"Old Monster Haha definitely hasn't gone to an Otherworld!" Shi Feiyang said with absolute certainty.
Deng Yin nodded slightly but said nothing.
Chishi Divine Monarch and Nine-Li Divine Lord were slightly less accomplished in cultivation. Their divinations had yielded a tangled skein of results, leaving them unable to make an accurate judgment.
Shi Feiyang continued, "He must have hidden inside a small grotto-heaven someone created, then disrupted the heavenly calculations to make it look as though he had fled to another world."
Chishi Divine Monarch and Nine-Li Divine Lord looked at Deng Yin. After a moment of focused thought, Deng Yin said, "But my hexagrams show that he exists in at least six worlds among the myriad heavens."
"That's an illusion he fabricated," Shi Feiyang said. "At the very least, his true body must still be in this world."
"You could count on your fingers the experts in this world capable of opening a grotto-heaven and establishing a separate world. Could he have sought refuge with someone? Iron City Mountain?" Chishi Divine Monarch looked at Deng Yin.
"Impossible!" Deng Yin said. "The ancestor of Iron City Mountain emerges from seclusion once every seven hundred and twenty years. At any other time, no one can find where Iron City Mountain is. No one can find it..."
He repeated himself, his voice trailing away.
Back when Elder Longbrow had been hunting him, he too had wanted to seek refuge at Iron City Mountain. Yet he could never find its entrance, and all his repeated kneeling pleas and prayers had been useless. Even when Red Flower Princess died beneath the Purple Ying Sword, that "father-in-law" of his had made no response.
Neither he, the son-in-law, nor Red Flower Princess, the daughter, could contact that old demon. They could not even find the route