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'Interesting,' Noah thought casually dodging the punches of one of the fire golem-like dummies. They were made of the same silver alloy the humanoid dummies were made of, meaning he could directly destroy them with his weapon.

Unfortunately, after what he had to go through killing one of the dummies, he didn't want to make the same mistake.

He continued to dodge the slow strikes of the fire dummy. It wasn't exactly slow and would be able to catch even some tier 3's, off guard. But to someone like him, the punches were almost moving in slow motion, and he wasn't empowering himself.

Noah swept his gaze on the other golems and immediately understood why that place was supposed to be a challenge.

The golems were programmed in a way that they barely reacted to each other, but their strikes would be capable of shattering the bones of tier 3 cultivators. So in essence the field was balanced. The golems were stronger and sturdier than the humanoid dummies, but for that sake they were dumb.

His eyes fell on the unbelievable scene of fire burning on ice. He desired to study it, but since he was short on time he couldn't.

His figure crouched when the golem threw another punch and he moved to its back. Before the chunk of alloy could turn to face him, he performed a kick on its back and sent it flying, until it crashed into another of its kind, and shockingly they began to fight.

Noah saw that the others noticed the commotion and began to move toward them, so he sprinted past them.

To the golem's perception, he was less than a blur.

He crossed large distances to arrive at a position on the path that didn't feature any golem.

A purple attire appeared on his hand at that point and he didn't hesitate to put it on, and also another face mask, but this one was black.

'This might be stupid,' Noah thought, glancing at the fire that still surrounded him. At this point, the fiery landscape had begun to blend into the background.

His focus was more on reaching the foot of the mountain. The thought of simply jumping till he reached another path crossed his mind, but he hesitated.

He couldn't bet on his luck since it gave up on him many times. The idea sounded good but was highly risky, so he sprinted to continue thinking.

The obstacles weren't exactly difficult for someone like him as he simply continued to wave through the numbers of the golems. With each lower elevation, the distance to the next one increased since the mountain was getting wider as they went downward.

However, all that didn't matter in front of his top speed. Moving at the speed of sound made even the numerous gaps on the path look small.

With a small tap on the ground, he would find himself jetting through the air, faster than even the air could catch him.

If things continued that way, Noah figured he wouldn't need to take a short cut which was jumping.

He spent only a few seconds till he reached a new elevation. By this point golems and humanoid dummies rid the place and from his point of view, it would be hard speeding through them.

A sigh escaped his lips as he prepared to unleash the best he could with the first form. The environment never stopped trembling while he made sure to knock the many golems and dummies off the mountain while he continued to move,

The task proved a bit annoying since he had to continue punching even till he reached the end of the elevation.

Thanks to the environment's coolness, he could take a breather, but he had begun to feel slight fatigue at that point.

The heat of the environment was still much as chipped away at his energy every second he spent there.

But even with all that, Noah was still in top shape.

Sprinting forward again, he directly accelerated to the top speed his body could muster and it crossed Mach 1.

To his shock, however, the path before him was clear. No boulders no golems or humanoid dummies, no gaps, nothing. But the path remained way longer that the others since it spanned many kilometers just to reach the next one.

He would consider it a sort of break for them, but the fire was still as hot as ever which meant it wasn't a break. The others would need to choose between sitting around in the hot flames and if they did they would be shocked to find how long the path was. He suspected the space in that mountain had been tampered with.

It was only a breather for someone simply running about with incredible agility like Noah.

The new elevation allowed him to see the mountain's foot clearly and that was like three paths down. The distance was still incredible to each one, but Noah felt it would take him only a few minutes at best, and he had barely used ten minutes since the start!

'I'm too much,' Noah sighed. Beginning his sprint and the first obstacle was a wide gap, but he still easily crossed it.

His next obstacles were what he had seen already, except that this time around the ice in the environment had increased, allowing for a level of coolness.

The density of the golems and boulder and humanoid dummies had also been stretched out across the full length of the path.

His feet never stopped moving and once again he reached a new elevation only this time everything was ice. Not even the ground escaped that weirdness and for the first time in a few elevations, Noah saw obstacles that weren't old.

Walls of ice stood before him but the sounds that originated from behind the walls were the real details. So he went ahead and smashed the walls before him to icy pieces. He barely had to do much to obtain that result. Staying within the bounds of a cold environment refreshed him greatly.

An eyebrow rose on his face at what stood before him, however. 'Are those real magical beasts,' he thought seeing as the beasts numbered hundreds from his point of view.

The white bear only a few meters before him noticed his presence and an ear-shaking roar reached his ears, alerting the others. A cacophony of roars erupted at that point, and something within Noah threatened to snap.

And it did. since he found himself hunching his head forward to release a scream, one so loud it caused the ground around him to experience cracks.