Ye Huohuo never imagined that someone like Li Mohan would block a knife for her when it was aimed at her.
But now she saw it with her own eyes. Li Mohan stood between her and the shadow, his tall body shielding her from the light.
Ye Huohuo felt her head buzz. The shadow had been aimed at her chest. Li Mohan had blocked it for her, so he must have been hit in a vital spot.
If it were in the past, she wouldn't have worried about Li Mohan first. Instead, she would have used this opportunity to deal a devastating blow to Lihua, scattering her soul.
But at this moment, she lost her composure. Her mind, her heart, her eyes were all filled with the person in front of her, the one she had always wanted to protect the most.
And he… had come to save her…
Ye Huohuo's eyes instantly turned red. She released her hand seals, placing her hands on Li Mohan's shoulders. Before her eyes, everything was a blur of red. In her eyes, Li Mohan was severely injured and bleeding profusely.
"Dare to harm you! You deserve to die!"
These words were almost squeezed through her teeth.
Just at the last moment, she hadn't been able to break through the seal her master had placed on her. But at this moment, with red eyes, she disregarded everything and broke through the seal.
At this moment, her entire being erupted in golden light.
In an instant, she felt herself become lighter, floating upwards. But at the same time, everything in front of her seemed to slow down considerably.
She saw Lihua's fleeing figure at a glance. With a mere extension of her hand, the mass of dark energy was drawn into her palm. This feeling of power, this sense of superiority, was something she had never experienced before!
When she looked up again, she saw a person on the rooftop opposite. If it were from this distance, she should have only seen a silhouette. But now, she could see the other person with perfect clarity.
It was just that the person was completely covered in a large black robe, wearing a large black mask on their face and black goggles over their eyes.
The entire person was like they were encased in a black shroud, not an inch of skin revealed.
Ye Huohuo knew very well that this was a person, but they exuded waves of malevolent energy.
Was this the person controlling the shadows?!
Ye Huohuo was enraged. Her Li Mohan was injured by that person, and she would never forgive them.
As she thought this, her body floated towards the window. In the blink of an eye, she passed through the glass wall, floated outside the window, and drifted towards that person…
Li Mohan watched Ye Huohuo undergo this series of changes before his eyes. For the first time, the usually composed Li Mohan felt an unprecedented sense of fear welling up in his heart.
It wasn't fear of Ye Huohuo's current state, but rather looking at her like this, he suddenly felt as if he would lose her forever in the next second.
Just moments ago, when he saw the shadow lunge at Ye Huohuo, his body reacted faster than his brain, and he instinctively moved to shield her. He hadn't even had time to feel afraid. But now, this fear, seeping from his very bones, permeated his entire body.
"Ye Huohuo?..." He called out to her several times, but Ye Huohuo remained in a daze, unresponsive.
"Xiao Lingzi!..." Li Mohan shouted to Xiao Lingzi, who was still stunned nearby, "Quickly, come take a look. What's wrong with Ye Huohuo?"
Only then did Xiao Lingzi snap out of his daze. He hadn't paid attention to Ye Huohuo earlier; his focus had been entirely on the ball of dark energy that Lihua had transformed into. Just as it was about to vanish under the suppression of the lightning talisman, the talisman suddenly lost its luster and fell down like a piece of ordinary paper.
And the ball of dark energy, seizing this opportunity to escape, was unexpectedly absorbed by something.
While he was still in a stupor, he heard Li Mohan call him. He quickly looked at Ye Huohuo, his mouth, already agape, widening even further.
"True soul departure!" Xiao Lingzi exclaimed.
Li Mohan looked at Xiao Lingzi in surprise. "What does that mean? Is she alright?"
Xiao Lingzi walked up to Ye Huohuo, looking at her body radiating golden light and her vacant expression.
He raised his hand, his fingertips trembling. He touched Ye Huohuo's forehead, but as if electrocuted, he quickly withdrew his hand.
Shaking his head, "How is this possible? How old is she? How could she..." Xiao Lingzi muttered to himself.
Seeing his demeanor, Li Mohan suppressed the urge to punch him with all his might.
"Explain clearly!" he said through gritted teeth.
Xiao Lingzi blinked. "This is a Xuanmen technique that Xuanmen cultivators develop to a certain level, called True Soul Departure. It's usually used for places the physical body cannot enter, allowing one's true soul to temporarily leave the body to perform tasks.
However, this technique requires extremely high cultivation, at least decades of practice to achieve minor success. Moreover, it's incredibly dangerous to use. If one loses control even slightly, they might never be able to return to their body.
How could Ye Huohuo know this technique? Even if she started cultivating from the womb, she's only twenty years old. How could she have mastered it?"
Li Mohan wasn't concerned about how she had mastered it; his primary concern was whether Ye Huohuo was in danger. "What do you mean she might not be able to return? Is her life in danger?"
Xiao Lingzi finally realized that he had focused on the wrong point. The immediate concern wasn't how Ye Huohuo had mastered the technique, but how she would return.
"Of course, it's dangerous. If she can't return, she'll become a soulless husk, what we commonly call a vegetative state!"
As soon as Xiao Lingzi finished speaking, Li Mohan's eyes widened. "Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and get her back!"
Xiao Lingzi gave a wry smile. "I, I want to as well, but I need the ability! I, I don't know any soul-recalling techniques, let alone how to call back her true soul!"
"You..." Li Mohan looked at Ye Huohuo's soulless body, his brow furrowed into a knot.
"Mr. Li, look outside!"
A Cheng pointed towards the rooftop of another building not too far away. Due to his long-honed vigilance from years of life-and-death situations on the battlefield, he sensed something unusual on the opposite rooftop and looked in that direction. Indeed, he spotted something out of the ordinary.
There stood a man in black, gazing in their direction from the rooftop.
What happened next was even stranger. The man in black, who had initially just stood there watching them, suddenly appeared to be fighting with someone.
There was no one else around him, yet his combat seemed so real.
"Is that person crazy? What are they doing flailing their arms on the rooftop?" Xiao Lingzi also saw the person.
A Cheng suddenly thought of something and hurried to the storage room on the seventh floor. From it, he retrieved three binoculars.
He threw one to Li Mohan and one to Xiao Lingzi, keeping one for himself.
The three of them immediately placed the binoculars by the window and quickly adjusted the focus, looking towards the opposite building.
Xiao Lingzi was less familiar with this, adjusting as he went. He curiously asked A Cheng beside him, "Brother Cheng, does your company keep binoculars on every floor?"
A Cheng chuckled softly. "How could that be? These are our company's products. This is the sales department; it's normal to have a few samples."
He said it nonchalantly, but he wasn't the person in charge of sales at the company. His familiarity with the company's products suggested that his role wasn't just that of a driver and bodyguard.
Li Mohan didn't just treat him as a driver and bodyguard; he was deliberately cultivating him, hoping that one day he would be able to stand on his own and become a high-level executive in the company. That was the path for him to go far.
A Cheng naturally understood Li Mohan's good intentions, so he diligently learned about all the major and minor matters of the company.
Today, it had proven useful.
After looking at the opposite building, all three were greatly surprised.
From afar, they hadn't been able to see clearly and had assumed the man in black was standing alone on the rooftop, acting erratically. But now, with the aid of the binoculars, they could see the man in black's every move, even every stitch and thread, with perfect clarity.
What surprised them even more was that they saw Ye Huohuo over there…