(Dear readers, the book will be renamed "Lineage Cultivation World: Starting as a Spirit Plant Farmer" tomorrow.)
Fortunately, the Lineage had a fifth-rank pill refiner, Old Clan Head Ling Yunhong, while Ling Pengyun had mastered the cultivation of fifth-rank spirit plants. Over the years, he had grown many special medicinal herbs and given them to Ling Yunhong to refine into pills.
Their skills complemented each other, maximizing their gains.
Ling Pengyun now possessed a large stock of fifth grade low-rank Healing Pills, and even two fifth grade mid-rank Healing Pills.
Although their quality was fairly ordinary, their sheer quantity made up for it.
After swallowing five or six Healing Pills, the injuries to Ling Pengyun's meridians and divine sense immediately stabilized. His strength barely recovered to eighty or ninety percent of its peak, and a few more years of quiet recuperation would restore him completely.
As for his lost lifespan, ordinary Healing Pills could not replenish it.
However, Ling Pengyun had raised his Lifebound Spirit Tree, the Azure Fall Immortal Elder Tree, to fifth grade low-rank years ago. He also frequently drank tea brewed from the high-grade leaves it produced, greatly extending his lifespan beyond that of ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivators.
Although he was already a thousand years old, he still had three or four thousand years left to live.
Losing a mere hundred years was neither painful nor even an itch.
That, along with his plentiful Healing Pills, was precisely why he had dared to fight so desperately earlier.
The Xu Tian Flame Demon Tiger Emperor, on the other hand, was a dog driven from his home. He had spent considerable resources advancing to the nascent divinity middle stage in recent years, emptying his coffers. He had none of Ling Pengyun's means.
His remaining lifespan was even less comparable.