Before the law fragments left behind by Yaochi's disappearance within Yu Shi's rain curtain had fully settled, the situation on the Witch City battlefield underwent another change centered on Xing Tian.
With a motion like a slight adjustment of his stance, Xing Tian pushed the enormous shield forward by an extremely short distance.
The Battle Intent Law patterns on the surface of that Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure law shield, condensed from Pangu Bloodline, spread toward Haotian at the speed of a lit fuse the instant it advanced.
Like a bowstring compressed to its limit, it gradually narrowed the Haotian Seal's range of movement as it continued forward.
The seal Haotian was forming had its available space continuously compressed by the shield's advance. Within that ever-narrowing band of suppression, his body was like a river whose channel was constantly shrinking, gradually losing its former freedom of movement under the relentless squeeze.
He tried to shift the seal sideways with a motion like an adjustment of his stance, seeking a path that could temporarily remove him from the shield's frontal range of suppression amid the mounting pressure.
But as the shield advanced, Xing Tian's Battle Intent Law adjusted the direction of its suppression in tandem with the precision of a constantly calibrated compass.
Like a mirror whose angle was continuously adjusted, it steadily updated the direction of the force bearing down upon him, causing every attempt Haotian made to veer aside to be dispersed layer by layer, weakened, and absorbed by the Battle Intent Law patterns the instant it touched the shield's surface, like grain thrown into multiple millstones.
Like a mirror whose angle was continuously adjusted, it steadily updated the distribution of force across itself, leaving no way to form any effective penetration upon the shield's surface.
"Haotian, before this shield,