Tianjin, starting with unorthodox methods to achieve immortality

Chapter 68 Fusion of Ghost Skin

Painted Skin Ghost.

When this ghost was alive, it must have peeled off the skin of countless people and taken countless lives.

The faces of those people were all contained within its skin, becoming part of itself.

Now that the scalp has merged into Chen Mo's body, those faces have also entered.

The key to the "Taiyin Chongxing Pian" lies in refining and fusion. First, use Taiyin Qi to refine it, and then fuse the essence into your own body.

The problem now is that the painted skin demon is too powerful, and the resentment contained in that skin is too complex, which has already affected his own consciousness.

Countless faces wandered under his skin, resentment clashed in his sea of consciousness, and even the last remnant consciousness of the painted-skin ghost began to struggle.

It didn't want to be refined; instead, it wanted to devour the living person.

Chen Mo's face began to contort.

It wasn't just a distorted expression; it was genuinely distorted.

Half of his face drooped down, and the other half was pulled up, as if someone was tearing his face in two directions.

The faces inside the body also wanted to break free, constantly moving under the skin, bulging up one bump after another, imprinting strange rims.

Chen Mo gritted his teeth and persevered, his consciousness beginning to blur as a flood of fragmented memories rushed into his mind.

The terror of being skinned alive, the despair before death, the hatred for the living...

He felt as if he had split into countless people, countless people killed by the Painted Skin Demon.

In the end, Chen Mo couldn't even tell whether he had merged with the painted-skin ghost or the painted-skin ghost had merged with him.

The moment this thought popped into my head, my consciousness felt as if it had been violently pulled by something, plunging deeper into the depths.

Those faces were cheering, waiting for him to fall, waiting for him to become one of them.

But just as he was on the verge of falling, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared deep within his brow.

The Moonlight Mirror, which had been dormant for so long, seemed to be awakened by resentment and suddenly burst forth with a cold light.

The light, carrying a hint of coolness, spread through the sea of consciousness, freezing countless distorted faces wherever it passed.

Then it began to slowly melt, like ice meeting fire, turning into wisps of grayish-white mist, which were then absorbed by a phantom in the corner.

The contortion on Chen Mo's face gradually subsided.

The bulge under the skin stopped moving and gradually disappeared, eventually returning to calm.

After a long while, he opened his eyes and looked at the window in front of him. The face reflected in the window was still changing, but the speed of the change was slower.

The constantly alternating faces begin to merge, eventually becoming a fixed face.

His own face.

His eyes were just deeper, his features more defined, and his skin had a faint, unnatural pale white hue.

He lowered his head and touched the back of his hand; the wandering lines had disappeared, replaced by a new layer of skin.

It's whiter and finer than before, like a color that's never been exposed to wind and sun.

Chen Mo stood by the window, staring at his reflection in the glass for a long time.

Finally, he raised his hand and gently touched his cheek with his fingertips. The touch was delicate, smooth, and even slightly cool.

"Is this the skin of the Painted Skin Demon?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a thought suddenly occurred to him.

Silently recalling the face she had just seen in her mind, she thought of a young woman with gentle features, who must have been a respectable woman in her previous life.

The reflection on the glass began to change.

The facial features began to blur, but after a few breaths, the face became clear again.

Her eyes were lowered, her lips were slightly pursed, and she looked somewhat timid.

Chen Mo was stunned for a moment, then unconsciously raised his hand to touch his face.

My cheekbones are lower, my chin is more pointed, and even the arch of my eyebrows is different.

He leaned closer to the glass, carefully examining the unfamiliar woman's face, and suddenly chuckled.

The pale smile reflected on the glass looked somewhat eerie.

As soon as Chen Mo had a thought, his appearance continued to change.

Middle-aged men, white-haired old women, and young children—one face after another appeared on his face.

After playing for a few minutes, he reluctantly switched back to his own face.

The reflection on the glass returned to normal, except that the eyes looked a little deeper than before.

"That's interesting."

Chen Mo turned away from the glass, walked to the bed, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to feel the changes in his body.

After merging with this ghost skin, another gain was the ability to perceive the Yin energy.

This is the foundation of the cultivation of the "Taiyin Chongxing Chapter".

He could sense it before, but that sense was like being through a thin mist, vague and indistinct, requiring him to close his eyes and concentrate for a long time to catch a trace of it.

Things are different now.

He didn't even need to consciously perceive it to clearly sense the Yin energy dissipating in the air.

They flowed down from the moonlight outside the window, strand by strand, passing through the glass and the walls, and gathering on him.

To be precise, it gathered on the skin of his body.

Chen Mo opened his eyes and looked down at his arm.

When the moonlight shines on it, you can see a very faint silver glow on the surface of the skin.

The silvery light seemed to have a life of its own, seeping into the body through the skin, and was finally purified and filtered by the Moon Essence Mirror in the sea of consciousness, before gathering again in the Yin Aperture of the Dantian.

At this rate, the Yin energy in the Dantian will reach its limit in less than three days, making it ready to challenge the next Yin acupoint.

This cultivation speed has increased several times compared to before.

"No wonder that thing is so powerful, but the gains are huge, so it's worth the risk."

He muttered something to himself and began to mentally review what had just happened.

The first time I fused with a strange body part, I almost got myself killed.

Looking back now, I realize I made at least two fatal mistakes.

The first mistake was that they shouldn't have merged under the moonlight.

He looked up at the window; the red moon still hung in the sky, its light tinged with a faint blood-red hue.

The ghosts were already more ferocious and resentful under the red moon, and the remnant consciousness of the painted skin ghost dared to fight back only because of this opportunity.

If the fusion is done during the day, when the yang energy is at its peak, those resentful thoughts will not be so active.

Next time, I must choose daytime.

The second mistake was that I wasn't mentally firm enough.

His consciousness was almost overwhelmed just now. Those resentful thoughts were like countless hands, pulling him down and waiting for him to become one of them.

Ultimately, it all comes down to a weak mind.

If his will had been stronger and his mind more stable, those resentful thoughts would not have had a chance to take hold.

Chen Mo remained silent for a long time before finally letting out a soft breath.

This time it was just luck; we might not be so fortunate next time.

"The Moonlit Mirror".

[Moonlight Treasure Mirror - Holder Status]

Name: Chen Mo

[Realm Level: Qi Refining Realm (Aperture Opening)]

Bone age: 19 years and 5 months

[Remaining lifespan: 8 years and 228 days]

[Root Bone: Grade B, Superior (Affinity with Yin Meridians)]

[Soul: Superior Grade B]