Yes, it was Ye Huohuo, but that Ye Huohuo was like a phantom, flickering in the sunlight, which was why they only saw the man in black when they looked over earlier.
All three turned their heads back in disbelief, looking at Ye Huohuo's body still standing in place.
How could it be, how could there be two Ye Huohuos?
At this moment, Xiao Lingzi slapped his head, "I understand, that's Ye Huohuo's true soul! I didn't expect Ye Huohuo to have cultivated to such a level that her true soul could materialize and be seen by our naked eyes after leaving her body."
"Why did she run over there? Did she also discover that person's existence? Could the person controlling the shadow be that man in black?" Xiao Lingzi bombarded them with questions.
But no one answered him.
Li Mohan and A Cheng were watching the battle on the opposite side.
They saw a person and a soul on the opposite rooftop locked in a fierce struggle.
The man in black repelled Ye Huohuo with a blast of dark energy and sneered, "I didn't expect Li Mohan to have such a master by his side? Not only can you suppress female ghosts, but you can also materialize your true soul. I truly underestimated you. But you're overestimating yourself, trying to harm me with just this true soul of yours! You're just seeking death!"
Ye Huohuo remained silent; she had only one goal: to kill the person in front of her! With that, she unleashed golden lights, each attack more ferocious than the last!
Cornered, the man in black declared, "I initially intended to spare your life, considering your difficult cultivation, but you're ungrateful. Very well, die!"
As he spoke, dark energy surged from his body, and a large mass of sinister energy descended upon Ye Huohuo.
A Cheng exclaimed, "This is bad!"
Li Mohan called out, "Huohuo!"
Xiao Lingzi urged, "Run quickly!"
But Ye Huohuo seemed determined to fight to the death, intending to take her opponent down with her even if she perished. She neither dodged nor retreated, instead transforming all her spiritual energy into a single beam of golden light, striking towards the man in black.
"What's wrong with her? She's usually so afraid of death, why is she risking her life like this?!" Xiao Lingzi shouted in desperation.
Li Mohan's body trembled as scenes of Ye Huohuo's transformation flashed in his mind. She had said, with reddened eyes, "He who dares to hurt you deserves to die!"
Could it be that she was risking her life to eliminate the man in black for him? Li Mohan dared not to think further. This little girl had only known him for a day, and they had spent less than ten hours together. Yet, she was willing to risk her life for him… Could it be because…
At that moment, the situation on the opposite side changed. Clearly, the man in black hadn't expected Ye Huohuo to be so fierce, focusing solely on offense without any defense. Therefore, he was caught completely off guard. By the time he realized something was wrong, the golden light had already reached him.
Both the man and his shadow staggered backward. However, because Ye Huohuo was a phantom, her attack was weaker. Moreover, any injury to her soul body would be more severe than a physical wound.
Indeed, not only was Ye Huohuo's soul body on the opposite building sent flying backward, flickering and nearly dissipating, but Ye Huohuo's physical body also spat out a mouthful of blood, her face becoming even paler. Yet, her eyes remained slightly open, her gaze vacant.
"No, this won't do. You two guard her body, I'll go support Miss Ye on the other side." A Cheng turned and ran out. With the control of the Li Hua ghost gone, the doors and elevators to other floors were now usable. A Cheng quickly exited the building and ran towards the opposite one.
"It's no use, it's too late!" Xiao Lingzi, with a pale face, closed his eyes, unable to bear watching what was about to happen.
Li Mohan gritted his teeth, "There must be a way!" He was never one to give up easily. He walked to Ye Huohuo's body, grabbed her shoulders, and shook her. "Wake up, it's Li Mohan, I'm fine! Ye Huohuo, wake up quickly, I'm alright! Do you hear me? Wake up quickly!" Li Mohan shouted, his voice cracking with emotion in the last few words, though he didn't notice it himself. "Didn't you say our lives were intertwined? Didn't you say my luck could transfer to you? All my luck to you, wake up quickly, come back! Do you hear me!"
The people in the large conference room could see the situation outside clearly through the glass wall. When they saw Li Mohan shaking Ye Huohuo's body with reddened eyes, almost all of them widened their eyes in astonishment. Was this still the Mr. Li they knew? The Li Mohan they usually knew was like a distant deity, detached from most emotions, the dream lover of every unmarried woman in the company. But he was merely a dream lover; in reality, finding such a person as a husband would be dreadfully dull. Of course, if one considered the wealth, it was another matter. Which girl hadn't dreamed of Mr. Li treating her differently from everyone else, just as he was now.
Xiao Lingzi, watching Ye Huohuo's increasingly weak spirit on the opposite side, also had tears welling up in his eyes. He took out a pack of silver needles from his bag. "Fate is decided, may heaven protect her!" With trembling hands, he aimed the needles at Ye Huohuo's Baihui acupoint.
Before the needle could even pierce Ye Huohuo's head, his hand was caught by Li Mohan. "Do you have confidence?"
"No, it's a shot in the dark. We can't just stand by and do nothing!" Xiao Lingzi's eyes were filled with tears.
Li Mohan tightened his grip on Xiao Lingzi's hand before finally letting go. "I leave it to you!" His voice was soft, filled with a deep sense of powerlessness. He had always been in control of everything, but now he felt so helpless, unable to grasp anything. Ye Huohuo was in mortal danger, yet he could only watch, utterly powerless.
He looked through his binoculars at the opposite rooftop and was startled by what he saw. At some point, a large myna bird had landed on the roof. Just as the man in black unleashed another blast of dark energy towards Ye Huohuo, the myna bird flapped its wings, emitting a golden light that scattered the dark energy. Then, somehow, it grabbed Ye Huohuo's phantom with its talons and flew towards him.
"Senior Brother?!" Li Mohan exclaimed, unable to contain himself. If someone had told him a day ago that he would call a myna bird "Senior Brother," he would have thought them insane. But this was indeed the same myna bird that had appeared at the Li residence that morning – Ye Huohuo's Senior Brother.
Li Mohan quickly opened the window on the seventh floor and waved his hands towards the flying myna bird. The myna bird swooped down like a black lightning bolt. The man in black on the rooftop was momentarily caught off guard. By the time he tried to attack the myna bird again, it had already flown into the window Li Mohan had opened. Li Mohan casually closed the window, and a mass of dark energy struck the glass, causing the entire window to hum. It was a close call.
"Don't, don't move!" The myna bird, seeing Xiao Lingzi about to insert the silver needle into Ye Huohuo's Baihui acupoint, quickly stopped him, its words stumbling due to urgency. Xiao Lingzi's hand trembled, and the silver needle fell to the ground. Turning around, tears streamed down his face. "Senior Brother! You're finally here! Huohuo, she..."
"I, I know, you, you move aside!" The myna bird stammered, then flapped its wings and landed on Ye Huohuo's head. A visible phantom began to merge with Ye Huohuo's body. However, after a long wait, Ye Huohuo showed no signs of waking up.
"What's wrong?"
"She, she's injured, too, too weak. We, we need to use the soul-reviving incantation to, to help her!" The myna bird, exhausted, finally managed to speak.
"But none of us know how!" Xiao Lingzi's face turned red. He had never bothered to learn such things. It was only now that he realized how true the saying "You regret not studying when you need it" was.
"Then, there's, there's only one, one way!" The myna bird said, looking at Li Mohan.