He studied the footprints carefully, determining the man's tracks.
The man seemed to have walked from the Fairy Lady's room, noticed something midway down the hallway, retraced his steps, and then disappeared again.
Because he left using another staircase, he didn't encounter Lu Baoshen.
"Let's go take a look ahead," Lu Mingzhe said to Lu Baoshen, his curiosity piqued by the sight of this man wandering shoeless through the Fairy Lady's Daoist Mansion in the middle of the night.
If it were the Fairy Lady here, it would make sense, but this mysteriously appeared man...
Where did he come from?
And why are there wet marks?
Where did the water come from?
Lu Baoshen advanced and quickly arrived at the Fairy Lady's room. He looked at her door, then at the block of ice near the door that hadn't completely melted, and exclaimed in surprise, "This is..."