The deaf old woman relaxed upon seeing this:
With Uncle Li wielding this knife, even if the woman indeed transformed into an evil spirit, the two of them would at least have some means of defense!
But when the deaf old woman glanced at the woman's abdomen, she couldn't help but exclaim:
"Damn it, how could I encounter such evil sorcery! Transferring the Malevolent Fetus!"
"In this age of peace, authentic experts sit in judgment."
"The one who uses this sorcery to harm others, aren't they afraid of divine retribution and natural disasters?!"
Uncle Li, upon hearing her, observed:
He saw a long wound on the woman's abdomen, from which black blood continuously oozed.
The most bizarre part was that the wound wasn't sewn with a needle and thread.
Instead, a thumb-sized, palm-long centipede was biting onto it!
The centipede bit and clasped tightly onto the wound to prevent the woman's belly from splitting open!
The horrifying centipede, noticing it was discovered, immediately leaped towards the deaf old woman's mouth.
Luckily, Uncle Li, swift and strong, swung his hefty chopping knife at it.
"You damned creature! Daring to harm someone!"
The ferocious centipede was struck and convulsed on the snowy ground as if struck by lightning.
Uncle Li raised the knife again to strike, but the deaf old woman stopped him.
"Old man Li, don't act impulsively; this creature might be useful later!"
The deaf old woman instructed Wang San to fetch a gourd and placed the centipede inside it.
Without the centipede binding the wound on the woman's abdomen, it immediately burst open.
Black blood enveloped the infant as it flowed out.
Uncle Li hurriedly picked up the child to inspect:
Although weak and silent, at least the child was alive!
The deaf old woman took the child and placed it in prepared warm water for cleansing.
"Dear, you can rest assured now."
"The child is alive, and I will raise it for you!"
Unexpectedly, the woman struggled to rise, her tear-filled eyes fixed on the newborn baby.
"Child, you must behave well in the future; Mother will depart first."
After saying this, she tried to kneel before Uncle Li and the deaf old woman.
"I'll repay your great kindness in my next life!"
"This jade pendant and golden needle are family heirlooms of the child; I'll give them to you together."
After the woman finished speaking, she fell and didn't rise again. It was apparent that with her determination fading, her soul departed to the afterlife.
Uncle Li sighed deeply and only spoke after a long while:
"Strange, I've heard that babies have umbilical cords connecting them to the mother's body."
"How come this child doesn't have one!?"
The deaf old woman's face was full of resentment:
"The child was put into this woman's belly by someone; how could there be an umbilical cord?!"
"This poor girl wasn't the child's birth mother at all!"
Uncle Li was shocked, "Such a thing exists?!"
The deaf old woman, carrying the baby into the house, explained to Uncle Li:
"This is what I meant by transferring the malevolent fetus!"
"Only with a deep blood feud would they seek such revenge!"
"Extracting the fetus, still in its early stages, from the enemy's womb and placing it, together with venomous blood, into a woman born in an inauspicious year, month, and time."
"Furthermore, this woman must be a direct relative of the child."
"When the child matures, before birth, it tortures the woman to death."
"Thus, one dead, two lives."
"Two malevolent spirits, utterly deranged, obeying only the one who casts the spell."
The deaf old woman, becoming more agitated, added:
"The child's biological parents are cursed by this sorcery, destined for complete annihilation without a trace left!"
"And they'll all become wandering vengeful spirits, not even accepted by the underworld!"
"It's worse than wiping out nine generations in the old society!"
Just as the deaf old woman was about to carry the baby inside, the Great Seal flew up and stood before the door on its own.
On the snowy ground, the binding immortal rope wrote several crooked, twisted large characters:
Extreme Yin Body, Hundred Ghosts Fight for the Corpse!
The deaf old woman shouted:
"Why is it so sinister? Isn't it trying to take my life?!!!"
"Sanwa, what time exactly was the child born?"
Wang San recalled and replied loudly:
"Probably after eleven, I wasn't paying much attention!"
The deaf old woman calculated by counting her fingers, her face turning pale instantly:
"Yin mother dies, Yin child appears, hundred ghosts laugh, living mourn."
"This child, like its deceased mother, was born in an inauspicious year, month, and time, and on the ghost festival!"
"This is a disaster!"
"Poor old lady, I've been doing good deeds my whole life, but tonight I'll be harmed by this child!"
Uncle Li, of straightforward character, did not understand these Yin-Yang terms.
However, seeing the deaf old woman's expression, he knew the danger had not passed and had become even more terrifying.
"Old woman, what are you talking about?!"
The deaf old woman grabbed the binding immortal rope and stood alert, scanning the surroundings:
"This newborn is a true Extreme Yin Body!"
"Not only born with supernatural connections, but once they practice the ghostly path, their progress will be a hundredfold that of an average person!"
"As long as they don't die prematurely, becoming a king or a ruler won't be a problem!"
Uncle Li, even more puzzled, asked:
"So, old woman, are you saying that this child will harm us?"
The deaf old woman shook her head:
"Even if it's powerful, it's a matter for the future."
"What we need to deal with now are the hundred ghosts vying for the corpse."
"Evil spirits occupying the Extreme Yin Body not only have immeasurable potential in the future but also skip the reincarnation process!"
"Who wouldn't be enticed by such a good thing?!"
"Fear is that dirty things within a hundred miles will all be drawn here!"
Just then, the old-fashioned clock inside the house struck twelve times.
Midnight had arrived:
The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the gates of the underworld open!
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