The Spirit Binding Rope would make the spiritual energy within a bound cultivator sluggish, rendering them unable to cast spells. It was perfectly suited for the two of them now that their spiritual energy was depleted.
But Long Aotian could not be killed. More than one kind of power lay within him, and he was on the same path as Bai Ling. Whenever they faced a life-threatening crisis, the Elderly Grandfather within him would exhaust every ounce of strength to preserve his life.
So even if Bai Lan used the Spirit Binding Rope to hang the two of them here, someone would still appear out of the blue to save them.
Thus, in order to add a little surprise to Long Aotian's rescue, Bai Lan had deliberately hung the two of them above that frigid pool.
According to Bai Lan's prediction, the moment the Spirit Binding Rope was undone, the two of them would fall straight into the water.
That was merely the first surprise.
If Long Aotian successfully fell into the frigid pool as Bai Lan had predicted, he would first experience bone-piercing cold. Once the shock jolted his mind awake, he would sense an intense fluctuation of spiritual energy in the water.
A well-known fact in the cultivation world: wherever there were spiritual energy fluctuations within a secret realm, there was either danger or a fortuitous opportunity.
Once Long Aotian sensed that spiritual energy fluctuation at the bottom of the pool, he would surely grow suspicious and conclude that there had to be some secret beneath the water.
Naturally, Bai Lan had deliberately left behind that spiritual energy fluctuation in order to lure Long Aotian into discovering the secret and entering the stone chamber beneath the frigid pool.
After all, in the original plot, Long Aotian had accidentally