As for why Elder Qing and Elder Tian, these two Holy King tier beings, were here, serving as guardians at the Chen Clan's crucial breakthrough site?
The reason was, naturally, clear evidence of the further deepening cooperation between the Chen Clan and the Azure Vine Clan.
In fact, this was not the first time the Azure Sky Second Elders had fulfilled their protective duties here.
During the previous occasion, when Yang Zhiqiang and Ximen Wenlan challenged the Title Douluo bottleneck here, Elder Qing and Elder Tian had already been stationed here, quietly contributing their strength to those two critical breakthroughs and accumulating experience.
Of course, what appeared here were Holy King tier avatars condensed through an enormous expenditure of effort using their Innate Divine Abilities (law-type skills), also the only ones currently capable of maintaining a stable existence.
However, their Soul Beast auras made it difficult for them to move through places inhabited by humans. Thus, Chenlin Village had become a dwelling place for the Azure Sky Second Elders' avatars.
The worldly aura here mingled the smoke of everyday life, the seven emotions and six desires, and the fluctuations of Soul Masters cultivating. For Soul Beasts that had undergone human transformation, it was like a peculiar kind of "cleansing water."
These could gradually wash away their overly pure, innate Soul Beast auras, making their avatars more compatible with the "rules" of the human world and reducing the risk of top human powerhouses easily seeing through them.
Even more irresistible to them was the abundance of a cultivation resource here: Yin-Yang Spring Water.
This extraordinary spring water from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could increase the rate at which their cultivation levels grew severalfold or more, something they had already tested in the Vine Sea Secret Realm.
In addition,