Gui Mei reacted faster than Yue Guan.
The moment Er Ming threw his punch, he transformed into a ghostly shadow—the core ability of Gui Mei's martial soul, Ghostly Evasion.
But Iron Wall had been waiting for this very moment.
[Dark Golden Iron Wall].
Ten Fearclaw Bears spread their limbs at the same time, dark golden light shooting from each bear's mane.
The ten rays intertwined, forming an enormous, translucent dark golden barrier.
It was not meant to block.
It was meant to surround.
The ten bears formed a circle with a fifteen-meter radius. The barrier sealed at the edge of the circle, forming an airtight cage.
Gui Mei's ghostly shadow slammed into it just as the cage closed.
His ghostly aura struck the Dark Gold Barrier—and bounced back.
He re-formed inside the cage.
The gloom and calculation vanished from his face.
Only fear remained.
The pressure unleashed by the nine forty-thousand-year Dark Golden Terrorclaw Bears inside the cage had already left him struggling to breathe.
Then Iron Wall stepped in from outside the cage.
The six-meter-tall Dark Golden Terrorclaw Bear lowered his head and advanced toward Gui Mei step by step.
With every step, the space inside the cage shrank a little more.
Gui Mei's martial soul spun madly, black ghostly aura repeatedly trying to pierce through the Dark Gold Barrier—
It could not get through.
With the Dark Gold Barrier weakening all attacks by seventy percent, in his current state, he could not even achieve thirty percent penetration.
Iron Wall stopped in front of him.
He halted.
He looked down at him.
The dark golden vertical pupils met the gray, murky human eyes for a second.
Iron Wall raised his right claw.
[Sky-Rending Claw].
Along the claw's path, space let out a faint crack, like fabric being torn apart.