The Red-Haired Ancestor and Old Man Withered Bamboo had barely left Redwood Ridge, one after the other, when Lin Han and Shi Sheng arrived.
Relying on their invisibility arts, the two reached the stone plateau before Heavenly Dog Cliff. It was a vast platform three hundred li long, covered with stone forests and peaks tens or even hundreds of zhang high.
They reached the entrance and gazed at the strange peaks crowding within, wreathed in drifting mist. They knew this was an exceptionally formidable Malevolent Formation.
Shi Sheng held the Two-World Tablet. "According to the Demon Mother, the Red-Haired Ancestor has already gone to Emerald Peak. Let's meet speed with speed and charge straight in. We have the Two-World Tablet, after all. Even if we get trapped, we can escape."
"Don't be reckless!" Lin Han said. "The Red-Haired Ancestor is a senior with centuries of cultivation behind him. How could we underestimate his methods? We should find a way to draw one of his people out, then sneak in invisibly behind them."
Shi Sheng nodded. "That's a good plan, but how do we lure someone out?"
"One of us will act openly, the other in secret. You're skilled at earth escape, so I'll call at the entrance and draw their attention. Then you can slip in behind them."
Their plan settled, Shi Sheng twisted his body and used the Nine-Heavens Primordial Yang Concealment Escape, vanishing into thin air.
Lin Han flew to the entrance, gathered the full strength of his dantian, and suddenly unleashed a long, ringing cry.
His voice rang clear as a dragon's roar. Rather than letting it scatter freely, he concentrated it into a single stream and sent it straight into the stone formation. The sound waves reverberated and reflected through the three-hundred-li stone forest, and in