My Vitality Is Abundant

"There's one behind me too."

Yes, when Lu Chen turned his head, he discovered that while he had been watching the front, another shadow had silently approached from behind.

Moreover, that shadow had already come within three meters of Lu Chen, nearly colliding with him.

All of this made Lu Chen realize that the fog before him was far from simple.

Even knowing some of the evil entities' behavioral patterns, they were not so easy to deal with. A person could only watch one direction; the moment you turned your head, an evil entity would appear behind you.

"Evil entities truly aren't easy to deal with."

"But no matter how strange the monster is, if it wants to kill me, it has to completely dissolve the vitality in my body."

"Come on, let me see what you can do."

Ordinary people could only flee upon seeing an evil entity. Those skilled in strength would break the situation with force, while those skilled in agility would use speed to shake them off.

But Lu Chen's greatest strength was his endurance. Therefore, he played to his advantage and prepared to withstand the evil entity head-on with his body.

Of course, Lu Chen did this because he could not find a better solution in the short term. At the same time, Direct Perception told him that his current situation was not dangerous.

"Though my strong physique lets me endure it, getting hit without being able to fight back still feels awful. I hope that when the Barbarian Blood Warrior reaches level five, I can draw a skill capable of harming ghosts."

As Lu Chen stared ahead and pondered, he felt an unceasing chill rising from his back.

Without needing to think, Lu Chen understood what had happened. While he had been watching the front, the shadow that had been five meters away had drawn near again.

But this time, Lu Chen did not turn his head to look behind him.

Even with the chill at his back, Lu Chen did not turn around. He merely gathered the vitality throughout his body, making it boil and circulate continuously.

"No matter how terrifying your ability is, if you want to kill me, you'll still have to dissolve my vitality."

"Come on. Let's see how you plan to kill me."

As Lu Chen contemplated this, an icy hand landed on his body.

The hand was freezing. The instant it touched Lu Chen, he felt his body go numb, while a cold aura tried to burrow into him.

But in the next moment, scorching heat surged from within Lu Chen. Before the cold aura could enter his body, it was driven away by the heat.

At the same time, Lu Chen heard a sizzling sound from the hand on his shoulder. It had been injured by the vitality radiating from his body.

With its hand being dissolved, the figure immediately tried to retreat. But since it had already come, how could Lu Chen possibly let it leave so easily?

Keeping his eyes fixed on the phantom before him, Lu Chen suddenly slammed backward.

Hiss!

It was as if he had crashed into an ice cellar. An intense chill swept down from Lu Chen's back and struck him fiercely, making even Lu Chen shudder.

But Lu Chen merely shuddered. In the next moment, the scorching vitality circulating through his body dispersed the cold sensation.

A piercing shriek rang out beside Lu Chen's ear.

At the same time, the system's cold voice sounded beside his ear.

System notification: Host has killed a Remnant Soul in Mist and gained 50 Experience Points.

The notification brought a ferocious grin to Lu Chen's lips.

"Just as I thought. Your abilities may be strange, and you may be able to kill ordinary people, but this kind of attack alone isn't enough to kill me. I didn't raise my physique and vitality for nothing!"

Even as he grinned savagely, Lu Chen did not let down his guard.

"This evil fog can't possibly consist of only remnant souls. The one I just killed was likely a puppet in the fog, or perhaps one of its clones."

Looking at the fog spreading around him, Lu Chen was unwilling to believe that such a bizarre evil entity was merely at the remnant soul level.

Very soon, Lu Chen sensed that his guess was likely correct.

When he dissolved the remnant soul behind him, he discovered that the shadow before him had not disappeared. It continued drifting in front of Lu Chen.

This made Lu Chen sigh inwardly.

"This world really is dangerous. There are Human Head Lanterns near the village, and the moment I leave it, I run into this bizarre fog. Who knows how many ghosts are hidden inside it?"

"But only a world like this can make me stronger!"

"Come on, monster. Let's see who dies first."

With that thought, Lu Chen fixed his gaze on the shadow ahead. Soon, just as he had expected, another shadow reached his back and touched him.

But the instant it made contact with Lu Chen, he suddenly leaned backward and crashed into the bizarre phantom.

As his body instantly turned cold, a system notification rang beside Lu Chen's ear.

Ding! System notification: Host has killed a Remnant Soul in Mist and gained 50 Experience Points!

After shuddering, Lu Chen spoke viciously. "Let me see just how many ghosts you've stored in this fog."

Lu Chen had made up his mind not to leave. Instead, he chose to confront the fog head-on here.

Of course, while confronting it, Lu Chen also considered searching for the Mist Ghoul's weakness.

However, the search produced poor results.

He had once fixed his gaze on a phantom and kept walking forward, but whenever he moved, the phantom moved as well, always remaining in front of Lu Chen. This left him helpless.

Lu Chen did not dare venture too far either. He feared the fog would obscure his senses and lead him rashly into the territory of other dangerous evil entities.

At the same time, within the fog, Lu Chen also came to appreciate the benefits of Direct Perception.

The fog spread everywhere, blocking his vision. Yet as long as Lu Chen closed his eyes, he could sense danger around him, while somewhere not far away, there was a place that made him feel at ease.

Lu Chen understood that it was the direction of the Totem Pillar.

It was also thanks to Direct Perception that Lu Chen could move through the fog without restraint, unafraid of losing his way.

"With Direct Perception, I won't get lost. As long as my body can't hold on, I'll return to the village. I refuse to believe that if I enter the village, you'd dare follow me in."

Aside from walking toward the evil entity, Lu Chen had also tried other methods to see whether he could harm the shadowy evil entity.

For example, he had thrown stones. Naturally, the stones themselves were ordinary, but Lu Chen had smeared quite a bit of blood on them.

However, when the stones flew out and struck the phantom, it was as if they had hit a virtual image. The stones passed straight through the phantom's body.

"Is that phantom not fully formed yet, or is it in some other supernatural space, only manifesting when it gets close to me?"

The black phantom gave Lu Chen many possibilities to consider.

But limited by his lack of understanding of this world, many of Lu Chen's speculations could only remain speculations. He had no way to find answers.

While Lu Chen searched for the Mist Ghoul's weakness, he was also constantly being attacked by the fog.

After all, he only had one pair of eyes. No matter which direction Lu Chen faced, phantoms would always emerge from the fog behind him, touching his body and trying to burrow inside, bringing him endless icy cold.

However, Lu Chen's Constitution, which had reached 46 points, made the blood and vitality within him surge like a rainbow, giving him ample resistance against all manner of chilling forces.

No matter how many hands touched Lu Chen's body, the phantoms were always the first to dissipate. Lu Chen himself merely suffered a slight weakening of his blood and vitality.

Yet even that weakness was quickly replenished. Before entering, Lu Chen had drunk a jar of Medicinal Soup. At this moment, the medicine was continuously being absorbed, replenishing the blood and vitality he had expended.

Time slowly passed. Soon, ten minutes had gone by. During that time, Lu Chen suffered ten attacks, but those dozen or so attacks failed to injure him. Instead, the Mist Ghoul could do nothing to him.

Lu Chen had directly erased more than a dozen lingering souls, gaining 500 Experience Points.

Still, Lu Chen had tried many methods, yet he could not get close to the Mist Ghoul, much less disperse the fog. All of this gave him quite a headache.

Just as Lu Chen was brooding over the matter, he suddenly noticed that the fog which had constantly shrouded him was gradually thinning. This caught him off guard.

But then he immediately shouted.

"Hey, don't run!"

"Come out and hit me!"

"Aren't you an evil entity? Aren't you embarrassed to be driven back by a human?"

Although he had not found a way to deal with the fog, the fog could not do anything to Lu Chen. It had even brought him plenty of Experience Points, so Lu Chen was unwilling to let it leave.

He even began cursing loudly and chasing after it as the fog retreated.

The scene could only be called extremely bizarre.

Normally, when evil entities encountered humans, humans would do everything they could to flee, while the evil entities would do everything in their power to stop them from escaping.

But today, the human was cursing and trying to stop the evil entity, while the evil entity was fleeing. It was, to say the least, rather strange.