Though the two had emerged under the threat of Ye Tian, they had kept an extremely cautious distance from him all along, their faces filled with vigilance.
At the same time, Ye Tian noticed that the two of them had been quietly retreating.
"We were merely passing by. If we disturbed you, please forgive us!" The one with the higher cultivation clasped his hands and said.
"You know me?" Seeing their behavior, a trace of surprise immediately flashed through Ye Tian's eyes.
Fairy Qing Xia and he were both late-stage True Immortals, while one of these two was even a peak True Immortal. Under normal circumstances, they should never have reacted to him this way.
The only possibility was that they knew him and understood his true strength.
That was why they acted like this.
When Ye Tian asked, the two merely hesitated for a moment. In the next instant, they suddenly turned around, immortal power erupting as they fled straight into the distance without looking back. Before long, they vanished completely beyond the horizon.
Ye Tian did not pursue them.
"They are people from Immortal Dao Mountain," Fairy Qing Xia said from behind him. "Though they probably are not official Immortal Dao Mountain Immortal Lords."
Ye Tian understood what Fairy Qing Xia meant.
In the Nine Provinces, the Immortal Dao Association was unquestionably the supreme ruler, the orthodox holy land in the hearts of all cultivators.
Thus, aside from the very few reclusive experts who remained detached from worldly affairs, practically every powerhouse who reached the True Immortal realm would accept Immortal Dao Mountain's appointment, receiving a nominal title.
The two True Immortal cultivators they had encountered just now were likely in precisely such a situation. They might possess Immortal Lord titles granted by Immortal Dao Mountain. Most of