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"": "Luo Bin rewound his memories of walking out of this place.
He rewound his memories of first climbing the mountain, up to the point before he reached the place where he had slain the snake.
He focused entirely on the trees beside the path, the pebbles on the ground, and the plants.
This was far from his first time making such comparisons.
Outside Cabinet Mountain's fourth Resting Place, he and Luo Feng had nearly become trapped in a looping detour. They had used this very method to find an anchor point and escape along another route.
Did they need to take another route out this time, too?
Not only had Luo Bin found the spot where something had gone wrong with the path, but he had also thought of a "solution."
He stopped rewinding and pointed out the exact location to Zhang Yunxi, explaining his idea as well.
"Have you considered what might happen if we leave the correct path beneath our feet and take one of the paths beside it?"
"I think the dangers on the right path are limited, after all. The real danger probably comes once we stray."
"So we absolutely must not stray." Zhang Yunxi's tone was resolute.
Luo Bin fell silent. Zhang Yunxi had a point.
"How did you get from Cabinet Mountain to Floating Tortoise Mountain?" Zhang Yunxi asked.
"A talisman path," Luo Bin answered.
"Exactly. The problem must lie in the feng shui. And feng shui isn't limited to arranging layouts. Talismans are another form of feng shui. Talismans can serve as paths, too."
"Would the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds normally kill people in the Outer Field, point them down the wrong path there, and then set certain-death traps along the way?"
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