Everyone's hearts tightened, their gazes instantly drawn by her fingertip as they focused in unison on the center of that Destruction vortex.
Atop the mountain peak where blazing-red magma and searing streams of molten metal intertwined and erupted, a dazzling point of golden light suddenly tore through the thick smoke and flames. Like a fragment of metal hurled from a furnace by immense force, and like a golden meteor soaring against the sky, it flew out.
It was the Rank Nine Invincible Shield Chen Ping had activated!
Its radiance flickered violently under the impact of chaotic energy currents and dense metal fragments, yet not a single crack appeared. Protecting Chen Ping, it was blasted out from the core of the explosion.
After all, this Invincible Shield was a treasure theoretically capable of even withstanding a god's strike. Even though the destructive power of Metal Storm, this Rank 9 Fixed Cannonball, was greater in such an environment than that of an ordinary Rank 9 Fixed Cannonball, it could not harm Chen Ping in the slightest.
Of course, the fact that the explosion's terrifying power could not harm the shield within the Invincible Shield did not mean Chen Ping had gone uninjured.
Through the translucent golden barrier, everyone clearly saw Chen Ping curled into a ball inside, his eyes rolled back and blood flowing from a gash in his forehead.
Obviously, the enormous acceleration when the shockwave from the cannonball blasted the Invincible Shield away had slammed his head violently into its inner wall. That devastating impact had completely knocked him unconscious.
Swept along by the explosion's aftershock, the shield traced a high arc in an extremely miserable and uncontrolled manner.
It first shot upward against the sky to an altitude of a thousand meters, briefly hanging beneath the dark red canopy