"Teacher?"
Xu Jingming noticed something strange in Nether Phoenix Venerable's gaze and called out softly.
Only then did Nether Phoenix Venerable snap out of her shock.
She took a deep breath, and a complicated expression flashed across her stunning face.
There was astonishment, satisfaction, and a trace of complexity that even she herself had not noticed.
She had never imagined it.
The Demon Race's second Mysterious Hell Nether Phoenix would reveal himself in such a way.
"True Demon State consumes a great deal of Divine Power. Exit it first."
Her voice remained cold and detached.
Yet Xu Jingming keenly sensed that his teacher's attitude toward him seemed to have improved considerably.
"Yes."
He nodded. With a thought, the violet-black radiance around him receded.
The enormous pair of wings dissolved into motes of light, while the phoenix-shaped mark in his eyes gradually faded away.
The berserk power ebbed like a receding tide, revealing his original form.
He was still a towering Demon Body standing four meters and sixty centimeters tall, covered in black scales with knotted muscles.
But upon closer inspection, one could see faint violet-black spatial runes flowing across the surface of his scales.
His aura had also become more tyrannical and razor-sharp than before, carrying the noble pressure unique to the Mysterious Hell Nether Phoenix.
This was the permanent demonic transformation brought about by the system's optimization of the True Demon Codex!
It was similar to the Purple Nightmare Demonic Body he had cultivated before.
Yet it had completely eliminated all side effects, allowing his strength to remain at its peak at all times.
Only when he fully dispelled the demonic transformation would his true Human Race body be revealed.
"Not bad."
Nether Phoenix Venerable nodded slightly.
Even with her exacting standards, she had to admit it now.
This