This was not the first time the statue had spoken this way. At the beginning, the statue had already said that as long as Qin Fengming dared to listen, it would tell him about the events of that year.
Now that it had spoken this way again, Qin Fengming's mind suddenly roared.
The statue's repeated words clearly had not been uttered without reason, nor was it deceiving him with lies.
Qin Fengming, who had been stunned on the spot in an instant, began thinking rapidly, trying to find the crux of the matter.
Seeing the instantaneous change in Qin Fengming's expression, the towering statue laughed again. "Hahahaha, junior, you are merely a so-called Profound Tier cultivator from the Spirit Realm. How could you know this old man's methods? From the moment you entered this altar, you had already become entangled with this old man in cause and effect.
"If you had left afterward and not gone to break the stone tower's restriction, disturbing and awakening the soul within the statue, you could naturally have avoided becoming entangled with this old man in cause and effect. But not only did you take out the statue and awaken the sleeping soul within it, you also fought this old man's soul and ultimately captured the source of that soul. Your cause-and-effect connection with this old man had thus truly been forged.
"However, those causes and effects were still insufficient to drag you deeply into this matter, because this old man had first wanted to end this karmic entanglement with you. But from the moment you began listening to this old man's words, they had already begun to be deeply etched into your mind.
"To escape this cause and effect now, even if you were to discard this old man's soul source at this