"It's just a short way from here to White Bell City. Everyone will be together. I don't think there will be any problems. Yes, we can do this," Grand Elder Liu Shanzi said. "Anyways, even if we did choose a different way, it wouldn't work. There's only a single path down the mountain from here to White Bell City. Only after we reach White Bell City can we go off on our own."
"There is only one path?" Lu Sheng asked; he didn't expect that.
Liu Shanzi thought for a moment, and then responded, "Right. To be precise, there is only one way that is close, the others all require a long detour."
"Teacher, you decide," Lu Sheng said after thinking for a moment.
In any case, if this many people were to walk together, then there probably wouldn't be any accidents. The inconvenience would come in the second part of the journey—after reaching White Bell City, they'd have to switch routes.
1 li = 0.5 km, or about 0.3125 miles (1650 ft, or about 4 and a half football fields, end zone to end zone. 60 yard line on the 5th, to be exact)