After his last-ditch attack failed, Loki decided to give up. So Simon was able to escape without further interruptions.
Simon's heart was in turmoil as he escaped. He couldn't believe what had happened.
What he just experienced made him scream inwardly, "There has to be a conspiracy here. They knew I was coming, and they chose to use Loki as bait for me."
He doesn't believe that the person he just fought was Loki. The power that Loki displayed was just too powerful for him to be a new rank 2 cultivator without a status. So Simon was sure that someone else had taken Loki's place and had been lying in wait for him to come.
Not only that, but Simon was also sure that he had been attacked by two people. This was because he had felt the mental attack.
Since the person wielding the sword was a physical warrior, the person who attacked him with the mental attack had to be another Mind Hunter who was hiding somewhere nearby.
