Cang Qian Palace Master had already fallen into desperate straits, while Xiao Yan and Yao Wan had steadied their breathing somewhat.
"To be defeated by you two—whether I accept it or not, I have to. But there is one thing I am rather curious about."
Behind him, the clouds churned. The Azure Green Fa Body was dim and hazy, yet it still had not dispersed.
"What?"
"You two... where exactly did you come from?"
Cang Qian Palace Master drew a deep breath, then asked.
"We ascended from a Lower Plane."
"A Lower Plane...? So you are the legendary ascenders... I see."
Cang Qian Palace Master froze for a moment, then understood. As an Earth Supreme of a thousand years, he had indeed heard of these ascenders from the Lower Planes.
Those who could reach the summit amid the chaos and slaughter of a Lower Plane and then ascend already possessed the ability to climb to higher ground.
Any ascender from a Lower Plane who could ascend to the Great Thousand World, so long as they could convert their spiritual energy and get through that brief period of growing pains, could almost always carve out a world of their own.
And these two before him were likely outstanding even among the many ascenders.
It was even possible that he had already become a stepping stone for future overlords.
The corner of Cang Qian Palace Master's mouth twitched.
"To become a stepping stone for ascenders—whether I accept it or not, I have to. But victory and defeat are settled, while life and death are not!"
Cang Qian Palace Master fully stirred the spiritual energy within him, vast as mountains and seas, and poured it into the Azure Green Fa Body behind him, making it blaze with radiance.
"Even if I fall today,