Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The group returned to the east courtyard, cleaned out a room, and, as Zhuang Li had instructed, lit several candles at different angles, using a bronze mirror to reflect all the candlelight onto the Qi Wang’s chest. The light was insufficient, so the captain of the guards opened the Crown Wang’s treasury and retrieved several luminous pearls.
While Zhuang Li sat opposite Qi Wang and said softly, “Now I’m going to hypnotize you. Once you’re in a deep hypnotic state, you’ll lose your sense of pain, and then I can remove the poison needle for you. You must trust me and follow my instructions, okay?”
Qi Wang nodded and agreed.
Zhuang Li then instructed, “Now please close your eyes and imagine yourself lying in a white halo.”
Qi Wang’s eyes remained fixed on the young scholar, not even daring to blink.
“Close your eyes,” Zhuang Li emphasized.
Qi Wang closed his eyes briefly, then quickly opened them again.
Zhuang Li raised an eyebrow and said, “You say you trust me, but your body is resisting me. Are you worried that I will hurt you?” He was thinking too simply. How could someone who had only met twice build such deep trust?
Qi Wang shook his head and murmured, “I can’t bear to close my eyes.”
More worries lingered in his throat, difficult to voice. He knew that every day he lived was one less day he could see, every glance he took was one less. When his eyelids drooped, the boy would disappear into the darkness, a prospect that terrified him.
Zhuang Li stared into his lover’s eyes, which were filled with longing and reluctance, and quickly understood his feelings, so he couldn’t help but chuckle softly.
No matter how many worlds this person travelled through, they would always be so lovable.
Zhuang Li stretched out two slender fingers and gently pressed them against his lover’s eyelids, coaxing him softly, “Don’t be afraid. I promise that when you open your eyes, the first person you’ll see will be me. I’ll always be by your side.”
“Sleep, sleep, your eyelids are getting heavier and heavier. Your body is gradually relaxing, from your scalp to your cheeks, then your neck and shoulders. The muscles in your back stretch out like wings, taking away your ailments and making you feel as light as a cloud. Your abdomen rises and falls with each deep breath, and you achieve complete relaxation. Your legs are also relaxing inch by inch, all the way down to your feet.”
While guiding him with words, Zhuang Li gently stroked the Qi Wang’s entire body with his palm, from his scalp to his cheeks, then to his lower abdomen and legs.
Amazingly, every place he touched, the Qi Wang’s tense body would soften, and he would fall completely into a state of defenselessness.
Finally, Zhuang Li placed his palm on the bandaged chest of the Qi Wang and slowly said, “Can you feel my comfort?”
“I can feel it,” Qi Wang replied slowly, his eyes closed.
“Isn’t my palm warm, with a gentle strength?” Zhuang Li continued to coax.
Qi Wang, half-reclining on the soft couch, nodded subconsciously.
“Now, this power is permeating your chest, protecting your heart. It can insulate against pain, so the excruciating pain in your chest will soon disappear. I am exerting my power, can you feel it?” Zhuang Li’s palm remained suspended over the bloodstained chest of the Qi Wang.
“I can feel it,” Qi Wang said with a satisfied expression.
“Your wound doesn’t hurt anymore, can you feel it?”
Qi Wang closed his eyes and sensed it for a moment, then said lightly, “I can feel it.”
The guards standing to the side, intently watching Zhuang Li, were completely dumbfounded. Was this some kind of divine magic? To take away illness with mere thought— who but a god could do that?
However, only Zhuang Li knew that everyone’s subconscious possessed god-like superpowers, and they could completely control their own bodies.
After numbing Qi Wang’s pain receptors, Zhuang Li continued to guide him: “Tell me, where is that poisoned needle?”
Qi Wang’s relaxed brows furrowed, as if he didn’t know how to answer the question.
After a long pause, he finally spoke, seemingly in a daze, “I don’t know.”
“No, you know, you’ll know if you just feel it carefully,” Zhuang Li said confidently.
7480 couldn’t stand it anymore and retorted in a low voice, “Master, there’s no way he could know where that poisoned needle is! His eyes aren’t X-ray machines.”
Zhuang Li shook his head and said, “It’s precisely because there are no X-ray or other diagnostic instruments that I let him find the answer himself. I wouldn’t operate on his heart without absolute certainty. Human potential is beyond your imagination. I once hypnotized an interstellar pirate.”
“When she defected from the Union, her husband and son were killed by the Union army. She was so grief-stricken that she stopped menstruating for six years. Six years later, her emotional wounds were slowly healed by her close friends. And she wanted to marry one of them and have another child.”
“So she came to me, hoping I could prescribe medication for her. I hypnotized her and asked, ‘When will you get your period?’ In her dazed state, she answered, ‘In three days.’ After she woke up, I told her the answer, and three days later her period arrived as scheduled. So you see? The human subconscious can completely control one’s body.”
“People with hypoglycemia crave sugar, and people lacking trace elements suffer from pica. These are all caused by our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind can see through our bodies like an X-ray, but we are unaware of it.”
7480 was stunned for a long time before realizing, “When did the host hypnotize an interstellar pirate? What is the host’s background?”
Shocked as it was, 7480 didn’t dare utter a single word. As long as its host didn’t kill it, it would always be its host’s sweetheart.
At the same time, Qi Wang frowned and said, “I can feel it. It’s here, an inch below the skin. A straight cut can open it.” He slowly raised his hand and pointed to his heart.
The heart was usually no more than ten centimeters from the chest, but Qi Wang was so thin that his heart was probably only five to seven centimeters below the skin. In other words, this needle was incredibly close to his heart; one inch below the skin was three centimeters, and it was only two centimeters away from taking Qi Wang’s life!
Zhuang Li immediately cut open the gauze, and following the direction pointed out by the Qi Wang, picked up a sharp knife that had already been sterilized, cut the skin, inserted tweezers straight into the skin an inch below the skin, and with a slight turn, touched a needle, which he then quickly pulled out.
The whole process was completed in the blink of an eye.
When the poisoned needle fell into the bowl with a crisp clinking sound, the guards standing around belatedly realized that the illness that had tormented the Wang for years had been eradicated!
Fast, precise, and painless! This was truly a miraculous technique!
While the guards were still reeling from the shock, Zhuang Li had already deftly scraped away the rotting flesh caused by the poisoned needle with a knife, disinfected it with strong liquor, sutured the wound with catgut, and wrapped it with clean gauze. The whole process was quick and gentle.
Finally, he pressed two fingers against the Qi Wang’s brow bone and whispered, “Alright, you can sleep peacefully now. When you wake up tomorrow morning, the illness will be gone forever. You will feel refreshed and comfortable, and you will quickly recover to your healthiest state. Sleep well, and everything will be wonderful when you wake up tomorrow.”
Qi Wang tilted his head slightly, following his voice, and then fell asleep with long, even breaths, a happy and content smile on his face.
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