Snakes grow into pythons, pythons into flood dragons, and flood dragons into true dragons.
The giant python before them had clearly reached the stage of transforming into a flood dragon, awaiting a bloodline enhancement to complete the transformation and become even more powerful.
More importantly, its lineage was extraordinary, being descended from an ancient fierce beast. Although its bloodline was diluted, it still managed to produce ancestral blood, manifesting signs of a reversal to its primordial state.
Standing erect at this moment, the python's body obscured a large area of the lava, and due to the repulsion of its aura, the lava was pushed back, forming a vacuum zone.
This was an effect brought on by its demon energy, emitted naturally without conscious effort.
This was something Sun Wukong couldn't achieve. If compared, the giant python was more powerful and could suppress him.