The Cang Gan Palace Lord had already been driven into a desperate corner, while Xiao Yan and Yao Wan had somewhat steadied their breathing.
"Having lost to the two of you, I have no choice but to accept it. But there is one thing I am rather curious about."
The clouds behind him churned as the Azure Green Dharma Body dimmed and blurred, yet it had still not dispersed.
"What?"
"You two... where exactly did you come from?"
The Cang Gan Palace Lord took a deep breath before asking.
"We ascended from a lower plane."
"A lower plane...? So you are the Ascenders spoken of in the rumors... I see."
The Cang Gan Palace Lord froze for a moment before understanding dawned on him. As an Earthly Supreme who had lived for a thousand years, he had naturally heard of Ascenders from lower planes.
Those who could rise to the peak amid the chaos and slaughter of lower planes before ascending already possessed the ability to climb higher.
Any Ascender from a lower plane who reached the Great Thousand World could carve out a place for themselves, so long as they converted their spiritual energy and survived that brief, painful adjustment period.
And these two before him were likely outstanding even among the many Ascenders.
Perhaps he had even become the stepping stone of future overlords.
The corner of the Cang Gan Palace Lord's mouth twitched.
"If I have become the stepping stone of Ascenders, then I must accept it whether I like it or not. But victory and defeat have been decided—life and death have not!"
The Cang Gan Palace Lord frantically stirred the mountains-and-seas-like spiritual energy within his body, pouring it into the Azure Green Dharma Body behind him and making it blaze with light.
"Even if I