The Giant Python Turns Over, Killing Like Mud

"Ghost-walking is said to reverse yin and yang, move mountains, and change seas. But when it comes to driving mountains and summoning the earth, you still have to look to my Miao Gu sect's Five Ding Mountain Splitting Technique!"

Deep within the Ten Thousand Mountains, Chaos King personally beat the drum to awaken the mountains, and felt as though he could rest easy.

The hundred thousand troops under his command had already been divided into five groups. They had ventured deep into the mountains, each guarding one region.

The five places they guarded were the five formation nodes of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

According to a folk tale, a snake lurked in the mountains. It could be regarded as a snake god or a mountain ghost, for it was the mountains themselves made manifest.

Half of it lay within the mountains and half beyond them. If a strongman found its tail and pulled with all his might, the mountains would collapse and the earth split apart, opening a path through the deep, savage wilderness. This was the origin of the Five Ding Mountain Splitting Technique.

Ordinary people could not see where this mountain-snake lay, but the Miao Gu sect's magic could use the Fierce Heart Drum to awaken the invisible serpent. It would spew poisonous fog and devour countless people.

And, likewise, anyone who wished to awaken this serpent and send it out to devour people had to guard against being devoured by it in turn.

So whenever the Fierce Heart Drum was beaten, a hundred thousand troops were stationed at five places on the great serpent: its seven-inch point, its head and neck, its valley gate, its heart, and its tail ridge. In this way, they were like five nails pinning down the mountain-snake, allowing it to devour others