The firelight on Nie Lanxin's body gradually faded, revealing her flawless, snow-white body. She lay weakly by the riverbank, opened her beautiful starry eyes, and glanced at Ning Xiaochuan.
Ning Xiaochuan looked at her as well. "Don't think I don't want to kill you. I'm sparing you this time only for your sister's sake. If you fall into my hands again, I definitely won't show mercy."
After saying that, Ning Xiaochuan left with Little Red and Xiao Ling'er, unwilling to look at her even once more.
"Elder Sister, are you all right?" Nie Lanzhi took out a pale blue robe, wrapped it around Nie Lanxin, and lifted her up.
Nie Lanxin stared at Ning Xiaochuan's departing back, her beautiful eyes filled with intense unwillingness. "You begged Ning Xiaochuan?"
"Elder Sister... I don't know about the grievances between you and the Little Marquis, but I truly don't want you to become enemies... I really hope you can... can become friends." Nie Lanzhi spoke softly.
"Become friends? It's already impossible for him and me to be friends." Nie Lanxin's words carried a deeper meaning.
"Forget it. Let this matter end here. From now on, don't involve yourself in the grievances between Ning Xiaochuan and me. I'll remember today's debt and settle it with him slowly in the future. However, Ning Xiaochuan's cultivation has indeed grown quickly. I must cultivate even harder than him, or sooner or later, he'll catch up to me."
Nie Lanxin sat down cross-legged with difficulty. A point of light emerged between her brows as the mystic qi of heaven and earth rapidly flowed into her body, restoring her depleted blood qi and lifespan.
Three hours passed in succession before the blood qi within Nie Lanxin's body finally recovered by one-tenth.
She stopped cultivating and slowly rose to her