Shi Xing didn't quite understand.

He... didn't even understand it.

He couldn't comprehend it.

But he scanned it again with his mental power, and indeed, the spiritual sea he sensed was not a whole. There were several deep cracks that penetrated and split the entire inner core into several pieces. Looking from top to bottom, the cracks were pitch black...

Without thinking, Shi Xing's mental power dived along the cracks, and at some point, he was rebounded by a domineering energy.

The moment he touched it, Shi Xing felt the tremor from his soul.

So strong, so domineering...

In terms of destructiveness, compared to all the energies he had touched before, it was not even on the same level.

This is...

that energy wanted to rebound on Shi Xing's perception of spiritual power, and the action was so fast that Shi Xing had no time or ability to react, and his pupils shrank... The next moment, the pattern on the spiritual sea burst into a strong light, and the chaotic energy was instantly slapped down from the edge of Shi Xing's spiritual power. Shi

Xing realized more, this shattered spiritual sea seemed to be condensed by the power of this mark, so as not to fall apart.

Shi Xing did a lot, but in reality, it was just a blink of an eye.

When Shi Xing looked at Chi Yao with his eyes wide open in shock, the other party had already reacted to what he had done, and pulled his hand and frowned, saying, "Shi Xing, let go, you..." Before he could

finish his words, as his spiritual power was recovered, Shi Xing was instantly ejected from the inner layer of Chi Yao's spiritual sea due to the level difference.

The sudden burst of energy made the people around confused about what happened.

Chi Yao: "Shi Xing..."

Before he could make any move, because of the connection, Chi Yao's mental power did not further reject Shi Xing.

The hands on Chi Yao's cheeks slowly slid down.

Chi Yao's heart was rarely lifted up, nervous, an emotion he had not felt for many years outside of combat.

Shi Xing's sea-blue eyes stared at Chi Yao. When their eyes met, Chi Yao was stunned. Just as he opened his mouth to say something, Shi Xing shook and fell on him.

"Shi Xing!" "Xing Xing

."

"Xing Xing!"

Xu Jin and Fei Chu, who followed closely, saw this scene. Yan Changyue, who followed Shi Xing, was also suddenly startled. They all thought that Shi Xing had been hurt by the star beast.

When he ran to Chi Yao, he saw that His Highness looked strange, so he said, "He's fine."

He paused and said in a deep voice, "When I opened my spiritual power, he might have become suspicious in the North. He was not scared, but took the opportunity to see my spiritual sea through contact."

"... Well, as you can see, as my spiritual power was recovered, he was swept and passed out."

The bodies of Blue Star people are generally recognized to be fragile.

Moreover, he had never told Shi Xing about the true condition of his spiritual sea before. Under the double burden of physical and mental, it is not surprising that he passed out. After

Chi Yao finished speaking, the expressions of the gathered people became subtle.

Xu Jin asked immediately, "Then, what about Xing Xing..."

"There is a contract, and my spiritual sea is open for full mobilization. Even if he can't do it, the contract will pull him in."

It was like dragging Erya for every treatment.

In other words, Shi Xing saw all the conditions of his spiritual sea, and saw it clearly.

But Chi Yao had cooperated voluntarily in the past, but today he was really unguarded and careless.

Xu Jin was lucky enough to be crushed at the last moment.

For a few moments, everyone present didn't know what to say.

The condition of the spiritual sea is a personal privacy.

Shi Xing has never known the full condition of His Highness's spiritual sea, but if His Highness doesn't tell them about his privacy, they can't take over and tell Shi Xing on His Highness's behalf!

After a moment, Xu Jin's sigh broke the silence, "Your Highness is also very swift and decisive in his actions."

Not only is he brave, but he also succeeded once he seized the opportunity.

Fei Chu felt that he should not speak at this time, but this was what he was thinking at the moment, "Brave and resourceful."

Sure enough, he got a roll of the eyes from Chi.

Chi Yao looked at Shi Xing in his arms again, with his eyes closed as if he had fallen asleep, his eyelashes were long and thin, and he looked very obedient. He touched the other's head and adjusted it to lean against him. Chi Yao also breathed a sigh of relief, but he just looked obedient.

In fact, he still had some rebellious nature in him.

Chi Yao held the man horizontally, with his shoulders straight, and finally instructed: "Fei Chu and Fu Qing stay to clean up, dissect out the beast core, and the entire star beast... ask the city to find a freezer to preserve it. When Shi Xing wakes up, he will decide whether to absorb the spiritual power of the star beast."

"Uncle Xu Changyue, come back to the mother ship with me, and ask the doctor to guard the main ship."

Everyone agreed.

Shi Xing had a dream, but the content had nothing to do with the Lu family.

He dreamed of the first time he met Chi Yao before he came back...

Shi Xing sat up suddenly, with cold sweat on his forehead and gasping for breath.

"Xingxing, are you awake?"

Yan Changyue's spiritual power lingered around Shi Xing, and he watched Shi Xing's every move closely.

Shi Xing was stunned for a moment, then he felt the brightness of the environment, and subconsciously covered his eyes with his hands, "What time is it? What's wrong with me?"

"You last night..."

Yan Changyue started, and Shi Xing remembered, oh, he forced a peek into Chi Yao's spiritual sea.

Tan Baishan was not talking nonsense, as expected, there was something about His Highness's spiritual sea that he didn't know about.

Thinking of the broken core, Shi Xing couldn't help but feel dazed...

How could it be, how could it be broken? !

Xu Jin then walked in and found that Shi Xing was awake, so he called a doctor. After a set of examinations, Shi Xing was particularly silent. When the doctor said it was okay to leave, Xu Jin waved Yan Changyue away, "I'll do it, you go and rest."

After Yan Changyue left, he was very considerate and closed the door.

With a click, only Shi Xing and Xu Jin were left in the room.

After a long silence, Shi Xing took a cup and asked, "Is Your Highness angry?"

He was very bold in his actions yesterday, and was even stunned by Chi Yao's mental power. Although his focus was not on this at all, Shi Xing asked Chi Yao's attitude as the first sentence he spoke.

Xu Jin answered skillfully, "Your Highness is more worried about your physical condition."

"Today, in the Imperial Palace, the chief clerk who has been cooperating with Your Highness in handling government affairs for many years came with his adjutant. Alliance officials will arrive in the Empire for diplomatic negotiations soon. The Imperial Capital has been busy with receptions recently, and Your Highness is no exception."

"We have agreed to hold a meeting when the chief clerk arrives." After a pause, he added, "Last night, I advised Your Highness to go to bed early, but Your Highness still insisted on staying up with you in the middle of the night."

Shi Xing lowered his head.

He knew that Chi Yao was good to him.

But...

"Does everyone know this?" After a long time, Shi Xing asked.

Xu Jin knew what Shi Xing meant even though he didn't finish.

Shi Xing wanted to ask if everyone knew the true condition of His Highness' spiritual sea - that it was broken.

After a moment's silence, Xu Jin did not evade the question and answered, "I watched His Highness grow up, so of course I know. As for the others, each has his own situation. Fei Chu is His Highness's cousin, and I know about it from his parents. Yan Changyue was an attendant I brought out, so he didn't know about it at first, but I couldn't avoid him for the various treatments that followed. I asked His Highness for instructions, and it took a long time before I told him."

"Fu Qing and Changyue were in similar situations. They didn't know at first, but after three to five years, you've been together. Even if they didn't say it specifically, they must have known about

it through their own speculations and indirect hints to us." "If you want to ask me, I still say the same thing. The condition of His Highness's spiritual sea is His Highness's private matter. Given your relationship, you should just ask His Highness directly. What the attendant said... is a bit overstepping the mark."

Xu Jin certainly knew how Chi Yao's spiritual sea was shattered, but because of his status, he shouldn't tell others.

Shi Xing sat up on the bed with his legs hugged, took a deep breath, and couldn't exhale. After a long time, he nodded.

"Thank you, Uncle Xu."

Thank you Xu Jin for explaining to him in such detail and considering his feelings.

After asking Xu Jin, Shi Xing stayed alone for a while and got up.

Someone came to the palace, and Chi Yao was busy. In fact, on the way back, most of the documents Chi Yao read were related to receiving diplomats. This visit was a major event in the political significance of the empire, and Shi Xing knew it.

At noon, Chi Yao, the mayor, and the clerk had a meal in the city.

The mayor invited him warmly.

In the afternoon, Shi Xing got the beast core. Fei Chu asked him about the handling of the star beast. Shi Xing thought about it, and went to the temporary storage place of the star beast with Fei Chu in the afternoon. He absorbed the violent mental power of the star beast and had a meal in the city.

Chi Yao returned to the battleship at night, and Shi Xing was not at the dinner table. He asked about it, and Shi Xing just nodded after knowing the situation.

The next day, Chi Yao went out on business from the afternoon to the evening, and Shi Xing was still not at the lunch table. He asked again, and Yan Changyuehui reported, "The young prince said he wanted to go out for a walk today, and Admiral Fei and Major General Fu accompanied him."

Chi Yao realized it later, "Is he avoiding me?" Xu Jin

tried to smooth things over, "Not necessarily, maybe..."

"What, is he in a bad mood and went out to relax?"

This question was directed at Chi Yao again, why was Shi Xing in a bad mood... Everyone could guess the reason for this hint - naturally, it was because Chi Yao did not tell Shi Xing the true situation of his spiritual sea, which led to Shi Xing's emotions after he found out.

Xu Jin was silent.

After lunch, Xu Jin saw Chi Yao had been asking about Shi Xing these past two days, and suggested, "We're all in the city tonight, or I'll let Fei Chu take Xing Xing to your..."

Xu Jin meant that Shi Xing could be included in the official meal tonight.

Chi Yao rejected it.

"No need."

"Don't force him."

"When he wants to see me, he'll come."

Xu Jin choked.

Chi Yao had tacitly accepted that Shi Xing was avoiding him.

He wanted to say something, but it all seemed so pale. Although Shi Xing hadn't asked about Chi Yao these past two days, he was visibly in a bad mood, and the reason for his low mood was not because he saw Chi Yao in a bad mood that day, but he had no other reason to think about it.

Chi Yao asked about Shi Xing's mental state again, and when he got the answer, his hand holding the cup paused.

Thinking of something, Chi Yao said, "By the way, I have already made an agreement with Wei Wan."

Wei Wan was the chief clerk from the imperial capital, and he had been working in the palace for several decades.

"Assign Tang Mi to Shi Xing, and Shi Xing can consult Tang Mi about any domestic issues in the future."

Tang Mi was the deputy clerk, and also Wei Wan's right-hand man. Xu Jin had never thought that Chi Yao would be so direct, and could dig Tang Mi, a civil servant who handled government affairs in detail, from Wei Wan to Shi Xing. However, Fei Chu and Fu Qing were both given to him, and His Highness was always generous to Shi Xing. Xu Jin was not surprised to see another Tang Mi.

"Uncle Xu, you have taught almost everything, and you should let Tang Mi teach you in this area in the future."

"Okay."

After the meal, Chi Yao took a short nap, and went out to handle government affairs as usual.

After Shi Xing returned to the battleship in the afternoon, Tang Mi was brought to him.

Tang Mi looked very gentle, with low mental strength, but was proficient in political affairs. When he learned about Tang Mi's position in the palace, Shi Xing suddenly became mute, and after a long time, he let out a long sigh.

Tang Mi was puzzled: "Your Highness, do you think I'm not good in some way?"

Shi Xing shook his head, "No, you're very good."

Even too good, so good that he felt unworthy.

The head secretary will leave for the palace tomorrow, and Tang Mi will follow Shi Xing from now on. During this time, he will explain to Shi Xing the relationship between the Empire and the Alliance, as well as the specific political affairs that the Alliance came to the Empire to negotiate, and what impact it will have on the Empire, etc.

Everyone had dinner together, and in the evening Xu Jin arranged a room for Tang Mi.

Shi Xing walked back and forth between the living room and his bedroom.

Yan Changyue asked, "What are you looking for?"

Shi Xing hesitated.

After a while, he finally said, "When His Highness comes back, let me know."

Xu Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief, but made a promise without showing it on his face.

"Wait," Shi Xing regretted again, "Is Your Highness very busy recently?"

Tang Mi, who was resting outside, didn't understand Shi Xing and Chi Yao's recent tactical moves, and answered truthfully, "Yes, the Alliance diplomat is coming, and some weird things happened before he arrived. The Senate and the Council of Elders are arguing, and Your Highness has to deal with diplomatic affairs externally, and be a mediator between the Senate and the Council of Elders internally. Well... if it were me, at least my heart would be very tired." Diplomatic affairs are stuck

, and domestic affairs are arguing. Anyone would be annoyed.

Shi Xing sighed: "Then wait until Your Highness comes back to handle official business, and then notify me."

After that, he asked Tang Mi again, "What did the Alliance do?"

Tang Mi thought about it, and felt that Shi Xing might not understand it if he said it directly, so he finally said that he would discuss it in detail in the class tomorrow morning, and Shi Xing agreed.

After Shi Xing left, Tang Mi looked at his back and said suddenly, "The young prince has his own ideas."

Xu Jin and Yan Changyue looked at each other, and shook their heads and laughed when they thought about Shi Xing's initiative to explore Chi Yao's spiritual sea.

It's not that he has his own ideas, and sometimes he even acts boldly.

Tang Mi felt a little strange being surrounded by everyone's inexplicable smiles. He asked a few questions, but no one told him the reason.

It was almost dawn when Yan Changyue told Shi Xing that Chi Yao was about to fall asleep.

Shi Xing walked to Chi Yao's door, raised his hand to knock on the door, put it down, put it down and raised it again, and did this three times. Chi Yao's voice came out through the door first, "It's okay if you don't want to see me, there's no need to be so entangled."

Oh, Chi Yao's spiritual power level is high, and his stupid actions can be felt by the other party.

Shi Xing finally pushed the door open.

He was wearing a suit and had not washed yet, which made him look particularly formal.

Chi Yao had just finished dealing with government affairs and was sitting on the sofa. The lights were dim and the light was faint. He leaned on the sofa, closed his eyes and pinched his brow bones, looking very tired.

Shi Xing closed the door and stood behind it for a while. No one spoke in the room for a while.

After a while, Shi Xing spoke and asked politely, "Your Highness, are you tired of dealing with diplomatic affairs?"

Shi Xing had asked Chi Yao before, and Chi Yao usually gave a standard answer of "not bad" to official affairs.

I thought I would hear the same kind of reply today. After a moment of silence, the man on the sofa said, "A little bit."

Shi Xing: "..."

Chi Yao: "People outside are worrying, and things at home are also noisy. I feel tired."

Shi Xing suspected that Chi Yao was hinting at something, but he had no evidence.

After another long silence, Shi Xing looked down at his toes and said abruptly, "I have something to ask you."

If he had known this would happen, Chi Yao would not be surprised. "You ask."

After thinking for a while, Shi Xing avoided the core conflict of the broken spiritual sea and started with what he did not understand. "There is something in the core of your spiritual sea. That pattern is..."

Shi Xing asked, and Chi Yao replied, "Yes, it is a contract."

"It is in the spiritual sea of ​​the direct royal family and also in the Zhou Dynasty. The function is very complicated and cannot be explained in a few words, but the origin is clear. It is a contract signed by the Blue Star people and the imperial royal family."

Shi Xing was stunned.

He originally thought that those patterns were just a means to help Chi Yao's spiritual sea gather.

Chi Yao: "Now the Empire and the Blue Star people are the only ones in the entire galaxy. When the mother tree transplantation was discussed, it was not only the Empire and Blue Star that were negotiating. The Alliance also negotiated with Blue Star, but they were a multi-political alliance. When the negotiation reached the stage of signing a contract in the spiritual sea, the leaders of all the planets did not want to use their own spiritual sea to sign the contract, so... In the end, the Empire reached an agreement first, and the mother tree of Blue Star was transplanted to the Empire." "

Although the Alliance also reached an agreement later, Blue Star disappeared before the transplantation..."

"The direct descendants of the empire are responsible for the tree nest, and the other end of the contract is linked to the mother tree. If you want to know the content of the contract, I will tell you later. Anyway, there are many clauses."

Shi Xing didn't understand, "So, it also restricts the imperial family?"

Chi Yao nodded, "While it will bring benefits to us, it is true that it also restricts the behavior of the royal family."

Xiao Xiao gave an example, "Because the number of direct descendants of the royal family has always been small, the number of fruits produced by the mother tree has also been declining in recent years, because they are afraid that there will be too many people in the tree nest and the royal family will not be able to take care of them."

"If the mother tree is damaged, to a certain extent, the contract will also be torn, and it is said that it will dry up the spiritual sea, but the imperial royal family has always taken good care of the tree nest, and this situation has never happened. I don't know whether it is true or not."

Shi Xing was speechless. After a while, he hesitated and said, "But I feel that it is gathering your spiritual sea?"

"It also has this function."

Specifically, it was after Chi Yao's spiritual sea was broken that this function came into being.

"But for the normal direct spiritual sea, it usually provides faster self-healing ability and stronger protection function. Because of the existence of the contract, the spiritual sea of ​​the royal family will be more difficult for the mutant beast's spiritual power to penetrate."

Shi Xing's heart sank again.

It was hard to penetrate, but Chi Yao's spiritual sea was also...

After a long while, Shi Xing said, "I saw that the core of your spiritual sea was broken. Is it...?"

Chi Yao replied crisply, "Yes."

"What you saw was true."

With this admission, Shi Xing's heart was instantly squeezed by an invisible hand. For a few moments, he felt difficulty breathing.

Shi Xing frowned deeply.

Chi Yao did not speak.

In the dim light, something was fermenting, and both of them could feel it.

After another pause, Shi Xing spoke with difficulty again, "When we surrounded the star-hunting beasts before, you and Uncle Xu didn't tell me that you had entered a period of confusion. It was only after Marshal Tan told me that I knew about it...you..."

Shi Xing closed his eyes, "You deliberately hid it from me, right?"

Including the fact that your spiritual sea was shattered, he also deliberately didn't tell him...

Chi Yao didn't answer at the first time. Shi Xing didn't know if this was a difficult question for him.

But he still opened his mouth and admitted, "Yes."

The voice was very light, but it couldn't hide the meaning behind it.

Shi Xing: "Then this time..."

Before he could finish his words, Chi Yao responded in one breath, "That's right."

Shi Xing was speechless for a long time.

This time, it was Chi Yao's turn to ask, "Are you angry?"

Shi Xing didn't know, but he was sure, "I have some emotions about this secrecy."

He emphasized, "Negative ones."

Chi Yao: "It's normal to have emotions. People don't like to be kept in the dark. Even if I have many reasons, I didn't handle this matter properly."

Shi Xing felt uncomfortable, "Is that all you want to say to me?"

Chi Yao was silent for a moment, and his voice became softer.

"If you are really angry, don't hold it in..."

Shi Xing asked angrily, "Then what?"

Chi Yao: "You don't have to hide from me deliberately, you..."

He paused, and said with great tolerance, "You can get angry at me."

Chi Yao: "If this makes you feel better, I'll accept it."

Before Shi Xing came, he was full of discomfort and had nowhere to vent.

But as Chi Yao finished these two gentle words, it was as if someone poked him with a needle, and the anger in his stomach was released all at once.

Shi Xing took a deep breath, deeply worried, but he couldn't get angry at Chi Yao from the bottom of his heart.

So annoying, how can someone be so good at keeping a sense of proportion! I can't

beat him!!