26: Chapter 26: The Savage Bear of the Rocks Comes to the Rescue 26: Chapter 26: The Savage Bear of the Rocks Comes to the Rescue “This Mountain Rock Savage Bear is really tough to handle!
None of our martial arts can even injure it!”
One of the men launched a strike at the Mountain Rock Savage Bear, only to leave a white mark.
His complexion drastically changed.
That had been his full-force blow, yet it left the Mountain Rock Savage Bear unscathed.
At this rate, we’re all going to die here!”
Another female member also spoke up, as they were all doing their best to dodge the Mountain Rock Savage Bear’s onslaughts, but flying debris still occasionally grazed them.
They were already covered in wounds.
“You guys go, I’ll hold off this Mountain Rock Savage Bear!
It was my call to come out here!
I can die, but you all must live and return!”
The strongest man, also the leader, spoke with a cold voice.
His words were resolute, revealing a determination to face death.
The best course of action now was to sacrifice one life to delay the Mountain Rock Savage Bear so that the others might have a chance to escape alive.
“Senior Brother Mo Changhen, we all agreed to come out here too, if we’re to go back, we’ll go back together!”
The woman yelled loudly.
“We can’t just abandon you!”
“Hurry and leave, if you don’t go now, it’ll be too late!”
Mo Changhen shouted angrily, charging at the Mountain Rock Savage Bear again and slashing down with his sword, only to be sent flying with a slap from the bear, tumbling to the ground.
“These people, although young, all have admirable thoughts.”
Chu Fengmian, hiding in the jungle, watched the scene unfold and muttered to himself.
Among martial artists, feelings of friendship and kinship are usually indifferent, with everyone prioritizing themselves.
In such situations, other martial artists would have fled at the first opportunity.
However, these five young individuals were still holding on, which improved Chu Fengmian’s impression of them.
“It seems I have to lend a hand after all.
I’ve never fought with a Demon Core realm demon beast, and this Mountain Rock Savage Bear is perfect!”
Chu Fengmian thought with a cold huff.
His figure suddenly leapt from the dense forest and thrust his sword toward the Mountain Rock Savage Bear.
Seeing the sudden appearance, the group of five young people felt a surge of joy, at last some help had arrived.
But when they saw Chu Fengmian’s power level, the joy that had just appeared on their faces faded.
Bone Tempering Eighth Layer.
With such strength, he was even weaker than the weakest among them.
Five of them combined couldn’t handle the Mountain Rock Savage Bear, so what good would one more person do?
“Friend, I know you mean well by helping, but this Mountain Rock Savage Bear is a demon beast of the Demon Core realm.
You should leave quickly to avoid danger.”
Mo Changhen, looking at Chu Fengmian who stood beside him, urgently said.
“This is our affair; it has nothing to do with you, there’s no need for you to get involved in such danger without reason.”
With Chu Fengmian’s strength, getting involved was, in his view, tantamount to seeking death.
At the Bone Tempering Eighth Layer, even a single palm strike from the Mountain Rock Savage Bear would be too much to handle.
A slight smile appeared on Chu Fengmian’s lips.
Before Mo Changhen could speak again, Chu Fengmian rushed toward the Mountain Rock Savage Bear.
The two women could hardly bear to watch Chu Fengmian, as they already envisioned the terrible scene of him being smacked away.
However, the screams that followed were not from Chu Fengmian, but from the Mountain Rock Savage Bear.
Chu Fengmian, wielding the Xuanqing Sword in his hand, plunged it accurately into the left eye of the mountainous barbaric bear.
The bear roared loudly, thoroughly enraged.
Mo Changhen saw the barbaric beast go mad and couldn’t help but exclaim, but what happened next left him dumbstruck.
The bear’s swipe was easily dodged by Chu Fengmian.
Chu Fengmian continued to stab the Xuanqing Sword into the bear’s body, never once being struck by the creature in retaliation.
“What kind of movement technique is this?”
“Can really a Bone Tempering Realm eighth layer martial artist achieve such prowess?”
The remaining onlookers were all dumbfounded by Chu Fengmian’s battle with the mountainous barbaric bear.
Each stab with the sword was executed cleanly and decisively without the slightest hesitation or pause.
The bear, pushed to the peak of its rage, lashed out in a frenzy around its body but failed to hit Chu Fengmian even once.
Instead, in less than a minute, Chu Fengmian had already plunged his sword into the bear dozens of times.
“That’s about enough!”
Chu Fengmian thought to himself.
The bear’s defense was terrifying; even with full force, Chu Fengmian could only puncture with his sword but couldn’t strike a vital spot.
After dozens of continuous stabs, the bear had lost much of its blood, and its strength was nearly spent.
It was now ready to be slain with a single strike.
Chu Fengmian feigned a flaw intentionally, letting the bear think he had fallen in front of it.
Someone save him quickly!”
Mo Changhen, seeing this, shouted urgently, but before he could act, he realized that what had fallen was only an afterimage.
And Chu Fengmian’s real body had already reached the bear’s neck.
“One Sword Nine Layers!”
Chu Fengmian roared in his heart and thrust his sword ferociously at the bear’s neck.
Though the sword seemed ordinary, it contained the power of nine layers of sword edge, severing the bear’s head in one strike.
The five or six meters tall creature collapsed to the ground with a thunderous crash.
There was not a single sound below the cliff face.
The five people stood staring blankly at the fallen mountainous barbaric bear.
“This mountainous barbaric bear has been killed by one person.”
They were all astonished, unable to believe what they’d seen.
The bear, which had just withstood their combined assault without a scratch, was now slain by Chu Fengmian in less than five minutes.
“Could this really have been done by a Bone Tempering Realm eighth layer martial artist?”
One man swallowed with difficulty, finding it hard to believe the scene before him.
Suddenly, their gazes all converged on Chu Fengmian.
Only when Chu Fengmian cut open the top of the bear’s head and extracted the Demon Core did they finally snap back to reality.
“Thank you for saving our lives, friend.”
Mo Changhen stood to the side, looking at Chu Fengmian with gratitude.
This time, if it weren’t for Chu Fengmian’s intervention, escaping unscathed would have been impossible—the best outcome would have been to leave one person behind while the others fled.
“My name is Mo Changhen, an Inner Sect Disciple from the Wusheng Academy.
May I ask who you are?”