Chapter 71: A Three-Year Assessment Mission Completed in Three Hours!?

Zhennan University had a dungeon-suppression mission for the Abyss Demon Lair instance.

All graduates needed to complete the kill count of 100,000 demonized monsters at LV. 30 or above within three years to obtain the Demon Slayer title! On the ninth underground level of the Abyss Demon Lair, to kill monsters above level 30, one needed to enter at least the second underground level.

But monsters of this level were naturally beneath Lu Zheng's notice.

He went straight down and entered the sixth underground level.

From the sixth to the ninth level was where monsters above level 200 gathered.

Even for the lowest-grade summon beast in his hands, Lu Zheng's requirement was for it to attack monsters above level 200 and earn high experience points.

If their strength was insufficient and they died, he would just resummon them.

Anyway, when a summon beast died, the experience points, attribute points, and skill feedback he had received would not disappear!

Now Lu Zheng's standards had risen; apart from immortal-grade spirit pets, he would not feel any heartache even if summon beasts of other qualities all died off.

He was a ruthless capitalist, fully squeezing the low-quality summon beasts, seeking only to obtain maximum benefit.

However, before officially entering the sixth underground level, he stopped for a while on the third underground level.

He had a Demon Banner in hand that could control demons whose level was not higher than his own.

The Abyss Demon Lair was filled entirely with monsters — a perfect match! He directly enslaved over a thousand monsters around level seventy or eighty to kill other monsters on this level at full force, earning experience points for him.

Even the smallest mosquito was still meat.

Not to mention that over a thousand monsters killing together would produce experience points that could hardly be called a mosquito's leg.

He could not level up right now, but experience points could accumulate without limit, waiting only for the moment he completed his class change to make one massive leap in level!

Having settled matters on the third level, Lu Zheng then descended to the sixth level in one go.

He had done his research on this Abyss Demon Lair instance.

The first through fifth underground levels above were all monsters born from the demonization of other ordinary monsters, but starting from the sixth underground level, they were all pureblood demons.

The lowest-grade demons were level 200; the demons on this sixth level were all Abyss Demons between level 200 and 250, perfectly suited as targets for harvesting experience points.

Abyss Demons were divided into many types, the most common being Flame Demons and Ice Demons.

Lu Zheng had not forgotten that he also had a converted Flame Demon summon beast. He extracted the hearts of every Flame Demon he killed and let his own Flame Demon devour them.

After three hours, its quality rose from rare-grade three-star to rare-grade four-star.

Its level also grew to 100 as the killing progressed.

Seeing that quality could truly be promoted, Lu Zheng was eager to cultivate a true Flame Demon King, so he intensified his efforts to collect Flame Demon hearts.

He went straight down to the seventh underground level, where the demons were of even higher levels.

After another half hour, he suddenly received an instance prompt.

【You have killed over 100,000 Abyss monsters at LV. 30 or above, obtaining the title 'Demon Slayer'】

【Title: Demon Slayer】 Silver

【Effect: Deals an extra 2% spell damage to monsters; Spirit +200, Strength +500】

Zhennan University's three-year graduation assessment mission, Lu Zheng completed in less than half a day. Although he had not kept the matter in mind, he was still quite happy to obtain a title.

Of course, this title was of no use to him.

Only one title could be equipped and take effect at a time, so compared to the 'Demon Slayer' with only 2% extra damage, Lu Zheng naturally found it more worthwhile to equip the 'Demon Nemesis' title with 5% extra damage. That 5% extra damage was no small amount — equivalent to a 5% increase in leveling efficiency.

Lu Zheng was very satisfied with the Abyss Demon Lair instance.

Because this place was saturated with demonic energy and other negative energies, especially the Abyss instance layers below the sixth underground level, the concentration of demonic energy here gave him a feeling of being like a fish in water.

The passive skill 'Demon God Spirit Body' that Qiongqi had given him allowed him to endlessly absorb these energies and convert them into his own HP and mana.

Although he was not consuming HP, constantly refreshing summon beasts and casting support skills still consumed quite a lot of mana.

With the Mana Source skill's blessing plus the effect of this passive skill, it truly made him feel as though he had endless mana, killing monsters and refreshing summon beasts to his heart's content! Cultivating summon beasts was also a top priority, after all, she planned to wait until her divine pets reached level 130 or above before starting the third class change quest.

Right now the lowest-level divine pet, Qiongqi, had only reached level 114 — the speed was still not fast enough! The Abyss Demons on the seventh level were still not enough to kill.

The refresh rate was too slow! Lu Zheng left a batch of summon beasts behind and brought Qiongqi directly to the eighth level.

In the Abyss Demon Lair instance, the ninth underground level was within the true Abyss plane, and this eighth level was the last barrier before entering the Abyss. The lowest-grade demons here were also above level 280; although the highest level was only 300, their combat power was far beyond what the demons on the seventh level could compare to.

On this level, the Abyss Demons' quality was at least boss-grade, and lord-grade ones were not few either.

What was even more special was that the environment here was extremely harsh.

It was either a magma pool of extremely high temperature, a land of death shrouded in toxic mists and howling black winds, or a freezing cavern of extreme cold.

The Abyss Demons here had already altered the environment, and combined with the influence of the Abyss demonic energy, they ultimately formed the terrain and landscape seen now.

But this had no negative effect on Lu Zheng at all; on the contrary, it allowed some of his specific summon beasts to exert even greater combat power.

For example, the Six-Winged Frost Centipede and the Twin-Headed Black Ice Dragon could unleash more powerful spells in freezing environments!

The one to benefit most directly was still the Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix.

Lu Zheng had originally planned to find a volcano after some time and let the Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix use the 'Bathing Fire Nether Phoenix' skill to absorb flame energy and level up quickly.

The magma pools in this Abyss not only contained abundant flame energy but also the Power of Death.

The Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix only needed to soak inside and its experience points would increase rapidly. Lu Zheng had already decided to leave it on this level to level up and not bring it along when he went back.

Staying behind together were Qiongqi and Taotie. In this Abyss Demon Lair, one could gain experience points by absorbing malice, and the other could obtain experience points by devouring everything — here they were truly like fish in water!

The only one that could not receive extra help was the Kui Ox.

It needed a true thunder environment, and such an environment was hard to find, but that did not matter.

As long as three summon beasts reached level 130 or above, Lu Zheng would start the third class change — any three would do, but there had to be at least three, so that he could feel confident.

Analyzing from previous combat experience, a divine pet after the level 130 third class change would be on par in combat power with a level 350 dominant-grade-quality holy-level monster!

With three level 130 divine pets assisting, even if another king-grade-quality divine projection appeared, Lu Zheng was confident he could achieve victory.

In the blink of an eye, it was the fifth day.

Lu Zheng received another instance prompt.

【You have killed over 1,000,000 Abyss monsters at LV. 30 or above, obtaining the title 'Abyss Butcher'】

【Title: Abyss Butcher】 Gold

【Effect: Deals an extra 3% spell damage to monsters; Spirit +500, Strength +800】

Interesting. By this logic, ten million should earn a purple-gold title, and killing a hundred million would mean a black-gold title!?

(End of this chapter)