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Chapter 332: Secret schemes and the Meridian Opening
Three days later, in the Southern Yan Territory.
Inside Silence Desolation Hall, in the Eight Desolations Sect.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
The deathly pale Ning Wujiu suddenly woke, sat up, and coughed violently, spitting out several clots of blood mixed with fragments of his organs.
"How do you feel?"
Looking at the sect's Dao Child, who looked wretched and whose aura was feeble, Ning Xuanji spoke calmly.
"Master, this disciple was incompetent. I suffered a crushing defeat and disgraced the Eight Desolations Sect's ten-thousand-year reputation."
"Please punish me, Master!"
Ning Wujiu staggered to his feet, then knelt, his voice hoarse and tinged with unwillingness.
Since setting foot on the path of cultivation, this was the first time he had suffered such a disastrous defeat.
Not only had the Silence-and-Extinction Golden Core he took such pride in failed to crush the Great Unity Golden Core, it had instead become its stepping stone.
But Ning Wujiu did not evade it. A defeat was a defeat; any explanation would only insult both himself and his opponent.
"What wrong have you committed, my disciple?"
Ning Xuanji shook his head slightly and said evenly, "The Taiyi Dao Sect's legacy was superior to that of the Eight Desolations Sect to begin with. They even possess legendary immortal arts."
"Master, do you mean Chen Zi'ang has already mastered an immortal art?"
Ning Wujiu froze briefly, then looked up in disbelief.
The Eight Desolations Sect had no immortal art legacy.
Even the sect's cornerstone cultivation method, the Eight Desolations Silence Void-Purging Scripture, was merely a Void Refinement method passed down from the Eight Desolations Dao Venerable. It could not remotely compare with legendary immortal arts.
"What if he has? What if he hasn't?"
Ning Xuanji gave his disciple a long