"Dad!" Cai Wenshuang exclaimed, trying to stop it, but it was too late.

Those bloodshots penetrated into Lao Cai's body with lightning speed.

Lao Cai's body swelled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, like a blown balloon.

"Ah..." Old Cai let out a painful roar, and his eyes instantly turned blood red.

At this moment, Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang noticed that a photo was reflected in Lao Cai's blood-red pupils!

That's a photo...

In the photo, the girl in purple smiled and snuggled beside a man.

Although the man had a blurry face, he could vaguely see that he was... the late emperor!

And the background of this photo is... the ancestral home of the Xi family!

The familiar blue bricks and black tiles, the familiar carved beams and painted buildings, all tell a shocking secret.

"This...this is impossible..." Cai Wenshuang murmured to himself,

Xi Yu's face also became extremely solemn.

He stared at Lao Cai and asked word by word: "Who are you...?"

Lao Cai did not answer, but just slowly raised his hand and pointed at the expanding crack deep in the underground palace.

His originally kind face was now full of weirdness and...crazy. He looked at Xi Yu and a creepy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Chapter 227 Chapter 231 Two Souls duel, when the imperial city capsizes

The bloodshots were like maggots on the tarsal bones, and each one was like a burning iron wire, rushing around his blood vessels.

Lao Cai's body swelled like a deformed monster, his skin was so tight that it was about to explode, and his veins swelled up like twisted earthworms.

His throat let out a beast-like roar, pain, despair, but with a hint of strange excitement.

In the blood-red pupils, the photo became clearer. The woman in purple smiled cleverly and snuggled beside the blurry late emperor. The background was the ancestral home of the Xi family.

The blue bricks and black tiles, the carved beams and painted buildings look gloomy and terrifying at this moment, like a dormant giant beast, about to reveal its fangs.

"Who are you...?" Xi Yu's voice was low and hoarse, as if it had been sanded by sandpaper, with a hint of incredible trembling.

Lao Cai did not answer, and a creepy smile appeared on his twisted face.

That smile does not belong to a kind father, but is more like an evil ghost from hell.

He suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed Xi Yu, and pushed him hard into the expanding crack deep in the underground palace!

"Go and find the 'reverse scale formation' underground in the Xi family's ancestral home!" Lao Cai's voice was hoarse and sharp, like the cry of a night owl, echoing in the empty underground palace.

Xi Yu was caught off guard and staggered into the crack.

In the crack, there was a bizarre and time and space were distorted, and pictures flashed like a lantern.

Suddenly, a clear image freezes the image of childhood Xi Yu, standing side by side with the young Cai father, with bright smiles on both of them.

This sudden scene shocked Xi Yu's heart, and an inexplicable chill rushed straight from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

Outside the crack, Cai Wenshuang exclaimed, trying to reach out to play Yu, but was caught by Lao Cai.

"Don't move!" Lao Cai's voice was full of warning, but a trace of imperceptible pain flashed in his eyes.

Cai Wenshuang's heart was tangled, and she stared at the crack as if she wanted to see through it.

Suddenly, she seemed to think of something and suddenly tore open Xi Yu's clothes.

A groove suddenly appeared at Xi Yuxin's mouth, which was exactly in line with the goat pendant she had been wearing!

At this moment, Xi Yu suddenly coughed out a mouthful of blood, and there was a purple Gu insect in the blood!

The insect struggled and made a slight hissing sound.

"I held your father hostage back then to prevent him from activate this container!" Xi Yu's voice was weak and powerless, but with a hint of determination.

At the same time, on the ground of the imperial city, golden runes spread like spider webs, and the Xi family's ancestral home slowly rose from the ground, like a sleeping giant, finally awakening.

The tattoo on Lao Cai's neck suddenly came alive and turned into black chains, tied Xi Yu and Cai Wen together.

"Twin bloodlines must be injected at the same time to activate the ultimate seal!" Lao Cai's voice was no longer hoarse, but instead became low and majestic, as if from an ancient oracle.

Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang were tied together, and their blood slowly flowed along the chains to the Xi family's ancestral home... Old Cai looked at this scene, a complex light flashed in his eyes, and muttered to himself: "Ziyi, you are still... back after all..."

OK, the following is the novel content after removing irrelevant content and translating it in English:

"Boom--"

There was a loud bang, as if the thunder in the nine heavens exploded, and the entire imperial city trembled.

The ancient bronze gate of the Xi family's ancestral home slowly opened in the vibration, and a cold breath came to the face, with the smell of decay and death, which made people shudder.

Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang were tied up in black chains, like two lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and were dragged into the dark abyss.

Blood flowed along the chains and dripped on the bluestone slab, making a "click" sound, which seemed particularly harsh in this quiet space.

At this moment, a purple light shot out from the depths of the imperial city, like a bolt of lightning, cutting through the darkness.

The light dissipated, and a woman in purple slowly floated out of the crystal coffin of the late emperor.

Her face is beautiful, but she has a strange charm, and the corners of her eyes and eyebrows are filled with a heart-pounding chill.

She stood in the air, with her skirt flying, like a mysterious woman descending to the mortal world.

However, what she held tightly in her hand was a blood-stained jade pendant - it was the relics of Xi Yu's mother and the softest memory in his heart!

"Yu'er, do you think... the Lord of the Tianji Pavilion would be a weak woman?" The voice of the woman in purple was as erratic as a ghost, but with a hint of heartbreaking tenderness, "I... am your mother's reincarnation!"

Xi Yu's pupils suddenly contracted, and he stared at the jade pendant tightly, and the shock and anger in his heart gushed out like a volcano!

"No... impossible! You...who are you?!"

The woman in purple did not answer, she just smiled softly, her smile was breathtakingly beautiful, but with a hint of crazy cruelty.

"You will know soon..."

Before she finished speaking, her figure flashed and appeared in front of Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang in an instant.

She stretched out her hand and gently stroked Xi Yu's face, and a nearly pathological fascination appeared in her eyes.

"My Yu'er...you're finally...back..."

At the same time, a huge formation slowly emerged under the Xi family's ancestral home.

The core of the formation was actually the face of a young man - that face was exactly the same as when Cai’s father was young!

Cai Wenshuang opened her eyes wide in horror. She struggled desperately, but could not break free from the black chains.

"Dad...Dad!?"

The woman in purple let out a sharp laugh, and the laughter echoed in the empty underground palace like a howling ghost.

"Hahaha... have you seen it? This is the truth! You... are just chess pieces!"

At this moment, Xi Yu suddenly discovered that the tattoo on Cai’s father’s neck actually coincided with the pattern on the wedding book left by his mother!

Every line and every curve are tightly shaped, as if it was originally one!

"Boom--"

The imperial city began to shake violently, and huge cracks appeared on the ground, houses collapsed, palaces tilted, and the entire imperial city began to sink underground like the end of the world!

Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang were tightly tied together by black chains. They were swept up by this huge force, threw them into the air, and then fell heavily to the ground.

During the fall, a space-time crack suddenly appeared and swallowed them...

At the last moment when consciousness disappeared, Xi Yu saw Cai’s father standing in front of the huge formation and smiled relievedly at him.

The smile was warm and kind, like the spring breeze blowing on the face, dispelling all fear and anxiety.

"Let's go..."

The cracks in time and space were like a hungry giant beast, devouring everything, and dragging Xi Yu and Cai Wenshuang into endless darkness.

The wind was howling, the ears were filled with sharp thunderous whistling, and the body seemed to be torn apart and reorganized.

Xi Yu felt like a fallen leaf, floating in the endless chaos, helpless.

He subconsciously reached out his hand and grabbed Cai Wenshuang's wrist beside him. The cold touch made him feel a little relieved.

Suddenly, a little light appeared in the darkness, and the halo gradually expanded, eventually forming a blurred figure.

Xi Yu narrowed his eyes, and his figure became clearer and clearer, which turned out to be the way his mother looked when she was young!

Her eyebrows and eyes were gentle, and she had a smile on her lips, as gentle as the warm spring sun.

"So... you are the first container to be selected..." Xi Yu murmured to himself, and a storm arose in his heart.

container?

What's the meaning?

What is the connection between mother and Tianji Pavilion?

For twenty years, he had always thought that Tianji Pavilion was founded by his father. Now it seems that the truth is far more complicated than he imagined.
To be continued...