"You're courting death!"
Deng Ruikai roared, the trace of unease in his heart instantly turning into killing intent.
His body shuddered violently. Billowing Yin Sha Qi coalesced overhead into a massive claw that blotted out the sky and sun, then crashed down toward True Lord Xu Ran.
At the same time, he turned toward Song Yan, seemingly intending to fly toward him. Not only that, he formed a hand seal, gathering dark starlight at his fingertips. A faint, scorching heat stirred within it.
This was precisely the spell that had burned those four Golden Core cultivators to death from afar five years ago.
Jingle.
At the critical instant, a clear peal of bells suddenly rang out, fixing the enormous claw in place, unable to move.
Almost simultaneously, a wondrous fluctuation rippled out from True Lord Xu Ran.
How could Deng Ruikai fail to notice this peculiar fluctuation? He even recognized the technique's origins at once.
It was none other than the nine words and five seals: Divine Silence!
Sure enough, almost the next instant, all the Spiritual Power around him froze for a breath. The starlight that had just gathered at his fingertips abruptly dispersed.
Deng Ruikai said nothing, but the killing intent in his heart refused to subside.
Changing his hand seals, he directed the enormous ghost claw, which had yet to dissipate, to dart toward Song Yan.
Yet as the bells rang out, the star chart floating beside True Lord Xu Ran suddenly blazed with dazzling starlight.
Countless spiritual threads gushed forth, strand after strand winding around the Yin Sha ghost claw.
The instant the starlight threads wrapped around the ghost claw, they spun rapidly, penetrating every gap, binding it and constantly dragging it toward the center of the star chart.
The starlight threads were densely packed. The