Ashen God

Chapter 912: Second Cosmic Speed! Quasar!


This time, Zhang Yanhang adhered to the principle of a 50-50 split and still chose an equal number of Attack Speed Coin fragments and Movement Speed Coin fragments. In the end, Zhang Yanhang got a total of twenty-five Attack Speed Coin fragments and twenty-five Movement Speed Coin fragments.

Since both the Attack Speed Coin and the Movement Speed Coin require twenty fragments each to synthesize one full coin, Zhang Yanhang could only synthesize one Attack Speed Coin and one Movement Speed Coin this time as well.

Because it was the second synthesis, Zhang Yanhang didn't delay and immediately counted twenty coin fragments each to synthesize a new Attack Speed Coin and a new Movement Speed Coin.

As for the extra five Attack Speed Coin fragments and Movement Speed Coin fragments, they would have to wait until enough were accumulated for another synthesis.

After synthesizing the Attack Speed Coin and the Movement Speed Coin, Zhang Yanhang immediately put the two coins and the related fragments into his Waist Bag.

"An Attack Speed Coin can provide a 57.5% increase in attack speed, while a Movement Speed Coin can provide a 57.5% increase in movement speed. Not bad at all."

Having successfully equipped the Attack Speed Coin and Movement Speed Coin, Zhang Yanhang first started testing his own Movement Speed.

After running a few laps around the surroundings, Zhang Yanhang was skillfully able to measure his current movement speed. His movement speed had increased from the original 5437 meters per second to 6038 meters per second, equivalent to an increase of 601 meters per second.

When converted to the speed of sound, his current movement speed had increased from the original 16 Mach to 17.8 Mach, effectively increasing by 1.8 Mach, which was quite significant.

Zhang Yanhang remembered that before advancing to the fourth tier, his fastest movement speed was only about 2.8 Mach. In other words, the bonus from just one random Movement Speed Coin now could help him improve two-thirds of his total speed during the third tier period.

Every time he encountered such situations, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but marvel at how advancing in rank was indeed the best way to enhance one's strength. It was precisely for this reason that he always prioritized advancing in tiers while diligently clearing various areas in the Ashen World.

"I really do feel that I'm getting closer and closer to my small goal of breaking 20 Mach speed normally. I estimate that with just about two more Movement Speed Coins, I'll reach it, since I'm only 2.2 Mach away from 20 Mach now—not that much of a gap."

Zhang Yanhang was quite confident in achieving this small goal.

"And if I further enhance my speed with Spiritual Energy, my current movement speed would reach 35.6 Mach, which would be more than a quarter faster than a twenty-seven Mach Intercontinental Ballistic Missile."

If Zhang Yanhang previously achieved only eleven times the bullet speed, he has now reached twelve times the bullet speed. Indeed, a remarkable progress.

Moreover, the gap between Zhang Yanhang and The Voyager 1 was gradually closing. Previously, there was a 17 Mach difference with The Voyager 1, which travels at 49 Mach, but now the gap was reduced to only 13.4 Mach.

Following the current trend, Zhang Yanhang felt that he might actually surpass the speed of The Voyager 1, a Cosmic Flying Device, even before advancing tiers.

"If my current enhanced movement speed is calculated in meters, it reaches 12076 meters per second, which is approximately equal to 12.1 kilometers. My long-held target, the second cosmic speed, is merely 11.2 kilometers per second.

In other words, I have finally surpassed the second cosmic speed, exceeding it by a significant margin—0.9 kilometers per second faster than the second cosmic speed."

Zhang Yanhang felt he could now begin aiming for the third cosmic speed. The significance of the second cosmic speed is that it allows one to escape the gravitational pull of a planet (generally referring to Earth's gravity) and become an orbiting celestial body of the Sun. In contrast, the third cosmic speed allows one to escape the Sun's gravitational pull, exit the entire Solar System, and enter other star systems.

Just like the planet engines on the back of Earth in Wandering Earth, which are primarily designed to escape the Sun's gravitational pull and avoid the inevitable fate of being engulfed by an aging Red Giant Star (a senior star) that's rapidly expanding and experiencing helium flashes on its surface (commonly known as nuclear fusion explosions).

Currently, even the third cosmic speed, which can escape the Sun's gravitational pull, is indeed very close to being within Zhang Yanhang's reach. After all, even the third cosmic speed is only 16.7 kilometers per second, and he is only 4.6 kilometers away from it—not a particularly large gap.

Once he reaches the third cosmic speed, it would mean Zhang Yanhang could officially ignore stellar gravitational forces and travel interstellar freely without worrying about getting captured by unexpectedly emerging large-mass celestial bodies.

Of course, it only frees him from capture by ordinary stars. There are countless other 'cosmic bodies' in the universe with gravitational forces far greater than stars, such as quasars, blazars, giant gravitational sources, and so on.

To be honest, things like these, which easily surpass the size of super star clusters (containing hundreds of thousands of galaxy-sized systems), are intimidating enough to make even God stand uncertainly on their survival._

Therefore, even if Zhang Yanhang eventually undertakes interstellar travel and encounters something similar, he would absolutely turn and flee—provided he can actually run away. Most of the time, once something is visible, you've already entered its gravitational capture zone.

"If I convert my current movement speed into kilometers and enhance it with Spiritual Energy, my movement speed has now reached 43474 kilometers per hour. In other words, while circling the equator previously required over an hour, now I can complete one round of the equator in just over fifty minutes."

Furthermore, the journey to the Moon, located 400,000 kilometers away from Earth, which previously took Zhang Yanhang ten and a half hours, would now only take nine and a half hours—a reduction of another hour, making it just nineteen hours for a round trip.

"Although after the last movement speed increment, the hunting efficiency did not increase from clearing 5 monsters per second to the initially expected target, I believe this time I will surely achieve that target of clearing six monsters per second."

As someone who always tried to maximize his time efficiency, Zhang Yanhang was confident that he could save even more time in hunting monsters thanks to his increased efficiency. He was determined to return to the Main World before the Raccoon City Transmission Channel closed.

With the newly acquired bonus from the Attack Speed Coin, his Six Roots Pure Soul Gun's firing rate increased from shooting 3965 cannon bullets per second to 4540 per second. Thus, the shooting speed increased by 575 bullets per second, similar to the previous increment.

"While the additional 575 cannon bullets per second was consistent, the reduction in time to empty a magazine decreased only by 0.3 seconds this time, going from three seconds to 2.7 seconds, which means it only reduced to 2.2 seconds total this time."

Despite the increasing difficulty in reducing time further, considering the substantial bonus from the Attack Speed Coin, Zhang Yanhang believed that he could at least achieve his goal of reducing the magazine emptying time to two seconds.

Additionally, the flight speed of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun Cannon Bullets also improved with the Attack Speed Coin bonus—now smoothly reaching from the earlier 95 Mach to 104.9 Mach, further increasing by 9.9 Mach.

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"In terms of kinetic energy formula, the current cannon bullet at Mach 109 has already reached 1.8 times the power of the 81 Mach cannon bullet, while if we calculate based on the initial 24 Mach multiplier, the related power has grown from 15.7 times at the original 95 Mach to 20.6 times, equivalent to a further increase of 4.9 times in power."

Zhang Yanhang has always been very satisfied with the power of the cannon bullet.

After resolving the issues with the attack speed coin and movement speed coin, Zhang Yanhang felt like he had nothing to do, and indeed that was the case. After all, all the gains from the treasure box had been fully accounted for, and besides, the soul points had already been fully used to upgrade skills.

Therefore, with nothing to do, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened the data panel for a glance.

[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Fourth Tier)]

[Race: Human]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 20]

[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]

[Level: LV.40 (Legendary Essence [0/4], Ash Source [0/10])]

[Soul points: 37885607]

[Shield Value: 164638/164638 (Life Value Limit × 470%, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]

[Life Value: 35029/35029 (Constitution × 79, current body has officially dataized, Life Value Recovery Speed: 71 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 14245/14245 (Intelligence × 58, current body has formally dataized, Energy Value Recovery Speed: 222 points per hour.)]

[Strength: 100 (+5[-9])]

[Agility: 100 (+5[-6])]

[Constitution: 100 (+5[-18])]

[Intelligence: 100 (+5[-10])]

[Charm: 100 (+27)]

[Luck: ???[+3] (This attribute is a Hidden Attribute)]

[Talent: 1. Multiple Choice (???). 2. Infinite Life (XXX level). 3. Longbo's Power (XX level). 4. Mature Scroll Dragon [Bloodline Purification] (SS level). 5. Ocean Rhythm (SS level).]

[Skill: 1. Limitless Universe Skill [Fourth Tier] LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 2. Alchemy·Original (Active Skill). 3. Gun Mastery·Original LV.6 (Passive Skill). 4. Fighting Master·Original LV.6 (Passive Skill). 5. Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Origin LV.6 (Passive/Active). 6. Technique Immunity·Origin LV.6 (Passive Skill). 7. Death Wave·Origin LV.6 (Passive/Active). 8. Supreme Will LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 9. Indestructible Golden Body·Origin LV.6 (Passive/Active). 10. Heavenly Earth Form · Original Scripture LV.6 (Active Skill). 11. Three-Headed Six-Armed LV.MAX (Active Skill). 12. Heaven and Earth Devourer·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active). 13. No Taboos LV.MAX (Passive Skill).]

"How should I say it, compared to last time, the changes in the attribute list this time are really not that big, after all, the most important gain this time, the dark gold quality artifact [T/G Composite Virus Transformation Medicine] I have not used at all, naturally leading to very little major change."

If it were before, Zhang Yanhang could at least swap a few Life Rings, but this time, not even a Life Ring could be changed, so there was no change at all in the Life Value Limit and Shield Value Limit, only a change in the Energy Value Limit, and even that was just a decrease by twenty-five points in the Energy Value Limit.

This correspondingly led to the fact that although there was no change in the Life Value Limit, there was an even further gap from the Energy Value Limit, of course, because it was only a decrease of twenty-five points in the Energy Value Limit, it belongs to being stretched but only a little bit kind of type, not needing to worry too much.

If we carefully calculate, it's really just a gap upgrade from the previous 2.45 times to 2.46 times, so it's only an extra 0.01 times gap, so the issue isn't big.

Or rather, since the gap is already so large, it's not worth chasing after, causing Zhang Yanhang to be a bit numb about it, so even if the gap increases a bit more, he can still accept it.

"And compared to the Energy Value Limit and such, the soul point balance has changed more because this time, only the Fighting Master·Original LV.6 was upgraded, leaving quite a lot of soul points.

I remember I had less than nineteen million soul points left last time, but this time nearly thirty-eight million soul points are left, reaching twice the soul point balance of last time."

Of course, because Zhang Yanhang will not consume soul points before his rank is promoted, barring any accidents, the soul point balance after clearing the suburbs will probably double again, reaching over eighty million.

Zhang Yanhang is still very concerned about the soul point balance, after all, this is related to whether he can immediately upgrade after being promoted to the Fifth Tier and gain a large number of free attribute points to fill in the main attributes.

"Speaking of the main attributes, this time there have been certain changes in the attribute list, for example, an increase in the Constitution Attribute.

However, more important than any increase in Constitution Attribute, is the improvement in the Luck Attribute.

But, although it's talent boosting, why does the Luck Value bonus provided by [Heavenly Mandate] still appear in the brackets? It let it grow from the previous [+2] to [+3]...

Could it be that the Luck Value bonus in the brackets is not only referring to equipment bonus, but includes all luck boosts?"

Zhang Yanhang felt there might not be other explanations.

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