This had originally been a pond.
But now, the water in the pond had been drained dry.
Great quantities of thick, viscous blood churned within the pond, bubbles rising to the surface.
A third-order lower-rank Wolf Demon stood by the pond, sliced open its palm, and let its demon blood drip into it.
A moment later.
Its face had turned slightly pale before it finally stopped and turned to leave.
Behind it, more third-order Demonic Creatures stood in line. Under the watchful eyes of several fourth-order greater Demonic Creatures around them, they obediently cut themselves open and bled.
The Great King of Drunken Demon Mountain was one of the surrounding fourth-order greater Demonic Creatures.
He watched the scene with amazement.
Worthy of Heavenly Ape Mountain!
When they decided to act, they truly made a grand gesture.
His earlier guess had indeed been right.
Heavenly Ape Mountain could not possibly sit back and watch another top-tier great power capable of threatening them rise within Xuan County.
That was only natural.
If another top-tier great power emerged, how much would Heavenly Ape Mountain's interests suffer?
Over the years.
Heavenly Ape Mountain's strength would greatly decline as well.
And now—
While the other side had only recently emerged and had yet to gain a firm foothold, gathering most of the county's demon forces to sweep them away in one stroke was what best served their interests.
"I wonder where Heavenly Ape Mountain got a drop of blood from the Primordial Fierce Beast, Zhu Jian..."
"Now they are using massive amounts of third-order demon blood to forcibly awaken this drop of Blood of Zhu Jian, then fuse it into a fourth-order lower-rank Heavenly Ape from Heavenly Ape Mountain—"
"Once it succeeds, it will likely be able to wield fifth-order strength."
"Fifth order... How terrifying..."