One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

At the same time, a life-or-death struggle broke out in the basement.

Suddenly, a series of hurried and chaotic footsteps came from the mourning hall on the first floor of the villa.

"Who gave you the audacity to barge in?! Where's the search warrant?! Anyone who dares to step through this door today, I'll skin them alive!"

Zhao Jianguo's face was ashen, his entire being filled with rage and ferocity. Several bodyguards in black stood firmly at the entrance to the kitchen corridor, locked in a fierce standoff with the criminal investigation team members who rushed in.

The deputy captain of the criminal investigation team leading the group was covered in sweat, but he did not back down. He walked straight past the bodyguards and handed a cell phone that was on a call to Zhao Jianguo.

"Secretary Zhao, please forgive me. This is a call from the bureau chief, please answer it."

Zhao Jianguo gave the deputy captain a cold look, grabbed his phone, and clenched it to his ear through gritted teeth: "Old Li! Are your men going to rebel?! If you don't give me a…"

"Old Zhao."

On the other end of the phone, the county public security chief's voice was unusually serious, even carrying an unyielding coldness: "Xia Qiu is inside. Her body camera has been on the whole time, Lao Zhao, what's inside can't be covered up anymore."

Zhao Jianguo's heart skipped a beat, and his face turned deathly pale, but he still stubbornly insisted, "What nonsense about a basement? That's...!"

"Old Zhao!" The bureau chief interrupted him abruptly, his voice low but each word like thunder. "Xia Qiu is missing. If you still don't understand the gravity of the situation, let me remind you. Xia Qiu's father is named Xia Yuanshan!"

"Boom~~"

Zhao Jianguo was struck dumb, swaying twice, and his phone almost fell to the ground.

Xia Yuanshan! The Director of the Provincial Public Security Department, a member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee! That woman who's always so decisive and efficient in the county criminal investigation team, always on the front lines, is actually the daughter of the head of the provincial department?!

If Xia Qiu really did suffer some kind of mishap in the basement of her villa today...

But will taking a step back guarantee survival?

If what's in the basement is exposed, he'll not only lose his job, but he'll also face the death penalty! Either way, he's going to die!

Zhao Jianguo's face was deathly pale, a desperate madness flashing in his eyes. He gritted his teeth and roared, "No retreat! No one is allowed to retreat! No one has a search warrant today. Anyone who dares to force their way in is violating regulations!"

However, when his black-clad bodyguards heard the police chief's thunderous rage on the phone and saw the police's armed and unstoppable momentum, they looked at each other in dismay. They no longer dared to actually attack the police and risk their lives, and unconsciously retreated.

"Zhao Jianguo, you are suspected of obstructing official business. Take him into custody!" the deputy captain ordered.

Two strong criminal police officers stepped forward and grabbed Zhao Jianguo's arms tightly from both sides, forcibly pressing him aside.

With the chief's strong support and the bodyguards' hesitation, the police elites rushed into the storage room like wolves.

However, when they finally found the hidden compartment in the wine cabinet, they encountered the same problem as Xia Qiu.

The heavy oak hydraulic door was like an impenetrable wall. The entrance was too narrow, allowing only two people to push at a time. Two of the strongest SWAT officers, their faces flushed, pushed with all their might, but the hidden door remained unmoved.

"What the hell! Why is this door so heavy? How did Captain Xia and the others get in?" A SWAT officer shook his aching arm, his face full of disbelief.

Little did they know that Jiang Shou had just used pure immortal cultivation essence to forcefully push open this hydraulic hidden door weighing over a thousand pounds with one hand!

"Stop talking nonsense! Get the hydraulic spreader and the breaching hammer! Hurry!" The deputy captain shouted anxiously, sweating profusely.

……

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The dull thud and shouts from outside, though muffled, carried faintly into the basement through the thick walls.

Behind the altar.

Bai Gusheng clutched the terrifying gash on his left side, cleaved open by the azure light and seeping blood. He listened to the increasingly loud sounds of demolition outside, and the initial shock in his eyes, which resembled those of an old owl, had completely transformed into extreme madness and ruthlessness.

He knew that his long-term plan, which he had painstakingly built over the centuries, was completely ruined!

The police have surrounded the area. He was seriously injured and has no chance of escape today.

"Little beast!"

The skeletal figure violently raised its head, its face covered in blood as it glared at Jiang Shou and Xia Qiu. Its features were twisted with extreme hatred, making it look like a demon crawling out of hell: "You destroyed my grand formation and ruined the century-old grand plan of my Fallen Yin Sect! Even if it costs me my body and soul, I will drag you two down with me today!!"

Bai Gusheng decided to take a desperate gamble and prematurely incubate the Yin Embryo! Although forcibly stimulating its birth before the three women's resentment was fully refined would likely result in a defective embryo, possibly even unable to survive, at this moment, mutual destruction was better than waiting to die!

"Waaaah!"

His withered right hand began to frantically shake the broken soul-summoning banner once more.

On the ground, the scattered shadows writhed violently again, this time transforming into seven or eight even thicker black shadow snakes, their blood-red mouths wide open, frantically attacking Jiang Shou and Xia Qiu from all directions.

"Team Leader Xia, watch out!"

Jiang Shoujiang shielded Xia Qiu behind him. He took a deep breath, channeling his true energy into his legs and palms, and moved nimbly through the narrow space like a butterfly flitting among flowers. Relying on his abnormally fast reflexes and the power of his true energy, he shattered those deadly shadow snakes time and time again.

Just as Jiang Shou and Xia Qiu were being tightly entangled by the group of shadow snakes...

A resolute glint flashed in the eyes of the skeleton standing behind the altar.

He bit his tongue sharply, and a mouthful of thick life essence blood was sprayed directly onto the array eye in the center of the altar with a "poof" sound!

"A blood sacrifice, a fetus taking form!"

The brass soul-capturing bell in Bai Gu Sheng's hand shook wildly as if he were insane!

"Ring ring ring ring—!!!"

As the piercing ringing reached its peak, the eerie atmosphere in the entire basement seemed to be ignited, going completely berserk!

The black malevolent energy accumulated on the summoning banner, along with the overwhelming resentment emanating from the three female corpses dressed in bright red wedding gowns, were forcefully pulled by the formation, like a tsunami bursting its banks, and were frantically drawn towards the corpse of Young Master Zhao in the middle.

"Crunch... crunch..."

The thick red threads binding the female corpse and Young Master Zhao's wrists were instantly straightened by this enormous energy, even emitting a teeth-grinding friction sound as if they were about to snap.

On the ground, the array patterns that were originally drawn with cinnabar now seemed to come alive, and began to "flow" strangely, like blood flowing in a vein.

Visible black and red Yin energy surged in waves, frantically drilling into the seven orifices of the male corpse as if it were a tangible substance.

An extremely terrifying scene unfolded.

The corpse of Young Master Zhao, who was sitting in the armchair, began to convulse violently and uncontrollably!

His chest cavity swelled up strangely, as if someone were frantically inflating it with an air pump.

"Click...click!"

Under extreme pressure, the male corpse's ribs emitted a series of chilling cracking sounds. Beneath the pale, bluish skin, a dark red fetal mass could be clearly seen writhing and struggling frantically, seemingly trying to burst out of the chest!

"Wow... Wow..."

A perfectly clear baby's cry actually came from the abdomen of the dead man's corpse!

The cries contained none of the innocence of a newborn infant, but were filled with a chilling resentment and cruelty that sent shivers down one's spine.

"puff!!!"

It was accompanied by a muffled thud like tearing silk.

A bloody gash appeared right in the center of Young Master Zhao's chest.

A "fetal shadow hand," about the size of an adult's thumb and eerily blackish-red in color, covered in viscous corpse fluid, slowly, bit by bit, emerged from the bloody mouth!

"Hehehehe..."

Bai Gu Sheng stared at the outstretched ghostly hand, coughing up blood as he let out a maniacal laugh: "Come out! My Yin Embryo! Tear these two reckless intruders to shreds! None of you will leave here alive today; you will all be buried with my Yin Embryo!"

After saying that, Bai Gusheng shook the bell in his hand even more frantically.

The bloody gash was stretched wider and wider, and half of a blackish-red infant's head, covered in fleshy growths and with distorted features, was struggling to squeeze out of Young Master Zhao's chest cavity.

At that critical moment, just as the fetus was about to burst out of the body!

A sudden change has occurred!

Within the grand formation, the young female corpse, dressed in a bright red wedding gown, lying directly in front of the grand master's chair, suddenly had eerie, dark red, spiderweb-like patterns appear on her paper-white skin!