After the array hub is drawn, it needs to serve as the central hub. The textures in the array hub need to extend outwards to every corner of the great array, connecting into thousands upon thousands of single arrays.

These single arrays are all of the Five Elements class, ranging from the lowest rank Six Paths array patterns to the highest rank Nine Patterns.

The number of array methods is too numerous. Even with Ink Painting’s array methods painting speed, it would be impossible to paint so many arrays within two months relying on one person’s strength.

Therefore, other array masters must help.

Ink Painting is the main array master. His tasks are, first, the overall design and planning of the single arrays: which class of array to use in which place, how many sets are needed, and how they will be controlled by the array hub.

Another task is the compatibility inspection of the single arrays. Some array layouts may look fine, but during actual spiritual power operation, they are prone to mutual conflict.

When encountering this situation, the main array master needs to adjust and modify.

Ink Painting handed the overall planning array diagram to Master Luo, asking him to help assign tasks to specific array masters.

Ink Painting is young. If he issued orders directly, the array masters below might not be convinced. Even if they didn’t say anything, they would definitely not feel good inside.

And Master Luo is a genuine First Grade array master with prestige, so it is best to hand this matter over to him.

The things Ink Painting himself needs to do are, first, filling in the single arrays, checking the compatibility of the single arrays, and debugging the spiritual power circulation of the single arrays with the array hub.

Another matter is the derivation calculation of the array hub.

The array hub of the great array is extremely complex. He must seize the time to thoroughly calculate its derivation.

This way, if an accident happens and the First Grade Five Elements Demon Slaying Great Array cannot suppress and seal Xi, he can still try to use the great array’s collapse to resolve and extinguish the great demon, ensuring there are absolutely no future troubles.

This is a bottom-line method that cannot be used unless absolutely necessary, but it must be prepared beforehand.

Slaying a demon with a great array is not a matter of one person; it concerns the entire Tongxian City, even the entire Black Mountain state boundary, and the stability of the next few hundred or even thousand years.

So, the consideration must be thorough.

Thus, Ink Painting spent his days painting arrays, checking the arrays painted by other array masters, and debugging and modifying the entire great array based on the compatibility of the arrays and the flow of array power.

In the evenings, when others rested, he would sink his divine sense into his sea of consciousness, borrow the Dao Stele, and derive and calculate the spiritual power trajectory of the array hub of the Five Elements Demon Slaying Great Array.

As he calculated the array hub’s derivation, his understanding of the great array also became clearer and clearer, and debugging the great array during the day also became much easier.

Master Luo has also been busy painting arrays these past few days.

The great array contains a vast number of single arrays, and time is urgent, so he must also spare no effort to complete the planned array tasks on time.

And when he finishes painting the arrays, Ink Painting would routinely “check” them once.

Every time this happened, Master Luo would become especially nervous.

In a trance, he seemed to recall the time when he first learned arrays, when he was still an array apprentice, finishing his array homework and waiting for his teacher’s review—that kind of unease and apprehension.

Ink Painting was just like that teacher, and he himself had turned around and become an apprentice again, waiting for Ink Painting to review his homework.

Ink Painting’s “review” was very fast.

If he looked through it from beginning to end in one go, it meant the arrays were painted without problems, and Master Luo’s heart would slightly sigh in relief.

If Ink Painting paused somewhere for a bit, Master Luo’s heart would tighten.

And if Ink Painting looked and looked and suddenly frowned, then Master Luo’s heart would instantly tremble, and his palms would even break out in a cold sweat.

Even though he repeatedly warned himself in his heart:

He was already a First Grade array master, no longer that apprentice from years ago.

And even if Ink Painting painted arrays very well, he was after all just a young array master in his teens, and he had not yet passed the Dao Court’s official grading. He did not need to be nervous, let alone apprehensive…

But his heart still involuntarily felt a little worried, afraid that Ink Painting could really pick out his mistake.

If other array masters picked out a mistake, he would disdain it.

Because other array masters were not like him, even if they picked out a mistake, it wasn’t necessarily that he was wrong.

But Ink Painting was different. If he picked out a mistake, then without exception, it was definitely that he himself was truly wrong…

Master Luo sighed, unable to help but lament in his heart:

“Everyone is a First Grade array master, how is the gap so big…”

Before meeting Ink Painting, he always thought that First Grade array masters were all pretty similar; even if their levels differed, they wouldn’t differ by much.

Now he knew that the level of array masters, on the surface, looked like all being in the same pool of water.

But some people were in a pool of water, while others were in seawater—unfathomably deep and immeasurable seawater.

Master Luo’s evaluation of Ink Painting became higher.

But he faintly felt that something was still not right, as if he had still misjudged something.

Thus, he began to secretly observe Ink Painting.

Ink Painting would also move his brush to paint arrays. Some single arrays were painted by Ink Painting personally.

Just like an apprentice, he held the brush with his small hand and painted them out, yet his brushwork was rigorous, and the arrays he painted were exquisite, showing the skill of a master.

Moreover, Ink Painting painted extremely fast, his brush strokes like flowing clouds and water, and his lines like dragons and snakes.

Those lines seemed to have run out from under Ink Painting’s brush themselves, having their own order and forming patterns on their own.

Master Luo watched with endless sighs.

This kind of realm was absolutely impossible to reach without massive practice of arrays.

But it shouldn’t be…

Ink Painting was so young. Even if he used up all his sleeping time, it would be impossible to practice so proficiently.

Master Luo was puzzled and continued to observe Ink Painting.

Subsequently, he discovered a shocking fact:

All the control of the great array was done by Ink Painting alone, and the compatibility of all the single arrays was grasped by him alone.

Even when there was an error on the array hub, it was Ink Painting who personally smeared and rewrote to modify it.

Thinking of the graffiti-like traces on the array hub before, Master Luo suddenly realized:

No high person had substituted Ink Painting in writing; this entire array hub was painted by Ink Painting himself, and all the arrays of this great array were controlled by him alone!

Master Luo looked at the young Ink Painting with flushed lips and white teeth, and a chill rushed straight to his scalp.

What kind of little demon freak was this, who could actually rely on one person’s strength to control the construction of a First Grade great array!

Master Luo stood dumbfounded on the spot, his face showing unbelievable shock.

This was a true, bona fide, thirteen-year-old main array master!

He had been completely wrong in his previous assessment, and all his guesses were wrong…

With this kind of unbelievable array level, what need was there to plate anything with gold?

At this moment, in Master Luo’s eyes, Ink Painting’s entire body was made of pure gold and emitted a dazzling golden light…

This was a genuine First Grade great array master!

Master Luo’s heart was stirred by stormy waves.

From then on, Master Luo’s attitude towards Ink Painting became more humble. Even when speaking to Ink Painting, he would slightly bow his body.

Ink Painting found this very strange and still thought Master Luo was tired and confused…

And Master Luo also became more attentive to the construction of the great array.

Some old array masters were old and cunning, not attentive when painting arrays and repeatedly making mistakes. Before Ink Painting could say anything, Master Luo would first scold them severely.

This surprised the other array masters.

Master Luo was usually not like this. He always had a polite attitude, adapted to circumstances, and even when angry, he would not lose his composure and scold people.

Now he was like a different person.

Master Luo, however, knew that Ink Painting was really capable of building a great array!

And in this great array, there were arrays he had painted.

He not only wanted to witness his participation in the construction of the great array but also wanted to witness the birth of Ink Painting, this thirteen-year-old main array master!

This was perhaps the most glorious merit in his life as an array master.

Not only for him, but for all the array masters on the scene, this was a lifetime honor.

Seeing Master Luo being so serious and earnest, the other array masters also corrected their mindset one after another and invested their whole hearts in the construction of the great array.

With the concerted efforts of the cultivators, the construction of the great array advanced little by little in the midst of busyness, tediousness, and fatigue.

Despite Yang Commander leading Dao soldiers to repeatedly harass and delay the progress of refining Xi, the blood qi gathered on Great Black Mountain still gradually thickened.

At the same time, the outline of the great array also gradually appeared and was implemented step by step at the site of the old Black Mountain stronghold.

The shape was outer round and inner square, in accordance with the concept of a round sky and a square earth.

Inside, there were countless gullies and paths, and layers upon layers of arrays formed a dense array maze.

The entire great array was grand yet carried a stern killing intent.

All the cultivators who participated in the construction felt awe in their hearts, and their expressions had an instant of trance:

They were truly building a great array, and perhaps, they could really… build a great array!

After another dozens of days and nights of hard construction.

Countless cultivators sweated profusely, to be able to add bricks and tiles, and finally preliminarily built the great array.

After the preliminary construction, only the array inspection remained.

Ink Painting checked all the arrays again and initially passed spiritual power to test the effect of the spiritual power operation in the arrays. Then, with Master Luo, he carefully checked for several days, eliminating many hidden dangers in the arrays…

After doing these, Ink Painting lightly nodded.

His nod also meant that the great array could operate without problems.

All the cultivators standing behind Ink Painting felt a heavy stone fall to the ground in their hearts and sighed in relief one after another, as if a heavy burden had been lifted.

Finally, the great array was built!

In the Dao Calendar, twenty thousand and twenty-five years, on the twenty-third day of October.

Using the manpower and materials of the entire Tongxian City, and spending two months and five days.

In the deep mountains of Great Black Mountain, the First Grade Five Elements Demon Slaying Great Array was officially completed!