More Monstrous Than Monsters

However, Beimou soon had no time to think of anything else. As Lord Lu gradually revealed his true form, Beimou's mouth slowly fell open, and he stared in horror at the scene on the distant mountain.

Black smoke wisps continuously rose upward, forming a sight above the mountain ridge that resembled flames scorching the sky. Yet these black smoke wisps were not Demonic Energy in the ordinary sense—indeed, they were not Demonic Energy at all. They were a product derived from the changes in Lord Lu's Demonic Energy at this moment. One look was enough to tell how extraordinarily special and eerie they were.

Lord Lu's body had already swelled into a monster even stranger than Demonic Energy itself. The color of his clothes first turned black and yellow, then clung to his skin surface and transformed into fur. The sinews and bones of his hands and feet protruded, growing sharper and larger. His shoulders broadened, his back arched as vertebrae rose section by section, and his body grew ever taller.

Waves of dense Demonic Energy were like heat currents blurring the air, giving rise to those black Smoke Wisps amid the slight distortion of vision.

The entire process of revealing his true form seemed slow, but was actually swift. Lord Lu had now transformed into a building-sized monster, neither tiger nor tiger, neither demon nor demon. Upon the giant tiger's body, a closer look revealed traces of a human face. Whenever the tail behind him swept through the air, it left behind layer after layer of afterimages, as though multiple tails were flickering.

Boundless Demonic Energy surged into the sky, triggering all kinds of Anomalous Phenomenon. Within the flowing Demonic Energy, it was as though endless flames spread in every direction, like blazing fire filling the heavens while black