The secret guard suddenly raised his hand, and the broken sword in his hand pierced into his throat with a decisive force!

Blood gushed out like a charming red flower, blooming on the dark altar.

The warm blood splattered Xi Yu's face, and the fishy and salty smell stimulated his taste buds and made his stomach turbulent.

"Big...man..." The secret guard commander used his last strength to stuff the half of the jade pendant in his hand into Xi Yu's hand.

He sniffed out a word in ambiguous way: "Quick..." and then, his head tilted, completely losing his breath.

At this moment, a low buzzing sound came from the ground of the altar, as if a sleeping giant beast was awakening.

The buzzing sound became louder and louder, gradually turning into melodious bells.

Xi Yu is not unfamiliar with the sound of this bell, it is the long-lost "Soul Conjuring Song"!

The crack in the center of the altar began to tremble violently, and a cold breath gushed out from it, with a creepy chill.

The cracks became bigger and bigger, and finally, a figure slowly emerged from it.

It was a woman in a purple robe with a gorgeous appearance but a sinister atmosphere.

Her eyes were like poisonous snakes, cold and sharp, as if they could see through people's hearts.

Xi Yu felt a stern

Suddenly, a sharp voice rang in Xi Yu's ears: "What my mother wants is not blood, but the position of prime minister! She had long implanted the core of Tianji Lock..." This voice was hoarse and crazy, and it was Xi Wujiang's remnant soul!

He seemed to want to reveal some shocking secret, but before he finished speaking, the woman in purple waved her sleeves suddenly, and a powerful force instantly shattered Xi Wujiang's residual soul!

At the same time, Cai Wenshuang pressed another twin jade pendant on the altar.

A huge star map suddenly appeared on the ground of the altar, with bright stars and mysterious.

Cai Wenshuang's eyes looked at Xi Yu like cold ice: "When you held your father hostage in exchange for the Cai family's bloodline as a sealing medium?"

Xi Yu opened his mouth and wanted to explain, but he didn't know where to start...

This sudden change was like a stick hitting Xi Yu on the head, making him dizzy.

He never expected that Cai Wenshuang would ask such a question!

Hostage?

seal?

This is wherever it goes!

He was about to defend himself, but the woman in purple snatched him first.

"Hahaha..." The woman in purple smiled at the sky, her laughter sharply and harshly, as if she was about to shake off her eardrums. "What a lovely prime minister! Do you think you did everything for her? Little do you know that you are just a chess piece in my hand!"

She waved her hand suddenly, and the bronze arm that was originally floating quietly in the air seemed to suddenly come alive, turning into thousands of poisonous snakes, and pounced on Xi Yu with his teeth and claws!

Each of these arms was shining with a cold metallic luster, covered with strange runes, exuding a suffocating sense of oppression.

"How dare you use your brother's soul as bait!" The voice of the woman in purple seemed to come from the depths of hell, cold and resentful.

Every word is like a sharp knife, piercing Xi Yu's heart.

Xi Yu felt a chill running straight from the soles of his feet and his blood seemed to have solidified.

He wanted to dodge, but found that his body seemed to be imprisoned by an invisible force and could not move.

Seeing those bronze arms about to swallow him, Xi Yu felt desperate.

He never thought that everything he carefully planned would fall into such a trap!

Could it be that I really want to die here?

At this critical moment, a sudden change occurred!

"Boom!"

A loud bang, like a thunder thunder on the ground, made the entire altar shake violently.

Immediately afterwards, a golden light soared into the sky from the ground, shaking all the bronze arms that were pounced on Xi Yu!

The golden light dissipated, and a pair of golden armor appeared in front of everyone.

The armor is golden all over, carved with complex patterns, exuding a sacred and majestic atmosphere.

It was exactly the one that Xi Wujiang wore during his lifetime!

The armor seemed to have life, and it automatically flew to the purple-clad woman, and was shocked suddenly!

A powerful force exploded instantly, nailing the girl in purple tightly into the center of the star map!

The woman in purple let out a shrill scream, and her body was shrouded in golden light, constantly twisting and deforming, as if she was about to be torn to pieces by this force!

"No... impossible!" The girl in purple had fear and disbelief in her eyes, "This... this is..."

Before she could finish her words, Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang had already jumped onto the bronze tripod at the same time.

At this moment, the twin jade pendants on their wrists burst out with dazzling light.

Two rays of light converged in the air and turned into a huge column of light, rushing straight into the sky!

"Boom..."

The world changes color and the wind and clouds are surging.

The star map above the altar began to rotate slowly as if it had been activated.

The stars were shining with dazzling light, as if they were about to fall from the sky.

The wind is howling, and lightning is thundering.

The entire altar seemed to have turned into a huge vortex, swallowing everything around it frantically.

The screams of the girl in purple were drowned in the thunder and the wind.

Her body began to gradually dissipate under the illumination of golden light, turning into starlight and blending into the star map.

However, just when the strange phenomenon in the world reached its peak, the scream of the purple-clothed woman suddenly twisted and transformed into Cai’s father’s familiar and anxious voice: “Stop! This is the final trial of the Cai family’s bloodline!”

This voice seemed like a wake-up call, which shocked Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang, who were originally immersed in the ceremony, suddenly looked at each other, seeing the same shock and confusion in each other's eyes, and the confusion that should not belong to this moment.

Deep in the ground, there seemed to be some kind of hard object, hitting the ground of the altar one by one. The sound was dull, slow, but unswerving.

The vibration underground became more and more intense, and the ground in the center of the altar was cracking inch and gravel splashed.

Blood-red lines spread like spider webs, and looked particularly hideous in the golden light.

Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang subconsciously took a step back, holding each other tightly in their hands, staring at the depths of the crack, and an inexplicable sense of fear rushed straight from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads.

"Boom--"

With a loud bang, the ground exploded, dust flew everywhere, and gravel splashed everywhere.

A figure slowly rose from the cracks underground.

It was Cai's father. His eyes were scarlet, his face was covered with blood, and his hair was scattered, like an evil ghost crawling out of hell.

What's even more strange is that the tattoo on his neck was emitting a strange red light at this moment, wriggling like a living thing, extending and deforming, and finally turning into two blood-red chains, entangling Xi Yu and the girl in purple.

"The engagement you stole back then was to stop me from having a thousand-year contract with the royal family!" Cai's father's voice was hoarse and low, with a creepy chill.

He stared at the girl in purple,

The body of the woman in purple trembled even more violently under the double constraints of golden light and blood chains.

She wanted to struggle, but found that she could not move at all.

Her face was filled with pain and despair, and deep... fear?

Xi Yu felt a huge force that tightly bound him and could not move.

He looked down at the blood-colored chains wrapped around him. His tentacles were cold, but they also had a burning sting.

This feeling is so familiar, but so strange.

It's like some forgotten memory being forcibly awakened.

"Thousand-year contract? What contract?" Xi Yu asked sternly, enduring the severe pain in his body.

Cai's father laughed to the sky, his laughter was shrill and crazy, like the whine of a trapped beast.

"A thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Cai family made a contract with the royal family, guiding them to protect the luck of the emperor! And you," he turned his head suddenly and stared at Xi Yu, "You, the blood of the Xi family, are the container of this contract!"

At this time, a figure slowly walked out of the shadow of the altar.

It was Su Heng. In her hand, she was holding a quaint bronze medicine box, with the same patterns as the Xi Yu jade pendant engraved at the bottom of the box.

"The blood of the Xi family is the symbiotic container between the Tianji Pavilion and the royal family!" Su Heng's voice was calm and indifferent, but it exploded in Xi Yu's mind like thunder.

Symbiosis container?

What's the meaning?

Xi Yu's brain was in chaos. He felt like he was involved in a huge conspiracy, but he knew nothing about it.

Cai Wenshuang's eyes fell deep in the altar.

There is a hidden secret lattice, with dozens of jade pendants placed inside, each of which is engraved with the same runes as the Tianji Lock.
To be continued...