"Junior Sister?" Bai Ruoan exclaimed softly.
Why are scenes of Shen Sangruo appearing here?
"It seems that Junior Sister has escaped from this strange space." His eyes were filled with a gentle smile, revealing an undisguised sense of pride.
Seeing that Shen Sanruo had left safely, he breathed a sigh of relief.
But he still couldn't figure out the intention behind the image.
Furthermore, when he looked up, the lines of the array above his head were constantly flowing and intersecting. What was the purpose of this array?
The next moment, a voice that could be interpreted as male or female rang out.
He couldn't tell where the sound was coming from; the entire space was filled with that strange sound.
"I suppose you're already aware of your current situation." The voice had a half-smile.
Bai Ruoan's situation is that he is trapped in this formation, and this is his situation, as well as the situation of everyone else.
This voice must be the consciousness of this space.
"A bunch of ants, daring to break into the palace and try to destroy the formation we have carefully set up, ha, overestimating yourselves!" The voice carried a contempt etched into the bones.
"Now that you're all in my hands, do you really think you can get out of the palace?"
"Let me think about what to do with you... How about we play a game?"
Unable to decipher the meaning of the voice, Bai Ruoan calmly said, "Just say what you want to say. What is your purpose?"
"Then I won't waste time with your words and will get straight to the point: only one of you—you or the person in the picture—can leave the formation."
Upon hearing this, Bai Ruoan understood that everyone else besides him was going through the same choice.
The array above their heads was the one that would execute them.
"In other words, is it a trade of your lives for hers, or hers for yours?"
Bai Ruoan remained silent, but the voice seemed to see right through his thoughts.
The voices, seemingly debating between male and female, rang out again.
"Don't think I don't know what you're up to. You don't actually think she can just escape from my illusionary space and leave the palace without any problems, do you?"
“The entire palace is under my control. If I want, I can keep you all inside and easily take your lives. You will never be able to leave.”
The voice was incredibly confident, as if they had their lives in their own hands.
Bai Ruoan's expression finally changed slightly. He was a survivor of the great chaos back then and knew how varied and ingenious the methods of those evil cultivators were.
The things created by heretical practitioners cannot be so simple.
He believed the voice was telling the truth; besides this strange space, there must be other sinister things in the palace that were there to deal with them.
Outside the projection, Luo Chu frowned, her voice slightly panicked, "Could that voice be telling the truth? Are we really going to be stuck here?"
"Why are you panicking? These are all illusions I created. That voice was just to obey my orders and make those people make the most realistic choices, so naturally I had to put them in a desperate situation." Lu Shiqing remained calm.
Everything was under his control. "Let me see your true colors."
"How can a group of cowardly people deserve her sincere affection?"
Seeing Bai Ruoan's solemn expression, the illusory consciousness spoke with a pleasant voice:
"I'm only letting you go because you're nothing but ants who can't cause any trouble."
"After all, easily crushing a bunch of ants is no fun compared to making you kill each other."
"I'm only giving you one chance. Will she live, or will you live?"
"She's important to you, isn't she? But if she dies, all of you can live. Are you willing to risk so many lives for one person?"
"You cultivators pride yourselves on being from a prestigious and righteous sect, looking down on the ways of us heretical cultivators. But are you really as righteous as you claim? Tch, you're nothing but hypocrites who put on a righteous facade."
"Can you all remain faithful to her to the end, and are you all willing to give your lives for her? Or would you choose to let her die in order to save your own lives? I'm very curious about what choice you would make."
The illusory consciousness spoke with utter disdain, then its tone became increasingly seductive.
"She's your junior sister, and you can't bear to part with her, but aren't the others your senior brothers and sisters too? Ye Huai, Song Weiyan, Su Xiyu, can you bear to exchange their lives for hers alone?"
"She's just an outsider. You and the other three are the real fellow disciples. She's only been with you for a few years. She's not that important to you."
"If I were you, I would have chosen to sacrifice her to get you out of here. It's such a good deal, what are you still hesitating for?"
Feeling that it had sufficiently bewitched the mind, the illusory consciousness began to urge it on.
"You don't have much time to choose. If you don't choose now, I will kill her immediately!"
The scene in front of Bai Ruoan suddenly went black and then disappeared before his eyes.
This was clearly a warning from his illusory consciousness.
However, Bai Ruoan's expression remained unaffected. Not only did her previous seriousness disappear, but she even smiled.
He raised an eyebrow. "Isn't all this elaborate persuasion just to get us to give up on our junior sister?"
"I'm only doing this for your sake," the illusory consciousness said.
"I'm sorry, but we don't need you, a product of evil cultivation, to concern yourself with the affairs of our reputable sect." Bai Ruoan's voice was gentle, but her words were unusually sharp.
After he finished speaking, he clearly felt the killing intent in the air intensify.
"Although I don't think we're in such a desperate situation that we can only be manipulated by you, as a product of evil cultivation, I believe what you said before wasn't false. However, I have even more faith in our junior sister's abilities. She will definitely lead us away and successfully break the formation."
His tone was as certain as the voice from the illusion just now, even more so.
The illusory consciousness was shocked that Bai Ruoan would say such a thing, and felt insulted, and was immediately enraged.
"How dare you! You dare to disregard me? You're courting death!"
An overwhelming pressure was released, making it hard to breathe, yet Bai Ruoan's eyes still held a smile as she spoke softly, word by word:
"However, I am still willing to answer you seriously about my choice, or rather, our choice."
"If we were ever forced to choose between us and our junior sister to survive, we would choose our junior sister without hesitation."
"Whether it's now or in the future, my choice is the same as everyone else's. Do you understand?"
"Junior Sister is more than just Junior Sister; she is extremely important to each and every one of us, far more important than our own lives."
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