Within the Martial Academy.
The three walked along a quiet path, morning sunlight filtering through tender buds and withered branches, scattering mottled patches across them.
"Young Master Jiang, you must be very young, right?"
Wang Qingtan spoke, and Wang Qinghan immediately cocked her right ear to listen.
"Forever eighteen!" Jiang Ning smiled.
Wang Qingtan: "..."
The corner of her mouth twitched. "Young Master Jiang truly has a youthful mindset!"
Jiang Ning smiled faintly.
"My sister is eighteen too!! And I'm fifteen!!" Wang Qinghan immediately jumped in.
"You two sisters are still young!" Jiang Ning's expression carried a touch of wistfulness.
Counting the days, it had nearly been a year since his birthday last year.
That also meant he was about to grow another year older.
Having lived two lives, this year's birthday would be his first since arriving in this world.
"I'm getting a little sentimental!"
Jiang Ning then gave a self-mocking laugh.
After leaving his parents in his previous life and struggling to survive alone, he had never celebrated his birthday again.
At most, if he remembered the day, he would buy himself something delicious as a reward.
Beside him, Wang Qingtan saw the longing and weathered vicissitudes in Jiang Ning's eyes and immediately understood.
Fourth rank!
His actual age truly was far greater than his appearance suggested.
An old man? Hmph, I don't want that!!
Earlier, she had already seen that Jiang Ning had entered the fourth rank.
Because once one entered the fourth rank, even if one had only just begun marrow refinement, the outward signs were extremely obvious.
Marrow refinement was true cleansing of the sinews and marrow, shedding one's mortal frame and exchanging one's bones, an elevation of life itself.
There would no longer be any blemishes upon the body.
Under such circumstances, anyone with