Special Brew, Head-Spinning Taste!

With everything prepared, just as Qin Feng was about to fulfill his sacred mission, a flash of lightning seemed to strike his mind.

It was [Item Affinity]!

This passive ability was activated at this moment, and his thoughts instantly became incredibly clear and expansive.

Just pure yang energy, this approach doesn't seem "flashy" enough...

...Hmm... not safe enough, and definitely not... lethal enough.

His gaze swept rapidly around the small bathroom, finally settling on the washstand.

There sat a half-used bottle of cheap medicated oil. He opened the cap, and a sharp, invigorating scent permeated the air.

A brilliant, even malicious, idea took shape in his mind.

Anomalous Events fear pure yang and detest strong, stimulating smells.

So what if... he combined the two?

Qin Feng's lips couldn't help but curl upwards, forming a wicked, mischievous smile that belonged to an "evil cultivator."

He hesitated no longer, unscrewed the cap, and added the extra ingredient!

He poured the entire bottle of medicated oil in, then gently shook the bottle to mix them thoroughly.

The next second, an indescribable compound scent, a fusion of mint, camphor, and the essence of life, exploded like a chemical weapon!

The smell seemed to transform into countless invisible ice needles, piercing his nasal cavity, rushing to the crown of his head, and making Qin Feng's vision blur, nearly causing him to fall.

"Hiss... That's potent!"

"Perfect." He suppressed his discomfort, tightened the cap with satisfaction, and carefully hid the enhanced "special blend" behind his back.

He pushed open the bathroom door, and the oppressive atmosphere in the living room intensified.

Liu Yan stood motionless by the bedroom door, staring at him. The impatience on her pale face was no longer concealed, and the malice in her eyes was almost tangible, like a cold viper.

"Sister Liu, sorry to keep you waiting," Qin Feng immediately put on his harmless, socially awkward expression and walked over with his head down.

"Hurry up, stop dawdling," Liu Yan's voice sharpened as she urged him to move the bed.

Qin Feng walked to the bedside, bent down, and grabbed the edge of the bed with both hands, pretending to exert force.

The moment his muscles tensed and the veins in his arms bulged, he "slipped," stumbling forward.

Clatter!

His phone flew out of his pocket, bounced once on the floor, its screen flickering, and then, as if drawn by a magnet, slid into the deepest darkness under the bed.

"Oh no, my phone!" Qin Feng straightened up with a look of genuine annoyance, tinged with just the right amount of panic.

He turned to Liu Yan and said with a troubled expression, "Sister Liu, my phone fell under the bed. I need to reach down and get it."

In that instant, all the impatience and anxiety vanished from Liu Yan's face.

In its place was an extremely eerie, triumphant smile.

Her lips stretched into an inhuman arc, her eyes locked onto Qin Feng, a look of anticipation and greed as she watched her prey finally step into the trap.

She didn't even speak, merely nodding stiffly and with exaggerated movements.

Just as I planned.

Qin Feng sneered inwardly, but his face remained anxious.

He lowered himself, reaching half his body under the bed, pretending to grope for his phone with one hand.

"Where is it... I can't reach it..." he muttered to himself, drawing Liu Yan's attention.

Meanwhile, out of her line of sight, the hand hidden behind his back had silently unscrewed the cap of the "special divine water."

Within the perception of the [Spirit Touch Realm], a viscous, writhing darkness was coiled in the center of the space under the bed, like a predatory spider.

Countless venomous eyes seemed to open and close within the darkness, emitting a bone-chilling malice.

It was waiting, waiting for Qin Feng's gaze to meet its, waiting for him to reveal even a sliver of fear that could trigger the rules.

Now!

A fierce glint flashed in Qin Feng's eyes. He tensed his arm muscles, his wrist snaking out like a viper. He tilted the bottle, and the "divine water" imbued with all his malice shot out in a precise stream of emerald green!

Sizzle--!!!

A piercing shriek, unlike any human sound, like a soul being burned by strong acid, erupted from under the bed!

The dark mass writhed and evaporated violently, emitting a "sizzling" sound akin to strong acid corroding flesh. A thick, black smoke, a mixture of burning and the pungent scent of medicated oil, billowed out, incredibly foul-smelling, instantly filling the entire room!

"Ah--!" Liu Yan, standing by the bed, screamed simultaneously, as if struck by an invisible electric shock, her body convulsing violently.

Her eyes rolled back, and she fell straight backward.

Her link to the Anomalous Event had been brutally weakened by this specially concocted "divine water"!

However, the "thing" under the bed was not completely destroyed.

The pure yang energy had heavily injured it, but the indiscriminate, penetrating stimulation of the medicated oil was like throwing a match into a powder keg, igniting its ferocity!

It was enraged!

A distorted, inhuman black shadow suddenly shot out from under the bed, ignoring Qin Feng and lunging straight for Liu Yan, who was lying unconscious on the ground!

It intended to complete the final "replacement"!

To completely possess this body it was already intimately familiar with!

"Trying to run?" Qin Feng's icy voice echoed in the room. He flipped over and got up, the scissor tattoo on his right arm burning like a branding iron.

With a thought, the [Scissors of Truth] materialized in his hand!

He didn't attack the phantom black shadow. Instead, he focused on the shadow Liu Yan cast on the floor, a shadow that had become dark and distorted as the black entity began to merge with it!

Just as the black shadow was about to completely merge with the shadow, Qin Feng's eyes narrowed. He crouched like a leopard, his giant scissors transforming into a cold glint. Without hesitation, at a tricky angle, he fiercely "nailed" it down!

"Splat!"

The sound of scissors piercing flesh wasn't heard. It felt more like cutting an invisible thread stretched taut between two worlds!

The tip of the giant scissors accurately pierced the heart position of Liu Yan's shadow, forcibly separating it from the black entity that was frantically merging into it!

"Haa—!" The black shadow let out a wail filled with despair and unwillingness.

Under the conceptual might of the [Scissors of Truth] "severing the illusory," its ephemeral body could no longer maintain its form. Like snow melting under a scorching sun, it disintegrated inch by inch, finally turning into a wisp of smoke and vanishing completely.

[Sin Cleansing Successful!] [Target: The Thing Under the Bed (E-Class)] [Sin Points: 15] [Cleansing Rating: S (Perfect Resolution, Core Rule Broken, Innovative Item Application)] [Double Reward Triggered, Calculating...] [Final Cleansing Points Obtained: 30 points.] [Total Cleansing Points: 50 points] [Attempting to extract target's core concept... Extraction failed]

Just as Qin Feng let out a sigh of relief, before he could even lament the failed extraction, he heard a thunderous explosion.

"BOOM—!!"

A deafening roar. The apartment's thick security door, as if hit head-on by a battering ram, exploded inward along with its frame!

The security door, along with the wall, collapsed.

Several armed personnel in black combat suits, wearing tactical goggles, stormed in with standard tactical formations.

The firearms they held had peculiar designs and flickered with a faint blue glow, clearly not ordinary weapons.

Leading them was the tall woman whose figure was impossible to conceal even with her combat suit.

Shen Bingyue.

Her gaze, sharp as a sword, instantly locked onto Qin Feng, the only person standing in the room, still holding a ridiculously oversized pair of scissors. When she saw the unconscious Liu Yan on the ground, the expression on her beautiful face turned bone-chillingly cold.

She raised her hand, and the custom-made pistol in her grasp, shimmering with a blue psionic energy, precisely aimed at Qin Feng's forehead.

"Don't move!" "Special Cases Department is investigating!"