Everyone's a Hunter? I'm a Hunter x Hunter!

[Hint: Opening the Black Iron Treasure Chest activates the Treasure Hunter's Talent, permanently increasing all attributes by 2%]

Lu Xiu, hiding in a patch of grass, put the items from the newly opened treasure chest into his spatial backpack.

It's hard to say whether today is my lucky day.

You said it wasn't a lucky day, but I found two treasure chests today.

It must be a lucky day, because the second treasure chest I found after risking my life to come here was only of Black Iron quality.

There is only one item left in the Black Iron Treasure Chest.

Swift Wind Talisman

Grade: Excellent

Effect: Increases movement speed by 25% for 5 minutes after use.

Number of uses: 3/3

Description: A secret rune formed from the power of wind, which can increase a person's movement speed. If the person also has mastery of the wind element, the movement speed will be increased even more.

A decent consumable item, nothing special.

Lu Xiu stood up and gazed ahead.

Within the basin, the corpses of mythical beasts piled up, and a sea of ​​blood rippled, with several mythical beasts locked in a fierce battle.

On a hillside not far from the Crimson Basin, a Beast Hunter is commanding a rare Beast called the "Crimson Fighting Rabbit" in a fierce battle against a weapon hunter wielding a knife.

Lu Xiu didn't recognize either the Beast Hunter or the Weapon Hunter.

But further away.

With punch after punch, the wind from the fists roared like a lion, suppressing a middle-aged man who was unable to fight back against the golden scorpion monster.

Lü Xiu knew him.

In the game "Hunting World" that I played in my previous life, there was no so-called "main storyline" or "protagonist."

But this does not mean that Hunting World has no plot or storyline.

As time progresses in the game "Hunting World", various major events that affect the entire world will occur. Each of the most prominent core NPCs in different major events is regarded by players as a "temporary protagonist".

The middle-aged man in front of us, who has the title of "Heaven's Wrath" and is named "Nie Fengyun," is the temporary protagonist of a major event that will affect the world.

"It is now the 225th year of the Creation Era." Lu Xiu understood his era the moment he arrived in the Hunting World.

There is less than a year until the first major event in Hunting World begins.

If he remembers correctly, Nie Fengyun should still only be a title hunter.

Hunters need to advance their class every 40 levels, so each stage is based on 40 levels.

Upon job advancement, you become a Novice Hunter at level 1, a Professional Hunter at level 40, a Title Hunter at level 80, a Hunter King at level 120, and a Hunter God at level 160. The level cap is 200...

Even in the game before Lu Xiu transmigrated, the only term for a hunter of this level was "???".

An unknown entity exists.

In human history, there has never been a hunter who reached level 200.

At this time, Nie Fengyun is the leader of the [Golden Gathering] and is working with the Hunter Association to hunt down the cadres of the [Nest] organization within the Hunting Alliance.

"So... that's the Gu King Du Shixin?" Lu Xiu recalled that a minor boss in the [Nest] organization had an appearance that closely resembled the Golden Armored Scorpion Monster.

"Gu King" is Du Shixin's title; he is also a titled Phantom Beast Hunter. The Phantom Beasts under his command are either Gu worms or poisonous creatures.

He is an extremely difficult member of the [Nest] organization.

Du Shixin's most famous achievement was probably developing a formation called the "Gu Spring Ritual".

That's a "blood sacrifice" formation used to create mutated phantom beasts.

Using methods similar to raising poisonous insects, a group of magical beasts are made to fight each other until blood flows like a river and only one magical beast remains. Then, the blood and corpses of all the dead magical beasts are used as nourishment to cause the last magical beast to undergo a "bloody mutation".

Because this formation is too cruel, and the mutated phantom beasts it creates only know how to kill and have no rationality whatsoever, phantom beast hunters can only use it by forcibly through phantom beast contracts as a tool to control it.

Therefore, the Hunter Association has explicitly prohibited the use of such magic arrays. Du Shixin, the creator of the Gu Spring Ritual, was also wanted for this reason.

In the past, many players obtained the blueprints for the Gu Spring Ritual, replicated it, only to be hunted down by the Hunter Association and ultimately forced to delete their accounts and start over...

and many more!

Lu Xiu immediately realized what was happening.

If Du Shixin is here, then this basin, now a river of blood, isn't...

"roar!!!"

A tiger's roar, echoing through the mountains and forests, shook the heavens and the earth.

The deafening roar immediately attracted the attention of Fang Ming and Lin Yufei, who were fighting not far away.

The two couldn't help but turn their gaze to the basin.

Above the sea of ​​blood piled high with the corpses of phantom beasts, a ferocious tiger engulfed in black flames roared, unleashing its wildness as if complaining: How come there are so few enemies? I haven't even had my fill of killing yet!

Apart from the ferocious tiger, there are no other surviving mythical beasts in the entire basin.

It has already slaughtered all the other mythical beasts.

They are the ultimate victors in this "Gu Spring Ritual"!

Even the sea of ​​blood beneath the tiger's feet seemed to be celebrating, churning and swallowing up all the corpses of the phantom beasts scattered on the ground.

Before long, the sea of ​​blood in the basin churned as if it were being boiled, with blood-red bubbles rising from the surface and faint traces of blood vapor evaporating and rising in the air.

The rising blood energy did not dissipate, but was completely absorbed by the ferocious tiger above the sea of ​​blood.

In just a few breaths, a thin film of blood-red color appeared on the surface of the tiger's body, which then solidified into a blood-red cocoon that enveloped it!

The surface of the blood-red cocoon rose and fell continuously, like a heartbeat, as if it were nurturing something extraordinary!

"It's finally going to be done!" Fang Ming was overjoyed.

After the ferocious tiger kills all the phantom beasts, the Gu Spring Ritual reaches its final step, the "blood cocoon." Once the blood cocoon is broken, the Gu Spring Ritual is completely completed!

Although Lin Yufei didn't know what Fang Ming was happy about, the happier the enemy was, the worse his own situation was.

"Ominous Moon Slash!"

Lin Yufei paused with his longsword, then turned and slashed again. Suddenly, a blood-red crescent moon flashed from the blade, aiming straight at Fang Ming.

"Clang!" The Crimson Fighting Rabbit intervened just in time to block most of the Blood Crescent's attack. However, a few stray blade rays still managed to graz Fang Ming's cheek.

Fang Ming, who had just been attacked, snapped out of his excitement at the impending success of the Gu Spring ritual. He touched the wound on his face and saw the bright red blood, which enraged him.

"How dare you harm my handsome face!" Fang Ming glared fiercely at Lin Yufei.

Just you wait! Once the Gu Spring ritual is complete, you'll be the first one I kill!