Raging Ape

"Roar!"

The Demonic Dragon howled, its cry filled with unwillingness and tragic resolve.

Ji Tian had been sitting cross-legged beside the Killing Qi pillar, quietly cultivating. He hurried to his feet and flew toward the sound.

He heard the Demonic Dragon's cry for help and sensed that it was under attack.

In the distance, a humanoid monster was relentlessly attacking the Demonic Dragon. A giant ape nearly seven zhang tall grabbed boulder after boulder and hurled them high into the air at the Demonic Dragon. The dragon repeatedly swept them away with its battered bony tail.

Broken stones flew through the air as the force of their battle dispersed the demonic mist. The giant ape swung its two thick, iron-like arms, sweeping wildly back and forth, smashing every stone pillar in its path.

The Demonic Dragon's bones were in terrible shape, and it had lost all its former glory. Its shattered Bone Body was barely half intact. It fled as it fought back.

Ji Tian swept one arm, forming a phantom fist that bore down with terrifying pressure. It blocked the opponent's supernatural ability and rescued the Demonic Dragon from beneath its attack.

The humanoid monster roared furiously, pounding its chest.

It was a Raging Ape, born with divine strength. Black spiritual power rampaged around its body as it raised its enormous fist and smashed Ji Tian's phantom fist to pieces.

Ji Tian was astonished by the Raging Ape's immense strength. He raised his bony arm and threw a solemn punch, swift as lightning, at his opponent.

Where the force of the punch passed, the earth cracked. An endless stream of fist-light surged forth with tremendous power, sweeping toward the charging Raging Ape.

The Raging Ape had no idea how powerful the punch was and raised its arm to block it. But this was no ordinary fist. It was a remnant bone from a Chaos God Demon, perhaps as hard as an Innate Treasure. What was more, a trace of the Law of Strength still lingered within it.

Rumble!

The punch sent the Raging Ape flying and smashed apart a mountain behind it. Its body convulsed incessantly. The force that it had failed to deflect went on to shatter both its arms. Ji Tian slowly drew back his arm, a hairline crack appearing in the bone. At the same time, a powerful counterforce struck his Primordial Spirit. He hurriedly circulated his Primordial Spirit and suppressed it.

Ji Tian shook his head, thinking, I can't keep recklessly draining this bone arm's power. If its divine essence is completely depleted one day, I'll have gained nothing and lost everything.

The Raging Ape staggered to its feet, furious. It threw back its head and howled, and tremendous power spread through its body as demonic Qi churned all around it.

Another ferocious head grew from its upper torso. Its blood-red eyes glared, radiating intense savagery. Two more arms sprouted beneath its armpits.

Those arms reached out, seized a boulder nearby, and hurled it at Ji Tian.

It was a show of strength.

"Roar!" The Raging Ape's furious howl shook the wilderness, and the nearby mountains and forests trembled.

"Heh, good. You really are a worthy opponent." Looking at the Raging Ape, its fighting spirit surging, Ji Tian pointed a finger and pulverized the boulder.

The Raging Ape roared at the sky, then leaped from the boulder and pounced at Gu Fei. It stretched out a massive claw. Clang! Five pitch-black talons, each over a chi long, sprang from its palm and raked down toward Ji Tian's head.

Its palm loomed like a mountain, sending up a fierce, baleful gale that left Gu Fei feeling suffocated. Its talons were like swords, slashing through the air and leaving five streaks of Dark Light. Their keen force made Ji Tian feel as though he faced five razor-sharp blades.

"Good!" Ji Tian gave a quiet shout. His Primordial Spirit stirred, and his body abruptly darted aside. With a crack, the rocky ground beneath his feet burst apart.

Ji Tian dodged the giant ape's ferocious blow. He didn't have a body tough enough to withstand its strength head-on. He moved both hands, and a black longsword took shape.

The black longsword flashed and slashed at the Raging Ape's left arm. The air exploded, and a sword aura tore through the air. A surge of black Killing Qi billowed out, leaving a gash on the Raging Ape.

What a tough opponent. Its skin was thick and its flesh hard. A sword strike brimming with Killing Qi had only managed to cut it.

The Raging Ape flew into a rage and spun around to pounce at Ji Tian, its pitch-black claws reaching for the longsword.

Ten Directions Absolute Kill

Ji Tian thrust out his longsword. Streaks of sword-light, wrapped in Killing Qi, gathered into countless sharp little swords. The sword-light surged together and slashed at the Raging Ape's claws.

"Roar!" A miserable cry rang through heaven and earth. The Raging Ape was covered in wounds, and one of its hands had been cut off completely.

The Raging Ape's form changed again. Its body swelled as scales sprouted all over it. A ferocious head was slowly taking shape, and two tusks grew from the mouth of its third head. A fierce, savage aura spread through the air...

Ji Tian let out a roar. His black longsword unleashed a supernatural ability. His entire sea of consciousness trembled. The Mountain of Slaughter, as vast as a mountain, rose from the depths of his sea of consciousness with a rumble. The humanoid monster sleeping atop it opened its eyes, seized the Mountain of Slaughter as it transformed into a longsword, and swung it outward.

Demon Kills the World

The longsword turned into a streak of Flowing Light. For a moment, Ji Tian could make out a pair of bat wings beating as the sword slashed at the still-transforming Raging Ape.

Black light flashed, and two heads rolled across the ground. The newly grown head hung from the Raging Ape's body, barely attached.

The Sword Light shifted and slashed again at its dozens-of-zhang-tall body.

The Raging Ape's body burst into Flesh and Blood, cracks appearing all over it. Black light flared. A giant sword filled with killing intent cleaved down from above, splitting the ape's body in two. A soul escaped from its remains.

Ji Tian hurriedly formed a hand seal and trapped the Raging Ape's soul, stopping the Sword of Slaughter from destroying it. At the same time, a streak of black Killing Qi was absorbed by the shadow, which retreated into Ji Tian's sea of consciousness.

Ji Tian tossed the Raging Ape's soul into his sea of consciousness. It was vicious beyond measure, so he had no choice but to summon Nine Fear's fear and killing thoughts to suppress it.

Ji Tian hurriedly formed another hand seal and gathered up the Flesh and Blood scattered through the air. In this sealed land, it was valuable stuff. Besides, the Raging Ape's body was comparable to Bronze Skin and Iron Bones. If Ji Tian hadn't been a whole stage above it in cultivation and caught it by surprise, it would have been difficult to deal with.

The Nine-Headed Savage Lion's soul arts included a method for refining the Flesh and Blood of living beings. Perhaps it could be used to make the Demonic Dragon a new body.

Poor Demonic Dragon—it had run into such a formidable opponent.

Ji Tian repeatedly formed hand seals, refining the Raging Ape's Flesh and Blood together with the Demonic Dragon's battered body.

Vast amounts of spiritual power flowed into the Demonic Dragon. Under the refinement of that power, the Flesh and Blood continually reshaped its body, gradually forming a Demonic Dragon covered in black scales.

Ji Tian couldn't help marveling at how extraordinary the Raging Ape's Flesh and Blood was. It held tremendous vitality. Where had that creature come from?

This sealed land was filled with Death Qi, Malevolent Qi, and Yin Energy. Ordinary living beings couldn't possibly survive here. How could a creature with flesh and blood like this exist?

Could it have been born inside the Tongtian Killing Qi pillar?

Then how had it gotten out?

After endless fusing and reshaping, the Demonic Dragon finally took form.

The Demonic Dragon felt vitality coursing through its entire body. After being a skeleton for so long, it was still unaccustomed to having flesh and blood. The itchy, prickling sensation made it uncomfortable, especially the pair of protruding dragon fangs.

The Demonic Dragon darted among the piles of rubble, sometimes crashing into a stone pillar and bringing it down, sometimes crushing an entire mountainside.

Watching it, Ji Tian wondered if he should find a body to possess as well. He didn't know if he could get used to one.

The ghost and the dragon arrived at another Tongtian Killing Qi pillar. Malevolent Qi raged everywhere, making Ji Tian feel an uncontrollable urge to become violent.

Ji Tian asked with his Spiritual Sense, "Is this the Killing Qi pillar you encountered..." Just then, an unexpected change occurred. It was as if something had summoned the violent Qi filling the sky. It gathered and took shape, forming an image of a Raging Ape. The three-headed Raging Ape stared at Ji Tian and the Demonic Dragon with all six eyes. A look of understanding shone in its gaze as it swept across Ji Tian's sea of consciousness.

Within Ji Tian's sea of consciousness, three gazes formed to meet the Raging Ape's six: Nine Fear, Slaughter, and the remnant soul that had transformed into a golden hall. They were Ji Tian, yet they were not Ji Tian.

The phantom Raging Ape sent out a strand of Spiritual Sense. "I forcibly broke through this Killing Qi pillar and emerged ahead of time. In the end, I still died unexpectedly. The laws of heaven cannot be defied. I was too impulsive after all, believing that I could attain the Dao by killing the devil sealed in this Netherworld Land."

"Hmph. Attain the Dao? I actually believed it too. Yellow Springs, you still have to repay this Karma."

"Enough, enough. Perhaps this is Heaven's will. Not even my original soul remains."

That strand of Spiritual Sense, carrying boundless Malevolent Qi, merged into Ji Tian's sea of consciousness. A peak of savage intent formed there, along with a three-headed Raging Ape.

Ji Tian was completely dumbfounded.

He had somehow formed another deity in his sea of consciousness. Was this a good thing or a bad thing?

Yellow Springs... There was such a powerful innate being in this space. It hadn't even emerged yet, and its clone had already reached the peak of the Primordial Spirit Stage, just one realm below Ji Tian's Void Transformation Stage.

Could the clone I destroyed last time have been one of Yellow Springs' clones? Was that why he hated me? Was he the one who awakened the still-developing savage intent and goaded it into emerging early, hoping it would kill me?

This was an enemy hiding in the shadows.

This sealed land was actually the Netherworld Land. Ji Tian was gradually making his way toward its center, and sooner or later, he would have to face Yellow Springs.