Raging Ape

"Roar!"

The Demonic Dragon's cry was filled with unwillingness and grandeur.

Ji Tian, who had been quietly cultivating beside the Killing Qi pillar, immediately got up and flew towards the source of the roar.

He heard the Demonic Dragon's call for help, sensing it was under attack.

From afar, a humanoid monster was relentlessly attacking the Demonic Dragon. A giant ape, nearly seven zhang tall, was picking up massive black boulders and tossing them high into the air, smashing them down onto the Demonic Dragon. The Demonic Dragon continuously swept them away with its broken bone tail.

Stones flew through the air, and the demonic mist was dispersed by the fierce winds from their battle. The giant ape swung its two iron-like, thick arms, madly sweeping back and forth, snapping and sending flying the stone pillars in front of it.

The Demonic Dragon's entire skeleton was in disarray, having lost its former glory. Its broken body was barely half intact. It was fleeing while resisting.

Ji Tian waved his arm, forming an illusory fist that carried terrifying pressure. It blocked the opponent's divine ability, rescuing the Demonic Dragon from the person's grasp.

The humanoid monster roared repeatedly, pounding its chest.

A Raging Ape, with innate divine strength, its entire body radiating black Spiritual Power, raised its massive fist and smashed Ji Tian's illusory fist to pieces.

Ji Tian was greatly alarmed by the Raging Ape's immense strength. He raised his bone arm and, with a solemn expression, threw a punch, attacking the opponent with lightning speed.

Wherever the punch passed, the earth cracked. Endless fist-light, a powerful force, surged forth, sweeping towards the charging Raging Ape.

The Raging Ape, unaware of the punch's power, also raised its arm to block. That fist was no ordinary fist; it was the residual bone of a Chaos God Demon, its hardness perhaps at the level of an Innate Treasure, and it contained a trace of the rule of force within its power.

"Boom!"

One punch sent the Raging Ape flying, immediately breaking a mountain peak behind it, its body convulsing uncontrollably. The remaining force then shattered the Raging Ape's arms. Ji Tian slowly retracted his arm, a slight crack appearing on his bone arm. Simultaneously, a powerful recoil force surged into his Primordial Spirit, and he quickly circulated his Primordial Spirit to suppress this force.

Ji Tian shook his head, thinking to himself: I can't recklessly expend the power of this bone arm like this in the future. If the Divinity of this bone arm is completely depleted one day, I'll suffer more than I gain.

The Raging Ape staggered to its feet, feeling immense anger. It let out a long howl to the sky, and a tremendous power spread throughout its body, with countless demonic energies swirling around it.

A ferocious head grew from its upper torso, its eyes blood-red, emitting a fierce glint. Two more arms grew from its armpits.

These two arms reached out, grabbed a giant stone beside it, and hurled it at Ji Tian.

This was a show of defiance.

"Roar!" The Raging Ape roared, its sound shaking the surrounding wilderness, causing the nearby mountains and forests to tremble.

"Heh heh, good, truly a worthy opponent." Ji Tian looked at the Raging Ape, its fighting spirit high, and flicked his finger, shattering the stone.

The Raging Ape roared to the sky, then leaped from the giant stone and pounced towards Ji Tian. Its giant claws extended, "Clang!" Five inch-long, dark black claws immediately sprang from its fleshly palms, reaching down to grab Ji Tian.

The giant palm was like a mountain, stirring up a fierce, malevolent wind that made Ji Tian feel suffocated. The claws were like swords, slashing through the air, leaving five streaks of dark light. The sharp claw energy made Ji Tian feel as if he were facing five incredibly sharp swords.

"Good!" Ji Tian gave a light shout. At the same time, his Primordial Spirit moved, and his body flickered to the side. With a "crack," the rocky ground beneath his feet immediately exploded.

Ji Tian dodged the Raging Ape's ferocious attack. He did not have a powerful body to directly withstand its strength. His hands moved, and a black longsword condensed into existence.

The black longsword immediately moved, slashing towards the Raging Ape's left arm. The air exploded, and a sword energy broke through the void, rolling black Killing Qi surging out, immediately leaving a wound on the Raging Ape.

Truly a troublesome fellow, thick-skinned. His sword filled with Killing Qi had only managed to inflict a superficial wound.

The Raging Ape was furious. It turned and lunged at Ji Tian, its dark black claws grabbing towards the longsword.

"Ten Directions Absolute Kill!"

Ji Tian thrust his longsword forward. Sword-light enveloped in Killing Qi condensed into sharp little swords. The sword-light surged together, slashing towards the Raging Ape's claws.

"Roar!" A tragic sound echoed through heaven and earth. The Raging Ape was covered in wounds, and one of its paws was directly severed.

The Raging Ape's form changed again. Its body began to swell, scales growing all over it. A ferocious head was gradually forming, and two fangs grew from the corners of its third head's mouth, emitting a fierce aura...

Ji Tian roared, and his black longsword unleashed a divine ability. The entire Sea of Consciousness trembled. It was like the Mountain of Slaughter, which resembled a mountain, rumbling and rising from the depths of the Sea of Consciousness. The humanoid monster sleeping within opened its eyes, grabbed the Mountain of Slaughter that had transformed into a longsword, and slashed outwards.

"Demon Kills the World!"

The longsword transformed into a streak of light. Vaguely, one could see bat-like wings flapping. The longsword slashed towards the Raging Ape, which was still transforming.

A black light flashed. Two heads rolled on the ground. The newly grown head hung precariously on its body.

The sword light turned and slashed towards the dozens of zhang tall body.

The Raging Ape's body immediately burst into bloody flesh, cracks appearing everywhere. Black light flared intensely, and a giant sword filled with killing intent descended from above, splitting the Raging Ape in half. A soul escaped from the bloody flesh.

Ji Tian quickly cast a spell, capturing the Raging Ape's soul and preventing the Sword of Slaughter from destroying it. At the same time, a black Killing Qi was absorbed by the shadow and retreated into Ji Tian's Sea of Consciousness.

Ji Tian threw the Raging Ape's soul into his Sea of Consciousness. This soul was extremely ferocious, and Ji Tian had to mobilize the fear and slaughter intent of the Nine Fear to suppress it.

Ji Tian quickly cast a spell to gather the scattered flesh and blood. In this sealed land, this was good stuff. Moreover, the Raging Ape's body was comparable to bronze skin and iron bones. If not for his cultivation suppressing it and his surprise attack, it would have been difficult to deal with.

The soul path of the Nine-Headed Savage Lion had a method to refine the flesh and blood of living beings. Perhaps it could forge a new dragon body for the Demonic Dragon.

Poor Demonic Dragon, to have encountered such a formidable being.

Ji Tian continuously cast spells, refining the Raging Ape's flesh and blood along with the Demonic Dragon's mangled corpse.

A large amount of Spiritual Power continuously merged into the Demonic Dragon's body. Under the refinement of Spiritual Power, the flesh and blood reorganized the Demonic Dragon's body. A Demonic Dragon, entirely black and covered in scales, was constantly being shaped.

Ji Tian couldn't help but sigh at how extraordinary the Raging Ape's flesh and blood was, containing immense vitality. Where did this fellow come from?

This sealed land was filled with deathly energy, malevolent energy, and yin energy. Ordinary living beings could not exist here. How could a creature of flesh and blood like this exist?

Was it conceived within the Heaven-Piercing Killing Qi Pillar?

Then how did it get out?

The Demonic Dragon was constantly merging and reorganizing until it finally took shape.

The Demonic Dragon felt its entire body filled with vitality. Being a Skeleton for so long had made it unaccustomed to this feeling of having flesh and blood. A tingling sensation made it uncomfortable, especially its outwardly turned dragon fangs.

The Demonic Dragon weaved through the rubble, either smashing a stone pillar or crushing a mountaintop.

Ji Tian watched, wondering if it should also find a body to possess. It didn't know if it could get used to it.

The ghost and the dragon arrived at another towering pillar of Killing Qi. The sky was filled with Malevolent Qi, stirring an uncontrollable impulse for violence within them.

Ji Tian asked with its Spiritual Sense, "This is the Killing Qi pillar you encountered...?" Just then, an anomaly occurred. The rampant Malevolent Qi seemed to be summoned by something, continuously condensing and taking shape, forming the image of a Raging Ape. The three-headed Raging Ape's six eyes stared at Ji Tian and the Demonic Dragon. Its gaze held a sense of enlightenment as it swept towards Ji Tian's sea of consciousness.

Three gazes condensed within Ji Tian's sea of consciousness, meeting the Raging Ape's six. These were the Nine Fear, Slaughter, and the remnant soul that had transformed into a golden palace. They were Ji Tian, yet they were not Ji Tian.

The Raging Ape's phantom emitted a divine thought, saying, "I forcefully broke open this Killing Qi pillar and emerged prematurely. In the end, I met an unexpected demise. The Heavenly Dao is unavoidable. I was too impulsive, believing that simply killing the demon sealed in this Netherworld would lead to enlightenment."

"Hmph, enlightenment. I actually believed it. Yellow Springs, but you still have to repay this karma."

"Forget it, perhaps this is destiny. Even its main soul is gone."

That divine thought, mixed with boundless Malevolent Qi, merged into Ji Tian's sea of consciousness. A fierce intent formed a mountain peak within the sea of consciousness, a three-headed Raging Ape.

Ji Tian was somewhat stunned.

Muddled, it had condensed another deity in its sea of consciousness. Was this good or bad?

Yellow Springs, there was such a powerful innate being in this space. It hadn't even emerged yet, and its clone already possessed the peak realm of the Primordial Spirit Stage, only one realm lower than its own Void Transformation Stage.

Was the clone it destroyed last time one of Yellow Springs, which is why it harbored hatred? Did it awaken this growing malevolent intent and instigate it to emerge early, hoping to kill Ji Tian?

This was an enemy hidden in the shadows.

This sealed land was actually the Netherworld. Ji Tian was gradually heading towards the central area, and one day it would inevitably clash with Yellow Springs.