"Thud, thud, thud, thud..."
Four low knocks sounded outside the door, one after another, carrying far through the silent night.
With the knocking, waves of chilling power rapidly spread through the surroundings, slowly encroaching on Li Feng's body.
"Paranormal Entity? A ghost? Demon?"
Li Feng turned toward the front door, thoughts rising one after another.
But a moment later, Li Feng sensed something familiar within the chilling power around him.
"The Wedding-Dress Bride?!"
Li Feng's expression shifted, and he swore furiously to himself.
He had never expected to actually become the Wedding-Dress Bride's target, much less have her come straight to his door.
As for how she had found him...
That no longer mattered.
What Li Feng needed to consider now was how to evade the Wedding-Dress Bride—or kill her.
Instinctively, Li Feng turned to fetch his phone and notify the Night Patrol Bureau about the Wedding-Dress Bride.
But immediately afterward, Li Feng stopped.
He realized that the power emanating from the Wedding-Dress Bride outside did not seem impossible to resist.
In fact...
Li Feng lowered his head and looked at his hands.
When the chilling power released by the Wedding-Dress Bride outside touched his skin, his skin actually blocked it, preventing even a trace from entering his body.
Sensing this, Li Feng could not help smiling.
He had never imagined that tempering his skin with mind fog would produce such an amazing effect.
And the reason Li Feng could be certain that this miraculous change in his skin was related to mind fog...
Was that the Human Body Tempering Art truly did nothing beyond training the body and improving physical fitness. It produced no other supernatural effects.
Since even his skin had undergone such a miraculous change, what about the hair he had invested far more time and power in?
At a thought, a strand of hair at Li Feng's forehead began growing at tremendous speed. As it swayed slightly, it hissed through the air.
Even the chilling power suffusing his surroundings seemed to be sliced apart by it, becoming somewhat disordered.
Unfortunately, that chilling power was inherently intangible.
It was like cutting water with a blade: the moment the blade moved away, the water closed again.
Thus, even when Li Feng sliced apart the Wedding-Dress Bride's supernatural power, it quickly merged back together, suffering little effect.
Still, whatever the case, this meant that the transformed strand of hair seemed capable of countering supernatural power.
Then could it injure a Paranormal Entity?
As he controlled that sharp strand of hair, Li Feng's eyes gradually darkened.
Besides, since the Wedding-Dress Bride was knocking outside, trying to make him open the door...
Didn't that mean she was still unable to break the rules of the system and force her way inside?
If that was true, he had plenty of room to maneuver.
"Heh, heh..."
Li Feng gave a cold chuckle. When he looked at the door again, his expression had taken on a murderous edge.
The next instant, wisps of fog rose around Li Feng and rapidly spread outward, eventually enveloping everything within a meter of him.
The chilling power around him was instantly devoured and absorbed by the mind fog, expanding its range by another almost imperceptible sliver.
Sensing the subtle change in the mind fog, Li Feng's smile deepened.
Just then, another round of knocking suddenly came from outside.
"Thud, thud, thud, thud..."
With the knocking came an even more chilling power.
Unfortunately, against the mind fog, this chilling power still went in and never came out, swiftly devoured and absorbed.
Wrapped in mind fog, Li Feng felt not the slightest chill.
"Phew!"
Taking a deep breath, Li Feng quietly approached the door and peered through the peephole.
A bright red wedding dress fluttered...
Just as I thought...
Li Feng sighed softly.
But on closer inspection, Li Feng noticed a nearly imperceptible glimmer of awareness in the Wedding-Dress Bride's eyes. She was tilting her head at the door in apparent confusion.
Why had he suddenly disappeared again?
Still, she possessed a little more intelligence than before. Unlike last time, she did not immediately leave to find someone else when she could no longer sense Li Feng's presence.
She slowly raised her hand again and gently knocked on the door.
"Thud..."
But just as she knocked once, a thin layer of fog suddenly enveloped the door before her.
The Wedding-Dress Bride's raised hand paused.
The next instant, the fog surged outward, instantly engulfing the Wedding-Dress Bride.
Then the fog churned and writhed, and a fog rope shot out, instantly winding around the Wedding-Dress Bride's wrist.
At once, waves of chilling power raced along the fog rope into the fog behind it, then spread toward the door.
Throughout this process, that intensely frigid power weakened rapidly.
While still on the fog rope, it could instantly freeze the air and raise wisps of white mist. By the time it reached the door, it was merely cold.
After passing through the door and reaching Li Feng, it amounted to only a slight chill, which his skin easily blocked.
Naturally, this chilling power never entered Li Feng's body, much less caused any hallucinations or visions.
Sensing this, Li Feng was delighted.
"Haha, now that the mind fog is stronger, it really can devour supernatural power faster..."
Last time, merely touching the Wedding-Dress Bride had left Li Feng shivering with cold and his mind flooded with visions.
This time, he had shaped the fog into a rope and wrapped it directly around the Wedding-Dress Bride's wrist.
Yet the Paranormal Entity power flowing from the Wedding-Dress Bride could not penetrate his body at all.
In that case, could he take things a step further, increase the area of contact, and draw out the Wedding-Dress Bride's Paranormal Entity power even faster?
While Li Feng was thinking this, the Wedding-Dress Bride slowly looked down at her wrist and the fog rope drawing away her power. The confusion in her eyes gradually turned to ferocity.
It was him. Him. It was him! This was the thing that had stolen her power last time.
With a slight movement, the Wedding-Dress Bride instantly broke free of the fog rope.
Or rather, the fog rope had never restrained her at all.
In a sense, both were intangible, unable to exert physical force on each other. How could the fog rope restrain the Wedding-Dress Bride?
Its supposed binding had merely been the form in which the fog contacted the Wedding-Dress Bride's body.
Naturally, the Wedding-Dress Bride could break free with ease—or rather, move away, as if passing through air.
Once she moved out of the fog coiled around her wrist, before Li Feng could react and direct the mind fog to touch her again, the Wedding-Dress Bride erupted first.
Boom!
An immense surge of Paranormal Entity power spread outward and rushed forward, striking the door with a series of sharp cracks before flooding into the room.
At that moment, even with mind fog enveloping him, Li Feng still felt a bone-deep chill.
"Bzzzz..."
"Crackle, snap..."
As the chilling power spread through the room, the voltage instantly became unstable, and the lights began flickering and sputtering.
At the same time, all manner of visions began appearing before Li Feng's eyes.
The modern room gradually grew unreal and receded, transforming into an ancient courtyard. Clad in her bright red wedding dress, the Wedding-Dress Bride slowly approached him.
"How could this happen?"
Sensing all this, Li Feng was horrified. He could not understand how the Wedding-Dress Bride's power had breached the door so easily and entered the room in such enormous quantities.
But he had no time to dwell on it now.
Li Feng immediately recalled all his mind fog, gathering it around himself for protection, then bit the tip of his tongue to break free of the visions.
Even so, although the flood of visions in his mind ceased, his surroundings still felt incredibly cold.
And after devouring more of the Wedding-Dress Bride's power, his mind fog now reached 1.3 meters.
Yet even that seemed inadequate against the power the Wedding-Dress Bride released.
Still, the influx of supernatural power also caused the mind fog to grow rapidly, churning and expanding without pause.
Gradually, Li Feng felt his surroundings becoming less cold.
But just as he relaxed a little, he suddenly heard a click from the front door.
At the sound, Li Feng's heart sank, and he instantly looked toward the lock.
The next moment, something happened that made his scalp prickle.
The lock slid, and the door slowly opened. The Wedding-Dress Bride stood there in her bright red wedding dress, staring at him with vicious hatred.
Li Feng's expression changed drastically at the sight, and he cursed inwardly in disbelief.
"Fuck, how?"
Had the Wedding-Dress Bride suddenly become so powerful that she could break through the restrictions imposed by the system's rules?
No, no, no...
Li Feng's mind raced, and he shook his head hard.
If the Wedding-Dress Bride's power had already become strong enough to break those restrictions...
Then she would not have stood outside knocking earlier, trying to make him open the door himself.
Damn it, I'm such an idiot...
Suddenly, Li Feng slapped his forehead, cursing himself inwardly.
He had focused only on not opening the door, but forgotten that by actively making contact with and devouring the Wedding-Dress Bride's Paranormal Entity power, allowing it to spread into his room, he had effectively invited her inside.
No wonder she could open the door and enter on her own.
He had voluntarily invited her and given his consent.
But now that the Wedding-Dress Bride was already inside, further regret served no purpose.
What he needed to do now was evade her pursuit—or kill her.
As for evading her, one look at the Wedding-Dress Bride, who had ignored the mind fog and stared straight at him from the moment she appeared, told Li Feng that was absolutely impossible.
Feeling the chilling power around him, Li Feng immediately understood why.
The Paranormal Entity power he could not completely devour and convert was precisely what allowed the Wedding-Dress Bride to pinpoint him.
In that case, only one path remained...
Kill the Wedding-Dress Bride.
At that thought, Li Feng's gaze abruptly sharpened.
With a thought, he split off more than half the mind fog surrounding him and sent it toward the Wedding-Dress Bride.
The total volume of his mind fog covered a radius of a little over a meter.
But that did not mean it could only envelop an area of that size.
By stretching it into a fog rope, for instance, or spreading it out into a thinner layer, he could extend it farther.
In an instant, the Wedding-Dress Bride was completely enveloped in mind fog.
And this time, the mind fog covered her entirely.
That also meant it was making contact with a much larger area of her body.
Hum!
In an instant, the mind fog trembled slightly. Vast waves of utterly frigid supernatural power began flowing through it without end, leaving Li Feng shivering as visions once again formed in his mind.
But Li Feng had anticipated this. He immediately bit the tip of his tongue again, and the intense pain snapped him out of the visions.
The moment he regained his senses, he saw the Wedding-Dress Bride, still shrouded in mind fog some distance away, hurtling toward him as though she had teleported.
She raised her hand, her long nails gleaming coldly, and thrust it fiercely toward his chest, eager for a heart-to-heart that would rip out his heart and lungs.
It was easy to imagine the outcome. At his current Skin Tempering Realm, he would not last an instant against the Wedding-Dress Bride's sharp nails. She would pierce his chest and tear out his heart.
"You really think I'm a pushover just because I haven't shown you what I can do?!"
Li Feng cursed. As he desperately dodged to the side, a strand of hair shot from his forehead and stabbed toward the Wedding-Dress Bride with incredible speed.
Squelch!
The Wedding-Dress Bride's lunge met the hair's thrust, driven by a hundred jin of force. Their combined momentum sent that incredibly fine yet incredibly tough strand straight through her forehead and into her brain.
At the same time, Li Feng controlled the hair embedded in the Wedding-Dress Bride's forehead, rapidly stirring it around inside her skull.
The Wedding-Dress Bride's head tipped back slightly, and her charging body abruptly stopped. Pain appeared on her face.
But she was, after all, a Paranormal Entity. Although her causal connection with Li Feng had temporarily brought her into the real world, granting her the power to affect it and allowing others to injure her...
She was ultimately not a normal living being. Unlike living creatures in the real world, she possessed no conventionally fatal weak points.
Thus, even though Li Feng had driven his hair into the Wedding-Dress Bride's skull and kept churning it around, it merely caused her some pain. It was not enough to kill her.
Seeing this, Li Feng issued another mental command. The strand of hair rapidly extended downward along the Wedding-Dress Bride's neck, seeking to pierce her chest and shred her heart, lungs, and other organs.
Meanwhile, the mind fog gathered once more, tightly enveloping the Wedding-Dress Bride and continuously drawing away her power.
He refused to believe that the Wedding-Dress Bride could survive with her brain and organs destroyed and her power drained dry.
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