The Ancestral Dragon and the Ancestral Phoenix were peerless powerhouses of the Innate Divine Beings, both Near-Limitless Beings.
They were also among the oldest living beings in Chaos, their names renowned throughout the Eternal Ages.
Both belonged to the faction Pangu had rallied among the Gods. After Pangu fell, they were the chief reason his faction had not broken apart and had endured to this day.
It was the two of them who had kept that faction from vanishing into history.
Powerful though each of them was alone, neither could claim to be the strongest Near-Limitless Being, much less hold together a Limitless faction on the verge of collapse.
Taihao, an Innate Divine Being who seemed close to Nuwa, was no weaker than either of them.
The Dharma-Ending Heavenly Demon, that Supreme Great Demon King, was no weaker, either.
In other words, neither of them could likely match Meng Chuan in a contest of strength alone.
So why, in the eyes of the Chaos Ones, did the Ancestral Dragon and Ancestral Phoenix command more awe and cause a greater stir than Meng Chuan, a Rising Star who had demonstrably defeated the Dharma-Ending Heavenly Demon?
Because both had descended together, not just one of them.
Either one alone was an ordinary Near-Limitless Being. Together, the power they represented was another matter entirely.
While Pangu still lived, he had worked with the Ancestral Dragon and Ancestral Phoenix over a long span of time to create the Dragon-Phoenix Joint Strike Technique.
The name alone made clear what the technique was and what it did.
The Human Ancestor could gather Human Dao Power through his position in the Human Ancestral Court to fight a Limitless One. The Sub-Emperor of the Chaos Heavenly Court could likewise draw on the Heavenly Court's unique nature to do