Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 249 An Incredible Miracle

Rocky took a deep breath. He had urgently tried to stop the hemorrhaging of blood. Then he strungthe high-toughness ligament which was acquired from a granary rat beast onto the bone-madeneedles. Once done, he started to close up the ruptured aorta.

Every single procedure required a high-level technique, which meant that every move took aconsiderable amount of effort. Rocky had only begun to put in a few stitches and yet he alreadybegan perspiring heavily.

It took two whole hours before Rocky was able to stitch the ruptured aorta together. He thenchecked the wound carefully before cautiously restoring the blood supply. He waited another fifteenminutes before he was sure that there were no leaking points around the suture. With no leakage,he let out a relieved breath.

Rocky finally began stitching up Verdanim's lower abdomen again. And eventually, the firstoperation was completed.

As this went on, Verdanim was visibly improving, particularly with the supplementary blood supply.His breathing was no longer labored.

With its condition looking better, Rocky took advantage of every moment and began the secondoperation. Compared to the first one, this would be even more challenging, but even more delicate.And the skill level came with higher requirements.

If Rocky were to fail this stage, Verdanim may never stand on his own feet again. But if he did not gothrough with the operation, there would be no other way for the dragon to ever stand up again. Thechances of success and failure were fifty-fifty. And it was all up to Rocky now.

Rocky lifted the badly twisted left limb onto a pile of straw with great care, where he studied theinjury with great care. With the help of Stroking Evaluation Skill, he determined that the extent ofthe fractured parts took up about 70% of the whole left limb, gathered mostly on the upperextremity.

"It looks like there is only one way to cope with this situation. Two iron plates will be needed toreplace the support function of bones. Then, magical saliva will be used to promote boneregeneration. But we still don't know whether the bone would ever fully heal afterward.” Rocky hadno idea what might happen after this, but there was ultimately no choice.

After he steeled himself for what he was about to do, he made up his mind and began operating itsleft limb right away. He carefully slit an opening on the skin and separated the muscles, pullingthem aside until he saw the bone. He found numerous bone fractures that varied in severity.Fortunately, the bone was not completely broken apart and there were still some connections whichgreatly helped the situation.

Rocky very carefully removed each bone fragment and cleaned up incision. After that, he took outthe magical saliva and applied several drops to the limb evenly. Then, he selected two iron plateswith proper sizes and thinned them with the Frozen Wind Dagger. He affixed them on both sides ofthe whole limb. Then, he cut some more iron plates into bars and put two of them inside the skinand muscle to stabilize the two plates to make sure the bone would not move as it healed.

Once completed, Rocky did not sew up the wound. Instead, he simply wrapped the whole limb withgauze and tied it to the base joint of Verdanim's left wing. Doing this would avoid the possiblenegative effects on the bone regeneration caused by unconscious movements.

The sun's lances deepened. It was late in the afternoon by now.

Two operations and the wound debridement were done. Rocky stood up, stretched out, and let outa relieved breath. It may not have gone as easily or as simply as he initially thought, but theoperations went well. He was glad that he'd had plenty of practice, making the likelihood of hissuccess improve. Without that time and effort, the operation might have ended up a mess.

As this happened, the toxicity of the Centipede-snake started to wear off. Slowly, Verdanim wasregaining consciousness.

"Do you feel better?” Rocky asked with some concern as he leaned over and felt Verdanim'sforehead.

Verdanim made a faint noise as though it understood. Knowing it was Rocky who saved him, helicked Rocky's hand gently.

"Your master is worried about you, big fellow. So you have to recover as quickly as you can, alright?Have a rest now. I will stay with you in your master's stead, ok?" Rocky comforted Verdanim with afaint smile, watching as the dragon slowly closed his eyes and fell back into slumber.

Once Verdanim slept, Rocky started cleaning up, putting all the instruments back to the basket andstraightening up the stable. He was afraid of the possible infection or implant rejection and wantedto make sure everything was copacetic. So he would need to remain alert for the whole night.Instead of sleep, he started his cultivation.

The next morning, concerned about Verdanim's injuries and how he was doing, Marin entered thestable just as Rocky finished and opened his eyes.

But when Marin noticed the severe wound on the dragon's lower abdomen, she was livid. "Whathave you done to Verdanim?!"

Rocky merely raised his eyes to Marin and stared without a single word. Then, completely ignoringher, he went to the Verdanim and checked the dragon's temperature, as well as the status of hissurgical incisions. He wanted to make sure that there were no signs of post-operative infection."Hello?!" furious at being ignored, Marin gesticulated to Rocky.

At this moment, Verdanim opened his giant eyes. Once he saw Marin, he let out a small cry.Immediately drawn by the sound and forgetting all her anger, Marin hurried to Verdanim's side,holding the enormous head in her arms. Because spirit manipulator and spirit-manipulated beastshared one bond, she immediately sensed that Verdanim had vastly improved since she last saw ityesterday, and that though not quite out of the woods, it was out of danger.

That was when Sheridan came into the stable.

"Verdanim seems to be fine now. There's not much left to be done. Everything else will depend onhis healing energies,” Rocky told its master as he stood

"Young man, what on earth did you do to Verdanim?" Sheridan demanded, stunned. He took a lookat Verdanim, who was now mewling in Marin's arms. It was astonishing; just yesterday Verdanimseemed at the brink of death, and yet it had now regained consciousness and was starting to actmore at ease. Even he could not have achieved such a success.

An odd smile appeared on Rocky's face. Of course, he had no plans on telling anyone the truth.Marin's voice rose again with a fresh flow of righteous anger. "Rocky, I'll want to know what you didto Verdanim yesterday or there'll be serious repercussions!”

"You're so annoying!" Rocky glared at her. Here he was having spent so much time and effort kindlysaving Verdanim's life and Marin couldn't even show appreciation. All he got was suspicion anddisrespect. No good deed goes unpunished, apparently.

"Marin, please, just calm down. Look, Verdanim's doing well, and it's fine! The young man iscertainly worthy of being my apprentice. Ha-ha!" Sheridan laughed in response.

"But why is there such a big wound on its abdomen? It wasn't there before! What if it leaves apermanent scar?!" Rocky gaped at her in utter disbelief, unable to fathom how Marin could befocusing on operation wounds and scarring right now.

He finally decided to just ignore this ridiculous girl and told Sheridan, "Verdanim's wound can't getwet no matter what. No one should allow any water to come in. That also means no baths, noscrubbing for a while. And it can only have grass and water for the next three days.” And with that,Rocky pulled the basket onto his back and strode out of the stable, planning to leave the farm."Marin..." With that admonishing tone, Sheridan made a gesture to Marin. Seeing this, Marinhesitated before she got to her feet. "Wait!" she shouted as she sprinted after Rocky.