PD -Chapter 188 Coordinated Formation Setup

Earlier, I had used the Fuling Ruler to bind the evil mountain god—now fused with the giant tree—to several surrounding trunks.

But just as I expected, even those trees that took two people to wrap their arms around couldn’t hold for long. Under the struggle of that massive body, they were already swaying and on the verge of collapse.

Although my Fuling Ruler was made from special materials and reinforced with Daoist spells, if this continued, it would soon reach its limit as well.

I immediately waved my hand, channeling spiritual energy to undo the knots I had tied behind those trees.

“Boom…”

One of the trees swayed violently and crashed down. Then came a second, a third…

I quickly dodged the collapsing trees and retreated several meters. In the chaos, many of the falling trees smashed directly toward the evil mountain god’s body.

These forest trees each weighed at least a thousand jin. When they came crashing down, the sound was like heaven and earth splitting apart. Even with its enormous body, the mountain god was struck so hard that thick layers of bark flew off. Many serpent-like moving branches were crushed and shattered.

The giant body of the mountain god was forced downward by the falling trees—almost collapsing to its knees.

But its massive form was not just for show. At the moment of impact, its tree-root legs stepped back into a wide stance, absorbing the force of the falling trunks and forcibly stabilizing itself once again.

At the same time, countless thick vines erupted from its enormous arms. It grabbed one of the largest trees and used it as a weapon, swinging it fiercely toward me and Liu Xiaopeng.

I immediately pulled Liu Xiaopeng back and leapt away, narrowly avoiding the strike. Fortunately, the surrounding trees acted as cover—but they were being knocked down one after another.

The massive arm swept sideways with the tree trunk, cutting through the forest like a scythe through grass, snapping countless trees in half. The battlefield had become utterly chaotic.

I hid behind a tree and said to Liu Xiaopeng, “We can only try fire attacks now.”

Liu Xiaopeng nodded and tossed me a spiritual energy battery.

“Do you remember the first time I brought you out, when we met that female ghost on the bridge?” I asked him.

He immediately nodded. “You mean… using the Five Thunder Oil Pool Great Formation?”

I nodded and looked at the spiritual energy battery in my hand, thinking about how to make use of it.

“But… we don’t have any oil now!” Liu Xiaopeng frowned.

“No need for oil,” I said as I retreated again, watching another tree being snapped in front of us. “The trees here are the perfect fuel.”

“I see!” Liu Xiaopeng understood instantly. “I’ll draw it away—you activate the formation!”

With that, he absorbed a spiritual energy battery and instantly threw out a fire talisman. A massive fireball crashed into the mountain god.

Since the mountain god’s body had already fused with the strange giant tree, the fire immediately ignited its left shoulder. Flames roared across its body—but it still wasn’t enough to cause serious damage.

“ROAR…”

The evil mountain god, already growing impatient from being entangled, let out a terrifying howl that made one’s scalp tingle. It raised an arm and repeatedly slapped at the burning shoulder with vine-like fingers, trying to extinguish the flames.

But the moment it put out the fire, Liu Xiaopeng ignited its right leg with another fire talisman.

“ROAR!”

Another furious roar echoed through the forest.

“Come on, aren’t you supposed to be powerful?” Liu Xiaopeng shouted.

At some point, he had already moved a hundred meters away onto a large tree to my left. Standing on a thick branch, he taunted the evil mountain god.

And surprisingly, the provocation worked.

The massive creature immediately ignored me and charged straight toward Liu Xiaopeng.

Taking this opportunity, I forcefully twisted open the spiritual energy battery in my hand. I didn’t absorb its energy—instead, I guided the golden spiritual energy outward like threads.

Under my control, the energy strands connected all the fallen trees crushed by the mountain god.

Bit by bit, I pulled them into position. In the forest reduced to stumps, they formed a strange and intricate formation.

“It’s done!” I shouted toward Liu Xiaopeng after finishing the setup.

At that moment, loud crashing sounds came again from his side, and the firelight grew stronger. I could see a figure…

In midair, he nimbly stepped across treetops, continuously luring the enormous mountain god step by step into the formation I had laid.

The mountain god’s heavy footsteps shook the entire mountain as if it might collapse. The moment both of its feet stepped fully into the formation, Liu Xiaopeng hurled down all his remaining fire talismans.

This time, his target was not the mountain god’s body—but the fallen trees that formed my formation.

“BOOM… BOOM…”

The fire talismans exploded into countless fireballs, like meteors striking the earth, igniting the broken wood within the formation.

A complex pattern slowly began to glow.

“Now!” I thought, rapidly forming hand seals.

“I respectfully invite the Seven Stars of the South Dipper and the Seven Stars of the North Dipper—may all demons and evil spirits turn to dust!”

As I chanted, I guided the spiritual threads to close the formation.

“BOOM!”

The initially yellow flames instantly turned blue and surged several meters high, trapping the enormous evil mountain god within.

Only then did the mountain god realize something was wrong. It howled and tried to break out of the blue flames.

But once ignited, the blue fire—this upgraded Heavenly Fire Five Thunder Formation derived from the Five Thunder Oil Pool Formation—could not be extinguished.

Because what fueled the blue flames was no longer just the fallen wood forming the array, but the power of heaven and earth itself.

Unless the evil within the formation was completely burned away, the heavenly fire would not go out.

The blue flames rapidly climbed upward, already reaching the mountain god’s waist. It lifted a leg, trying to step over the fire.

But the moment its leg touched the flames, it ignited instantly. A piercing, agonized howl echoed through the forest…

This time, it was not rage—but a mournful scream.

For the blue heavenly fire was not ordinary flame. For a being that had fallen from a deity into a corrupted evil spirit, it was lethal.