Everything was prepared, and Ink Painting was ready to handle hunting demons.

Of course, he still didn’t need to act personally.

Although he had already reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining, and the power of his fireball technique had also become much stronger, it was still a bit lacking to truly act against a first-grade late-stage demon beast.

At most, he could just supplement the killing blows and pick up the slack.

The demon hunters hunting and killing demon beasts didn’t lack his bit of spell power.

Yu Chengyi, Ink Mountain, and another six late-stage Qi Refining demon hunters formed a small team, bringing along Ink Painting. A group of nine people began to hunt a first-grade late-stage Red-Eyed Sheep Demon.

Yu Chengyi and Ink Mountain had hunted demons in the inner mountains for many years, and their experience was much richer than Ink Painting’s. The planning before hunting demons was also more thorough, basically everything had been considered.

Ink Painting only needed to listen from the side and learn carefully.

He learned the habits of demon beasts, the methods of hunting demons, and matters to note.

This demon hunt was the same as usual, but also somewhat different, because they needed to use the array drawn by Ink Painting.

Before, only mid-stage Qi Refining demon hunters used the seven-line Earth Fire Array to hunt first-grade mid-stage demon beasts.

Now Ink Painting could draw first-grade arrays, which were very powerful, sufficient to injure first-grade late-stage demon beasts. So late-stage Qi Refining demon hunters could also try to borrow the first-grade Earth Fire Array to hunt first-grade late-stage demon beasts.

Borrowing an array to hunt demons was both safe and efficient.

After everyone finished discussing, Yu Chengyi asked Ink Painting: “Is there anything else I need to note?”

The array was drawn by Ink Painting, so he needed to ask for Ink Painting’s opinion.

Ink Painting thought for a moment, feeling that everyone had considered it very thoroughly and he couldn’t think of anything to add. He then said:

“No problem.”

“Good.” Yu Chengyi nodded, “Then we’ll set out tomorrow and act according to the plan.”

The demon hunters spent the night at the inner mountain camp. The next day, as the sky just began to brighten, the mountain colors were hazy, and the grass and trees were covered in dew, everyone set out.

Yu Chengyi and several experienced demon hunters scouted the way in front, searching for clues of the Red-Eyed Sheep Demon.

Ink Mountain was also experienced, but Ink Painting’s safety was more important, so he could only follow by Ink Painting’s side.

Not long after, a demon hunter discovered the sheep demon’s hoof prints, remnants of meat after eating, and white sheep wool with blood.

Everyone’s spirits lifted, and they guarded with full concentration.

Yu Chengyi and several demon hunters released their divine sense and began to search for the sheep demon’s figure.

Before they could find it, Ink Painting had already taken out the map and marked the position for them:

“Behind the mountain path, there is a small stream here. It’s drinking water there.”

Yu Chengyi and the others looked at each other, secretly shocked in their hearts.

This distance was still much farther than the limit of their divine sense range.

Ink Painting’s divine sense was so much stronger than theirs?

Yu Chengyi leapt to the mountaintop, using the rocks for cover, looked down, and indeed saw the Red-Eyed Sheep Demon, which had finished eating and was drinking water by the stream.

Yu Chengyi didn’t make a sound, leapt down from the mountaintop, and said to everyone: “It’s drinking water. After drinking, it will probably return to the forest. We’ll take a detour and ambush it in front.”

The demon hunters nodded, then chose a path from the side to go around. They stopped at the necessary passage into the forest and began to set up traps.

Ink Painting took out an iron compass, on which a complex array was drawn.

Seeing it, Yu Chengyi couldn’t help but ask: “What is this compass used for?”

“I drew an Earth Fire Array on it,” Ink Painting said.

“What’s the difference between this and drawing on paper?” Yu Chengyi asked.

“Using paper as the array medium, the Earth Fire Array can only be used once. After it explodes, the array paper is destroyed, and the array is gone.”

Ink Painting continued to explain: “This compass was specially refined for me by Master Chen. It’s mixed with some refined iron inside, and used as the array medium, it will be much sturdier. Drawing the Earth Fire Array on it can be used many times.”

Yu Chengyi’s eyes brightened as he listened, “Are there any points to note about the method of use?”

“Just use it the same as before.”

Yu Chengyi nodded: “Good!”

Everyone set up the traps, placed the array compass, and then placed several spirit stones on the array. After that, they eliminated their traces, sprinkled blood and the juice of demon stench grass, and then withdrew to hide behind the mountain rocks.

Not long after, the Red-Eyed Sheep Demon appeared at the road entrance.

This sheep demon had abundant blood energy, and didn’t know what meat it had eaten. There was still a bloody smell at the corner of its mouth, and its vigilance was extremely high.

It stared at the trap for a long time, obviously tempted by the demon stench grass, but still tried hard to restrain itself, pacing back and forth in place, not moving forward.

After a while, the sheep demon actually retreated backward, gradually walking to a distant place.

Ink Painting was shocked and softly asked Ink Mountain: “Dad, is this demon beast so alert?”

“First-grade late-stage demon beasts have long lifespans, rich experience, and are also more cunning.”

“Then it ran, do we need to chase it?”

Ink Mountain shook his head, “We won’t chase, we’ll wait here.”

Ink Painting was slightly startled, then his eyes brightened, “It will come back?”

“Correct.” Ink Mountain also lowered his voice, his gaze fixed on the road entrance, “It’s also probing, it will come back soon.”

Sure enough, after a while, the Red-Eyed Sheep Demon came back.

If they had chased it just now, they would have been detected by the sheep demon, and the trap would have been wasted.

Ink Painting secretly sighed in his heart. In this inner mountain, even a demon beast was so scheming. It seemed he still had a lot to learn.

The Red-Eyep Sheep Demon also finally couldn’t endure the temptation of the demon stench grass. While looking around the surroundings, it walked towards the trap.

Demon beasts have demon sense, similar to cultivators’ divine sense, but the demon sense of general demon beasts is not strong and cannot be released externally to perceive things like cultivators.

Demon beasts generally perceive things through special vision, keen sense of smell and hearing, as well as sensitivity to breath and craving for blood.

The team were all old demon hunters with rich experience, and naturally knew how to restrain their breath so as not to be discovered by demon beasts.

So the Red-Eyed Sheep Demon looked around the surroundings, yet didn’t discover anything. At the same time, it finally walked into the trap and began to lower its head to lick the blood water on the ground, tasting the smelly flavor of the demon stench grass.

Yu Chengyi stood up, drew his bow, and shot an arrow. The arrow sliced through the air and out, carrying spiritual power, striking the spirit stone on the array.

The spirit stone turned into powder, the spiritual energy inside the spirit stone overflowed and seeped into the Earth Fire Array compass below.

The sheep demon just detected an anomaly, heard the sound of the arrow cutting through the air, and then wanted to escape, but it was already too late.

The trap tripped the sheep demon for a moment. After that, the fiery red array lines on the compass flashed, and the first-grade Earth Fire Array activated. The flame spiritual power exploded, and a deafening sound rang out.

As the aftermath of the explosion dispersed, the Red-Eyed Sheep Demon was indeed heavily injured.

For insurance, Ink Painting had placed three sets of first-grade Earth Fire Arrays. The three sets exploding together naturally had extraordinary power.

There was nothing more to say for the crowd of demon hunters. They rushed up directly, spread out, and surrounded the Red-Eyed Sheep Demon.

The eight people were divided into two circles. Four people in the inner circle killed the demon beast, and four people in the outer circle supported each other, preventing the demon beast from escaping.

After a period of time, the inner and outer circles exchanged, alternating in a wheel battle, slowly grinding to death the heavily injured demon beast.

Their purpose was clear, their actions decisive, their killing clean and neat, and their support thorough.

In less than half an hour, the heavily injured Red-Eyed Sheep Demon fell down.