Fang Fang followed Ye Huohuo's gaze and saw someone lying on the hillside, not far from Ye Huohuo's previous circle of light.
Judging by the attire and build, it was Li Mohan?
Fang Fang disbelief, she turned to look at Ye Huohuo. The two directions were more than a hundred and eighty degrees apart. Fang Fang’s body was immobile, and she could only turn her neck to look around.
After looking back and forth, Fang Fang felt her neck was about to twist off. "You mean all the strange situations on this hillside were caused by him?"
Fang Fang's tone was filled with extreme disbelief. "How is that possible? He's just an ordinary person, how could he do this? Not to mention him, even your master, a renowned master of metaphysics today, probably couldn't do it!"
Ye Huohuo's lips twitched almost imperceptibly. "He... I'm just guessing!" She didn't reveal that Li Mohan possessed the Extreme Cold Soul.
After all, someone possessing the Extreme Cold Soul was a once-in-a-millennium phenomenon. It was hard to say if someone would covet his soul and use it for nefarious purposes.
And the Fang Fang present was a thousand-year-old spirit. Although she now appeared to be on their side, who knew if she had other intentions. Caution is the parent of safety, a principle Ye Huohuo had always adhered to, and it was precisely this caution that had allowed her to live this long.
Fang Fang looked at Ye Huohuo suspiciously, narrowing her eyes slightly, and didn't press further. "Oh, I don't care who it is or what happened. Hurry up and get me down. I don't want to be stuck on this hillside forever.
I've had the worst luck of my life today, being tricked by you into that formation and barely escaping with my life. Then, to save you, I got frozen on the hillside. After I'm done with Li Hua's matters, I'm definitely staying far away from you to avoid catching your bad luck!"
Fang Fang said this half-truthfully, half-jokingly.
Ye Huohuo shook her head and gave a wry smile. Her unlucky attribute seemed to have no end, and severing her karmic ties with Li Mohan had only doubled her misfortune.
She sighed heavily, reached up, and plucked three fresh leaves from a tree. She bit her middle finger and drew a talisman on each of the three leaves.
Then, she aligned the three leaves and tore them into three small figures with her hands at lightning speed. Soon, the three leaves were torn into the shape of small human figures.
Ye Huohuo held them in her palms and chanted something, finally blowing on the three leaves. "Go!"
Strangely enough, the three leaf figures, torn into shape, immediately stood up in her palm, bowed to Ye Huohuo in unison, and then leaped from her palm.
The three leaf figures floated down to the ground. The heads of the three figures turned left and right, as if searching for direction. Soon, they walked towards the hillside.
It was less like walking and more like leaping. Although the three figures were small and short, they could leap quite high with each jump, rapidly heading up the hillside.
Soon, they were reduced to three tiny dots.
"Not bad, little girl. You know a lot. I didn't expect you could make talismans from leaves." Fang Fang once again expressed her admiration for Ye Huohuo.
Ye Huohuo rolled her eyes at her. "If you hadn't used me as a shield and pierced my talismans, I wouldn't have had to resort to using leaves." As she spoke to Fang Fang, her cat-like eyes were fixed on the three leaf figures.
The three figures soon reached Fang Fang's location, but they didn't stop. They continued to move upwards. As one of the figures passed Ah Cheng, it stopped and stood at Ah Cheng's feet.
The other two figures continued upwards and finally reached the place where Li Mohan had collapsed.
Seeing that the two leaf figures were not frozen by the cold air on the hillside as she had expected, Ye Huohuo breathed a sigh of relief. She formed two hand seals, controlling each figure separately.
As the hand seals changed, fine beads of sweat appeared on Ye Huohuo's forehead, and her breathing grew heavier.
The two figures suddenly transformed into two green illusory silhouettes, their forms continuously growing. Finally, the two leaf-sized figures grew to be as tall as ordinary people.
However, their bodies were ethereal, like the pink hand that Fang Fang had materialized earlier.
The two green silhouettes each held one of Li Mohan's arms, helping him up from the ground and leaning him against a tree. One held Li Mohan, while the other raised its right hand, aligning its index and middle fingers, exactly mirroring Ye Huohuo's gesture from below the hillside.
Gradually, a golden light converged at the tips of its fingers.
"Here!" Ye Huohuo let out a light shout. She pointed two fingers towards the air with her right hand. At the same time, her body swayed, a stifling sensation hit her chest, and a sweet, bloody sensation surged up her throat.
Ye Huohuo forcefully suppressed the surge of blood, her hand movements unwavering.
The green silhouette in front of Li Mohan moved in sync with her, its fingertip landing precisely on Li Mohan's brow.
Li Mohan's brow furrowed slightly, his long eyelashes fluttered, and he let out a long sigh. He finally slowly regained consciousness.
When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a green silhouette. Startled, he flinched backward, bumping into the silhouette supporting him. He turned his head and saw another green silhouette.
"What are you things? Where am I?" Even with his courage, Li Mohan was startled by these bizarre, never-before-seen creatures.
Seeing that Li Mohan had woken up, Ye Huohuo grabbed the air with both hands and shouted, "Break!"
With her light shout, the entire hillside seemed to tremble. The two green silhouettes around Li Mohan turned into two wisps of green mist and burrowed into the ground.
Simultaneously, Ah Cheng, who had been frozen like a statue on the hillside, was jolted and toppled to one side.
At this moment, the green leaf figure at his feet instantly transformed into a green cloud-like mist, steadily catching Ah Cheng's body and allowing him to slowly lie down on the ground.
However, Fang Fang on the other side was not so lucky. Without the protection of a green leaf figure, she fell straight to the ground, letting out a yelp of pain.
Ye Huohuo hurried up the hillside. As expected, the bone-chilling cold air that had been on the hillside had disappeared. Both Ah Cheng and Fang Fang, who had been frozen, had returned to normal.
Fang Fang rubbed her sore arm. "Ye Huohuo, you're taking revenge!"
Ye Huohuo frowned and pointed to where Ah Cheng had fallen. "Look clearly before you speak!"
Only then did Fang Fang notice that where Ah Cheng had fallen, there was a sharp rock. If Ye Huohuo hadn't controlled the green mist to move Ah Cheng slightly aside, he would have been impaled by the rock as he fell, resulting in at least a serious injury, or possibly even death.
Fang Fang pouted. "Then couldn't you have made one more figure to help me too!"
Ye Huohuo's expression was a mix of innocence and helplessness. "What do you think I am, some peerless master? Controlling these three talisman figures simultaneously is already stretching me thin. If there were one more, it would either lead to total failure, or my cultivation would be depleted. Which outcome would you prefer?"
Fang Fang's gaze swept over Ye Huohuo's face. She saw that her complexion was indeed paler than before, with two unnatural blushes on her cheeks, symptoms of a deficiency in both qi and blood.
"Forget it, I won't bicker with you. We're even. Neither of us owes the other." Fang Fang brushed the dirt off her clothes, tidied her disheveled hair, her eyes sparkling. In an instant, she regained her former charming and seductive demeanor.
Her gaze shifted from Ye Huohuo to Li Mohan not far away, her eyes filled with interest. She gracefully walked to Li Mohan's front, lowered herself, and met his gaze. "So, Mr. Li, how did you manage it?"