When the other party heard my question, he suddenly became extremely resistant.
His eyes kept rolling back, and his body began to convulse violently, as if he were having an epileptic seizure.
When I saw that he still would not answer, I asked again,
"Are Murano Mita and Mitaka Kojiro still alive?"
But he still did not answer. His body kept trembling, as though he were about to snap out of his stupor.
Xiao Yu spoke to me as well.
"He's regaining his senses..."
Hearing that, I knew Xiao Yu could not keep him under control for much longer.
Killing someone was easy. Making someone's soul scatter was easy too.
But making someone completely obedient—especially a cultivator with a strong will—and forcing them to reveal what was in their mind was far too difficult.
The sea of consciousness was not something that could be controlled so easily.
I was getting anxious, so I asked a third time.
"Tell me. Murano Mita and Mitaka Kojiro. Are they still alive?"
This time, Xiao Yu suddenly increased the force of her mental control as well.
The man's trembling body gradually calmed down again.
His eyes were rolled back, and his body still shook, but he finally answered in a dull voice.
"Alive!"
The moment I heard those two words, my heart skipped a beat.
Sure enough, Suzuki Shuichi had not told the truth before. The intelligence he gave me had been half true and half false.
Out of the corner of my eye, I coldly glanced at Suzuki Shuichi, the corpse ghoul whose mouth was sealed by the Fish Bone Sword, and continued asking.
"Where are they?"
"I don't know!"
He answered in that same blank tone.
"What identities do they have now? How high is their cultivation?"
I continued questioning him, trying