One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

"What?! They want me to go to the funeral parlor?!"

In the backyard of Shouyi Temple on Cuiwei Mountain, Shen Xu's semi-transparent spirit body suddenly retreated two meters, her hands waving frantically in front of her chest, her pale face filled with resistance: "But Taoist brother, I'm scared..."

Jiang Shou stood in front of her, looking at the female ghost who was shrinking her neck and whose face was full of "weak, pitiful and helpless", and his eyes twitched violently twice.

"..."

Jiang Shou took a deep breath, patiently reminding her through gritted teeth, "Miss, please get this straight, you yourself are a ghost! What are you afraid of when you go to someone else's funeral hall? Do you think the dead person lying inside can jump up and bite you?!"

"Oh yeah..."

Shen Xu paused for a moment, then reached out a semi-transparent finger and scratched her cheek. Clearly, for the past eight years as a ghost, she had been staying in her villa in Jinshui Bay watching short dramas, and her mind was still completely stuck in the stage of that timid high school girl she was in life.

"But...but that kind of place is gloomy, and there are white sheets hanging there, it looks really creepy..." Shen Xu was still a little hesitant, muttering as she tried to bargain.

"Stop talking nonsense." Jiang Shou unleashed his ultimate weapon, waving his hand dismissively. "Listen to me, tonight go and check out the villa to see what's going on, and find out where those three women's bodies are hidden. If you do a good job, I'll come down the mountain tomorrow and bring you back a top-of-the-line iPad! And I'll even give you a whole year's worth of VIP membership on a video streaming service!"

"Okay! It's a deal!"

Shen Xu straightened her thin chest, her previous timid and cowardly demeanor vanishing instantly. She even clenched her small fists with great determination: "Don't worry, Taoist brother! Even if it's a funeral hall, or even the King of Hell's palace, I won't flinch. The main reason is that I can't stand seeing my three older sisters being harmed innocently!"

Jiang Shou: "..."

……

It's 10:30 at night.

Outside the villa's courtyard stood several bodyguards dressed in plain black clothes, smoking cigarettes to pass the time.

Shen Xu passed over their heads without any hindrance and floated straight into the lobby on the first floor of the villa.

The hall had been transformed into a solemn mourning hall. In the center was a portrait of a young man with sunken eyes who looked somewhat decadent.

Behind the portrait, a huge black nanmu coffin was placed.

The entire first floor was quiet. It seemed that the family members who were keeping vigil had all gone up to the second floor to rest, leaving only a few white candles flickering with a pale light on the offering table.

Shen Xu floated above the huge black coffin. Remembering the task Jiang Shou had given her, she mustered her courage and slowly pierced her semi-transparent head through the thick wooden coffin lid, peering inside.

"what?"

The coffin was pitch black, but Shen Xu could see everything clearly. It was lined with thick yellow silk, but there was nothing on top of the silk.

The coffin placed in the center of the mourning hall for people to pay their respects was empty! The deceased's body was not inside at all!

Just as Shen Xu was filled with doubt and was about to pull her head out,

"Ring ring..."

A faint sound of a copper bell, accompanied by an indistinct low chant, drifted up from the deepest part of the villa floor.

Shen Xu pricked up her ears. Following the faint sound of a bell, she passed through the kitchen on the first floor and found a hidden, heavy security door disguised as a wine cabinet in the corner of the storage room.

The sound was coming from under this door.

Shen Xu flashed through the security door and floated down a dark staircase into a spacious basement.

The moment she stepped into the basement, a thick, bone-chilling cold swept over her. This chill gave Shen Xu, the earthbound spirit, a sense of refreshing coolness.

The basement lights shone with an eerie dark red hue.

When Shen Xu saw the scene in the center of the basement, she suddenly covered her mouth and gasped.

In the center of the basement, a huge, intricate, and eerie array was drawn on the floor with cinnabar.

At the very center of the array stood a grand armchair. Seated on the armchair was the corpse of a young man. It was the same man from the portrait upstairs! However, he was now dressed in an elaborate and ornate ancient groom's robe, and his face was even painted with two eerie patches of red, making him look utterly terrifying.

In front of, to the left and to the right of the male corpse, there were three wooden beds laid side by side.

On each bed lay the lifeless body of a young woman! The three women had their eyes closed and their faces were ashen, but without exception, they had been dressed in bright red wedding gowns!

Their hands were tied together with the male corpse in the middle with red thread, and each of them seemed to have a piece of blood-stained jade cicada in their mouths to seal and suppress their souls!

Behind the male corpse, there was a thin black gauze curtain.

An old man dressed in a black robe, with a sinister and gaunt face, sat cross-legged on a futon. In his left hand, he shook a brass bell engraved with runes, and in his right hand, he held a black soul banner, while he rapidly chanted some strange incantation.

"Ring... Ring..."

With each shake of the copper bell, wisps of black and red mist would emerge from above the three female corpses dressed in red wedding gowns, forcibly drawn into the soul banner in his hand as if being peeled back from a cocoon.

Just then.

The sinister old man sitting behind the curtain suddenly stopped chanting.

"Huh?!"

The old man let out a soft "hmm." His sharp, sinister eyes, like those of a vulture, seemed almost tangible as they gazed towards the basement stairwell, in the direction where Shen Xu was concealing her figure!

"Oh my god!"

Although Shen Xu was a ghost, she had never seen such a terrifying scene before! The evil pressure emanating from the old man frightened her so much that she turned into a white blur and fled at the fastest speed she had ever been!

……

Along the roadside by the city gate, under the camphor trees.

Jiang Shouzheng crouched behind the tree trunk, vigilantly observing the surrounding movements.

"Whoosh!"

A white figure darted out from inside the wall and pounced on Jiang Shou's side.

Shen Xu revealed her semi-transparent form, repeatedly patting her chest with both hands. Although she had no heartbeat, her terrified appearance was incredibly realistic: "You scared me to death! You scared me to death!"

"What happened? Were you discovered?" Jiang Shou quickly asked in a low voice, "What's the situation inside?"

Shen Xu took a deep breath of yin energy to calm herself down, and described to Jiang Shou what she had just seen: the empty coffin in the mourning hall and the extremely terrifying and bizarre array arrangement in the basement.

This includes the male corpse dressed in ancient wedding attire, the three female corpses dressed in bright red phoenix coronet and embroidered robes, and the sinister old man holding a copper bell and a soul-summoning banner.

"...That old man was terrifying! When he looked at me with the bell, I felt like my soul was about to leave my body!" Shen Xu patted her chest, still shaken.

After listening to Shen Xu's description.

Jiang Shou's brows furrowed instantly, and a dangerous glint flashed in his eyes.

"A bright red wedding dress... a groom's uniform... the corpses of three young girls..."

Jiang Shou's mind flashed with an extremely vicious folk sorcery recorded in the "Disposal Record," combined with the sentence given by Sui Hanling that morning: "Three women are wronged, the red dress is about to be completed, and a vengeful ghost will claim their lives."

A chilling phrase suddenly exploded in his mind:

"A ghost marriage?!"