Am I Pretty?

The quicksands were open and thus after Alex came out of the other side, he stood up and finally saw how long the width of the maze actually was. 

'That's almost 500 meters long,' he thought as he looked from left to right. 

Just as he was looking at the length, he saw a person accidentally hit one of the strings above the quicksand. 

TIRRRRING

Suddenly, mud from either side of him flew up and fell on top of him, dragging him to the surface. The man got stuck, but he was able to think quickly and started using some technique to pump out water from all around him, very soon the quicksand diluted into nothing but a mud lake around him and he started flying once more. 

Somewhere else, a disciple created a bridge made up of rocks and walked on top of it. Some other person made a bridge with vines and leaves. 

Yang Ma burned the quicksand until it was hard enough to walk.