"Who are you asking? How would I know? Who still remembers how long it's been? Anyway, I slept inside the pill furnace and connected it to the formation core. As soon as anyone touched the outer grand formation, it would immediately wake me up. Then I could bang on the inside and let you know there was a Grand Patriarch down here, couldn't I? Who knew you'd be so useless? Not only did you fail to open the door for me, you even blocked the formation core after I'd finally managed to loosen it. I clearly knocked out the secret signal for the Sect Master of the Fallen Sword Immortal Sect, but it sank like a stone into the sea. I was so angry I didn't even know what to say about you!" the Grand Patriarch said gloomily.
"Disciple thought it was just drumming at first... So it was a secret signal..." I wore an awkward expression. I'd thought it was some sort of Morse code or something, but in the end, I'd been so frightened that I simply ran away. That had kept the Grand Patriarch from getting out. Otherwise, he would have been showing off all over the world by now. Would he have needed to suffer so much?
But thinking back on it, after his Dao collapsed once, he had actually borrowed the vitality of the meridians and rebuilt himself. This Grand Patriarch was ruthless enough. I glanced at the pill furnace, then at him, and seemed to understand something.
"You brat, you've got some insight after all. You know that I was refined together with this pill furnace. Without it, though, I really wouldn't have been able to stop the collapse of my Dao, and I would have vanished completely. What a pity. I was released