At those words, Duan Chen and Duan Yannian immediately grew excited.
Lin Ke's continued absence had kept them trembling with fear. After all, neither knew what he would do to them next.
Now that Lin Ke was willing to speak, there was naturally a chance for things to turn around.
Duan Chen hurried forward first, dropping to one knee as he looked around. "Fellow cultivator, fellow cultivator! I'm willing to explain!"
"I'm willing to explain everything. Please withdraw your methods!"
He could not endure it. He truly could not endure it.
Lin Ke's mental assaults had driven him to the brink of collapse. All he wanted now was an early end to this hellish existence.
As long as Lin Ke was willing to withdraw his methods, he would do anything.
Seeing this, Duan Yannian abandoned all concern for appearances and hastily begged Lin Ke for mercy as well. "Fellow cultivator, I know too!"
While Duan Chen and Duan Yannian were shrouded in a firestorm within the illusion, busy begging for mercy, Lin Ke saw an entirely different scene.
Inside the dim Hidden Space, he and Wu Dao sat cross-legged on a boulder. Many corpses lay scattered across the ground before them.
On either side of them were the Insect Formation formed by the Dry Ant swarm and the Dream-Eating Gecko, whose eyes were closed as it employed its mental abilities.
They formed a semicircle around the corpses, enclosing them in the middle.
In front of those corpses, the Jade Commandery Princess, Duan Chen, and Duan Yannian lay on the ground with their brows tightly furrowed.
Judging by their appearance, they still had some life in them and had merely fallen unconscious.
As for the firestorm they saw, there was no sign of it here.
In fact, the firestorm the Jade