Sa Ryong Hwi

Sa Ryong Hwi is formerly the leader of the Dawn Dragon Army under the Martial Alliance, but later pledges allegiance to the Cult of the Heavenly Demon after realizing all of the prejudice against the demons were mostly misguided seeing the fair treatment of citizens under the Cult's leadership.

He becomes an ally of the demons, and eventually at the end of the novel breaks through to the Transcendence realm from the Peak realm and becomes the White Ape Lord. He is friends with Gang So-san.