Su Jiu turned to look around, then continued, "This is a fixed barrier, yet it isn't entirely fixed. From the outside, it probably never changes, but every time you enter, there are slight changes inside."
As she spoke, Su Jiu pointed at a patch of overturned turf. "There's no trace of life there, yet it's been disturbed. I have reasonable grounds to suspect this barrier only just 'arrived.'"
"And although you aren't a formation arts artist, you don't need to understand any of this. Even if this place constantly shifts, someone must have mapped everything out for you long ago.
"Someone told you guides the pattern behind these changes beforehand. All you need to do is master that pattern, and you can move through here easily without being formation arts artists."
The way A-San looked at Su Jiu changed. He hadn't expected her to work out so much in such a short time.
Li Ran, who rarely saw this side of Su Jiu, also widened his eyes. "She... she-has she always been like this?"
Qi Song smiled and nodded. "I told you ages ago that A Jiu is actually very capable. You just haven't spent enough time with her to realize it."
"Is she some kind of freak? How could she even think of that?"
"I'd watch my words if I were you," Qi Song whispered.
Li Ran felt a chill at the back of his neck. He couldn't help looking up, then sighed in relief when he saw that Su Jiu hadn't turned around. Had that been... his imagination?
At the time, Li Ran had no idea that Su Jiu carried a whole crowd of spirits, and the Snow Sprite had just been testing the distance to his neck...
Thoroughly won over by Su Jiu's reasoning, A-San spread his