281: Chapter 281 [Powerful Recovery], More Than Just Recovery!

Nie Zhijun was temporarily safe, and the sense of urgency in Zhang Jian's heart eased considerably.

He began to absorb it for a prolonged period.

Ten hours later.

The Star Power on the panel had skyrocketed to 805 points.

It had even exceeded the star core's upper limit of 725 points.

There were 80 points of Star Power in a fleeting, unstable state, looking as though they were about to dissipate.

Nie Zhijun had already been moved out of his cultivation room by Wang Fei and the others.

He casually cast [Powerful Recovery] on himself.

"Your use this time resulted in an effect of approximately 30%."

"Your Star Power erosion state has been cleared and will no longer cause continuous damage."

"Effect ratio is insufficient; unable to enhance the automatic recovery speed of Star Power."

As the Star Art took effect and the Star Power entered his body, Zhang Jian instantly felt refreshed.

The faint feeling of constraint in his body was swept away.

His mood also improved significantly.

Most importantly,

the last line of the System prompt stirred his heart.

Enhance the recovery speed of Star Power?

When he cast the Star Art on Nie Zhijun earlier, even with a 50% effect, there was no such prompt.

Was it because the other party did not have a star core in his body, making it impossible to trigger?

Whereas he, possessing an external star core, had the chance to trigger this effect?

Zhang Jian was somewhat excited.

If that was the case,

once he cast a high-effect or even perfect-effect Star Art on himself,

wouldn't he be able to automatically recover Star Power?

He suddenly grew excited.

He couldn't help but prepare to cast the Star Art on himself again.

But when he waved his hand, he was completely unable to cast it.

He tried several times, but to no avail.

Zhang Jian was a bit puzzled.

When he cast it on Nie Zhijun earlier, he could do it continuously.

Was it because he could continue casting after a failure, but not after a success?

Or,

was it a limitation of the external star core?

Zhang Jian was somewhat frustrated.

However,

since he couldn't figure it out, he stopped dwelling on it.

Instead, he buried his head and continued to absorb.

In any case, this five-star star core still contained a vast amount of Star Power, more than enough for him to absorb.

While absorbing, he also experimented with using the Star Art.

He discovered that

casting it every two hours was unaffected.

He began to implement it according to this rhythm.

When he successfully cast it once again,

Zhang Jian was filled with anticipation.

But this time, the effect was only 5%, which was practically better than nothing.

Fortunately, these two successful out-of-level castings of the Star Art upgraded the [Practice Makes Perfect] affix.

After reaching the +2 level, the description of the affix also changed.

Current Effect:

Every 10 (-5) failed casts guarantees a success.

Every 20 (-10) successful casts guarantees a perfect effect.

[Current Cumulative Count: 3/10]

(affix Upgrade Condition: Cast Star Art out-of-level 0/4 times)

Seeing the significant improvement in the affix, Zhang Jian was also full of drive.

However, he did not deliberately adjust the interval between using the Star Art.

Because if it was less than an hour, the [Reward of Knowledge] affix would not take effect.

The current rhythm was sufficient.

Two hours later.

[Powerful Recovery] used, failed.

Four hours later.

Used again, failed once more.

It wasn't until the eighth hour that he barely succeeded once.

But the effect was only 35%, still failing to trigger the Star Power recovery effect.

The good news was that through continuous absorption and the accumulation of time, he had once again gathered enough progress for the [Reward of Knowledge] affix.

Upgrading it to the +2 level.

The two main effects also changed accordingly.

Absorption time reduced by 50% (+20%)

Absorption effect increased by 30% (+30%)

Although he didn't receive the bonus from the affix upgrade because the external star core had been fused first,

when Zhang Jian absorbed the star core again, he felt a slight difference.

The speed was faster, and it was more natural and smooth.

Zhang Jian then had the idea of rapidly leveling up this affix.

Anyway, at 1 point of progress every 10 hours, upgrading it again would only take 40 hours.

As a result,

just after the first round of 10 hours, when the affix progress had barely increased by one bar,

Crack!

After a soft sound,

Zhang Jian was forced to stop and stared in astonishment at the shattered star core in his hand.

Gone?

Only then did he realize.

Unbeknownst to him, he had actually completely absorbed all the Star Power within a whole five-star star core!

A full 2000 points of Star Power, with not a single drop left!

Although it was somewhat regrettable, there were also many benefits.

During this period, he had used the Star Art six more times and succeeded once.

Although he still failed to trigger a high-ratio effect, it also increased the progress of the [Practice Makes Perfect] affix once again.

The cumulative count had now reached 5/10.

He only needed 5 more successes to guarantee a perfect effect.

In that case,

Zhang Jian actually became afraid that an average effect would occur in between, affecting his Star Power recovery situation.

In the end, he came up with a solution.

Which was to cast it on his teammates first for these intermediate attempts.

Since they didn't have external star cores anyway, whether a high-ratio or low-ratio effect occurred, it would only provide basic recovery.

He simply had those teammates who were affected by Star Power erosion and currently in poor condition come to his side.

They stood on standby, ready to receive Star Art healing.

However, since his Star Power was running low, he began to synthesize star cores once again.

This time, he didn't have as good luck as before.

He had to synthesize a full 200 times before a five-star star core appeared.

Fortunately, his technique was skilled, so it didn't take much time.

Holding the brand-new five-star star core in his hand, Zhang Jian absorbed it very naturally, without any of the previous stumbling.

Six hours later.

After three consecutive failures,

Wang Fei was the first to enjoy the benefit of a successful cast of [Powerful Recovery].

He even had excellent luck, triggering a 60% effect.

Sweeping away his negative status instantly.

Looking at his relaxed expression, one could tell how miserable it had been to be continuously eroded by Star Power during this period.

Eighteen hours later.

Nie Zhijun was treated by [Powerful Recovery] once again.

It was only a 3% effect, which did almost nothing.

It basically only consolidated his current state to prevent it from worsening.

But Zhang Jian's original intention was only to farm the affix progress, so he wasn't too dejected.

Moreover,

with this successful use, although the progress was not yet full, the affix had upgraded.

The +3 [Practice Makes Perfect] had its effect enhanced once again.

Current Effect:

Every 10 (-7) failed casts guarantees a success.

Every 20 (-15) successful casts guarantees a perfect effect.

[Current Cumulative Count: 6/5]

(affix Upgrade Condition: Cast Star Art out-of-level 0/8 times)

Zhang Jian, who was still preparing to continue farming counts, was a bit dazed.

10 times wasn't even reached yet, and the affix upgraded first?

According to this, would the next cast directly produce a perfect effect?

When he immersed his mind into the affix,

he discovered that there was even more to it!