A large hole had been blasted in the ceiling.
The circle was gone, and the blood seeping from the walls stained the runes.
The gambler instantly turned to ashes.
The array had already failed.
A vast amount of Yin energy surged out through the hole, making the figures outside hesitate to approach.
"Huzi, are you okay?"
Lu Fei quickly ran to Huzi's side, first checking the black umbrella.
The black umbrella looked gray and dusty, as if it had aged a lot, with many strands of blood-stained hair scattered around it.
It looked rather disheveled and somewhat pitiful.
Lu Fei took a breath and carefully picked up the black umbrella, brushing off the dust on it.
"Boss, am I not going blind, right?"
Huzi's eyes were terrifyingly red, but he only had some superficial injuries.
At the moment those bloodshot eyes fixed on him, he felt as if the whole world was collapsing, leaving nothing but a sea of red.
Even though the bloodshot eyes were gone now, everything still looked red to him.
"You won't go blind!"
Lu Fei tore a strip of cloth from his clothes, sprinkled some incense ash on it, and then wrapped Huzi's eyes with it.
"It's time to settle accounts with Brother Bao!"
Lu Fei stood up and looked out through the gap.
"Little Umbrella, I need you to endure a bit more." He patted the black umbrella gently.
The black umbrella spun, its tip pointing in one direction, remaining motionless for a long time.
"What?"
Lu Fei looked over and found that among the black blood, there was an eyeball that had not rotted.
"Do you want it?"
He walked over and picked up the eyeball.
It felt icy cold to the touch, but at the moment the eye was closed, making it impossible to see anything special about this eyeball.
A few strands of hair floated out, wrapping around the eyeball.
"Can you eat it?"
Lu Fei's heart skipped a beat.
The last time, it was after the black umbrella devoured the Yin Hair that these strands grew.
Hair has played a significant role in many crucial moments.
Now, after swallowing this ghost eye, could it also grow an eye?
If it could grow a blood eye like the one on the ceiling, that would be a huge gain!
"So, sometimes it's worth taking a risk, right, little umbrella?"
Lu Fei smiled and patted the black umbrella.
Although the black umbrella hadn't grown an eye yet, Lu Fei felt as if it was rolling its eyes at him.
After that.
The hair floated out of the ceiling, carrying Lu Fei and Huzi up with it.
The bizarre room, painted pitch black, was empty of people.
Even the small demon statue on the altar had been taken away.
"He sure runs fast!" Lu Fei snorted coldly.
The door was locked from the inside, and it would take some effort to open it.
Lu Fei let Hu Zi rest for a moment while he began to feel around the walls.
When Uncle Bao activated the mechanism, Xu Bei and the other two fell with them, just into a different space.
Finding the switch should allow us to release the three of them.
After feeling around for a while, he finally found several protrusions on the wall next to the altar.
He pressed them firmly.
The already cracked floor began to tremble slightly, emitting a sound similar to gears not turning smoothly. It opened halfway in jerks and starts.
A piercing chill surged out.
Lu Fei looked down.
Sure enough, the three were inside.
The layout below was similar to where Lu Fei had just been, with blood-colored runes painted all over the walls.
However, those blood runes were smudged by black palm prints, and they seemed not to have taken effect.
The Zhuang father and son were leaning against the corner of the wall, apparently unconscious.
Xu Bei stood alone in the basement, his hair and clothes slightly disheveled, with several gambling ghosts reduced to ashes on his right side.
It was said that his ability was called the Yin-Yang Palm.
The Yang Palm saves people, while the Yin Palm drives away evil.
Clearly, his right hand was the Yin Palm.
"Vice President Xu, are you all right?" Lu Fei called out.
Xu Bei withdrew his right hand, and the Yin energy around him dissipated significantly. He looked up at Lu Fei and smiled.
"For now, everything's fine! Fortunately, you found the mechanism. If they had been trapped here for a long time, their bodies would definitely have had problems!"
Lu Fei found a rope from his backpack and, with Hu Zi's help, pulled the three people up.
The Yellow Spring Umbrella is his secret weapon, and he doesn't want to expose it to outsiders.
Xu Bei used his left hand to wake up Zhuang Mingcheng and his son, and then helped Hu Zi heal his eyes.
"Finally, I feel better." The blood-red color in Hu Zi's eyes faded, and he let out a long, relieved breath.
Zhuang Mingcheng and his son were as pale as sheets, clearly very frightened.
"It's all my fault!" Zhuang's father was filled with regret, "I never thought that one impulsive act from my youth would bring such serious consequences."
"I thought breaking up with her in time would stop things from getting worse, but instead, I ended up harming her..."
"That man called Leopold is her younger brother. Back then, he looked quite normal, not as bizarre as he is now..."
So, he didn't recognize him at first.
A person's facial appearance is not set in stone.
One's appearance reflects one's heart.
If one does too many unjust and harmful deeds, their appearance will naturally change as well.
"Mingcheng! I'm sorry for what I've done to you!" Father Zhuang looked at his son with guilt.
Zhuang Mingcheng remained silent, his expression extremely complicated.
He had thought that his father was the one who protected the family from storms, but it turned out that all the storms were brought by his father.
"Even so, they shouldn't use evil magic to harm others!" Xu Bei shook his head, "Uncle, Mingcheng, now is not the time for repentance. Let's talk about everything once we get out of here."
Hu Zi fiddled with the door for a while and finally managed to open it.
"Hurry up!"
Lu Fei just lifted his leg.
In the pitch-black corridor, a thin red light suddenly appeared.
"Wait, there's an ambush!"
Lu Fei quickly withdrew his leg and stood at the doorway.
Thin red lights emerged from the darkness, crisscrossing and weaving into a web of red blood, blocking the corridor.
"The Nine Yin Blood Net Array!" Xu Bei's expression slightly changed, "Red light shoots out from nine different directions, razor-sharp. If anyone touches the lines, their body will be corroded and cut."
"This is an extremely powerful forbidden technique; it seems that Xuan Yinzi has arrived!"
Hearing this, Lu Fei looked up towards the other end of the corridor.
Two figures stood there.
One was like a vulture, referred to as Leopold, and the other wore a black robe, huddled in the shadows, appearing like a dark, old ghost, exuding an air of mystery.
"You destroyed the yin creatures we've been raising for years and still think you can leave alive? Dream on!"
Leopard Sir held the statue of the little ghost, staring at the people at the door through the bloody web, his face extremely grim.
He had locked these people inside the Yin Nourishing Formation, intending to use them as nourishment.
Unexpectedly, he gained nothing and lost instead!
The ghost pupil, which he had nurtured with the gambler for years, was completely destroyed by that young man.
Unforgivable!
The black-robed Taoist stood behind him, silent but appearing far more dangerous than Leopard Sir.
Lu Fei retracted his gaze: "Vice President Xu, can this formation be broken?"
"It can be broken! There are two methods. One is simple, the other is complicated." Xu Bei responded without hesitation, but his expression was grave.
"So, it seems the simple method requires a greater cost?" Lu Fei speculated.
Xu Bei nodded slightly: "If you offer a living person, it will make the blood web relax for a moment."
As soon as he finished speaking, Master Zhuang's father stood up.
"Aren't they just trying to take revenge on me? I will apologize to them! Master Xu, Manager Lu, I volunteer to be the sacrifice. Please, make sure to get Mingcheng out of here."