First and foremost, naturally, are the most important returns related to Talents. This time, Zhang Yanhang obtained a total of 189 B-level Talents [Muscle Regeneration].

Previously, he had stored 297 E-level Slow Corrosion Talents in his waist bag. Since one B-level Talent equals twenty-seven E-level Talents, converting them means his 297 E-level Slow Corrosion Talents are exactly equivalent to eleven B-level Muscle Regenerations.

This way, he effectively now holds a total of two hundred B-level Muscle Regenerations.

"To upgrade the SS-level Talent Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea to an SSS-level, I need to consume a total of 2187 E-level Talents, which converts to eighty-one B-level Muscle Regenerations—a number more than sufficient with my current Talents."

After realizing during the last Talent upgrade that those previously accumulated low-level Talents had become mostly useless, Zhang Yanhang decided to use up all the accumulated Slow Corrosion Talents in advance this time—exactly eleven—so that he has none left on him.

After taking out all 297 Slow Corrosion Talents from his waist bag, Zhang Yanhang also extracted seventy grey small light balls from the B-level Muscle Regeneration nearby. That's right, grey.

Zhang Yanhang doesn't fully understand why the E-level Slow Corrosion is black while the B-level Muscle Regeneration is bleached.

He speculates that it might be because the purity of zombies is not as high; after all, compared to regular zombies, Tyrants are at most half-zombie, with the other half being biological, hence the grey small light balls that fall between black zombies and white biological entities.

Due to his hand speed reaching several dozen times the speed of sound, Zhang Yanhang crushed over three hundred small light balls in one go. Of course, this could also be because he doesn't need to breathe, allowing everything to be done 'in one breath.'

For example, promoting to the Fifth Tier in one breath or even directly to the Sixth Tier and becoming a god may seem absurd, but as long as he doesn't breathe starting today, it's truly achievable.

After crushing the massive amount of black and grey Talent small light balls in one breath, Zhang Yanhang finally awaited that familiar prompt sound.

[Detected a Subordinate Talent of the SS-level Talent 'Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea' in your Talent list. Would you like to merge Talents?]

"Yes, merge."

Zhang Yanhang had long wanted to upgrade the Talent level of Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea, especially since the last upgrade was at the Second Tier, shortly after originally reaching the Second Tier.

Back then, he used the recently collected Slow Corrosion Talents from the cleared Raccoon City to upgrade the original S-level Chunling Endless to the current SS-level Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea, and it's been over half a month or nearly twenty days since then.

He upgraded Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea on October 13th, and with thirty-one days in October plus today being the first of November, it has been a neat twenty days, even excluding the 13th, that's still nineteen days.

Thus, for Zhang Yanhang, who only took a month to reach the Fourth Tier, it truly feels like quite a long time, as if it could have happened last year, considering that tier promotion only increases an Awakener's sensitivity to time rather than decreasing it.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang's only thought now is to have a new Ability related to Physical Recovery Speed upon upgrading Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea.

[Merge completed.]

[You have acquired SSS-level Talent 'Immortality'.]

"Does achieving SSS-level already grant immortality? Although it seems a bit ridiculous, from the perspective of Tier classification, SSS-level Talent is at least a Sixth Tier Talent, which is already at the divine stage, so perhaps immortality is normal? Since I have yet to hear of any deity dying of old age."

Zhang Yanhang recalls that deities theoretically will never die as long as they have followers, or even if they die, pious prayers may allow for resurrection.

Of course, that requires a gigantic number of devout followers incessantly praying annually for a possible resurrection within a short period (within a hundred years).

Otherwise, if there are only a few followers praying slowly, waiting for several thousand or even tens of thousands of years may hold no hope at all. Humans tend to be pragmatic; if you can no longer protect them after death, many faithful followers will likely pursue other paths and convert to other deities.

Then as time goes by, followers decrease, leading to two possible outcomes: one being self-extinction, and another becoming a niche 'Evil God' organization, suppressed by 'justice' under the flag of righteousness.

Such righteous individuals usually stem from the deity who usurped the dead deity's divine position or from the organization that initially defeated the deceased deity.

"But defining immortality generally means living for a few thousand years or even tens of thousands of years, which doesn't seem that long, since I already have over a thousand years of lifespan. While I don't know how many more years of lifespan it will grant following the promotion, reaching several thousand years after advancing to the Fifth Tier seems easily attainable."

For Zhang Yanhang, who has now reached the Immortal Land Realm, the term 'immortality' seems less like a compliment and more akin to an adjective describing his current state.

Compared to 'ageless' in immortality, his data avatar genuinely immortalizes him, ensuring he stays exactly the same no matter if thousands or tens of thousands of years pass.

"If it were more advanced, like eternal life, that might excite me slightly, but currently, immortality is just that."

Moreover, compared to immortality's thousand-year or even ten-thousand-year lifespan, Zhang Yanhang still feels that the Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea's analogy of a lifespan like a long mountain projects an impression of longer lifespan.

"Of course, compared to the name, the actual effect of the Talent is even more critical."

So, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened the Talent Effect of the SSS-level Immortality Talent to start reviewing it.

[Immortality]

[Quality: SSS (0/6561)]

[Ability One: Unwearied — Constitution +9 (+2).]

[Ability Two: Energetic — Physical Strength +280% (+60%).]

[Ability Three: Longevity — Life Span +180 years (+40 years) +4 years (+2 years) ×100[Constitution]=580 years (+240 years).]

"After upgrading from the SS-level Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea to the SSS-level Immortality, the upgrade demand for Immortality indeed tripled again, increasing from the original 2187 Slow Corrosion E-level Talents to 6561 Slow Corrosion E-level Talents required.

But fortunately, I am now using the B-level Talent Muscle Regeneration to upgrade the SSS-level Talent Immortality, so, if converted to B-level Talents, only 243 Muscle Regenerations are needed to continue upgrading the SSS-level Talent Immortality to the X-level."

Although no new ability was unlocked this time, based on past experience, Zhang Yanhang believes that after advancing to the X level, related new abilities should definitely be unlocked.

"But unfortunately, after upgrading the SSS-level Immortality, I have only 119 B-level Muscle Regenerations left. So now I still need 124 more B-level Muscle Regenerations to upgrade again, but fortunately, the problem is not big. Just more than a hundred are needed, and I can gather them in just a few minutes by casually clearing monsters later."

Even if Zhang Yanhang temporarily goes to clear monsters for a few minutes now, he can gather them, but he finds it troublesome and decides to clear them all at once later.

But the reason Zhang Yanhang can gather them so easily now is that he is clearing a new high-level area and is using a B-level Initial Talent. If he were still using the E-level Talent Slow Corrosion to upgrade, it wouldn't be as simple as now.

After all, given the current Fourth Tier Rank Penalty, continuing to kill First Tier Zombies to obtain Slow Corrosion requires eliminating thirty-eight zombies to get one Drop Treasure Box, and to collect more than six thousand E-level Slow Corrosion, he would need to clear about 240,000 First Tier Ordinary Zombies.

However, the total number of zombie monsters in Raccoon City is only about six thousand, so Zhang Yanhang would need to clear Raccoon City forty times consecutively to gather so many E-level Slow Corrosions, which indeed becomes increasingly exaggerated with the advancement of rank.

But this is precisely why Zhang Yanhang came here to clear high-level areas because only high-level areas can gather the temperament quantity required for upgrading, otherwise, he would either have to spend years not advancing in rank and continuously clearing Raccoon City or he would surely never gather enough in a lifetime.

"This time Ability One Unwearied increased the Constitution Attribute by two points again, rising from the previous enhancement of seven points to nine points in Constitution Attribute, which is quite good as my Constitution Attribute was still one point short of reaching the 100 points Tier Limit.

Now, with the two points of Constitution Attribute boost from the Talent, my Constitution Attribute has finally reached the Tier Limit."

Previously, of Zhang Yanhang's Four Main Attributes, only the Constitution Attribute was lacking. At the time, he thought that this attribute would mostly need to be boosted with Talent assistance, and now it seems with a slight upgrade in the talent, it has indeed been gathered effortlessly.

"Moreover, this has only been upgraded to SSS-level, and presumably with the subsequent Talent upgrades, my Constitution Attribute is likely to overflow significantly in Attribute value this time."

Even Zhang Yanhang feels that this time, the Constitution Attribute replicating the previous situation where the Strength Attribute had an overflow of two-digit Attribute values is not impossible. After all, apart from Talents, his Limitless Universe Skill has yet to reach LV.MAX and can help improve some Attribute values further.

"This time, Ability Two Energetic has once again increased the Stamina limit by 60%, bringing the total increase of the Stamina limit from the original 220% to 280%, indeed proving to be an SSS-level enhancement, boosting directly by 60%…"

Although due to the continuous growth of the Stamina limit, there is a severe shortage of Physical Recovery Speed, Zhang Yanhang still adheres to a more-the-better attitude for the Stamina limit.

After all, for someone like him, whose most abilities require physical strength to operate, the stamina limit is as crucial as the blue bar for a mage, and never feels too much. Only with a sufficiently large stamina limit can ensure the output capability fully.

"Now, after receiving this 60% addition to the stamina limit, I can now use the Death Wave Skill approximately 7,900 times continuously, compared to the 6,200 times previously, which is an increase of about 1,700 times or more than a quarter."

Furthermore, this still is the full-power, maximum range version of the Death Wave, if Zhang Yanhang is willing to reduce the range, he can now release the Death Wave Skill consecutively 15,800 times, which is really quite ridiculous.

Zhang Yanhang can cover an area of 2.38 square kilometers with one release of Death Wave, so if he uses Death Wave continuously till all his physical strength is drained, he can cover an area of 18,802 square kilometers in one go, which is nearly 19,000 square kilometers.

This is almost half of the size of the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field.

And if we consider just Umbrella City without counting the suburban areas, an area of a mere 15,000 square kilometers can be fully covered by Zhang Yanhang just flying around releasing Death Wave continuously from the sky without having to make a move, then simply coming back later to consume the corpses and related treasure boxes.

Of course, this method can only be used against Third Tier monsters because the current Death Wave is still not effective against Fourth Tier Monsters; it still needs an upgrade so that it can easily eradicate Fourth Tier Monsters as well.

Although this time might eventually yield only a few million soul points, but after all, it's just a five-minute yield. The mere five minutes can yield this level of income, Zhang Yanhang estimates that to gather the 20 million soul points needed to upgrade the Death Wave Skill should definitely be solvable within half an hour.

Presumably, by the time Death Wave Skill upgrades to the Origin Stage LV.6, it should easily be able to obliterate Fourth Tier Monsters.

As for why Zhang Yanhang is so fond of the Death Wave Skill, mainly because using Death Wave to hunt monsters is indeed worry-free. One does not need to care about direction or distance, just keep releasing Death Wave and it will clear everything along the path.

Now that he can fly, he can directly fly around in the sky to wipe out monsters, which is indeed relatively easy and leisurely, a 'new concept for monster hunting'."

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