A barren mountain forest stretched before them, devoid of vegetation. Nothing but rocky slopes and cliffs remained, as if bearing witness to the desolation of the place.
Daoist Hunyuan abruptly stopped and carefully surveyed the entire forest. There was nothing unusual about it, not even a trace of an array.
Xuanjiao gazed at the forest and said, "What a strange place. Where have we ended up?"
Yang Jian opened the vertical eye on his forehead and cast a beam of divine light across the area. The entire forest appeared perfectly ordinary.
"Master, is something wrong?" Yang Jian asked.
Daoist Hunyuan had only sensed something amiss in the forest's energy, but he had found nothing out of place. He shook his head.
They slowly made their way through the forest. Xuanjiao suddenly cried, "We must have entered some strange, dangerous place. We've ended up back here again!"
Yang Jian looked at the pile of rocks someone had arranged before them and realized they had looped around and returned to the same spot. Had they really entered a perilous place? One they could enter but never leave, where they could only wander in circles? What should they do? Yang Jian couldn't help growing anxious. He had to think of a solution. They couldn't just keep going nowhere. He fell into deep thought.
"Master, could this be a natural perilous place, with a Maze Array formed on its own? My Spiritual Sense hasn't been affected either," Xuanjiao said.
"The most ingenious Illusion Arrays aren't created by laying out an array," Daoist Hunyuan said. "Instead, they use the laws of Heaven and Earth to gather and blend with the entire world."
"Could this be the Illusion Law? And how can we detect it?" Xuanjiao asked.
Daoist Hunyuan shook his head. "There's no way. Worse