The frail counselor you said, you fight against three heroes alone?

The hatchet did not hit Xiyu, but was bounced away by a sudden force.

The spear that originally pierced Lin Pojun's chest appeared in Xi Yu's hand at some point, and the tip of the spear was precisely against Old Man Cai's throat.

"Ugh..." Old Man Cai groaned in pain. He looked down and saw that his chest had been pierced by a spear and blood was gushing out.

At the same time, Xi Yu also let out a scream.

He hugged his right arm and fell to his knees in pain.

I saw that on his right arm, there appeared strange patterns that were the same as those on Xi Wujiang's armor. Those patterns were like living things, wriggling under his skin and emitting a frightening black light.

"Brother...you...you actually also..." Xi Wujiang looked at the lines on Xi Yu's arm, an expression of disbelief appeared on his face, and his voice became a little trembling.

Xi Yu did not answer him, he just stared at his arm.
"So that's it... So... everything is..." Xi Yu murmured to himself, his voice low and hoarse, as if he was talking to himself, or as if he was talking to Xi Wujiang.

Suddenly, his left hand, which had been tightly grasping his right arm, unconsciously moved down slowly...

The strange black lines on Xiyu's arm were still wriggling, like countless tiny poisonous snakes crawling under his skin, emitting a disgusting stench.

The severe pain made his vision go black for a while, but he still stared at his arm, as if trying to see the secret behind the lines.

At this moment, a warm liquid sprayed on his arm, with a strong smell of blood.

Xi Yu looked up suddenly and saw Cai Wenshuang with a pale face and a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth. He was looking at him with an indescribable look.

She bit her tongue, dipped her fingertips in the blood, and quickly drew something on his arm.

The bright red blood intertwined with the strange black lines, forming a strange pattern, emitting a faint golden light.

The pattern looked like some ancient rune or some mysterious formation, flickering in the dim light as if it had life.

The moment the pattern was completed, the black lines on Xiyu's arm suddenly stopped moving, as if suppressed by some force.

The intense pain also disappeared, replaced by a strange warm current that flowed from my arm throughout my body.

At the same time, a sharp howl pierced the night sky, carrying endless anger and terror.

"How could the Cai family bloodline master the forbidden technique of heavenly secrets?!"

A woman in a purple dress appeared in front of everyone at some point. She had a hideous mask on her face, revealing only a pair of eyes full of resentment, staring at Cai Wenshuang.

This sudden change stunned everyone present.

Before anyone could react, an old and hoarse voice came from the rooftop, with a hint of madness in it.

"Master Xi married the daughter of the Ge family!"

A ragged old beggar appeared on the roof at some point. He held a worn-out cane in his hand and pointed at Xi Yu, screaming loudly, as if he wanted to make the secret known to the public.

In the ruins of the altar, a figure slowly stood up. It was Chu Yao.

The originally exquisite puppet in her hand had now turned into thousands of silver threads, like a huge spider web, tightly entangling the woman in purple.

With a sneer on her face, she threw out a marriage certificate embroidered with a picture of two stars.

"Master Xi, the marriage contract that he obtained with three drops of dragon's blood turned out to have ended like this." Her voice was as cold as the chill wind on a winter night, with a hint of sarcasm and disdain.

The marriage certificate slowly unfolded in the air, with the names of Xi Yu and the daughter of Tianji Pavilion clearly written on it.

Some fragments suddenly flashed through Xiyu's mind. When he was unconscious, he seemed to see the tattoo on Cai's father's neck... That tattoo was exactly the same as the lotus pattern embroidered on the marriage certificate!

"No...impossible..." Xi Yu muttered to himself. He felt his brain was in a mess, as if something was about to break out of the ground.

Leader Lei's hands were trembling as he slowly pulled off Xi Wujiang's mask.

A face that was 70% similar to Xi Yu appeared in front of everyone.

"Brother..." Xi Wujiang's voice was weak and hoarse, with a hint of indescribable complex emotions.

Xi Yu was stunned. He looked at this familiar yet unfamiliar face and an indescribable fear surged in his heart.

"You...you are..."

He wanted to ask something, but didn't know where to start.

Captain Lei suddenly knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "I deserve to die for not being able to protect you..."

"Young Master?" Xi Yu was even more confused. He looked at Master Lei, then at Xi Wujiang, and felt as if he was in the middle of a huge mystery.

"The real Young Master Xi... is someone else..." Captain Lei lowered his head, his voice low and hoarse, as if it came from the depths of hell.

Xi Yu's heart suddenly sank. He had a premonition that a bigger secret was about to surface...

The air was filled with the pungent smell of blood, mixed with the dust and decay of the ruined altar.

Xiaohong coughed violently, curled up into a ball, and suddenly coughed up jade fragments with blood.

Each fragment, like a shattered mirror, reflected the flickering torchlight and cast an eerie crimson gleam on the faces of the stunned onlookers.

When the last piece of jade fell to the ground with a clang, a violet ghostly image appeared above Xiaohong's forehead.

The image is vaguely female, emanating an ancient power and rage.

Her voice seemed to come from the abyss, echoing in the ruins: "What you stole was not an engagement, but the life-saving method of the headmaster - the substitution technique used to continue the bloodline!"

Before her words faded, a grotesque transformation began to envelop Xi Wujiang.

His once gleaming, pristine armor was sprouting strange bronze limbs.

There were sharp creaks and groans as the metal twisted, forming into huge, ugly arms ending in clawed hands.

Each claw was sharp as a razor and dripped a thick black liquid that hissed as it hit the ground.

There was a palpable sense of menace in the air, as if a sleeping beast had been awakened.

Xi Wujiang's eyes were now flashing an unnatural crimson as he stared at Xiao Hong, revealing pure and undisguised hatred.

At the same time, Chu Yao, with a determined look on her face, plunged her puppet deep into the ground.

The ground began to shake and a low hum echoed through the city.

Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the stone floor, flickering with an ethereal blue light.

The cracks spread outward, forming a complex, intertwining pattern that looks like a giant lock.

It stretches as far as the eye can see, enveloping the entire city in its intricate network.

The air was thick with nervous anticipation, filled with an energy that was both ancient and terrifying.

This is the Tianji Locking Array, a legendary seal that only appears in rumors and is proof of the Tianji Sect’s power and wisdom.

Amid the chaos and noise, Xi Yu's sharp eyes locked on Cai Wenshuang.

He grabbed her wrist with a firm but not painful grip.

His touch sent a shudder through her body, and she felt a strange feeling in her, a mixture of fear and other emotions... a sense of déjà vu.

His low, urgent voice cut through the noise: "When your father was taken, did they give you... a goat pendant?" His focused, searching eyes stared at her, as if searching for an answer that would unlock a long-forgotten secret.

The question hung in the air, carrying an unspoken meaning that contrasted sharply with the chaotic scene unfolding around it.

Cai Wenshuang widened her eyes and breathed rapidly.

Her hands instinctively went to her chest, groping beneath her worn-out clothes…

The air was filled with ancient energy, and the light of the Heavenly Secret Locking Array spread across the ground like a ghost, shrouding the entire city in a mysterious blue light.

Cai Wenshuang's heart was beating like a drum. Her hand instinctively reached for her chest, and her fingertips touched the cracked goat pendant.

She always kept this pendant in her arms and never showed it to anyone.

She knew that this was the only legacy her father left her.

"They gave you this pendant?" Xi Yu's voice was low and urgent, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, penetrating the noise around him.

Cai Wenshuang nodded, her heartbeat quickened, and the pendant in her hand seemed to tremble slightly.

She carefully took the pendant out of her clothes. The cracked stone surface looked extremely mysterious under the blue light.

She showed the pendant to Xiyu, and their eyes met. There seemed to be a strange power surging in the air.

At this moment, a figure suddenly flashed out from the darkness, so fast that it was hard to grasp.

It was a woman with an elegant appearance but a cunning gleam in her eyes.

She snatched the goat pendant from Cai Wenshuang's hand and sneered loudly, "I should have told old man Cai the truth twenty years ago!" This sudden change stunned everyone. Xi Yu frowned, and he quickly protected Cai Wenshuang behind him, staring at the woman with eyes like a knife.

"Su Heng, what on earth do you want to do?" His voice was full of threats.

Su Heng sneered disdainfully: "Do you think you can crack the Heaven's Secret Locking Array? Naive! This goat pendant is the key to unlocking everything, and you... are just a pawn."

Before he finished speaking, a burst of wild laughter suddenly came from not far away.

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Taoist Qingfeng madly tearing open his Taoist robe, revealing his chest covered with Tianji tattoos.

Those tattoos looked extremely strange under the blue light, and every line seemed to be beating, emitting a mysterious power.

"Look, this is the real core of the Heavenly Secret Lock!" Taoist Qingfeng laughed wildly, and he pressed the bronze compass in his hand against Xi Yu's heart. A strong energy burst out from the compass in an instant, as if to pierce through Xi Yu's heart.

Xi Yu's face turned pale in an instant. He felt a powerful force raging in his body, almost making it impossible for him to breathe.

Cai Wenshuang exclaimed, grabbing his arm tightly, her eyes full of worry.

At this moment, a black shadow fell from the sky, it was Xi Wujiang.

His armor was completely transformed into an insect at this moment, and countless bronze tentacles extended from the armor, entangling everyone.

The tentacles were cold and hard, binding them like iron chains and making them unable to move.

"Xi Yu, Cai Wenshuang! Use your twin blood to activate the pendant!" A strange voice suddenly sounded. Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a woman standing not far away, holding a puppet in her hand.

The woman was Chu Yao, her eyes were firm and resolute.

Chu Yao stabbed the puppet into her heart without hesitation. Blood gushed out instantly and the puppet's eyeballs turned into two twinkling stars, shooting straight into the sky.

The starlight drew a beautiful track in the sky, as if guiding something.

A look of determination flashed across Xi Yu's face. He struggled to break free from the bronze tentacles and turned to look at Cai Wenshuang: "We must..."

"I understand!" Cai Wenshuang nodded firmly. She also struggled to break free from the restraints, and the two held hands tightly.

At this moment, their eyes met, as if they had reached an invisible tacit understanding.

Cai Wenshuang took a deep breath and bit her finger. A drop of bright red blood dripped from her fingertips and landed on the goat pendant.

Xi Yu also bit his finger, and the blood bead merged with Cai Wenshuang's blood bead on the pendant, forming a mysterious pattern.

"The two locks resonate, the mountains and rivers hang upside down..."

The voices of the two merged into one at this moment, as if resonating with the Heavenly Secret Locking Array.

The blood beads on the pendant gradually gathered into a yin-yang fish pattern, and the light gradually increased, as if to devour everything.

At this moment, the whole city fell into deathly silence, and the light of the Heavenly Secret Locking Array suddenly became extremely dazzling.

Everyone's heartbeat seemed to pause for a moment, and an invisible pressure filled the air.

"Use the twin blood to activate the pendant!" Chu Yao's voice sounded again.

Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang looked at each other. They knew that this moment would be a turning point in their destiny.

Blood, warm and sticky, flowed out from the palms of Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang.

Instead of dripping, they were like two restless little snakes, scrambling towards the goat pendant.

The pendant was like a traveler that had been hungry and thirsty for a thousand years, greedily devouring the blood of the two men.

The blood drops met on the rough surface of the pendant and did not scatter as expected, but instead stuck together like a magnet.

They slowly squirmed, blended, and rotated, eventually forming a perfect yin-yang fish pattern.

This pattern, half bright red like fire, half dark red like night, is clearly separated yet intertwined with each other, as if containing the most primitive mystery between heaven and earth.

At the moment when the Yin-Yang fish pattern took shape, an indescribable tremor emanated from the pendant and quickly spread to the entire space.

The tremor was not a physical shaking, but more like some kind of invisible ripple that swept through everyone's soul.

First there was a slight buzzing sound, like countless bees flapping their wings beside my ears.

Then, the buzzing sound suddenly rose in pitch and turned into a sharp whistle, as if countless sharp blades were rubbing in the air, piercing the eardrums and causing pain.

The light began to distort.

The blue light that originally enveloped the city seemed to be kneaded, stretched, and deformed by an invisible giant hand.

The outlines of the buildings became blurred, the direction of the streets became strange, and even people's figures began to appear double, as if they would be torn into countless pieces at any time.

The air became sticky, like solidified glue.

Every breath I took felt like it was tearing my lungs apart.

"Crack...knock..."

That was Sima Zhao's puppet general.

This huge monster, made up of countless bronze parts, was originally indestructible and powerful.

At this moment, it looks like an antique that has been eroded by time for thousands of years, with countless fine cracks appearing on the surface.

The cracks expanded and spread rapidly, and finally, accompanied by a teeth-grinding shattering sound, the entire puppet general collapsed and turned into a pile of lifeless bronze fragments, scattered on the ground.

And where the puppet general originally stood, a towering altar appeared.

The altar, built of huge stones, has a simple shape and is full of primitive wildness.

The surface of the altar is engraved with strange symbols and patterns, which look like ancient writing or a mysterious spell.

In the center of the altar is a huge pit, and something seems to be slowly surging in the pit.

"Is this... the altar of the mountain people?" someone exclaimed.

Before the voice had died down, another strange change occurred.

The earth began to shake violently.

Huge cracks spread from the bottom of the altar and quickly covered the entire ground like a spider web.

A purple light gushed out from the crack. The light was weird, strange and full of ominous aura.

A figure slowly rose from the crack.

It's the woman in purple.

But this time, she was no longer the weak remnant soul she was before.

Her body became solid, plump, and full of the breath of life.

Her eyes were flashing purple light, like two burning will-o'-the-wisp flames.

She was holding a person in her hand.

It’s Mr. Cai.

At this moment, Mr. Cai had his eyes closed, his face was pale, and he had fainted.

The purple-clothed woman laughed loudly, her laughter was sharp and piercing, like the cry of a night owl: "You think I am a remnant soul? Foolish! I am the real ..."

Before he finished speaking, a sudden change occurred!
Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang almost simultaneously felt an irresistible force pulling them towards the goat pendant.

The yin-yang fish pattern on the pendant seemed to have turned into a black hole, swallowing up everything around it.

The two of them only felt a flash before their eyes, and their bodies seemed to be torn into countless pieces, and then forcibly pieced together.

They were sucked into the pendant!
To be more precise, he was sucked into a space-time rift!
The crack was right in the center of the Yin-Yang fish pattern, a dark, bottomless vortex.

The laughter of the woman in purple suddenly stopped.

She looked at everything in front of her in horror, and seemed to want to stop it, but it was too late.

"Dang Cang..."

A crisp sound echoed in the silent space.

It was a half-broken bronze chime that rolled off the altar and fell to the ground, emitting a weak whine. It lay there alone, as if telling an ancient and mysterious story.

"No... this is impossible..." The purple-clothed woman's voice, with a hint of trembling and despair, echoed in the empty altar. (End of this chapter)