“Prostrate yourself beside me and don’t say a word. Close your eyes and cover them with your hands as tightly as you can.”
The boy's heartbeat raced at full throttle when his forehead touched the warm floor. Abject fear gripped his mind.
“I warn you not to move an eyelid. Close your eyes as tightly as you can.”
Suddenly, a burst of light of such intensity occurred that the boy saw the outline of his hand bones covering his eyes.
“So, Hú Li, you have returned at the appointed hour,” a deep bass voice bellowed a split second later.
The words balefully echoed off the cavern walls.
“Yes, I have returned as you instructed, My Lord and Master.”
A waft of divinely scented air with an aroma of lotus blossoms coming from the direction of the voice passed over them.
“That’s a rhetorical stat
