Whoosh!
The moment she sensed the living presence of the person who had previously formed a karmic connection with her reappear...
In almost the blink of an eye, the Wedding-Dress Bride, who had nearly vanished into the distance, flickered and appeared directly in front of Li Feng.
"Heeheehee, caught you..."
Despite having prepared himself, Li Feng's pupils still contracted sharply at the Wedding-Dress Bride's sudden appearance. Panic surged through him.
Whoosh!
He immediately controlled the mind fog before him, drawing it together again to wrap his body tightly without leaving a single gap.
"Huh?"
Seeing Li Feng turn back into a humanoid mass of Mist, the Wedding-Dress Bride made a puzzled sound.
Yet, just as before, she stopped in front of Li Feng without making any attempt to attack.
That was how supernatural entities worked. Even after repeating something a thousand times, their behavioral logic never changed.
Seizing the opportunity, Li Feng instantly directed his mind fog, now twice as strong, to spread toward the Wedding-Dress Bride again, gradually enveloping her.
This time, however, because the mind fog was stronger, Li Feng left a larger gap.
As a result, the fog did not touch the Wedding-Dress Bride immediately when it enveloped her.
Only then did Li Feng try separating a wisp of mind fog and gently touching the Wedding-Dress Bride with it.
Boom!
A power radiating an icy chill instantly raced toward him along that wisp of mind fog.
But because the area of contact was so small, the power transmitted was limited. Li Feng could even clearly perceive the path along which that icy power spread.
Starting from the end touching the Wedding-Dress Bride, white mist rapidly rose from the gray mind fog, as though a layer of white frost had frozen over it, or like a plume of breath exhaled in winter.
Once it reached the larger mass of mind fog, however, the incoming icy power rapidly dispersed in all directions, its concentration plummeting.
Throughout this process, the mind fog kept devouring and converting that power.
By the time it actually reached Li Feng, he still felt cold, but it was no longer unbearable.
The only thing that troubled him was the profusion of illusions once again arising in his mind.
As time passed, those countless illusions began to take on a coherent pattern and grew increasingly clear.
He seemed to be standing inside a grand residence plastered with bright red wedding characters, surrounded by bustling crowds in festive ancient attire, all smiling.
Through the haze, he seemed to see a bridal chamber, where a Wedding-Dress Bride sat upright with her hands folded and a red veil covering her head.
Meanwhile, everything in the real world—the surrounding streets, towering buildings, dim yellow streetlights, and more—began to turn unreal.
With reality becoming dreamlike and the grand residence growing ever clearer, Li Feng momentarily lost the ability to distinguish what was real from what was illusory.
Suddenly, the Wedding-Dress Bride sitting with her hands folded seemed to notice him watching. She began turning her head toward him.
Although a red veil covered her head, Li Feng could clearly feel the Wedding-Dress Bride's gaze.
He even seemed to see the unveiled Wedding-Dress Bride in the real world again, two streams of bloody tears slowly running down her face.
At the same time, an overwhelming sense of mortal danger surged through Li Feng's heart.
The shock abruptly snapped Li Feng out of his hazy, dreamlike state.
Li Feng bit the tip of his tongue, briefly shaking off the illusions, and withdrew the mind fog touching the Wedding-Dress Bride with a thought.
Yet even after the mind fog stopped touching her, Li Feng still felt an intense sense of danger.
Looking at the Wedding-Dress Bride opposite him, he saw that her hollow black eyes, streaming with bloody tears, seemed to be gradually focusing on his location.
Alarm shot through Li Feng. Had he triggered a deeper layer of the Wedding-Dress Bride's supernatural rules?
With an immediate thought, he withdrew the mind fog enveloping the Wedding-Dress Bride and swiftly wrapped it around himself instead.
Sensing the many living people nearby again, the Wedding-Dress Bride's gradually focusing eyes suddenly paused, her gaze repeatedly scattering and gathering.
She seemed to be deciding whether to bring more power to bear to lock onto Li Feng or seek out the other humans within her perception.
Meanwhile, as Li Feng withdrew the mind fog, the power transmitted from the Wedding-Dress Bride began to be fully assimilated by it.
Churning and billowing, the mind fog surrounding Li Feng began to spread rapidly, its strength also increasing at a tremendous pace.
Seeing that the mind fog ahead was about to envelop the Wedding-Dress Bride again, Li Feng immediately took a step back, moving the rapidly expanding fog away from her.
Eventually, the mind fog reached a radius of slightly over a meter.
But because Li Feng had taken that step back, the expanding mind fog never enveloped the Wedding-Dress Bride again.
Perhaps it was because the mind fog had completely devoured and converted the Wedding-Dress Bride's power, severing their deeper connection, while also growing much stronger and becoming better at blocking perception.
After staring for a while longer at where Li Feng stood wrapped in mind fog, the Wedding-Dress Bride finally turned and left.
"Phew!"
Seeing the Wedding-Dress Bride leave, Li Feng felt the warning of danger hanging over his heart gradually fade. Only then did he release a long breath and relax a little.
Apparently, although it had felt as though little time had passed while he was immersed in the illusions, quite a while must actually have gone by.
Li Feng took out his phone and checked.
Eight twenty!
"This..."
Li Feng clearly remembered that it had been sometime after six when he first encountered the Wedding-Dress Bride.
Even accounting for the twists and turns afterward, it should only have been around seven at most.
Yet now it was already eight twenty.
That meant he had spent at least an hour immersed in those illusions.
After such prolonged exposure to illusions created by Paranormal Entity power, it was no wonder he had attracted the attention of the entity's true form.
Nor was it any wonder that the mind fog had suddenly grown so much stronger, reaching a radius of over a meter.
Fortunately, the further-enhanced mind fog had proved powerful enough to block the Wedding-Dress Bride's perception again.
Thinking this over, Li Feng hurried home.
It was late, after all. This really was no time to linger outside.
If he encountered some other unusual Paranormal Entity, Monsters and Demons, he might not be able to escape.
By the time Li Feng arrived home, it was nearly eight forty.
The first thing he did was take out the compass and inspect it.
Sure enough, the Compass needle, which had previously remained motionless, now pointed straight west.
That meant Paranormal Entity power was present west of Pine Court Residential Community.
After confirming that the Wedding-Dress Bride was still there, Li Feng immediately took out the Investigation Department's specially issued phone and called the Night Patrol Office.
During the day, he would contact the Response Department. At night, naturally, he had to contact the Night Patrol Office.
After explaining that there was a Paranormal Entity power response west of Pine Court Residential Community, Li Feng hung up.
How the Night Patrol Office handled it was none of his concern.
Then, holding his phone, Li Feng pondered for a while, but ultimately decided not to call Yuan Chengfang.
The Wedding-Dress Bride really was not anything that extraordinary.
In the two days since Li Feng had transmigrated here, aside from his own bad luck in encountering the Wedding-Dress Bride twice, he had heard nothing about any similar Paranormal Entity incidents.
Besides, what would he say?
Would he explain everything, or say he had detected fluctuations in Paranormal Entity power through the Compass?
If he had merely discovered supernatural power fluctuations through the compass's response, notifying the Night Patrol Office, which patrolled at night, was enough. There was no need to make a fuss and call Yuan Chengfang.
After putting his phone away, Li Feng began testing the greatly enhanced mind fog.
Now dozens of times stronger, the mind fog could cover a radius of a meter. From outside, Li Feng was no longer visible; all anyone could see was a churning mass of fog.
At the same time, Li Feng's control over the mind fog had improved again.
As he waved his arms, he constrained the Mind Fog and stretched it into ribbons of Mist several meters long, sending them weaving and whipping throughout the Living Room like gray tentacles.
Unfortunately, the mind fog had no real ability to affect physical reality. Even when it struck the tables and chairs, it passed through them like air.
Only after quite some time, once he had thoroughly familiarized himself with the greatly enhanced mind fog, did Li Feng withdraw it.
Next, naturally, he would continue his visualization.
After hearing Yuan Chengfang's explanation of the Human Body Tempering Art, he had gained many new insights and had intended to try practicing it once he returned home.
But after encountering the Wedding-Dress Bride today and devouring her power, making his mind fog grow so much stronger all at once, he naturally could hardly wait to find out.
Could the enhanced mind fog, in turn, advance his visualization further?
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Li Feng quickly entered a state of visualization.
In an instant, he visualized an image of himself standing in a dark void, with a two-meter-wide mass of fog churning beneath his feet.
As the visualization continued, the mind fog immediately released vast quantities of pure energy, which flowed ceaselessly into Li Feng's visualized body.
At the same time, a mysterious connection began forming between Li Feng's mind and that visualized body.
As time went on, that mysterious connection continued to strengthen.
Eventually, Li Feng even felt as though he was the figure he had visualized.
Hum!
Then, at a certain moment, Li Feng felt his mind shudder violently. His head spun, and he felt as though he were being sucked through a pipe.
Fortunately, the sensation lasted only an instant.
But when he came to, he discovered that he was in a dark space.
Streams of cool, rich power flowed ceaselessly into his body through the soles of his feet, constantly tempering it.
"Where am I?"
At first, Li Feng looked around the pitch-black space in confusion, then turned his gaze toward his feet.
The instant he looked down, Li Feng froze. A mass of gray Mist emitting a soft glow was continuously releasing streams of spiritual light that flowed into his body.
"Mind fog?!
Then this place is..."
Li Feng examined the dark space before him again, and understanding dawned in his heart.
This was probably the visualization space, and his current state was the result of merging with the self he had visualized.
Had he completely perfected the Humanity Visualization Method?!
From here, under the normal course of cultivation, he would need to switch to another Visualization Method.
But as he felt the mental energy flowing ceaselessly from the mind fog beneath his feet and his own spirit steadily growing stronger...
Li Feng decided not to change his Visualization Method for now. He would consider switching cultivation methods only after his current Visualization Method reached its absolute limit and could advance no further.
Only when the pure energy streaming from the mind fog began to dwindle did Li Feng end his visualization.
This time, the mind fog's range had not increased. Instead, it had shrunk slightly, from a radius of over a meter to a radius of one meter.
But Li Feng felt it was well worth it.
Not only had he completely perfected his visualization method, but his control over the mind fog had also become much more effortless.
For a moment, Li Feng almost wished he could go find the Wedding-Dress Bride again and have a proper exchange with her.
Of course, that was merely a passing thought.
Without absolute confidence, he would never casually approach a Paranormal Entity.
Seeing that it was nearly midnight, Li Feng abandoned the idea of trying the Human Body Tempering Art again and simply turned off the light and went to sleep.
The night passed uneventfully. After getting up early, Li Feng took out the Compass again to inspect it. Its needle no longer pointed in a fixed direction.
He did not know whether the Wedding-Dress Bride had left the area or had been dealt with by the Night Patrol Office's night patrollers.
As for the Wedding-Dress Bride killing them instead...
Even a complete novice like him had managed to escape the Wedding-Dress Bride.
He certainly did not believe that Night Patrol Officers who specialized in dealing with such things would lack the means to handle the Wedding-Dress Bride.
After arriving at the Investigation Department's South City branch, Li Feng immediately reported what he had discovered the previous day.
Of course, he only said that he had noticed an abnormal Compass response, which might indicate the presence of a Paranormal Entity or Monsters and Demons. He did not mention the Wedding-Dress Bride.
When Yuan Chengfang learned what had happened and heard that Li Feng had directly notified the Night Patrol Office, she immediately praised him.
"You did exactly the right thing!
We're investigators in the Investigation Department. Our duty is to report problems to the appropriate department and let them deal with them."
"Hehe, that's all thanks to your teaching, Captain."
What else could Li Feng say? He could only chuckle.
"Ha, you've got potential, kid. Keep working hard under me.
One day, this position of mine will be yours..."
Just as Li Feng was about to say something else, Wu Cheng walked in from outside.
The moment he entered, Wu Cheng called out loudly.
"Captain, did you see it?...
Oh? You're here too, little brother Li Feng.
I was just about to talk about you."
"About me? What's going on?"
Li Feng was puzzled.
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