"To think you were an Inner Sect disciple of the Sacred Sect! How rude of me. This fellow and I were short on spirit stones and had to sleep out in the wilderness. We had no choice but to resort to this."
"Please forgive us."
Seeing this, Lin Ke stopped the Dream-Eating Gecko again.
At the same time, the burly man at the Golden Core Late Stage rolled his eyes back and was actually brought under the control of the Gu Insect inside Feng Jinyan.
Even more surprisingly, control over that burly man also appeared within Lin Ke's Divine Sense!
These Shu River spies probably sought to strengthen their sect's forces; the Gu Insects inside them were mostly Gu Generals.
The Gu Insects inside the man and the old man, however, were only Gu Soldiers, so Feng Jinyan could control them whenever he wished.
Moreover, within his Divine Sense, Lin Ke could clearly feel the intense fear the Gu Insect inside the burly man held toward Feng Jinyan.
Merely curious, Lin Ke allowed the Gu General inside Feng Jinyan to vent its fury.
The next instant, the burly man let out a scream.
The Gu General inside him actually exploded, and all the meridians in the burly man's body vanished along with it.
Blood seeped from his seven orifices. Almost a moment later, for some unknown reason, his body burst apart, killing him.
At the sight of that gruesome scene, Lin Ke could not help turning his gaze slightly aside.
Even with his decisive, ruthless disposition and insistence on leaving no future threats alive, he felt a slight physical nausea.
He finally understood why the old man, despite being a Nascent Soul expert, treated a Golden Core Late Stage junior like Feng Jinyan with such respect.
Within the Illusionless Gu