Under Liu Yan's gaze, mingling pleading with dependence, Qin Feng ultimately accepted the cold set of keys.
"Take a look around. If anything's missing, tell me and I'll go buy it right away!"
"Nothing's missing. Really, I have everything I need."
After exchanging pleasantries for a long while, Qin Feng finally saw off the overly enthusiastic landlady.
"Click."
When the door to 502 closed, shutting out everything beyond it, Qin Feng let out a long breath. Leaning against the cool door, he looked around at the new home that would soon be his, overcome by a deeply unreal feeling.
This place and the rented room where he never saw more than a few rays of sunlight all year round, where mushrooms grew in the corners, seemed like two different worlds.
There was no lingering mildew stench, no creaking bedframe, and no unidentified bugs occasionally crawling out from the corners.
It was quiet here. Bright.
Qin Feng walked over and sat on the soft sofa, his body sinking deep into the comfortable cushions as mental exhaustion washed over him like a tide.
He went into the bathroom, turned on the shower, and warm water poured down from above.
Qin Feng closed his eyes, letting the water wash away the fatigue from his body, as though it were cleansing the hostility buried deep within his soul as well.
After his shower, lying on the comfortable bed, he finally had time to examine himself.
And at that moment, he suddenly sensed something unusual.
A strange sensation of "hunger" rose from deep within his abdomen.
It was not a craving for food, but a more primal, more tyrannical desire, as if a sleeping black hole had quietly awakened.
Qin Feng's heart stirred, and he sank his consciousness into his body.
[Legendary Armament: Gluttony Stomach] [Level: D-Class] [Effect: Your stomach has been reshaped. It can devour, digest, and absorb any form of spiritual energy (including but not limited to resentment, spiritual power, and demonic power), converting it into the purest energy to nourish the host and slowly enhance physical and Spiritual Sense strength.] [Note: A good appetite makes for a healthy body. Don't be a picky eater, kid.]
After advancing to the Form Observation Realm, Qin Feng's control over his body had reached an entirely new level.
He could clearly "see" that within his abdomen, where an ordinary organ should have been, there was now a tiny vortex, intangible and formless, slowly rotating.
It was quiet and silent, yet it radiated a domineering aura that seemed capable of devouring all things, making one's heart tremble.
Next, Qin Feng turned his gaze toward the entire room.
From his perspective, the air was no longer empty.
Countless energy particles, fine as dust and glowing with faint lights of every color, drifted slowly with the airflow.
They were the world's most fundamental energy—Spiritual Energy.
And now, these dazzling Spiritual Energy particles were being drawn by an invisible force, continuously flowing toward Qin Feng's body like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, only to be silently devoured and digested by the tiny vortex in his abdomen.
Gluttony Stomach was automatically absorbing Spiritual Energy from the outside world every moment of every day!
Qin Feng's heart gave a violent thump, then began pounding uncontrollably!
This... wasn't this a twenty-four-hour, fully automated AFK cultivation cheat?!
Others had to suffer through meditation, breathing exercises, and visualization, exhausting themselves just to capture a trace of Spiritual Energy.
But as long as he was alive, as long as he was breathing, he was growing stronger every moment!
Suppressing the wild joy that nearly burst from his throat, Qin Feng pulled out his phone and opened the dark-gold "Netherworld" app.
He immediately found the basic cultivation art provided free by the official platform—Qi Gathering Returning to Origin Art.
It was said that the Special Cases Department had gathered foundational cultivation methods from all major schools, discarded the dross and retained the essence, and created this most universal and reliable beginner's art.
Its strengths were safety and stability. Its weakness was mediocre efficiency.
"Mediocre efficiency? That depends on who's using it!" An uncontrollable smile curled at Qin Feng's lips.
The obscure classical text and detailed meridian diagrams posed no obstacle at all to a top student from the History Department like him.
"Calm the mind and still the breath, focus the intent on the dantian... draw qi into the body, circulate it through all meridians..."
He sat cross-legged on the bed and followed the cultivation formula, beginning to guide the pure energy converted by Gluttony Stomach.
He had expected it to be a long and tedious process. After all, even a basic cultivation art was still immortal cultivation. There had to be some threshold.
What he had not expected was that, boosted by the godlike ability Item Affinity, he picked up cultivation arts—tools in their own right—at an equally absurd pace.
Just two hours later.
Qin Feng suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing through them. He had succeeded!
At that moment, the energy within him had gathered into a gentle stream, precisely completing its first cycle before settling into the sea of qi in his dantian and transforming into a weak yet incomparably pure wisp of "qi."
Qi Gathering Returning to Origin Art, mastered at the beginner level!
For any other Awakened, it would have been impossible without ten days to half a month of hard work!
But that was not even the most crucial part.
The crucial part was that the instant he completed the beginner stage of the cultivation art, a wondrous cycle that made Qin Feng's scalp tingle formed inside his body!
The Gluttony Stomach in his abdomen was like a tireless buyer, frantically snatching free raw materials—Spiritual Energy—from the outside world.
Meanwhile, the Qi Gathering Returning to Origin Art, now that he had mastered the basics, was like an activated high-efficiency assembly line. It began operating on its own, automatically processing, refining, and transporting those raw materials, ultimately turning them into tangible reserves within his dantian!
One was responsible for bringing in resources, the other for conserving them!
One handled the outside, the other the inside.
Gluttony Stomach and the Qi Gathering Returning to Origin Art formed a flawless, perfect partnership.
"Ridiculous..."
Even Qin Feng could not help cursing inwardly.
If Gluttony Stomach was twenty-four-hour AFK farming, then pairing it with the Qi Gathering Returning to Origin Art was like adding an accelerator and an automated monster-grinding script to that AFK farming!
He could even feel that as the cultivation art operated automatically, the fatigue in his body and the depletion of his mind were rapidly being restored by this endlessly replenishing inner qi.
Qin Feng stood and walked to the enormous floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the countless lights of the city below.
A few days ago, he had still been a poor student worried about a few hundred yuan in rent, forced to deliver takeout to a haunted house.
And now, he was a transcendent with a system cheat, a D-Class Legendary Armament, and strength that automatically increased with every passing second.
This earth-shaking change left no confusion in his heart, only ever-sharper ambition and calmness.
Qin Feng picked up his phone and opened the "Netherworld" app once more. This time, his gaze locked directly onto [Mission Hall].
He wanted to take orders.
He wanted to deliver more "deliveries for the dead"!
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