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Chapter 324: A great sect's hidden reserves
Deep within the Mirror Moon Sect's protective formation, the Eight Desolations Water Mirror Dragon-Subduing Formation.
An ancient mirror trembled faintly. Neither metal nor jade, it was made of an unknown material and exuded an aura of primordial antiquity.
Its frame bore the two colors of yin and yang, at times evolving into earth, water, fire, and wind, at times returning to chaos.
The mirror's surface was slightly concave, its color that of a boundless ocean, with nine innate divine runes upon it.
By examining it with divine sense, cultivators could perceive, through its primordial chaos spirit light, the great Dao of water formed when heaven and earth first opened and yin and yang separated.
At the bottom of the ancient mirror was a hole resembling the source of the Northern Nether, within which a Heavenly One True Dragon could faintly be seen swimming and transforming.
This dragon belonged to no dragon species in the world. It was a primordial chaos manifestation of the great Dao of water, and also the embodiment of the artifact spirit of the primordial chaos Dao artifact, the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror.
It could command all waters beneath heaven, decree the movements of rivers, lakes, and seas, rain, dew, frost, and snow, conjure three thousand weak waters, and overturn the four seas, rendering them impassable even to immortals and Buddhas.
Seeing such a divine object stir, Zhu Wuya's ambitions grew wildly.
He had cultivated in seclusion for a thousand years and was already a great cultivator at True Lord Completion, only half a step from becoming a Spirit Transformation Venerable. He was unquestionably the strongest member of the Mirror Moon Sect.
Now that the sect's hidden reserve had awakened on its own, if he were fortunate enough