The arrivals were a man and a woman of the Abyss Clan from the Immortal Prison, one of the races from beyond the realm that Ke Ding had once admitted to various regions.
The male being was tall and slender, as though formed from the heaven and earth laws. As his hair fell, faint Dao patterns flickered within it. His features were simple yet flawless, and his face bore no worldly emotion, only the stillness and profundity of the Great Dao.
The woman, meanwhile, had a form that seemed barely sketched into being by heaven and earth. Her outline was hazy, her features seemingly present yet absent. Only her eyes were terrifyingly clear, like two stars suspended in chaos-calm, ancient, and merciless.
Yet her skin seemed condensed from light, and her aura was pure and unsullied. As she stood there, even the wind slowed, as though unwilling to disturb her.
Their cultivation was not high: the great ascension stage.
The immortal beast's gaze sharpened slightly as it slowly raised its head.
A gale howled, sweeping across heaven and earth like an immense sandstorm. The two remained unmoving as mountains, standing firmly rooted to the spot.
The Chaos Heavenly Peng!
One of the Yu Family's mountain-guarding immortal beasts. Both their faces darkened.
"Youngsters, you intend to investigate a case with cultivation like yours? Or do you think that because the Yu Family occupies land bestowed by the Dao Ancestor, outsiders like you may come and go as you please?" The Chaos Heavenly Peng's gaze turned piercing as it demanded gravely, "Who in the Eternal Antiquity Immortal Prison sent you?"
It did not believe two mere Mahayana juniors would have the audacity to intrude upon the Yu Family of Eternal Antiquity.
As for the Eternal Antiquity Immortal Prison...
It had no old