Li Mohan looked at Ye Huohuo. He didn't know what was happening with his hands. He had been unconscious and didn't know they had been frozen. Everything was fragmented for him; he only saw the final result and knew nothing of what had happened.
"How did you get out? Was the Big Dipper formation broken? What happened? Can any of you tell me?" Li Mohan asked, his face stern, his voice low and filled with undisguised anger.
"Mr. Li, this is what happened..." Ah Cheng, who hadn't had a chance to speak, took half a step forward, clutching the wounds he had sustained in the formation.
In truth, the souls within the formation hadn't inflicted real wounds on him and his five subordinates. They were merely ordinary wandering spirits, at most capable of scaring people. Their injuries were inflicted by assassins hiding in the shadows.
Within the Big Dipper formation, the assassins had the advantage of timing, location, and human connection, making Ah Cheng and his men extremely passive. They could see people rushing towards them, but there was nothing there. Just when they let down their guard, a knife would thrust out from nowhere.
Otherwise, Ah Cheng wouldn't have been so severely injured.
Li Mohan only then noticed Ah Cheng's injuries. "How did you get so badly hurt?" he asked, walking over to Ah Cheng and looking at him with a frown. "Was that formation that dangerous? How did you get out? I only remember a monster suddenly appearing, and then I don't remember anything else."
Ah Cheng glanced at Ye Huohuo, who nodded at him. He then briefly recounted what had happened to Li Mohan, including their encounter with the frozen figures on the hillside after they escaped.
Finally, Ah Cheng asked, "Mr. Li, did you really freeze us just now?"
Li Mohan's expression turned strange as he listened to Ah Cheng's narration, his eyes flickering as he seemed lost in thought.
Fang Fang watched them from the side like she was watching a play. "Put on a show, keep acting. Mr. Li, you're good at managing a company, but you're also a master at acting. You don't know you have ice-freezing powers? How is that possible? But what kind of ability is this?"
Li Mohan remained silent, completely ignoring Fang Fang as if she didn't exist. He quietly looked at Ye Huohuo.
"Is what Ah Cheng said true? I just..."
"Li Mohan, in certain specific situations, people can unleash supernatural powers that science can't explain. What just happened, I think it was your desperate desire to save people that triggered your superpower. It's not something you normally possess," Ye Huohuo interrupted Li Mohan, her words coming out a little too fast, sounding almost anxious.
Not only Li Mohan and Fang Fang noticed something amiss, but even the honest Ah Cheng sensed Ye Huohuo's unusual behavior.
"Ye Huohuo, are you playing games with me again? I thought of you as a friend, someone I've been through thick and thin with, and yet you're being secretive with me. Do you think I'm an idiot? What superpower? This kid must have a problem. He can freeze people but not harm a single blade of grass or tree. This is..." Fang Fang, unable to get anything from Ye Huohuo, decided to think for herself.
"Could he be..." Fang Fang suddenly seemed to remember something, her eyes widening. She stared intently at Li Mohan as if trying to see through him. "You, you're not...?" She then turned to Ye Huohuo. "He doesn't possess the Extreme Cold Soul, does he!"
After saying this, Fang Fang mumbled to herself, "It only freezes people's souls. As for plants and trees, they have no souls, so they are unaffected. That's right, it's the Extreme Cold Soul. I met someone with the Extreme Cold Soul a hundred years ago. He was the most powerful person in the Xuanmen back then. I never expected that after so many years, I would... meet an old acquaintance!"
Fang Fang took two steps back and carefully examined Li Mohan from head to toe again. "It's so similar. Why didn't I notice it before? You actually are..."
Ye Huohuo hadn't expected Fang Fang to say that. She was also moved. Judging by Fang Fang's words, it seemed she had encountered someone with the Extreme Cold Soul like Li Mohan a century ago. The Extreme Cold Soul is essentially a soul, but it possesses powers ordinary souls do not. Souls can be reincarnated. Did Fang Fang meet Li Mohan's past life? She mentioned that person was a master in the Xuanmen at the time. Combined with Li Mohan's fate in this life, it seemed his extraordinary luck was likely due to great merit accumulated in his previous life.
With these thoughts, Ye Huohuo became curious about Li Mohan's past life. In this life, he was like a giant iceberg; was his past life also like that?
"Fang Fang, you met his past life? What was he like?" Ye Huohuo suddenly entered gossip mode, her eyes sparkling with little stars of excitement. Kuaishu Pavilion.
Fang Fang glanced at her. "Want to know?"
Ye Huohuo nodded vigorously.
"Are you from the Xuanmen? Don't you understand the rules? 'Do not ask about the road taken or the destination reached; only observe the present life and the present deeds.' If I tell you who he was in his past life and what he was like, wouldn't that be leaking heavenly secrets? I would be struck by lightning. You don't want me to be well, do you?" Fang Fang gave her another white look and said irritably.
"My past life?" Li Mohan, unusually, focused his attention on Fang Fang. "You've seen my past life?" Before meeting Ye Huohuo, Li Mohan didn't believe in ghosts. But now, he believed that people had past lives. This captivating woman claimed to have seen his past life? He, too, became curious about his previous existence.
"Alas, considering you spared me in your past life, I'll spare you in this one. I don't want your essence anymore," Fang Fang raised an eyebrow, turned away from them, and looked at the seven small houses on the hillside instead.
"I say, Ye Huohuo, now doesn't seem like the time to be dwelling on Li Mohan's past and present lives. Look below. Although the formation is broken, we still haven't found Lihua's body. And the corpse you brought out of the formation just now, didn't you find it very strange?" Fang Fang changed the subject at the opportune moment.
Ye Huohuo also looked at the seven small houses at the foot of the mountain. They were still the same as when she first saw them, except the light that was initially on had gone out, and all seven houses were plunged into darkness, indistinct and hard to see. She concentrated and suddenly felt that the place where the seven houses were located was like a black hole. Despite the bright moonlight, it seemed to be sucked in. Although the seven houses were right there, she couldn't see them clearly.
"Is this some kind of demonic magic?" Ye Huohuo's brow furrowed tightly. "No, the formation was broken by us, so there shouldn't be any residual magic. What exactly is going on?" She directed the last sentence to Fang Fang.
Fang Fang pouted and shook her head. "Don't ask me, I can't see anything either!"
"Perhaps I know what's going on!" Li Mohan said somberly from the side.