Two Heads, Four Arms, Merging with the Eerie

West side of the small town · Fifth Altar.

While Pei Chao impatiently explained the locations of the five Abyss Altars to Zhao Gang, Feng Buzhi had already successfully emptied both mind and body, entering a state of lucid emptiness.

His eyes were slightly open, yet he had shut off his vision. There was nothing in his sight.

His eardrums trembled faintly from time to time, admitting one or two subtle sounds of the breeze, but his brain no longer received auditory signals.

Touch, taste, smell, temperature...

Every sense had been shut off. He could not even feel the passage of time.

By then, the scene within his mind had undergone an earth-shattering transformation.

Before him appeared a palace of constantly writhing flesh and blood. It was dozens of times larger than the two-story building he had seen before. Blood continuously surged from the ground, forming a lake, while he sat cross-legged atop that lake of blood.

"It is time to split my consciousness."

Very soon, Feng Buzhi's consciousness divided into two, and the scene he observed became two separate scenes.

Feng Buzhi looked at himself and suddenly discovered that his once-normal appearance had become that of two heads and four arms. The additional two arms emerged from behind his shoulders. One head wore a smile as radiant as sunlight, while the other bore a compassionate smile.

Two voices came from the palace of flesh and blood in succession.

"Do you desire power?"

"Do you desire power?"

The two voices corresponded to his two consciousnesses. In other words, his guess had been correct—he could obtain two Eeries.

As he pondered, the blood on the ground began to churn, carrying his cross-legged body into the palace of flesh and blood like a river.

Inside the palace hall, Feng Buzhi once again saw the blood-red eyeball floating in midair, as well as the mouth responsible for transmitting information.

Beyond that, he saw two masses of black, continuously twisting and spinning Eerie energy at the center of the palace.

"An Eerie compatible with you has been generated."

"An Eerie compatible with you has been generated."

Soon, the mouth spoke.

At the same time, Feng Buzhi received two more detailed pieces of information. One of the Eeries before him represented teeth, while the other represented blood, corresponding respectively to his two divided consciousnesses.

According to what Shadow had said, teeth had ordinary potential, while blood had extremely high potential.

However, neither was what he wanted. There was only one Eerie he wanted: skin.

Following Shadow's instructions, Feng Buzhi remained silent and made no additional movements.

Sure enough, just as Shadow had said, before long, the two masses of Eerie energy in the hall vanished, only for two new masses of energy to form.

This was what Shadow had mentioned: once one reached the Subtle Realm, one could select Eerie organs.

"An Eerie compatible with you has been generated."

"An Eerie compatible with you has been generated."

Two more detailed messages arrived. This time, the organs represented by the two Eeries were hair and bone marrow.

These two Eeries were still not what he wished to choose, so Feng Buzhi continued waiting.

After a while, another two masses of Eerie energy appeared.

"An Eerie compatible with you has been generated."

"An Eerie compatible with you has been generated."

Information entered Feng Buzhi's mind. The Eeries that appeared this time represented body hair and teeth.

Teeth had appeared again, but the sensation from the Eerie energy was entirely different. The first sphere of tooth Eerie energy had carried a sharp, keen feeling, whereas this sphere of tooth Eerie energy gave him a chilling sensation.

In other words, even if he randomly obtained a skin Eerie, there would still be differences in its type.

According to Feng Buzhi's senses, the longer he stayed in this palace of flesh and blood, the more fatigued his mind became. He could probably make only another five hundred or so selections before his mind could no longer endure it.

"If only I could directly choose a skin-type Eerie."

Feng Buzhi spoke softly to Damo, then suddenly realized that what he produced was not a normal voice, but some kind of Eerie Whisper.

In this state, he could produce an Eerie Whisper?

Feng Buzhi was still puzzled when he suddenly noticed the eyeball in the hall looking at him.

"Yes."

The mouth in the hall actually responded to his request.

It seemed the Abyss Altar was not incapable of communication. Ordinary speech simply would not work.

Soon, two masses of skin-representing Eerie energy formed before him. One carried a scorching sensation, while the other was also scorching, though the feeling of heat was entirely different.

Feng Buzhi quietly sensed the two Eeries for a while before asking, "Can you generate an Eerie of the meridian type?"

The eyeball in the hall looked at him again, its gaze carrying some bewilderment and confusion.

Soon, the mouth in the hall spoke. "No meridian-type Eerie detected. Matching cannot be completed."

Just as when he had asked Shadow before, the mutated organs of this world did not include meridians, energy channels, or acupoints.

After giving it some thought, Feng Buzhi soon continued asking about other mutated organs.

There were many types of mutated organs available for selection at this Fifth Altar. Though there were no meridians, dantians, or acupoints, he could select blood vessels, the nervous system, or the muscular system.

Unfortunately, none of these were what he wanted.

"It seems that if I want to turn meridians into mutated organs, I can only explore it myself."

Without further consideration for his future meridian plans, Feng Buzhi began selecting skin-type Eerie energy.

After several dozen selections, he ultimately used Damo's consciousness to choose an Eerie that possessed both scorching heat and hardness. Based on his senses, this Eerie was highly potent, and its attributes were very compatible with the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.

As his fingertip touched it, the Eerie slowly drifted toward Feng Buzhi's body.

However, just as the Eerie was about to touch Feng Buzhi's body, the mouth suddenly issued a warning. "Warning. This altar has missing functions and cannot perform complete guidance. Do you wish to abandon this Eerie fusion?"

It seemed this was the missing function of the Abyss Altar that Shadow had mentioned. There would be risks when merging with an Eerie.

Feng Buzhi said, "Continue."

The next moment, Feng Buzhi thrust his palm into the sphere of Eerie energy. In an instant, the sphere poured into his body.

At the same time, more than a dozen tentacles extended from the flesh-and-blood walls and connected to his body. Feng Buzhi felt more than a dozen streams of cool energy helping him stabilize the Eerie energy sphere that had entered his body.

Unfortunately, the stabilizing force was clearly insufficient. Soon, all the flesh-and-blood tentacles collapsed, and the Eerie began rampaging through his body.

"So that is how it is. If this were a complete Abyss Altar, this Eerie would merge into my skin with the altar's assistance. But this Abyss Altar is incomplete, so it cannot restrain this Eerie.

"Yet this has created the conditions for me to inject Eeries into my meridians. I can use this Abyss Altar to generate suitable Eeries, then rely on my own guidance to merge them into my meridians."

Feng Buzhi's two heads revealed smiles, one brilliant as sunlight, the other as full of compassion as the Buddha.

Very soon, he suppressed the Eerie constantly darting through his body with his will and spirit.

Compared to the Eerie flesh chunks he had obtained from killing those Eerie Monsters in the mist, this rampaging Eerie was actually rather gentle. Feng Buzhi swiftly subdued it.

The flesh-and-blood tentacles generated by the Abyss Altar connected to his body again, and the dozen streams of cool energy reappeared, helping guide the Eerie energy into his skin.

Time passed, and the Eerie gradually merged with his skin.

And at the very moment the Eerie energy completely fused into his skin, Feng Buzhi felt his consciousness being tugged, then falling downward.

Accompanied by a faint daze, his consciousness had arrived in the Endless Abyss...