Chapter 523: Transformation

Chen Ling had already been locked onto by the 【Heavenly Wolf】 once, so he naturally knew the terror of this domain.

Once stared at by that void wolf’s eye, not only would physical functions drop significantly, but unless one escaped the range of this domain, it would be impossible to shake off, and one would eventually be hunted to death.

During this process, Nie Yu would be like having a heavenly eye, fully grasping his every move, which could be called a god’s-eye view on the hunting ground.

Chen Ling knew very well that with his current rank and state, he was definitely not Nie Yu’s opponent in the 【Eye of the Hunting Ground】, so he absolutely could not be locked onto by this domain!

"Want to run?!" Nie Yu also came back to his senses and sneered,

"No one can escape the lock in the 【Eye of the Hunting Ground】... no matter how fast you are, can you be faster than my gaze?"

At the same time, the huge wolf’s eye hanging beneath the thunderclouds quickly rotated its pupils, looking toward the red-clothed figure rushing through the rain, catching up hundreds of meters in an instant.

Seeing that the gaze was about to lock onto Chen Ling, he didn't hesitate to reach out and tear at his chin. The next moment, he transformed into a sparrow and flew into a shop on the edge.

He can even turn into a bird?

A flash of astonishment crossed Nie Yu’s eyes. He didn't even see what happened in the shop just now; he only felt a blur before his eyes, and Chen Ling in the shop had turned into a flying bird.

But even so, Chen Ling couldn't shake off the wolf’s eye’s gaze. Chen Ling, transformed into a flying bird, could clearly feel that there was a gaze outside the shop ceiling closing in on him. Neither transforming nor using complex terrain and buildings could hide him from the wolf’s eye’s gaze.

A flash of determination crossed Chen Ling’s eyes. His figure flickered again, and the next moment he became a small red python, slithering through the gaps in the shops, then turning into a bat, followed by a gecko, a leopard, an ape...

Chen Ling’s figure flickered crazily between dozens of shops along the street. Every time he appeared in a shop, it was a brand-new species. From afar, it looked like a grand and dazzling transformation show, so fast that neither Nie Yu nor the audience behind the screen could capture his movements and trajectory with the naked eye.

"God! What kind of skill is this?!"

"Lion, snow wolf, eagle... damn, my eyes can't keep up anymore. How does he do it?!"

"Is he an angel or a demon? Why can he turn into so many animals??"

"Oh my God, is this really not a video made with computer special effects?!"

"Haven't you guys noticed? Both the Hunter and this red-clothed person are not ordinary people. They must possess some kind of extraordinary power!"

“……”

Just as messages were frantically scrolling across the screen, on the side of the road in San Francisco, the young man in the Tang suit had a look of seeing a ghost.

"【Thousand Faces】... it's 【Thousand Faces】, right? No, that's not right... I've never heard of anyone’s 【Thousand Faces】 being able to turn into animals... what exactly is the background of this Opera God Path??"

Service Area.

Chen Ling’s figure changed and shuttled between the dense abandoned shops. Facts proved that this method could indeed delay the gaze of the wolf’s eye in the sky to a certain extent... He could feel that the speed at which the gaze tracked him was always a few meters behind his figure, seemingly unable to react to the high-frequency changes of the prey for a moment.

Just as Chen Ling kept trying to cross the edge of the domain and escape the 【Eye of the Hunting Ground】, he found that the gaze range of the wolf’s eye was constantly extending forward. Whichever direction he ran, the hunting ground covered that direction.

Chen Ling turned his head abruptly and found that the blood-soaked Nie Yu was chasing him frantically with his hunting knife, and the domain was moving as he moved. This meant that if he didn't solve Nie Yu, the domain would always be by Chen Ling’s side until he was completely locked onto and killed.

"An inescapable hunting ground, an unshakable wolf’s eye... are all domains this perverted??"

Chen Ling finally understood why Han Meng said that the transition from Tier 3 to Tier 4 of the God Path was a qualitative change. A God Path user with a domain was completely different from one without... Trying to kill across tiers was extremely difficult.

Although Chen Ling had the 【Judgment Court】, he was still Tier 3 after all, and the 【Judgment Court】 could only exert Tier 3 power, not a complete domain... Of course, even so, it was currently Chen Ling’s strongest trump card and the only skill with a chance to tear open the 【Eye of the Hunting Ground】 and kill Nie Yu.

This trump card was Chen Ling’s only hope for a comeback; he had to choose the most suitable moment to reveal it.

"Good thing I made preparations in advance."

Chen Ling glanced at the huge wolf’s eye in the sky, and his figure, shuttling through the shops, suddenly changed direction, speeding toward the auto repair shop not far away!

That factory building stood on the edge of the service area, its exterior mottled and old, and the metal roof was missing a few pieces, looking as if it had been abandoned for a long time... But if one carefully observed Chen Ling’s escape route just now, one would find that he seemed to have been deliberately approaching this place all along.

Seeing Chen Ling stop his dazzling changes, the wolf’s eye’s gaze caught up instantly, the gap between the two narrowed rapidly, and finally, it completely locked onto Chen Ling’s figure!

Just as Chen Ling’s left foot stepped into the factory, a sense of crisis that made his hair stand on end surged into his heart. His body felt as heavy as if filled with lead, and his speed slowed down visibly to the naked eye...

Scarlet blood flowed from Chen Ling’s wounds onto the factory floor. He supported his body with his feet, stumbling step by step to the center of the factory, feeling as if all his strength had been drained, his face extremely pale.

It was the familiar lock... the familiar feeling of despair and powerlessness. It was like prey that had stepped into a trap, gradually losing the strength to resist, and then being aimed at from afar by the muzzle of a hunting rifle.

Chen Ling could feel that if he fought Nie Yu in his current physical state, he probably wouldn't be able to take even three moves before having his head cut off. The gap in strength between the two sides after the domain was opened was simply too large.

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh—

The dilapidated metal roof couldn't stop the torrential rain from pouring in. A few gaps were now like a water curtain cave, with rain constantly pouring into the factory, the humming sound echoing in the empty space.

The blood-stained bright red opera robe passed through these rain curtains and stood still on a tarp on the factory floor.

Chen Ling looked back. In the torrential rain, a figure holding a hunting knife, also covered in injuries, walked step by step into the factory under the illumination of the pale flashing lightning.

"It seems the outcome is decided." Nie Yu said hoarsely.

"Heh..." amidst the torrential rain curtain, Chen Ling smiled weakly, "That's not necessarily true."

Nie Yu’s gaze swept across the surroundings, and after a brief pause, he spoke slowly,

"Before being locked onto by me, you voluntarily gave up escaping and approached here... And thinking about it carefully, before you appeared in the service area, you also had plenty of time to prepare..."

Nie Yu’s eyes narrowed slightly, the hunter’s vigilance and rationality exerted to the fullest at this moment,

"You... set a trap here in advance, right?"