When Li Feng woke up, he felt refreshed, his mind clearer than ever.
He looked out the window. It was already growing dark.
Rubbing his growling stomach, Li Feng got up to cook some noodles.
While he was at it, he took out his Compass to check the situation.
Yes, dawn and dusk were when Paranormal Entity cases were most likely to occur.
Investigators generally only needed to check things at those times.
As for the rest of the day, Paranormal Entity incidents rarely occurred in daylight, while the Night Patrol Bureau handled things at night.
After hurriedly finishing his meal, Li Feng sat on the Living Room sofa and half-closed his eyes. He instantly entered a partial visualization state, and the body he had visualized appeared in his mind at once.
It stood in the dark void like a real person.
At present, however, it was like a wooden carving or clay statue. Though lifelike, it looked hollow and lifeless.
Next, he needed to visualize his own spirit and intent, then unite it with his mind. Once they became a single, inseparable whole, his cultivation would have reached full perfection.
For now, though, Li Feng did not care much about that.
Even at perfection, the Humanity Visualization Method would only give him the ability to hypnotize and create illusions.
What caught Li Feng's attention was the mind fog beneath the visualized body's feet. It had more than doubled in size.
Sensing this, Li Feng immediately willed it to move.
The next instant, wisps of fog rose around Li Feng, soon enveloping him completely.
Li Feng examined it carefully and found that the mind fog's thickness had indeed more than doubled, reaching a little over two centimeters.
He got up and went to the bathroom. In the mirror on the wall, Li Feng's figure had become even more indistinct. All he could make out was a vaguely humanoid shape of gray fog.
Sure enough, its ability to obstruct vision had improved too.
He just did not know how much its ability to block perception and conceal his presence had improved.
Thinking of the Wedding-Dress Bride he had encountered just after arriving in this world, Li Feng actually felt a flicker of eagerness.
Could I completely ignore the Wedding-Dress Bride now?
But he quickly reined in his restless heart.
He had only made a tiny bit of progress, yet with two centimeters of mind fog, he was already thinking of taking on the Wedding-Dress Bride head-on. He really had more guts than sense.
Still, after last night's visualization, not only had his mind fog grown stronger, but his control over it had improved as well.
Li Feng slowly raised his right hand. At his command, a portion of the mind fog surrounding him immediately separated and gathered over his right hand, forming a ball of fog the size of a basketball.
In the mirror, Li Feng watched a misty figure holding a ball of fog. It looked dreamlike and illusory, like a ghost.
Then Li Feng moved his hand, rapidly stretching the basketball-sized ball of Mind Fog into a ribbon of Mist more than two meters long.
That, however, was already the limit of what Li Feng could currently achieve.
Once he had fully familiarized himself with the mind fog's transformations, Li Feng withdrew it with a thought.
Seeing that the sky outside had gone dark, Li Feng returned to his bed, sat cross-legged, and began his visualization practice for the day.
As for body training, he would return to that once he had made progress with visualization and gained some ability to protect himself.
Time flew by. When Li Feng felt his mind growing tired, he immediately stopped visualizing.
By then, however, he felt that his Visualization Method was already very close to perfection.
Vaguely, he had formed a faint connection with his visualized self, and could even control it to a certain extent.
He checked the time. It was already past eleven at night, nearly midnight.
Without another thought, Li Feng lay down and went straight to sleep.
The night passed uneventfully. When daylight came, Li Feng slowly woke.
Perhaps it was because of his progress in visualization, but despite having just woken from a deep sleep, Li Feng felt no grogginess at all. Instead, his mind was clear and he felt refreshed.
He repeated yesterday's routine, taking out his Compass to check the situation before heading out to report to the Investigation Department.
After he checked in that day, Yuan Chengfang did not send him home early. Instead, she began familiarizing him with various tasks and procedures, and explained the key points of practicing his cultivation methods.
It was not until around three or four in the afternoon that she let Li Feng leave.
Walking down the street and recalling the cultivation pointers Yuan Chengfang had given him, Li Feng felt that he had gained a great deal.
Not only had he gained a deeper understanding of body training, but he had also learned quite a bit about his Visualization Method, which was already at major attainment and nearing perfection.
He walked as he thought, and time quickly slipped by.
When Li Feng came back to his senses, the sun was about to set. Only its last few rays still scattered a final light over the world.
At the sight, Li Feng frowned slightly, instantly recalling what had happened when he first arrived in this world.
Looking around, he saw that all the other pedestrians were hurrying along too.
Without thinking, Li Feng quickened his pace as well.
Although he had made progress in visualization, and his mind fog had grown stronger again.
When he considered the Humanity Visualization Method's pitiful abilities, and the mind fog that was still only three centimeters thick after two nights of practice.
Li Feng had no intention whatsoever of lingering outside at night and facing supernatural entities, demons, monsters, or ghosts.
Unfortunately, the very thing he feared came to pass.
By the time Li Feng hurried toward Pine Court Residential Community, the sky had grown completely dark, and the streetlights were coming on one after another.
After rounding another corner, with only the final stretch of road remaining, Li Feng abruptly stopped. His whole body stiffened.
Not far ahead, a figure wearing a festive, bright red wedding dress drifted back and forth.
It was the very same Wedding-Dress Bride Paranormal Entity Li Feng had seen just after arriving in this world.
Seemingly sensing Li Feng's presence, the Wedding-Dress Bride pivoted in midair and immediately looked straight at him.
Li Feng's breath caught slightly. Then he acted as though nothing had happened, lowered his head to check his phone, and muttered:
"Huh? So it's on the left?"
As he spoke, Li Feng had already begun naturally moving to the left.
Supernatural entities were projected phantasms of beings from other dimensions, and had no ability to affect reality.
But once someone interacted with them and established a karmic connection, they would immediately be drawn into the dimension of reality, gaining the ability to affect it and kill humans.
So when facing a Paranormal Entity, all one had to do was ignore it.
Yet just as Li Feng turned, a flash of bright red suddenly appeared in front of him.
Instinctively, Li Feng paused for a fraction of a second and dodged slightly to the side.
"Heeheehee, you saw me..."
Hearing the voice beside his ear, Li Feng smiled bitterly inwardly. In a situation like that, how many people could possibly react properly in an instant?
That explained why, despite ordinary supernatural entities having almost no influence over reality compared with demons, monsters, and ghosts.
Almost no ordinary person survived an encounter with one.
Still, although the Wedding-Dress Bride's sudden appearance had caused Li Feng to dodge, establishing a karmic connection with her.
Li Feng was not entirely unprepared for the situation.
"Whew!"
Drawing a deep breath, Li Feng willed his power into motion. Wisps of fog rapidly spread around him, soon enveloping his entire body.
"Huh?"
The Wedding-Dress Bride had already come close enough to nearly press against Li Feng's face when the fog enveloped him.
But she instantly stopped, looking around where Li Feng had been in confusion.
Where did the prey go? Why was there only a strange cloud of fog left?
This only worked because supernatural entities possessed little intelligence, merely fixed logic and rule-bound instincts.
Any other Demon or monster would have taken a swipe at the misty human figure before them.
With Li Feng's current physical defenses, he would have died instantly.
Seeing that the mind fog really had blocked the Wedding-Dress Bride's perception and stopped her attack, Li Feng breathed a small sigh of relief.
Then, looking at the Wedding-Dress Bride before him, Li Feng grew eager again as an idea surfaced in his mind.
His mind fog indeed had no ability to attack.
But what if I enveloped an opponent in it?
Could its ability to conceal a presence, block perception, and obstruct vision trap them?
If it could, wouldn't that mean the mind fog also had some ability to restrain enemies?
Since the Wedding-Dress Bride before him could not lock onto him through the mind fog, allowing him to stay alive, was she not an excellent test subject?
Moreover, they were less than half a meter apart, within the range of Li Feng's control over the mind fog, allowing him to envelop her completely.
With that thought, Li Feng immediately began carefully gathering the mind fog and extending it toward the Wedding-Dress Bride little by little.
Eventually, wisps of mind fog began wrapping around the Wedding-Dress Bride's body.
Once the mind fog enveloped her, the Wedding-Dress Bride's drifting body suddenly paused. She stared ahead in confusion.
The countless traces of living people in the surrounding real world suddenly vanished. The Wedding-Dress Bride, who could only instinctively pursue the presence of the living, instantly lost her targets.
For a while, the Wedding-Dress Bride stood blankly in place, neither attacking Li Feng nor leaving.
Watching her reaction, Li Feng could not help feeling delighted. It seemed his idea was workable.
Still, Li Feng understood that he could only trap the Wedding-Dress Bride temporarily because she was a Paranormal Entity, possessing only the underlying logic and instincts that made her follow rules.
Otherwise, given the mind fog's current coverage, the Wedding-Dress Bride could easily escape it with the slightest movement.
Even so, this suggested a possibility for the future.
A city shrouded in dense fog—if he wished, he could trap the vast majority of beings within it.
Meanwhile, as the mind fog enveloped the Wedding-Dress Bride, it inevitably came into contact with her body.
In an instant, Li Feng felt a sinister chill rapidly spreading from the Wedding-Dress Bride.
It then swiftly traveled through the mind fog and spread throughout Li Feng's body.
Li Feng could not help shivering slightly.
At the same time, one Paranormal Entity vision after another began appearing in Li Feng's mind.
Startled by this sudden development, Li Feng instinctively willed the mind fog enveloping the Wedding-Dress Bride to withdraw at once.
Then the mind fog churned, and the bitter cold spreading through his body, along with the visions roiling in his mind, began rapidly receding.
"Whew!"
Li Feng let out a small breath and looked at the Wedding-Dress Bride before him, still shaken.
He had never expected the Wedding-Dress Bride to be so powerful. Mere contact through the mind fog had nearly frozen him stiff, while countless illusions invaded his mind.
If the mind fog had not come through for him, he might have been done for this time.
Report it. I have to report the Wedding-Dress Bride's appearance to the higher-ups.
Let the experts from the Response Department or the Night Patrol Bureau destroy this Wedding-Dress Bride.
Whoosh!
Meanwhile, after the mind fog stopped blocking her senses, yet she still could not find Li Feng's living presence.
The Wedding-Dress Bride flickered, instantly reappearing in her original position, then drifted away into the distance.
From time to time, she stopped in front of doors with living people behind them.
However, seemingly restricted by some rule, she could not directly enter homes whose doors and windows were shut.
Only after seeing the Wedding-Dress Bride move away did Li Feng completely relax. Looking at the mind fog before him, he inwardly praised how reliable it was.
But the next instant, Li Feng froze again, rubbing his eyes in disbelief.
After another careful examination, Li Feng finally confirmed that the mind fog, originally only about three centimeters thick, had now reached six centimeters. It was fully twice as strong as before.
"Wh-what... what's going on?"
But soon, after recovering from his shock, Li Feng had a rough idea of the reason.
Previously, Li Feng had known that the mind fog could grow by devouring the various illusions produced during cultivation.
Now, however, it seemed there was more to it than that.
What the mind fog devoured was probably some kind of power that caused him to experience hallucinations and visions.
Clearly, the sinister, icy power within the Wedding-Dress Bride must have been that kind of power, or something similar.
Perhaps the bitterly cold power he had felt earlier had not even been the Wedding-Dress Bride's power invading him, but the mind fog actively devouring it.
It was just that, without any restrictions, it had devoured too much too quickly, creating that feeling of extreme cold.
Furthermore, it had been Li Feng's first time experiencing it, so in his alarm, he had immediately withdrawn the mind fog enveloping the Wedding-Dress Bride.
If that was really the case, didn't it mean the mind fog could grow rapidly by devouring the power of supernatural entities?
Looking at the mind fog, which had doubled in strength in mere moments, Li Feng's eyes gradually widened, shining with greed and delight.
Wasn't this the special advantage he had gained by coming to this world?
"Hehehe..."
Unable to help himself, Li Feng looked toward the Wedding-Dress Bride, who was still faintly visible, and began chuckling, looking utterly sleazy and excited.
The next instant, Li Feng parted the mind fog in front of him, revealing his body once more.
In an instant, Li Feng's living presence was completely exposed.
The Wedding-Dress Bride, drifting in the distance and almost out of sight, abruptly stopped. Then she pivoted in midair and looked in Li Feng's direction.
It was not just that Li Feng's living presence was stronger than that of the other people hiding in their homes.
Li Feng had also already established a certain karmic connection with her.
When Li Feng exposed his presence, the Wedding-Dress Bride would inevitably choose him first.
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