Chapter 893: Shun Long's decision
''Roaaaaar!''
Little Silver's roar was the first thing that broke the silence that had descended over the 'Endless Desert', as the black panther turned into a streak of silvery light, heading straight for Shun Long in the distance.
Staring at the 4-meter(13ft) tall black panther that was acting like a little child in front of him, excitedly rubbing its fur all over his face, Shun Long could only shake his head with a smile, before he affectionately patted Little Silver's head in response.
''Long-ge!''
''Brother Shun!''
Liu Mei, Xingyi, Bai Longtian, and Jiang Chen, seemed to have also noticed that he had woken up, as they all hurried over as well.
''Long-ge, are you okay?'' Liu Mei was the first one to arrive next to him, her enchanting, starry-like black eyes staring worriedly at Shun Long whose entire body was filled with wounds.
As she hurriedly sat down on the ground next to him, Liu Mei then took out a small jade bottle filled with pills and opened it, before she carefully took out a single emerald-colored pill and gently placed it into Shun Long's mouth.
At the same time, even Bai Longtian whose entire body was filled with hundreds of blade cuts, sucked in a cold breath when he realized that Shun Long's condition seemed to be even worse than his own.
It was obvious from the black scales around his body that Shun Long had already gone all-out and had even used his black dragon's bloodline, and yet his injuries were so severe that it was unknown whether he could even stand up on his own right now.
As for his internal injuries, Bai Longtian didn't want to estimate how badly he had been injured this time.
Although Shun Long was also a body cultivator like him, Bai Longtian could tell with complete certainty, that even a body cultivator wouldn't be able to recover from injuries of that degree without resting for at least a year.
Thankfully, the emerald pills that Liu Mei took out were top-grade rank 6 healing pills that Shun Long had personally refined while they were still back in the Northern Sovereign's estate.
The name of these pills was the 'Clear jade evergreen pills', and they were known as the most powerful type of recovery pills that anyone beneath the Dao Emperor realm could consume to heal their injuries.
In fact, these pills were no different from a second life to any Dao King realm cultivator.
Of course, the better the effects of a pill, the rarer it tended to be.
As for middle and high-grade 'Clear jade evergreen pills', they were so rare, that even the outer court Elders of the Holy sect couldn't get their hands on them that easily.
As for top-grade rank 6 'Clear jade evergreen pills', even the Elder responsible for the 'Refinement Hall' back in the Holy sect, Xingyi's master, Elder Mao Jing was unable to refine any of them!
This was why, the moment that any top-grade 'Clear jade evergreen pills' appeared on the market, peak rank 9 Dao Kings would scramble to buy them regardless of the price!
Of course, this was only natural as well. After all, to refine these pills, an alchemist didn't just require more than a dozen rank 6 medicinal herbs, but they also needed the beast core of a peak rank 6 magic beast.
As for whether the pills that came out in the end were low, middle, high-grade or top-grade ones, that entirely depended on the skills of the alchemist, as well as the quality of the medicinal herbs used.
After all, one would not only need a peak 1-star alchemist to have any hope of refining a batch of top-grade 'Clear jade evergreen pills', but they would have to use more than a dozen rank 6 medicinal herbs, each of them more than 900 years old.
To use all that along with the beast core of a peak rank 6 magic beast, just to have some hope of refining top-grade rank 6 healing pills, was something that almost no star-rank alchemist in the central region would do.
After all, rank 6 medicinal herbs were also needed as supplementary ingredients when these alchemists refined star-rank pills, so how could they possibly be willing to 'waste' them, trying to refine rank 6 pills, when it wasn't even guaranteed that the pills would end up as top-grade ones in the first place?
Throughout the entire central region, Shun Long was probably the only one who could afford to refine top-grade 'Clear jade evergreen pills' like that without batting an eye.
...
In the next moment, Shun Long could feel the texture of the pill melting in his mouth, as it turned into a stream of gentle energy that flowed throughout his entire body, before his injuries started to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the next moment, Liu Mei and the others saw the damaged black dragon scales around him slowly regain their original luster, before they gradually disappeared, revealing Shun Long's clear skin that they were covering underneath them.
Standing up from the ground, Shun Long then swept his gaze over the battlefield around him that was filled with the corpses of nearly a hundred Dao Kings, as well as Liu Mei's skeletons who were looting their bodies with practiced movements, looking like they had done this numerous times in the past, before his gaze eventually landed on Bai Longtian's injured left arm.
''Longtian, how do you feel?''
At the same time, Bai Longtian waved his hand with a nonchalant look the moment he noticed Shun Long's gaze, before he said with his usual easy-going smile
''Brother Shun, there is no need to worry about this. This is nothing to me. I simply didn't have the time to deal with these injuries earlier.''
Then, as if to prove his own words, Bai Longtian's body cultivation energy surged, before his injuries started to disappear as well.
In the first place, Bai Longtian and Little Silver were the only ones who had been injured in the fight against Yao Guanting's group, and since Bai Longtian's injuries weren't too serious, they were nothing that he couldn't deal with using his own body cultivation energy.
As for Little Silver's injuries, Shun Long didn't hesitate as he took out a top-grade 'Clear jade evergreen pill' and placed it inside the black panther's mouth.
Seeing Little Silver's injuries disappear as well, Shun Long nodded his head and swept his gaze over the battlefield around him once again, and after a moment of silent pondering, the look in his eyes turned incomparably cold as he said calmly
''Let's change plans!''