The Snow Empress was even more puzzled by his words.
Dai Youheng patiently explained, "The Ice and Fire Body Tempering Pill's hundred-percent increase to all attributes isn't added onto my 'base attributes.' It doubles my 'current total attributes.' In other words, it's an independent enhancement multiplier!"
"An independent multiplier?" The Snow Empress had never studied mathematics and did not quite understand the term.
To explain it properly to the Snow Empress, Youheng offered an example. "Put it this way. Suppose my normal attributes are 1. Although the effects of the Evil Shadow Demon Tiger's first and third soul skills stack, both provide percentage increases based on that base value of 1. The first soul skill increases it by 50%, and the third by 100%. With both activated, my final attributes are 1 + 0.5 + 1 = 2.5, or 2.5 times my normal attributes."
"But the Ice and Fire Body Tempering Pill doesn't increase that to (1 + 0.5 + 1) + 1 = 3.5. Instead, it becomes (1 + 0.5 + 1) × 2 = 5! Five times my normal attributes! Right now, that only looks like an extra 1.5 times my normal attributes, so the difference seems small."
"But..." He shifted tack, his voice growing excited. "Don't forget that the Evil Shadow Demon Tiger mutated from the Evil-Eyed White Tiger. It possesses all the Evil-Eyed White Tiger's enhancement abilities! In the future, I'm very likely to acquire even stronger enhancement skills, similar to the Evil-Eyed White Tiger's fifth soul skill, White Tiger Demon God Transformation, which grants a 150% increase, and its seventh soul skill, Martial Soul Avatar, which grants a 200% increase!"
"When that happens, the calculation will become: [(base 1 + first soul skill 0.5 + third soul skill 1 + fifth soul skill 1.5 +