Hongjun, today we Three Pure Ones sever our master-disciple relationship with you.
From this day forward, there will be no name of master and disciple between us.
Nor any affection to speak of.
Laozi's voice was indifferent, without the slightest trace of reverence for his master.
The Taiji Diagram, the Pangu Banner, and the Chaos Bell, three supreme treasures, were activated at the same time.
The auras of the three Heaven-Opening treasures converged into one in the void. The fortune of the Three Pure Ones resonated at the same frequency, shooting straight through the clouds.
The Taiji Diagram unfurled. Laozi stood at the very center of the scroll, and the fortune channel connecting the Three Pure Ones to Hongjun appeared before their eyes.
In the same instant, Yuanshi unfurled the Pangu Banner and swung it down viciously at that fortune channel.
Tongtian's Chaos Bell rose from his palm, firmly protecting the divine souls of the Three Pure Ones to prevent backlash.
The fortune channel inside Hongjun's body, which had stretched across measureless Tribulations, snapped apart from within.
That rupture came with ferocious force. Before he could reinforce and draw it in, the entire channel had been completely destroyed by the Three Pure Ones.
Golden fortune light surged backward from the Three Pure Ones, and the foundations that had originally flowed toward him now all returned to the bodies of the Three Pure Ones.
Laozi's expression remained as usual, but only he knew the waves surging in his heart.
He had waited for this day far too long.
From the day he had knelt and bowed in Purple Cloud Palace, he had known that the title of master and disciple was a shackle. Yet that shackle had been engraved with grace and righteousness, and when it was fastened on, everyone said