The Red-Haired Ancestor had two cave abodes in all.
The place where he first cultivated was Emerald Peak, facing Rotten Peach Mountain. The latter stretched for eight hundred li and was covered in peach trees. Year after year, the fruit ripened and fell, with no one to harvest it. It dissolved into the soil, and over countless millennia, the accumulation brewed into a deadly poisonous miasma.
Ling Xuehong had been poisoned here back then and nearly died. Bai Guyi exhausted his supply of medicinal pills, all to no avail.
Fortunately, the Red-Haired Ancestor had long coveted the peach blossom miasma and had prepared Thousand-Year Wild Ginger, a spiritual herb specifically able to counter its poison. He saved her, then later expended considerable effort collecting the miasma and refining it into a magic treasure.
Later, he established another cave abode on Heavenly Dog Cliff at Redwood Ridge.
The cave lay halfway up the mountain, with a stone terrace stretching three hundred li before it. Peaks stood scattered across the terrace, all thrusting abruptly from the ground, their bizarre shapes seeming to soar and dance. It was truly a wondrous sight in the mortal world.
To guard against Demon Corpse Gu Chen, the Red-Haired Ancestor had laid all three layers of his formations on the terrace. Old Man Withered Bamboo's Taiyi Azure Spirit Bamboo formation was also set up there.
Through heavenly demon sensation, the Nine-Child Mother Demon Head knew that formidable figures awaited them there. Going straight over would likely gain them nothing, so she pointed toward the distant Rotten Peach Mountain and Emerald Peak and told Lin Han and Shi Sheng, "We can't go directly to Redwood Ridge. Let's go over there instead."
Shi Sheng was puzzled. "Fellow Daoist Luo and the others are all at Redwood Ridge. We're supposed