After sorting through what he had gained and lost in that battle, Pan Long did not leave. He found a tall mountain nearby and began cultivating.
His instincts told him there was still something he needed to do with the Liu Family.
A little thought told him it most likely concerned Swallowfire's reincarnation.
Swallowfire needed to be reborn into a family with some strength that did not go looking for trouble. Old Master Liu's family, retired from the Martial World and settled in the countryside, was without a doubt the best choice.
They had strength, kept out of trouble, and had good connections in the Martial World.
The distant future was impossible to predict, but for the next decade or two, the Liu Family should remain secure.
Besides, Pan Long had obtained plenty of spirit medicines from the Dragon-Slaying Treasure: Heavenly-Lifespan Wine, which added sixty years to one's life, and the Heavenly Longevity Elixir, which added a hundred... Those were inconvenient to give away, but he could still give Old Master Liu a bottle of medicine that added twenty or thirty years.
The effects of Lifespan-Extending Spirit Medicine did not stack. Taking one that added twenty years, then one that added a hundred, would still add only a hundred years, not a hundred and twenty. He did not know whether Old Master Liu had taken any other such medicine, but that bottle would, at the very least, let the kindhearted veteran of the Martial World live a few more years.
Living to around a hundred and forty should be no problem.
That meant the old man had another twenty years himself. Even after his death, the goodwill he left behind should endure for another decade or two. Three or four decades altogether would be enough for the reincarnated Swallowfire to