Fully Completed, the Eerie Presence Moved In

Feeling the cold, sinister power around him and hearing those faint, eerie whispers, Li Feng's expression shifted slightly.

After all, the room had always been shrouded in dense mind fog.

Although the mutations in those eerie pieces of skin had constantly drawn that strange power toward them,

the moment any trace of it appeared, the mind fog would usually devour it completely.

Over time, Li Feng had almost forgotten about it.

Who would have thought that reassembling and merging the skin today would attract a power strong enough to penetrate the mind fog?

Fortunately, the mind fog still proved reliable.

It soon devoured both that cold power and the eerie voice.

Sensing that the mind fog had grown stronger once again, Li Feng's heart gave a slight jolt.

It seemed that as the skin shed from his body became more complete, the strange power appearing around it really did grow stronger.

Still, what needed to be done had to be done.

With barely any hesitation, Li Feng tore another piece of skin from his body.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss..."

The skin wriggled, rapidly devouring the flesh and blood clinging to it until it became like the other pieces.

Then it drifted down onto the strange human skin with two hands and two feet, wriggling and crawling into position before slowly merging with it.

Li Feng then saw the center of the Weird Human Skin with two hands and two feet extend outward a little.

He looked back at his wound. Skin and granulation tissue wriggled, swiftly forming a scab and healing.

After a little over half an hour, it had completely recovered.

Once it healed, Li Feng considered briefly, then decisively tore off another piece of skin.

His earlier experiments had already provided enough data. There was no need to keep testing things bit by bit.

That being the case, he naturally wanted to finish his full-body skin-shedding plan more quickly.

"Hiss..."

"Ah..."

For a while, cries of pain and sharp gasps rang out through Room 1501 at regular intervals.

By the middle of the night, the human skin spread over the sofa already had a chest and abdomen. Only the skin of the head, neck, and collarbone remained before it would be complete.

However...

Li Feng stopped.

Even though Li Feng had an exceptionally high tolerance for pain and waited between tearing off each piece,

flaying himself like this still placed immense strain on both his body and his mind.

Otherwise, even with the experiments he needed to perform, he would have finished shedding his entire skin long ago.

The process was simply too painful, and he had instinctively, unconsciously drawn it out.

Now, despite having made up his mind, tearing away most of the skin on his chest and abdomen still left him mentally exhausted. He had no choice but to pause.

The remaining areas would have to wait until tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Li Feng went to the Investigation Department to clock in as usual.

The moment he entered, the ordinary department members who saw him smiled and offered their congratulations.

"Congratulations! Congratulations on becoming a full Investigator, sir!"

"Congratulations, congratulations..."

"Congratulations, Mr. Li..."

Clearly, official notice of Li Feng's promotion to full Investigator had already reached the South City Investigation Division Branch.

Their voices were also filled with shock and envy.

Wu Cheng and Zhao Fei, for instance, had needed an entire year under Yuan Chengfang's guidance and assistance to earn enough points to become Full Investigators.

In fact, most trainee Investigators needed around a year to qualify.

Even gifted individuals like Yuan Chengfang had taken more than half a year.

How long had Li Feng been with the Investigation Department? Barely a month or so, yet he was already a Full Investigator. Naturally, everyone was astonished.

Li Feng did not particularly care. After smiling and responding to everyone, he left the Investigation Department as usual.

Watching Li Feng leave, they began discussing him again in hushed voices.

"Investigator Li Feng really is extraordinary. An ordinary person couldn't become a Full Investigator in such a short time..."

"Heh, an ordinary person...

An ordinary person would be done for the moment they faced those eerie monsters and demons..."

"Perhaps our South City branch will have another Level-One Investigator in the future."

"Ah, that's difficult!

There are only a handful of Level-One Investigators in the entire Investigation Department here in Yuanyang City."

"Exactly. Becoming a Level-One Investigator means facing even more monsters and demons.

One careless mistake..."

He stopped there, and everyone else fell silent as well.

Far too many Investigators had died in eerie cases.

Of course, even more ordinary people had died.

After all, every eerie case meant someone had lost their life.

Li Feng naturally knew nothing of their discussion, and even if he had, he would not have cared.

As usual, Li Feng soon returned home.

"Huff! Huff! Huff!..."

After taking several deep breaths, Li Feng finally stirred the skin around his collarbone.

Rip!

"Hiss! Ah!"

Amid his agonized cries, a piece of skin floated before him.

Once he recovered, Li Feng controlled the skin, making it swiftly devour the flesh and blood on it before merging it into the Sofa Human Skin.

Watching his wound rapidly scab over, Li Feng practiced visualization for a while.

Once the wound healed, he stopped visualizing and tore off another piece of skin.

He repeated the process until evening, when he finally finished shedding and replacing every inch of skin on his body.

Rubbing his increasingly smooth, fine scalp, Li Feng willed a layer of even tougher short hair to slowly grow out.

With another slight thought, the newly grown hair actually trembled.

Clearly, even without refinement, the hair growing from his new scalp already possessed something eerie about it.

He looked at the sofa. A nearly complete human skin lay flat across it, looking utterly eerie and sinister.

As for why it was only nearly complete,

the final piece of scalp had not yet been merged with it.

Li Feng could vaguely sense that once the human skin was completely whole, it would undergo a tremendous transformation.

The strange power that had repeatedly appeared before would inevitably return, far stronger than before.

Naturally, Li Feng intended to prepare thoroughly before completing the human skin.

With the Psychic Pistol in hand, he released vast quantities of fog around him, swiftly filling the entire room.

Even then, he did not stop. He released all his mind fog and compressed it into the living room.

At the same time, with a thought, Li Feng sealed every door in his Mind Space, reinforcing them with stronger defensive and sealing power.

A faint suppressive force began to form around Li Feng.

Combined with the surrounding mind fog, it produced an effect greater than the sum of its parts, giving him stronger mental defenses.

The mind fog's devouring and corrosive power also grew stronger.

Once his preparations were complete, Li Feng willed the final piece of scalp to wriggle into position and slowly merge with the rest.

Hum!

In an instant, the entire Weird Human Skin began to wriggle and tremble slightly. A dim light flickered across it as vast amounts of world spiritual force surged inside.

Like an inflatable doll filling with air, the Weird Human Skin rapidly swelled.

A few breaths later, a person identical to Li Feng appeared on the sofa.

The figure blinked, turned to look at Li Feng, and stretched its mouth into an exaggerated, eerie curve.

"Hee hee hee...

Caught you..."

At the same time, a chilling, eerie power swiftly spread from its body. Although the mind fog continuously devoured it, it still reached Li Feng.

Li Feng could not help raising an eyebrow.

He had not expected the eerie power to appear inside the human skin he had shed this time.

Had this been some Paranormal Entity ritual or an ordinary shedding of skin, the inevitable outcome would have been that strange thing completely possessing and controlling his shed skin, then turning around and killing him.

Unfortunately for it...

Li Feng could clearly feel that the close connection between himself and the Weird Human Skin had not been blocked or weakened in the slightest.

It was as though nothing could obstruct or sever the bond between them...

In particular, his own skin and his Soul Skin seemed to be one with it, sharing senses and power and responding to his thoughts.

Li Feng had no intention of arguing with that Paranormal Entity presence. With a thought, he simply took control of the Weird Human Skin.

"Huh? What? Impossible..."

A voice filled with utter shock rang out from within the Weird Human Skin.

Devour...

In an instant, terrifying devouring power erupted from the human skin, continuously consuming the Paranormal Entity power that had suddenly appeared inside it.

"No!"

The sudden change sent the Paranormal Entity power inside the human skin into a panic, and it began struggling fiercely.

It rammed left and right, making large bulges rise from the skin and even dragging it a short distance.

But its efforts achieved nothing. Instead, they accelerated its expenditure of power, allowing the human skin to devour even more.

Seeing that it could not escape, the power abruptly condensed into a single point and shot upward, dragging the human skin into a high leap that slammed it directly into the ceiling.

The next instant, that point of power plunged downward.

Pfft!

Although Li Feng had done everything he could to seal every part of the body, that condensed point of power still broke through the skin's confinement via a certain unmentionable opening.

"Heh, hahaha! I'm out..."

The Paranormal Entity power, expelled like a fart, had only just relaxed in delight and allowed its condensed power to disperse when it abruptly froze again.

It discovered that escaping the Weird Human Skin was not the end.

Extremely dense fog surrounded it.

More importantly, that dense fog possessed tremendous devouring and corrosive power, far stronger even than the Weird Human Skin's.

Almost the moment it emerged, a third of its power was devoured.

Although its lowered guard was partly to blame, this also demonstrated just how powerful the surrounding fog's devouring ability was.