Ronan had no intention of saving Old Elers, but the information leaking out while the man's consciousness drifted between waking and unconsciousness was extremely valuable:
So Old Elers knew about his own problem and had asked Luo Yuan for help?
With such a self-righteous tone... he had most likely invested in him as well. That was Old Elers's specialty, after all.
Since he had asked Luo Yuan to "save" him, the person who had reduced Old Elers to this state was most likely not Luo Yuan.
Still, wasn't Luo Yuan's specialty cloning? How had he earned Old Elers's trust in the Mental Domain and in the application of faith power?
And one more slightly bolder guess: Old Elers would rather choose Luo Yuan than seek out others with deeper ties of interest... such as Li Wei. Perhaps that "Turtle Hermit" had played a part in his disastrous failure.
In an instant, Ronan formed countless layers of speculation, while the Mirror of Appraisal's Separation of the distorted faith power and delusional thoughts never ceased.
The black fire burning outside the fantasy monster's body was not enough to threaten him. Rather, the fragments of rational thought brought forth by the stimulation made it easier for Ronan to locate Old Elers's obscured true consciousness.
Before long, the Mirror of Appraisal truly stripped away the layered outer "tumors." Beneath the savage glare of bloodshot eyeballs that had nearly—or perhaps already—burst, Ronan found a shadow that still seemed to retain some human shape deep within the murky darkness.
Yet it resembled an insect on the verge of being roasted dry, curled up and moaning. At times, it was even torn apart and absorbed into the fantasy monster's layered "tumors," continuously churned and split apart, before finally seeping out again and barely gathering itself back into