How The Little Medical Cultivator Saves the Furries – CH71

Chapter 71

During this whole period, Ye Yumeng had actually been on guard.

Judging from the previous patterns, the little rabbit’s recovery had already passed several danger points where backlash might have occurred, yet the bloodline power inside him had shown no sign of flaring up.

Perhaps it was because his spiritual energy nourishment was different from the methods Lei Qi and the others had used before, and had therefore greatly suppressed the backlash of the Mystic Flame?

Because of this speculation, Ye Yumeng had decided to move the little rabbit to the spirit plant garden.

Everything had clearly been getting better, so how had it suddenly taken such a sharp turn for the worse, with both his mental power and bloodline power erupting at the same time?

And judging from the state of the beastfolk around them, this outburst was even more severe than before, with a much wider area of effect!

Ye Yumeng didn’t dare be careless. Braving the heatwave, he hurried toward the house.

Outside the house, several people he didn’t recognize had collapsed. They were probably guards who had been unable to withstand the little rabbit’s mental-power rampage.

When Ye Yumeng reached the door to the room, he saw Mo Yin lying on the ground there as well.

Mo Yin had not yet lost consciousness. The moment he saw Ye Yumeng arrive, joy flashed across his face. “Doctor Ye… please, save the young master…”

He didn’t need to say it. Ye Yumeng had already rushed into the room.

Inside, flames blazed wildly. The moment he entered, the heat made his face flush red and sweat pour down his body.

Fortunately, the house had been built from special heat-resistant metal, and there were no flammable furnishings inside, so the fire had not spread outward.

“Little rabbit!”

On the bed, the little rabbit was wrapped in black-red flames. The air around him was visibly distorted by the extreme heat.

His body, which had previously been too weak to move, was now writhing in agony.

The specially made sickbed was already showing signs of melting. Every instrument in the room was smoking, letting out harsh warning beeps—they were all ruined.

The only fortunate thing was that these strange, powerful flames had not spread outward. They were concentrated entirely on the little rabbit’s body.

The flames blazed furiously, making the little rabbit inside them seem like a black-red sun.

Compared to this, the fire Ye Yumeng had touched last time was nothing more than a small witch before a great witch—it wasn’t even on the same level!

“Little rabbit, can you hear me?”

Ye Yumeng did not recklessly rush closer. Instead, he tried to communicate with him.

This time, the little rabbit had not fallen unconscious. The situation looked severe, but in truth it was better than last time.

This strange Mystic Flame rose and fell with the little rabbit’s own life. The fact that it had grown so much stronger this time was precisely proof that his treatment of the little rabbit had been effective.

As long as the little rabbit could take control of this runaway force, then this backlash would not be danger at all—it would be an opportunity!

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

The little rabbit gave no response to his calls. He only rolled and kicked frantically, as if he hadn’t heard him at all.

This couldn’t go on!

Ye Yumeng ran to the shattered window and looked toward the pool outside.

Several aquatic plants had been planted there, releasing pale blue spiritual energy. He quickly formed a hand seal and drew over that blue spiritual energy imbued with the power of the Five Elements’ Water.

Mo Yin had said before that ordinary water could not extinguish this flame.

Then what about Five Elements Water?

Very quickly, a deep-blue cluster of spiritual energy appeared in Ye Yumeng’s hand.

He controlled the cluster and sent it toward the little rabbit, who was wrapped in fire. The moment it touched the black-red flames, the wildly raging fire visibly faltered.

It works!

Ye Yumeng immediately increased his output, drawing more and more blue water spiritual energy while surrounding the little rabbit with it, pressing inward step by step.

“Little rabbit, use the method I taught you! Absorb the spiritual energy into your meridians and use it to counter your bloodline power!”

“This is the most critical moment. You have to control it and make it serve you!”

“This was your power from birth—you can do it! I’ll help you. You’re not facing this alone. Pull yourself together!”

Besides the blue spiritual energy that contained the power of Five Elements Water, Ye Yumeng was also channeling his spiritual energy to release the Minor Rejuvenation Technique.

Although without direct contact, its effect would be greatly reduced, at least it was still doing something.

One Minor Rejuvenation Technique only consumed ten strands of spiritual energy. His limit was six hundred—and on top of that, he had an entire garden of spirit plants supplying him with an endless stream of spiritual energy.

He could afford this level of expenditure!

In the Core Inpatient Department—

After parting ways with Ye Yumeng, Lei Qi had returned to his office to organize the data he had collected recently on patients using the calming sachets.

Because the range of use for the calming sachets was expanding and the number of users was increasing, he was not short on data at all.

He felt that it would not be long before he could produce a truly convincing experimental report.

But just as he was burying himself in that sea of data, a mental-pressure wave descended without the slightest warning—one that made his scalp go numb and chills race all over his body.

“Crash—!”

Hearing the sound of glass shattering, Lei Qi’s heart lurched in terror.

That familiar mental-pressure wave… it was His Majesty! Had His Majesty had another episode?

He didn’t even have time to feel pain. Enduring the crushing mental pressure, he rushed outside. But halfway there, Elder Cheng’s call came through.

“Lei Qi, what’s happened to His Majesty?”

Faced with that question, Lei Qi had no answer.

“Maybe… maybe I can help?”

Hearing the old man ask so cautiously, Lei Qi’s emotions turned complicated. After everything with Wang Yan, Elder Cheng and the others were no longer going to be allowed anywhere near His Majesty.

But Lei Qi was in too much of a hurry to get to the spirit plant garden, and really had no time to deal with him. He was just about to toss out a few perfunctory words and hang up when—

The overwhelming mental pressure crushing down on him suddenly receded like a retreating tide.

“His Majesty’s condition has improved?” Elder Cheng’s voice sounded again.

“Ah… probably.”

Elder Cheng frowned. “What do you mean, ‘probably’?”

Of course Lei Qi couldn’t exactly say he wasn’t at His Majesty’s side. Feeling the receding mental pressure, he went to the corridor window and looked toward the spirit plant garden.

In the end, he gave up the idea of rushing there.

With Doctor Ye there, His Majesty would definitely be safe. Doctor Ye had already created countless miracles, not to mention tricks like those life-preserving talismans…

If even Doctor Ye couldn’t do anything, what good would he be if he went?

“Elder Cheng,” he said to the old man, “there’s somewhere more in need of me right now.”

“What?”

The patients who had been affected by His Majesty’s mental pressure needed his treatment!

With that thought, Lei Qi immediately contacted Lan Fangyu.

The batch of calming sachets in Lan Fangyu’s hands might prove crucial at a time like this!

Lu Nanzhou bit down hard on his teeth.

Although the spiritual energy from the Minor Rejuvenation Technique was feeding the Mystic Flame, under the dual effects of the water-element spiritual energy and the Minor Rejuvenation Technique, the flames that had seemed determined to burn him to ash finally showed signs of weakening.

As the pain eased somewhat, he finally had enough?? to think about what Ye Yumeng had been shouting to him.

Draw spiritual energy into the meridians, use it to counter the bloodline power…

He had to control it. This was his own inborn power. He could do it!

Lu Nanzhou silently recited the cultivation formula Ye Yumeng had taught him.

And the mental power that had exploded wildly in all directions, once his consciousness returned, was once more brought under his control.

With a single thought, he forcibly withdrew that berserk mental power.

At the same time, he swept up all the spiritual energy filling the spirit plant garden with it, gathering everything into this lounge.

The patients and medical staff who had been affected by the mental-pressure wave finally improved.

Mo Yin, who was still lying pale-faced outside the door, let out a faint sigh of relief. But he still couldn’t stand up.

He had been closest and had therefore suffered the worst impact.

Under the bloodline pressure coming from His Majesty, his entire body had gone weak and trembling beyond his control. He couldn’t even stand, let alone enter the room to help.

Now that His Majesty’s mental-power rampage had been withdrawn, things inside must be getting better under Doctor Ye’s treatment, right?

Mo Yin could only pray so in his heart—pray that Doctor Ye would be able to save His Majesty.

But…

The temperature inside the room seemed to be dropping?

This was no illusion.

As Lu Nanzhou swept all the spiritual energy in the spirit plant garden into this room, the concentration of spiritual energy here had become so dense that even Ye Yumeng was starting to feel dizzy from it.

Although the colors of that energy were mixed and contained different Five Element properties, there was no time to sort through them now.

Lu Nanzhou recalled how Ye Yumeng had guided him before.

Trying to absorb spiritual energy directly before might have triggered backlash from the Mystic Flame—but now he had no such scruple!

His eyes shut tightly as his mental power controlled the spiritual energy, wrapping it around his body and striking at the acupoint between his brows.

This was the first step of drawing spiritual energy into the body—the gateway through which the meridians absorbed spiritual energy…

Striking that acupoint brought savage pain. Every impact felt as if it were going to shatter his soul.

Lu Nanzhou endured desperately.

Nearly two years of endless brushes with death, countless days and nights of torment, had tempered him with incredible resilience.

This kind of pain—he could endure it!

Lu Nanzhou controlled the spiritual energy, crashing it again and again into the point between his brows, his eyes full of determination.

Ye Yumeng was right. Only by gaining control of the Mystic Flame again, only by seizing authority over his own body, could he truly have hope of recovering.

Only then would he be worthy…

of appearing before Ye Yumeng, and openly pursuing him!

Memories of all his moments with Ye Yumeng flashed through Lu Nanzhou’s mind, greatly distracting him from the pain.

In truth, he had long realized the feelings stirring in him for Ye Yumeng…

No—not merely feelings.

That love was so intense that even he himself found it astonishing—

He cared about Ye Yumeng. He wanted all of Ye Yumeng’s time. He wanted him to speak only to him and smile only at him. He could not tolerate others touching him—not even the Blade Squad warriors who had fought beside him for over a decade…

He wanted Ye Yumeng to belong to him, to be marked as his.

And not just superficially.

But he had discovered that, compared to satisfying those dark desires, what he wanted even more was for Ye Yumeng to be happy.

That wish, that thought, seemed carved into his soul. Every time he lost control and wanted to abuse the power in his hands to do something, that thought would surface to warn him.

He only wanted Ye Yumeng to be safe and happy.

So he had to survive.

Only if he survived could the Yaojin Empire avoid descending into chaos again, and Ye Yumeng continue living in a peaceful, stable world…

But merely surviving was not enough.

As long as his broken body remained unfinished, this love could only stay buried in his heart.

He knew he might never tell Ye Yumeng, because he could not endure appearing before him in such a state.

Still less could he imagine the collapse and agony he would suffer if Ye Yumeng ever looked at him without longing and admiration in his eyes.

So when Ye Yumeng discovered the “truth,” and when he told him his real situation—

Lu Nanzhou lost control.

Although he fought desperately to endure it, he still couldn’t dissolve that emotional storm.

And the Mystic Flame lying dormant within him, stirred by his violent emotional upheaval, erupted once again.

Ye Yumeng was right. This was danger—but it was also opportunity!

Lu Nanzhou kept reciting the formula, while his overwhelmingly strong mental power drove dense spiritual energy over and over into the acupoint between his brows.

Pop—

At last, Lu Nanzhou seemed to hear a soft sound—or perhaps it was only his imagination.

But what followed was spiritual light motes constantly entering his meridians from between his brows.

At first there were only one or two, almost imperceptible. But as his mental power kept drawing them in, more and more followed.

Lu Nanzhou opened his eyes.

He had succeeded? Was this what Ye Yumeng meant by drawing spiritual energy into the body?

“Once you’ve drawn in the spiritual energy, guide it to your dantian. Only then can it become spiritual power!”

Ye Yumeng’s voice rang out at just the right time.

Drawing it into the body was only the first step. What truly decided victory or defeat was whether he could use this newborn power to suppress—or even counter—the Mystic Flame!

Lu Nanzhou understood immediately. Following the guidance Ye Yumeng had taught him, he directed the spiritual energy through his meridians toward his dantian. That new foreign power immediately drew the attention of the Mystic Flame.

The Mystic Flame came surging like a storm, constantly smashing into that stream of spiritual energy, breaking it apart and consuming it.

Against such a terrifyingly powerful flame, Lu Nanzhou—who had only just barely learned how to draw spiritual energy into his body, and who had not yet even formed true spiritual power—was forced backward again and again.

But he did not lose heart.

He endured the agony and fatigue, grinding his teeth and holding on.

And then—

He felt a pair of familiar hands wrap around him, and with them came a continuous stream of pure spiritual energy.

It was Yumeng!

A flash of terror shot through Lu Nanzhou’s heart. No, he’ll be hurt like this…

“Don’t worry about me. I’m stronger now.”

Ye Yumeng’s voice sounded, calm and gentle, soothing him.

Once Lu Nanzhou had swept all the spiritual energy of the garden over, Ye Yumeng no longer needed to continue gathering only the blue Five Elements Water energy.

Watching the flames around the little rabbit draw inward as he successfully managed to draw spiritual energy into his body, Ye Yumeng finally stepped forward and embraced him with both arms, pouring his own spiritual energy into him.

The last time, his spiritual energy capacity had only been twenty or thirty, so he had been forced to use his true essence to resist the flames.

But now, he had three hundred spiritual-energy strands as a foundation, as well as the spiritual-energy whirlpool whose recovery rate was equivalent to actively cultivating. And when the whirlpool’s recovery speed could no longer keep up and collapsed, it would still release another three hundred strands of spiritual energy.

Altogether, the total spiritual energy he could draw upon this time had already surpassed a thousand!

What’s more, the little rabbit’s body blazed with dazzling merit-light. That merit would absolutely protect him and bring him good fortune.

With a battle this well supplied, there was simply no way he could lose!

Lu Nanzhou soon realized this as well.

Just as Ye Yumeng had said, he was not being harmed by the Mystic Flame at all. In fact, he seemed to be in very good shape.

“Little rabbit, focus.”

Lu Nanzhou hurriedly reined in his mind, forcing himself not to focus on Ye Yumeng’s condition.

Since he couldn’t stop him, the only thing he could do was seize control of the Mystic Flame as quickly as possible. Only then would Ye Yumeng truly be safe!

With Ye Yumeng’s spiritual-energy support, not only were Lu Nanzhou’s fatigue and pain eased, his overall strength also surged dramatically.

His mental power had already been evenly matched with the Mystic Flame. Now, with spiritual energy added in, the situation slowly began to reverse.

The Mystic Flame had no consciousness of its own. It merely burned essence blood and attacked all foreign??, even at the price of destroying the body itself—

This had been the strategy Lu Nanzhou himself had chosen when facing planetary annihilation.

And now, it was time to reverse that!

With Ye Yumeng watching over him, Lu Nanzhou drove the endless stream of spiritual energy against it. Little by little, that force finally began to weaken.

Even so, it did not retreat into dormancy. It continued launching assaults, again and again, though each one grew weaker than the last…

The blood essence Lu Nanzhou had only just managed to nourish back over the past two months was gradually consumed to nothing.

Yet he himself did not weaken along with it.

This time, he had Ye Yumeng’s support.

And he had gained a new power!

Ye Yumeng continuously shifted the flow of spiritual energy he was pouring in. He had no idea how much time had passed.

It felt as if it had been a very long time—and yet also as though only the blink of an eye.

At last, the burning sensation from the Mystic Flame disappeared. That power withdrew into the little rabbit’s body, slowly dimming until it became extremely faint.

But it had not vanished entirely.

It originated from Lu Nanzhou’s bloodline. Endlessly alive, it had ceased its frenzied slaughter in this moment and simply existed in quiet stillness.

It had not disappeared, but it was no longer consuming Lu Nanzhou’s blood essence either.

After nearly two years of being out of control—

Lu Nanzhou had finally regained mastery over the Mystic Flame!

By the time that moment came, two days and one night had already passed. It was now the evening of the second day.

Ye Yumeng used his Aura-Watching Art to examine the little rabbit’s condition. When he saw that they had truly succeeded, an irrepressible smile of joy spread over his face.

Still holding the little rabbit in his arms, he collapsed onto the floor, utterly exhausted.

At long last… it was over.

Even he was worn half to death, so there was no need to mention Lu Nanzhou, who had borne the brunt of the battle. The instant he finally seized control of the Mystic Flame, before he even had time to look at Ye Yumeng’s condition, exhaustion dragged him into unconscious sleep.

“Doctor Ye…”

Mo Yin cautiously approached.

Now that His Majesty’s bloodline pressure had withdrawn, he could finally enter the room.

As for the guards who had fainted outside, they had all woken up long ago and were now anxiously standing guard nearby.

During all that time, though too weak to move, Mo Yin had not stopped trying to think of solutions.

When he realized Ye Yumeng could not calm His Majesty immediately, and that this would require a long standoff, he had quickly issued orders to the military detachment stationed near the Royal Sanatorium.

He knew that Doctor Ye’s power was related to king-grade plants.

If that was the case, then increasing the number of king-grade plants was the same as increasing Doctor Ye’s source of vitality.

So he ordered the military to requisition nearly every king-grade plant in the cultivation bases across Medical Star!

All cultivation bases on Medical Star were state-run. As long as a king-grade plant was officially registered, then with the exception of a few especially huge tree species, every last one of them was uprooted and transferred by soldiers into the Royal Sanatorium’s spirit plant garden.

If Ye Yumeng had looked outside at that moment, he would have found over a hundred additional spirit plants in the garden, in almost every variety imaginable.

It was precisely this constant reinforcement of spirit plants that had given him and Lu Nanzhou an unending supply of spiritual energy.

Of course, Ye Yumeng didn’t have the spare mind to care about any of that right now. He was simply too tired.

But it still wasn’t time to rest yet.

“Set up another ward.”

That was all he said to Mo Yin.

“Doctor Ye, please come with me.”

Mo Yin had already arranged several wards of roughly the same specifications inside the spirit plant garden.

Aside from the custom-made special bed the little rabbit had been using, which was harder to replace, everything else was identical to the top-floor ward.

There was no need for Ye Yumeng to walk there himself. A hovering wheelchair drifted over.

With Mo Yin’s help, Ye Yumeng got into the wheelchair while still cradling the little rabbit, and the two of them were moved together into the new ward.

Only then did Ye Yumeng carefully place the little rabbit onto the hospital bed.

Lei Qi, who had long since finished dealing with the other patients affected by the outburst and had already been waiting in the spirit plant garden, hurriedly started examining the little rabbit and administering emergency treatment—

Although Lu Nanzhou had successfully gained control of the Mystic Flame, his body had once again suffered terrible burns. The fur that had only just begun to grow back after scabbing and shedding had all been reset in a single stroke.

Still, no matter what, keeping him alive was already a blessing.

Lei Qi did not know that Lu Nanzhou had now gained control of the Mystic Flame. But in the past two years, he had never once seen His Majesty’s frenzy reach this level—

The entire core inpatient zone had been affected. Even people in the other wards had sensed it.

This had truly been too frightening!

And yet even so, Doctor Ye had managed to calm His Majesty down and preserve his life.

So his judgment had been correct after all!

In this whole world, only Doctor Ye could save His Majesty!

While Lei Qi was treating the little rabbit’s injuries, Mo Yin had already arranged for steaming hot food to be brought to Ye Yumeng.

Doctor Ye had gone without a single drop of water or bite of food for two days and one night. He had to be starving.

At a critical moment like this, Doctor Ye absolutely could not collapse!

Ye Yumeng once again marveled at how thoughtful Mo Yin was. Without any ceremony, he accepted the meal box and began devouring the contents.

The rice and vegetables in the box all came from king-grade plants. Mo Yin had clearly arranged that on purpose, and it was of immense benefit to Ye Yumeng’s recovery.

By the time Ye Yumeng had eaten and drunk his fill, Lei Qi had also finished.

“I’ll stay here with him. You can go out now,” Ye Yumeng said.

Mo Yin hesitated a little, but in the end didn’t insist. After all, if His Majesty lost control again, staying here wouldn’t allow him to help. It would more likely only get in the way.

“I’ll be just outside. If you need anything, call out at once.”

“Alright.”

Once the ward was left with only himself inside, Ye Yumeng let out a long breath, then walked over to the bedside and checked the little rabbit’s condition again.

His whole body was charred black. Under the Aura-Watching Art, thick black qi shrouded him…

Ye Yumeng sighed, took out a sheet of pure wood paper, and drew a Flow Shadow Talisman— the previous one had already been burned to ashes.

After infusing it with the Minor Rejuvenation Technique, he carefully tucked it beneath the little rabbit.

It had taken so much effort just to build him back up a little, and now they had to start all over again…

But this was a necessary step.

Destroy and then rebuild. Successfully dealing with the huge problem of the Mystic Flame backlash was the greatest gain of all!

Ye Yumeng sat down beside the bed, stared at the little rabbit for a while, and finally could no longer resist his drooping eyelids. In the end, he slumped against the bedside and fell asleep.

Night slowly descended, and darkness settled over the room.

Lu Nanzhou, however, though he had collapsed into sleep from utter exhaustion, was not resting peacefully.

At one moment, his eyelids began to tremble violently, as though he were dreaming something.

“Xueqiu—!”

Lu Nanzhou suddenly opened his eyes with a start.

That heart-wrenching cry echoed in his ears, and his heart felt as if a hand had clenched around it in a death grip.

Xueqiu? Who was that?

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