Time passed.
Jiang Ning continuously refined one Blood Lotus petal after another.
With every hundred-year petal he refined, he could feel his Blood Qi strengthen by a fraction, growing even deeper and more vigorous.
In the blink of an eye.
Two hours passed, and the blazing sun in the sky was gradually about to rise overhead, perpendicular to the earth.
Creak—
The door behind him was slowly pushed open, letting out a faint rasp of friction.
When Jiang Ning heard the sound, he immediately turned to look and saw Qingyi walking out of her room barefoot, dressed in a thin long skirt.
"Sister Lin!" Jiang Ning said. Then he stopped practicing his fist technique and bowed respectfully. "Many thanks to Sister Lin for coming to my rescue last night."
As his words fell, Jiang Ning took out a Green Hairpin, a Green Hairpin carved with a Soaring Phoenix.
This was something he had bought just before coming here, spending more than a hundred taels of silver.
"Sister Lin, I saw this hair ornament on the way here and felt it suited Sister Lin very well, so I bought it."
Qingyi looked at the Jade Hairpin in Jiang Ning's palm and could not help smiling faintly.
"Looks like I didn't save the wrong person last night!"
As she spoke, she gently beckoned with her hand, and the Jade Hairpin in Jiang Ning's hand seemed to be seized by an invisible hand, flying straight into her grasp.
Once it was in her hand, Qingyi examined it carefully.
Then she nodded slightly. "This is quite nice. I like it very much. Come over and put it on for Sister."
"All right!" Jiang Ning nodded obediently.
Toward Qingyi, he felt secretly grateful.
Putting aside what had happened before, just Qingyi's intervention last night had