Upon seeing the handwriting, the nameless rage that had been hidden deep in Dan Bingli's heart vanished in an instant, and a gentle warmth unconsciously spread across her cold and beautiful face.
Then, she lowered her head slightly and whispered in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz:
"Who's angry with him? Humph, I'm not angry at all. He's just being presumptuous."
Even so, her gaze never left the note, her fingers gently tracing the handwriting, trying to sense Qin Luo's state of mind as he wrote it.
She carefully folded the note and placed it aside, her gaze then falling on the bottle of Spiritual Essence Tranquilizing Pills. Picking up the bottle and opening the cap, a rich fragrance of the pills instantly filled the air, calming her mind considerably.
"Unsolicited kindness is either a treacherous act or a theft!"
Dan Bingli muttered to herself, but the barely perceptible curve of her lips betrayed her true feelings.
Looking at the pill in her hand, she should have taken the Spiritual Essence Mind-Clearing Pill to calm her mind and begin her cultivation.
But for some reason, a strange feeling began to stir in her heart, making her want to indulge the strange feeling within her.
"It's just... a short rest, nothing serious."
Dan Bingli silently told herself this, but time passed quietly, and she remained motionless, sitting upright on the bed, gazing at the Spiritual Essence Heart-Clearing Pill in her hand.
As the night deepened, moonlight streamed through the window and bathed her in a silvery veil.
The faint glow emanating from the elixir was reflected in his eyes, and his thoughts were racing.
Recalling her first encounter with Qin Luo, the special meeting in the Spirit Pool, and those moments of anger, resentment, or shyness from the past, all unfolded before her eyes like a series of paintings.
And so, with memories constantly swirling in her mind, Dan Bingli sat quietly for the entire night.
The only change was her increasingly gentle complexion. Her originally cold expression was gradually replaced by an indescribable gentleness, just like a plum blossom quietly blooming, exuding a unique fragrance.
However, she herself was completely unaware, still immersed in her longing for Qin Luo, or rather, in her thoughts...
Two weeks have passed in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, Qin Luo's room was filled with spiritual energy, with three different colors of spiritual energy filling the spacious room.
After all the spiritual energy was absorbed into his Qi Sea, Qin Luo slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.
"I'm still a little short. It seems I need a lot of spiritual energy to break through to the Soul Separation Realm. Even these repeated returns haven't met my expectations."
In the past two weeks, good news has come one after another. First of all, although Yi Ting's cultivation progress is rapid and she has already broken through to the mid-stage of the Soul Contract Realm, this spiritual energy is relatively of limited help to Qin Luo now.
Secondly, Xia Zihan and Murong Liyue also broke through to the mid-stage of the Spirit Control Realm. Under the return of these two terrifying spiritual energies, he also broke through to the late-stage of the Spirit Control Realm. Moreover, during this period, he absorbed and refined the returned spiritual energy in one go, and climbed straight to the peak of the Spirit Control Realm.
Unfortunately, when he tried to break through the bottleneck of the Soul Separation Realm, he was still just a hair's breadth away from it. It was within reach, yet it was still out of reach. That crucial line of difference stood in his way, which meant that he could only stay at the peak of the Spirit Control Realm for the time being.
"That shouldn't be the case. Logically speaking, the competition has been over for almost three months, and Dan Bingli should have broken through to the Soul Separation Realm by now. He can't possibly have such an absurd bottleneck like me, can he?"
Qin Luo felt helpless and couldn't figure it out. Then he looked at the system space and saw several more different kinds of pills appear, covering everything from cultivation to breakthroughs, and even some highly nourishing pills.
"That girl Yiting, how could she even make such elixirs so carelessly? It seems I'll have to teach her a lesson about family discipline next time we meet."
After saying that, Qin Luo got up and left the room.
Meanwhile, Dan Bingli was becoming increasingly impatient.
Each time he cultivated for only a short while, his gaze would involuntarily drift towards the doorway, as if he were anticipating something.
Her cherry lips were tightly pressed together, and she secretly felt annoyed.
"That Qin Luo is clearly a lecherous scoundrel, stirring up my emotions for no reason, yet he hasn't come for so long. Could it be that everything before was just a joke to me?"
Although she was angry, there was a faint, almost imperceptible sense of melancholy in her beautiful eyes.
She unconsciously stroked the note Qin Luo had left in her hand; the note was already wrinkled, reflecting her chaotic emotions at that moment.
The fragrance of winter plum blossoms still filled the room, but it could no longer bring her peace of mind as it used to.
"Why do I keep thinking about him? Could it be that I...? No, that's impossible. He's so smooth-talking, how could I...?"
Dan Bingli kept finding reasons for herself in her mind, trying to convince herself.
However, her eyes couldn't help but look towards the door, hoping that familiar figure would appear, even if only for a short while, it would be better than this agonizing wait.
Just then, the door suddenly opened. Dan Bingli was startled and hurriedly closed her eyes, pretending to be immersed in cultivation.
Qin Luo walked slowly into the room, his gaze falling on Dan Bingli's exquisite and shapely body.
Sensing the free and abundant flow of spiritual energy around her, I couldn't help but secretly marvel:
"Strange, she's clearly only one step away from the Soul Separation Realm, so why hasn't she broken through for so long?"
After a long silence from Qin Luo, Dan Bingli finally couldn't hold back and slowly opened her eyes. What she saw was Qin Luo's deep gaze.
Such a gaze suddenly made her feel flustered.
Subconsciously, she raised her slender hand to gently stroke her cheek, trying to hide her inner unease. For some reason, the resentment that had been surging in her heart began to melt away silently.
Her head was slightly lowered, and a barely perceptible hint of timidity lingered in her voice as she parted her lips:
"Qin Luo, what...what do you want?"
Qin Luo was slightly taken aback, then quickly regained his senses, a signature smile appearing on his face, and said softly:
“Miss Dan, it has been a long time since we last met. I have been concerned about your cultivation progress. Seeing that you have reached such a crucial stage but have not yet broken through, I have some doubts in my heart.”
As he spoke, he took another small step forward, bringing the two of them even closer. The masculine aura emanating from him made Dan Bingli's heart beat faster involuntarily.
"I've come here for two reasons, firstly to check on Miss Dan's cultivation progress, and secondly..."
At this point, Qin Luo paused deliberately, a sly glint in his eyes:
"Secondly, I haven't seen you for some time and I don't know why I wanted to see you. I feel that it is a bit presumptuous of me to say this, and I hope you will forgive me and not blame me."
That deep, magnetic voice was like a gentle breeze, softly brushing against Dan Bingli's heartstrings.
This made her cheeks flush uncontrollably, and she said reproachfully:
"You, you smooth-talking, lecherous scoundrel! My cultivation is none of your concern; I will find a way to break through on my own."
Even so, her eyes unconsciously avoided Qin Luo's gaze, and Qin Luo had already taken in that hint of panic and shyness.
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