The Bear Demon sneered. "Then how do you want me to help you?"
Geng said, "By my reckoning, the time has come. Whether I can avert this calamity depends on this move."
With a backhand grab, Geng seized the man and woman in his grasp and shouted, "I know you've already arrived. Show yourself at once, or these two will lose their lives!"
The Bear Demon was utterly baffled. "Geng, stop acting crazy."
Yan Chihuo, however, was startled. How could he calculate so accurately? He knew I was coming here?
Geng said, "Still not coming out?" He tightened his grip, and the man and woman immediately began to suffocate. Yan Chihuo sighed inwardly. In a flash, he flew out from the Bear Demon's body, revealed his true form, and said, "Don't make a move!"
The Bear Demon was greatly alarmed. With a roar, it lunged forward—only to see several strands of sword light, fine as gossamer, flying toward it. Knowing their power, it erupted with a layer of black light: the earth-aspect defensive innate ability, Copper Mountain Iron Wall. At the same time, it twisted its body to one side.
The sword threads passed through the black light. Yan Chihuo paused slightly, sensing that the moving sword threads had actually become somewhat sluggish. This Bear Demon's earth-aspect mana is remarkably pure.
Yan Chihuo had tempered his swordsmanship for many years, and his Refining Sword into Silk had long reached the pinnacle of perfection. Among those of the same realm, it could practically be called unstoppable. For the Bear Demon's Copper Mountain Iron Wall to achieve this much was truly rare.
The Bear Demon was even more shocked. In its eyes, its Copper Mountain Iron Wall had been pierced through like a sheet of thin paper. It had never seen such