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

The golden blood on her wrist, as if it had life, quickly seeped into the black armor of the dark guard leader, making a sizzling corrosion sound.

The face of the leader of the secret guards turned pale in an instant. He felt that the strength in his body was rapidly draining away, and an unprecedented sense of fear surged in his heart.

He wanted to break free from Cai Wenshuang's restraints, but found that his body was completely out of control.

"The Wheel of Heaven's Secret... is about to wake up..."

The voice of the remaining spirit of Xi Mu sounded again. This time, her voice contained a hint of madness, a hint of expectation, and a hint of... relief.

From deep within the underground palace, there came bursts of mechanical turning sounds, clacking, like a call from ancient times, or like a death warrant, making people terrified.

"Wen Shuang, listen to me..." Xi Yu's voice was weak, but with unquestionable firmness. He raised his hand with difficulty and wanted to touch her cheek.

The golden chain, like a poisonous snake that appeared out of thin air, snaked out from Cai Wenshuang's chest at a speed so fast that people could not react.

The golden luster did not seem to be something of the mortal world, but rather like the chains of God, carrying an inviolable sacred majesty.

One end of the chain was connected to Cai Wenshuang's heart, and the other end split into two strands, which were respectively wrapped around the remaining soul of Ximu and the leader of the secret guards, nailing them firmly to the cold stone pillar.

There was a strange fragrance in the air, sweet with a hint of blood, which made people want to vomit.

"What you stole back then was not the container, but the real core of the Tianji Wheel in Cai's father's body!" Cai Wenshuang's voice became hoarse due to pain, but it was still loud and clear, and every word struck the heart of everyone present like a heavy hammer.

Xi Yu suddenly grabbed Cai Wenshuang's wrist. His fingertips were cold, but his strength was so great that it seemed as if he wanted to crush her bones.

"Don't believe what Xi Mu says, she..." His voice was hoarse, with a barely perceptible tremor, as if he was trying hard to suppress something.

At this moment, a figure staggered out from the mural in the underground palace. It was the Taoist Qingfeng who had disappeared for a long time.

His hair and beard were all white, his clothes were tattered, but his eyes were shining with madness.

"Hahaha... Xi Wujiang is so cunning that he lets the twin bloodlines devour each other!" He laughed crazily, and his laughter echoed in the underground palace like the cry of a night owl, which was creepy.

Immediately afterwards, a black shadow flashed from the darkness. It was Guanglingzi.

His face was pale, and he was holding a medicine bottle tightly in his hand. A few broken prescriptions rolled out of the bottle.

"The plague twenty years ago was caused by my mother asking me to..." He stopped talking abruptly. The remaining pages of the prescription were scattered on the ground. The names of several medicinal herbs could be vaguely seen on them, which looked particularly strange in the dim light.

Deep in the underground palace, the long-silent group of bronze puppets suddenly came to life. Their eyes emitted a faint green light, and they walked towards the crowd with a click, like messengers from hell.

The voice of Ximu's residual soul came out from the puppet's mouth, hollow and cold: "Wen Shuang, your father volunteered to be engraved into the Wheel of Heavenly Secrets to save me. Now it's time to use his blood to restart it..."

Suddenly, Father Cai pulled out the sword of the leader of the secret guards. The blade flashed with a cold light, reflecting his resolute eyes.

He staggered towards Cai Wenshuang, his eyes filled with complex emotions, including love, reluctance, and deep guilt.

"Don't let her succeed!" He roared, pointing the tip of the knife at his heart...

"Dad——!" Cai Wenshuang's shrill cry resounded throughout the underground palace, and he watched helplessly as the knife in his father's hand...

The air in the underground palace seemed to freeze. The knife in Cai's father's hand stopped in mid-air, with the tip of the knife almost touching his clothes.

Everyone was stunned by Xi Yu's sudden action.

He tore open his clothes roughly and decisively, revealing the criss-crossing scars on his chest, which was shocking.

Those scars were not ordinary knife wounds, but like some kind of ancient totem, strangely enough, they completely overlapped with the patterns of the Tianji Wheel.

"Guanglingzi, you mixed my blood into the medicine you gave to Father Cai!" Xi Yu's voice was low and hoarse, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from the depths of his chest, bringing with it a suffocating feeling of oppression.

He stared at Guanglingzi intently, his eyes like a poisoned blade, as if he wanted to eat him alive.

Guanglingzi's expression suddenly changed, and his originally pale face now looked even more bloodless.

His lips trembled and he wanted to explain, but it was as if something was strangling his throat and he couldn't make any sound.

"Idiot! Ximu is the real..." Guanglingzi suddenly jumped up, like a trapped beast, and pushed Taoist Qingfeng beside him into the bottomless crack in the ground under his feet.

Taoist Qingfeng let out a shrill scream and his figure instantly disappeared into the darkness, leaving only the creepy echo reverberating in the underground palace.

Guanglingzi's words came to an abrupt end, as if they were cut off by someone, leaving a huge suspense that made people feel itchy.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred.

The Tianji Wheel made a harsh friction sound and actually began to rotate in the opposite direction.

The golden light swirled like a whirlpool, sucking in the remaining soul of Xi Mu.

The remnant soul let out a shrill scream, but was unable to break free of the powerful suction. It eventually turned into a ball of blood rain and poured into Cai Wenshuang's brows.

Cai Wenshuang's body was shaking violently, as if he was in great pain.

The blood-red mark between her eyebrows became brighter and brighter, like a blooming Lycoris radiata, enchanting and strange.

Suddenly, a series of blurry images flashed before Xi Yu's eyes: twenty years ago, in a dilapidated temple, two babies in swaddling clothes were placed into the Tianji Wheel at the same time... One of the babies was actually himself!

Although the face of the other baby could not be seen clearly, the swaddling clothes he was wearing were very similar to those on Cai Wenshuang.

"Go away! This is a trap set by Xi Mu!" Cai's father suddenly hugged Cai Wenshuang and roared, his voice full of despair and unwillingness.

He suddenly pushed Cai Wenshuang towards Xiyu, his eyes full of determination.

Xi Yu subconsciously caught Cai Wenshuang, but felt something cold in his hand.

He looked down and saw that Cai Wenshuang's face was as pale as paper, his lips were bloodless, and his breath was weak, as if he would disappear at any time.

"Dad..." Cai Wenshuang stretched out his hands weakly, trying to grab his father, but he only grabbed emptiness.

Father Cai staggered back, his eyes empty, as if he had lost his soul.

He looked at Xi Yu, his lips moving as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, nothing came out.

He slowly raised the knife in his hand, pointing the tip of the knife at his chest...

"No——" Xi Yu roared, trying to stop Cai's father, but found that he could not move.

At this critical moment, the underground palace suddenly shook violently, and rocks above the head fell down one after another, making a deafening sound.

"Hurry! Get out of here!" Father Cai used up his last bit of strength to push Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang towards the exit of the underground palace.

"Dad!" Cai Wenshuang cried, grabbing Xi Yu's hand tightly and refusing to let go.

Xi Yu hugged Cai Wenshuang tightly, his eyes firm and resolute.

He knew that they had to leave here and survive, for Father Cai and for themselves.

"Boom boom——" The ground of the underground palace suddenly cracked...

The ground of the underground palace suddenly cracked open, and a hideous crack appeared like the bloody mouth of a giant beast, swallowing everything around it.

Rubble fell, dust flew, and amid a deafening roar, a figure slowly rose from the crack.

The imperial physician of the imperial city, dressed in a black robe, had a face as gloomy as water, holding in his hands a woman in purple who was as calm as Sleeping Beauty.

He raised his head, his sinister eyes swept across the chaotic scene, and finally fell on Xi Yu, his voice low and hoarse: "My lord, the royal bloodline has been cut off, it's time..."

Before he could finish his words, something strange happened.

Xi Yu suddenly pressed the weak Cai Wenshuang in his arms onto the core of the Tianji Wheel. The ancient wheel emitted a faint cold light, as if a sleeping giant was about to wake up.

"Bite my fingertips!" Xi Yu's voice was rapid and hoarse, carrying an unquestionable command.

Cai Wenshuang was stunned for a moment, then did as he was told without hesitation.

The sharp teeth pierced the skin and warm blood dripped onto the cold roulette wheel.

The golden blood, as if it had life, spread along the ancient lines.

The Tianji Wheel emitted a low humming sound, and a powerful force gushed out from the center of the wheel, sweeping across the entire underground palace.

Dust was flying and gravel was dancing, as if the end of the world was coming.

At this moment, a golden figure slowly crawled out from the center of the wheel.

He had a hunched body and a haggard face, but his eyes flashed with a cold light.

Xi Wujiang, the former master of Tianji Pavilion and Xi Yu's biological father, was now like a ghost returning from hell, with endless hatred and anger.

At the same time, Father Cai's body suddenly burst into dazzling golden light.

The golden light surged like a tide, enveloping him, and finally condensed into a translucent human figure.

The figure looked exactly like Cai's father, but was more majestic and sacred, like a god from heaven.

"What you stole back then was not blood, but the real key to the Heavenly Secret Wheel!" Father Cai's voice was like a loud bell, resounding throughout the underground palace. His eyes fell on Xi Wujiang, with endless ridicule and contempt.

The remaining soul of Xi Wujiang let out a sharp howl, like a wounded beast.

"Waste! How dare you secretly hide the twin bloodlines?" He stretched out his withered fingers and pointed at Cai's father, his eyes full of murderous intent.

Xi Yu coughed up a mouthful of black blood, but a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and laughed wildly towards the sky: "You died twenty years ago. I am the real Xi Wujiang!" His laughter was full of madness and pride, as if he had control over everything.

The Tianji Wheel suddenly shone brightly, and a beam of light was projected into the air, forming a huge picture.

The picture was the marriage certificate between Cai's father and Xi's mother, with beautiful handwriting and sharp strokes.

The signature was clearly Xi Yu's handwriting when he was a child, immature but firm.

"This..." The imperial physician looked at the marriage certificate, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he muttered to himself in disbelief.

The purple-dressed woman in his hand had her eyelids trembling slightly, as if she would wake up at any moment...

Inside the underground palace, the air was as thick as solidified blood, filled with the smell of dust and decay.

The Wheel of Heavenly Secrets hummed and vibrated, and the faint light it emitted illuminated everyone's distorted faces.

The purple-clothed woman's eyelids trembled, like a trapped animal struggling in a cage.

The hatred in her eyes was so strong that it could not be dissolved. It was hatred for Xi Yu and also for fate.

She seized the opportunity, and stretched out her slender fingers like a poisonous snake, thrusting her life-saving Gu fiercely into Xi Yu's back.

Xi Yu groaned and his body trembled violently.

He lowered his head in disbelief, looking at the scarlet on his chest, which was like a blooming mandala, enchanting and deadly.

However, the next moment, something unexpected happened.

The imperial physician, the man who had always been hiding in the shadows, suddenly rose up.

He grabbed the purple-clothed woman with his backhand, as if he was holding a tattered rag doll, and pushed her hard into the bottomless abyss.

"The master has long been devoured by the mother of drama!" His voice was sharp and piercing, filled with hysterical madness.

The woman in purple let out a shrill scream, drew a desperate arc in the air, and disappeared into the darkness.

A creepy echo resounded in the underground palace, like the wails of hell.

At the same time, the golden blood on Cai Wen's fingertips, as if summoned by something, condensed into a huge golden sword in the air.

The sword is shining brightly, exuding a sacred and majestic aura.

The hilt of the sword had the same pattern as Xi Yu’s jade pendant, which was complex and mysterious, like an ancient spell.

The remaining soul of Xi Wujiang let out a shrill roar and turned into a thick black fog, sweeping towards the sky above the imperial city.

The black fog covered the sky and the sun, shrouding the entire imperial city in a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere.

The howling of the wind sounded like the cry of a ghost, which was terrifying.

Suddenly, an ethereal and cold voice came from deep underground, like a whisper from hell: "The Wheel of Heaven is going to devour the entire imperial bloodline..." That was Xi Mu's voice, with endless greed and madness.

Father Cai's face changed drastically. He grabbed Cai Wenshuang and pushed her towards Xi Yu.

"Quick! Use the Twin Blood Contract to restart..." His voice was rapid and hoarse, carrying an unquestionable command.

However, before he could finish his words, something strange happened again.

The entire imperial city began to shake violently.

The ground cracked and houses collapsed, as if doomsday had come.

What was even more shocking was that the entire imperial city began to slowly reverse, the sky turned into the earth, and the earth turned into the sky.

In the chaos, Xiyu's jade pendant emitted a dazzling light. The light became brighter and brighter, and finally it blended with the light of the Tianji Wheel and became one.

The patterns on the jade pendant completely overlap with those on the Tianji Wheel, like a perfect fit, exuding an ancient and mysterious power.

"No..." A terrified voice echoed in the underground palace. It was the voice of the imperial physician, full of despair and fear.

He stretched out his hand, trying to grab something, but he couldn't grab anything.

His body began to tremble and his eyes became unfocused, like an empty shell without a soul.

"Twin Blood Contract... activate..." Father Cai's voice was weak and trembling, like his last whisper.

His body began to become transparent and eventually disappeared into the air, leaving only the last trace of golden light which merged into the Tianji Wheel.

"Xi Yu..." Cai Wenshuang stretched out his hand, wanting to grab Xi Yu, but only grabbed air.

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"Rumble--"

This sound seemed to not enter through the ears, but explode directly in the cracks between everyone's bones!

Xi Yu felt as if his internal organs were turned upside down by the violent vibration. His throat felt sweet and he almost vomited blood.

He clenched his teeth tightly and swallowed the fishy and sweet taste.

But even so, he still felt as if a thousand-pound rock was pressing on his chest, making it hard for him to breathe.

Not only him, but everyone present was shocked by this sudden change.

The Imperial City, this majestic city that has stood for thousands of years, now began to spin wildly like a toy being played with by a naughty child!

The ground was no longer solid land, but had turned into an endless abyss, like a huge mouth that was ready to devour anyone and swallow everything.

The sky is no longer a high and vast dome, but has become a solid barrier that makes people feel breathless.

The familiar palaces, buildings, streets... everything became distorted and deformed, like a bizarre nightmare.

In the midst of this chaos, the jade pendant on Xiyu's waist suddenly burst out with dazzling light.

The light, like the rising sun, dispelled the darkness around and illuminated everyone's face.

The light became stronger and brighter, and in the end, it even blended with the light of the Tianji Wheel and became one!
The patterns on the jade pendant and the patterns on the Tianji Wheel were like two lovers who had been separated for many years and finally met each other. They fitted together tightly and seamlessly without any deviation.

An ancient, mysterious and vast power burst out from this perfect fit, sweeping across the entire underground palace, even penetrating the thick soil layer and rushing straight into the sky!

At the moment when the lights intersected, blood-colored lines began to appear on the originally ordinary floor tiles of the imperial city.

These lines are winding and interweaving into mysterious patterns.

Looking closely, it turned out to be the totem of the royal family!

Every stroke and every line seems to contain endless majesty and power, which makes people feel awe.

"Om-"

A low humming sound came from deep underground.

Then, a figure slowly rose from the ground and hovered in the air.

He was a man wearing a black robe with golden dragon patterns embroidered on it, which made him look particularly solemn and dignified.

His face was stern and his eyes were sharp, as if he could see through all illusions.

He is the Imperial City Priest!

The guardian of the royal bloodline, the incarnation of a thousand-year-old artifact!
As soon as he appeared, the air in the entire underground palace seemed to freeze.

Everyone's eyes were focused on him, and no one dared to breathe.

The Imperial City Priest spoke slowly, his voice low and majestic, and every word was like a heavy hammer, hitting everyone's heart:
"Blood of the Xi family, how dare you use the twin blood contract to tamper with the laws of heaven and earth!"

His voice was filled with unquestionable majesty and anger, like the judgment of a god.

At this moment, something strange happened again!
"Whoosh-"

A blood-red shadow suddenly emerged from Xi Yu's sleeves at an astonishing speed. In just a blink of an eye, it turned into a blood-red butterfly.

This butterfly is so beautiful, so weird, and there are spots of blood on its wings, as if they were dyed with blood.

This blood butterfly is Nangong Yue!
She had actually been hiding in Xi Yu's sleeves! (End of this chapter)