The Mountain God

"Concealment Talisman!"

Ye Qianfan calmly uttered those two words.

This, too, had come from Ye Fu's memories. He hadn't expected that old man's knowledge to be so comprehensive!

"!!!"

This time, the Taoist said nothing. He simply turned to look at Ye Qianfan, astonishment written all over his face.

He seemed stunned that Ye Qianfan knew about it!

"Arrange the corpses along the edge of the Heaven-Trapping Formation to hold back the Mountain God. Hurry!"

Only after directing everyone to position the corpses one by one did General Bai draw the sword at his waist. He twirled it, then thrust at the talisman pasted beside the cave entrance. "Get ready!"

Boom!

Under General Bai's sword, the talisman spontaneously ignited!

The talisman burned to ashes in an instant. The moment it vanished, Ye Qianfan saw countless streams of killing intent and corpse energy surge out of the cave, like trapped flies or swarms of insects freed from their restraints, scattering in a frantic rush.

"Roar!!"

As human and corpse energy spilled out, the Mountain God seemed to notice something unusual here!

An enraged roar rang out from outside the cave. Ye Qianfan and the Taoist saw the entire cavern shake with it. Just how enormous did the Mountain God have to be to make the earth quake and the mountains tremble like this?

Thud, thud!

Thud, thud, thud!!!

The Mountain God's pounding footsteps drew closer and closer. Ye Qianfan could feel the Patrol Soldiers' fear growing deeper, and even the Taoist beside him grew tense.

The oppressive presence of the Mountain God was truly overwhelming!

Fortunately...

Ye Qianfan had Ye Fu's memories, which actually contained some information about the Mountain God's weaknesses.

That gave Ye Qianfan confidence instead!

Thud!

Just then...

With a strange, clicking cry, the Mountain God charged inside!

Only then did Ye Qianfan finally get a clear look at...

The legendary Mountain God!

He had originally thought the Mountain God would be some enormous insect, or a moth, bat, or similar creature that had become a spirit!

But the moment he saw the Mountain God, he finally understood just how different this world's monsters were from the monsters he had imagined!

There before him...

Was a monster with more than a dozen human arms and legs.

Yet the Mountain God's body was incredibly round and plump. It looked like a giant grub with a multitude of hands and feet!

The monster looked cumbersome, but its movements were unexpectedly fast!

The instant it entered the cave, it reached past the corpses, clamped its jaws around a Patrol Soldier, and swallowed him in a few bites. It had no intention of stopping for the ring of corpses around the formation, either, and was about to charge deeper into the cave to devour the other Patrol Soldiers!

Seeing this, General Bai reacted swiftly, shoving one of his subordinates toward the Mountain God to be eaten!

"Ah!"

"General!!!"

At the last instant before the monster's jaws closed around him, the Patrol Soldier turned to look at his commanding officer, his face filled with resentment and bewilderment.

Unfortunately, General Bai didn't care in the slightest whether one or two subordinates lived or died. Wasn't losing a man or two perfectly normal in a war?

"Activate the formation!!!"

General Bai hurriedly shouted while the Mountain God was swallowing his subordinate.

Only then did the terrified Patrol Soldiers snap out of their stupor and close off the final inked cord. Golden light blazed from the Heaven-Trapping Formation, and the foul-smelling cords seemed to come alive, all winding around the enormous Mountain God!

Bound so tightly it couldn't move, the Mountain God roared again and again!

"Attack!"

While the Mountain God was trapped, General Bai took the lead, thrusting his sword at it!

One of the Mountain God's antennae was severed. It struggled wildly in pain, pulling the inked cords of the Heaven-Trapping Formation so taut they nearly snapped!

Seeing that the Mountain God didn't seem so invincible after all, the other Patrol Soldiers found their courage and joined the attack!

"Kill!!!"

Everyone roared and began hacking madly at the Mountain God.

Under their frenzied blows, the Mountain God's human-faced head became drenched in blood. Several of its hands and feet were severed as well, leaving it unable to support itself any longer. Its heavy body crashed to the ground!

Boom!!!

The moment the Mountain God's enormous body hit the ground, everyone erupted in triumphant howls!

The Patrol Soldiers cried excitedly, "General, this Mountain God isn't unkillable after all!"

"Keep at it, everyone! Once we kill it, we'll be rich!"

"Hold steady! We're about to win!"

Seeing that the Mountain God was nearly finished, Ye Qianfan's eyes lit up. "It's time for me to make my move!"

"What—what are you going to do?" the Taoist asked in shock. "With your soul-body as it is now, you can barely do anything. You can't even cast spells. Don't do anything reckless!!"

"Soldiers, March, Fight, All in Formation! Corpse-Raising!"

Ye Qianfan followed the procedure in Ye Fu's memories. As long as those vicious corpses the Patrol Soldiers had piled near the Mountain God woke up, they would definitely catch the soldiers off guard!

The method might have been a little dirty, but all was fair in war!

"Impossible. Absolutely impossible." The Taoist waved his hands at Ye Qianfan. "Without a body, you cannot channel energy. Without an anchor, you cannot work magic. There's no way you can cast a spell. Otherwise, I'd have dug out the formation core inside the altar and escaped this damned place long ago... uh!"

But just then!

The Taoist witnessed an uncanny sight!

A stream of black energy swept over the corpses, and each of them twitched.

But the Patrol Soldiers were so engrossed in their furious assault that they didn't notice the change in the corpses at all. They merely pressed closer, surrounding and attacking the Mountain God. Some even stepped on the corpses or kicked them aside, annoyed that they were blocking the way!

Such insults to the dead might have meant nothing while the corpses had no awareness, but now they had awakened!

"Roar!"

The first corpse moved.

He suddenly sat up, and the white cloth wrapped around him fell away, revealing a charred corpse!

The corpse, burned beyond recognition, seized the Patrol Soldier standing on him and dragged him down. Then he pounced, sinking his teeth into the soldier's neck!

"Ah!!!"

The Patrol Soldier cried out in pain and hurriedly hacked at the corpse with his sword.

But what good did that do?

This man was already dead, and he had long since lost all sense of pain.

That was what made risen corpses so difficult to deal with!

Unless you cut off its head, a Corpse Demon could keep attacking you until you died.

Humans, however, were fragile. A serious wound or a strike to a vital spot could leave them unable to fight!

"The corpses have risen!"

"General! All the corpses have risen! What do we do?!"

Some Patrol Soldiers noticed the strange change in the corpses and hurriedly dodged away!

But even more were knocked to the ground by the risen corpses and savagely bitten!

"Damn it!"

The general severed a Corpse Demon's head with a single slash and cursed, "Why did it have to happen now?!"