Boom—
The oil lamp ignited, casting an orange glow that drove back the darkness around them.
Ji Yan carried an oil lamp as he walked across the wooden planks of the shrine passageway. The bark-like growth spreading along his arm was expanding further and further.
The face-shaped flower bud embedded in his flesh had already grown to the size of a fist!
The piercing sound of crying continued without pause.
And a second face-shaped flower bud had already formed—
When the first bud fully matured, Ji Yan finally understood what effects losing a layer of his soul would have...
Because two minutes earlier, he had suddenly lost consciousness.
Two minutes later, an oil lamp had appeared in his hand, and he had found himself in an unfamiliar room.
According to Burning Death Eerie's recollection, during those two minutes, Ji Yan had abruptly fallen silent, as if he had become another person. He had entered a room and lit this oil lamp.
Cold sweat seeped from Ji Yan's back.
It also made him realize that losing a layer of his soul would embed a strange personality in his mind!
But unlike the strange personality of District 5 [Nightmare] on the "Final Battlefield," which occupied half the control over your body, this strange personality could completely seize control of the body at fixed intervals.
Upon hearing this, Burning Death Eerie realized the seriousness of the situation. "Then what do we do?"
"What if you black out again and go get yourself killed?"
"Especially if an eerie thing is chasing us—wouldn't that be the end of us?"
Ji Yan frowned. "We'll have to rely on you two to restrict my movements."
"Now we can confirm that there probably aren't any dangerous NPCs like the [Two-Mouthed Eerie Woman] within the [Human-Faced Tree] area."
"Then