"This is wonderful!" Huang Xiao said, his face full of delighted surprise. "Senior Xuanyuan's injuries have mostly healed. That means we'll have a good chance against the Longevity Daoist in the future."
"Yes." Ji Shidao nodded. "Senior Xuanyuan is our mainstay."
He was, after all, a former Righteous Path Leader. With his injuries healed, even Ji Shidao felt considerably more at ease.
"Senior, how much longer will Senior Xuanyuan need to recover completely?" Huang Xiao asked.
"It shouldn't take more than a year." Ji Shidao smiled. "A year is nothing to us. His remaining injuries are already minor, almost too insignificant to worry about."
Huang Xiao let out a long breath.
When Ji Shidao had said earlier that Senior Xuanyuan could not yet be called fully recovered, Huang Xiao had actually assumed his injuries must still be fairly serious.
For an expert like Xuan Yuanjun, injuries that could slowly heal on their own over a dozen years, or even a hundred, did not count as serious. But a hundred years was still rather long for Huang Xiao.
If it would take only a year to recover completely, that truly was nothing to Senior Xuanyuan and the others. It also exceeded his expectations.
"Shall we go out now, then?" Huang Xiao asked. "I wonder whether Senior Xuanyuan has managed to unravel the formation here."
"He already has," Ji Shidao said. "The senior wasn't idle while healing his injuries. Come, follow me."
"Come along. However good these images are, you still have to rely on your own comprehension. Staying here longer might not do you much good. Instead, these images could limit your future achievements." Noticing Baili Zhen and Tan Ming's reluctance to leave, Ji Shidao could not help reminding them.
"Thank you, Senior. We nearly led ourselves astray," Tan Ming said,