In Jade Embroidery Valley.
The vines that had surged up to the surface withdrew into the Underground Palace, each carrying its spoils, whether people or horses.
Deep trenches and enormous fissures scarred the ground everywhere, as though a magnitude-ten earthquake had just struck, leaving devastation as far as the eye could see.
Cao Jinxing first combined the [Tiger Wing Formation] with the [Wind-Raising Formation] and [Snake-Coiling Formation].
The [Tiger Wing Formation] belonged to the Four Wonders and had the nature of fire. Within the Eight Formations, it occupied the "right army" position, directly beside the [Wind-Raising Formation] in the southeast.
Wind could fan fire, making it a good match for the two existing formations.
Cao Jinxing had originally intended to break out of Jade Embroidery Valley and send word asking his eldest brother to invite the nearest Faxiang expert out to help surround and kill Xu Qingwei.
But Luo Lie's appearance had forced him to prepare a backup plan.
With two thousand lives held hostage, Huang Fangling might have no choice but to help. In that case, before the other Faxiang experts arrived, Xu Qingwei would probably have already shed his Taisui body, transplanted himself into the severed limb of an even stronger Alien Beast, and vanished without a trace.
If he succeeded...
Then the lives of Huang Fangling, Lu Jiaming, and the others... would hang on a single thought of his!
More than three hundred years had passed. What Xu Qingwei had become, and whether he would spare them or kill them, remained unknown.
He could not gamble on that!
*Judging by the effect of the gunpowder earlier, the Taisui still fears fire. Xu Qingwei was so generous about giving Luo Lie the Tiger Wing Formation probably because he could no longer use it himself. That gives me another