Fang Yuan snapped his fingers again.
Everything around them immediately shifted from stillness back into motion.
The merfolk couple continued onward, hand in hand.
Between the two people haggling in the shop, the spittle hanging in the air finally splashed onto the customer's face, yet the customer remained unaware.
The little dog's three paws landed on the ground. It smoothly flung the Blue Scale Merfolk beside it behind itself, then continued weaving through the forest of legs, incomparably nimble.
Xia Lin widened her eyes, staring at all of this in astonishment.
This was truly too marvelous!
"Master Chu's methods are truly powerful! This was probably a rank five time path killer move, wasn't it?"
Xia Lin guessed inwardly.
Thud.
The human Gu master whom Xia Lin had bumped askew fell to the ground, dragging down the person behind him as well and causing a small commotion.
"You're already so big, how do you even walk?" someone complained.
"Sorry, sorry." The brawny human Gu master was very polite and hurriedly apologized. This was, after all, the merfolk's sacred city, and the hostility within this blessed land was far lower than in the outside world of the five regions.
"I was walking perfectly well. How did I suddenly fall over? How strange." The human Gu master looked bewildered. He hurriedly got to his feet and followed the crowd away.
Xia Lin stuck out her tongue, gazing at the human Gu master's retreating back as she softly apologized.
Strangely, she also felt a small, mischievous delight in her heart. Just as she was about to reflect on herself for it, Fang Yuan suddenly grabbed her hand.
"Come with me!" Fang Yuan tugged her along, quickened his pace, and ran to the front of the lion dance troupe.
The entire lion dance troupe froze