The cave's layout was a tangled maze, and it covered a considerable area, so even Su Jiu and Yun Huanling had failed to find the exit right away.
Although they had not found the exit, they had made an unexpected discovery.
This cave was extremely strange. Only after walking some distance did Su Jiu realize that its chambers were arranged in an orderly pattern.
Yun Huanling had been immersed in all manner of strange gates and hidden armor, the five elements and eight trigrams since childhood, so he was naturally very sensitive to arrangements like this.
Almost simultaneously, the two stopped and exchanged a glance, each recognizing the significance in the other's eyes.
"Now I really am curious. Just where were we transported?"
Su Jiu lowered her eyes slightly, her cool voice flowing out slowly. "We should be in the underground waterways beneath Windforest Star River."
Yun Huanling froze. "But this is clearly a cave... besides, since when did Windforest Star River have underground waterways?"
Yun Huanling did not doubt Su Jiu's words. He was simply puzzled and found them difficult to believe.
Su Jiu tilted her head slightly. "Didn't you notice the sounds around you when you woke up?"
Recalling the surroundings his secondary personality had been in, Yun Huanling abruptly raised his head. "The sound of water?"
Su Jiu nodded.
"If it was water, couldn't it have been a waterfall rather than an underground waterway?"
"It was different," Su Jiu said. "The sound was different, the feeling was different. In short, everything was different."
"How certain are you that we're underground?"
"Completely."
Yun Huanling fell silent for several breaths. Although he could not quite get to the bottom of it, her absolute certainty was enough to make him stop asking.
Then he changed the subject. "Do you have