"Although it has been promoted to Dark Gold Quality, the transformation in usage requirements isn't that big, it has merely increased by ten attribute points; from the original 50 points in Strength, 45 points in Agility, and 45 points in Constitution Attribute to now 60 points in Strength, 55 points in Agility, and 55 points in Constitution Attribute, which I, who have already been promoted to Third Tier, can easily meet."

Zhang Yanhang always felt that the usage requirements for the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist were quite user-friendly, after all, Dark Gold is nominally classified within the Fourth Tier range, but even the highest Strength requirement is only sixty points, which is relatively low even among the Third Tier.

He supposed that this was because the initial Quality of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist was low, which is why it is in such a state now.

"After the promotion to Dark Gold Quality, the attack power of Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist increased from 185 points to 232 points, an additional growth of 47 points of attack power, which is roughly an increase of 25% in attack power, not bad.

Dark Gold really is powerful, I remember the last time I promoted to Golden Quality it only increased by 33 points of attack power, which is 14 points less than this time, the difference is quite big."

Although Zhang Yanhang never really understood the precise calculation method for attack power, there was no doubt that this, like attribute points, most likely provided bonuses according to some ratio rather than each point of attack power providing a fixed value.

Therefore, the increase of 47 points in attack power after this promotion is quite significant, serving as the most basic bonus that would benefit from all other bonuses, definitely further augmenting the damage he could cause significantly.

However, because there wasn't a test target, it was impossible to know exactly how much it had increased, but it was definitely a lot.

"The Critical Strike Rate bonus this time has increased quite a bit, from the original 12% to 18%, once again an increase of 6% in Critical Strike Rate bonus, but this mainly is because now the Critical Strike Rate offered by the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist is much less than that of the Light Golden Quality full-score Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask.

Even so, the Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask after all only provided a 24% Critical Strike Rate bonus, it mainly helped me stack my critical strike rate to over one hundred percent through the accumulation of quantity.

As for the sole critical strike rate bonus, what Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist provides isn't considered little, after all, it's just one unimportant bonus out of the Additional Attributes the Skill offers, and the bonuses provided by the Skill are the most important.

Now that the Critical Strike Rate bonus provided by the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist has increased by another 6%, my Critical Strike Rate will go from the original 120.5% to 126.5%."

Even though Zhang Yanhang's Critical Strike Rate has now increased to 126.5%, he still wasn't satisfied, he still felt he needed to continue increasing the Fusion Times of Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask, to fuse into a Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Mask +7.

Apart from the most practical reason of being able to use one more Rank after promoting to Golden, the Fourth Tier Quality, the main reason was that Zhang Yanhang realized that the extra Critical Strike Rate bonus wasn't useless but seemed to be proportionally transformed into a Critical Strike Damage Bonus.

Although under normal circumstances, the Critical Strike Damage Bonus provided by equipment is far higher than the Critical Strike Rate Bonus, so it might seem a bit lossy, it is much better than being completely useless.

In short, the 26.5% of Zhang Yanhang's Critical Strike Rate over 100% would roughly be proportionally converted into a 26.5% Critical Strike Damage Bonus, allowing him to indirectly augment his Attack Power, so raising the Critical Strike Rate is indeed very valuable and worth continuing to improve.

The main reason it's called an indirect lift is that if the enemy has Critical Resistance, the extra Critical Strike Rate would prioritize ensuring a critical hit since Critical Strike Damage Bonus is only enjoyed if a critical hit is successfully triggered—if the critical hit isn't triggered, then it all amounts to nothing.

"The increase in Attack Power Bonus offered by the Four Great Emptiness after this upgrade to Dark Gold Quality is really outstanding, jumping up by a full 100%, from the original 788% to a substantial 888%, nearly an additional 11% in Attack Power Bonus, I recall the previous times it seemed to have also increased by about 11% in Attack Power Bonus.

Even though it was a regular increase, this 888% bonus is really lucky, almost equating to nine times bonus. Coupled with my own single-fold attack power, that means I can deal a hit with ten times the attack power..."

When it came to Four Great Emptiness, Zhang Yanhang's opinion was only one, that it always remained his strongest and most potent means of attack, and this time it certainly did not disappoint.

"Although the Energy Value consumption of Four Great Emptiness has again increased by 15 points, from the original 75 points to 90 points, compared to my current high Energy Value Limit of 5760 points, it's still negligible.

If it weren't for the thirty-second cooldown period, I could throw sixty-four fists in a row, delivering an Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palm, ensuring that I would blast both the monster and the surrounding environment to smithereens.

Moreover, in addition to an improved Attack Power Bonus, the stun duration accompanying Four Great Emptiness has also considerably increased, from the original 3.6 seconds to 4 seconds, once again lengthening the stun time by 0.4 seconds."

Although so far no monster has been able to survive a blow from Zhang Yanhang's Four Great Emptiness and thus he never used the stun duration, when it is eventually needed, he believes those four extra seconds could undoubtedly help him create countless advantages.

After all, in four seconds, if he is serious, he could throw hundreds of punches; even if the initial punch didn't completely kill the enemy, augmenting with a few hundred more could assuredly turn the enemy into a smear on the spot.

Besides, if truly overpowered, it could be used as a Control Skill, first casting Four Great Emptiness followed by a Strong Space Anchor to lock the enemy's actions and then taking the opportunity to Escape.

Therefore, for such life-saving stun time, his attitude has always been that more is better.

"In addition to Four Great Emptiness, All Things are Impermanent also increased its damage bonus to lifeform enemies from the initial 23.7% to 31.1%, again raising the damage bonus by 7.4%.

Moreover, due to the presence of doubling the damage bonus against targets with Attack Armor, Clothing, and Beimao as per the All Things Special Attack, the actual 31.1% damage bonus can entirely be regarded as a 62.2% bonus, which is, in fact, equivalent to a direct increase of 14.8% in damage bonus."

Compared to Zhang Yanhang's other current attack power bonuses, which are gradually experiencing inflation due to high multipliers, All Things are Impermanent provides a 'damage bonus against lifeform enemies,' a special bonus with a high settlement priority, similar to Critical Strike Damage Bonus, and calculated on top of other attack power bonuses.

Even though the current increase hasn't reached 100%, this boost of 14.8% in damage enhancement was essentially like lifting his overall damage by the same percentage. If it were placed in any other category like Attack Power enhancement, I estimate it would take a rise of several tens of percent to achieve the same effect.

This is exactly why Zhang Yanhang has always put considerable emphasis on the "All Things Special Attack" of "All Things are Impermanent".

"After promoting the 'Pure World Fist' to Dark Gold Quality this time, the number of weapons needed for further promotion has indeed increased by one. It shifted from the original requirement of four Golden quality weapons to five Dark Gold quality weapons.

Alas, even this sole Dark Gold quality weapon was upgraded through Refined Crimson Marrow, where can I find another five Dark Gold quality weapons?"

Due to the increasing demands for upgrade materials, Zhang Yanhang felt that he should perhaps focus more attention on Buddha Relics. Although the requirements for weapon upgrades keep increasing, the need for Buddha Relics has always been just one. From this, it can be seen that Buddha Relics are indeed the best choice for upgrading.

"Places like the Land of the Buddha Country, if there's a chance, I really should make a visit. Otherwise, how long will it take me to gather five Dark Gold quality weapons?"

Besides the upgrade requirements, Zhang Yanhang also took note of the score for the 'Pure World Fist'. As expected, it was unsurprisingly a full score for Dark Gold quality, jumping up by 90 points from the previous 440 point score for Golden quality in an instant.

Zhang Yanhang was now completely accustomed to the outrageous rate of score increase for the 'Pure World Fist' as the skill's strength had always been very high, so a high score was only natural.

After checking the attribute list of the 'Pure World Fist', Zhang Yanhang quickly re-equipped the now Dark Gold upgraded 'Pure World Fist' on his hand.

"Since 'Pure World Fist' has been upgraded, up next is to open treasure boxes; I really didn't expect it would take almost an hour just to deal with the 'Pure World Fist'."

Had it not been for the inability to take Refined Crimson Iron out of the Ashen World, Zhang Yanhang would have certainly waited until his return to the Main World to deal with these time-consuming tasks.

As for the idea of slowly fusing the two hundred tons of Refined Crimson Iron by embedding it into other equipment and taking it out of Ashen World, setting aside whether he had enough equipment for embedding, the time required for embedding alone was probably going to take longer than ordinary fusion.

Rather than that, direct fusion like the current method was preferable; thus, after weighing the pros and cons, he chose this approach.

Before opening treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang first opened his Soul point balance to have a look.

[Soul points: 6087004 (+3418750)]

"I remember the last time, along with the treasure box earnings, it was only about 3.4 million Soul points. This time, the kill earnings alone are 3418750 Soul points, bringing my Soul point balance from the original 2668254 Soul points up to 6087004."

Zhang Yanhang was very satisfied with this Soul point yield; indeed, it was no easy feat to clear 150 square kilometers of Large Crimson Iron Ants.

According to his own incomplete statistics, the area cleared this time eradicated at least around 20,000 Large Crimson Iron Ants. Among them, the Crimson Iron Destruction Ants were the most numerous, roughly around 14,000, while the Crimson Iron Flame Ants ranked second, with about six to seven thousand eliminated by Zhang Yanhang.

Last came the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ants. As they were a rare Third-Tier Large Crimson Iron Ant, their numbers were sparse; Zhang Yanhang only managed to kill about five hundred or so. Unfortunately, he would have liked to kill more, but there weren't that many Flame Demon Ants available.

Compared to the previously cleared Outer Zone, the most significant difference Zhang Yanhang felt while clearing the Central Region was that the monster density had considerably increased. In the Outer Zone, due to the presence of only the Crimson Iron Destruction Ants, the density was roughly just over a hundred per square kilometer.

However, after entering the Central Region, there was a significant increase in monster density; in the most concentrated areas, there could be up to 150 monsters per square kilometer, and even in the less dense areas, there were at least 120. It completely blew the Outer Zone out of the water, and naturally, the Soul point gains reflected this surge.

Of course, this was only a secondary reason; the main reason was that he cleared a 150 square kilometer area at once. With a greater area and increased monster density, it would be entirely unreasonable if the Soul point yield wasn't high.

After checking his Soul point balance, Zhang Yanhang quickly emptied the treasure boxes from his Waist Bag, piling them into a small hill several meters high on the ground. The loot from killing 20,000 Large Crimson Iron Ants resulted in an unprecedented high number of Drop treasure boxes.

After all, 20,000 monsters amounted to the total of monsters he had previously cleared in the Second Tier Demonized Swamp and Goblin Plain, and if comparing to the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, it was equivalent to twice the entire population there.

As for the First Tier clean-up of Raccoon City, it was equivalent to three times the entire number of monsters. Therefore, it would be difficult not to have a substantial number of Drop treasure boxes.

After counting, Zhang Yanhang surprisingly found he had harvested a staggering 1148 Drop treasure boxes, doubling his previous record and breaking into four digits for the first time.

Among these 1148 Drop treasure boxes, naturally, those contributed by the Crimson Iron Destruction Ants were the most numerous, accounting for 716. Just the Crimson Iron Destruction Ants alone would have been enough to set a new record.

The second highest contributor, the Crimson Iron Flame Ants, also donated a three-digit number of treasure boxes, totaling 356 Purple Quality Drop treasure boxes.

Last came the contribution from the Third Tier One-star Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ants: 76 Dark Purple Quality Treasure boxes. Yes, even though only a little more than 500 were killed, 76 treasure boxes were harvested. With a Drop rate this high without Rank Penalty, an average of seven kills would yield one Drop treasure box.

Although the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ants didn't reach a three-digit number of Drop treasure boxes, their Dark Purple Quality Treasure Chests were without a doubt the most valuable of them all.

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