Raise a sword!

This demon-hunting team recruited members on the black market and seemed rather furtive.

But when they actually arrived in the mountains, Jiang Peng immediately noticed that everyone seemed completely at ease, as if they were in their own water.

The person leading the way, Jiang Peng wondered how he managed to find his way in this densely vegetated mountain forest. Along the way, she had seen him remove the marks he had left in the forest several times.

The others on guard around the area were no ordinary people either. In less than an hour since they set off, Jiang Peng had already avoided three troubles with the group.

Besides divine sense, these people clearly have other methods of investigation, but Jiang Peng's eyesight is not yet able to see through them.

Old Liu, the leader of the demon-hunting team, seems to be a cold-faced but warm-hearted person.

Although his tone was not gentle, and had a rather condescending air about him, he was very meticulous when it came to giving instructions, as if he was afraid that something might happen to Jiang Peng.

"This is a demon-attracting incense. Use it as bait. No first-tier demon beast can resist its allure."

Old Liu handed a stick of incense to Jiang Peng, and then added with concern, "But that ape demon is clever, and the effect of this incense may not last long. So if things get desperate, you can throw this incense far away, which may give you a chance to escape."

"Understood." Jiang Peng took the demon-attracting incense and carefully put it away.

Another half hour passed as they traveled through the forest.

The person leading the way suddenly raised one hand and stopped in his tracks.

He turned to look at Old Liu and nodded slightly, saying, "If we're going to set up an array, we should do it here. Getting any closer might alert the ape demon."

Old Liu responded and took out an array plate and six array flags from his storage bag.

Jiang Peng watched curiously from the side.

He had seen the array flags before. When he was trapped in the Yin Sha Cave by Old Demon Dan, Old Demon Dan used the array flags to set up a simple array that suppressed him so that he could not move.

The formation set up by Dan Laomo was based on Yin Sha Qi. If Jiang Peng hadn't had the Purple Gold Cauldron to neutralize Yin Sha Qi, she would probably have become a zombie puppet by Dan Laomo's side by now.

At this moment, the formation that Lao Liu was about to set up was clearly a step further than simple array flags.

This was the first time Jiang Peng had ever seen such a formation plate.

This is a magical artifact exclusive to array masters, containing the changes of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.

When a formation master wants to set up a formation temporarily, they can use the formation plate as the core of the formation to be set up, and set up the formation on the spot.

Even such a temporary formation is quite powerful due to the presence of the formation plate.

"Is this the confidence that allows these people, none of whom are at the late-stage Qi Refining level, to dare to hunt down late-stage first-tier demonic beasts?" Jiang Peng observed curiously from the side.

In less than fifteen minutes, the members of the demon-hunting team had completed the formation.

At first glance, nothing could be discerned, but the six array flags had already been hidden in their respective positions, and the members of the demon-hunting team had all used their own methods, either climbing trees or burrowing underground, and disappeared one by one.

Only Old Liu remained, holding the array plate as the core. He hadn't hidden it yet, but instead looked at Jiang Peng.

He pointed to a direction in the dense forest and said, "Go in this direction, there is a stream ahead. Follow the stream for about a hundred feet, and you will see a huge rock... There is a cave on the side of the rock, and the ape demon is inside."

Jiang Peng memorized his words and then asked, "Is it enough to lure the ape demon here?"

"That's right, the rest is up to us brothers." Old Liu nodded.

Jiang Peng turned around and walked in the direction Lao Liu pointed. There was a slight noise behind him. He glanced back and saw that Lao Liu had also hidden himself. The small clearing in the forest was now completely clear of any trace of outsiders.

This monster-hunting team is indeed very professional.

Jiang Peng continued forward, breaking through several meters of thick bushes and vines, until a clear view suddenly appeared before her.

Sure enough, a small stream could be seen not far to the side, but the stream was almost dry.

"No wonder I couldn't hear the water even though it was so close."

Jiang Peng walked along the stream, and soon the boulder that Old Liu had mentioned came into view.

At first glance, the boulder was at least seven or eight zhang tall. It must have been part of a nearby mountain peak, broken off from the mountain over the years and fallen here.

On the side of the boulder is a fairly regular stone cave, which is obviously deliberately carved out.

"This doesn't look like a monster's cave, so this must be someone else's cave. Did that white ape take over?" Jiang Peng wondered.

At this moment, he was less than five zhang away from the cave entrance, and he could smell a mixture of fishy and fragrant odors with every breath.

Jiang Peng could understand the fishy smell; monsters don't like cleanliness, so it would be strange if the cave smelled good.

However, the fragrance cannot be explained.

The faint fragrance that Jiang Peng smelled was extremely faint. If he weren't an alchemist with a natural sensitivity to spiritual materials, he might not have been able to detect the abnormality hidden beneath the fishy stench.

However, now is not the time to explore this matter.

Jiang Peng lit the demon-attracting incense in her hand as flames rose from her fingertips.

Upon reaching the cave entrance, he could faintly hear the echo of heavy breathing coming from inside.

Just as Jiang Peng stepped into the cave, a whooshing sound suddenly rang out.

Swah——

Jiang Peng quickly turned to the side and saw a leg bone of some unknown monster spinning past where he had just been, crashing heavily into a large tree outside the cave that would take two people to encircle.

"roar!!!"

A sharp, piercing roar rang out, and a burly figure nearly ten feet tall quickly appeared in Jiang Peng's line of sight.

Jiang Peng was stunned for a moment, clearly not expecting that a first-order demon beast could have such an exaggerated size.

In that moment of distraction, Jiang Peng's gaze met the white ape's scarlet eyes.

"run!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Jiang Peng turned around and fled in the direction she had come from.

A sudden earthquake shook the ground behind me.

In her haste, she glanced back and saw that the giant white ape had already left the cave, its beastly eyes fixed on the demon-attracting incense in Jiang Peng's hand, before it strode after her.

The white ape instantly displayed a speed completely disproportionate to its massive size.

At first, Jiang Peng tried to control her pace as she left, afraid that the white ape wouldn't be able to catch up.

But in that fleeting moment of glimpse, the distance between the human and the demon, less than ten feet, was instantly reduced to less than three feet by the white ape's leap.

Swah——

The sound of wind breaking through the air again.

However, this time Jiang Peng was already on guard, and her divine sense had already locked onto the person behind her, so she immediately took a step to the side.

The next moment, a rock the size of a human head crashed heavily onto the ground.

Pebbles flew everywhere, some landing on Jiang Peng and causing him pain.

"What incredible strength!" Jiang Peng thought in surprise.