However!
The blood-colored giant ape and the priest who had transformed into a demon god had no idea that an invisible pair of giant eyes was watching everything here!
Within a stretch of void suffused with five-colored mist...
Stood a figure devoid of any aura, like an inanimate object.
This person had the face of a youth.
The golden runes flowing through his eyes were especially miraculous.
This was none other than Venerable Peach Blossom, who had just arrived to assess Stone Ape Demon Venerable's situation.
That was right!
The blood-colored giant ape was Stone Ape Demon Venerable.
Although Stone Ape Demon Venerable's appearance differed greatly from before, the aura unique to every living being would not change.
Unless one deliberately employed spells or divine abilities that altered one's aura.
Otherwise...
No matter how drastically one's appearance or physique changed, it would still be easy to tell them apart.
Likewise, even though Stone Ape Demon Venerable had become an incomparably violent blood-colored giant ape, Cheng Buzheng recognized him at a glance.
The reason Stone Ape Demon Venerable's body had swelled so enormously and his appearance changed so drastically was most likely that he had used a bloodline secret art?
Or perhaps it was due to a bloodline divine ability.
Just as Cheng Buzheng was about to suppress the Purgatory Clan priest and rescue that blood-colored giant ape...
Suddenly!
Stone Ape Demon Venerable let out an explosive roar, his violent might surging wildly.
"Such a petty trick wants to scheme against me? Dream on!"
As that furious roar rang out...
An ancient, miraculous demon pattern emerged over the blood-colored giant ape's chest.
At the same instant, Stone Ape Demon Venerable's blood and qi surged throughout his body, merging with his violent demon power in a mad rush, forged together in a