Xiao Man curled up in a corner of the ice crevice, crying pearly tears, but her heart remained exceptionally calm.
She may look like a mountain girl, but in fact, she has grasped some basic concepts during her six years at the Daoist academy. At the very least, she wouldn't view everything unfolding before her with the eyes of a mortal; she already possesses a trace of a cultivator's perspective, which is crucial.
However, she indeed couldn't sense the Pulse, which caused the cultivator who captured her to have the misconception that she was a genuine mortal. Naturally, for ordinary mortals, ordinary methods would suffice without much caution.
She was merely tossed in a place tens of feet away from that cultivator, neither bound nor her acupuncture points sealed. Such cold weather prevents controlling the vital points, and for mortals whose bodies lack the capacity, if blood circulation is obstructed, they would not survive even an hour before freezing to death.
