217: Chapter 217 Professor Zhang receives consecutive rewards from Heaven! Long live Professor Zhang!

Originally...

Zhang Jian hadn't thought about grinding the Hell-grade Dungeon again so soon.

Although he had successfully cleared it just now.

He had also easily activated the Hell-grade at an ultimate speed that amazed Wang Wei and the others.

But Zhang Jian had seen all too often the massive jump in difficulty from nightmare difficulty to Hell-grade.

Previously, when skipping 20 or 30 Ranks, he was still facing Second Job Change BOSSes; even if they were enhanced, there was a limit.

But now.

The base difficulty consisted of monsters from the third job change, and the difficulty after the Hell-grade enhancement might exceed the range he could easily handle.

Without Wang Fei's support and the coordination of other teammates.

He didn't have absolute confidence that he could lead Wang Wei's trio to definitely obtain an Ultimate-grade rating in the Hell-grade difficulty.

And if he couldn't get an Ultimate-grade rating, even a difficult clear would be meaningless to him.

What made him change his mind were the several messages he had just received.

"Your [Fearless Sword Puppet] bound with Wang Fei has successfully cleared the Rank 40 Dungeon [Abandoned Hospital] with a Hell-grade difficulty Ultimate-grade rating."

"You have obtained the Heavenly Dao-grade reward [Strength Apotheosis]."

"You have obtained Heavenly Dao-grade attributes: Critical Hit Rate +1%, Evasion Rate +1%. Current cumulative bonus: Critical Hit Rate +18%, Evasion Rate +18%."

"Your [Guardian Sword Puppet] bound with Wei Donglai has successfully cleared the Rank 40 Dungeon [Riot Prison] with a Hell-grade difficulty Ultimate-grade rating."

"You have obtained the Heavenly Dao-grade reward [Endurance Apotheosis]."

"You have obtained Heavenly Dao-grade attributes: Critical Hit Rate +1%, Evasion Rate +1%. Current cumulative bonus: Critical Hit Rate +19%, Evasion Rate +19%."

"Your [Guardian Sword Puppet] bound with Yan Han has successfully cleared the Rank 40 Dungeon [Mutation Research Institute] with a Hell-grade difficulty Ultimate-grade rating."

"You have obtained the Heavenly Dao-grade reward [Mind Apotheosis]."

"You have obtained Heavenly Dao-grade attributes: Critical Hit Rate +1%, Evasion Rate +1%. Current cumulative bonus: Critical Hit Rate +20%, Evasion Rate +20%."

Previously, these types of messages fell within the same notification scope as the successful refinement of Sword Puppets.

He had refined many in a row, and there were so many notifications that he had blocked this type of alert.

Just now, his heart suddenly stirred, sensing something good was happening, so he turned them back on.

Sure enough.

He saw the outstanding performance of his former teammates.

They had actually cleared the Hell-grade difficulty of three Rank 40 Dungeons in a row within a single day, obtaining the highest rating.

Zhang Jian's expression was somewhat gratified.

His former teammates, who used to hide behind him, were also growing step by step.

From being carried by him to being able to play a supporting role.

To now.

Even without his help, they could achieve the highest rating in Hell-grade Dungeons.

Although.

The Sword Puppets he refined certainly played a role in this.

But after all, it was already no small progress; he shouldn't demand more.

And the feeling of being able to gain something without having to lift a finger himself indeed made Zhang Jian feel very good.

Never mind the 50% experience gained by the Sword Puppets.

Without the bonus from his [Experience Torrent] affix, even if Wang Fei and the others were farming Dungeons in three small teams simultaneously, the experience they brought him wasn't much.

As for the drops.

In the nine Sword Puppets' inventories, a lot of things had accumulated.

Looking through them casually, he actually discovered two epic-grade passive skills.

There was also a mythical level skill.

It could be considered somewhat useful.

What Zhang Jian valued most were the Heavenly Dao rewards obtained by the Sword Puppets, which had transformed into living existences, as they followed Wang Fei and the others.

It allowed his Heavenly Dao-grade attributes to accumulate significantly once more.

Although his base Critical Hit Rate was as high as over 300%.

When facing some mythical level BOSSes, the opponent's Anti-Crit Rate would offset and weaken it a lot.

What's more.

Some powerful mythical level skills, under the effect of priority, could even directly restrict his base attributes or even prevent them from taking effect.

But now.

Even when facing a mythical level BOSS, he had a guaranteed 20% Critical Hit Rate that would definitely trigger.

This was an attribute that could not be offset or neutralized by Anti-Crit Rate!

Combined with his over 8000% Critical Damage, it could burst forth with a terrifying effect.

And the three Heavenly Dao rewards were all coefficient bonuses brought by enhancing base attributes.

Just [Strength Apotheosis] alone increased the attack power on his status panel by a full 50%.

Such an increase, combined with the Heavenly Dao-grade Critical Hit Rate and ultra-high Critical Damage.

Instantly gave Zhang Jian absolute confidence in clearing Rank 80 Hell-grade Dungeons.

So.

Even while carrying three dead weight players, he didn't hesitate for a moment and started immediately!

After entering the Dungeon.

He Donghai subconsciously prepared to rush out to lure monsters for Zhang Jian.

As a result, after just a few steps, he entered a swarm of monsters.

Among them were not only ordinary monsters but also Leaders and even an Elite-grade monster.

He Donghai instinctively activated a Taunt skill.

The result.

-1,200,000!

The moment the elite monster just raised its staff, a damage number popped up above He Donghai's head.

He was startled.

He had already replaced his gear with high-attribute equipment and was carrying a growth-type shield.

Yet he still lost this much health?

Furthermore.

After this one hit of damage, there was also continuous corrosive damage.

It continued to attack him at a rate of 200,000 points per second.

His own health was only around 20 million.

In just this first encounter, he had lost nearly a tenth.

Most importantly.

This was only an elite monster.

If it were a BOSS monster, wouldn't it mean that even he, the main tank of the team, couldn't hold out?

Wang Donghai was both worried and shocked.

This Hell-grade was truly terrifying!

Fortunately, Zhang Jian's attack was strong enough.

The monsters lured by him, He Zhongtang, and another [Guardian Sword Puppet] couldn't stay in place for even one second before being instantly killed by Zhang Jian.

Seeing the damage numbers in the tens of billions floating above the monsters' heads as they were instantly killed, Wang Wei could only smile bitterly.

His own damage in the tens of millions couldn't even compare to the other's spare change.

Too pathetic!

As the Dungeon progressed rapidly, the strength of the monsters the group encountered became higher and higher.

Although under Zhang Jian's attacks and various critical hit effects.

Even a legendary rank BOSS couldn't withstand a second hit.

But the two people luring the monsters were clearly starting to be unable to hold on.

Frequent base damage of millions of points and occasional single-target output in the tens of millions.

Caused their health bars to start showing relatively large fluctuations.

Seeing this, Zhang Jian immediately instructed.

"All of you back off and protect yourselves!"

He Zhongtang and Wang Donghai looked ashamed.

As tank classes, they actually couldn't tank the monsters.

And letting a damage dealer like Zhang Jian stand in front alone.

What a disgrace!

Even if this was a Hell-grade Dungeon with sky-high difficulty, it was absolutely unforgivable!

I am still too weak!

The two of them thought to themselves, and at the same time, a determination to further improve their strength burst forth.

After the others retreated, Zhang Jian, leading the three Sword Puppets, also completely relaxed.

Since discovering in the last nightmare difficulty Dungeon that the Sword Puppet bound to him wasn't very effective, he had put it away.

Right now.

Within the Domain, the Sword Puppets' panel attributes had also increased significantly.

Although they couldn't achieve the previous crushing momentum, they were fully capable of surviving in such a swarm of monsters.

With them luring monsters everywhere, Zhang Jian also felt a lot more relaxed.

He completely erupted within the Dungeon.

With every swing of his sword, countless monsters turned into white light.

Leaving behind drops all over the ground and a massive amount of experience.

In the end.

There was no need for the Sword Puppets to intentionally lure monsters for him.

Countless monsters had already organized themselves to launch charges and sieges against Zhang Jian.

Among them, most monsters couldn't pose any threat to him.

The only ones that could make him pay a little attention were probably the final two mythical level BOSSes.

These two BOSSes, whether in terms of base attributes or skill effects.

Were much stronger than the one in the nightmare difficulty.

Even the accompanying control skills had longer durations and stronger negative effects.

Fortunately, Zhang Jian relied on his powerful Mental Energy and corresponding affix skills to immune almost the vast majority of them.

Occasionally being hit once, the effect was also weakened and didn't have much impact.

Even if the BOSS took the opportunity to launch a series of highly explosive skills at him.

Under Zhang Jian's various affix bonuses, it was also difficult to cause fatal damage. His health bar appeared to be almost always full.

The subsequent battle left the others trembling with fear.

After the BOSS was instantly beaten into a low-health state by Zhang Jian, it activated its second phase, directly burning its body and increasing its attack power.

Moreover, its attack attributes directly evolved; every strike was at the True Damage level.

The damage caused was much higher than before.

But it still couldn't cause fatal damage to Zhang Jian.

Instead, he seized the opportunity when the opponent's defense was lowered and, with a burst of output, directly beat it into a near-death state.

Roar!

The two low-health BOSSes let out a wild roar and instantly performed Body Integration.

The System prompted that because they had suffered heavy blows in a very short period, they had entered a state that briefly surpassed the mythical level.

Although their attributes didn't change much, the attribute level of their attacks directly surpassed True Damage and reached the Rule Damage level.

This meant.

Any defense, block, absorption, or even shields could not resist it.

Zhang Jian even discovered after taking a hit.

That this attack actually carried a perverse effect that prohibited health recovery from taking effect.

Although it was only a temporary effect that only lasted 5 minutes.

It meant that during this time, Zhang Jian's health could not automatically recover.

Wang Wei got anxious.

There was no healer class in the team, so what could be done?

But in the next moment.

Just as the group was hating themselves for being unable to help.

Several strands of Sword Qi were generated spontaneously, surrounding Zhang Jian.

mythical level affix [Sword Intent Block], activate!

With the affix already upgraded to a +8 state.

And with Zhang Jian's current five-dimensional attributes in the tens of thousands.

What it directly brought was a full 600 million points of absolute block value.

By this time, the BOSS had already transformed into a killing machine, its body turning into an afterimage.

It launched its final counterattack against Zhang Jian at an attack frequency of almost 10 times per second.

Unfortunately, in the face of such a block value, the attacks simply couldn't take effect.

In just an instant, the max-level characteristic [Sword Intent Rebound] was triggered.

It could rebound 250% of the BOSS's accumulated attacks all at once.

Given the BOSS's current health, it was almost certain to be instantly killed.

Only Zhang Jian didn't do so.

He had rarely seen a BOSS with such a fast attack speed.

And with the opponent's Rank, the affix attack values it brought were also very high.

Zhang Jian's heart stirred.

This seems like a good opportunity to farm affixes?

He directly abandoned the idea of killing the opponent immediately and instead put on an appearance of giving up resistance, letting the opponent attack.

Until the BOSS had attacked for a full two minutes or so, the affix directly prompted an upgrade.

Zhang Jian silently calculated the time; the time spent in the Dungeon was also about to reach 10 minutes.

He was afraid that delaying any longer would affect the Dungeon's rating.

Only then did he activate [Sword Intent Rebound].

Sword Qi burst forth, carrying terrifying power.

The BOSS's eyes instantly froze, and its body was instantly cut into countless fragments.

Wang Wei and the others shook their heads, all somewhat dazed.

Just now, they were still watching Zhang Jian being suppressed and attacked by the BOSS, feeling extremely worried.

Thinking about what they could do to help Zhang Jian.

As a result.

In the next moment.

The BOSS was suddenly killed by Zhang Jian in one move.

The group was all stunned in place.

We didn't even blink just now; what did we miss?

And with the death of the BOSS.

Continuous System notifications flowed past Wang Wei's trio like a waterfall.

Under the effect of the level-gap bonus and the specific bonus from Zhang Jian's [Experience Torrent] affix.

Each person obtained as much as over 5 trillion points of experience.

The experience on their panels surged wildly once again!

Their mouths were all hanging open.

With this much experience, even if they woke up tomorrow and the Professional Rank cap was directly increased by 99 Ranks.

They would have enough to instantly level up!

Experience for the Sword Puppets to level up in the future, experience for learning skills.

They would never be short of it again!

The three of them shouted in unison.

Long live Professor Zhang!

And after the notification for the successful clear of the Hell-grade Dungeon and obtaining the Ultimate-grade rating appeared.

It made the group tremble with excitement.

Previously, when the System updated and the Professional Rank cap was increased.

They still felt that such things were very far away from them.

Yet they didn't expect.

In just a few days, they would be able to personally participate.

To be one of them.

Although Zhang Jian probably made 99% of the contribution.

But wasn't there still 1% that they contributed?

The group left the Dungeon in high spirits.

But suddenly their bodies felt light, and they stepped directly onto a staircase transformed from countless auspicious clouds.

Each of them was scared out of their wits.

Thinking it was an attack launched by some enemy.

Under Zhang Jian's explanation, they realized that this was a phenomenon of receiving Heavenly Dao rewards.

The group watched all this curiously again.

Waiting for the Heavenly Dao to enhance them one by one.

When the phenomenon ended, the group landed back in place, the surprise in their eyes already uncontrollable.

Zhang Jian stood to the side, waiting silently.

When he first received a Heavenly Dao reward, his emotions were even more intense than theirs.

It was completely understandable.

Although the group was so excited their hearts were about to burst, seeing He Weilong and the others nearby, they were also somewhat wary.

They didn't directly shout out the specific rewards they had obtained.

Instead, they exchanged a few words in low voices and then regained their composure.

More so, it was an understanding through their eyes.

Zhang Jian waited until their emotions stabilized, and then, accompanied by the group, he left directly.

Next stop, the Rank 85 Dungeon!