The contrasting Beards' first battle

The Hundred-Ton King tore across the desert.

The huge Bandaged Skull Flag snapped in the raging, sand-laden wind.

It stood out starkly against the golden desert.

They were still on the outskirts of the Skyvault Desert.

This was also where martial artists were most numerous.

An ostentatiously lavish silver off-road vehicle, accompanied by a Hundred-Ton King, immediately drew plenty of attention.

"Holy shit! What genius drove a Hundred-Ton King into the desert? And that shipping container on the back... it's actually a huge space item!"

"Hey! Look at the flags on those two vehicles..."

"They're our flags."

"No! We don't have a silver off-roader or a Hundred-Ton King in our crew. They don't match our intel. They're not ours!"

"Activate aura scanning!"

"One mid Skyborne realm, one high Return-to-Truth realm, and two initial Return-to-Truth realm! They're all young. Probably students from some country, here for training."

"And there are fifteen martial artists inside that Hundred-Ton King's container... they're our people!"

"Damn it! They captured our people, then flew our flags... get reinforcements and wipe them out!"

Three in the Return-to-Truth realm and one in the Skyborne realm.

That was hardly a powerful force in the Skyvault Desert.

At best, they could pick up a few scraps around the edges.

Quite a few members of the Fake Beards Crew had been killed lately.

Of course, most of those deaths came from killing one another.

Anyone who dared impersonate the Bearded Pirate Crew had to have some real ability.

But capturing their people, then parading around under their flags like this was a first.

Before long.

More than thirty Transcendents sporting hair and beards in every color had set their sights on the two vehicles racing across the desert.

"Go invisible! Kill them!"

Their invisibility talismans activated.

Led by a Celestial Being,