The cloaked man who Steward Lee was intercepting, seeing the state he was put in by a single move of some mysterious people, and that the chance to profit from the chaos was already lost anyway, used the moment when Steward Lee was distracted by assessing the situation, and chose to flee the scene.
The latter's first impulse was to pursue, but he stopped since he had to prioritize the current situation over the pursuit.
But he wasn't hasty either, choosing to approach the situation with a cold, calculated perspective.
He saw that Jian Hao was only imprisoned - not harmed, and that Jian Yu was for some reason protected and allowed to receive his enlightenment.
Even the rest of the Crimson Arrow Manor men, though encased in ice, were clearly alive, just unable to move, or rather in a strange stasis-sleep-like state as their Soul Seas were temporarily frozen, rendering them unable to even think and therefore process what was happening to them or around them.
