The meteor struck the shield, and at the moment of impact, the entire world seemed to fall silent.
Then an earth-shattering roar erupted. The shield shuddered violently beneath the meteor's crushing weight, the light of the proto-rules flickering frantically, each flicker accompanied by countless runes shattering.
Zhao Yuanzu's knees buckled, and he was forced down onto one knee, his knees gouging two deep pits into the stone slabs beneath him.
Su Wanqian's Ice Crystal Barrier shattered layer by layer. Each broken layer made him cough up a mouthful of blood, but he still gritted his teeth and re-formed the shattered barriers.
The meteor's descent slowed noticeably against the shield, but its mass was simply too enormous. Though the proto-rule shield was powerful, it could not fully counteract the kinetic energy of the falling meteor.
Fine cracks began to appear across the shield's surface, spreading wildly outward from the point of impact.
"We can't hold it off much longer!" Su Wanqian held on through gritted teeth.
A crazed look crossed Zhao Yuanzu's face. "If we can't stop it, then we'll smash it!"
Su Wanqian and Zhao Yuanzu pushed their respective proto-rules to the limit at the same time.
Dark golden lightning intertwined with deep blue icy light, forming a column of energy that spanned heaven and earth and blasted toward the enormous meteor.
The column struck the meteor's underside. The proto-rules clashed fiercely with the Six Paths Yin Power, and bursts of dazzling light kept erupting across the meteor's surface.
Shattered meteor fragments fell from the sky like a torrential downpour, blasting deep craters wherever they struck the ground.
Veins bulged on the two patriarchs' foreheads, and blood kept spilling from the corners of their mouths.
Their proto-rules crumbled inch by inch beneath the crushing force of the Six Paths Yin