Of extremely ominous origin colliding with the living.

Ye Mengyao gave a soft acknowledgment and then increased her driving speed slightly, though not by much, just a bit faster than before.

Being in the downtown area, the speed limit was a maximum of only thirty miles per hour, and with traffic lights everywhere and heavy congestion, it was impossible to speed up even if one wanted to.

Seeing Li Chengfeng's anxious expression and realizing something was amiss, Wang Bin casually asked, "Chengfeng, did you just see that thing?"

"It seems so, but I can't be certain."

Wang Bin hurriedly turned his head to look outside the car. At first, he noticed nothing unusual, but as they passed a green belt, a small patch of vibrant green flowers suddenly began to sway.

He widened his eyes, staring unblinkingly and nervously at the swaying foliage. Suddenly, a cat leapt up and sprang out from the flowers.

Startled into a shriek, Wang Bin jumped right in his seat, hitting his head against the roof. He quickly raised his hand to rub his head in pain, wincing. When he calmed down, he saw that it was just a very fat ginger cat.

Li Chengfeng said irritably, "Stop jumping at shadows, you'll scare people to death."

"Hehe, I guess I saw wrong!"

Ye Mengyao, who was driving, observed the two men through the rearview mirror and sensed their behavior was quite abnormal, so she casually asked, "Mr. Li, Mr. Wang, what is wrong with you two?"

"Nothing at all!" Li Chengfeng replied offhandedly.

Then he turned his head to look outside again, his brow instantly knitting together. He spotted a cat crouching on the opposite curb.

The cat's body was emaciated to skin and bones, and its two eyes were pitch-black like ink without a shred of vitality, staring fixedly at the passing traffic on the road.

Pedestrians passing by felt a pang of pity upon seeing the cat, thinking how thin it was and how truly pathetic, yet none of them noticed the cat's eerie nature.

Li Chengfeng felt a shock in his heart; this was precisely that cat corpse. At the same time, the gazes of the man and the cat met directly.

The cat corpse saw Li Chengfeng in the car, opened its gaunt mouth, and let out a harsh, piercing cry. Immediately after, a bat flew out from the cat's belly on one side, and a crow flew out from the other, rapidly speeding toward Li Chengfeng's location. Looking at the approaching bat and crow, one could only feel their scalp tingle with dread, completely helpless to stop them.

Just as the crow and bat were about to reach them, at this critical juncture, a tall SUV suddenly accelerated to overtake them on the left, colliding squarely with the incoming bat and crow.

When the SUV's windshield struck the crow and bat, no sound was made at all. The crow and bat vanished instantly, and at that very moment, the SUV suddenly spiraled out of control, careening wildly across the road, smashing into several cars in succession before finally crashing into a tree by the roadside and coming to a halt.

The SUV's hood was already deformed, the airbags had deployed, and broken glass littered the ground.

The driver inside the car lay motionless across the seat, life or death unknown, with only minor abrasions on his body. Immediately afterward, a bat and a crow were seen crawling out from within the driver's body.

The crow and bat stood upon the driver's corpse, emitting satisfied cries.

The cat corpse, which had been crouching by the roadside the entire time, let out a cry at this moment as well, as if calling out to the crow and bat.

Hearing the cat's call, the crow and bat responded with cries of their own, hastily flapping their wings to fly toward the cat corpse, and then diving straight back into its belly.

The cat corpse let out a content meow, cast one glance at Li Chengfeng, and then slipped into a nearby storm drain, disappearing from sight.

Li Chengfeng had seen this entire scene clearly: one corpse, three souls, the three souls united into one. The spiritual forms of the bat and crow had taken up residence within the cat corpse, transforming it entirely into an entity of immense ominousness.

He was puzzled as to why the cat corpse had suddenly departed.

At the same time, he felt a secret sense of relief; if the bat and crow had landed on Ye Mengyao's car, the vehicle crashed into the tree would undoubtedly have been theirs.

The sudden car accident gave Ye Mengyao a severe fright. She hurriedly slammed on the brakes, took a deep breath, and said nervously, "That was terrifying, we almost got hit by him."

Looking at the SUV crushed against the tree, Wang Bin recalled the scene of Han Lili crashing her car into the milk tea shop—it was practically identical to the current scenario. With a trembling voice, he asked, "Chengfeng, could that be..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Li Chengfeng cut him off. Matters like this could not be revealed to Ye Mengyao; in short, the fewer people who knew, the better.

After all, these three unclean entities had been brought into existence by Li Chengfeng himself using the folk forbidden technique of "Three Corpses Blocking Wealth."

The three of them looked at the SUV smashed into the tree, thinking the driver must have been severely injured.

Just then, two on-duty auxiliary police officers happened to pass by and noticed the wrecked SUV. They hurried forward to inspect it. Upon reaching the vehicle and looking at the driver in the driver's seat, they were instantly startled into shrieks, backing away hastily while blurting out a curse.

Hearing the exclamation of the auxiliary officers, Li Chengfeng wore a puzzled look, wondering what could be wrong.

The SUV's speed earlier was at most forty miles per hour, and given the vehicle's sturdy build, even crashing into a tree should have resulted in injuries at most, making death nearly impossible.

Seeing the strange expressions on the two officers' faces, Li Chengfeng got out of the car and walked toward the SUV.

Wang Bin and Ye Mengyao followed closely behind Li Chengfeng, also wanting to see what was happening.

As they approached the SUV, the two auxiliary officers hurriedly advised, "The three of you, I'd suggest you not go over there."

"It's fine, I'm just taking a look."

The two auxiliary officers didn't press the warning, thinking to themselves: go ahead and look if you want, you'll be scared out of your wits soon enough.

When Li Chengfeng reached the SUV and peered inside, he saw that the driver was a man of about fifty years of age.

The driver sat motionless in the driver's seat, his face ashen, the exposed skin on his arms turned a bruised purple hue. His mouth was wide open, eyes staring fixedly, pressed tightly against the seat in a thoroughly horrifying spectacle.

The SUV driver was actually dead. How could that be?

Ye Mengyao was, after all, a young woman with a relatively timid disposition. Upon seeing this sight, she let out a cry of terror and burst into tears, turning around and running back to the car.

Wang Bin was also frightened into taking several steps back, not daring to look any further.

Only Li Chengfeng appeared relatively calm. Without a word, he silently turned and walked back to Ye Mengyao's vehicle, having already guessed how the driver had died.

Wang Bin followed closely behind. Once back inside the car, he asked with intense curiosity, "How did this driver end up dead? The way he died is so terrifying—his whole body is ashen, mouth open with eyes wide staring. People who die in car accidents aren't supposed to look like that, right?"

"He didn't die from the car accident; he died because he was struck by an entity of immense ominousness."

Hearing the phrase "entity of immense ominousness," Wang Bin instantly thought of the sickly cat, the featherless crow, and the emaciated bat. He remembered Li Chengfeng saying that these three unclean things had transitioned from objects of supreme decline into entities of supreme ominousness.

Yet he still didn't understand why being struck by such an entity would cause death.

Ye Mengyao, her face full of curiosity, voiced the question weighing on her mind.