Li Mazi told me that they had decided to take the stairs

, but later found that

 they could never 

reach the end

. He was flustered

, so he pulled 

Ru Xue to return to us. Although they saw the corridor right in front of them, the top of the stairs seemed to be even higher than 

the

 Himalayas. They tried

but couldn’t 

leave the place

. 

Fortunately, the phone call 

still went

 through. Ru Xue 

was

 so scared th

at she

 almost cried. 

“All right, calm down. I’m coming!” 

I hung up the call and 

said to

 Chuyi, “They 

probably

 encounter

ed

 a road-blocking ghost. We should hurry

—

” 

Before I could finish talking, Chuyi

, who was 

sitting next to me, suddenly 

moved backwards

. I turned aroun

d to look

. Yin Xinyue and Xiao Gao 

also moved

 far from me. 

The same thing happened 

to the tables, chairs, the bar counter, and the other customers. The place was empty

. It looked 

like the space around me

 had been 

stretch

ed

 endlessly in just 

the

 blink of an eye. 

While 

moving away,

 Chuyi screamed, “It’s illusion magic

!

 Bite your ton

—

” 

However, h

is voice faded 

until I could no longer hear it.

 At the same time, his body began to shrink until he was as big as a sesame seed. He disappeared shortly

 after that. 

I 

tried to bite

 the tip of my tongue. However, my tongue was like stone. I couldn’t bite it. I tried to talk

but couldn’t make a sound, either. 

Not good. It must be the drink 

I just

 had! 

I

f it 

was

 just a

n 

illusion, everything was fake. I turned and rushed in the

direction Chuyi

 went. However, t

he floor tiles underneath me moved backward. I had run for a long time

 but still didn’t see anyone. 

I was flustered

 and 

took out a 

Ksitigarbha

 Talisman

, palming it 

on my forehead. Unfortunately, 

this

 didn’t work, either. 

I gave up running

 and sat 

on the ground

, waiting to be

 rescued. Time moved 

very

 slowly

, and

I wasn’t sure if

 I had been here for a few hours

 or a

 few minutes. Anyway, 

besides

 feeling bored, I wasn’t tired. 

I had drunk a few glasses of wine

, so it would make sense

if I

 fe

lt

 tipsy

. However,

 I didn’t. 

I suddenly 

realized something

. This illusion stretched both space and time endlessly

,

affecting

 people’s 

brains

. I

’d

 heard that 

a

 strong magician 

could

 trap people for a few seconds, but 

those 

few seconds would feel 

like an

 eternity. People’s 

brains

 couldn’t endure this kind of 

stress

. In the end, the brain would be overloaded, which would make the

 victim

 enter 

a

 state of suspended animation. 

I didn’t know how long I had waited

; p

erhaps six or seven hours 

had passed

. Anyway, 

I started to panic when I thought 

that only a few seconds might have passed in the real world

. I might have to wait

 ten years 

to see

 Yin Xinyue, Chuyi, or Li Mazi again. I felt so down

 that I started to cry

. 

At this

 moment, a blue light flashed in 

the distance

. A sword was flying toward me. I was scared

 and prepared

 to run. However, 

t

he sword was like a missile that had locked me as its target. I couldn’t dodge it. 

Fortunately, I recognized it was Chuyi’s eight-face

d

 Han sword. I stopped

 and pulled 

myself together

.

The sword zoomed through the long space

 and 

precisely 

stabbed

 my glabella. After that short pain, the endless space created by 

the

 illusion shrank. The bar’s interior 

returned

 to my side. 

I saw Chuyi holding the sword

. It was touching 

my glabella. The effect of th

e 

illusion hadn’t ended yet

 as t

ime

 was

 still 

passing

slowly

. In my eyes, 

the whole scene

 was like a slow-motion video. Moreover, all I heard was 

a

 buzzing sound

. N

othing was distinctive enough to 

make sense

. 

When the tip of the sword left my face, time 

returned

 normal. 

Afterward

, Chuyi swiftly used his sword to 

stab

 Yin Xinyue’s glabella, while his other hand smashed a glass on the counter. 

He picked

 up a shard

 and 

scratched Xiao Gao’s glabella. Xiao Gao shrieked then fell 

to

 the ground. 

Yin Xinyue’s eyes 

returned to normal

. She cried

 and hugged 

me. “Brother Zhang, I thought I would never see you again! It

 was 

so scary! So scary!” 

Xiao Gao woke up

 and rolled 

on the ground

. He cried 

and 

called

 for his mother

,

 scar

ing

 the other customers in the bar. 

“Chuyi, how long 

were we

 trapped in the illusion?” 

“Not even one second

.

” 

“What? I thought I was there for at least ten hours!” cried Yin Xinyue. 

I turned to the bar counter. The bartender that had just served us was gone. I guessed he 

might be 

the fox spirit. 

He must have put something in our drinks. Except for Chuyi, who had drunk orange juice, the three of us 

were affected by

 the magic! 

T

he moment we were trapped 

in the

 illusion, Chuyi used his fastest speed to 

deal with

 the magic 

cast

 on us. If he had been a few seconds slower, we would have been trapped there for a few days or even a few years. It was terrifying! 

However, I knew 

that there was no time to waste

. We left the bar quickly

. 

We 

then saw Li Mazi and Ru Xue hugging each other

. They were 

crying on the stairs. 

Chuyi wiped 

the

 sword tip with his sleeves and rushed to them. His

 strength

 and skills were that of a real master

. T

he touch of his s

word

 was 

like a

dragonfly

 surfing on t

he 

water. The tip touched the

ir glabellas

 and left immediately. The

 duo was saved

 from the illusion. 

Li Mazi cried

 and blamed 

u

s.

 “What took you so long?! Do you know how long we 

were

 trapped here? I almost 

became crazy

!” 

I caught 

the

 glimpse of a figure wearing white clothes 

in

 the corner of the corridor

. The figure flashed for a moment then disappeared. 

I didn’t have time to listen to Li Maz

i

. I took out the Sirius Whip

 and chased 

after th

e

 figure. 

As soon as I 

moved

, Chuyi quickly followed me. When we reached the corner, the white-clothed figure dashed faster

 and entered 

the elevator 

on the

 other end of the corridor. Then, 

the figure

 turned to see us. 

It was a fox spirit in the shape of a teenager. 

The figure

 had a pair of triang

ular

 ears and a red, fluffy tail 

that wagged

 behind 

it

. 

This teenager looked prett

y

 similar to the fox spirit we 

saw

 yesterday. But this one 

was

 a little girl! 

There 

are

 two fox spirits? 

The white-clothed 

teenage

 girl gave us a mocking smile. 

Right

 before the elevator closed, Chuyi took out a Ghost Sealing Pouch. He held one end of the rope and threw the pouch away. 

The Ghost Sealing Pouch released a black mist in midair, 

which entered

 the elevator. The mist then turned into a bloody

 and 

burly figure with white eyes. 

The little girl 

felt

 threatened. Her mouth 

became

 long and pointy

, and s

he showed her sharp fangs. 

Then, she

 roared and started to fight 

with

 that muscular figure. 

When we reached the elevator, it had already 

started to move down

. The 

elevator next to us

 was 

on the

 first floor. 

As w

e didn’t have time to waste, 

we

took 

the stairs. 

This hotel had twenty floors. As we rushed downstairs, I

 was almost out of 

breath. When we reached the lobby 

on the

 first floor, my clothes were damp with sweat. I had to plant my hand on the wall to support my body 

as I gasped

 for breath.

“

It’s not too late

!” Chuyi sprinted past me. I was surprised that h

is face

 didn’t change color. He 

wasn’t sweating, either. 

This man looked slender and 

delicate

, but his physique was unexpectedly tough.

I thought to myself,

I 

have to

work out more

. 

The elevator 

was still on the

 third floor. We had 

surpassed

it

by running. It turned out that t

h

ose

 chasing 

scenes 

in movies 

weren’t

 that 

exaggerated.  

We carefully watched the elevator. When the doors opened, the walls inside were dyed

 red

 with ghost blood. 

I guessed the

 muscular figure had been torn into piece

s

. No matter what, he was just a soul

. H

is power wasn’t as strong as a monster with a profound cultivation base. 

However,

 the little girl was gone. I then noticed that the vent on the elevator ceiling 

had been

 pushed aside.

Did she escape from there? 

As

 I was thinking, a piece of paper stained with blood 

blew

 out of the elevator

. It flew past

 us.

It was a closed elevator, so where did the wind come from? It was unnatural.

I raised my foot and stamped on it. 

“Ouch!” 

The sheet of paper transformed into a little girl. I had stepped on her fluffy, big tail

.