As the island sank, a system notification sounded.
[System: Obtained Island Treasure Chest*1, Island Fragment*6]
Lu Shu stroked his beard and smiled, "Island Lord, I'll head back now."
Chen Ping: "Uh, I still have about twenty desert island compasses, so Chief Deer Tree, you'll be a bit busy later. Isn't it a bit too much trouble to keep running around like this?"
Deer Tree: "Twenty or so? Not bad. Island Master, you can use them now. If they are all deserted islands, it will be much more convenient and the speed will be increased considerably."
Well, Chen Ping used up one of the deserted island compasses directly. As for the random island compasses, he could use them later.
Watching the islands rush towards the deserted island, Chen Ping and Lu Shu went directly to the floating island to wait.
Chen Ping opened the island treasure chest and looked at it. It contained only resources, but no special resources like the floating island. There were, however, seven island fragments.
Okay, now we can upgrade the island.
Consuming 30 island fragments and 8 epic crystals, the island was successfully upgraded from level 3 to level 4.
The area has increased by 1,000 square kilometers, and the upgrade requirement has changed to 40 island fragments. That's alright, it's 10 fragments, and it increases by 10 fragments at a time.
If all twenty-odd islands were destroyed, the island fragments alone would amount to nearly a hundred. Adding the fragments from island treasure chests, well, there should be around 200 or so, right?
After upgrading the island, its movement speed increased significantly. Chen Ping checked and found that the initial maximum speed was 500 kilometers per hour, while the current maximum speed was 2000 kilometers per hour. Hmm, so each upgrade adds 500 kilometers? The minimum speed remains unchanged at 30 kilometers per hour.
Chen Ping had always thought it was 500 kilometers, so he always traveled at full speed at 500 kilometers per hour. This subconscious behavior made the island's speed seem so fast.
Now they're really going full speed ahead.
Standing on the floating island, Chen Ping looked at the endless sea outside the island. Well, although the island's current speed is 2,000 kilometers per hour, it's not noticeable at all, there's no point of reference.
Soon, in about half an hour, we arrived at the first deserted island.
Lu Shu greeted Chen Ping and then instantly appeared above the deserted island.
Chen Ping was completely dumbfounded. He couldn't understand how the deer tree moved like that. Was it some kind of teleportation?
Then we saw the scene of the deserted island sinking. The next second, the deer tree returned to the floating island, and at this moment, the system notification sounded.
Wow, that's it, it must be teleportation.
Chen Ping immediately asked in surprise, "Chief Deer Tree, did you just teleport?"
Lu Shu stroked his beard and laughed, "That's right, it is indeed teleportation."
After using a desert island compass, Chen Ping asked Lu Shu, "Can I learn it?"
Deer Tree shook his head and explained, "Island Master, it's not that I don't want to teach, it's a unique talent of my clan. Look at my feet, isn't there a small tree here?"
Chen Ping looked down and indeed there was a small tree. Chen Ping didn't remember planting any trees other than the Water Blossom Tree on the floating island.
Lu Shu laughed and said, "I use this to teleport. Our clan can teleport using trees, but it consumes a lot of energy."
"If I weren't a demigod, I wouldn't dare to do this."
Upon hearing this, Chen Ping looked at the small tree on the ground with regret, shrugged helplessly, and decided that since he couldn't learn it, he wouldn't bother thinking about it.
This time, it only took about ten minutes for Chen Ping to see the deserted island.
Then, as usual, Deer Tree destroyed the entire island with a single blow.
......
The Desert Island Compass truly lives up to its name. After using it on more than a dozen desert island compasses, all the islands I approached were desert islands. It's definitely the real deal.
There are more than a dozen deserted islands, most of which are dead islands without any vegetation. A few others have some green plants, but only a few scattered ones, so they are still useless deserted islands.
Soon, Chen Ping used all the island compasses and obtained a total of 23 island treasure chests and 128 island fragments.
There was one random island compass left, which Chen Ping used immediately.
Chen Ping: "Chief Deer Tree, this is the last one. But this is a random island. Let's see what kind of island it is before we make our move. Don't just make a random attack because of a habit."
Lu Shu laughed and said, "Hahaha, how could that be? Although I destroyed more islands today than I have in all my previous years combined, I'm not that crazy."
"But honestly, destroying an island without having to pay compensation is really satisfying, hahaha!!!"
Lu Shu vividly remembered that after he became a demigod, another demigod came to the ancestral land to cause trouble. He directly attacked and destroyed many islands along the way. Although he won in the end, he was forced to pay a large sum of money. It was truly an undeserved disaster.
Then the other person was even worse off than him, having sold themselves to a survival game. You can imagine the money they had to pay—at least ten times more than his, right?
Chen Ping: "We've arrived. Oh, it's all green. Looks like it's not a deserted island after all. Good. Let's go check it out."
Chen Ping wanted to check it out together, but Lu Shu definitely wouldn't teleport there, so he slowly flew over with him.
After landing on the island and exploring it, Chen Ping and Lu Shu discovered traces of intelligent life that had once inhabited the island, but after looking around from the air, they couldn't find any buildings.
Deer Tree: "Island Master, I just did a scan, and there seem to be some humanoid creatures underground? They might be beings we need to know about?"
Chen Ping: "Hmm, where's the entrance?"
Deer Tree: "This way, Island Master, come with me."
Chen Ping followed behind Lu Shu and was soon brought to a small oblique wave.
Chen Ping looked around for a while and quickly found the entrance. It was normal that it was so easy to find, since there were no other intelligent beings on this island.
So the marks on the ground are still very obvious. This entrance is only there to prevent rainwater from getting in.
Chen Ping peered into the hole, which was about 1.3 meters high. Even Lu Shu couldn't fit through it, considering his horse was already about two meters tall.
Chen Ping thought it was okay to go in, but felt it wasn't necessary; wouldn't it be better to just have them come out?
At this moment, Lu Shu suddenly said, "Island Master, they seem to have come up. Hmm, quite a few of them? It seems they've discovered us."
Chen Ping: "Huh? Your reconnaissance ability is quite good. Does the World Race have this type of race? If not, we can try to subdue them."
Lu Shu stroked his beard: "Yeah, they used to have them, but not anymore. There's nothing we can do about it. Detection-type abilities are still very popular, so they all ran away quickly."
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