The buff is permanent, and you start the game with a fountain of water.

Huan Cheng stepped forward slowly.

Several demonized wolves noticed him, abandoned the wolves that were surrounded in the middle, lowered their bodies, and slightly grinned to reveal their sharp, white fangs.

His crimson vertical pupils were fixed on Huan Cheng, and a suppressed growl escaped from deep in his throat, as if he were about to pounce at any moment.

Huan Cheng wasn't worried. He hadn't shut down the Abyss Breath yet. Although the demonic wolf was ferocious and furious, the Abyss Breath possessed a terrifying power that was almost like a rule, so the demonic wolf dared not attack.

As expected, the wolves only howled and threatened, but never launched a real attack.

Huan Cheng glanced at the Azure Wolves. Under the attack of the demonic wolves, the Azure Wolf pack suffered heavy casualties, and one of the one-star Azure Wolf leaders had less than a third of its life remaining.

If Huan Cheng had arrived any later, these wolves would probably have become the prey of the demon wolves.

Huan Cheng drew the Bloodthirsty Demon Dragon Sword, strode forward, and slashed at the demon wolf's head.

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The power of a B-rank critical strike is greatly increased; a single hit is enough to reduce the Demon Wolf's health bar by a significant amount.

After Huan Cheng launched the first attack, the demon wolves howled and pounced on him.

He remained calm and composed, shifting his feet slightly to dodge the bite from one of the heads, and then casually swung his sword to counterattack.

Recently, Huan Cheng's opponents have either been incredibly skilled players like Yun Xi or virtual bosses in the training grounds.

Even if you go out to have someone else do the grinding, the lowest you'll be facing is a Bronze-level boss.

Now that the monsters have suddenly been replaced by several elite monsters, Huan Cheng is having a really enjoyable time fighting them.

Putting aside the differences in attributes, the normal monsters are slow to attack and have mechanical, stiff movements. When fighting them, Huan Cheng finally showed some of the skills of a master, no longer relying solely on stats to brute force his way through!

Within two minutes, several demonic wolves became the first group of victims under the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon Sword.

During this time, Huan Cheng didn't even activate Dark Breath, relying solely on heavy attacks and normal attacks to kill the demon wolf, making it incredibly satisfying.

It just goes to show that the old saying goes: bullying noobs is immoral, but it's very satisfying.

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"Ding! You have defeated 5 level 30 one-star elite demonized wolves, gaining 54480 experience points."

Huan Cheng glanced at it; he needed 383 million experience points to level up to level 29. He would have to kill 300 of these demonic wolves to have any chance of leveling up!

He's no longer considering controlling the hierarchy.

Anyway, the talent advancement quest is only missing a silver-level kill, and the lowest-level monsters in Hidden Dragon Valley are all level 30.

He didn't believe that a hidden quest personally assigned by the city lord would be so difficult as to not even encounter a silver-level boss.

We need to change our strategy now and level up as soon as possible, ideally to level 30, to unlock the 1.3 growth coefficient.

Qingxi made the situation sound so serious that Huan Cheng was a little unsure if he could reach level 30.

After killing the five demonized wolves, Huan Cheng turned his gaze to the group of ordinary wolves.

These wolves only have one one-star elite monster, so their average experience is definitely not as high as that of the demonized wolves.

But there are many of them, and killing them all would probably contribute tens of thousands of experience points.

But when Huan Cheng looked at the remaining wolves, the lead wolf lowered its body and let out a low growl, its eyes looking at Huan Cheng with watery eyes, as if it was thanking him or pleading.

Huan Cheng couldn't understand it, but he was deeply shocked.

When did ordinary monsters become so intelligent?

Shouldn't monsters and players be natural enemies? Why did he read something different from the wolf leader's highly anthropomorphic expression?

Led by the wolf chieftain, more and more wolves collapsed to the ground, their low whimpers blending together.

"Why!"

With a sigh, Huan Cheng sheathed the Bloodthirsty Demon Dragon Sword and waved to the wolf pack: "Go, go. Since you haven't been corrupted yet, hurry up and leave."

It'll only take a few tens of thousands of experience points; just kill a few more monsters and you'll be back.

The wolf leader seemed to understand Huan Cheng's meaning, howling twice in gratitude before leading the wolf pack to run quickly out of Hidden Dragon Valley.

They were on the run, but unfortunately, they were caught up by the demonized gray wolves just a few steps from the valley entrance.

Watching the departing figures of the wolf pack, Huan Cheng frowned deeply and remained silent for a long time.

Several minutes passed before he shook his head, banishing these chaotic thoughts from his mind, and drew his sword to continue forward.

According to the intelligence provided by Qingxi, Qing Ao and his group fought against the demons deep in Hidden Dragon Valley. The demonic energy left behind by the demons after the battle was the root cause of this turmoil.

He needs to go to the deepest part of Hidden Dragon Valley, eliminate the demons born from the influence of demonic energy, and then use the items given by Qingxi to clear away the remaining demonic energy to complete the mission.

It sounds simple, but firstly, Hidden Dragon Valley is vast, and finding the core of the battlefield would take considerable effort. Secondly, so much time has passed; who knows what kind of monsters have emerged at the bottom of the valley.

After walking a while longer, they encountered several monsters running around, all of them one-star elites.

Huan Cheng didn't stand on ceremony and converted them all into upgrade experience.

His guess came true; the monsters he encountered all possessed skills related to devouring and evolving.

In addition to monsters hunting and devouring ordinary monsters, Huan Cheng also discovered the phenomenon of monsters devouring other monsters.

He witnessed a demonized spider hunt and devour a demonized blood crow, and its attributes slightly increased after devouring the blood crow.

Huan Cheng also discovered that all the monsters he encountered along the way were elite monsters, and he didn't see a single ordinary monster.

Huan Cheng reasonably guessed that either the ordinary monsters had been completely devoured by the elite monsters, or the monsters had all gained elite-level strength due to the influence of demonic energy.

Regardless of the reason, this cast a shadow over Huan Cheng's heart.

If it's based on devouring, who knows what kind of monsters will be born from the mutual devouring of demons deep within the Hidden Dragon Valley after so much time has passed?

If mutation is due to demonic energy, then this demonic energy must be incredibly powerful! Directly increasing rank—who knows if the high-level bosses in the valley have mutated and advanced?

He continued on his journey, encountering many ordinary wild monsters along the way. Most of these monsters were being attacked by demons, and he witnessed firsthand the demons devouring the corpses of wild monsters to grow stronger.

Among them was a bronze-level rock bear. When he arrived, the rock bear was already dead, and more than a dozen monsters were feasting on its corpse.

Non-player kills do not drop equipment, so Huan Cheng didn't even have a chance to pick up scraps. He could only send these dozen or so monsters and the bronze rock bear down to keep them company.

I've seen all sorts of monsters, but there's never been another one as agile and human as the leader of the Azure Wolves.

Some monsters will even attack him after he has dealt with the monsters.

Huan Cheng had no pity for such a monster and simply turned it into experience points.

The further you go, the more monsters there are, and ordinary wild monsters almost disappear.

Scenes of monsters fighting, killing, and devouring each other are becoming increasingly common.

However, no matter how fierce the battles between the demons were, as long as Huan Cheng got involved, the demons would be like sharks that had smelled blood, relentlessly attacking and killing him, which was more effective than using intimidation or provocation.

This also made things easier for him; he could shut down the Abyss Breath and just focus on killing, gaining experience rapidly, with an efficiency no less than killing bosses.