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They had indeed been traveling west all this way. Chen Zui did not like using his brain, but he was not so hopeless that he could not even tell basic directions apart.

"No, quite the opposite. We have been heading north this entire time—more precisely, northeast."

Human perception, especially the eyes, was the easiest thing to deceive. Wen Xu had remained silent along the way, but that did not mean he had noticed nothing. Whether Senior Sister Xiang He had truly led them astray or had been fooled herself, following her had always been the right choice.

"Northeast? That is impossible!" Xiang He pointed at the moon, which was about to slip behind the clouds on the horizon. "In the latter half of the night, with the moon hanging in that part of the sky, we should be traveling west... Something is wrong. Why is the moon moving so quickly?!"

Even Chen Zui noticed it now. "Could the townspeople have been lying to us?"

"No. Perhaps they do not know themselves. Little Tree Village is far too bizarre to them. Ordinary people can barely protect themselves; why would they rush headlong toward death?"

The wind in the forest was exceedingly faint. Unless one deliberately sensed it, even cultivators would not immediately Guan the changes in the wind. But Wen Xu had been blessed by heaven. Ever since he began pretending to be blind, he had trained the wind into his second pair of eyes—at times, it was even more useful than his real eyes.

"So, I am guessing..." Wen Xu turned toward his senior sister. "The reason you and Chunchou were able to enter Little Tree Village so smoothly was probably because they were waiting by a tree stump for rabbits. But now that the rabbit is in hand, they