"Sorry to have troubled you, Third Brother."
Inside Pingyuan City, when Niu Da saw Zhang Xing enter surrounded by several others, his face was pale, and he struggled to rise on his couch, forcing out the words. "I know my own condition... a little rest and recuperation, and I'll be as good as new."
Zhang Xing visibly froze... the news he had received before coming was that the man had suffered both internal and external injuries and looked likely to be crippled if he survived at all. That was why he had ridden over at once.
What was going on now?
"This isn't just to comfort you, Dragonhead." Before Niu Da could speak again, Xiong Bonan answered first from beside him. "Great Dragonhead Niu's injuries are indeed quite serious, but we have to look at two sides: his bodily injuries, and the internal injury to his dantian... once his dantian recovers, with Great Dragonhead Niu's constitution, his external injuries should largely heal with gradual nursing... even taking ten thousand steps back, if this right foot never heals, with his Condensing the Core cultivation intact, how could it keep him from serving, whether at the front or behind it?"
Niu Da had condensed his core.
Understanding dawned on Zhang Xing, but he felt no puzzlement. Niu Da's cultivation and talent were both only slightly inferior to Xu Shiying's. As for any boost from earth qi, his position as a Great Chief holding a territory of his own was there for all to see. His condensing his core two years later than Xu Shiying had already made people wonder whether something was weighing on his mind.
"I see. Then how are the internal injuries?" With that thought, Zhang Xing hurried forward and took his hand on the couch.
"The internal injuries aren't