"Previously, the master-level additional attribute value at LV.6 increased the coverage range by 40%, but this time the grandmaster-level has directly doubled it, increasing the range enhancement to 80%. It really takes the additional attributes to bring a qualitative change."

Zhang Yanhang always likes to upgrade skills to the maximum at once to trigger the additional attributes. Without triggering additional attributes, upgrading alone doesn't actually bring much significant improvement.

"Originally, the coverage range was only 160% of the conversion coefficient, but now it has a 240% conversion coefficient, so the basic coverage range of two kilometers has been enhanced to 4800 meters."

Zhang Yanhang remembered his original coverage range was only 1920 meters, and now it's increased to 4800 meters, which is equivalent to an increase of 2880 meters, a 1.5 times increase in coverage range.

In fact, because of the 90% skill range increase from the golden quality Divination Tarot Card Set, his Death Wave coverage range has now increased to 9120 meters.

In terms of coverage area, Zhang Yanhang's previous Death Wave could only cover an area of 10.5 square kilometers, but now a Death Wave can cover 65.3 square kilometers, an increase of 54.8 square kilometers, more than five times, quite a significant upgrade.

With the current coverage area of Zhang Yanhang's Death Wave, it can cover the Southern City District or the Shibei District of Qin Island City with just one shot.

Of course, with the increase in coverage range and the enhancement of the fixed damage limit, the skill consumption of Death Wave has also grown.

Although the skill consumption still indicates moderate stamina consumption, the increase in stamina consumption is certainly unavoidable.

So, Zhang Yanhang immediately tested Death Wave, and he found that the stamina consumption seems to have only doubled.

"I could previously release the Death Wave skill 156300 times contiguously, effectively treating Death Wave as a normal attack, but now, because the stamina limit hasn't changed but the consumption has doubled, I should be able to release it 78150 times at most."

Even though the release times have halved, Death Wave can still be used as a normal attack, and although the times decreased, the coverage area of Zhang Yanhang's Death Wave skill is completely incomparable to before.

Previously, the total coverage area of Zhang Yanhang's Death Wave skill was 1,641,140 square kilometers, and now it has increased to 5,103,195 square kilometers, an increase of 3,460,000 square kilometers, about three times the original.

"Moreover, if you include the relevant bonuses from Life Drain, the actual coverage area can reach 6,630,000 square kilometers."

As for Life Drain, the additional attribute also increased the life-siphoning ability, but regrettably, it didn't develop into the life value absorption Zhang Yanhang predicted, instead enhancing the stamina absorption capability again.

Fortunately, it's not a big deal. After obtaining the Eternal Demon Body, Zhang Yanhang is no longer in need of vampiric attacks as before. In fact, he hopes Life Drain will continue to deepen in absorbing stamina.

After all, he currently doesn't have good recovery methods for stamina, solely relying on automatic recovery. Having Life Drain help indirectly restore a bit is quite beneficial.

"However, because there aren't any monsters around, I can't test how much Life Drain has improved this time."

Zhang Yanhang plans to test it when clearing other permanent teleportation channels later.

"In terms of total coverage area, my previous small goal was to surpass Saudi Arabia, which has 2,250,000 square kilometers."

But now it's not just Saudi Arabia; I've surpassed Congo's 2,340,000 square kilometers, Algeria's 2,380,000 square kilometers, Kazakhstan's 2,720,000 square kilometers, Argentina's 2,780,000 square kilometers, and India's 2,980,000 square kilometers."

India has a total area of only 2,980,000 square kilometers, so theoretically, Zhang Yanhang's Death Wave can plow through India twice and still have surplus.

Though India, ranked seventh, is not particularly large, Australia's sixth rank is entirely a different magnitude. With 7,690,000 square kilometers, even Zhang Yanhang currently cannot cover it in a single go.

But Zhang Yanhang believes that if he continues to increase his stamina limit in the future, covering the entirety of Australia will certainly be very easy.

After resolving the Death Wave issues, Zhang Yanhang started pondering what to do next, mainly deciding whether to first upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill or the Heavenly Destiny Master profession level.

After some hesitation, Zhang Yanhang finally decided to upgrade the Heavenly Destiny Master profession level first, so he immediately opened the level panel.

[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Fifth Tier)]

[Race: Human]

[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]

[Level: LV.43 (0/15000000)]

[Soul points: 380,935,440]

"When I first got promoted, 15,000,000 Soul points seemed a lot to me, preventing me from upgrading the Heavenly Destiny Master profession level. But now, it's just a matter of grinding a few low-level teleportation channels."

That said, Zhang Yanhang plans to upgrade Heavenly Destiny Master by just one level this time, to LV.44, because he intends to accumulate 36 free attribute points for the Sixth Tier advancement.

Since he's saving for the Sixth Tier, upgrading sooner or later doesn't matter, so he decided to delay the upgrade and use the soul points to upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill.

After briefly reviewing the level panel, Zhang Yanhang immediately clicked to upgrade.

[Do you wish to consume 15,000,000 Soul points to upgrade the profession level to LV.44?]

"Yes, upgrade the profession level to LV.44."

Although Zhang Yanhang's current Soul points balance could enhance the Heavenly Destiny Master to LV.50 at the Tier limit, he thinks upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill would be better for now.

[Profession level successfully upgraded to LV.44, free attribute points +6.]

"I've already used all the free attribute points I saved before, so these six free attribute points will be all I have available at the Fifth Tier."

But Zhang Yanhang isn't in any rush to use these six free attribute points, planning to wait until after upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill, or to allocate them where needed during the next upgrade, instead of preemptively using them without strategy.

[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Fifth Tier)]

[Race: Human]

[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]

[Level: LV.44 (0/20000000)]

[Soul points: 365,935,440 (-15,000,000)]

"I originally had a total of 380,930,000 soul points, but raising the profession level to LV.44 consumed fifteen million soul points, causing my current soul point balance to drop to 365,930,000 soul points, but fortunately, it should still be enough."

Of course, when Zhang Yanhang says enough, he doesn't mean directly upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill to LV.MAX, which is definitely unrealistic, since the upgrade consumption for the Limitless Universe Skill is even higher than that for general professional skills.

According to Zhang Yanhang's estimation, if a professional skill only needs 400 million soul points to fully upgrade, then he estimates that the Limitless Universe Skill might require 600 million soul points to fully upgrade.

Therefore, this time he plans to upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill to a relatively high level and then fill in the remaining levels after gathering enough soul points later on.

"Choose! Skill level up!"

After upgrading the profession level, Zhang Yanhang naturally began activating the related options immediately. With the arrival of Time Pause, a large batch of text option boxes he had just seen several times appeared before him once again.

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November 2, Monday, the day after Halloween, also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, 7:39 PM, Niger, Alan City Ruins, Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channel.

Due to the high upgrade requirements for the Limitless Universe Skill, Zhang Yanhang finally only upgraded it to Fifth Tier LV.8 and had to temporarily stop due to a shortage of soul points.

Because the gap in soul points was not that large, Zhang Yanhang was considering whether to temporarily clear a batch of Permanent Teleportation Channels to gather the incomplete soul points and upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill to Fifth Tier LV.9.

[Soul points: 75,735,440 (-290,200,000)]

When Zhang Yanhang upgraded the Limitless Universe Skill to LV.3 earlier, it consumed 21.7 million soul points, upgrading to LV.4 consumed 29.7 million soul points, LV.5 consumed 39.7 million soul points, LV.6 consumed 51.7 million soul points, LV.7 consumed 65.7 million soul points, and LV.8 consumed 81.7 million soul points.

Therefore, after upgrading to LV.8, Zhang Yanhang had consumed a total of 290.2 million soul points, causing his soul point balance to suddenly drop from the original 365,930,000 to 75,730,000 soul points.

And Zhang Yanhang had just glanced at the subsequent LV.9 upgrade requirements, which need 99.7 million soul points to upgrade—he is currently about 24 million short, which is not too much, but not too little either.

So, Zhang Yanhang was very conflicted about whether to temporarily clear some Low-level Teleportation Channels or something if he could come across a Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channel, maybe he could gather them all at once.

But after thinking it over, Zhang Yanhang decided not to, because Third Tier Teleportation Channels are not that easy to find, there's no urgent need to upgrade, he'll just let it happen naturally later on.

After giving up upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill to Fifth Tier LV.9, Zhang Yanhang naturally began checking the current skill effects of the Limitless Universe Skill.

[Limitless Universe Skill [Fifth Tier] LV.8 (Passive/Active)]

[Passive Effect: Strength +3, Agility +3, Constitution +3, Intelligence +3, Charm +3.]

[Active Effect: Actively operate the cultivation technique to use spiritual energy to enhance one's defensive power, attack power, and movement speed. No cooldown time, a certain amount of energy value is consumed based on the specific enhancement effect.

[Additional Attributes: First Tier—Strength +6, Agility +6, Constitution +6, Intelligence +10, Charm +2.]

[Additional Attributes: Second Tier—Strength +6, Agility +6, Constitution +6, Intelligence +10, Charm +2.]

[Additional Attributes: Third Tier—Strength +6, Agility +6, Constitution +6, Intelligence +10, Charm +2.]

[Additional Attributes: Fourth Tier—Strength +6, Agility +6, Constitution +6, Intelligence +10, Charm +2.]

[Additional Attributes: Fifth Tier—Strength +5 (+4), Agility +5 (+3), Constitution +5 (+4), Intelligence +8 (+6), Charm +1 (+1).]

"After directly upgrading from Fifth Tier LV.2 to Fifth Tier LV.8, the Limitless Universe Skill indeed once again significantly enhanced the attribute bonus. Strength and Constitution were increased by four points, Agility was increased by three points, but all made the total bonus reach five points.

In addition, Intelligence was increased by six points, rising from the original two-point bonus to an eight-point bonus, this time my intelligence attribute might directly reach the tier limit."

Moreover, this time, the Charm attribute, which Zhang Yanhang currently lacked, also got a one-point bonus.

"Adding it all up, that's a total increase of eighteen attribute points, not bad."

Of course, if Zhang Yanhang was willing to gather an extra 24 million soul points before, it would definitely have been even better, but unfortunately, he finds it troublesome, and Third Tier Permanent Teleportation Channels really are not that easy to find.

After checking the skill effects of the Limitless Universe Skill at Fifth Tier LV.8, Zhang Yanhang immediately started looking at his attribute list to see to what extent his current attribute values could reach.

[Strength: 125 (+3 [-2])]

[Agility: 125 (+3 [-1])]

[Constitution: 125 (+3 [-2])]

[Intelligence: 125 (+3 [-3])]

[Charm: 120 (+17)]

"Originally, my Strength attribute and Constitution attribute even with equipment bonus were only 123 points, but now they've already increased to 127 points, gaining four points, only, because the tier limit is 125 points, they unsurprisingly overflowed by two attribute points.

And in an unequipped state, they've already reached 124 points and are only one point away from the Fifth Tier limit of 125 points."

Zhang Yanhang estimates that as long as he continues to upgrade the skill level of the Limitless Universe Skill, by the time he upgrades it to Fifth Tier LV.MAX, his Strength attribute and Constitution attribute can automatically rise to the Fifth Tier's tier limit.

And the Agility attribute, receiving just a three-point increase this time, even counting the equipment bonus, only increased from the original 123 points to 126 points, eventually overflowing by one attribute point due to the tier limit.