As the black and white streams of clear Qi churned and flowed, more and more Spiritual Power poured into them.
Before long, the trickle became a surging tide, roaring as it swept upward.
The Restrictions of the Sun-Moon Transfer Formation shattered as though heaven and earth were collapsing.
"That you have reached this point is also my fault as your elder brother. I failed to discipline you strictly enough."
Spiritual Power rippled around True Lord Xu Ran. "If there is another life, I will teach you properly."
Yet Deng Ruikai's face grew calm instead, a strange laugh rising from his throat.
"Discipline me strictly? Heh, heh, heh... hahahaha...
"Deng Ruixu, you cannot hold me! Neither the Deng Household nor the Heavenly Mechanism Sect can hold me!"
The Yin-Sha Qi surrounding him suddenly swelled, countless twisted phantoms of resentful souls shrieking within the gray mist.
"Not even this heaven and earth can hold me!"
Forming hand seals with both hands, he sent countless bolts of ashen Yin lightning stabbing toward the figure wreathed in starlight before his eyes.
True Lord Xu Ran sighed softly and looked up at the vault overhead, as though he could see past the dark, fathomless heavens to the sun and moon.
"Obstinate to the bitter end."
Now his voice was icy, without the slightest inflection.
On the star disk beside him, the phantoms of the stars of the heavens glimmered, then abruptly took on a jade hue.
His left hand formed two seals, while he joined the fingers of his right hand and pointed at the center of the star disk.
He softly uttered,
"Sun and Moon Push and Pull."
The star disk vanished, replaced by a vast, boundless star chart behind True Lord Xu Ran.
Almost before the star chart had fully unfurled, the phantoms