The Martial Saint Started from Scavenging

Ye Sheng stood up, walked over, and asked, "Eighth Master, what's the matter?"

"Tomorrow morning when we enter the canyon, you and your brother should go first."

Hu Ba patted Ye Sheng on the shoulder, leaving a handprint on his tattered clothes with his greasy hand, and continued with a forced smile, "You guys are slow, so if you walk in front, we can protect you if anything happens."

Upon hearing this, Ye Sheng sneered inwardly: They're probably afraid we'll escape! They're trying to trap us like turtles in a jar.

But he pretended to be nonchalant and nodded in agreement, "Okay, I'll follow Eighth Master's arrangements."

A glint of light flashed in Hu Ba's eyes. He smiled with satisfaction, tossed Ye Sheng a beast's leg, and then turned to continue drinking and eating meat with his companions.

Ye Sheng took the beast leg and returned to Ye Kai's side, whispering, "Brother, don't sleep too soundly tonight, we have something to do."

Ye Kai nodded vigorously.

As night deepened, the campfire in the camp gradually died down, leaving only a few dark red embers.

Hu Ba and his companions were drunk and sprawled out on the animal skin blanket, snoring loudly.

Ye Sheng leaned against the rock wall, his eyes closed as if he were dozing. He was highly focused, using his talent for scavenging to sense the atmosphere around him.

Just after midnight, Ye Sheng slowly opened his eyes, his eyes showing no sign of sleepiness, only a cold killing intent.

He glanced at Hu Ba and the others, and seeing that they were all fast asleep, he gently nudged Ye Kai beside him.

"Brother, wake up, we should go."

"Brother, where are we going?" Ye Kai rubbed his eyes and asked in a low voice.

"Prepare a wonderful, unexpected gift for them."

After saying that, Ye Sheng's lips curled into a cold smile.

It's no wonder that Hu Ba and his men were careless and didn't arrange for anyone to keep watch. They thought that in this desolate wilderness, the Ye brothers hadn't discovered their plot yet, so they let their guard down.

Besides, as soon as the Ye brothers enter the canyon tomorrow morning, they will be surrounded and killed by the experts of the Blood Pact Merchant Guild, and then the bounty will be in their hands.

Ye Sheng and Ye Kai did not head towards the canyon, but instead circled around to the back of the camp and quietly climbed up a small hill nearby.

Standing on the hillside, you can overlook the entire canyon entrance and campsite.

Ye Sheng took out the "swamp iron essence" and the animal hide book "Burning Blood Blade Technique".

"Brother, what are you doing?" Ye Kai asked in a low voice.

"Hunting," Ye Sheng uttered coldly.

Upon hearing this, Ye Kai looked puzzled and quite confused.

Ye Sheng further explained, "I'm going to set up a trap in this area! Hu Ba is trying to drive us into the canyon so that the Blood Pact Merchant Guild's assassins can ambush us. I'll turn the tables on them and make this place their burial ground! They think they're the hunters, but they don't realize they're about to become the prey."

Hearing this, Ye Kai finally understood his brother's thoughts.

Ye Sheng held the hard ridge of swamp iron essence in his hand and quickly sketched on the ground. Referring to a page of the animal skin book in his hand, his fingertips moved swiftly, and in no time, a simple array was formed.

It turned out that not long ago, while practicing his sword in the cave, Ye Sheng discovered through the feedback from the skill panel that there were several pages of hidden marks hidden in the animal hide book "Burning Blood Sword Technique" in his hand.

After careful study, he realized that the hidden marks were actually some kind of array diagram. It was this discovery that gave him the courage to agree to travel with Hu Ba and the others the day before yesterday.

During the two days of rest, Ye Sheng took advantage of Hu Ba and the others' inattention and gleaned some insights from the simplified array diagram.

What he was carving was a simple magic array called "Energy Gathering Array," which could gather free energy in the air into a single point and unleash it instantly.

After the formation was completed, Ye Sheng carefully sprinkled all the "Rotting Bone Flower" powder on his body, as well as several kinds of special medicinal powders that could strongly attract demonic beasts that he had "borrowed" from Hu Ba and others, onto the center of the formation.

He then rushed to the surrounding hillsides and, taking advantage of the terrain, used his newly learned trap-making skills to quickly set up more than ten interconnected traps.

For example, Ye Sheng used all the skills he had learned from Hu Ba in the past two days, such as trapping, tripping ropes, and piercing traps.

"Brother, is that all?"

Ye Kai was somewhat worried. He found it hard to believe that, facing so many formidable enemies, a simple formation and a few traps could be used to trap and kill them all.

Ye Sheng smiled slightly, raised his head, looked at the bottomless dark canyon in the distance, and said in an icy tone, "Tomorrow morning, this will be their grave."

The next morning, just as dawn was breaking.

At the entrance to the One Line Sky Canyon, a thin layer of morning mist shrouded the area, making the surrounding cliffs appear even more secluded and precipitous.

Hu Ba rubbed his head, which was throbbing from a hangover, and stood up from the animal skin blanket, cursing under his breath.

"Damn, this alcohol really has a strong aftereffect. It's been a whole night, and my head still hurts."

As he spoke, he subconsciously glanced at the corner where the Ye brothers had stayed the previous night, but it was empty except for a pile of ashes from a long-extinguished campfire.

"Huh? Where did everyone go?"

He frowned, walked over, and poked at the ashes with his foot. They were still warm, indicating that the person had just left.

"Mynah, those two boys are gone!"

Another hunter, who had just woken up, also noticed the anomaly and ran over, shouting.

Hu Ba's face immediately darkened.

They ran away? Impossible. This desolate wilderness is teeming with high-level demonic beasts; where could they possibly escape to? Besides, judging from their behavior last night, they were completely unaware of my plot.

Hu Ba walked quickly to the entrance of the canyon, squatted down and carefully examined the marks on the ground.

Soon, he found two sets of messy footprints of varying depths on the narrow path leading to the canyon.

"Hmph, two fools who don't know what's good for them." Hu Ba looked at the footprints and sneered, "Did they really think they could escape? Since you two went into the canyon first, it saves me a lot of trouble."

He thought the Ye brothers were trying to sneak into the canyon before dawn and take a shortcut to escape.

"No more waiting, brothers, get up! Let's go into the valley now!"

Hu Ba shouted loudly to his men, "The big shots of the Blood Pact Merchant Guild are probably getting impatient. Don't keep them waiting and getting annoyed."

"Yes, myna!"

The hunters quickly packed their things, their faces filled with greedy excitement, and followed Hu Ba into the narrow passage that resembled the mouth of a giant beast.

However, they were completely unaware that on the hillside not far above them, two pairs of eyes were watching their every move through the gaps in the grass.

"Brother, they've gone in." Ye Kai lowered his voice, his small face full of tension.

"Hmm." Ye Sheng nodded, slowly stood up from the bushes, and said coldly, "We should get going too."

"Shouldn't we...shouldn't we wait here?" Ye Kai asked, puzzled.

"wait?"

Ye Sheng shook his head, a murderous intent surging in his eyes, a cold smile playing on his lips, and said in a deep voice, "The killing trap has been set up. As hunters, we should also set up the final trap."

After saying that, he and Ye Kai did not go down the mountain, but instead went around to the other side of the hillside and entered an extremely hidden cliff path.

Ye Sheng discovered this path last night. It also leads into the One Line Sky Canyon, but perfectly avoids the ambush at the main entrance.