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Chapter 329: The Eight Desolations Dao Child
"The Eight Desolations Sect has come from afar, offering a Dao-challenging battle as its congratulations. What an unusual gift."
Under the eyes of countless cultivators, the space beside Chen Beiwu rippled like water, and a figure stepped out of the void.
His silver hair was like snow, his bearing straight as a pine. His face was ruddy, and a vertical golden mark lay between his brows. This was the pillar anchoring the Mirror Moon Sect-its patriarch, Zhu Wuya.
Zhu Wuya stood before Chen Beiwu, looking straight at the Eight Desolations Sect's Spirit Transformation Venerable.
Ning Xuanji's eyes shifted slightly. Their gazes met in the void.
Boom!
In an instant, two utterly different yet vast and domineering auras erupted.
There was no deafening crash, nor any vision of heaven and earth changing, but every cultivator present at Golden Core or above could clearly sense the low hum of the void where their auras clashed.
"True Venerable Zhu, do you intend to spar with me?"
As Ning Xuanji finished speaking, the Venerable's aura suppressing heaven and earth grew heavier still.
"Your arrival certainly brings luster to our humble Mirror Moon Sect, Venerable Ning."
Zhu Wuya's aura faintly resonated with the reserves deep within the sect grounds behind him. His voice held an unquestionable resolve. "But this is the Mirror Moon Sect, not somewhere the Eight Desolations Sect can act as it pleases."
At those words, the leaders of the other four great sects exchanged glances.
Their goal on this visit was to join forces in suppressing the Mirror Moon Sect.
But however the Five Great Sects fought among themselves, it was not the Eight Desolations Sect's place to interfere.
Gu Wuji, deputy pavilion master of the Mysterious Sword Pavilion; Zhao Cang, sect master of