Chapter 680: The Moment of Counter-Hunting, Temporal Phase Shift

Time flowed on.

Only one hour remained until the hunting period ended.

Honestly, everyone wanted to complain—the name of this round's game was wrong. It should have been called the "Being Hunted" period!

—Xu Lang hunting Ultimate Creatures!

As time passed, more and more people walked out of their dorms, each with their own thoughts, including no shortage of those who purely wanted to watch the show.

However, no one went downstairs. At most, they just stood at the edge of the corridor.

Three corpses lay sprawled on the ground below, bloody and gruesome, like warning signs.

The killer was Xu Lang. The three had been instantly obliterated.

The entire void battlefield was his hunting ground. Any player who came in was just adding variables.

A lake with too many small fish and shrimp makes it hard to spot the true giant beast lurking beneath the water.

Besides, what were you going to do downstairs?

I've claimed all the Ultimate Creatures—don't tell me you came out just to go shopping.

Save your effort. In the face of overwhelming power, reason doesn't work, and every player understood that.

So Xu Lang only had to kill three people before no one dared to go downstairs anymore.

At this moment, Xu Lang stood unrivaled, seated upon his throne, weighed down by thoughts.

"What's going on?"

"Is the Dorm Survival Game still not making a move?"

"The tone of this game has already been set. The Dorm Survival Game shouldn't pull a deus ex machina at the last second to forcibly crank up the difficulty."

"There must be some key point I'm overlooking."

In the end, all his thoughts condensed into a single idea.

Should he run a Simulation or not?

The five Nightmare Apostles had been relentlessly terrorizing players, and combined with the smelting facilities, he had already accumulated a substantial amount of Nightmare Essence.

His fingers tapped the armrest unconsciously as Xu Lang sank deep into contemplation.

Elsewhere.

Ultimate Creature Form Four had already silently picked off seven dorms without anyone noticing.

A full hour had passed since its last massacre.

The frequent player deaths had put every Manager on high alert, greatly strengthening mutual monitoring.

Ultimate Creature Form Four didn't need to test the waters to know its actions would soon be exposed.

Because it had already evolved a precognition ability!

This was a Void creature—a terrifying lifeform that had once dared to wage war against the Blood Mist World!

"I can't keep waiting. Even if I get discovered, I'll keep hunting and try to evolve even stronger abilities!"

Ultimate Creature Form Four's mind was still relatively simple, but its intelligence was already on par with an ordinary human!

Bang!

The moment it made its decision, it charged straight into a dorm whose door hung wide open.

"..."

The Amusement Park Building players' cries for help were stifled!

But their dimming game names rapidly drew the attention of the upper echelon of Amusement Park Building.

Moments later, the place was surrounded.

Players fell one after another, but Ultimate Creature Form Four didn't run. It was slaughtering at breakneck speed, boosting its combat power.

"Everyone get back—it's an Ultimate Creature!" Youle pulled out a pistol and pulled the trigger.

The moment the orange bullet fired, it erupted with a blinding radiance like a blazing sun!

Every player and the Ultimate Creature that saw the light let out agonized screams.

But not Youle.

Because before firing, he had already put on a half-face visor.

Bang bang bang bang!

Taking advantage of the Ultimate Creature's brief stun, Youle rapidly pulled the trigger, a faint smile on his face.

The instant Ultimate Creature Form Four was forced into visibility, he caught sight of its information.

It was actually in the monster faction!

Kill a monster and you can loot gear!

Xu Lang had used some special method, so killing monsters didn't seem to drop loot for him. But if he personally killed the Ultimate Creature, maybe he could score something good.

It wasn't that Scarlet Herding Chains prevented drops entirely—it lowered the drop rate. The Ultimate Creature's drop probability was extremely low, otherwise, with Xu Lang's luck, he would have gotten some extra spoils by now.

The Ultimate Creature knew it had run into a tough nut and immediately tried to flee.

But running was useless, because something harder than a tough nut—an absolute super-hardened nightmare—had already arrived on the battlefield!

A shockwave of air blasted aside the Amusement Park Building players blocking the way. A scarlet radiance blazed as a condensed, razor-sharp blood-colored blade arc announced the newcomer's identity!

"Finally waited for you!"

His smile was savage, his strikes merciless, brutal and ruthless!

Staring at its own severed arm, Ultimate Creature Form Four felt an unprecedented terror rise in its heart, as if it were looking at a predator from a far higher tier.

Ultimate Creature Form Four wanted to run—and Youle wanted to run too!

The moment he got close to Xu Lang in combat form, all sorts of uncomfortable symptoms flooded over him. Defensive skills and base attributes simply couldn't withstand it!

Xu Lang had who knew how many aura-type skills, so it was only natural for Youle to be terrified!

Within his widened pupils, Xu Lang landed and immediately chopped off the Ultimate Creature's arm, the blade light not stopping, continuing to churn out waves of bloody brilliance!

The Ultimate Creature was pushed back step by step, until finally it spun around, burst through the balcony, and leaped down.

Xu Lang followed like a shadow!

In less than ten seconds, both Xu Lang and Ultimate Creature Form Four were gone.

Youle stood there stunned. A moment later, a smile crept onto his lips, then grew wider and wider.

"So damn interesting!!!"

"This is the game I've been waiting for!"

"Without an even higher-level boss, what's the point of me being the Main Character?"

"Now he's appeared!"

"He's right here, right in front of me, right on this battlefield!"

Hysterical laughter flooded the entire dorm. Youle's aura exploded outward, crushing the air so hard that everyone around barely dared to breathe!

The happier Youle was, the stronger he became.

Although all Amusement Park Building players were like this, Youle was especially exceptional.

Rumor had it that he had passed the Joy Trial and obtained an extremely powerful Attribute Talent.

Under everyone's watchful gaze, Youle vanished from his spot in an instant, then reappeared on the balcony—his speed actually rivaling Xu Lang's.

...

On the open ground behind Amusement Park Building, Xu Lang and Ultimate Creature Form Four clashed at breakneck speed.

At first, Ultimate Creature Form Four was on the back foot, completely unable to figure out how to deal with Xu Lang, a seasoned hunter.

But gradually, it began to keep up with Xu Lang's blade techniques.

Even without breaking down doors or slaughtering players, it was evolving at an inconceivable rate!

"Temporal Phase Shift!"

Xu Lang's speed abruptly skyrocketed. A faint silver mist swirled around him like flowing water, and with a lightning-fast thrust, he drove his blade into the Ultimate Creature's left chest.

[Temporal Phase Shift LV5 (Legendary/Active): Time flows normally, greatly enhanced perception of time, reaction speed far beyond ordinary humans. Each 1 second consumes 1 hour of lifespan (Gaseous State), time perception increased by 100%, personal time flow rate increased to 100%. Each 1 second consumes 1 day of lifespan (Liquid State), time perception increased by 300%, personal time flow rate increased to 300%. Each 1 second consumes 30 days of lifespan (Solid State)]

This was a pure burst skill just like Blood Rampage, and it was related to time. In theory, Xu Lang could use it indefinitely, because as a xian, his lifespan was infinite.

However, the lifespan consumption was intense, and his condition would plummet dramatically, so Xu Lang couldn't truly keep this state active forever.

Especially the Solid State—entering it placed enormous strain on his body.

Gaseous State for prediction, Liquid State for burst advancement, Solid State for overwhelming suppression, Void state for invincibility, then switching back to Gaseous State for prediction, keeping energy consumption at its lowest!

Even for an ordinary player with double attributes breaking a thousand or even ten thousand, pulling off such seamless maneuvering was impossible!

They'd get dizzy and disoriented just trying to chain the state transitions together, let alone executing techniques like Demon-Sealing Slash mid-transition!

This level of combat artistry was practically brushing against the divine realm!

Xu Lang was like a ghost leaping through dimensions of time. Ultimate Creature Form Four had no way to predict his position with its existing means, and within a single breath, it was slammed hard into the ground by Demon-Sealing Slash!

Just as he was about to drive Scarlet Herding Chains into Ultimate Creature Form Four, a loud shout came from behind.

"Lang Ge, another Ultimate Creature has appeared!"

It was Wu Huihui's voice, loud and clear.