"Go absorb the Soul Bone first. An innocent man commits no crime, but carrying a precious jade makes him guilty. It isn't safe to keep it on you."
"Mm." Bai Chenxiang nodded firmly. Seeing Xu Ran tell her to refine and absorb the Soul Bone outright moved her even more, her eyes reddening. Only someone like Xu Ran would place so little importance on an External Soul Bone.
Bai Chenxiang sat cross-legged on the ground, reached up to wipe the tears from her eyes, and absorbed the Soul Bone with peace of mind, continuing until midnight.
Bai Chenxiang's cultivation was low, so refining this high-grade External Soul Bone naturally required a long time.
By midnight, when the moon shone bright and the stars were few, Bai Chenxiang still had not awakened from absorbing the Soul Bone.
Tang San stood at the Speed Clan's entrance, keeping watch there the whole time as he anxiously waited for Bai Chenxiang to return.
But one two-hour period passed, then another... Time slowly slipped by, the surrounding lights dimmed, and everything fell silent, yet Bai Chenxiang still had not returned.
This undoubtedly stoked his jealousy and his pride as a man.
What did the cousin he yearned so desperately to have amount to in Xu Ran's eyes? Xu Ran had taken her body with such ease.
Although he did not know why Bai Chenxiang had not returned so late at night, with a man and woman alone together in the dead of night, it was easy to imagine. Given Xu Ran's character, he would never let Bai Chenxiang go.
Perhaps Bai Chenxiang had already become Xu Ran's woman by now.
"Heh, and here I thought you were some pure, innocent maiden. It turns out you're such a loose woman."
"Staying out all night-what are you