73: The night before the college entrance examination

"There's one last reward: the revival wind usage coupon."

Inside the Lava Mine Dungeon,

Su Yan was in a great mood as he checked the final reward.

[revival wind usage coupon] (Special Item):

Can be used on a 1,000 x 1,000 square meter area to instantly heal the injuries of all targets within range and remove all negative effects.

"Hiss, this seems pretty powerful."

Su Yan sucked in a breath of cold air.

The healing effect of this usage voucher was simply Heaven-Defying!

Furthermore, the range was a massive one million square meters, enough to cover an entire legion.

How many priests would this be worth?

He carefully put away this special item.

The dungeon clearance ranking rewards had never disappointed him.

This time was no different.

Su Yan let out a soft breath, his mood gradually calming down.

A moment later.

Su Yan exited the dungeon.

Now, the sword seals he had left in the Rank 50 Wolf King Valley Dungeon could no longer gain him experience.

His experience bar currently showed:

24,577,782,432 / 99,999,999,999

It seemed he would have to wait for this year's senior high school students' Ranks to increase before he could leach off them again.

For the rest, he would have to rely on his own grinding.

Thinking of this,

Su Yan smiled slightly and re-entered the dungeon.

He pulled the long-unseen crimson dawn staff from his bag.

Without further ado, he began a frenzy of grinding for experience and stacking health... in this Lava Mine dungeon.

The common mobs were Goblin Miners.

The elite mobs were Orc Overseers.

There were two bosses: the Goblin King,

and the Orc Prince.

They posed no difficulty for Su Yan.

Even with the crimson dawn staff equipped, his damage was still extremely high.

Quickly,

in just six minutes,

Su Yan had already defeated the final boss, the Orc Prince, and cleared the dungeon.

"So, how did the three Human Sovereigns—Ye Zhibai, Mo Wen, and Dugu—take 9 minutes? Were they all slacking off?"

After finishing this run,

he had gained a total of 6.4 million experience and 52 Goblin Horns.

His health had stacked by 1,500 points.

This result

was very good.

But Su Yan suddenly frowned.

He looked at the affix displayed on the crimson dawn staff.

Slapping his forehead, he said, "Right, why don't I change the health on the affix to Physique too?"

The blood dawn affix was: Every time this weapon hits an enemy, it can permanently stack 10 points to the maximum health limit.

But if he changed it to Physique,

the same 10 points of Physique would not only increase health by 150 points,

but also increase Defense by 10 points!

"I'm a freaking Genius!"

Su Yan couldn't help but feel lucky he had discovered such an important point in time,

otherwise he would have lost out big time.

So, he used his Talent, [Elemental Conversion], again.

He converted the maximum health limit on the blood dawn affix into a maximum Physique limit.

With this,

Su Yan did some quick math.

He could clear the dungeon once every six minutes,

gaining 6.4 million experience and 1,500 points of Physique.

That meant he could clear it ten times per hour,

and calculating based on 14 hours online per day, he could clear it 140 times.

Taking a middle ground to prevent sudden death or dying young,

he'd count it as 135 times a day.

There were 55 days left until the National College Entrance Examination.

Theoretically, he could clear it 7,425 times.

In that case,

he could obtain 47.52 billion experience and 11.1375 million Physique.

Physique multiplied by 15 is Health.

That would be nearly 170 million HP!

"Nice, the requirements are perfectly met!"

After finishing the calculations, Su Yan was suddenly full of drive.

This way, he would only be 20-plus billion experience away from Achieving Godhood.

Moreover, his health would cross the 100 million mark.

As such, the Sanction bonus damage would reach an unprecedented 5 trillion!!

"Say no more, I'm going to grind the dungeon!"

...And so,

from that day on,

Su Yan immersed himself in grinding the Lava Mine dungeon every day, unable to pull himself away.

Watching his experience increase bit by bit,

and his health and defense rise little by little,

Su Yan got more and more energized, and his daily grinding time even far exceeded 14 hours.

But because of Tenfold Absorption,

his Physique was far more powerful than those of equal strength.

Even with such high-intensity grinding, he didn't feel much physical burden.

After grinding like this for over a week,

the Old Principal suddenly found him after school one day.

"Su Yan, what Rank is your Divine Punishment now?"

Su Yan had long guessed the old man would ask this.

He had already prepared an answer and replied,

"Leveling up has been very smooth lately; I'm already Rank 35."

The Old Principal nodded with a smile. "Not bad, keep up this strong momentum!"

Saying that, he pulled him into the principal's office.

He personally brewed a cup of tea for him and said with a chuckle,

"Su Yan, I have good news for you!"

"Just today, a Top Scholar Fund was allocated to our school. I plan to invest all of this money into you."

"During this period, you'll have to endure some hardships. You must bring honor to Jiangnan No. 2 High School and Jiangnan City. You must secure the title of provincial top scholar!"

However, as soon as the principal finished speaking,

the Eye of the Gods gave a prompt:

[Don't believe his 'Top Scholar Fund' nonsense. In truth, this old man egged the school leaders into selling their houses and took out a massive loan from the bank!]

Holy crap, that's intense?

Su Yan looked at the smiling Old Principal, a look of respect flowing in his eyes.

He thought to himself that it was a good thing the old man had met him, otherwise he would have lost everything.

"Don't worry, Principal, I won't let you down!"

In the end, Su Yan put down his teacup and gave such a solemn guarantee.

"Good, very good!"

The principal's mood instantly brightened, and he began to fantasize about the grand scene on the day of the exam... Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, it was June 6th.

In other words, the National College Entrance Examination was tomorrow.

After finishing dinner,

Su Yan sat on the sofa resting, speechless and choked with emotion.

It was likely no one would believe it.

His uncle and aunt had never returned since the day they went to work.

At first, Su Yan suspected if some accident had occurred.

He asked the female bodyguard, Lin Qian, to investigate.

But according to the reply from the City Demon Extermination Institute,

public security in Jiangnan City had been good lately, and no accidents had happened.

Regarding this, Su Yan didn't delve any deeper.

Because this scene was all too familiar to him.

The parents of this body

had also suddenly disappeared like this years ago and never appeared again.

"Sigh, the exam is tomorrow. Are they really not going to come back and see me?"

On the sofa,

Su Yan waited a bit longer, then muttered with a dejected expression.

He looked a bit lonely.

But quickly,

he pulled himself together and stood up to stretch his limbs.

Crack-crack—

His strong body immediately let out a pleasant sound of popping joints.

"Slurp~"

In the air, the faint sound of someone swallowing saliva could be heard.

Although the sound was very subtle, it was still keenly detected by Su Yan.

He smiled slightly and said toward that empty air,

"Sister Qian, thank you for your protection these past days."

"I'm not really used to saying goodbye, so once we reach the exam venue tomorrow morning, you can leave at any time."

"Of course, I, Su Yan, always repay my debts. If you need anything in the future, you can contact me directly."

After saying these words,

Su Yan turned and headed to his bedroom.

Before tomorrow's exam arrived, he still needed to prepare some 'munitions' in Divine Punishment.