Another two months passed, and a second transcender woke after Lin Li.
It was not Shi Ge Mu. She would almost certainly be the last to wake.
"You!" Lin Li exclaimed in surprise. It was Night Fang.
Night Fang seemed transformed in body and spirit. He looked around as though waking from a dream, and it took him a long while to grasp what had happened.
"It was all an illusion?" Night Fang muttered.
Lin Li hurriedly explained everything. When he finished, Night Fang said with relief, "I knew it. I refused to believe our teacher would harm us! Thank goodness... Thank goodness..."
He seemed to have shed everything that had weighed on him and been given a second life. He had even grown a little sentimental.
He appeared to have suffered terribly in the illusion. Looking down at the Three-Dimensional World and seeing everything as it had been, he let out a soft breath.
Before long, several more groups woke.
None of Heaven's Chosen lagged far behind the others. Once they began to change their hearts, they tended to do so around the same time.
Suddenly, people were waking one after another. Lan Jue and Yu Kong Shan emerged close together, followed by Ku Ying.
Nearly eighty percent of them woke in this wave! Once they learned the truth, they all wore the same expression of overwhelming relief.
The worlds shaped by their deepest fears had been truly unbearable. Only someone who had endured that ordeal and then regained what they thought they had lost could understand the feeling.
"Lin Li, when did you wake?" Lan Jue asked curiously.
Lin Li had explained matters to everyone as they emerged. A few questions were enough to establish that he had been the first.
Lin Li tilted his head. "About three