She had just felt a stirring in her heart. Raising her head to gaze at the somewhat blood-red sky, she seemed to see Nán Chǔ coughing up blood.
Ah, it seemed the outside world was still far too dangerous.
There was the Red Lotus, which could tempt her into making wishes at any moment; the temperamental, sometimes working, sometimes failing Golden Finger; and the constant danger of dropping dead at a moment's notice.
The northern journey of the four people and one cat thus came to an abrupt halt on the fifth day.
She hadn't expected that while they had spent over a month inside the Illusion Realm, only five days had actually passed in the outside world.
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