One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

Outside the villa area in the northern suburbs, the last rays of the setting sun are being mercilessly swallowed up by the dark horizon in the distance.

Xia Qiu hung up the encrypted phone, turned around, and her expression was unusually complicated.

As a highly educated and rigorously trained criminal police captain, she originally thought that reporting this absurd case, filled with feudal superstitions such as "reincarnation," "ghost marriage," and "sorcery," to her superiors would definitely require a lot of effort in explaining it. She had even mentally prepared herself for being severely questioned and reprimanded by her superiors.

But the result was unexpected!

The higher-ups not only responded extremely quickly, but their acceptance of this supernatural event was so high that Xia Qiu even wondered if he had traveled to some parallel universe.

She took a deep breath and walked to a big tree.

Jiang Shouzheng sat cross-legged on the grass under the tree, closed his eyes and meditated, seizing every moment to restore the depleted true energy in his dantian.

"The provincial department's order has come down." Xia Qiu stopped beside Jiang Shou, her voice a little hoarse.

Jiang Shou did not open his eyes, but only tilted his head slightly.

Xia Qiu paused for a moment, then said with some difficulty, "After receiving the news, the higher-ups attached great importance to it and said that they had directly contacted the Longhushan office in western Jiangxi and informed them of the detailed situation here."

Upon hearing the words "Longhu Mountain," Jiang Shou's eyelids twitched slightly. So, there really were prestigious sects in the world handling these kinds of matters for the government.

"But..." Xia Qiu bit her lip, "The Celestial Masters at Longhu Mountain who are truly capable of dealing with this kind of fierce red-robed demon are all currently on missions elsewhere. Even if we immediately send people back... the earliest they can arrive in Qiyun County is tomorrow noon!"

Xia Qiu's voice carried a deep sense of powerlessness: "The provincial department gave us a strict order: hold the blockade line at all costs, and absolutely do not let anything inside escape and harm anyone!"

Upon hearing this...

Jiang Shou slowly opened his eyes.

He looked up at the night sky, which was gradually being obscured by dark clouds, and a helpless, bitter smile crept onto his lips.

"Tomorrow at noon?"

Jiang Shou couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Captain Xia, do your superiors have some misunderstanding about this thing? How about we put up a banner now, go in and have a good talk with that girl in red, and ask her if she's willing to stay obediently in the villa for the night and patiently wait for the experts from Longhu Mountain to come and wipe her out tomorrow at noon?"

Xia Qiu fell silent.

For a newly born red-clothed vengeful ghost whose resentment is in a state of extreme berserk, let alone waiting until noon tomorrow, it is absolutely impossible to make her stay still until midnight tonight!

Xia Qiu glanced around.

The entire villa area has been cordoned off by three impenetrable lines of special police officers, all fully armed.

"I've already positioned snipers at four high points." Xia Qiu gritted his teeth, patted the new sidearm he had just replaced at his waist, and his eyes revealed a resolute and ruthless determination.

"If she dares to show herself, no matter who she is, we'll riddle her with crossfire first!"

……

Time passed by, second by second.

Night finally fell completely.

The entire North Suburban Villa District seemed shrouded in a thick black fog. The chilling, biting air even made the light from the surrounding streetlights appear distorted, dim, and yellowish.

All the police officers outside the cordon gripped their weapons tightly, their palms sweaty.

suddenly!

"Bang--!!!"

A deafening shot from a large-caliber sniper rifle, accompanied by the crisp sound of shattering glass, erupted without warning from the second-floor window of the villa!

The sudden gunshot startled everyone who was on edge!

"Target appeared at the southeast window on the second floor... moved!!" Xia Qiu immediately heard the urgent report from the sniper in position three through his tactical headset.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!!"

Immediately afterwards, three more heart-stopping sniper shots echoed through the night sky!

Standing outside the villa's cordon, the group couldn't see with the naked eye what was happening in the dark second floor. Only the snipers hiding in the shadows could see the terrifying scene inside through their night vision scopes.

"No! The target is too fast, the thermal imaging can't capture it completely! Can't lock on!!" came the sniper's slightly anxious shout over the walkie-talkie.

The moment the words left his mouth.

"BOOM!!!"

To everyone's utter astonishment!

The entire brick wall on the side of the second floor of the villa was smashed apart from the inside, as if it had been hit by an explosive blast!

Amidst the flying bricks and dust, a dazzling crimson figure, like a demon emerging from the abyss of hell, hovered in the night sky above the villa!

The bright red wedding dress danced wildly in the cold night wind, like blood.

Those pale, pupil-less eyes, devoid of any human emotion, silently and condescendingly gazed down at the special police and regular officers outside the blockade, who exuded a strong, vibrant aura of life.

At that moment, an extreme chill, as if being targeted by a top predator, instantly gripped the hearts of everyone present.

"Fire! All units, open fire!!"

Xia Qiu's eyes were bloodshot as he shouted in a hoarse voice.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Da da da da..."

The sounds of sniper rifles, assault rifles, and pistols of various calibers instantly merged into a dense storm of metal! Countless bullets, trailing orange flashes, rained down on the figure in red in mid-air!

however.

"Whoosh!"

The crimson figure in mid-air moved at a speed completely beyond the realm of physics. The bullet pierced only the red afterimage it left behind!

"Watch out!!" Xia Qiu caught a glimpse of an abnormal red light out of the corner of her eye and shouted shrilly.

But it was too late!

The woman in red seemed to teleport, swooping down directly to the sniper on a high platform to the side of the villa!

The fully armed SWAT officer didn't even have time to turn his gun. The ghost in the wedding dress had already reached out her pale, icy hand and grabbed his neck!

The female ghost possessed him and moved forward, her eerily beautiful face almost pressed against the SWAT officer's goggles.

"Well……"

The strong SWAT officer's body began to wither violently at a visible speed! His eyes rolled back, and he couldn't even utter a scream for help. His vital energy and yang energy were being frantically drained from his body!

Just when life hung by a thread!

"Whoosh—whoosh—!"

A sharp, crescent-shaped beam of blue light suddenly shone in the night sky!

This azure light, carrying pure Supreme True Essence, sliced ​​through the night at an incredible angle and speed, fiercely striking the wedding-dressed female ghost who was absorbing Yang energy!

It was the [Evil-Slaying Slash] that Jiang Shou had used once in the basement!

The female ghost's pupils, which were only whites of her eyes, suddenly contracted. She abruptly released the SWAT officer in her hand and forcefully turned to the side to try to avoid him.

She clearly sensed the deadly threat contained within that azure light. While she could dodge sniper bullets from modern firearms, she couldn't completely evade this Daoist technique that locked onto her vital energy!

"puff!"

A dull, soft sound was heard.

The crescent moon's azure light grazed the side of the female ghost in her wedding dress! A glaring white mark was actually slashed into the crimson wedding dress, which seemed to be stained with resentful blood! Around that mark, wisps of charred azure smoke, burned by true essence, rose up.

"Ugh..." The female ghost let out a low cry of pain, staggered, and took several steps back.

However, Jiang Shou's killer moves are far from over!

Just as the female ghost retreated and lost her footing...

In the night sky, the second attack arrived like a shadow!

It was a yellow paper talisman with extremely intricate cinnabar patterns!

Unlike the previous [Yang Qi Lantern Talisman], this talisman did not burn. Instead, the entire talisman emitted a faint golden light, containing Jiang Shouhao's surging Supreme Guardian True Essence!

Jiang Shou's eyes were as cold as ice. He didn't expect that with his pitiful cultivation level at the moment, his [Evil-Slaying Slash] would be able to cause any real damage to the ferocious wedding dress ghost.

This is Jiang Shou's true trump card!

This [Resentment-Breaking Talisman], which he had spent a great deal of his true energy to draw, was not used on the poor Shen Xu before!

The talisman left a golden trail in the night sky, hurtling straight toward the still staggering figure in dazzling red at an incredible, mysterious speed!