Although he liked reading about them, it didn't mean Zhang Yanhang wanted to encounter them in the Ashen World or the Main World. After all, those cosmic Three Pillar Gods topped even among the Outer Gods, and he really couldn't afford to provoke them at the moment. In the Cthulhu Mythos, only the God of Blind Foolishness, Azathoth, was stronger than them.

And the God of Blind Foolishness, Azathoth, is the Creator God of the Cthulhu Mythos. The universe is carried by His consciousness, and in His consciousness, the Three Pillar Gods were born. He is omniscient and omnipotent, but for an all-knowing and all-powerful being like Him, the universe becomes meaningless, more akin to a conglomerate of remnants with no reason to continue existence.

This led to a conflict between Him and the Old Gods, causing Him to be stripped of His reason, thus transforming into the God of Blind Foolishness.

But becoming this chaotic entity actually significantly increased His power. Now, the chaotic, disorderly, mad, cruel, and blind powers made Him fearless and invincible.

Also, because He became indifferent to everything, He would willfully do things that were meaningless to Him but terrifying to other beings, such as randomly responding to some believers' prayers and sacrifices by destroying the related civilizations and planets.

Another example is teleporting His followers to His palace, eternally playing a kind of horrifying sound wave that's more noise than music, which is meaningless yet crazy, causing mental pollution, soul distortion, and flesh deformation.

Specifically, it's the kind where every second a SAN value check happens, with a very high save difficulty. Failing the check means an immediate distortion that leads to joining the orchestra to play the flute.

Even Legendary Investigators can't withstand it, transforming into followers with dead-grey skin, soft bodies, and slender figures, like the inflatable mannequins swaying back and forth at shopping malls, continuously playing instruments and unconsciously swaying their bodies to Azathoth's 'music' with slithery, cold hands, executing various bizarre dance gestures.

However, to become a follower, one also needs a certain level of talent. Without it, one doesn't even qualify as a follower and directly explodes into a heap of flesh. Indeed, this is the fate that most living beings that hear the music meet.

Of course, most of the time, the God of Blind Foolishness resides in the palace at the core of endless chaos beyond time and space, instinctively pounding on an invisible giant drum and playing a flute that emits nauseatingly monotonous tones.

Surrounded by other foolish and blind deities, they shriek madly, uttering blasphemous and unclean whispers.

In short, theoretically, the Yog Bubble, Mother of Black Mountain Goat, and Nai Yazi that Zhang Yanhang read about are all children of Azathoth, the God of Blind Foolishness. Simultaneously, Azathoth is the supreme commander of the Outer Gods, the ruler of all existences, the source of all gods, and most importantly, the bearer of the universe.

This level of main god and creator god in this mythical system was still far beyond Zhang Yanhang's reach, and whether he could ever match it, even upon retirement, remained uncertain.

"Now that I've reviewed the skill effects of both new professional skills, what should I do next? Should I enhance my attribute values first or upgrade my skills?"

Zhang Yanhang pondered for a moment and thought perhaps it was better to upgrade his skills first.

And speaking of upgrading skills, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered something, "Since No Taboos starts at LV.MAX, could it be that this skill can't be promoted?"

Zhang Yanhang felt this possibility was more than likely, at least nine out of ten, considering the unique nature of the skill.

"Forget it, let's trigger the options first. If there's no promotion option, then indeed there is no promotion possible. Select! Skill Level Enhancement."

With the advent of Time Pause, a large format familiar but content unfamiliar text option box quickly appeared before Zhang Yanhang, and most importantly, this text option box grew longer due to the inclusion of two new professional skills.

[Enhance skill level?]

[Option One: Upgrade 'Gun Mastery LV.MAX' to 'Gun Master·Original LV.5' (Costs 1 Ash Source, 1 Legendary Essence, 6,553,600 Soul points.)]

...

[Option Five: Upgrade 'Limitless Universe Skill[Third Tier]LV.MAX' to 'Limitless Universe Skill[Fourth Tier]LV.1' (Costs 700,000 Soul points.)]

...

[Option Eight: Upgrade 'Supreme Will LV.MAX' to '???' (Cannot be enhanced)]

[Option Nine: Upgrade 'Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.MAX' to 'Indestructible Golden Body·Origin LV.5' (Costs 1 Ash Source, 1 Legendary Essence, 6,553,600 Soul points.)]

[Option Ten: Upgrade 'Heavenly Earth Form LV.MAX' to 'Heavenly Earth Form·Original LV.5' (Costs 1 Ash Source, 1 Legendary Essence, 6,553,600 Soul points.)]

[Option Eleven: Upgrade 'Three-Headed Six-Armed LV.MAX' to '???' (Cannot be enhanced)]

[Option Twelve: Upgrade 'Heaven and Earth Devourer LV.1' to 'Heaven and Earth Devourer LV.2' (Costs 6,400 Soul points.)]

[Option Thirteen: Upgrade 'No Taboos LV.MAX' to '???' (Cannot be enhanced)]

"Holy smokes, I just got promoted, and there's still a bunch of skills in the upgrade list that can't be upgraded? Especially Three-Headed Six-Armed, which couldn't be upgraded before my promotion, yet remains unupgradable post-promotion. Is my promotion in vain?"

Well, Zhang Yanhang might understand. After all, the skill strength of Three-Headed Six-Armed does resemble that of Supreme Will, so being unupgradable is quite normal.

"Speaking of Supreme Will, I obtained it at the Second Tier, couldn't enhance it upon promoting to the Third Tier, and it's still unupgradable after reaching the Fourth Tier. Do I really have to wait until the Fifth Tier or even the Sixth Tier to enhance it?"

Furthermore, Zhang Yanhang also noticed that the recently acquired automatic LV.MAX No Taboos indeed cannot be enhanced either, as expected. Moreover, for him who is only at the Fourth Tier currently, continuing to enhance them truly held no significant purpose.

"By the way, why did this Gun Mastery suddenly have an 'Original' appear behind it? I initially thought there might be something like Grand Gun Mastery after it, and thereafter Gun God, but I didn't expect that just after upgrading to Gun Mastery, an 'Original' popped up..."

Of course, compared to the name, Zhang Yanhang is more concerned about the skill progression requirements.

"I originally thought these skill progression requirements should all become two Ash Source points like Alchemy, but I didn't expect it to become one Ash Source point and one Legendary Essence.

Although it's somewhat different from what I previously estimated, this is actually a good thing, just in time to make some use of the eight leftover Legendary Essences I had."

Zhang Yanhang initially thought that upgrading to Fourth Tier would require at least thirty to forty Ash Source points, but from the looks of it now, perhaps twenty points could suffice. And, because he already has nine Ash Source points, he's essentially met half of the requirement. As for the remaining requirement, according to his original plan, if luck is good, maybe one zone would be enough to meet it.

"Based on this view, my original idea of advancing to Fifth Tier in one week might be a bit conservative, but a conservative goal is also easier to achieve, so for now, let's set it at one week."

Zhang Yanhang believes that he should be able to advance to Fifth Tier by the beginning of November.

"If Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.MAX continues to upgrade further, it becomes 'Indestructible Golden Body·Origin'? The original meaning of 'Original' was already the initial version of a classic, yet upgrading further still requires 'tracing back to the origin' to find the true source?"

If it were modern society during an era without magic exploring the primitive society, it would only get weaker the more they explored, but since the Main World is experiencing Spiritual Qi Recovery, the further back in time, the denser the Spiritual Energy and higher the energy level. Therefore, the more ancient, the stronger, just like the Chi You who provided Zhang Yanhang with the Three-Headed Six-Armed form, which clearly showed that the Spiritual Energy was very dense in that era, and cultivators of that era also had high energy levels.

So, this tracing back from 'Original' to 'Origin' is indeed quite fitting for the current situation in the Main World.

As for how Zhang Yanhang knows his Three-Headed Six-Armed form is from the Chi You version, naturally, it's because no one originally had Three Heads and Six Arms, and the names of the additional attributes like 'Copper Head Iron Forehead' and 'Impenetrable' clearly describe Chi You.

"It's just that, even though upgrading is possible, and only requires one Ash Source point and one Legendary Essence, the Soul Points needed for skill progression are too many, don't you think? It actually requires 6,553,600 Soul Points? Compared to the 1,638,400 Soul Points needed to raise an Original skill from LV.9 to LV.MAX, it's quadrupled.

And this is just for increasing the skill to Origin LV.5; based on my previous upgrading experiences, if nothing unusual happens, continuing to advance to Origin LV.6 will probably double again, requiring more than ten million Soul Points."

With Zhang Yanhang's current Soul Points balance of merely 15.9 million, he can't even upgrade to a single LV.6.

"Although I anticipated this, I never imagined that with my Soul Points balance, I couldn't even upgrade a single skill..." Zhang Yanhang originally thought if there were excess Soul Points, he would first upgrade Technique Immunity and Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, but now it seems he can't afford them at all and can only wait to gather enough Soul Points later for enhancements.

"Based on my current Soul Points balance, I can only level up the newly acquired Heaven and Earth Devourer skill. Raising this skill from LV.1 to LV.2 requires only 6,400 Soul Points, similar to the initial upgrading needs of Fatian Xiangdi and Three-Headed Six-Armed when they were first acquired at Third Tier. From this perspective, the Heaven and Earth Devourer skill is still at the same stage as other skills and will likely require over six million Soul Points for further upgrades in the future.

Since my Soul Point balance can only support upgrading the Heaven and Earth Devourer skill, let's upgrade it first. So, I choose Option Twelve, consuming 6,400 Soul Points to raise Heaven and Earth Devourer LV.1 to Heaven and Earth Devourer LV.2."

Since there was only this one skill that could be upgraded, Zhang Yanhang quickly made the decision.

......

October 30th, Friday, the fifth day after the Double Ninth Festival, also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World. At ten past ten in the morning, in the Main World, Qin Island City, Xingfuli District, Unit 505, Bedroom.

Since the Soul Point requirement for the Heaven and Earth Devourer skill isn't high, Zhang Yanhang directly upgraded it from Heaven and Earth Devourer LV.1 to Heaven and Earth Devourer LV.MAX in one go. However, during this process, it didn't trigger any options related to additional attributes, indicating that the additional attributes of the Heaven and Earth Devourer skill are also fixed rewards.

Zhang Yanhang just reviewed the related upgrade requirements, and sure enough, to further upgrade Heaven and Earth Devourer LV.MAX, or to advance it into 'Heaven and Earth Devourer·Original LV.5', as he had predicted, it also requires one Ash Source point, one Legendary Essence, and 6,553,600 Soul Points.

But since the six million five hundred fifty-five thousand Soul Points are currently still a bit much for Zhang Yanhang, he hasn't upgraded further for now.

Moreover, from his past experience, for skills like Heaven and Earth Devourer, simply advancing to Original LV.5 without upgrading to LV.6 can hardly yield any significant improvements, so it's better to save those Soul Points for upgrading other things.

At the moment, temporarily halting his upgrades, Zhang Yanhang opened the skill effects of Heaven and Earth Devourer LV.MAX to check them out.

[Heaven and Earth Devourer LV.MAX (Passive/Active)]

[Passive Effect: Artifact (Enhancement) usage (consumption) effect +50% (+45%)]

[Active Effect: After skill activation, the Heavenly Destiny Master can swallow material and energy into the Stomach Space via the oral entry, and by digesting the materials and energy in the Stomach Space, increase body size, and restore energy value, with no cooldown and minor physical strength consumption.

The current Stomach Space volume is 1000 (+900) × 1000 (+900) × 1000 (+900) = 1,000,000,000 cubic meters (+999,000,000).

The current absorption efficiency of the Stomach Space is 398 (Energy Value Recovery Speed) × 5% (+4.5%) = 20 Energy Value/second.]

[Additional Attribute: Skillful - You are now skillful at controlling the Heaven and Earth Devourer skill, and you have acquired the ability to freely manipulate the absorption efficiency of the Stomach Space (0-100%). You can freely set different absorption efficiencies for different materials and energies; materials and energies with a 0% absorption efficiency will remain in a static state.]

[Additional Attribute: Mastery - Your mastery of the Indestructible Golden Body skill has become quite proficient, granting you the 'Ruminant' ability. After swallowing materials and energies into the Stomach Space through the oral entry, you can also release the swallowed materials and energies from the oral entry at any time again.

Using the 'Ruminant' ability will exacerbate physical strength consumption rates to varying extents based on the volume and energy level of the materials and energies.

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