Little Black nodded his head, as he watched Shun Long walking towards his usual seat, before he sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes.
After clearing his head, Shun Long summoned the 'Heaven swallowing vine', before he took out more than 10.000 middle-grade spirit stones.
The vine then started to rapidly swallow the middle-grade spirit stones that Shun Long fed to it, before it turned them into pure qi that filled the air around him.
Shun Long circulated the 'Monarch's Hourglass', as 81 bright balls of qi appeared above his head.
Shun Long then started absorbing the pure qi that the 'Heaven swallowing vine' extracted from the middle-grade spirit stones, replenishing the enormous amounts of qi that he had expended on top of the golden stairs earlier.