Some of the younger cultivators perhaps still did not know the origins of these two eccentric figures.
Yet the crowd of high-level cultivators who had attained the Dao standing at the very front all knew precisely what sacred figures these two mighty beings were.
The burly, wide-set old cultivator with a long beard on the left was none other than that elusive master of Penglai Palace.
And the one sitting across from him playing Go at this moment was naturally that peak grand demon from within Demon Soil.
The reason they had appeared in this place was precisely because they had participated in that deliberation concerning Outrealm Battlefield.
Ordinarily, given the temperaments of these two peak cultivators and their past ways of acting regarding this matter, they could completely have chosen to stay out of it.
In fact, at the very beginning of that deliberation, they had indeed held such intentions, preparing to just show their faces and go through the motions to fulfill appearances as they had in the past.
As a result, a string of words subsequently uttered by Chen Yang caused them to ultimately change their minds.
Chen Yang had said quite a bit at the time, which boiled down to a single meaning: he asked these two peak cultivators whether they could accept ascending to the heavens in the future only to be kept in captivity and raised as mounts or livestock by upper cultivators.
As bloodline legacies of ancient beasts passed down to the present day, these two had always been unconcerned and fearless in matters of cultivation, and naturally cared little about how the general trend of Azure Waves would sway.
Yet this did not mean they truly remained indifferent to all honor and disgrace.
On the contrary, the more such a hereditary bloodline