A vast amount of spiritual energy rampaged through the Yellow Giant Ape's body, tearing apart some of its meridians.
Within the Yellow Giant Ape's dantian, a Nascent Soul that looked remarkably like Shen Long formed hand seals with a grave expression.
The Nascent Soul opened its mouth and inhaled, devouring a massive amount of spiritual energy as its body slowly swelled.
The Yellow Giant Ape's face twisted. It felt as though its body were about to burst apart. Countless tiny blood marks appeared across its surface, continuously widening as blood flowed without stop, exposing white bone.
The Yellow Giant Ape threw back its head and let out a long roar. Yellow light blazed from its body, and the blood marks swiftly healed as if they had never appeared. But soon afterward, countless bloody cracks appeared over its body once more.
Yellow light flared from its body again, and the blood marks quickly vanished, only to reappear not long after. This repeated over and over.
After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the Yellow Giant Ape finally returned to normal and transformed into Shen Long.
Shen Long formed a hand seal, and the Humanoid Projection in the sky slowly descended, gradually merging with him.
The instant the Dharma Aspect fused with Shen Long, his soul sea abruptly expanded considerably, and his divine sense surged along with it.
He hurriedly took out a Cyan Profound Tribulation-Crossing Fruit and wolfed it down in a few bites.
Shen Long felt his surroundings blur, and he appeared in a Blue-tiled Courtyard. Inside stood a Cyan Pavilion and a Cyan Stone Pavilion, with a man and a woman seated within the stone pavilion.
Shen Long touched his cheek and discovered that he had become much smaller. Everything before his eyes had been