224: Chapter 224 Not enough materials? I'll just farm them! Zhang Jian has been promoted again?

There was a reason for Xuan Jizi's dissatisfaction.

Before, he could afford to wait that long.

But judging by Zhang Jian's recent ambush, the alien races' prying into the Water Blue Planet was happening much faster than expected.

They might just charge over with a massive army any day now.

As one of the strongest in China, he had to improve his and his companions' strength as quickly as possible so they would be able to face the danger when it arrived.

He couldn't afford to wait 20 days right now!

After thinking for a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "If all else fails, I'll have General Protector Zhang Haotian find a way to select people from all the academies and major powers in China to assemble dozens of teams for me!"

The Zhang Haotian he mentioned was none other than the General Protector of China, who held the authority to govern all Professionals and command all Professional academies in China.

Given his prestige, it was quite possible for him to make such a request.

Just as he was preparing to make contact via his personal terminal, Zhang Jian shook his head. "No need for that trouble, I'll handle it."

"How will you do it?" Xuan Jizi stopped what he was doing. He didn't doubt Zhang Jian's strength in the slightest.

With his planet-level strength alone, his advantage in normal Dungeons was already very obvious.

If paired with suitable teammates, he believed that even for a Level 80 Dungeon, Zhang Jian could easily clear it on nightmare difficulty and obtain an SSS-level rating.

However, no matter how strong Zhang Jian was, the number of times one could farm a Dungeon per day was limited.

Did he not understand Director Yun Wenhong's meaning?

Xuan Jizi wanted to explain further, but Zhang Jian smiled mysteriously. "Come with me and you'll see."

Upon hearing this, the others were all very curious.

Perhaps only Wang Fei had a vague guess, thinking that Zhang Jian intended to solo the Dungeon, which might provide a certain drop bonus.

The rest couldn't imagine what method Zhang Jian had.

The group crowded around Zhang Jian and first arrived at the Level 50 Dungeon, [Mechanical Market]. Zhang Jian directly chose nightmare difficulty and entered.

In less than 3 minutes, he cleared it and came out. He shook his head. "This one won't work, let's try the next one."

Xuan Jizi was a bit dazed. Why wouldn't it work? On the speedrunning leaderboard, Zhang Jian was peerless with a time of 2 minutes and 45 seconds. He was even a full 6 minutes faster than the second-place team.

If this efficiency wasn't good enough, what would be?

In the second Level 55 Dungeon, it took Zhang Jian 3 minutes and 55 seconds to clear it. After coming out, he looked satisfied. "This one will do!"

Before Xuan Jizi could figure out what "will do" meant, Zhang Jian turned his head and entered the Dungeon again.

The group felt as if only an instant had passed before Zhang Jian appeared again. He nodded at them and continued entering. After clearing this Dungeon 4 times in a row, Zhang Jian finally stopped.

"Who has a Dungeon reset scroll? Lend me one." Director Yun Wenhong suddenly realized. So this was the method?

But even using reset scrolls had its limits.

As far as he knew, for Dungeons under Level 40, one could use five Dungeon reset scrolls. For those under Level 70, one could only use them three times at most.

And for Dungeons above Level 70 that third job change Professionals faced, not only did they need to use mythical level reset scrolls, but they were generally limited to only one use.

To break through this limit, one would need a scroll of a higher quality. It was equivalent to using a mythical level scroll to farm a Dungeon that likely yielded epic-grade items. It could be said that the loss outweighed the gain.

Unless it was to break through the Hell difficulty, it generally wouldn't be used for standard Dungeons. However, looking at Zhang Jian now, he should still be able to use the normal number of scrolls, which was fine.

Director Yun Wenhong immediately sent someone to fetch 10 epic-grade Dungeon reset scrolls. Zhang Jian nodded and entered again. The others waited patiently.

Once. Twice. Zhang Jian's figure constantly entered and appeared. But when he entered for the 3rd consecutive time, totaling 7 times, Director Yun Wenhong's expression became abnormal. Something was wrong!

This number of times had already exceeded the normal limit of the Dungeon scrolls. The scrolls he had just given Zhang Jian did not include any mythical level ones.

Director Yun Wenhong's mind was a bit dazed, and he couldn't help but ask the others. "Did I misremember the count? How many times has Professor Zhang farmed this Dungeon?"

Xuan Jizi thought for a moment. "It should be 7 times already." Wang Fei nodded. "That's right, it's 7 times."

As they were speaking, Zhang Jian came out once more and immediately entered again. Director Yun Wenhong's eyes widened immediately. "8 times!"

The others were also surprised. Zhang Jian could actually break the Dungeon limit? And what shocked them was yet to come. Zhang Jian's movements were getting faster and faster.

Director Yun Wenhong, who was counting, found his voice beginning to tremble. "9 times!" "10 times!" "11 times!"

The group had hardly moved, standing there collectively, watching Zhang Jian perform all by himself.

Many passing instructors and professors wanted to squeeze in to see what was happening, but Zhou Quan took charge and politely turned them away.

When they left, their minds were also dazed. The acting dean was responsible for maintaining order; how big of a deal was happening in there?

The group stayed there for over an hour. Until Zhang Jian came out for the last time and greeted them, "I can't farm here anymore, let's go to the next one!"

Everyone's gaze turned to Director Yun Wenhong simultaneously. He hurriedly reported the number. "20 consecutive times, 24 times in total!"

At this, even Xuan Jizi's eyes gleamed. This was simply against common sense! Was it Zhang Jian's own uniqueness, or had he discovered some loophole in the Dungeon?

This was also a question the others wanted to know. They just felt embarrassed to ask. Zhang Jian, however, provided the answer.

But this answer made their gazes toward Zhang Jian even more shocked.

Soloing above one's level, and after a limit-break clear, obtaining a Heavenly Dao-level rating?

Drawing a privilege named [Heavenly Dao Sequence] that could additionally increase Dungeon challenge attempts? Then using Dungeon reset scrolls not only reset the base attempts but also reset the [Heavenly Dao Sequence] privilege.

The method didn't sound difficult. But everyone shook their heads. Soloing a Dungeon was inherently very difficult. Even among Prodigies, not many could solo the same-level nightmare difficulty.

And to challenge nightmare difficulty above one's level was even harder. As for doing what Zhang Jian did—not only clearing it but also obtaining a Heavenly Dao-level rating above SSS+++—that was unimaginable.

Moreover, one had to happen to draw [Heavenly Dao Sequence] among all the Heavenly Dao privileges. It required not just strength, but also luck.

Xiao Yun joked, "We haven't even managed to get an SSS+++ rating; at most, we got one with a '+' sign, and we thought that was the limit."

He Zhongtang and Wang Donghai blushed even more. They hadn't even seen a '+' sign!

After learning about Zhang Jian's method of farming Dungeons, everyone had a sudden realization. No wonder. When Zhang Jian finished clearing that Level 50 Dungeon, he said it wouldn't work. It turned out that he hadn't drawn [Heavenly Dao Sequence] and couldn't challenge it more times.

After understanding this, everyone's expressions became expectant. According to this, if they could draw [Heavenly Dao Sequence] a few more times in the subsequent Dungeons, calculating 24 runs each time, with four or five Dungeons, there was a real chance to gather all the Materials for crafting the Sword Puppet.

Director Yun Wenhong even stated that if the Materials were insufficient by then, his could be left uncrafted first, prioritizing the planet-level big shots like Xiao Yuntian.

He had been terrified when Zhang Jian was ambushed earlier. He thought that if the other big shots could improve their strength and develop, they would be able to act as helpers if Zhang Jian encountered danger again.

Zhou Quan followed up by saying his could also be postponed to save Materials. Their stances made Xuan Jizi very satisfied. These young comrades were quite sensible, after all.

But Zhang Jian frowned at their suggestion. "Materials not enough?" "Who told you that?"

He directly chose to trade with Director Yun Wenhong, and swish, swish, swish, he put up a pile of Materials. Director Yun Wenhong looked at the various types of Materials and was instantly dazzled.

He was silently calculating in his heart. The more he calculated, the more shocked he became. How could there be so many?

24 Dungeon runs, even if they were all the highest-level ratings. If one could farm five or six portions of Materials per run, that would be considered very lucky.

Even if Zhang Jian had a bonus for soloing, a drop bonus for going above his level, and a bonus for that Heavenly Dao-level rating. 10 portions per run would be amazing, right?

For these 24 runs, getting 200 portions would already be a harvest unimaginable to ordinary people. But the Materials before him... after just roughly calculating, the cumulative total had already exceeded 1,000 portions! It was a full five times what he had expected!

Director Yun Wenhong blinked. This was even the total amount of Materials he had initially calculated would take 100 Dungeon runs to obtain. A task expected to take dozens of teams to accomplish, Zhang Jian had completed it in just a short while?

He recounted the quantities of various Materials again to ensure he hadn't miscounted. However, during this process, he noticed that the quantities of the various Materials were not uniform. Some Materials were far in excess of what was needed for crafting, while others were far less than what was required.

Although he was filled with fanatical admiration for Zhang Jian's astonishing performance, he still shook his head regretfully. "Some Materials are still a bit short; it might require farming a few more Dungeons to get enough drops."

Zhang Jian nodded. There wasn't the slightest expression of failure on his face. On the contrary, he was completely calm. "Then I'll just keep farming!"

Next, everyone witnessed a shocking scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives. Zhang Jian's one-man Dungeon show.

Level 60 Dungeon, 6 clears in 10 minutes. Level 65 Dungeon, 6 clears in 12 minutes, and after drawing [Heavenly Dao Sequence], 24 clears in 50 minutes. Level 70 Dungeon, 13 minutes...

The level of the Dungeons kept increasing. The difficulty was naturally increasing as well. But from Level 50 to 80, spanning 30 levels, Zhang Jian's clear speed barely dropped. It only varied slightly due to the size of the Dungeon map and the difficulty of the type. Overall, he maintained an astonishing speed throughout.

After finishing the Level 80 Dungeons that were originally scheduled to drop the Materials, everyone thought they were heading home. On a whim, Zhang Jian also cleared several powerful Dungeons at Galaxy Academy that no one dared to challenge easily.

However, this time he divided the people present into groups and took them on runs in teams. He let them experience the feeling of being carried again.

In the end, Zhang Jian traded a full 6,800 portions of Materials to Director Yun Wenhong! Among them, there were 300 mythical level items alone! This made Director Yun Wenhong feel as if he were in a dream.

And Zhang Jian's explanation for this was, "Didn't I use quite a lot of Materials from the warehouse for my Fusion attributes? Consider these as replenishing them!"

Director Yun Wenhong immediately felt a sense of respect. Professor Zhang was a principled person!

Xuan Jizi's old face, however, couldn't hold it together. "What do you mean, kid?" "The mythical level Materials were obtained by me stepping in." "Even if they are to be replenished, it should be done by me; where does it come to your turn?"

Zhang Jian used just one light sentence to shut him up. "Then I'll take them back. Can you, old man, take out 300 mythical level items?"

Xuan Jizi's face turned purple-red. 300 items? I can't even take out 3 items right now. He glared at Zhang Jian with hatred. This brat was clearly mocking him!

Jokes aside, Zhang Jian was genuinely willing to give back to those who had helped him. He didn't want to take advantage of the academy.

On the other hand, Xuan Jizi felt that the academy definitely couldn't take advantage of Zhang Jian's contributions. After restoring all the excess Materials used, all the extra Materials Zhang Jian contributed were calculated according to the academy's contribution value recycling system.

Furthermore, as an associate professor, his recycling price was significantly higher than that of students. It was also a certain percentage higher than that of instructors.

When he wanted to use contribution points to exchange for what he needed, there would also be a certain discount. This policy was also intended to encourage high-strength, high-status professors and department heads to keep good items circulating within the academy as much as possible.

Just as Director Yun Wenhong was preparing to record it according to protocol, Xuan Jizi stopped him. "Wait a moment."

Soon, everyone knew what Xuan Jizi had asked Director Yun Wenhong to wait for.

Galaxy Academy [star pivot decree] No. 2028-12. Appointment: Effective immediately, Zhang Jian (Student ID: SC-2028-001) is specially appointed as an Honorary Professor of our academy's [Star-Forging Pavilion]. In addition to the regular privileges of a professor level, he shall enjoy the following additional privileges: May temporarily mobilize any Professional within the academy (including professor level, department head level, and vice dean level). May temporarily mobilize any item within the Materials warehouse (unlimited times, unlimited quantity). Issued by: Dean Xuan Jizi (Star Seal).

The content of this [star pivot decree] was relatively short, but the sensation it caused was greater than any before.

In the training camp, the freshmen led by Yue Linyuan were dumbfounded. "Our classmate from the same year has become a professor just like that?"

In the [Star-Forging Pavilion], Pavilion Master Xing Duan looked surprised. It had only been a few days since he became an associate professor, and now he was an Honorary Professor?

He mentally entered the academy's member list and wanted to click on Zhang Jian's name to check the other party's specific information. As a result, a prompt popped up before his eyes. "Your privileges are insufficient; unable to view."

Xing Duan was stunned. Wasn't he an Honorary Professor? How could his privileges be higher than his own as a Pavilion Master?

In other parts of the academy, it also triggered waves of exclamations. In just a few short days, the [star pivot decree] issued by Dean Xuan Jizi was more than in the previous few years.

And each time, it was basically centered around Zhang Jian's promotion. From freshman to instructor, then to associate professor. And now, Honorary Professor.

Many high-level members of the academy were even more shocked by the specially noted additional privileges. These few powers were all equivalent to those of the Dean.

This was something that even Zhou Quan hadn't enjoyed when he served as acting dean. This was equivalent to saying. Zhang Jian's current status was now directly equal to that of the Dean?

The entire vast Galaxy Academy was completely shocked by one name!