Battle Against the White Ape Lord!

The White Ape Lord watched the young man draw closer and jerked back in alarm.

Its injuries had left it struggling to maintain human form.

Its body swelled, fur sprouting wildly as its bones twisted and warped. In the blink of an eye, it became a massive white ape, gaunt and covered in silver-iron fur.

Only after taking this form did it remember that it was a Demon, and that the ferocity to fight to the death had never been lacking in it.

Fury seized it, and it charged straight at him with an ape's loping stride!

Its iron-cast hands curled into hooks and crashed down toward Yang Xiao like two enormous ship anchors!

The earth did not split and the mountains did not crumble as expected.

Its hard palms never reached the ground. A slender figure stood beneath them, catching them with one hand as two vast forces canceled each other out.

The White Ape Lord's huge palms were still pressing down, but at a tortoise's crawl.

A human body of flesh and blood, holding back a Demon's?

The White Ape Lord gritted its teeth. It might not be a Demon that specialized in physical strength, but its brute force was not something anyone could catch so easily.

Alarm and doubt churned within it as it poured every scrap of strength it had left into the blow!

Yang Xiao had no intention of matching a Demon with his bare body, either. His Ten-Thousand-Forged Demon Body had only reached its second forging. Though it put him on par with Demons in the early Mysterious Core Realm, it was still far from a qualitative transformation.

His strongest means of attack remained the combination of Army-Breaker and Demon-Slaying Soul-Extinction.

While the White Ape Lord focused wholly on their contest of strength, golden