Chi Yao was moved and said affirmatively, "You are a good mother."

Mrs. Campbell responded with a proper smile.

The qualification to purchase the red ore was thus settled.

Chi Yao lowered his head for a moment and asked, "I have something else to do. Madam, can you let me and Marshal Tan be alone for a while?"

Leaving Mrs. Campbell aside would undoubtedly involve the internal affairs of the empire. Mrs. Campbell nodded. What she had been thinking about had been accomplished. After asking the servant to add more tea, she bowed and left with satisfaction.

Mrs. Campbell agreed decisively, but Tan Baishan felt uncomfortable. After the lady left, he couldn't help but said, "Your Majesty, your request is really embarrassing for her."

Chi Yao didn't care and asked, "You don't think that I was planning to come to the North at first, right?"

Tan Baishan choked and realized belatedly that he was biased.

If Chi Yao didn't need the red ore crystal, then with his status, there was no need for Shi Xing to take the risk of giving Tan Chi treatment and bring people to the appointment.

Yes, with Chi Yao's thoughtful character, he would have refused this invitation from the beginning.

Marshal Tan Baishan pinched his eyebrows and sighed, "I was wrong, Your Majesty, please forgive me."

Chi Yao understood, "You and your wife have always had a good relationship." If they

have a good relationship, they can't bear to see the other suffer, even in front of the Majesty of their own country.

Tan Baishan laughed, "Your Majesty, please don't tease me."

Chi Yao smiled without saying anything. It was a joke, but also a fact. Both of them knew it well.

After a pause, when Tan Baishan calmed down, Chi Yao methodically told him that the Elders wanted to deprive Shi Xing of his rights.

Tan Baishan was confused at first, but after hearing the rest, he no longer realized why Chi Yao said this to him, and he was confused.

Tan Baishan's eyes darkened slightly, "Your Majesty, do you want me to support Shi Xing?"

Facing his subordinates, Chi Yao said calmly, "No, I want the Seventh Army to support Shi Xing."

If Mrs. Campbell's arrangement for the qualification to purchase the red ore had already made Tan Baishan feel that it was a heavy price to pay, then Chi Yao's words made him feel the huge pressure directly.

Tan Baishan's tone became stiff, "Is this also part of the treatment cost?"

To his surprise, Chi Yao shook his head, "No." "

The qualification to purchase red ore is enough. If there is still something missing, it is also a reward from the Empire for negotiating." Tan

Baishan's tense expression relaxed.

Chi Yao said slowly, "The situation is not yet determined, and I have no intention of forcing the Marshal. Even if it is support, what I want is the willingness of the senior leaders of the Seventh Army, not an exchange of interests." Tan

Baishan said honestly, "In fact, what the Elders' Council said is not unreasonable."

Chi Yao insisted, "But it is not the result I want."

The pair of smoky gray eyes were cold, and once they looked at each other, Tan Baishan could feel Chi Yao's determination.

Having experienced two emperors, for a moment, Tan Baishan seemed to see the late emperor in Chi Yao.

He was a ruler who was flexible and decisive.

Chi Yao changed his self-proclaimed name, "The elders' council's way of doing things makes sense, but it is not suitable for the way of life of the royal family."

"Shi Xing can be like this as Chi Yao's partner."

"But as the partner of His Majesty the Empire, as another leader of the empire, he can't be like this."

After a pause, Chi Yao said more bluntly, "If there is any accident in the middle, you don't really think that as my partner, he can get away with it if he behaves himself?"

This sentence contained too much information, and Tan Baishan's mind had already jumped out of several situations, and his pupils shrank.

"Your Majesty..."

Chi Yao interrupted with a wave of his hand, "It's just a hypothesis."

Chi Yao: "I'm not like you think, I want to take back all the power at once. Internal affairs have always been controlled by the Senate and the Council of Elders. If I don't get the support of both, forcing will lead to more problems. I know."

And with Shi Xing's current political accomplishment, he can't get into the political affairs in the short term, so it doesn't matter to him whether he has this power or not.

"Regardless of other things, the leadership of the First Army is a must."

"He should have the right to lead and mobilize my private army."

Shi Xing's mature growth is also in the army, which is complementary. Chi Yao taught him and he was able to get started soon.

Besides, with his ability, as long as he has the leadership and treats some officers in the First Army, he will soon be able to gain everyone's recognition from the bottom of their hearts.

Tan Baishan understood and believed that Chi Yao really just wanted to give Shi Xing a way to protect himself.

But this was still not a trivial matter.

Tan Baishan hesitated.

Fortunately, Chi Yao did not ask him to give an answer immediately.

He paused and returned to his normal speaking tone.

"I don't think this long-awaited issue can be resolved in a day or two. We should stay in the northern border for some time. During this time, I will personally teach Shi Xing about his legal rights and what they mean. When he makes a decision, I will come to ask you, Marshal."

Chi Yao: "I personally think Shi Xing is qualified."

"During this period, you can also observe his character and make it easier to make a final decision."

After taking a sip of tea, Chi Yao ended the conversation and said, "Here is the tribute tea from Campbell Star. Thank you for your hospitality."

Chi Yao hadn't come back yet, but Yun Wu found Shi Xing.

The doctor was also in a low mood, but still politely said, "Can I ask the little prince about the specific situation of Brother Chi's spiritual sea?"

Shi Xing was flattered and waved his hand quickly, "Doctor Yun, you should still call me Shi Xing, no need to be so formal."

Seeing that Shi Xing was serious, Yun Wu changed his name.

The two of them switched to another side to chat privately.

Shi Xing was curious, "What do you think of Tan Chi's spiritual sea?"

Yun Wu smiled bitterly, "My spiritual power level is only S. At the beginning, I could only enter the outer layer of Brother Chi's spiritual sea. Later, after passing the maturity period, my spiritual power can reach the middle of Brother Chi's spiritual sea. It is not possible to go further in."

Yun Wu: "This is after we have thought of many ways, and I have subsequently absorbed some of Brother Chi's spiritual power, so that my spiritual power can be more gentle to him."

Shi Xing nodded and understood.

No wonder Yun Wu has never noticed that Tan Chi's spiritual sea is drying up.

First of all, the drying speed has been very slow.

Secondly, and most importantly, Tan Chi was injured in the most central and fatal place in the spiritual sea. With Yun Wu's level, he is destined not to be able to sense such a core area.

Shi Xing: "Lieutenant General Tan was injured in the center of his spiritual sea."

Yun Wu knew that Tan Chi said it himself, and everyone in the Tan family knew it.

Shi Xing gestured and described, "What I saw was this: the spiritual power in the center was not pure and did not completely belong to Lieutenant General Tan. The surrounding spiritual sea was affected by the scar in the center, and the spiritual filaments radiating outward from the wound were withering."

Yun Wu couldn't help but blink, "You mean, after so many years, the destructive spiritual power of the star beast..."

Shi Xing nodded, "It should still remain inside."

"And because of the three factors of the star beast's high level, a fatal blow, and the lack of a suitable doctor, that destructive spiritual power has not completely disappeared."

Yun Wu covered his mouth in disbelief, "Brother Chi never said that."

Shi Xing lowered his eyes, but he understood, "Because it's useless to say it."

"The spiritual power of the imperial people cannot penetrate into the spiritual sea of ​​others. The healer's can, but there was no healer of the corresponding level at that time who could guide this residual energy from his spiritual sea. If I tell you, you can't do it, and it will only increase your treatment pressure."

Yun Wu's eyes were red.

Shi Xing couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Tan Chi took into account the feelings of everyone in the Tan family.

But he didn't consider his own.

Or maybe, he knew that there was no way, and in fact, he had already given up in his heart.

Shaking his head, not thinking about those frustrated thoughts, Shi Xing said to Yun Wu, "Even if there is residual mental power, after so many years, the strength must have been greatly weakened. It won't be difficult for me to guide it out. The real difficulty in healing is that this residual mental power has not been channeled in time, and the secondary trauma caused continues. The inner and middle layers of the general's spiritual sea may have been infiltrated by it, and the bottom may have coexisted with it."

Facing Yun Wu's hesitant expression Shi Xing affirmed, "Yes, there may be very subtle violent mental power at the bottom of the spiritual sea, which needs to be channeled and treated at the same time." Shi

Xing: "The mental filaments at the bottom of the spiritual sea that I cured can regenerate and grow. The mental filaments of Lieutenant General Tan..."

After a pause, Shi Xing lowered his voice because he had seen many severely damaged spiritual seas, "There are still some on the outer layer, but from the middle layer to the inner layer, especially the inner layer, they have all withered because of the remaining mental power."

"This is also a difficulty in treatment."

Shi Xing's mental strength is only SS level. The mental filaments inside Tan Chi's spiritual sea are withered, so treatment requires that his mental power can fully penetrate into Tan Chi's spiritual sea.

At the beginning of the treatment, Tan Chi's spiritual sea was weak, which might be okay, but as the treatment progressed, and the spiritual threads in the middle layer of Tan Chi's spiritual sea continued to grow, and the spiritual power continued to increase, in the later stage, Shi Xing's spiritual power might not be strong enough.

But...

"The self-healing ability of the spiritual sea and the replenishment and regeneration of the spiritual threads are normally from the inside out."

"If the inner core of Lieutenant General Tan's spiritual sea, that is, the injured part, cannot be completely healed, then it will be very troublesome for him to use his spiritual power in the future."

If there is no self-healing ability, it is like not being able to bleed. Patients with immune system diseases are fine when they are usually well, but as long as they bleed, as long as Tan Chi's spiritual sea is slightly injured during use, they must receive corresponding treatment, which is not a long-term solution.

Yun Wu was briefly depressed after hearing this, but she quickly cheered up.

"It won't be worse than it is now. As long as it is treated, it will definitely be better than it is now."

"Let's think about the final problem later. Let's solve the previous problems first."

Shi Xing saw her like this and smiled, "I think so too."

It's better to be cured a little bit. It's better to be cured than not to be cured. As for the extent of the cure and whether it can be fully recovered, that's all for later.

Yun Wu said sincerely, "Even if Chi Ge can no longer lead the army in the end, at least his spiritual sea has not dried up, he will not be laughed at as a useless person, and his body will be much better."

Shi Xing: "It's good that you think so."

Yun Wu was infected by Shi Xing and smiled, correcting him, "Not only me, but our whole family should think so."

A little better, a little better, even if it's not much, the Tan family is happy.

With the return of Chi Yao, Shi Xing discussed and officially decided to treat Tan Chi.

In the evening, they were warmly entertained by the Tan family.

Shi Xing was even more so. During the meal, not only did Chi Yao pick up food for him, but the Tan family members around him also picked up food for him, one person with a chopstick, and soon Shi Xing's bowl was piled high.

The child was very enthusiastic about thanking everyone, so whenever he showed that he wanted to eat something, someone would quickly bring it to him.

When he left, Shi Xing was full and burped when he returned to his residence.

Seeing Shi Xing's eyes red from the discomfort, Chi Yao was very happy. He took the initiative to get a glass of water for him and handed it to him, "Here's a folk remedy. Drink a big mouthful of water and swallow it in seven times."

Shi Xing didn't care about being polite at this time. He took it quickly, gulped down a few big mouthfuls, and finally calmed down.

The corners of Shi Xing's eyes were red from the hiccups. After the hiccups stopped, he touched his stomach and said uncomfortably, "I can't eat so much next time."

Chi Yao imitated the tone of his family members urging him to eat, and urged, "Xingxing is still growing, eat more~"

Shi Xing's expression was painful, "Your Highness, don't joke with me."

"I'm really uncomfortable."

Chi Yao's smile was slightly restrained, and he tried not to look so gloating, "I'll ask Xu Jin to get you some medicine for digestion?"

Shi Xing changed color when talking about medicine, "No!" After that, he felt that his reaction was a bit extreme, and added, "I'm healthy, so I don't take medicine."

At the end of his life, he got handfuls of medicine every day, and also had to get infusions and injections. Shi Xing was scared.

Chi Yao sensed something and his expression softened. "But it's not a good idea to hold on like this. Don't ruin it."

Shi Xing touched his belly in despair, "It's bulging."

Chi Yao looked at Shi Xing for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand, precisely positioned, and pressed on his stomach.

Shi Xing: "Your Highness, please use more force, I can vomit."

"Rub it?"

Shi Xing was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding, until Chi Yao really began to rub his stomach patiently, he realized what the other party was saying.

Well, it is true, it will be better, but...

looking at the long fingers on his clothes, Shi Xing felt that it was a waste of God's gift. Is Your Highness's hand suitable for helping him do this? He

was in a daze, confused and panicked, and when Shi Xing came back to his senses, it had been a while.

Chi Yao patiently asked him, "Are you feeling better?"

When he met those smoky gray eyes, Shi Xing was startled, and like an octopus, he used his hands and feet to retreat a few inches on the sofa, his eyes wide open, "Your Highness!"

"Well, what's wrong?"

Shi Xing: "You, what are you doing, you...how can you...you..."

Shi Xing's words were incoherent.

Chi Yao listened for a while, understood, and helped him to complete, "How can I help you rub your belly?"

After getting Shi Xing's affirmation, he used his own spear to attack his shield, "Why can't I?"

Shi Xing was dumbfounded.

Chi Yao pulled him back by his wrist, but Shi Xing covered his stomach with his hands, his ears turned red, and he refused to give it.

Chi Yao didn't force him. He observed him and asked, "Didn't you say you would hold it? But you don't want to take medicine. Now you don't want to hold it anymore?"

Shi Xing was so ashamed that his ears turned redder and he insisted, "I will hold it, but I can do it myself. No, I don't need you."

What are Chi Yao's hands for? In Shi Xing's impression, he used them to review documents with markers and sign various official documents and decrees in the empire. In his imagination, he should also use weapons to kill star beasts... In short, in short, it's not for rubbing his stomach.

Let alone rubbing, just thinking about it makes Shi Xing feel guilty!

Chi Yao looked at him with interest, and Shi Xing's ears couldn't hide the redness and he chuckled.

"Okay, you don't need me."

Chi Yao said slowly, with a rising tone at the end, which tickled Shi Xing's heart like a little hook.

Shi Xing felt that he might be cooked by the torment in his heart, so he closed his eyes, suppressed his helplessness, and affirmed, "Well, you don't need to do these."

After a moment of silence, Shi Xing was feeling uneasy, and suddenly heard a chuckle.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Chi Yao was very happy.

Chi Yao smiled and said, "You are not young, but you have a heavy burden of saving face."

Shi Xing: "..."

I'm not afraid of being embarrassed!

I just think it's inappropriate for Your Highness, who is honored by gold and jade, to do such a thing!

Looking at the overjoyed Chi Yao, Shi Xing: "..."

Taking the pillow on the side, Shi Xing put it directly on his face.

He didn't know how to explain, so he gave up explaining.

Just do whatever Your Highness says, don't tease him, he's holding on!

The first treatment for Tan Chi was scheduled to start a week later as agreed. During this period, Shi Xing absorbed half of his beast core and tried his best to be treated in the best condition.

The treatment location was still the energy-sealed room of the Tan family.

At Shi Xing's request, Yun Wu also helped him on the side.

Shi Xing was a little nervous before entering the door. He couldn't help but glance at Chi Yao, as if he knew what he was thinking. Chi Yao raised his chin and said to him, "Go, just do your best, don't consider anything else."

"If..."

Chi Yao interrupted, "There is no if. The Tan family has no requirements, and you don't have to bear any burden. Just do what you have to do. Whatever extent you can cure, that's it, okay?"

Shi Xing nodded.

Before entering the room, as if looking for something to support him, he suddenly grabbed Chi Yao's wrist with both hands.

Chi Yao thought Shi Xing wanted to shake hands, but as soon as he raised his arm, Shi Xing retracted his movement and turned to enter the closed room.

The first day of treatment lasted a long time, from morning to evening.

At noon, everyone had a meal and took a break. Shi Xing and Yun Wu exchanged a few words, took a nap, and continued in the afternoon.

The doctors were all very tired.

The patient's condition was not very good. The root cause of the disease had accumulated for too long. It would be painful to start treatment abruptly, like scraping bones to heal wounds.

The violent mental power that had already merged with the spiritual sea was being drawn out, like a wooden thorn that had grown into the flesh. It did not belong to him, but he had already adapted to it. After adapting, he would cut open his flesh and blood and draw it out one by one... This process was bound to be uncomfortable.

In the evening, Chi Yao came to pick up Shi Xing. Shi Xing was sweating profusely. He pulled Chi Yao's sleeve and told his family tiredly, "My mental power seems to have a miraculous effect in channeling the violent mental power of the star beast."

"The remaining parts trapped in the spiritual sea have all been channeled."

"But those that have penetrated the bottom of the spiritual sea and have merged with the seabed of the spiritual sea will still require a long time to slowly channel and peel off." "

I've discussed this with Yun Wu. We are afraid that the mental threads will grow, and it will be more difficult to peel off the mental power at the bottom of the seabed. We will ignore the mental threads for now, and focus on completing the task of extracting the remaining mental power."

After a pause, Shi Xing closed his eyes.

"About one or two weeks."

"After one or two weeks, we will start to treat the spiritual sea."

"When the time comes, we will know whether the spiritual threads inside the spiritual sea that has been damaged so badly can grow again."

After hearing this, the Tan family nodded and thanked Shi Xing.

Shi Xing smiled and did not take credit for it, "Doctor Yun has also paid a lot."

Yun Wu's spiritual power was mainly not high enough before, and he could not enter the spiritual sea of ​​Tan Chi, but with Shi Xing here, this problem was solved quite smoothly. As long as Shi Xing's spiritual power goes in first, with the high-level spiritual power of the Blue Star people paving the way, even if the effect is not as good as Shi Xing's, Yun Wu's spiritual power can also enter places that he cannot reach normally under the coverage of his spiritual power.

Shi Xing's spiritual power has poor endurance, and Yun Wu is already a doctor, so his spiritual power is more abundant.

It can be said that during the treatment, the two of them complement each other.

Shi Xing's estimate was correct. In a week and a half, he and Yun Wu had completely combed through Tan Chi's spiritual sea, leaving only his own spiritual power.

On the day when the combing was completed, Tan Chi breathed a sigh of relief, and Tan's family also found that his complexion was better than before.

The next step was treatment.

After discussing with Yun Wu, they started the treatment from the outside as usual.

Shi Xing selected a spiritual sea area where not a single spiritual thread was left, and he and Yun Wu planned to try this area first. If this area could be cured back to normal and the spiritual threads could grow again, then Tan Chi would have a chance to fully recover.

Otherwise, if the spiritual threads could not grow again, then the treatment would have come to an end.

Further treatment would be in vain.

Shi Xing and Yun Wu knew the key to this period, and so did the Tan family.

Everyone would go to the energy room to watch when they had nothing to do. Even if they didn't say a word, they could help them mix water and deliver fruits.

Among them, Tan Yan came the most frequently.

Another week passed, and the good news was that the spiritual seabed was changing back to normal. The bad news was that they still didn't know if they could be completely cured back to the original state.

One day, when Tan Yan came to serve tea and water again, Shi Xingtong informed him, "I used my innate ability to observe that the color of General Tan's spiritual sea is about to return to normal." Tan

Yan's hands trembled, "So?"

Shi Xing said seriously, "So, whether new spiritual threads can be stimulated depends on the next period of time."

This news was passed on by Tan Yan and Yun Wu, and all members of the Tan family knew it that night.

Knowing this, while waiting, everyone held their breath and prayed silently, hoping that good news would come again.

But for the next week, Shi Xing and Yun Wu continued to treat, and Tan Chi's spiritual sea continued to absorb their healing spiritual power, but the spiritual threads were slow to grow.

One day, Tan Yan got anxious and sensed something, so he asked Shi Xing, "Is it over today? Can't we continue for a while?"

Tan Yan sensed that Shi Xing still had a lot of mental power left.

Shi Xing refused, "No."

Shi Xing knew what he was thinking, and replied seriously, "I will help your highness sort out the spiritual sea in the evening, and this mental power is for your highness!"

Tan Yan: "..."

No wonder, he was saying how come Shi Xing still had so much mental power left every time after the treatment every day!

He was ignorant! He had to

ask.

At that moment, facing Shi Xing's clean eyes, Tan Yan suddenly wanted to respond with a "woof".

The Tan family was anxious, and Chi Yao also asked a few questions.

Later, he also came to take a look.

Tan Chi seemed a little discouraged, but Shi Xing was optimistic. "As long as your spiritual sea can absorb healing spiritual power, it means there is still a problem. As long as it is not completely healed and no spiritual threads are growing, I think you can continue the treatment."

The result was that half a week had passed and it was still the same.

Yun Wu felt a little uncomfortable. Tan's family's words changed from persuading Tan Chi not to give up to saying it was okay, and it was good now. Even if there were no more spiritual threads and the spiritual sea was downgraded, it was at least not completely dry.

After another half a week, Tan Chi's spiritual sea did not absorb much healing spiritual power.

It was not completely non-absorbent, but it was just that the speed was slow.

Shi Xing felt that something slipped through his brain and he could not catch it.

So far, there was still no spiritual thread growing.

Tan Chi had already accepted his fate, but Shi Xing was not. He went to the Tan family every day to punch in. If he was willing to go, the Tan family would not chase him away. Tan Chi knew what Mrs. Campbell had promised, so he naturally cooperated.

One day later, Shi Xing realized.

"Your spiritual sea seems to only absorb my spiritual power, and no longer absorb Sister Yun's."

Yun Wu tried it, and it was true.

Shi Xing was determined, "Since it absorbs, there must be problems. Then I will treat this part in the future, and Sister Yun will help me."

Yun Wu had no objection.

Tan Chi smiled bitterly, "Will it be too troublesome? If..."

Shi Xing: "It's not troublesome."

The treatment continued like this.

One evening, at the end of the treatment, Shi Xing felt something, and before leaving, he exclaimed.

He called Chi Yao and asked for a day off in the evening. He immediately asked Tan Chi, who was about to leave, to sit down again, and used the extra mental energy that was supposed to be provided to Chi Yao in the evening on Tan Chi.

Shi Xing wanted to know if his feelings were right and couldn't wait until tomorrow.

Facts proved that they were right.

After Shi Xing had poured most of his mental energy into it, a thin mental thread, after many years, slowly emerged from the bottom of Tan Chi's withered mental sea.

The moment he felt it, he was in disbelief, and his eyes were red.

After sitting for a whole day, Shi Xing stood up and stretched his back, "Congratulations, Lieutenant General Tan."

Tan Yan didn't understand what happened. He looked at Yun Wu and then at Shi Xing, and became anxious, "Don't play tricks on me, what's wrong, is it..."

"Yes!" Shi Xing affirmed.

He smiled at Tan Yan, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your generosity. Lieutenant General Tan's spirit has begun to be stimulated again."

Unknowingly, Tan Yan was extremely anxious. When he really heard it, he was stunned for a long time. When

he spoke again, for some reason, his eyes were red, "Really, you didn't lie to me?" It was

too surprising, so surprising that he couldn't believe it.

Yun Wu covered his mouth, and was also excited, nodding continuously, "Really, I feel it, it's true."

Tan Yan wanted to laugh, but tears flowed inexplicably, tears of excitement.

After wiping his face, Tan Yan said in a hoarse voice, making it impossible to tell whether he was crying or laughing, "That's great, I'll tell my parents, right now, immediately!!"

Yun Wu: "Wipe your face, don't scare my parents."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he found that his voice was also hoarse and not much better.

Shi Xing knew that they needed time together, so he sneaked out of the energy room under the pretext of drinking water.

After drinking the water, he saw Tan Yan hugging Yun Wu and Tan Chi in the shielding room.

Feeling that the picture was heartwarming, Shi Xing took a photo and sent it to Chi Yao.

Shi Xing: [Your Highness, because of your generosity, Lieutenant General Tan has grown spiritual hair.]

Chi Yao took a while to reply, probably because he had digested this fact. Chi Yao

replied with two words, [That's great]

and sent a pat on the head emoticon, affirming, [Doctor Shi has made an invaluable contribution.]

Shi Xing felt that he should say something humbly, but in fact, when he saw this line of words, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

After taking another look at the Tan brothers and sisters who were talking in the energy shielding room, Shi Xing finally couldn't help but proudly accept the compliment, and replied arrogantly: [It's all thanks to His Highness's good teaching]

He also thinks it's great~