The end of noon.
The blazing sun poured into the courtyard like molten gilded gold.
[Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill Experience Points +1]
"Whoo—"
Jiang Ning slowly drew in his skill and lightly breathed out a mouthful of stale air from his belly.
The red mist steaming around him condensed into several streaks of Rosy Cloud Light, then sank into his seven orifices with his exhale.
He lifted his eyes toward the half-real, half-illusory Panel in the void.
[Skills]: Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill (Great Completion 2011/10000)
A fifth of the way there. He still needed more than two months!
Jiang Ning's swordlike brows drew together slightly. After closing the Panel, his gaze fell on the beautiful figure beneath the Phoenix Tree in the courtyard.
At that moment, Qingyi was wrapped in green cicada-wing gauze, leaning sideways on a rattan chair, the emerald Jade Hairpin in her hair looking as if it might fall at any second.
Sensing Jiang Ning's gaze, she lazily turned over. Her skirt slipped down, revealing half of a calf like Mutton-Fat Jade.
These days, Qingyi had lived in seclusion, sleeping every day until late morning before waking.
Usually, she also looked as if she had nothing to do, wandering around his residence at random, or else watching from the side as he practiced.
Other than that, it seemed as though she had nothing else to do.
Though Jiang Ning felt curious, it was not good for him to ask too many questions, so he could only let her be.
"Sister Lin, I have to go meet a guest!" Jiang Ning said.
"Go on!" Qingyi yawned, patted her own mouth, then lazily rose from the rattan chair.
She raised both hands high and stretched for a long, long moment.
Her lovely figure, where the gauze clung