The Human Race's Demon Hunting Squads were officially established.
Each squad had five to ten members, with at least one Golden Immortal leading the team. The other members had no cultivation requirements, but they had to be proficient in Combined Attack Formations, trap placement, and poison use.
These were all survival lessons the Human Race had distilled from its long years of oppression.
On the day the first Demon Hunting Squad set out, the Suiren Clan personally saw them off.
"Remember, we are after demons with Heavy Karmic Debt, not indiscriminate slaughter of the innocent."
The captain was a young woman with delicate features, but her gaze was sharp as a blade.
"Rest assured, Clan Leader. We know the difference."
The Suiren Clan nodded.
"Go."
The Demon Hunting Squad vanished into the glow of the Teleportation Array.
Three days later, news came back.
Their first battle had been a resounding victory.
A Bear Demon that had slaughtered three Human Race villages during the Disaster of the Ten Suns had been found by the Demon Hunting Squad.
The Bear Demon had hidden in a remote mountain forest in Nanzhan Buzhou, setting up more than ten layers of Restrictions and raising a group of Lesser Demons as lookouts.
The Demon Hunting Squad spent two full days mapping every Restriction and learning the lookouts' shift patterns before launching a surprise attack on a stormy night.
Traps came first. A trapping formation sealed off every escape route, poisonous mist blocked his vision, and the Combined Attack Formation divided the battlefield.
Before the Bear Demon could react, he had already been struck seventeen times.
Every strike avoided vital points, but every strike carried deadly poison.
The Bear Demon's demonic power rapidly drained away. His body grew heavier and heavier, and his vision increasingly blurred.
He