A Single Thought Breaks Through, Shocking Everyone

At the rear of the carriage, Liu Min had just awakened from unconsciousness. The sight before her nearly made her pass out again.

Xiao Li clutched the equipment case tightly, his body trembling like a leaf as his gaze darted back and forth between Qin Feng and the Chained Prisoner.

"Qin Feng, be careful!"

Liu Min tried to warn him, but the moment the words left her mouth, they were forced back by an invisible pressure.

It was an aura emanating from Qin Feng.

His body began to radiate an almost tangible pressure, and the air seemed to grow thick and viscous.

"You talk so big. Do you really think you've got me cornered?"

Qin Feng spoke softly. His voice was not loud, yet it carried clearly through the entire carriage.

The next second, a terrifying Spiritual Sense pressure erupted like a tsunami!

The entire carriage was instantly engulfed by that pressure. Even the window glass shook violently, producing crackling sounds as it began to fracture.

The metal walls warped slightly beneath the pressure, while the seats creaked as though they were about to collapse.

"Th-this is..."

Xiao Li's eyes widened, his trembling voice nearly inaudible.

"Late-stage Form Observation Realm!"

Liu Min struggled to force out those words, her face pale as paper.

As an expert in analyzing resentment, she was also extremely sensitive to Spiritual Sense levels. The pressure Qin Feng was releasing was unmistakably at the late stage of the Form Observation Realm!

Feeling the surging power within him, Qin Feng remained perfectly calm.

No one knew that while Lei Yun and the Chained Prisoner had been locked in fierce combat just moments ago, the "Settlement Points" Qin Feng had gained from the previous waves of strange tales had become just enough for him to break through to the late stage of the Form Observation Realm, with a little left over.

He had completed his transformation in one stroke!

At the front of the carriage, Shen Bingyue, who was engaged in an intense battle with the headless driver, felt this pressure and was rocked to her core.

There was a clear pause in her sword techniques, and she nearly gave the headless driver an opening.

Impossible!

Those were the only three words echoing wildly in Shen Bingyue's mind.

Just two days ago, when she had informed Qin Feng about this mission, she had learned that he was only at the early stage of the Form Observation Realm.

But now, he had actually reached the late stage of the Form Observation Realm!

"Could he have lied to me? Was he already at the middle stage of the Form Observation Realm two days ago?"

"But that doesn't make sense. He's only been a Collaborator for a few days, hasn't he?"

Such cultivation speed had simply surpassed the limits of humanity!

Even a peerless genius like her had needed a full two months to advance from the early stage of the Form Observation Realm to the late stage.

Yet Qin Feng had crossed that gap in just a few days?

"Impossible..." Lei Yun stared at Qin Feng with wide eyes, unable to believe what he was seeing.

He had never imagined that this brat he had been targeting all along was actually, like himself, at the late stage of the Form Observation Realm!

A twenty-year-old at the late stage of the Form Observation Realm might not compare to an unparalleled genius like Shen Bingyue, whether in the Special Cases Department or among the major clans and sects, but he would still undoubtedly be a seed candidate worthy of a family's focused cultivation.

Such talent was enough to make any force scramble to recruit him.

Lei Yun felt a deep sense of defeat.

"Th-this is the pressure of the late stage of the Form Observation Realm."

Xiao Li spoke tremblingly, his voice filled with shock.

"No wonder he replaced Gao Tianliang. No wonder he dared to go against Lei Yun. So he really has this kind of strength."

Yet in the face of this terrifying pressure, the Chained Prisoner merely sneered in disdain.

"Hmph. After all that talk, you're just an ant in the Form Observation Realm."

A mocking glint flashed through its blood-red pupils.

"I've lost count of how many people like you I've crushed to death."

The Chained Prisoner looked at the heavily injured Lei Yun, its tone dripping with ridicule. "Even if there's one who's a little stronger, ten seconds ago, I'd just finished dealing with one. Now he can't even stand up. Hehehe!"

Lei Yun wanted to retort angrily, but his injuries were too severe. He could only glare hatefully at the Chained Prisoner, the fury in his chest nearly burning through him.

Qin Feng, however, paid no attention to its words. He slowly raised his right hand, and the tattoo on his palm began to glow.

A pair of ancient-looking scissors condensed within the light, radiating a razor-sharp aura that made one's heart tremble.

[Scissors of Truth], a D-Class Legendary Armament, a conceptual weapon specially designed to counter falsehoods and rules.

Sensing the threat posed by the scissors, the chains around the Chained Prisoner began to whip about madly, producing ear-piercing metallic screeches.

The concentration of resentment in the air rose sharply, making it difficult even to breathe.

"You think a pair of broken scissors can deal with me?" the Chained Prisoner roared. It could sense an aura from the scissors that made it deeply uncomfortable.

Qin Feng tightened his grip on the scissors, his gaze turning as cold as ice.

The lazy look on his face vanished completely, replaced by a killing intent that sent chills down one's spine.

"Then let me see."

His voice was terrifyingly calm, as though he were merely stating an established fact.

"Are your chains tougher, or are my scissors faster?"

The moment he finished speaking, Qin Feng vanished from where he stood like a ghost.

The Chained Prisoner's pupils contracted sharply. Before it could even make out Qin Feng's trajectory, he had already appeared at its side, the scissors in his hand gleaming with the light of death.

"How could he be this fast?!"

The Chained Prisoner hurriedly controlled the chains around its body to defend itself. Dozens of thick iron chains lashed toward Qin Feng like venomous snakes.

Each chain was as thick as an adult's arm, engraved with densely packed cursed runes and radiating an aura of despairing darkness.

However, Qin Feng was faster.

The Scissors of Truth drew a perfect arc through the air. Its sharp blades sliced through the air with ease, letting out a soft clang.

The three chains at the forefront snapped in response, their severed ends smooth as mirrors without the slightest burr.

The broken chains fell to the ground with heavy metallic crashes, glaringly conspicuous beneath the blood-red moonlight.

The Chained Prisoner let out a pained howl. To its shock, it discovered that the severed chains could not regrow!

"That's impossible! My chains are undying and indestructible!"

"The [Law Breaking] trait of the [Scissors of Truth]."

Qin Feng explained coldly, the scissors in his hand reflecting a chilling gleam beneath the moonlight.

The Chained Prisoner's expression changed completely.

It had existed for centuries and devoured countless souls, yet it had never encountered an ability that countered it so completely.

Those seemingly ordinary scissors could actually sever its immortal trait!

"Impossible!"

The Chained Prisoner roared in fury.

"I am immortal! I am eternal! How could a pair of lousy scissors possibly—"

Before it could finish, Qin Feng struck again.

This time, he gave the Chained Prisoner no time to react. His body darted about like lightning as the scissors in his hand slashed repeatedly.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A string of crisp metallic snapping sounds rang out as the chains around the Chained Prisoner were severed one after another.

Every cut was accompanied by its agonized howls.

The others in the carriage stared in stunned disbelief.

What they were witnessing was not a battle, but a one-sided slaughter.

The C-Class Anomalous Event that Lei Yun had only barely managed to wound even after giving it his all was utterly helpless before Qin Feng.

"Is... is he even human?"

Xiao Li muttered, having even forgotten to hold his equipment case tightly.

Liu Min was so shocked that she could not speak.

She had seen many powerful people, but never anyone who could suppress a C-Class Anomalous Event so effortlessly.

That almost artistic style of combat reminded her of the peerless experts from legend.