CHAPTER 71: CHAPTER 71: REFLECTION AND ENTITY

No mysterious creatures attacked the research institute?

In Tianfu City, anything related to mysterious creatures is more than ninety-nine percent sealed in the research institute... Since these creatures didn’t attack the institute, it likely means their purpose isn’t to retrieve something or kill someone.

Of course, that’s if the item or person left the institute before the mutation occurred.

"That hunter from Tianfu City!" Ye Jiu shouted, "You’d better stand a little further! The range of my attack... is quite large!"

"I just fought with you, so I know what to expect." Sun Hang said.

"Hey, when I was testing you, I only used thirty percent of my strength, which is why you managed to get a lucky hit." Ye Jiu said, "If I had gone all out from the start, you wouldn’t have been left with even a trace."

"Well, I hope you can leave nothing of this creature." Sun Hang said, stepping back nearly a hundred meters.

A chilling aura emanated from within the "Slaughter," the Tang Saber "Frost Cutting" formed a blade several meters long, and the Wolf-tooth Spear ignited with the crimson flame Sun Hang had just experienced—at this time, the threat Ye Jiu presented was indeed much greater than when Sun Hang first met him.

About twice as strong.

Ye Jiu had used fifty percent of his power when he fought Sun Hang, not the thirty percent he claimed.

But compared to the crisis the shadow creature gave Sun Hang, Ye Jiu still fell short.

From the start, Sun Hang didn’t think Ye Jiu’s ultimate move could eliminate this shadow—honestly, as long as it could injure it and have a substantive attack effect, Sun Hang would see that as a win.

Ye Jiu’s boastful ultimate, to Sun Hang, was merely a probing of the shadow.

It’s not that he looks down on Ye Jiu, but because Sun Hang felt in his bones—if Ye Jiu didn’t use his ultimate, Sun Hang might die.

The more power he holds back, the more room it leaves for the creature to counterattack.

The creature isn’t like Sun Hang, who would settle for seizing just a "Frost Cutting"—once the creature retaliates, Ye Jiu might never have the chance to use his ultimate again.

As Ye Jiu was still gathering power, the shadow on the ground seemed entirely indifferent to his ultimate, expanding on its own, "swallowing" more buildings into its "aging" domain.

Even with almost a hundred and fifty meters in distance, Sun Hang could still feel the air on one side becoming unbelievably hot, while the other side was so cold it seemed frozen, where the hot and cold air met, a "crackling" sound continuously arose.

Ye Jiu’s body began to tremble, his aura becoming unstable, a sign that his power had reached its limit and was about to go out of control—luckily, this guy, though cocky, took Sun Hang’s advice, unleashing his strongest attack right away.

Finally, with a low roar, Ye Jiu swung his weapon.

The forces of extreme cold and extreme heat collided at the point of the slash, exploding forcefully, tearing the entire street apart, and even the office building reduced to a frame by fire was twisted into a mess in an instant by this power.

Its power was no less than throwing a small tactical nuclear bomb onto the street.

As soon as Ye Jiu made his move, Sun Hang gathered a large number of metal objects, forming twelve physical shields in front of him—the first five shields vaporized instantly, the sixth and seventh turned into bright molten iron, impacting the eighth shield and forming frost-like condensates along its edges.

After the shockwave completely dissipated, Sun Hang lowered the shield, revealing Ye Jiu kneeling on the rooftop, panting heavily, then the devastated streets in the distance... and the black shadow covering the ruins.

"This... this is impossible!!" Ye Jiu raised his head, looking incredulously at the ruins over a hundred meters away, "Even a Spiritual Body Type Mysterious Creature should dissipate after this impact... it... it wasn’t destroyed?"

"Not that it wasn’t destroyed, but it was unscathed." Sun Hang moved beside Ye Jiu, frowning, "Moreover, compared to the moment before your strike, its coverage area has expanded significantly... From what I can tell, it absorbed some of the energy from your ultimate as ’nourishment’."

"That kind of energy can’t be absorbed! Even if forced to absorb it, it would explode inside it! I—"

Before Ye Jiu finished, Sun Hang interrupted: "Please avoid saying ’impossible,’ it makes you sound very unprofessional."

"No, you don’t understand deceitful equipment, this is..."

As Ye Jiu kept rambling, Sun Hang, feeling something, suddenly raised his head to look at the sky.

Suspended nearly a kilometer high in the air was a massive sphere, its surface exhibiting a flowing "chaotic" hue, like black, white, and gray paints merged in a dense, oily solvent, stirred with a glass rod—a color Sun Hang found hard to define, if he had to use a word, it would be "chaotic."

The shadow on the ground was the projection of this sphere—a sphere that was slowly expanding, and hence, the shadow on the ground as well.

However, in Sun Hang’s perception, this sphere had no indication of being a mysterious creature or energy fluctuation; it was the shadow it cast on the ground that gave Sun Hang an acute sense of danger.

If not visible, for Sun Hang, this sphere would not exist at all.

"Your attack had no effect because you were hitting the shadow of the creature." Sun Hang muttered, "Its true form... is up in the sky."

As Sun Hang looked up, Ye Jiu followed suit, now completely stunned—even with a ghostly mask, Sun Hang could imagine the shocked expression hidden beneath it.

"Hey? Hey? Is the hunter who just reported an encounter with a creature in the Jinjiang CBD still there?" a voice suddenly came through the headset, "We’ve detected a giant unidentified creature above the Jinjiang CBD, what’s your situation over there?"

"Our situation..." Sun Hang looked at the shadow on the ground, "If we don’t handle this thing, its shadow might swallow the entire Tianfu City."