It must be mentioned that because the Flame God's Crown with orange quality is of the Fifth Tier, which is currently the same tier as his equipment, Zhang Yanhang feels that he might find it difficult in his lifetime to encounter a day where he needs to forcibly eliminate the Flame God's Crown.

After all, according to the rules of Hundred Taboos, to forcibly eliminate an orange quality Fifth Tier equipment like the Flame God's Crown +3, Zhang Yanhang himself must at least be promoted to the Ninth Tier. But, to be honest, whether the Ninth Tier even exists is uncertain, let alone him being promoted. Therefore, he truly believes that the Flame God's Crown may stay with him for life.

Currently, the premise of it being for life is that he has not acquired better headgear equipment. If he does, then naturally the Flame God's Crown will inevitably need to be 'optimized' and relegated to the societal level, because even the True Immortal Master's household doesn't have extra grain to sustain an idle eater forever.

"But anyway, being able to freeload a 35% strength bonus is always something delightful."

After reviewing the attribute list of the Flame God's Crown, Zhang Yanhang immediately equipped it onto his fifth head.

But unlike before, since he also has another piece of equipment that can increase strength next, Zhang Yanhang is not in a hurry to test his strength immediately.

As for which equipment this is, it is naturally a piece he just acquired after clearing the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field; it is the last of the six pieces of head equipment, which comes from the Neck Potential Activation Device (Frenzy Form) of the T-0400TP Death God Tyrant.

After doing a quick inventory check, Zhang Yanhang found that his current stock of Neck Potential Activation Devices is much richer than all previous equipment combined. He has seven Neck Potential Activation Device +4, as well as one Neck Potential Activation Device +2 and one Neck Potential Activation Device +1.

Of course, most importantly, Zhang Yanhang also directly possesses two Neck Potential Activation Devices +5, which have already ascended to orange quality by breaking the limit. So, even if Zhang Yanhang grows another head, there would still be enough to spare.

Thus, on this occasion, there's certainly no need to go through the trouble of fusion again. Zhang Yanhang simply took out a Neck Potential Activation Device +5 from his waist bag. However, before directly equipping it on his neck, Zhang Yanhang first glanced at the attribute list of the Neck Potential Activation Device +5.

[Neck Potential Activation Device (Magnetic Energy Embedded) +5]

[Quality: Orange]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, Terra City, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 78/78]

[Defensive power: 62]

[Additional Attributes: Strength +53%.]

[Usage requirements: Strength 115 points.]

[Score: 580 (Orange item score ranges from 531 to 680.)]

[Introduction: The over-performing manufacturing department didn't disappoint me this time either. They not only manufactured the new Tyrant I designed, but even completed the brain chip with random parameters I threw together. Although the costs slightly exceeded expectations, it was manufactured in the end…]

"Sure enough, it's no different from the other Neck Potential Activation Devices +5, all providing a 53% strength effect bonus, and as orange quality equipment, the bonus is indeed much higher than that from the previous Flame God's Crown.

A Flame God's Crown can provide a 35% strength effect bonus, and combined with the 53% strength effect bonus from the Neck Potential Activation Device +5, that makes a total of 88% strength effect bonus, which should certainly perform well under the effect of excess bonus."

After quickly scanning the attribute list of the Neck Potential Activation Device and finding no errors, Zhang Yanhang equipped the Neck Potential Activation Device +5 on his fifth neck, leaving him with no other wearable equipment. Thus, he soon returned from his current five-headed, eight-armed state to normal.

And upon returning to normal, the first thing Zhang Yanhang naturally wants to do is to test how much his current strength has increased and see what effect the 88% strength effect has under the influence of the excess bonus.

Zhang Yanhang skillfully placed a 270,000-ton steel cube on his right hand as the base load, then added another 10,000 tons on top of that, but still felt he had considerable leeway. So, he added another 10,000-ton steel cube, making the leeway much smaller, yet still existent.

Finally, after careful testing, Zhang Yanhang discovered his strength had increased from 271,175 tons to 296,779 tons, which means an increase of 25,604 tons, quite a substantial growth, almost equivalent to an increase of one-tenth.

For just casually equipping two pieces of equipment to achieve such an effect, Zhang Yanhang is naturally quite satisfied.

"My original strength was merely equivalent to 14.6 times the peak period of the fourth tier, and now my single-handed strength has reached 15.9 times that of the peak period of the fourth tier. In other words, just casually equipping two pieces of equipment already increases my total strength by 1.3 times of the peak period of the fourth tier. Surely, advancing in tier has its merits."

Based on this current trend, Zhang Yanhang reckons he can easily break his previous record of eighteen times the strength growth peak during the most pinnacle period of the fourth tier.

After all, he's already just shy of 2.1 times the last peak, perhaps without needing additional strength effect bonuses—just enhancing his strength attribute and relying on natural growth might easily accomplish this little goal.

However, completing this small goal is merely the basics. Zhang Yanhang's genuine aim is still to return to the peak state of over twenty times the strength growth.

"With my current strength, if I infuse some spiritual energy, it can reach up to 593,558 tons, and as for calculating double-handed strength, that can reach up to 1,483,895 tons, which is nearly 1.5 million tons."

Previously, Zhang Yanhang thought one million tons was a lot, but now seeing it's on its way to two million tons, he can't help but marvel once again at how the excess bonus really enhances the Fifth Tier's strength improvement effect.

"I'm not sure if there's any opportunity to enhance this excess bonus further. If it can be improved, wouldn't that mean my overall strength would get a significant boost?"

However, Zhang Yanhang felt that this excess bonus was probably not something that could be enhanced, or at least not through normal means. After all, even the exact magnitude of this excess bonus was unclear. How could it be enhanced?

"With my current strength, if converted into pounds, I can lift 2.96779 billion pounds of rice (I previously overlooked a decimal point, which caused an error in the data, but it has now been corrected). If used to supply an empire with a population of twenty billion, it could sustain them for about a day and a half.

And if it were to supply Qin Island City with a population of only twenty million, it could directly supply them for 148 days, which is roughly five months."

After testing his strength, Zhang Yanhang started pondering if there were any other issues that he hadn't resolved.

"But it seems like there's nothing else left unresolved?

Oh, wait, I haven't tested the growth of my stamina limit yet. The excess bonus not only affects strength and speed but also has an effect on the stamina limit. I imagine it should allow me to increase my stamina limit considerably."

So, Zhang Yanhang was quite looking forward to this.

When it comes to how Zhang Yanhang should test his current stamina limit, to be honest, it's quite vague and hard to quantify. So, he usually could only roughly estimate it each time. But fortunately, this wasn't something that needed to be too precise.

After repeatedly casting the Death Wave to test stamina consumption, Zhang Yanhang found that his stamina growth might have exceeded his expectations.

He initially thought that since he hadn't raised his constitution attribute to the tier limit of one hundred and twenty-five points, the related stamina increase shouldn't be too much. But according to his estimation, his stamina limit might have already increased to sixteen times that of his former Peak Fourth Tier Period.

"Even when the constitution attribute is raised to the tier limit, it typically only provides a tenfold stamina increase. But now, thanks to the excess bonus, I've already achieved a sixteenfold increase, six times more than before in a normal state. Isn't this too outrageous? Is such a growth magnitude really okay?"

After carefully considering it, Zhang Yanhang thought that this situation was largely due to the excessive stamina limit bonuses he had.

After all, Infinite Life is currently an XXX grade Talent, coupled with the large amount of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures he had consumed and other related stamina bonuses. So, under the effect of the excess bonus, it directly escalated to this absurd growth magnitude.

"A stamina limit that is sixteen times higher. How exaggerated would that increase the total coverage area of my Death Wave?"

It must be noted that although Zhang Yanhang had been promoted in tier and the fixed damage limit of Death Wave had increased considerably, the skill level of Death Wave hadn't been raised, so its stamina consumption remained as before.

Thus, from this perspective, however many multiples his stamina limit increases, the number of times he can release Death Wave can also multiply by that same factor, inevitably leading to a rather outrageous figure.

Surely, this situation might only temporarily hold. After all, he might soon need to enhance the skill level of the Death Wave, and once the stamina consumption rises, it naturally won't sustain its current state.

However, failing to maintain can occur due to two situations: one is due to a decrease, the other due to an increase becoming unmanageable.

Considering that the upgrade of Death Wave would massively increase its coverage range, he felt that unless Death Wave suddenly required three to five times more stamina consumption, he didn't have much to worry about a decrease, and in fact, it might likely only increase instead.

"Because I haven't upgraded the Death Wave Skill, its current range remains at 3,648 meters, and the coverage area is 10.5 square kilometers."

Originally, during the Fourth Tier, Zhang Yanhang could release the Death Wave skill about 7,400 times continuously. But now, with the stamina limit increased to sixteen times the original, he's already capable of continuously releasing the Death Wave skill 118,400 times.

Therefore, even just calculating the total coverage area under normal conditions, it already reaches 1,243,200 square kilometers, and if including about a thirty percent related ratio from Life Drain, it can further cover a total area of 1,616,160 square kilometers.

Originally, Zhang Yanhang could cover an area of around 100,000 square kilometers, so this time, with the stamina limit increased to sixteen times the original, it correspondingly increased the total coverage area to sixteen times as well, without skimping at all.

"So, this time, it directly increased the total coverage area by 1,516,160 square kilometers. Prior to being promoted, I mentioned wanting to surpass Zhejiang, but now it seems Zhejiang's area is already insufficient."

Zhejiang previously ranked twenty-fifth, but Zhang Yanhang's current Death Wave coverage area could already directly cover the empire's second-largest province, and it's only about forty thousand square kilometers short of the largest province.

Therefore, in a sense, Zhang Yanhang could basically clear any province within the empire at will using Death Wave.

"With my current coverage area, even all the provinces ranked below the 16th combined would still be smaller than my current coverage area.

But Guizhou, ranking sixteenth, is a different story. Guizhou spans 176,000 square kilometers, whereas the combined area of the other eighteen provinces is 1,513,000 square kilometers, and including Guizhou would total 1,689,000 square kilometers, which is 70,000 square kilometers more than what I have now."

However, Zhang Yanhang considered this a smaller goal that could be accomplished soon, especially since he plans to seek more Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures later, which mostly includes stamina-enhancing items, so this small target should be achievable soon enough.

"I previously regretted not being able to cover 103,000 square kilometers of South Korea before promoting in tier, but now, after the promotion, I can roughly cover sixteen times South Korea."

Moreover, South Korea aside, the entire Korean Peninsula now pales in comparison to Zhang Yanhang.

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