The group continued on their journey, drawing ever closer to the small hill in the center of the Zi You Valley.
Along the way, Liu Mang found five or six Spirit-imbued Stones, which made Ruan Shengnan and Li Dapang green with envy.
As they were walking, Liu Mang felt that something wasn't quite right.
Even though they were heading towards the center of the Zi You Valley, for some unknown reason, after half an hour, they didn't seem to have gotten any closer; it was as if they were walking in circles, getting further away with each loop.
Liu Mang stopped in his tracks, and Ruan Shengnan also realized that something was amiss, "Why does it feel like we are moving away instead?"
Sister Lin said, "Perhaps what our eyes see is not real at all, but an illusion."
"An illusion?" Liu Mang looked all around him, the more he looked, the stranger it seemed; Sister Lin might have a point, "Maybe we really are being deceived by something."
