With a flash of the sword, a screaming Ute monster fell to the ground, purple poisonous blood overflowing.

This monster doesn't have much strength, but it runs fast, has a pair of sharp claws, and is also poisonous, which is very dangerous for ordinary people. If people panic, a single Ute monster can kill a village.

If it can pull off one of those kills, the Ute Monster will sing the praises of the Demon King in a pool of blood, and then gain the Rank Up to become a monster called the Ute Elf.

At that point, it will have a sturdy carapace that is difficult to damage with normal attacks, four arms that can easily shred through a cow, and jaws powerful enough to crush steel.

At the same time, it will also become the leader of the clan, and has a leader aura that makes all the Utes around it stronger.

With such a leader, the Utes will become tactical in battle, most often with a combination of spears and throwing spears, as if they were already an army.

But at least for now, Pan Long is not facing such a monster army.

Around him, there were more than a dozen Ute monsters lying horizontally. This courageous monster rarely escapes, so he sends him to a reunion.

The purple poisonous blood spread everywhere, constantly emitting a pungent smell that was unpleasant.

So Pan Long could only retreat and retreat to the lookout by the sea.

The building has an enchantment to protect against evil, and it is the only safe zone on the island that cannot be invaded by evil energy and toxins.

"There are more monsters on this island than I thought!"

He hadn't thought there would be too many monsters on Black Skull Island until the Demon King resurrected - after all, at least when viewed from the sea, the island looked no different from a normal island.

But as it turned out, he was wrong.

Although the circle by the sea is indeed quite normal, as long as you walk a short distance inward, when the sea breeze is blocked by the dense woods and can no longer blow in, the environment changes dramatically.

Eerie and dark set the tone, and a pair of green eyes shimmered in the shadows, which were all sorts of ghosts. Their voices were shrill or hoarse, jumbled together, like a call from the netherworld, and it was unsettling.

If you were a weak-willed person, maybe just hearing this voice would lose your clear mind, unconsciously attract it, and go straight into the depths of the forest to become food for those monsters, right?

But Pan Long didn't, his choice was to draw his sword and fight.

He fought for more than half an hour in one go, killing dozens of monsters, until he was forced to stop by the smell of the poisonous blood of the group of Ute monsters, and then he chose to retreat and returned to the lookout.

"My location, just the outskirts of this island, is that there are so many monsters. Under the reflection of the campfire, his face looked a little uncertain, "How many monsters will there be in the inner side of the island, and even in the core, and how powerful will they be?"

"Demon King...... Has it partially broken through the seal and been able to transmit some of its power?"

He muttered to himself in a low voice, thinking as he spoke.

After thinking about it for a long time, he finally smiled.

"If there is no power of the Demon King as a supplement, then the number of monsters on this island is limited after all. I killed that much in just half an hour today, and I will keep killing for the next few months, and if I can't kill all, I can kill a lot - at least enough to open the way to the sealed area. ”

"And if these monsters are actually catalyzed by the power of the Demon King, then if I kill them, it is equivalent to consuming the power of the Demon King. This will directly achieve my original goal, maybe I will continue to kill it, and when the demon king recovers, its power will be much weaker than the original. ”

"In this way, no matter what, it will be good for me. ”

So he slept peacefully.

With such a "safe zone", he can at least eat and sleep peacefully after the battle, maybe some people don't care, but Pan Long still likes this situation very much.

For the next few days, he lived a simple life.

Get up in the morning, eat, kill monsters, come back for lunch, take a break, kill monsters, come back for dinner, and sleep.

Life is as monotonous as an ascetic, but it's not boring at all - there are countless monsters of all kinds on this island, and you can always find a variety that you haven't killed before.

Moreover, even after a while, various varieties of monsters have been killed, and there are still various combinations.

Monsters often form mixed teams, which are all kinds of strange and varied. If you want to kill until you know every genre well, so that you feel bored and bored, you probably have to kill it for a few years.

But he knew that he didn't have a few years at all.

It's already mid-May, and by late August at the latest, the Demon King will break through the seal and return to the human world again.

When the time comes, whether it is life or death, it will be time for a decisive battle.

Pan Long had thought that this quiet (?) life would last for three months, but before June, his cultivation was shattered by an email from the character panel.

[Principal, Pan Long, your personal file shows that in the past few days, you have been fighting for more than eight hours a day...... Where are you cultivating?Stay safe, don't be reluctant!]

Looking at this short email, Pan Long smiled.

Even in an illusory world, there are people who care about him.

When he rested in the evening, he thought about it and wrote a reply.

[Pan Long: I'm on Black Skull Island, there are enough monsters here, and there is a safe lookout place to rest, so it's a good place to cultivate. 】

Not long after his email was returned, the principal's email came again. The old man had apparently been keeping an eye on him, and replied as soon as he saw the email.

[Headmaster: Don't take any chances! Black Skull Island is too dangerous! There are powerful monsters that were infected with the breath of the Demon King back then, come back quickly!]

Although it was just words, through the exclamation points, Pan Long could still clearly feel the principal's anxious mood.

[Pan Long: Don't worry, I'm just walking around the periphery of Black Skull Island, and the soldiers of Pike Town often come here to exterminate monsters, almost.] As long as you don't go to the core, you won't encounter powerful monsters. 】

[Principal: Monsters are not mathematics, there is no such thing as "inevitable"! Back then, my teacher's strength was stronger than the four braves, but when he attacked Black Skull Island, he charged at the front to open the way, and before he could hit the demon king, he died under the siege of countless monsters...... Fighting isn't something that can be "almost"!]

[Pan Long: Don't worry, I won't force myself. 】

[Principal: You fight for more than eight hours a day, and you are not reluctant? This is far beyond the level of normal cultivation!]

Pan Long was a little speechless, of course it was a good thing that someone cared about him, but the principal was so verbose, but it also gave him a little headache.

"Could it be that people are more verbose when they get old? But grandpa is quite bold......"

He muttered, replying email after email, and it took a long time to calm the anxious headmaster.

When he finally couldn't see the email coming, he lay on the blanket and looked out the window at the stars in the night sky.

"The old man of the principal is really worried!"

"I don't know if in a few days, when I tell him, 'I see that there is a problem with the seal', he will be so angry that he will have a stroke......

This little episode made his mood a lot better, and he was even more energetic when he killed monsters next.

Although the principal still reminded him to take a break, Pan Long really didn't feel that he needed more rest.

It's nothing more than killing monsters, and during this time, he really didn't go to the core area of Black Skull Island, just went around the periphery, nothing more than ...... The range of the turn is a bit large.

With a swing of the sword, the rotting wood monster with its arm turned into a rattan whip and covered in lumps let out a dull scream, and then fell, bleeding all over the ground.

Pan Long looked at the mess around him and sighed.

"These low-level monsters have gradually become rare. ”

Although Black Skull Island is notorious, it is actually not very large, and it is basically the same as the urban area of an ordinary county-level city. The east-west direction is shorter, about two or three kilometers, and the north-south direction is longer, no more than five kilometers. Coupled with the irregular shape, it is roughly smaller than a rectangle, and the overall area should be about seven or eight square kilometers.

In such a large area, the number of monsters that can be accommodated is actually limited.

He landed on the island from May 22nd to June 9th, killing for more than half a month, and he had already circled Black Skull Island more than once.

The low-level monsters on the periphery of this "Demon Island" have been swept away by him for two rounds, and the monster tribes and groups that account for the majority have basically died under his knife, and the rest are all lone people like the rotten wood monster he killed just now.

Although it is true that the lone monsters are stronger than the swarms, the number is really far from enough.

He opened the character panel and took a look, and only accumulated a total of more than a thousand comprehension points.

"The growth rate D is really a bit miserable!"

The growth rate is related to the comprehension value of a character and the speed of growth of the five elements, which is the core key to determining whether a character is worth cultivating in the game.

The growth rate of the group of "reserve braves" in the plot is generally at the B level, and the growth rate of the first-line characters is basically A or even S.

The role of growth rate A, there are less than five in a country, which is an absolute super genius, and the growth rate of S, there are only two in the world, and they are so genius that they don't know how to describe it.

Even those with a growth rate of C are actually small talents who are called geniuses everywhere, and there may not be one in a city with more than 100,000 people. But these little geniuses, in the eyes of players with a very poor appetite, belong to the type of "not worth cultivating".

And a growth rate like Pan Long, if it is placed in the game, it definitely belongs to the kind of iron warehouse pipe that will not have a chance to attack from the beginning and will be in charge of the housekeeper until the finale.

But he can't help it, if he wants to compare his talent with the talented teenagers selected from various countries, he really can't compare.

In fact...... The growth rate D has been calculated, and most of the NPCs only have E and F growth rates, and some people even have a "-" number - no growth rate.

Although they don't actually have the opportunity to grow at all, they still have a growth rate attribute, probably to set off how good the "reserve braves" are.

In contrast, although Pan Long is not a genius, he is at least a talent.

"Others are the world's leader, the country's leader, the province's leader, and the city's leader, but what about me, at least the whole school is the leader, maybe even the county's leader, right?"

"Contentment, contentment. Tsinghua University can't go to Peking University, ordinary 985 is also very powerful, people can't be greedy!"

"If you don't have talent, you have to work hard to make up for it!"

Pan Long shook his head, smiled self-deprecatingly, said a few words of encouragement to himself, and looked at the deep dense forest ahead.

It's time to break into the core area......