Starting with a beautiful woman's private doctor

When Chu Nan returned to the Xu residence, Xu Yi was pacing back and forth in his study.

As soon as the door opened, Xu Yi looked up and froze. "Didn't you take Li Guanqi to the hotel? You're back so soon?"

Chu Nan closed the door and walked to the table. "Li Guanqi is dead... I killed him."

Xu Yi froze instantly, almost dropping the teacup in his hand.

"Uncle Xu, how much do you know about the Mirage Sect?"

Xu Yi paused for a moment, "The Mirage of the East Sea is a prestigious sect with followers all over the world. Isn't Li Guanqi the young master of the Mirage? I had someone verify this identity before, and it is indeed correct."

"The identity is correct."

Chu Nan said calmly, "But Mirage is secretly the largest assassin organization in the world."

"On the surface, they are a reputable sect, but in secret they take on murders. Li Guanqi came to Beihai not for sightseeing or doing good deeds, but for Xiao Ran."

Xu Yi's face gradually darkened.

"The red string he put on Xiao Ran's wrist couldn't cure her illness at all."

Chu Nan continued, "That's the Mirage's soul-locking secret technique. To put it simply, it uses a red rope to compensate for Xiao Ran's innate defects in her soul, making you look energetic."

"It looks like it's saving her life, but it's actually just like a stimulant. It's constantly draining her remaining energy. Once you trust him completely, this guy will use Xiao Ran as a vessel for his purposes."

Xu Yi's hand, which was resting on the edge of the table, began to tremble. His knuckles tightened little by little, and the veins on his hands bulged out.

"I've investigated his background, and everything he does on the surface is true."

Xu Yi's voice sounded like it was being squeezed out from between his teeth, "That's why I didn't think so much about it. It turns out those seemingly legitimate identities were just a hollow shell!"

"You didn't mean to, Uncle Xu, there's no need to blame yourself."

Chu Nan paused for a moment, "The red string is still on Xiao Ran's wrist. Every extra hour she stays will drain her energy. Is the dragon beard root still there?"

Xu Yi straightened up. "It's in the warehouse. I'll go get it."

"Alright, I'll go cut the red string. You can have someone send the dragon beard root to Xiao Ran's room."

The two walked towards Xu Ran's room, one after the other.

The maid was awakened by the sound of the door opening and hurriedly got up from the low couch.

Xu Yi waved for her to leave, then walked to the bedside and sat down.

Xu Ran was sleeping soundly, her small face buried in the pillow, the red string on her left wrist gleaming dimly under the light.

It was much darker than when I saw it during the day, almost black, like a thin thread that had been soaked in blood and then dried up.

Chu Nan sat down on the edge of the bed, not in a hurry to touch the rope.

He hovered his right hand above Xu Ran's wrist, first sending out a very thin strand of lotus true energy, which slowly probed into her meridians.

The gray mist energy on the red rope reacted immediately, like startled snakes, burrowing deeper into the flesh.

Chu Nan was waiting for it to make a move.

The red rope was tightly bound to the soul, the gray mist remained still, and the hooks embedded in the surface of the soul became invisible.

As the gray fog contracted, the hook became visible.

He placed his left hand on Xu Ran's Neiguan acupoint on her wrist, first using his true qi to seal three inches of her wrist, forming an extremely thin protective barrier.

Then, his right index finger quickly tapped the red rope, once, twice, three times, each tap landing on a node where the gray mist was flowing.

A flash of golden light appeared at his fingertips and disappeared in an instant, shaking off the hooks embedded in the surface of his soul one by one.

When the seventh tap was made, the gray mist on the entire red rope suddenly stopped, as if its source had been cut off.

Chu Nan drew a line with his fingers, and the red rope broke silently.

A wisp of extremely fine gray mist drifted out from the broken edge, but before it could disperse, it was caught by his palm and completely dissolved by a burst of Lotus True Qi.

The broken red rope slipped from Xu Ran's wrist and lay limply on the brocade quilt, its color faded and gray, like a dead worm.

Xu Ran twitched slightly in her sleep, her brows furrowed and then relaxed, and the white layer on her face that had never faded over the years had even lightened a bit.

Chu Nan threw the broken rope into the bronze basin next to him and turned to look at Xu Yi.

Dragon Beard Root was delivered by the steward at that moment.

Go get a clean teacup.

Xu Yi personally took a white porcelain teacup from the cabinet and placed it on the table.

Chu Nan sat cross-legged on the ground, took a piece of dragon whisker root, and held it above his palm.

Xu Yi stood aside, watching as several extremely thin golden rays of light seeped from Chu Nan's palm, passing through the roots of the dragon's whiskers like living silk threads.

The golden thread tightened further, and amber-colored droplets began to seep from the surface of the rootstock. One drop, two drops, gradually connected into a line and fell into the white porcelain teacup below.

This process is extremely slow.

Chu Nan squeezed water from a stone, making sure every drop was extracted with utmost care.

More and more medicinal liquid seeped from the surface of the root, and golden threads shuttled back and forth inside, forcing out the medicinal power while gradually merging in its own lotus true energy.

The color of the medicine changed from light brown to golden brown, and when it fell into the cup, it made a very slight "tap" sound, which was particularly clear in the quiet room where you could hear a pin drop.

This was the first time Xu Yi had seen Chu Nan refining medicine remotely from such a close distance.

He considered himself knowledgeable and experienced, and had consulted many famous doctors and practitioners over the years to treat his daughter, but none of them could directly separate the medicinal power from the herbs with their own internal energy, let alone integrate their own internal energy with the medicinal power to such an extent.

This is not like decocting or boiling medicine at all; it's like using cultivation as a furnace and true qi as a filter to extract every useful drop from the medicinal herbs and then integrate it back in.

In the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, that section of dragon whisker root completely dried up and turned into grayish-white fibers.

Chu Nan withdrew his true energy, and the golden rays disappeared into his palm.

The white porcelain cup contained a small amount of thick, golden-brown medicinal liquid, with a very faint golden halo on the surface that disappeared in an instant.

Chu Nan lifted Xu Ran by the back of her neck and fed her the medicine little by little.

After feeding her, I put her down and gently placed my right palm on her chest. I used a very light stream of true energy to slowly push the medicine down her Ren meridian, guiding its effects to her limbs and bones.

Xu Ran's breathing became visibly heavier, and a very faint blush appeared on her cheeks.

In less than the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, he felt much more energetic, and his brow completely relaxed.

When Chu Nan took her pulse again, it was much more stable than before. The feeling of being floating and without foundation was still there, but her physical body was temporarily supported.

That's all for tonight.

Chu Nan stood up and stretched his stiff wrists. "Dragon whisker roots replenish the body's blood and qi, but they can't replenish the soul. Xiao Ran's soul damage is something she had from birth; she has a congenital deficiency."

"The red string is broken, so we won't continue to drain her energy, but we'll have to find another way to make up for the losses we incurred."

"No matter what, Li Guanqi is the young master of Mirage. If I kill him, Mirage will definitely not let it go."

Chu Nan instructed Xu Yi, "If the people from Mirage come, just tell them that I, Chu Nan, killed the person, and that they should come to me."

"How can this be allowed?"

Xu Yi panicked, "Mirage is secretly an assassin organization, and you're all alone—"

"Uncle Xu".

Chu Nan interrupted him, "Since I dared to kill their young master, I was prepared. Just pass on the message, and don't worry about anything else."

"Xiao Ran still needs a few more days to consume the medicinal power of this semi-spiritual medicine. Keep a close watch on her and don't let any strangers get close to her."

"good……"

Xu Yi ultimately didn't say anything more.

He knew very well that although he was a well-known wealthy businessman in Beihai, he was still too weak in the face of such supernatural power.

Just as Chu Nan was about to take his leave, Xu Yi suddenly seemed to remember something, "Oh, right..."