The comments said I was deeply affectionate, I just added points by using an alternate account.

Chen Guan looked at the towering ice sculpture in the snow and wind ahead. The outline of the sculpture exuded a sense of oppression under the dim light of the sky.

It was a giant bear that stood upright on its two legs and roared, covered in thick ice armor, with clearly defined muscles.

Guan Jinyue stopped a few hundred meters away from the statue.

"This is the entrance area to the altar."

She pointed to the dark hole at the base of the statue.

Chen Guan looked around. Apart from their footprints, there were no guards in sight on the empty snow.

"Is the power center of the demon race always this undefended?"

Chen Guan put his hands in his pockets and asked casually.

Guan Jinyue shook his head.

"This is very unusual. Normally, there are at least three Imperial Guard units stationed here, and not even a snowbird can fly in."

"It seems your arrival prompted them to change their welcoming methods at the last minute."

Chen Guan chuckled softly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the black mark on his palm became scalding hot.

The heat was a hundred times stronger than before, so hot that he almost pulled his hand out.

Baal's voice echoed in Chen Guan's mind.

"Kid, a big problem is rapidly approaching."

How big?

Chen Guan asked in his consciousness.

"Greater than everything you've ever seen combined, the master of this power has touched the threshold of the laws."

Barr yawned, clearly intrigued by what was about to happen.

"You'd better be on your guard. Someone of this level won't be fooled by your little emotional tricks."

Guan Jinyue's expression also changed; clearly, she had also received a reminder from Baal.

At this point, the real world has undergone a complete transformation.

The howling winds around us stopped.

The snowflakes falling from the sky were paused and hovered motionless.

The surrounding space was forcibly taken over by a force that did not belong to this world.

The air temperature dropped by tens of degrees in a few seconds.

The white breath exhaled from Chen Guan had just left his lips when it condensed into ice crystals and fell to the ground.

A rift several kilometers long was torn open in the thick gray clouds in the sky.

The wind and snow swirled backward, and all the suspended snowflakes defied gravity, flowing against the current towards the sky.

The swirling snowflakes converged and reassembled at the crack, eventually forming a colossal, towering phantom.

It was a giant frost bear that was over 100 meters long.

The oppressive aura emanating from the phantom caused the entire snowfield to tremble, and a deafening cracking sound echoed from the distant glacier.

It was the Ice Soul Bear King himself who arrived.

Even a mere phantom could exert enough power to shatter the minds of ordinary people.

The giant bear shadow's eyes, formed from ice-blue energy, lowered.

He ignored the human next to him and fixed his gaze directly on Guan Jinyue.

"You, Baal's follower, have broken your promise to us."

The Bear King spoke, his voice rolling across the sky and shaking the snow on the ground.

Guan Jinyue looked up at the huge phantom in the sky.

"You know very well why I agreed to fight."

"I opened the passage, but I didn't maintain it afterward. Now, I must take her away."

The Bear King snorted coldly, his voice stirring up a violent storm on the snowfield.

"Rules are rules. The North is not a place you can come and go as you please."

"Do you think you can do whatever you want on my territory just because of Baal's influence?"

The phantom in the sky raised a giant claw, and icy blue energy gathered in its palm.

He wanted to use the most direct violence to keep this unruly servant.

"Heh heh heh, looks like someone's trying to bully the weak?"

A black phantom emerged from behind Guan Jinyue, grinning mischievously.

The Bear King froze. I just made a harsh statement, and suddenly the spirit behind me appeared?

No, you should have said earlier that you were spying on me! Look at the mess this has made. I was just kidding, Demon God Bro.

The Bear King coughed awkwardly twice, then slid to his knees at lightning speed: "I've given Baal face."

The enormous bear shadow in the sky contracted inward, and the immense spiritual energy was compressed wildly.

"If you want to take her sister's body, fine."

The bear's shadow shrank to the outline of a normal adult male and descended from mid-air.

This being, formed entirely of ice and snow, landed less than twenty meters in front of the coffin.

The bear king, formed from ice and snow, stood on the soft snow, his towering body two heads taller than the coffin.

Those icy blue eyes first glanced in awe at the phantom of Baal floating in mid-air.

"Since it is the Demon God's will..."

The Bear King bowed slightly to Baal in greeting.

"Of course we have to give them face."

He turned to look at Guan Jinyue.

"You can take that body with you."

"But from today onwards, your cooperation with our Ice Soul Bear Clan is completely null and void."

"We demons cannot tolerate companions who break their promises."

Guan Jinyue met the bear king's imposing gaze and nodded in agreement.

"That's fair. I only care about my sister's safety; everything else is none of my business."

Now that things have come to this, Guan Jinyue wouldn't dare to cooperate with the demon race again.

Barr let out a series of smug, strange laughs from the side.

"It would be so much better if everyone could talk things out calmly. Look at this freezing weather, let's not resort to knives and guns."

The black phantom circled the Bear King once, quite pleased with this sensible junior.

The Bear King's gaze passed over Baal and Guan Jin and landed on Chen Guan.

His deep blue eyes were fixed on the coffin, and he waved his hand.

"But this human just injured more than a dozen of my elite men. How should we settle this score?"

A black, shadowy figure slowly floated out from behind Chen Guan, exactly the same as the one behind Guan Jinyue.

The Bear King's pupils constricted sharply. "If you're not a buddy, then you are too..."

Not to the Bear King's disappointment, the phantom behind Chen Guan soon began to grin and say, "He's still a child, why bother arguing with him? Just punish him by not letting him participate in Crazy Thursday."

Bear King: "..."

No, why are you family members having team building activities?

The Bear King looked to the left and then to the right, surrounded by a large group of bear cubs and offspring. How could he possibly back down?

Just say I chickened out. The enemy is a demon god. Can't we beat them?

The Bear King stared at the two identical black phantoms before him and fell into a long silence.

This is a situation that cannot be described in words.

As the mighty Bear King, if word got out that he wouldn't even have the courage to take action, how would he possibly manage his unruly demon clan?

Baal admired the bear king's demeanor for a moment and didn't continue to bully him. It was only because the bear had a good temper; if it were a cat, it would have scratched him long ago.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Baal floated up to the Bear King and swayed in front of him.

"Are you trying to figure out how to back down gracefully?" Baal drawled out his words.

The bear king's face twitched unnaturally a few times.

That wretched demon god.

Then, the Bear King took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed his anger.

"For Lord Baal's sake, I won't hold this against you today." The Bear King's voice was calm. He was no longer the arrogant man he once was, and all he wanted to do was send these living fathers away.

Face? You're kidding me. If you're so capable, go ask the demon for face.