"Besides the significant enhancement to the Energy value limit, this time the Energy Value Recovery Speed has similarly increased substantially with the Rank promotion."

Originally, Zhang Yanhang's Energy Value Recovery Speed was only 222 points, but now it has increased to 366 points per hour, equivalent to a further increase of 144 points. There's no doubt this is quite significant, having improved by over two-thirds compared to before.

Of course, the majority of this improvement is undoubtedly due to the Rank rewards. Zhang Yanhang remembers receiving a 60-point increase in Energy Value Recovery Speed upon promoting to the Fourth Tier, so now having promoted to the Fifth Tier, it's likely doubled to a 120-point increase in Energy Value Recovery Speed as per previous patterns.

The remaining 24 points in Energy Value Recovery Speed, Zhang Yanhang believes, should all come from the enhancement of the Intelligence Attribute. After his current Intelligence Attribute increased to 122 points, it theoretically should yield an increment of three points in Energy Value Recovery Speed for every five points, calculated out to 12 points in Energy Value Recovery Speed.

But, seeing the doubling in Life Value Recovery Speed provided by the Constitution Attribute, the Energy Value Recovery Speed provided by the Intelligence Attribute should similarly double. Calculating in this way, a doubled 12 points just matches the 24-point increase beyond Rank rewards.

"If the Intelligence Attribute doubles here, doesn't that mean an increase of six points in Energy Value Recovery Speed for every five points of the Intelligence Attribute, i.e., an increase of 1.2 points in Energy Value Recovery Speed for every point of the Intelligence Attribute?"

Certainly, this should follow previous patterns where settlements were made every five points, otherwise Zhang Yanhang wouldn't only experience a 24-point increase in Energy Value Recovery Speed, but fortunately, the issue isn't significant, as long as it continues to improve.

"So, here's the question. Given this substantial increase in my basic Energy Value Recovery Speed, to what extent should the Energy Value Recovery Speed of my Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill increase?"

With this thought, Zhang Yanhang eagerly opened up and began examining the Skill Effect of his Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill.

[Heaven and Earth Devourer·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active)]

[Passive Effect: Artifact (enhancement) usage (consumption) effect +60%.]

[Active Effect: After skill activation, the Heavenly Destiny Master can ingest matter and energy through the mouth entry into the Stomach Space, and through digestion of matter and energy within the Stomach Space, expand body size, recover Energy Value, no cooldown, slight Physical Strength consumption.

The current volume of the Stomach Space is 1200×1200×1200=17,2800,0000 cubic meters.

The current absorption efficiency of the Stomach Space is 2489-1509（+980）[Energy Value Recovery Speed]×6%=149 points (+58 points) Energy Value/second.]

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"After the increase in basic Energy Value Recovery Speed, the Energy Value Recovery Speed on the Stomach Space side also significantly increased.

Initially, my Energy Value Recovery Speed was automatically recovering 1509 points per hour, but now it's directly increased to automatically recover 2489 points of Energy Value per hour, a further increase of 980 points compared to before, similarly enhancing by about two-thirds."

After conversion with a 6% rate, this 2489-point Energy Value Recovery Speed is transformed to an absorption efficiency of 149 points of Energy Value per second, compared to the previous 91 points, this time it's a sharp increase of 58 points in Energy Value absorption efficiency.

But due to Zhang Yanhang's ability to obtain 1.5 times the Energy Value from corpse absorption, his actual absorption efficiency per second becomes 224 points of Energy Value.

"Previously, I found it somewhat challenging to set a small target of 200 points in Energy Value limit per second, but now it seems effortlessly achieved. Indeed, Rank promotion is always the best way to increase power."

Before Zhang Yanhang's promotion, he struggled to achieve even 150 points, much less the 200-point small target, since back then his highest efficiency was only 137 points in Energy Value absorption, nearly falling short by 90 points compared to now.

Nevertheless, due to forcibly achieving this small target thanks to promotion, Zhang Yanhang inevitably finds such a 100-point target increment slightly high, thus considering it optimal to re-optimize the Energy Value absorption efficiency target to 50-point increments for easier achievement.

"Calculating in 50-point increments, my next small target is to raise the Energy Value absorption efficiency of the Stomach Space to 250 points, currently 26 points short of this small target."

Although Zhang Yanhang finds it somewhat difficult to enhance Energy Value absorption efficiency by normal means, since his current Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill remains unupgraded, leveling it up later should make achieving even a 300-point small target quite manageable.

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang recalls that his two Miserla's Cores can also boost Energy Value Recovery Speed, hence enhancing Energy Value absorption efficiency shouldn't be a concern, definitely much simpler than increasing Life Value Recovery Speed.

"With my current rate of recovering 224 points of Energy Value per second, I can now automatically recover 13440 points of Energy Value per minute, and accomplish automatic recovery of 806400 points of Energy Value per hour.

Regarding a whole day, 24 hours can automatically restore 19353600 points of Energy Value, nearly twenty million Energy Value."

However, it's unclear whether the increased Energy Value Recovery Speed from 222 points to 366 points accounts for his automatic hourly recovery speed now narrowing the gap between standard Energy Value Recovery Speed slightly.

Initially, he had precisely achieved 2222 times, whereas now it reduced back to 2203 times, essentially a reduction of 19 times, well, the difference isn't too substantial actually.

Moreover, aside from some reduction here, now because the growth speed of the Energy Value limit still surpasses the growth speed here of Energy Value Recovery Speed, so the time he needs to recover a full bar of Energy Value has again become longer.

Initially, under the influence of the Swallowing Heaven and Earth skill, it only took him 145 seconds to fully recover a bar of Energy Value automatically, but now it has grown to needing 152 seconds, which is almost two and a half minutes to automatically recover a full bar of Energy Value, seven seconds slower than before.

But because he is definitely going to madly enhance the Energy Value limit next, Zhang Yanhang believes that this recovery speed will surely continue to extend.

"Although I still haven't had the chance to check the specific strength of the Fifth Tier Multiple Choice, judging by the previous Fourth Tier's calculation that each point of Energy Value can receive fifty million, with my current nearly twenty million Energy Value, I can obtain 9,676,800,000,000 in cash at once, which is over ninety thousand billion, nearly a hundred thousand billion."

And if converted to dollars, it's actually only about fourteen hundred billion, which is still somewhat short of Old B Deng's two trillion dollars splurge. Of course, this calculation is based on the Fourth Tier's amount. Once Zhang Yanhang tests the actual strength of the Fifth Tier Multiple Choice, it will be easy to surpass this small target."

"It's just, why has the Energy Value absorption efficiency of the Swallowing Heaven and Earth skill greatly improved, yet instead I feel my growth speed has slowed significantly? Is it an illusion?"

After quieting down and carefully sensing for a while, Zhang Yanhang found that his size growth speed really seemed slower than it was before the promotion. After precise measurement, he discovered that the speed needed to grow one centimeter in size had slowed from the previous seventy-three seconds to about ninety seconds.

"So, here's the question: why is this? It doesn't make sense. It can't be that the total Energy Value needed to increase size has risen due to rank promotion?"

Because he's a bit puzzled, Zhang Yanhang decides to directly ask Multiple Choice, since resorting to it when the situation is uncertain has always been his principle of doing things, and it's indeed the most time-saving option, preventing him from blindly guessing and possibly guessing wrong.

After simply asking Multiple Choice a query, Zhang Yanhang discovered that it was indeed due to the promotion that his size growth speed has slowed down.

Specifically, previously, he only needed around ten thousand points of Energy Value to grow one centimeter in size, which was quite economical.

But after promotion to the Fifth Tier, probably because of the enhancement of his overall strength, the consumption to grow size also became larger, or simply doubled, requiring twenty thousand points of Energy Value to grow one centimeter in size.

And this is precisely why Zhang Yanhang's Energy Value absorption efficiency improved significantly, yet the growth speed slowed down.

Of course, apart from the rank promotion causing inherent strength enhancement, Zhang Yanhang thinks that further deepening the Energy Embodiment might be one of the reasons for increased size growth consumption, but that's likely just a secondary reason; the main reason is still the strength enhancement due to rank promotion.

"It's still not possible to have the good fortune where just enhancing Energy Value Recovery Efficiency can infinitely stack size growth speed. Or rather, even though the Swallow Heaven and Earth skill is a Professional skill of the Heavenly Destiny Master, it does require some adherence to the law of energy conservation, unable to achieve consumption enhancement at the same level for both the Fourth and Fifth Tiers."

But Zhang Yanhang can understand this sort of thing, given that such growth-type skills having change in consumption is indeed the most normal thing. Only those near-rule-like bug skills like Technique Immunity can forever provide energy shields with no consumption, higher than his inherent defensive power.

Speaking of the Energy Shield now at a Shield Value Limit of 670,000 points, if there really were consumptions, especially Energy Value consumption, Zhang Yanhang himself absolutely would not be able to supply it, save for the domineering Heavenly Destiny Master profession making it a consumption-free Passive skill for Zhang Yanhang to use until now.

After all, his current Energy Value limit is just slightly over thirty thousand points, unless he can generate over twenty points of Shield Value for every one Energy Value point, otherwise, with a full bar of blue, he might not even match the automatic recovery speed per second.

Given that automatic recovery maintains a constant 20% per second rate, at present, that's a Shield Value recovery speed of nearly fourteen thousand points per second. Trying to supply it with Energy Value is more like a death sentence, sparing him from being drained dry of Spiritual Energy before dying.

"Now that the size growth speed has returned to ninety seconds, I've once again returned to the original state of needing a minute and a half to grow one centimeter in size, being able to only grow forty centimeters per hour, and nine hundred sixty centimeters per day."

Zhang Yanhang remembers that before his rank promotion peak, his growth rate had increased to 1184 centimeters per day, and now having dropped to 960 centimeters is equivalent to reducing growth speed by 224 centimeters, approximately a quarter overall, but fortunately, it remains within an acceptable range."

"Although my growth speed has temporarily decreased now, once the Swallow Heaven and Earth skill level is further enhanced, it can easily help me restore the growth speed back."

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had already planned to increase the growth speed at the Fifth Tier to over twenty meters, but now it seems this expectation might need to be slightly lowered.

However, it's merely a slight reduction, even if the Energy Value consumption for size growth has doubled, he still has a certain confidence to increase the growth speed to over twenty meters."

After all, he can always trigger encounters madly, and will surely be able to collect quite a few Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to increase Energy Value Recovery Speed, and he has indeed hit upon quite a few before.

From previous situations, it's clear that Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures boosting Energy Value Recovery Speed and Life Value Recovery Speed aren't as precious as those increasing Energy Value limit and Life Value limit. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to so casually find many corresponding Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures before.

With Earth being so large, Zhang Yanhang thinks that as long as he keeps changing places, globally plucking wool, any small targets shouldn't be very hard to achieve.

The reason he hadn't done it before was simply because it's a hassle and he felt it unnecessary. But if, indeed, future small targets can't be completed, he can definitely give it a try, though it really is a hassle."

Moreover, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures are not Artifacts, cannot permanently enhance corresponding values, even if he relies on forcibly triggering encounters to madly gather them, and by relying on Hundred Taboos to forcefully use them, low-level Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures still can only provide their original share in enhancement."