After searching all around Flaming Mountain, Adam still could not find any route that was both hidden and guaranteed to be traveled by the Person of Destiny.
This place was unlike Little Western Heaven or Pan Si Ridge. Yellow Browed Monster and the Spider Demon had merely occupied their territories; they could not—or perhaps did not wish to—completely control them.
Yellow Browed Monster could not have bypassed Maitreya's protection to find the melon patch, and the Spider Demon, who lacked much ambition, would not have thoroughly investigated the place where the Beetle Immortal Qin resided.
But Flaming Mountain was different. With Eastern Heaven's covert support, the highly ambitious Red Boy had even connected with the underworld's ghost soldiers.
With the ghost soldiers, Bull Demon King's lesser demons, and the forces Red Boy had recruited on a large scale, the eight hundred li of Flaming Mountain were not completely impregnable, but there was also nowhere entirely beyond Red Boy's control.
Nor was this place like Black Wind Mountain or Yellow Wind Ridge, with past events anchored by obsessions... Huh?
Adam's gaze paused, and he blinked.
Ahem. He seemed to have been hasty and made the mistake of relying on experience.
The resentments at Black Wind Mountain and Yellow Wind Ridge involved treasures left behind for the Person of Destiny to use against demon kings. Little Western Heaven was the core of those arrangements, while Pan Si Ridge resembled Black Wind Mountain and Yellow Wind Ridge, using obsessions to connect to Purple Cloud Mountain.
Thus, Adam had assumed that the obsession arrangement at Flaming Mountain would be connected to the Palm-leaf Fan, which countered Red Boy and Flaming Mountain—in other words, to Princess Iron Fan.
He had visited Green Cloud Mountain already. It was abandoned. He had also inspected Emerald Cloud Palace,