Today's second update: Chapter 3342! 2/4!
Hao Jian's combat experience was incredibly rich. Almost the instant Profound Unity Zheng-Gu raised his hand, the instincts forged through countless life-or-death battles had already driven him to react.
Without a second thought, he raised the Mysterious Yellow Giant Shield, thick and heavy as a mountain, before him in a fierce reflex, placing it directly in the path of the incoming sword-whip!
"Boom—!!!"
This collision did not produce the pure ring of metal striking metal, but a far more complex and terrifying explosive roar!
It was as though countless mountains had detonated at once, or an entire galaxy had collapsed and perished against the shield's surface!
The sword-whip condensed from laws lashed heavily against the center of the Mysterious Yellow Giant Shield!
The Mysterious Yellow Giant Shield, which had remained as steady as a rock and merely hummed under the Nine Yin Celestial Cat's relentless attacks, now seemed to have been struck by an invisible hammer of heaven and earth. The patterns of mountains and rivers carved upon its surface flashed wildly at an unprecedented frequency, trying to dispel that incomparably horrifying impact.
The shield itself let out a deep, overloaded rumble, like the dying howl of an ancient ferocious beast. Violent ripples of vibration spread from the point of impact like a tsunami, crazily surging across the entire shield and into Hao Jian's Dharma body!
Even though Hao Jian was in his Ten Thousand Foot Golden Body form, bolstered by the origin power of Nine Heavens Breath Soil, and held the shield firmly enough to block this seemingly simple, direct strike, the strange force transmitted through the shield—mixed with extreme sharpness and the properties of yin-yang annihilation—still numbed the arms of his Dharma body, which were like indestructible golden pillars. At the