However, long after Qin Fengming had spoken, not the slightest ripple had appeared on the pool below.
"It looks like if I don't make a move, you won't show yourselves." Qin Fengming spoke again. Yet he still did not attack; only the trembling of the pool grew stronger.
This time, the pool finally changed. A mass of bubbles suddenly surged up, followed by a wave of motion rising from the bottom. Then two figures leaped out of the water.
"Senior, please show mercy. This junior and his granddaughter pay our respects to you. Whatever orders you have, this junior would never dare disobey." The moment the two figures—one large and one small—appeared, they immediately knelt and bowed.
They were an old man and a girl of only eleven or twelve. The old man's cultivation was not weak; he was a late-stage Ghost Master. The girl had delicate, rosy features and a handsome, adorable face, yet she had already reached Foundation Establishment. Her aptitude was clearly extraordinary.
"Such a huge city, and you're telling me only the two of you escaped death?" Seeing no one else appear, Qin Fengming slightly furrowed his brows.
"Reporting to Senior, the city was breached by the army of Yin souls, and all the restrictions within it were destroyed. There was nowhere to hide at all. The reason the two of us survived was that there was a spring in the pool that had been arranged as a hiding place. However, it could only hold one person. It was only because my granddaughter and I are both small enough to squeeze inside that we survived."
The old man did not rise. He pressed his forehead to the ground and explained in detail.
"Get up, and tell me properly what happened." Qin Fengming waved his hand, and