Before any of the Sheng Family group members could react, there was a sudden torrent of water that fell down on them.
All of them couldn’t take the pressure of that water falling down on them and they had no choice but to cover their heads as this pillar of water almost knocked them to the ground.
By the time that the pillar of water disappeared, all of the Sheng Family group members had fallen to their knees and were completely soaked.
They immediately looked up at the sky, but they found that the sky was completely clear of clouds. They could see the bright moon and stars in the sky, it was as if there wasn’t a single cloud tonight.
So where did this sudden downpour come from?
But they didn’t have time to think about that as the next change happened.
Before they could understand what was happening, the temperature around them suddenly dropped.
These people that were completely soaked with water couldn’t help shivering even if they had their spiritual energy to keep them warm. It was so cold that the layer of water that was around them started freezing until it formed a layer of ice around them.
They quickly realized that this layer of ice was getting thicker and thicker and they were slowly losing the ability to move.
As cultivators, their minds had also developed along with their cultivation. In fact, even an idiot would be able to tell that this was an attack and wasn’t just a natural phenomenon.
The first thing that they had to do was naturally get rid of the ice that was currently building up around them.
However…
“What is going on here? Why is this ice so strong? I can’t shatter it with my spiritual energy at all!” One person said.
“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! The ice is even spreading to my inner organs! I can feel it freezing me from the inside!”
“Someone, attack me with flames and burn the ice away! I don’t care if you hurt me, just hit me with the flames!”
It had reached a point where despair had started kicking in.
The ice was so powerful that it was freezing them to their core. If they didn’t do anything, it wouldn’t take long before they turned into popsicles.
So they had no choice but to start fires and light up the logs that they had been moving. But they found that no matter how they tried to light the logs, they weren’t able to do so.
The logs had also been soaked and there was also a layer of ice that formed around the logs. In fact, when they touched the logs, they could feel the coldness coming from it that helped to freeze them even more.
The ones that were smarter didn’t bother with the logs at all, instead they used the branches that they started fires with to directly burn themselves. But they found that these flames couldn’t do a single thing to the ice that was currently surrounding them.
The flames just touched the ice and couldn’t melt it at all.
They immediately realized that this wasn’t just any normal ice, but rather ice that was formed from spiritual energy. Unless they had flames formed from spiritual energy that was stronger than this spiritual energy ice, it was impossible for them to melt it.
While they were Mid Qi Gathering Realm Cultivators, they were simple cultivators that didn’t practice special cultivation techniques, so they couldn’t form spiritual energy flames.
After all, if they had this kind of special cultivation technique, would they still be working for the Sheng Family?
So there was nothing that they could do to stop the ice from freezing them. They could only watch as the layer of ice covered their eyes, seeing the despair that each of them had as they were turned into ice statues.
Just like this, there were several ice statues that were created on this road.
Their last thoughts were to regret following Yu Song here. They had no idea what they had gotten themselves involved in, but it was clear that it was something that was far beyond their level.
Inside of the carriage, Yu Song watched in shock as his men were frozen into ice sculptures before quickly coming out of the carriage and finding a safe space to stand.
He didn’t know what had frozen his men, but it was clear that the enemy was still out there and he didn’t know where they were. He had to put up his guard to make sure that he didn’t suffer the same fate as his men.
At the same time, he asked, “Who is it that’s attacking us? Don’t you know that we are men of the Sheng Family? Are you really confident in offending the Sheng Family?”
He hadn’t expected an answer to this question, but there was a deep voice that suddenly said, “That’s why I’m attacking you.”
Yu Song couldn’t help trembling when he heard this, but then instead of panicking, he just gave a cold laugh as he said, “So they’ve finally sent people to take care of me? I figured that it would come eventually.” Then after a pause, he said, “But I don’t remember anyone from the Sheng Family’s kill squad that was able to use ice spiritual energy. Which squad are you from?”
Lin Fan had taken a chance by answering this question from Yu Song and it seemed like his gamble was correct as he got more information than he expected from Yu Song.
But now, what he should do next was…
“Who said that I was from the Sheng Family?”
This time, Yu Song couldn’t hide the shock on his face. He fell silent as a thoughtful look appeared. Then after a few seconds, he suddenly said, “It’s you! It’s actually you!”
As he said this, his face filled with more and more rage.
Yu Song didn’t know where Lin Fan was, but he roared out into the night, “It’s all you! It’s all because of you that everything went wrong!”
Lin Fan knitted his brows when he heard this, but he still said, “I’ve never done a thing to you, but you’re the one who wants to kill me. Is that reasonable?”
Yu Song’s flames of rage burned even more when he heard this and he began laughing wildly as he said, “You’ve never done a single thing to me? You’ve never done a single thing to me?!”
His laughter suddenly came to a stop as he said in an ice cold voice, “If it wasn’t for your actions, then my daughter wouldn’t have been sacrificed? Can you really say that you’ve done nothing?”
Lin Fan just calmly replied this time, “If it wasn’t for you trying to capture an innocent girl, none of this would have happened.”
Yu Song didn’t care about Lin Fan’s words at all as he said, “Innocent girl? So what if she’s an innocent girl? Can she compare to my daughter? Do you really think that common villagers like her are even worth a thing in this world?”
Lin Fan knitted his brows even more when he heard this and he couldn’t help looking at Xiao Yue beside him, but to his surprise, Xiao Yue had a much more calm look than he had thought.
Yu Song continued roaring out, “If it wasn’t for your actions then my daughter wouldn’t have been taken as a substitute! My daughter was completely drained of all her life essence because of the Daoist Seed! Even my wife wasn’t spared from that fate! If it wasn’t for you interfering with the plans of young master Sheng, my family wouldn’t have died!”
Lin Fan couldn’t help giving a snort when he heard this.
He had never heard anyone acting this selfishly before, but he knew that this was just what kind of a world this was.
Those that had power were the ones that were in charge and those without power could only follow their wills.
Lin Fan then couldn’t help asking, “Why are you trying to kill her now then? Won’t young master Sheng have an objection if he finds that you’re killing his precious item?”
Yu Song gave a cold laugh before saying, “Who cares? Is there anything left for me? All I desire is your death! Come out and face me like a real man!”
Lin Fan knitted his brows when he heard this, but he quickly put together the clues.
The first words that Yu Song had said was about the Sheng Family sending people to kill him. But why would the Sheng Family send people to kill him?
Unless he betrayed them!
It was most likely that the Sheng Family wasn’t behind this kill mission that was submitted to the Mercenary Guild!
Perhaps they might have been behind the mission to find Xiao Yue before, but definitely not this kill mission since Xiao Yue still had the Daoist Seed as far as they knew. This was a precious thing, young master Sheng definitely wouldn’t be willing to destroy it that easily.
So that must mean that…
This must all be this person’s personal revenge!
Lin Fan couldn’t help letting out an internal sigh of relief when this conclusion came to his mind, but he didn’t allow himself to relax since he knew that he still had to deal with this.
After all, this person had somehow tricked members of the Sheng Family to come with him, so they would most certainly come and check this place…
He had to make sure that he didn’t leave a single clue pointing the blame to him.
So without wasting any time, Lin Fan sent a pillar of water to fall down onto Yu Song and he froze him just like the rest.
Even when he was dying, Yu Song still cursed Lin Fan with his final breath.
“Even in the pits of hell, I will never stop cursing you!”