At the critical moment, Meng Chao only had time to deploy his Spirit Energy Shield.
At the same time, he summoned a large amount of Spirit Magnetic Material from within his body, condensing it into a silver-glinting Totem Battle Shield before him.
Boom!
Before the Totem Battle Shield had fully taken shape, Shen Yulin transformed into a crimson, blood-red fireball.
It was impossible to tell whether it was a ball of blood or fire. In an instant, it expanded a hundredfold, swallowing dozens of meters of space around it with the force of rotten wood being crushed by a raging wind.
Even with Meng Chao's power at the Divine Realm.
He still felt a Destroyer Storm of lightning and thunder slam viciously into his dual shields.
Pain coursed through him as though roaring flames were continuously licking his skin, threatening to boil even his blood.
His Life Magnetic Field, too, was thrown into Stormy Waves under Shen Yulin's interference.
Not only did illusions spring up everywhere in his mind.
Even the Spiritual Energy that had originally behaved itself within his spirit meridians became restless, like a nine-headed hydra that had just awakened from hibernation.
Meng Chao hurriedly focused his mind and calmed his breathing, soothing his agitated cells.
Only after quite a while did the shockwave from Shen Yulin's self-destruction gradually weaken and fade away.
Meng Chao slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath of stale air, only to discover that Shen Yulin had, in the literal sense, completely vanished from this world.
Where Shen Yulin had originally lain, there was now a steaming crater three or four meters deep, still giving off wisps of bluish smoke.
The mud, soaked by a night of rain, had become highly fluid and was slowly flowing into the crater. Before long,