"Who's there?!"
"Who are you?"
Light streamed from the Jade Wall, only making the darkness deep within the cavern seem all the more profound.
Qin Lingxiao looked grave as she warily surveyed her surroundings.
Yet she detected no movement whatsoever.
Everything remained as empty and still as before, the dripping water sounding all the clearer in the gloomy cavern.
But Qin Lingxiao would never believe that what she had just experienced was an illusion or a trick of her hearing.
That might happen to a mortal, but never to her.
Besides, although the voice had spoken the language of Wind-Approaching Continent, it carried a faint Zhongsheng Continent accent.
"Who exactly are you? Why not reveal your identity?"
Qin Lingxiao scanned the surrounding shadows and called out again.
"Me?"
"Heh, just an old fossil."
There was no telling where the voice came from as it echoed through the utterly deserted cavern.
It was impossible to tell whether the speaker was male or female, but there was a trace of self-mockery in the tone.
Hearing the voice, Qin Lingxiao instead quickly calmed down.
Composure bred stillness, and stillness bred wisdom.
Her thoughts turned as she continued surveying her surroundings and called out:
"You speak the language of Wind-Approaching Continent so fluently that your Zhongsheng Continent accent is almost impossible to hear, and you've deliberately spoken to me... surely you aren't simply bored? May I ask who exactly you are?"
The dripping in the cavern quietly quickened, but soon slowed again.
Then a sudden burst of laughter rang out from the depths of the cavern.
"Little girl, that's where you're wrong. I really am simply bored... otherwise, given my old grudge against your Wind-Approaching Continent, I should have wiped out your remnant soul the moment you fell out of the Yin-Yang Reversal Turbulence."