Second update today: Chapter 3334! 2/4!
Hao Jian wielded the Mysterious Yellow Giant Shield in his left hand until it became an impenetrable wall. The power of Breathing Earth, as heavy as the very origin of the land, formed an absolute defensive domain that firmly kept out the vast majority of lunar attacks and unpredictable assaults on the soul.
Patterns of mountains, rivers, and lands engraved upon the shield flickered in and out of view, flowing without end. They seemed capable of silently neutralizing and absorbing each bone-piercingly cold, strange, and elusive attack, even transforming them into dense earth essence that nourished the shield and reinforced its defense.
But Yanran's attacks were simply too relentless and too tricky, and she adhered to a hit-and-run guerrilla strategy, never lingering in battle.
Even with Hao Jian's combat experience tempered through countless trials of blood and fire, along with his extraordinary perception, he could not accurately capture the Nine Yin Celestial Cat's moonlight-like, illusory true body and deliver a decisive fatal strike while fully dealing with A Li's mountain-shattering barrage of savage power.
"Hmph, slippery as an eel!"
Hao Jian's golden body's brows, seemingly forged from molten gold, furrowed slightly. The Rupture Gold Halberd swept aside another savage charge from the wild ox that could have shattered mountains, then he spun and struck toward a violently distorted region of moonlight like a bolt of golden lightning. Yet with a series of muffled pops, he only shattered dozens of lifelike phantom clones. The true Nine Yin Celestial Cat had long since merged into another patch of cold, silent starlight and vanished without a trace.
Thus, an exceptionally stark and strange contrast formed across the battlefield:
On one side was an ultimate collision of brute force, like two giant gods of creation awakened from