Instinctively, she started to take a step, but Cui Jiuyang held her firmly back.
"Don't move, Senior Sister!" Cui Jiuyang said. "If you take that step inside this Grand Formation, it might take three days to find you!"
Li Mingyue glanced at Cui Jiuyang. "Is it that serious? It's only one step."
Cui Jiuyang chuckled without arguing further.
He flicked his fingers, sending a Talisman-Paper Little People flying from his fingertips onto the ground.
Then he casually commanded the Talisman-Paper Little People to take a step forward.
Strangely enough, the Talisman-Paper Little People clearly took only a single step.
Yet the instant its foot touched the ground, its entire body vanished like a drop merging into water, leaving not a trace.
Li Mingyue's eyes widened in surprise. She immediately extended her divine sense to investigate, but could detect no trace of the Talisman-Paper Little People.
Nor did she sense the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy from the formation, as though nothing had happened.
Only then did Cui Jiuyang explain, "This formation is called One Inch, a Thousand Miles. As its name suggests, even if you move just an inch inside it, the formation can turn that step into an enormous distance. On top of that, it distorts your divine sense and deliberately confuses your sense of direction. Without some genuine skill, if you simply charge about and rely on luck, you probably wouldn't find the right way out even after two hundred years."
As he spoke, Cui Jiuyang formed hand seals, continuously using the Heart Talisman technique to draw the route through the formation to the summit in midair.
Golden lines floated in the air, intertwining and extending, crisscrossing into an incredibly complicated network of paths.
As Cui Jiuyang continued his calculations, the lines grew ever more complex, dazzling the