"Mahaduo?" Luo Jun's eyes widened. "How did you get here..."
Mahaduo snorted. "Don't you know the rules? Spectators like us can't get ahead of the challengers."
"But weren't you just..." Just then, Luo Jun caught a phantom streaking across the course, arriving at the corridor in an instant. It was Mahaduo's man in gold-rimmed glasses. His speed defied belief. Never mind an enhanced human only slightly stronger than an ordinary person-even Cultivators in the Heart Refining Realm might not be that fast!
Wait, it wasn't speed!
Luo Jun narrowed his eyes. Although the bespectacled man was fast, he showed no sign of hurrying. His movements repeated at an astonishing frequency, but their range was small. He looked as though he were strolling at an extremely high frequency...
The sight reminded Luo Jun of an ability.
"Time acceleration?" Luo Jun looked at Mahaduo. "What did you do to A Jiali?"
Mahaduo glanced at Luo Jun, gave him a meaningful smile, then patted his own belly.
"Ate her."
Luo Jun's eyes widened. "You can gain abilities by devouring other people?"
Mahaduo snorted. "I never expected that little girl's ability to work on other people, either. The key to this stage is piling up experience with time and lives. In the time it takes your contestant to die once, mine can die a hundred times! A trap that takes you an hour to crack only takes me a minute!"
*To think an ability like that existed! No wonder he cleared the stage where we had to find people so quickly... no, wait. Then why did he spend so long on the first few sections of this stage... right, lives. Those earlier sections only gave him three lives. Even if he could accelerate time, he still had to tread carefully. But in this section,