Outside of Heavenly Gate Pass, three thousand miles to the north.
There is a river called Red Water River, the water an ominous dark red, its bed studded with many red stones, and inhabited by water Demons.
By the lakeshore stands a mountain, at the foot of which there is a solitary thatched hut, where an idle old man often sits, a Demon of the Three Immortal Realms who calls himself the Red God.
The Red God commands the Demons within a thousand miles; this Red Water River is his ancestral ground, originally a Red Blood Python in the river, which, after swallowing the sun and moon for three hundred years, transformed into a flood dragon and then hunted for food everywhere, eventually reaching the Three Immortal Realms.
But now, the Red God in front of that thatched hut was kneeling on the ground, quivering.