Millennium

Su Mu's gaze lingered on the words "Limit-Breaking Academy Quota".

Limit-Breaking Academy is equivalent to the elite institutions within Tsinghua and Peking Universities.

There will be extra resources available, and I've even heard that top ten Third Transcendence professionals will personally teach the courses.

He had previously researched online that to enter the Limit-Breaking Academy, one generally needs to pass a special selection process, but specific details were not publicly available.

This task will directly reward one person with a spot.

Su Mu thought for a moment.

I need to complete a task anyway to unlock the exchange privileges for cooldown equipment.

This task has a short timeframe.

One task, two uses, perfect.

He accepted it directly.

Immediately.

A pop-up message appears on the screen: [Match teammates?]

Su Mu clicked "Yes". He didn't have any friends here, so matchmaking was the easiest option.

"Matching..."

"We will notify you via the campus platform if any teammates join or you are invited to join the team."

After doing all this, he returned to the exchange area and bought three dungeon cooldown scrolls.

One book costs 10,000 points, for a total of 30,000 points. After receiving the items, he headed towards the Nest Plaza.

Back at the entrance to the Spider Nest Deep Valley, there were more people around than before.

Everyone's talking about how that freshman named Su Mu soloed the Hell difficulty dungeon.

Some people dug up posts from the forum, some compared the recordings on the screen with their phones, and others vividly described the scene they witnessed.

"Level 17, one person, breaking the record in over 16 minutes. If this data hadn't been generated by the Heart-Origin Intelligence Core, I would have thought it was fake."

"How did he manage that? He's doing a Hell difficulty dungeon all by himself; the monsters usually split up and flank him."

"I don't know. But the records speak for themselves; you can't deny it."

"By the way, who's this guy? From Rongcheng No. 1 High School? Never heard of him."

"The only freshman to achieve this Leaping over the Dragon Gate, how could he not have some impressive background?"

Su Mu listened to these discussions but ignored them. He walked to the light screen and brought up the control panel.

Hell difficulty. Confirmed.

Then he opened his inventory and used a dungeon cooldown scroll.

A pale blue light surged from the scroll and entered the light barrier. Ripples spread across the surface of the light barrier, and the runes, which had dimmed slightly due to the cooling, lit up again.

The red light came on again.

Su Mu's figure was swallowed by the red light and disappeared into the light curtain.

The surrounding crowd fell silent for a moment.

"Someone else has entered the Hell difficulty?"

"Who just went in? They looked like a freshman?"

"Is this the second one today? Why are they all copying that Su Mu?"

"Wait... that person just now, he looks a bit like Su Mu's picture on the forum."

Someone immediately pulled out their phone and found a post on the forum. The post contained a side profile photo of Su Mu as he walked out of the dungeon; although blurry, the outline was clear.

"It's him! It's Su Mu himself!"

"Holy crap! He went in again?"

"This is the second time someone has gone to hell alone!"

"And he just used a cooling scroll! Those cost 10,000 points each, and he bought three!"

"This is insane! A freshman, on his very first day, is already running Hell difficulty dungeons."

On the forum, Su Mu's name quickly became a trending topic. The post titles were increasingly exaggerated.

Shocking! A new student solo-clears a level 20 Hell difficulty dungeon in over 16 minutes, breaking the record!

Rongcheng's dark Su Mu, Su Mu, strikes again after Leaping over the Dragon Gate, soloing the Spider Nest Deep Valley!

The competition for spots at the Limit-Breaking Academy is imminent, and Su Mu has confirmed his participation in tomorrow's Iron Turtle Island mission!

In-depth analysis: Why was Su Mu able to solo the Hell difficulty dungeon at level 17?

Su Mu has become a sensation for a time.

At this moment, he was standing in the Dungeon Space, looking at the huge, dark mountain in front of him. Monsters crawled out of the holes in droves, and the first wave had already surged in.

With a thought, Little Drill Wind sprang up from beside the stone tablet at Lion Camel Ridge.

The battle has begun again.

The rest of the time.

Su Mu completed the Hell difficulty level three times in a row.

Every time, it's the same process, the same crushing defeat.

The four monsters, Little Drill Wind, White Bone Spirit Benbo'erba, Babo'erben, charged back and forth through the spider swarm, while the Green Lion King remained motionless atop the main peak. Each time they cleared the level, their record was reset, with each attempt taking a shorter time.

The second time, one hour and two minutes.

The third time, 58 minutes. The fourth time, 55 minutes.

Each time you clear a level, the bell in the Nest Plaza will ring.

Buzz... Buzz... Buzz...

The continuous ringing of bells echoed through the campuses of Tsinghua and Peking Universities, like firecrackers during the Lunar New Year, one after another, seemingly unstoppable.

More and more people gathered in the square, all rushing towards the Spider Nest Deep Valley, eager to see who was breaking records one after another.

"Spider Nest Deep Valley again? And that Su Mu again?"

"How many times has this happened? Is it the third or the fourth time?"

"The bell has rung three times already! I was counting!"

"One person runs Hell difficulty dungeons repeatedly, breaking records every time? Is that even a human being capable of?"

"They're insane. They're really insane."

Three hours later, Su Mu had completed the Hell difficulty level three times in a row.

His level increased from 10% of level 18 to 90% of level 18. He's just a little bit short.

He didn't stop.

I played through Nightmare, Hard, and Normal difficulties once each.

Nightmare took 20 minutes, Hard took 10 minutes, and Normal took 5 minutes.

After completing the three dungeons, his level finally jumped to 40% of level 19.

Sixty percent of the upgrade is still needed.

Su Mu glanced at the time.

Nearly five hours have passed since we entered the instance.

It was already dark outside, and the lights in the Nest Plaza came on.

He was a little tired, but mostly satisfied.

Years Like a Blade, has been unleashed countless times during these six runs.

The third level of Years Like a Blade, each catalysis lasts eight years, with a six-minute cooling period. With the replication of the Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water, it can catalyze for one hundred and sixty years per hour.

Six hours, nearly a thousand years.

The age of the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven has exceeded one thousand years.

He looked at the panel.

[Name: Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven (Core Card)]

[Grade: A]

[Level: 1]

[Blood: 880000/880000]

[Defense: 8800]

[Attributes: Heavenly Spirit Stone / Remnants of Mending Heaven's Mending / Essence of Sun and Moon / Spiritual Nourishment]

[Note: A unique rock atop Flower-Fruit Mountain, existing since the beginning of time. Nourished by the essence of the sun and moon over thousands of years, and nurtured by the spirit of three hundred clever monkeys, it contains a spiritual embryo, possessing boundless potential.]

HP increased from 680,000 to 880,000, and defense increased from 6,800 to 8,800, an increase of about 30%. Rank remained unchanged at A-level.

But Su Mu didn't care.

The fact that the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven could survive for over a thousand years is already the greatest achievement.