In the cold wind, two figures faced each other, then shot into the sky, climbing higher and higher.
The shockwaves from a clash between True Person Grandmasters could reduce a town to ruins. If the shockwaves from a clash between Longevity Bearers reached the ground, even a city might not have a tenth of its people left alive—unless it was one of the few great cities protected by a powerful formation.
Pan Long and Tie Feiyan had no intention of wiping out Xiangping with the splash damage from their fight, so they chose to fight in the sky.
Tie Feiyan also had a little idea of his own. He wanted to test Pan Long first with something simple.
So he kept flying upward without pause. Even after passing through the clouds and the wind layer and entering the Astral Wind Layer, he continued to climb.
Pan Long did not understand what he was after. Even during the Demon God battle in Yun Province, when a group of Demon Gods led by two Eastern Sea Dragonfolk had surrounded his teacher and fought him to the death—even when a Demon God had actually been killed—they had fought within the Astral Wind Layer.
Normally, the Astral Wind was enough to contain the shockwaves from a Longevity Bearer's battle. There was no need to climb higher.
But if Tie Feiyan wanted to fly higher, Pan Long had no objection.
They could leave the Nine Provinces World and fight in the Sea of Stars, for all he cared.
Even before attaining Longevity, Pan Long had been capable of surviving in outer space. Now his strength had grown enormously, and he had bound his life to the world's very source. He was nothing like some weakling who would lose the ability to move after a volcanic