In the courtyard.
Jiang Ning rose to his feet.
"I'm going out for a bit!" he said to Luyi.
The next instant.
His figure vanished from the courtyard, leaving only a spiraling current of air behind.
An incense stick's time later.
Jiang Ning appeared amid a stretch of primeval mountains and forest.
This place was already several dozen li from Guangning City.
His Divine Sense spread out, sweeping across an area several li in radius.
He immediately nodded.
"This place will do!"
In his brief scan, though this stretch of mountains and forest could not be considered especially remote, it was already rarely trodden by human feet, with few traces of human activity left behind.
To him, this place was just right.
Afterward.
He arrived at an open patch of ground.
Greenery clustered over the ground, and great trees encircled the area on all sides, yet there was no cover overhead; the noon sunlight fell fiercely from above.
To him, this place was just right.
Drawing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy into his body, and then performing Blood Exchange.
This required a sufficiently open environment.
The next instant.
He sat down cross-legged.
The trial of Blood Exchange was, for most people, and for the vast majority of grandmasters, no different from taking a walk before the gates of hell.
During the process, the Blood Qi throughout the body would dry up, the body would sink into stillness, and the Fire of Life would come close to withering.
For ordinary people, as long as blood loss reached thirty percent, they would go into shock and their consciousness would blur.
Once blood loss reached forty percent, their organs would fail, and they would irreversibly walk toward death.
Even for martial artists at the grandmaster level, if their blood was completely exhausted, they