Brilliant lightning descended from the heavens, carrying the power to tear apart space-time as it hurtled toward where He Ao stood.
He Ao looked up at Noktis ahead of him, and his entire body vanished from where he stood in an instant, evading the lightning.
But at the same time, Noktis's body appeared beside him. He raised a hand and struck at He Ao's neck.
He Ao's body abruptly twisted aside, dodging the attack, but Noktis's palm followed like a maggot clinging to the bone, relentlessly pursuing him.
As though he had seen the confusion in He Ao's eyes, Noktis laughed heartily. "Are you surprised that my power level isn't that of an ordinary person?"
He raised his hand, fingers curling into a claw, and streaked across the sky like a flash of light. "Outside, I really am an ordinary person you could crush to death with a casual squeeze. But in this space, I am the absolute master. My power is even greater than yours."
The moment he finished speaking, his palm swept through the void, tearing apart the surrounding space. Black fissures spread toward He Ao.
Those fissures looked almost identical to the space-time rifts He Ao had created outside the planet.
He Ao abruptly pulled back, dodging the rifts.
"Everything you can do outside, I can do here," Noktis's laughter rang out from the source of the fissures, accompanied by a tearing sound. Dense space-time rifts exploded around He Ao like bizarre flowers blooming one after another. "And I do it even better than you."
Looking at the space-time rifts, He Ao's body flickered, and he suddenly retreated. The rifts followed him, rapidly shifting backward as well.
In the next instant, he appeared beside Noktis.
"Shifting the disaster onto someone else? A child's trick." Noktis sneered, raising