With the aid of the Hero Painting, the first three waves of demons were no longer a challenge in the eyes of Jiang Shi and the others, but a game of cutting through melons and vegetables. It was as if the Wandering Star Forest was no longer a terrifying forbidden ground fraught with danger, but a playground for beautiful girls.
But happy times were always short-lived.
"This number... isn't it a little too high?" Qian Gongyu's voice trembled slightly. "There didn't seem to be this many yesterday, did there?"
After the fourth wave of the demon tide began, the thick fog did not approach the shelter too closely. Instead, it stopped two hundred meters away. At first, they did not understand why the fog had suddenly "lost its nerve," until the demons began marching across the mountains and plains.
There were too many.
Red-haired apes with lava growing from their backs crawled out of the fog. Even hunched over, they stood taller than adults. Their muscles were knotted, their appearances ferocious and terrifying, and they were packed together so densely that there seemed to be nearly a thousand of them at a glance. Countless more were visible in the fog. Their footsteps shook the heavens. If it had rained at that moment, the raindrops would have been burned into steam by the lava on their backs before they touched the ground.
Their commanding generals were five enormous Ape Kings. If ordinary red apes merely had boiling lava growing from their backs, then the lava on the Ape Kings' backs was in the midst of an eruption, constantly flowing with orange-red magma.
"The Demon King of Qi's Third Turn Secret Realm, 'Melting Oil Cave'—the Red Ape King." Jie Yuanshao remained calm as she spoke. Only her right hand, gripping the hilt