"From what I learned earlier, the cultivator on the Second Level died before he could seal the monster.
"So you were the one who sealed it?
"But if you sealed the monster, how did you end up like this?"
As Green-Robed Soul addressed this question, a gloom he could not hide settled over his features. "It was precisely because I sealed that monster that I ended up like this."
Green-Robed Soul narrated everything that followed.
It was through his account that Su Jiu finally pieced together the entire chain of cause and effect.
As it turned out, Green-Robed Soul had also discovered by chance that a spirit vein lay behind Western Mountain. To help Medicine King Valley flourish, he had intended to bring all his disciples to the vicinity of that spirit vein.
Yet after searching the area, he had found no entrance other than the Ice-Melting Cave.
In life, Green-Robed Soul had been a Deity Transformation cultivator and naturally possessed his own exceptional talents. He had figured out almost all the nodes and mechanisms at first glance.
He had also seen straight through the false second level connected by the staircase. He was not particularly curious; without so much as giving its door a second glance, he had located the fissure leading to the Second Level.
The monster had attacked Green-Robed Soul when he entered the Second Level, too. But he had always been cautious, and naturally, it had failed to catch him off guard.
Green-Robed Soul recalled the sealing nodes on the first level. As luck would have it, he knew how to make them as well, though he needed a medium.
Thus, he had forcibly fashioned the surrounding spirit herbs into nodes and used them to seal the monster.
Just as Chu Luohen had said, the unusual