253: Chapter 253 New Dungeon [Purgatory Town]! Party members are expanding again!

Zhang Jian set aside the expectations in his heart and instead focused on what was right in front of him.

The road must be walked one step at a time, and one must eat one bite at a time.

No matter how great his aspirations were, the current reality was that he could only run the Ancient Ruins Dungeon once a week.

And there were very few people qualified to enter.

At most, including Wang Xuri, Huang Tianfang, and the others, there were only about a dozen people.

When Zhang Jian entered for the second time, he divided them into four groups, with an average of three people per group.

Relying on at least one Heavenly Dao Sword Puppet per group, their progress was quite good.

They had basically all seen the presence of the planet-level Rank 4 Boss.

But going any further was impossible.

In the end, counting the extra gains from all the Sword Puppets under the entry bonuses, Zhang Jian had only obtained over 4,000 Heavenly Dao fragments.

Adding in the remaining ones from before, it just barely exceeded 6,000.

Fortunately, with the entry bonuses, the loss for normal Fusion was reduced by half, allowing for a full 120 attempts.

Zhang Jian performed 100 attempts in one go.

Ultimately, he harvested 30 star cores.

Don't think this amount is small.

For the average person, with a base probability of 2%, 100 attempts would only yield two successes.

Zhang Jian had entry bonuses, so his success rate was already much higher.

It was even better than using the dual protection of a synthesis protection voucher and a synthesis furnace.

And among these 30, only 3 were 2-star, while the remaining 27 were just ordinary 1-star cores.

Only then did Zhang Jian realize how lucky he had been to obtain a 2-star one on his very first successful Fusion.

He really didn't think much of the boost effects from these two levels of star cores.

After keeping one of each, he handed them all over to the Will of the Heavenly Dao.

Three days later, it gave him a surprise.

It had actually used the resources Zhang Jian provided, consuming 10 1-star star cores to upgrade its own energy Rank.

It directly strengthened the perception range of the Water Blue Planet and the efficiency of absorbing scattered Star Power.

Taking this opportunity, it also gained the ability to open another planet-level Dungeon.

After consulting with Xuan Jizi and the others, everyone decided to set the location of this Dungeon within the Galaxy Academy.

This Dungeon, named "Purgatory Town," had a smaller map area than the previous "Ancient Ruins."

Its terrain was more complex, and the way monsters appeared was even more bizarre.

If not for the presence of a Heavenly Dao Sword Puppet in every team, there might have been casualties.

Xuan Jizi had mentioned more than once that if everyone could be equipped with a Heavenly Dao Sword Puppet, their efficiency could be greatly improved.

But the Materials needed to craft this thing were just too numerous and too precious.

Let alone the stock within the Galaxy Academy. Even with the current Merit Treasury, where massive amounts of Materials were flowing in and out at every moment.

The quantity of such top-tier Materials was still scarce. Even if they gathered everything, it was far from enough.

Zhang Jian had to take action himself. He spent three days clearing every Dungeon above Rank 70 throughout Huaxia.

This clearing didn't just mean simply going through each Dungeon. It was to push for Dungeon access rights.

With Zhang Jian's current strength, it made little difference to him whether it was Rank 70 or Rank 99.

Even nightmare difficulty posed no threat to him. He could basically achieve a solo Heavenly Dao-Rank clear.

However, obtaining "Heavenly Dao Sequence" Dungeon access rights through clear rewards was not something he could control.

For this reason, he didn't miss a single Dungeon. With Xuan Jizi accompanying him in an airship, his efficiency was much higher.

Almost 20 hours a day, he was either on the road or in a Dungeon.

Fortunately, while the number of high-Rank Dungeons was not small, their locations were not too scattered. He could basically cover them all in a day.

And in these three days, Zhang Jian had basically farmed "Heavenly Dao Sequence" access rights for most of the Dungeons.

Relying on the mythical level Dungeon reset scrolls and access bonuses, he could farm each Dungeon about eight times a day.

Over the three days, he didn't know how many times he had farmed them. Regardless, the amount of Materials piled up in his backpack had reached an extremely exaggerated level.

Just the accumulated mythical level skills alone totaled over 2,000 books. There were over 200 of the passive type.

After selecting what he needed, Zhang Jian had gathered everything for himself.

Coincidentally, in these few days, the members of Wang Fei's team were also quite diligent, rushing around everywhere.

Although they couldn't clear Dungeons solo like Zhang Jian and rely on extra Dungeon access rights to gain greater rewards.

But after all, there were many of them. Each Dungeon only needed to be cleared once. Instead, the number of Dungeons they cleared was higher.

To farm more Heavenly Dao rewards, they even secretly went to the White Bear Country and farmed a few Dungeons.

When Zhang Jian met them at the Galaxy Academy, he was shocked to discover.

The Heavenly Dao rewards he had accumulated had already reached 80 times. He was only 20 times away from his agreement with the Will of the Heavenly Dao!

Zhang Jian was very excited. After resting for only half a day, he began crafting Heavenly Dao-Rank Sword Puppets for everyone.

This time, with sufficient Materials, he crafted them continuously in one go.

Moreover, through large-scale crafting, the corresponding entries were constantly improving. The success rate was higher, and the required Material consumption was decreasing.

In the end, with more than half of the Materials consumed, he completed the task ahead of schedule.

For the previous dozen or so people, the dozen or so people in Wang Fei's team, and a few potential seeds Xuan Jizi had vouched for and intended to focus on cultivating—a total of 30 people—he had crafted exclusive Heavenly Dao-Rank Sword Puppets for all of them.

After Wang Fei and the others received the second batch of over a hundred mythical level passive skills provided by Zhang Jian, they no longer lacked resources for the third job change.

They had even directly raised their Rank to third job change Rank 99, and could begin to Breakthrough to planet-level strength, immediately sharing the pressure for Zhang Jian.

But after considering it, Zhang Jian told them not to rush.

Although he could quickly lead the team and clear some Dungeons above Rank 70 with them to farm enough of his 100 Heavenly Dao rewards.

But for Wang Fei and the others, their own Heavenly Dao reward counts had not yet accumulated to the max.

Zhang Jian wanted them to build their foundations more firmly and solidly.

Therefore, he only used star core fragments to help the others fuse their Heavenly Dao-Rank Sword Puppets that had been raised to Rank 99.

The "Helping Others" entry was also upgraded to +3. The entry effect was also improved to a 25% reduction in consumption.

Coupled with the 50% reduction in requirements from "Heavenly Dao Reduction," the original Fusion of a Heavenly Dao-Rank Sword Puppet required 10 star core fragments, and help from others required an extra consumption of 20 fragments.

Under Zhang Jian's operation, it only required 5 fragments.

With less than 100 fragments consumed, the Sword Puppets for nearly 20 people were all finished with Fusion, and their strength was upgraded to planet-level.

Under Zhang Jian's anticipation, everyone was divided into seven teams. With an experienced veteran leading each team, they spent two consecutive days exploring two planet-level Dungeons.

When they reconvened, everyone's face was filled with wonder and joy.