The few of them walked away with smiles. Liu Sanniang looked at them until she disappeared from sight.
She lowered her head and saw the black and wrinkled bark. As far as she could see, there were branches and trees.
She had become a tree!
Liu Sanniang knew that this was an illusion. The person she was looking for had already set up this illusion before her arrival. If she could not leave the illusion, she would not be able to see the person who opened the Yin Gate.
What about Chu Yan, Hu Yu, Liu Yuanyuan, and the others?
She became a big tree and could only see a village in the distance. At sunset, smoke began to rise from the chimneys in the village.
She had fallen into illusions a few times, each time with a different identity, but this time, she was Liu Sanniang. She just became a tree and could not move. She could only look at the village from afar.