Chapter 330: The True Venerable Steps Back
‘This brute is fierce. Should I make the first move as your master?’
Zhu Shaoyuan’s expression was grave as he transmitted with his divine sense.
The Dao Child of the Eight Desolations Sect possessed astonishing strength—he had consecutively defeated the Golden Core figureheads of the Four Great Sects.
Although Chen Ziang had ford the unprecedented Taiyi Golden Core, he had only recently stepped into the Golden Core realm; his cultivation was rely at the Late-Stage Golden Core.
It would be better for him, a master who had half a foot in the Nascent Soul True Monarch realm, to step forward—lest the Mirror Moon Dao Child’s reputation suffer damage.
Taking ten thousand steps back, even if he were ultimately defeated, he could still buy more ti for his disciple to observe and probe the opponent’s true depth.
‘No need.’
Chen Beiwu’s divine sense was calm: “Master, rest assured. Below the Nascent Soul, I am invincible!”
Hearing this, Zhu Shaoyuan’s heart settled, and he stopped hesitating.
If even he could faintly sense a threat from Ziang, then the latter’s strength could not be judged by common sense. Perhaps he truly could crush the Dao Child of the Eight Desolations Sect.
‘Be careful in all things. If it cannot be done, preserving yourself cos first.’
After finishing his divine sense admonition, Zhu Shaoyuan stepped back and yielded the position.
‘I have made thorough preparations. You may act with full force.’
Patriarch Zhu Wuya had likewise mobilized the Sect Foundation as insurance before signaling that the Sect’s Dao Child could take action.
Under the gaze of the multitude, Chen Beiwu stepped forward. His azure robe stirred without wind as his gaze t Ning Wujiu’s.
In an instant, every cultivator present focused their eyes upon them.
‘Patriarch, does the Dao Child have confidence?’
The Grand Elder Zheng Qianwei transmitted with divine sense, her heart heavy with concern.
The Dao Child’s aptitude and potential were beyond doubt—he was the Sect’s future hope—but his ti in cultivation had ultimately been too short.
‘Ninety percent.’ Zhu Wuya remained calm.
‘What ninety percent?’
Zheng Qianwei was stunned, surprise flashing in her eyes.
‘Naturally, ninety percent certainty of victory.’
Zhu Wuya cast her a glance.
At this point, the only thing he could do was trust.
There was no helping it—his strength was insufficient. He had failed to break through to the Divine Transformation True Venerable. Mobilizing the Sect Foundation required an enormous price.
Otherwise, Zhu Wuya would never have agreed to the Eight Desolations Sect’s request for a spar. He would have flipped the table and fought Ning Xuanji directly.
“In the Southern Wastes Domain, those capable of forming a Supre Golden Core are few. I hope you will not disappoint .”
Ning Wujiu spoke with interest.
“Words are useless. I’ll give you ti to regulate your breath and recover.” Chen Beiwu stood with his hands behind his back, tone relaxed.
“No need. The previous battles were rely warm-ups.” Ning Wujiu chuckled.
“Indeed, warm-ups. In any case, whether you recover or not, you cannot bridge the gap between us.”
Chen Beiwu raised his right hand, fingers slightly spread, pointing at Ning Wujiu. His voice was calm.
Seeing this familiar gesture, the cultivators of the Four Great Sects were montarily stunned.
Good heavens—was the Mirror Moon Dao Child so arrogant?
He did not even place the Dao Child of the Eight Desolations Sect, who had swept through the Golden Cores of the Four Great Sects, in his eyes—facing him with only his bare palm!
Ning Wujiu did not grow angry. He tightened his grip on the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe, activated his escape light, and the clouds behind him exploded apart.
Clang!
The pitch-black Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe tore through the sky and smashed down from above. The tyrannical Annihilation True Qi could destroy anything that stood before it.
“Suppress!”
Primordial True Qi surged within Chen Beiwu. His index and middle fingers rged as he executed the Dongzhen Calamity-Heaven Finger, eting the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe head-on with two fingers.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Visible waves of terrifying force erupted outward in frenzied shockwaves.
‘What ferocious Taiyi True Qi!’
Ning Wujiu was inwardly startled.
After forming the Extinction Golden Core, his Annihilation True Qi could reconstruct and obliterate any Golden Core mystic ability.
Yet when this halberd struck Chen Ziang’s fingers, he felt as though he had nowhere to exert force—like a full-powered blow striking empty space.
‘There are indeed so tricks here.’
Chen Beiwu was also sowhat surprised.
He had intended to block the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe with one finger and defeat Ning Wujiu with the next.
He had not expected the Dao Child of the Eight Desolations Sect to rival Yu Zhaohua, second on the Yuxu Rankings. Borrowing a portion of the power of a Heaven-reaching Mysterious Treasure, his combat strength even faintly surpassed hers.
Of course, the two could not be directly compared.
For the sake of fairness, Yu Zhaohua had not used any magical artifacts or external objects during her battle with Chen Beiwu.
Moreover, in terms of cultivation alone, Yu Zhaohua was at Late-Stage Golden Core, while Ning Wujiu was now at Golden Core Great Perfection.
If Yu Zhaohua stepped into Golden Core Great Perfection and unleashed her ultimate trump cards, Ning Wujiu—even with the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe—would not be her match. He would likely be crushed.
Even so, Ning Wujiu’s strength was not to be underestimated.
Boom!
With one strike failing, Ning Wujiu retreated with the montum, then seized the opening exposed when Chen Beiwu withdrew his hand. Suddenly erupting forth, he dragged the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe in a reverse slash.
The angle was treacherous and without warning—aid straight at Chen Beiwu’s lower back.
The boundless Annihilation True Qi instantly transford into a pitch-black dragon that surged forth.
Chen Beiwu’s expression did not change. This opening had been deliberately revealed.
Ignoring the incoming halberd light, he stood firm as a mountain, his right index finger pointing toward Ning Wujiu’s heart.
‘Trying to trade injury for injury and force to defend? Then I’ll grant your wish!’
A ruthless glint flashed in Ning Wujiu’s eyes.
At this mont, he could have reversed his grip on the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe to block Chen Ziang’s finger technique—but Ning Wujiu refused to retreat.
The destructive force of Annihilation True Qi far surpassed Taiyi True Qi. In a true clash, he would hold the advantage.
Boom!
As Chen Beiwu had wished, his finger annihilated the inky-black Annihilation barrier and lightly tapped Ning Wujiu’s left arm, which shielded his heart.
Ning Wujiu’s body stiffened. His left arm, wrapped in Annihilation True Qi, instantly exploded open with a wound three inches long.
‘Die!’
Ning Wujiu’s eyes sharpened. He could already see the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe cleaving Chen Ziang in two at the waist.
Yet the scene unfolded differently from his expectation.
Just as the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe broke through Chen Beiwu’s protective True Qi and was about to slice through flesh and bone, a massive dragon claw suddenly shot out, blocking the halberd’s path.
Clang!!!
Claw and halberd collided like clashing stars, forcefully knocking the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe back.
Ning Wujiu’s eyes bulged. His tiger’s mouth split open as his body was blasted backward. An irresistible force surged along the halberd’s shaft, nearly wrenching it from his grasp.
He activated his Annihilation True Qi and staggered to stabilize himself midair, then shook his nearly shattered left arm.
With Annihilation True Qi suppressing the Taiyi True Qi, this injury was insignificant to him.
What truly shocked him was the majestic flood dragon coiling around Chen Ziang.
It bore three ferocious dragon heads—gold, green, and blue. Its hundred-zhang-long body vanished into the clouds, like a Dragon King from myth commanding wind and rain.
“Relying on a beast’s external power—this is your confidence?”
Disappointnt tinged Ning Wujiu’s voice.
“External power from a beast?”
Golden Egg lifted one dragon head and spoke in human speech: “And borrowing the might of a Heaven-reaching Mysterious Treasure is not external power?”
“Spout another word and I’ll tear you apart!”
As his voice fell, Golden Egg decisively activated the Three-Phase Manifestation Divine Ability.
In an instant, three-colored divine radiance flowed across his body. Behind him, three flood dragon phantoms—neither tal nor jade, neither flesh nor spirit—erged from the void.
tal was sharp. Water was both firm and yielding. Wood was unceasing.
The three phases fused as one, manifesting a heaven-reaching Three-Phase Manifestation Dharma Body. Its boundless dragon might stilled Heaven and Earth.
‘A Fourth-Tier True Monarch beast?’
Feeling the terror of this aura, Shu You froze in place, an unbelievable guess rising in her heart.
Before this Three-Phase flood dragon, her status as a peak Foundation Establishnt cultivator was barely that of an ant.
‘Such a flood dragon would actually submit to a Golden Core True Person?’
Zhao Cang, Sect Master of the Greenwood Sect, felt his pupils contract.
The flood dragon race was already heaven-blessed—especially mutated bloodline flood dragons of such power.
If his perception was correct, then purely in terms of bloodline aura, this three-headed flood dragon fully possessed the potential to charge toward the Four-Realm Beast King.
In terms of strength, even in a one-on-one battle, the sect’s prodigy Zhao Muyu might not necessarily be this flood dragon’s match!
‘Sothing’s not right!’ Ning Xuanji, the Divine Transformation True Venerable, was rather surprised.
The strength of this three-headed flood dragon was no weaker than Wujiu’s.
Chen Ziang, the Mirror Moon Dao Child, was rely at Late-Stage Golden Core cultivation—how had he managed to subdue such a ferocious beast?
Wujiu was in trouble!
“Roar!”
Sensing the heaven-shaking dragon might, Ning Wujiu’s gaze sharpened as he tightly gripped the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe.
What kind of joke was this?
The sword dao realm of Gu Wuji had already astonished him enough.
Now a flood dragon at Golden Core peak had actually relied on bloodline mystic power to explosively raise its strength in one breath to near the level of a Fourth-Tier True Monarch Beast King.
‘Not bad.’
Zhu Wuya nodded slightly, inwardly approving.
Though the battle had only just begun, any perceptive observer could see that Ning Wujiu was gradually falling into a disadvantage, no longer displaying his previous crushing dominance.
“Buzz!”
At that mont, Golden Egg’s pupils contracted as he looked toward Ning Wujiu, sensing a terrifying aura suddenly erupt.
“Myriad Annihilations Return to the Source, Dharma Body Manifest!”
“Void-Charging Annihilation, my Dao’s True Form!”
Ning Wujiu brought his hands together. The Extinction Golden Core within his dantian sea of qi trembled.
In the next instant, the void behind him tore open, and an indescribably vast Dharma Body slowly condensed from deathly silence and nothingness.
This Dharma Body stood a hundred zhang tall. Upon its head rested the Nine Heavens Annihilation Crown; upon its body draped the Myriad Transformations Returning-to-Void Mantle; around its waist coiled the Yin-Yang Annihilation Cord; in its hand it held the Void-Charging Transforming-True Whisk; beneath its feet blood a Two-Rites Annihilation Lotus Platform.
It was as though the laws of the Great Dao had manifested, radiating a terrifying authority of annihilation embodied, all transformations returning to nothingness.
And at the very mont the Eight Desolations Annihilation Void-Charging Dharma Body fully manifested, the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe in Ning Wujiu’s hand began to hum.
The annihilation patterns upon it shone to their utmost brilliance, clearly about to completely awaken the power of the Heaven-reaching Mysterious Treasure.
Using the Annihilation Dharma Body to wield the Heaven-reaching Mysterious Treasure—man and treasure as one, ultimate sublimation—there was no doubt this was Ning Wujiu’s true killing move!
Yet at this very instant, Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg moved in tacit coordination, their figures flashing.
“Boom!”
Golden Egg activated the Three Absolutes True Gang, shattering space and instantly bringing Chen Beiwu to Ning Wujiu’s right side.
This ti, Chen Beiwu did not form a sword with his fingers. Instead, he ford seals with both hands.
“Five Calamities Revolve, Yuanshi Becos One.”
“Na!”
With a thought from the Five Qi Vine, five streams of Five Elents treasure light—azure, crimson, yellow, white, and black—shot skyward, surging wildly into Chen Beiwu through the Companion Contract.
Chen Beiwu spread his five fingers, palm facing upward. Within it, five strands of Primordial True Qi—each distinct in color and aura—perfectly rged, forming an incomparably profound Primordial Five Calamities Seal.
The mont this seal appeared, Chen Beiwu’s aura beca ethereal beyond asure, like a transcendent immortal.
Seeing this, Ning Wujiu remained calm. Ignoring Chen Beiwu at his side, he focused entirely on channeling the Extinction Golden Core mystic ability, attempting within a single breath to fully awaken the Heaven-reaching might of the Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe and decide victory in one strike.
He believed that with the Annihilation Dharma Body guarding him, no matter how strong Chen Ziang and the three-headed flood dragon were, they could not breach its defense within a single breath.
But in the next instant, astonishnt flashed across Ning Wujiu’s eyes.
“Boom!”
As the Primordial Five Calamities Seal descended, the Annihilation Dharma Body shattered and disintegrated with a thunderous crash.
The Annihilation Universe Mystic Halberd-Axe slipped from Ning Wujiu’s grasp. Blood spurted from his mouth as his entire body began silently dissolving at a visible rate.
“Junior, that is enough.”
Ning Xuanji’s gaze sharpened as a pressure capable of subrging the sun and moon and shattering the Eight Desolations burst forth.
When a Divine Transformation rages, Heaven and Earth tremble.
Chen Beiwu’s expression changed in shock. The Primordial Five Calamities Seal in his hand silently dissipated, and even the Primordial True Qi within his body beca impossible to mobilize, as though suppressed by the entirety of Heaven and Earth.
“Roar!”
Golden Egg unwillingly threw back his heads and roared. Yet before this might—where words beca law, infused with the will of a True Venerable and the authority of Heaven and Earth—a Third-Realm Beast General was no different from an ant.
“Na!”
The Five Qi Vine’s expression changed drastically. It imdiately activated the Heavenly-Gang Mystic Beast innate divine ability [Five Qi Transforming into Void], attempting to dissolve into five qi and flee with Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg. Yet it too could not shake the suppression of Heaven and Earth.
At this critical mont, an angry shout suddenly rang out.
“Ning Xuanji, you’ve gone too far!”
As Zhu Wuya’s voice fell, the entire Mirror Moon mountain gate trembled.
The divine might of the Primordial Dao Artifact Heavenly-One Northern Abyss Mirror began to awaken, forming thirty thousand li of vast Purple Qi auspicious clouds across the firmant.
Seeing this, Ning Xuanji frowned slightly. His figure flashed as he seized Ning Wujiu and retreated violently.
Zhu Wuya stepped forward, holding a phantom mirror ford of Purple Qi, shielding Chen Beiwu before him.
“Buzz!”
With a flicker of mirror light, Chen Beiwu, Golden Egg, and the Five Qi Vine all felt their bodies lighten, freedom restored.
“This was rely a Dao contention between juniors. True Monarch Zhu, why such fury?”
Ning Xuanji spoke calmly. “I simply did not wish Wujiu to co to harm.”
“Rubbish.” Zhu Wuya’s tone was cold, unyielding.
If he had not been cautious by nature and awakened part of the Sect Foundation to guard Ziang before the battle began, Ning Xuanji would have shalessly bullied the weak—saving Ning Wujiu while striking a killing blow.
“If you wish to fight, I will accompany you. But if you dare touch a single finger of my sect’s Dao Child, then do not bla this old man for awakening the Sect Foundation and utterly destroying the Southern Evolution Territory.”
“If you do not believe it, try !”
As Zhu Wuya’s words fell, the leaders of the Four Great Sects felt their scalps go numb.
Madness!
Zhu Wuya was utterly mad. For the sake of the Sect’s Dao Child, he would threaten Ning Xuanji at the cost of the entire Southern Evolution Territory—even the entire foundation of the Mirror Moon Sect!
Yet astonishnt aside, not a single high-ranking mber of the Five Great Sects believed it to be empty words.
A fully awakened Primordial Dao Artifact indeed possessed the power to severely damage, even annihilate, an entire region of the Southern Wastes.
Especially since the Primordial Dao Artifact inherited by the Mirror Moon Sect was the renowned Heavenly-One Northern Abyss Mirror of the Taiyi Dao Sect—its deterrence was imnse.
However, the price of fully awakening a Primordial Dao Artifact was too great. Unless faced with absolute desperation, the Five Great Sects of the Earth Proliferation Territory would never recklessly employ it—otherwise their sect inheritance would perish alongside it.
“Today, Wujiu has lost.”
Hearing this, Ning Xuanji’s aura stalled slightly as he chose to yield.
Before a Primordial Dao Artifact, even a Divine Transformation True Venerable must retreat.
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