The original plan was that the airship would circle around the city for a short period of time before returning to the imperial capital. However, the plan could not keep up with the changes, and some other political issues arose along the way, forcing Chi Yao and his party to stay in a city for a few more days before entering the next city, and the time was stretched to nearly half a month. During

these ten days, Shi Xing lived a very... fulfilling life.

Yes, fulfilling.

As a newcomer to the team, Xu Jin took Shi Xing to familiarize himself with the configuration and entourage of their team at the beginning of the journey.

There were two airships in total. Chi Yao and his entourage occupied one, and the other was several times the size of the previous one. It housed more than a dozen elite Royal Guards and a professional medical team.

The military officers were except for Major General Fu Qing.

Along with Chi Yao Shixing, there was also Lieutenant General Tan Jue and Major General Xiang Fei. The personal guard was led by Lieutenant General Tan, with Major General Xiang as the deputy commander. Tan Jue's mental power level was SS, and Xiang Fei's mental power level was SSS. The mental power levels of more than a dozen soldiers were high and low, but they were all selected according to the highest standards, and none was lower than S level.

Xu Jin introduced two officers to Shixing, exchanged communication numbers, and told Shixing that he could call them if he had anything.

"Your Highness left a small number of the remaining officers and troops brought back from the border in the Tree Nest to be responsible for the safety of General Fei. The rest of the troops were transferred back to the imperial capital and reported for leave."

"Lieutenant General Qin and Major General Xiang do not follow Your Highness every time he travels. It is a rotation system. They happened to be here this time. I will introduce you to others in the future. Slowly, you will recognize all the direct officers under Your Highness."

"Major General Fu originally followed General Fei, and General Fei has always followed Your Highness. Indirectly, he has also followed Your Highness for a long time."

"Since you are here and are familiar with him, Your Highness asked him to accompany you to protect you. Before General Fei has completely rested and returned to the team, it should not change. You can ask him to accompany you when you go out alone. Don't be embarrassed."

After talking about the deployment, Xu Jin talked about the daily arrangements.

This was also Shi Xing's fixed schedule for the next ten days.

Study in the morning, and go to the medical team for a routine checkup in the afternoon. Since Shi Xing still needs time to absorb the crystal beast core and train his mental strength, he can arrange the rest of the time according to his own situation.

Xu Jin: "His Highness said that you should study slowly, and there is no rush. If he can spare time in the evening, he will give you an hour-long lecture on the history of the empire. It's just right for you to spend some time together."

A week passed, and Shi Xing lived an orderly life according to this arrangement.

It may be that his mental state plummeted too quickly due to the last intensive study. The re-arranged schedule refers to the work and rest rules of the Tree Nest. The study is heavier than that of the Tree Nest, but it is within the acceptable range for Shi Xing.

He is determined to study hard, but Chi Yao still leaves him a lot of leeway.

Chi Yao: "The maturity period is two to three years. Some etiquette and rules don't need to be arranged so seriously. The elders can check it randomly. Anyway, it's not in front of the public. Regardless of their opinions, Shi Xing's health is the most important thing."

"The responsibilities and rights of the royal family's direct spouse are the main content of teaching. If you are not sure, tell me and I will teach you."

"As for the rights naturally given to him by the empire, I hope he can get started as soon as possible."

"Of course, the premise is still based on his health."

Chi Yao drew a clear and clear boundary. Shi

Xing adapted for two days and got used to this daily routine.

After leaving Ancheng, he finally felt that his spiritual sea began to stabilize. He intuitively felt that he was about to enter the first stage of maturity. In the afternoon, he absorbed the crystal beast core and basically soaked in the spiritual training room.

His feeling was right.

The daily check-up also provided data support.

On the fifth day, Shi Xing finally felt that his mental power could be used as he wished, and the feeling of being unable to mobilize completely disappeared. After the examination, the doctor confirmed that Shi Xing had officially entered the first stage of the Blue Star people's maturity.

The medical community generally divides the maturity of Blue Star people into two stages.

The first stage is a period of rapid growth of the mental power of the spiritual sea.

In the second stage, this growth slows down, but a large number of new mental threads will be generated in the spiritual sea that has expanded in the first stage.

The breadth and depth of the spiritual sea determines the lower limit of the level, and the density of the mental threads determines the upper limit of the level. For

a spiritual sea of ​​the same size, if the density of the mental threads can double, the level will also jump one level.

Therefore, both stages are extremely important.

When entering the mature stage, the spiritual sea is the most unstable. After this stage, Shi Xing can find someone to test his abilities.

The level of talent assessment in this life is higher than the previous two lives, and the initial spiritual sea is also wider. Shi Xing wants to see what stage he is in now, and whether he is stronger or weaker than when he lost his abilities.

To practice talents and abilities, Shi Xing first thought of Fu Qing.

In the spiritual training room, the two tried for two days, and Shi Xing finally mobilized his talents thoroughly again and saw the full picture of the spiritual sea in the energy world.

"Have you been injured?" Shi Xing asked, and his spiritual power brushed over a place, saying, "A bunch of spiritual threads here have withered."

Fu Qing only felt a warm energy pouring down, and felt very comfortable.

"It was touched by the energy of the mutant beast, and it was treated at the periphery of the spiritual sea." Fu Qing said it honestly.

Shi Xing understood.

Imperial medical treatment can also extract the violent spiritual power at the periphery of the spiritual sea to a certain extent, but it is helpless for the subsequent repair and recuperation of the spiritual sea.

Shi Xing: "Let me try, can I help you stimulate it."

Fu Qing thought he heard it wrong, "stimulate it?"

Shi Xing: "Well, if you heal this part, new spiritual threads should grow out again. The withering is because there is a hidden injury at the bottom of the spiritual sea."

Fu Qing was stunned. He had never heard that a doctor could heal an old injury that had already healed.

Shi Xing understood what he was thinking and explained, "I can. It has something to do with talent. The injured area has a different color. If it can be healed back to its original color, there is a high probability that the spiritual thread can grow back."

It was like this before.

The difference is that Shi Xing will not practice with SS-level officers as soon as he arrives.

Realizing that he can recover, Fu Qing was excited for a moment, but after the excitement, he felt embarrassed and scratched his head and said, "Then do I have to pay for the medical expenses and find some high-grade crystals..."

"No need." Shi Xing refused with a smile, "I should be responsible for the team members I'm in charge of. Besides, you're here to help me train my abilities, how can I have the nerve to charge you for it."

After the agreement was made, Shi Xing began to try to treat Fu Qing the next day.

In the past, he had treated A-level and S-level officers, so it was indeed more difficult to treat SS-level officers. Once the healing mental power was condensed, it would be quickly absorbed.

But Shi Xing found that his mental power had increased in strength. Facing the SS-level mental sea, he could actually penetrate from the sea surface to the bottom of the sea, and he could also clearly sense the situation where the mental power passed.

The treatment took two days, and on the third day, he continued to use his ability to induce the growth of the mental thread.

On the evening of the last day, after Shi Xing withdrew his spiritual power, beads of sweat oozed from his forehead. It was not because of overuse of spiritual power, but because of fatigue caused by the need for precise control of spiritual power.

Fu Qing said in surprise, "It really grew out!"

"Oh my God, I didn't expect... Xingxing, you are so amazing!"

Shi Xing calmed his breath and smiled, "It's nothing, the spiritual thread is still fragile now, and it will take some time to fully condense and be usable." He gave an approximate time, "One or two months, depending on your own situation, it varies from person to person."

Fu Qing didn't care much about these details, thanked again and again, and praised Shi Xing so much that he felt a little embarrassed.

Thinking of something, Fu Qing's eyes suddenly lit up, "Since my old injuries can be cured, then His Highness's spiritual sea..."

Shi Xing: "If my spiritual power can penetrate into it, it can be cured."

"According to the current situation, I should be able to solve all the problems of His Highness's spiritual sea. As for the middle and inner layers, it depends on how high my level can reach after the maturity period."

Chi Yao's spiritual power is strong, the most core area, Shi Xing intuitively feels that he can only try it after the maturity period.

Speaking of this, Shi Xing is a little depressed, "His Highness won't let me see his spiritual sea, saying that I can't afford it now."

Fu Qing: "His Highness is thinking about you."

"I know, it's just... I don't think I'm that fragile."

But this is only said between familiar people. It's a bit ungrateful to say it in front of His Highness.

Shi Xing naturally knew it, and explained, "I just want to help as much as I can."

Chi Yao is very good to him, and he also wants to play his role as much as possible.

After a pause, Shi Xing asked in a low voice, "Your Highness's recent mental state is not very good?"

Although he didn't tell him, Shi Xing noticed that the frequency of doctors going back and forth between the two spaceships has increased.

And every time he goes back and forth, he can always see Xu Jin accompanying him. It goes without saying that besides him, who else needs a doctor on this spaceship.

Fu Qing obviously knew about it, and when Shi Xing asked, he looked a little embarrassed.

Shi Xing had a flash of inspiration, "Your Highness doesn't allow everyone to tell me?"

"Well, it's not that I'm not allowed."

Shi Xing scratched his head, and he healed his hidden injury. After closing his eyes, Fu Qing still said, "Your Highness said that your ability is still weak. This year, his treatment arrangements are the same as in previous years. Don't tell anyone unless there is a big problem."

Fu Qing smiled awkwardly, "Your Highness said that you should take care of yourself and be fine."

Shi Xing: "..."

Although he wanted to refute, but the last time Chi Yao's mental power leaked, he did feel that the difference in ability between the two was as big as a chasm.

In the past and now, he has come into contact with quite a few military officers. There have been cases where he couldn't see clearly when using his ability, but it was the first time he encountered a situation where he used his ability to observe, but was sensed by the other party's mental power and rebounded and backfired.

Shi Xing wanted to say something but felt that he had no position. After a while, he just nodded and said, "I understand."

Before dinner in the evening, he saw the doctor coming and going again. When he passed by him, he heard a few words.

These included words like mutant star beast and residual energy.

Shi Xing thought about it and roughly understood that it should be the residual energy of the star beast that caused the leakage of His Highness's mental power last time.

If... Shi Xing looked at his hands, not sure if he could channel this energy now.

After thinking about it for a whole night, he decided to follow his own plan first. Since His Highness didn't want to tell him, he would just ask Fu Qing secretly.

That day, Shi Xing felt the fluctuation of mental power again. It was very subtle and disappeared before he could catch it.

He had nothing to do at the time and was free, so he wouldn't feel wrong. When

asked about Fu Qing, Fu Qing said nothing.

Shi Xing was confused as to why, and began to doubt whether what he sensed was actually a fluctuation of mental power, so he suppressed it again.

Fortunately, the frequency of the doctor's visit decreased in the second week, and the worry on Officer Xu's face was less. Shi Xing asked Chi Yao several times in a roundabout way, and the answer he got was very official, "Don't worry about it, I will tell you if I need you."

Shi Xing: "..."

He had a feeling that even if he was needed, he probably wouldn't be told.

Well, he was very weak, at least compared to His Highness, he admitted that he was.

But the training had to continue. He had practiced with Fu Qing and reported to Chi Yao. Within the scope of his ability, if the officers were willing, he would allow Shi Xing to find someone to cooperate in practicing abilities and talents.

Before Shi Xing took the initiative to ask on another warship, Fu Qing took the lead to bring Major General Xiang Fei over.

Fu Qing: "It's like this. When he killed the star beast, some of the star beast's spiritual power remained in the periphery of his spiritual sea. He has been treating it for a long time, but it has no effect. I thought, since you have to find someone to practice with anyway, why don't you give it a try?" "

But don't force yourself. Major General Xiang is SSS-level."

Shi Xing didn't say much, just said, "Let me take a look first."

Under the natural ability, there is indeed an ability to flow around the spiritual sea, and it can also move in the spiritual sea.

Shi Xing understood that the spiritual power of the star beast can penetrate the spiritual sea. When the instrument is treating, it will determine the point at the beginning, and then extract it in a targeted manner. If the movement speed remains at the level he sees, it is estimated that after determining the point, this energy will flow to other places in the spiritual sea, and it will be difficult to capture.

So the effect is not obvious.

When thinking of this, Shi Xing's eyelashes covered his eyes. Xiang Fei was also injured when he killed the mutant monster. Then, is the energy in His Highness's spiritual sea also moving?

This hypothesis seems to explain why the disorder repeats.

"I'll give it a try." Shi Xing said at last.

The process of trying was easier than he thought. As soon as his mental power touched the star beast, before he could attract it, the wild current that was causing trouble seemed to be dissolved under his mental power.

Shi Xing was surprised.

Major General Xiang Fei was surprised and surprised.

Shi Xing felt that his body seemed to have undergone changes that he didn't know about.

When Major General Xiang left, he said a lot of thank you words like Fu Qing did last time, and made Shi Xing embarrassed again, and then sent him away.

As soon as he returned to the main cabin, the feeling of energy fluctuation came again.

Shi Xing was very sure of its existence this time. It

was vaguely and inexplicably familiar.

Shi Xing felt it for a while, and the fluctuation did not decrease but increased.

Fu Qing's exclamation beside him instantly awakened Shi Xing, "Your Highness's spiritual power is leaking again."

Shi Xing: "Can you feel it?"

Fu Qing misunderstood, "Can't you feel it?"

Shi Xing suddenly realized what the spiritual power fluctuations that only he could sense before were.

It was real, not an illusion...

Only he could feel it because...

"Your Highness?"

"Is Your Highness okay?"

Almost at the moment when Xu Shiguan and Yan Shiguan ran out to meet, Shi Xing erected a spiritual power barrier, including everyone in the main cabin.

After passing the early stage of maturity, his barrier has become tough.

Xu Jin looked flustered, "Didn't you say I wouldn't..."

He started to complain and then forced it down. Now was not the time to complain.

Xu Jin forced himself to think of a countermeasure and said, "It has just started to leak, and it is still very minor. Everyone should evacuate the ship immediately?"

Without waiting for Fu Qing to reply, Shi Xing opened his hands, and the mental barrier instantly covered the entire main body of the cabin.

Shi Xing clenched his palms, and with a high degree of concentration, the barrier shrank again, and shrank again, until they all left the inside of the barrier.

The expansion and contraction took only a blink of an eye, too short, and Xu Jin had no time to react. A wave of mental power exploded from the main cabin and swept across...

He turned his face away subconsciously, but the mental power did not sweep over him.

Looking up again, Xu Jin realized what happened, and subconsciously called out, "Shi Xing!"

In front of them, Shi Xing's barrier completely blocked the mental power fluctuations.

No, it should be said that it was Shi Xing's mental barrier that trapped Chi Yao inside, and all the chaotic mental fluctuations were also trapped inside.

Xu Jin's eyes widened, "Quickly stop, His Highness's mental strength is more than..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the barrier shrink again and push inward. Shi Xing said, "I know."

"But I can still control it now."

"I'll try to interrupt and suppress it before the chaos breaks out."

Xu Jin: "?"

The moment he heard it clearly, Xu Jin understood every word, but he couldn't understand the meaning of the whole sentence.

Shi Xing said that he wanted to suppress it before it broke out? !

In theory, it is not impossible. For mental disorder, many doctors do this.

- Stifle it before it starts.

But, but!

That's His Highness! !

In reality, Xu Jin has never seen a doctor who can use mental power to soothe His Highness's spiritual sea at the beginning, and forcibly interrupt the disorder and leakage of mental power!

Xu Jin and Shi Xing's words came out at the same time.

Xu Jin: "Come back, don't be stubborn."

Shi Xing: "You get off the boat first, I'll try, if it doesn't work, stop, His Highness's mental power won't cause any harm to me, I'll follow you down."

Xu Jin reached out to grab Shi Xing.

But Shi Xing was faster than him, following the barrier that shrank back again, and ran out to Chi Yao's room.

In the chaos, Xu Jin was pulled off the airship by Fu Qing. Before getting off the boat, the second wave of mental power leakage within the line of sight exploded again, and the energy swept out and touched Shi Xing's barrier, but was firmly locked inside the barrier.