"Whoosh—!"
An extraordinarily piercing sound of air friction rang through heaven and earth.
Amid a shockwave like a stellar explosion, two figures tore through the air and were blasted backward with ear-splitting whistling sounds, crashing heavily into two mountain peaks.
"Boom—!"
With two perfectly synchronized muffled explosions, both figures smashed through the mountain walls, sank into the mountains, and were directly buried beneath massive falling boulders.
"Urgh..." Noah lay amid the rocks. The moment he moved even slightly, cracking sounds continuously came from all over his body as though his bones had broken. He could not help squeezing out a muffled groan, feeling as though he had fallen apart and nearly unable to move.
Fortunately, those symptoms were only temporary.
Before long, Noah felt a little of his strength return. He pushed himself up and unleashed the Divine Power within his body.
"Bang—!"
Surging Divine Power became a shockwave that blew apart the mountain rock around Noah. Rubble flew everywhere, and the mountain trembled.
Noah turned directly into a streak of light, shooting out from the mountain wall, soaring beyond the peak, and hovering in midair as he looked ahead.
Almost at the same time, another streak of light similarly burst through the mountain wall and shot out, arriving before Noah.
"Ugh... That really hurt..." Great Sage Equal to Heaven seemed to have been shaken apart just like Noah by their previous clash. She rotated her shoulders while baring her teeth in pain.
"How long has it been since Old Sun got beaten this badly? Don't you have even a shred of tenderness toward women?"
"If you really want people to treat you gently, how about first getting rid of that habit of calling yourself Old Sun?" Noah could not help smiling bitterly.
"Besides, I'm not naive enough to hold