called Longbo's Country. The people here were tens of thousands of feet tall, had life spans also calculated in tens of thousands, and possessed endless strength.

Once, the people of Longbo were out for a stroll and felt that the five Immortal Mountains floating on the sea—Daiyu, Yuanjiao, Fanghu, Ying State, and Penglai—were somewhat unsightly. So, they started fishing with hooks and caught the giant turtles carrying the mountains on their backs, and with a slight pull, they caught six giant turtles at once.

After catching the six giant turtles, the people of Longbo didn't bother with the five Immortal Mountains anymore. Instead, they carried the turtles on their shoulders back home, roasted them, ate them, and even turned the remaining turtle shells into divination tools after baking and air-drying them.

Consequently, without anything to carry them, the Immortal Mountains offshore rapidly drifted toward the Returning Ruins, and though the Immortals and the Heavenly Emperor mounted a timely rescue, two of the mountains, Daiyu and Yuanjiao, still unfortunately fell into the Returning Ruins, were forcibly obliterated, and met their end.

The remaining three mountains, Fanghu, Ying State, and Penglai, though they were saved in time, drifted quite a distance from the shore. From then on, they were no longer considered Immortal Mountains near the land but became known as the Three Famous Overseas Immortal Mountains.

There are countless legends about these three overseas immortal mountains, the most famous of which is undoubtedly Emperor Qin Shi charging Xu Fu to set sail to Penglai in search of the immortality elixir, which was a tree fruit on Penglai Island that allowed mortals to remain forever young and undying.

After this incident, the people of Longbo caused a great disaster and were punished by the Heavenly Emperor. Since then, the stature of the people in the entire nation of Longbo gradually shrank year by year, from an original height of ten thousand zhang to just ten zhang, and their life spans greatly reduced. Moreover, they could no longer use their various divine skills.

"In terms of strength, the power of Longbo's people indeed far surpasses that of the previous Bixi, also known as Ba Xia. After all, Ba Xia is essentially just a giant turtle. In the cases specifically restraining Ba Xia, it's merely like a giant turtle being hooked up.

Moreover, while Ba Xia carries the weight of the Three Mountains and Five Mountains on its back, Longbo's people easily fished up six giant turtles along with five nearby immortal mountains situated offshore. It's quite obvious which power is greater."

Moreover, compared to the obscure name of Bixi, Zhang Yanhang truly found that Longbo's power sounded much nicer.

"Although I don't know whether the Longbo here is the original version of the ten thousand zhang Longbo or a shrunken super-mini version of ten zhang Longbo, Longbo's people are indeed extremely strong. Even after such significant shrinkage, they are still ten zhang tall, which is about thirty to forty meters.

The original Longbo was even forty kilometers tall. It can be said that when walking, most of his body remained in the stratosphere, with only his lower legs and ankles residing in the normal troposphere below ten kilometers.

The flying height of ordinary airplanes is at most near the lower legs of Longbo's people. If you flew in a helicopter, it might not even be as high as Longbo's ankles, considering that one of Longbo's tiny toes is taller than the tallest building in the world."

Overall, because the ten zhang mini version of Longbo is relatively weak, Zhang Yanhang leaned towards the idea that the Longbo of this power should be the original Longbo. And if it had to be weaker, it should at least be the shrunken version that only reduced to half the original, still predominantly residing in the stratosphere.

"But compared to the name of the Talent, what's more crucial is the actual effect of the Talent." Zhang Yanhang quickly opened the XX-level Talent "Longbo's Power" and began checking its Talent effect.

[Longbo's Power]

[Quality: XX (0/59049)]

[Ability One: Robust and Powerful—Strength +15 (+3).]

[Ability Two: Double Strike—When attacking, there's a 24.0% (+6.0%) chance to trigger an extra attack with 425% (+100%) Attack Power, and when the extra attack triggers, a 12.0% (+3.0%) chance to trigger a 850% (+200%) Attack Power Double Strike.

When triggering a Double Strike, there's an 8.0% (+2.0%) chance to trigger a Triple Strike with 1275% (+300%) Attack Power.]

[Ability Three: Powerful—Power Effect +265% (+60%).]

"This Talent quality thing, because it always triples in a geometric fashion every time, the upgrade requirement has now become particularly terrifying.

Originally, the requirement of 19683 E-level Ant Power was already terrifying, but now it has tripled once more, escalating directly to 59049 E-level Ant Power needed for the upgrade.

Given my current state, even if we do not need much, I estimate that just upgrading to XXX-level EX-grade would roughly demand six-figure level upgrade requirements..."

According to Zhang Yanhang's current upgrading requirements, if he still needs to kill ordinary small Crimson Iron Ants to acquire Ant Power, calculating thirty dropping one treasure box, nearly 1.8 million small Crimson Iron Ants need to be cleared, which means cleaning up one hundred eighty Crimson Iron Ant Nests of the same scale as Dalagu.

"One hundred eighty new areas, if only Ant Power had to be used for upgrading, I'm afraid I wouldn't gather so much Ant Power even by retirement. Not accounting for Rank Penalty, using the normal ratio where ten drop one Drop treasure box, I would still need to clear sixty new areas.

Currently, let alone clearing sixty areas, I haven't even cleared six areas yet; I've only encountered the normal areas of Raccoon City, small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, Goblin Plain, Demonized Swamp, and the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano currently being cleared.

At most, I might add a volcanic region with a Permanent Teleportation Channel, but I don't even know what that region is called; I just know it's full of volcanoes."

Thus, for the current Zhang Yanhang, relying on Ant Power to upgrade is entirely unrealistic—completely impossible to achieve.

"But luckily, I am currently using Grade C Mystic Steed Power to upgrade my Talent. So, with division by nine, I only need 6561 Mystic Steed Power to upgrade XX-level Talent Longbo's Power to XXX-level. Okay, maybe it's still overwhelmingly a lot, and also completely impossible to gather."

6561 units of Mystic Steed Power, even if the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano was entirely refreshed anew, would still not be enough.

Because according to mijnainsfo10 the current drop rates, where nineteen kills drop one treasure box, 6561 units of Mystic Steed Power required him to eliminate nearly 130,000 Third Tier large Crimson Iron Ants to obtain, which is more than double the standard number supported by the whole large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano; it would need the entire large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano to refresh three times to gather it all.

"Such an amount of Mystic Steed Power, only relying on the slow natural refresh of the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano, is definitely not possible to gather, only by later finding new areas can I acquire them."

This was exactly the reason why Zhang Yanhang wanted to open a new Teleportation Channel, after all, he still needed to continue searching for new areas to upgrade his Talent Level in the future.

"After my previous Mystic Steed Power Talent upgrade completed the XX-level "Longbo's Power," only 195 remained, and I still needed to gather 6366 more Mystic Steed Power to continue upgrading, likewise needing to kill another 130,000 Third Tier large Crimson Iron Ants."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang silently sighed.

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