The five-and-a-half-year-old baby doctor comes to the city to cure those who refuse to listen.

Lin Jianguo carried Chu Chen on his back, feeling that the small body on his back was light and airy, as if it had no weight.

He walked steadily, step by step, through the messy courtyard, toward the east wing where the spoils of war were stored.

"Chen'er... these things..." Lin Jianguo looked at the overflowing treasures in the room, his throat dry. "Our Lin family has never seen anything like this in generations."

Chu Chen lay on his back and lazily yawned.

"Grandpa, you need to broaden your perspective."

With a wave of his small hand, he looked like a great general surveying the land.

"These are all toys, they're worthless."

Lin Jianguo stumbled and almost fell off.

Any one of these treasures in the room could feed an ordinary family for a lifetime, but in his mouth, they became worthless toys.

Once inside, Chu Chen slid off Lin Jianguo's back, like a little tiger surveying its territory.

He ignored the glittering gold, silver and jade artifacts, and also bypassed the beautifully packaged century-old medicinal herbs.

He sniffed the air with his little nose and walked straight to an inconspicuous corner.

There was a pile of junk there, including broken bronze artifacts, cracked wood carvings, and several pieces of dark, rotten wood.

Chu Chen's eyes lit up, and he pounced over, pulling out three palm-sized, jet-black pieces of wood from a pile of junk, which emitted a faint sandalwood scent.

He then carefully picked up a small, dry grass that looked like a weed but had seven leaves from a broken pottery jar next to him.

"Found it!" Chu Chen proudly presented the item to Lin Jianguo.

Lin Jianguo stared blankly at the few pieces of rotten wood and the bunch of withered grass.

"Chen'er, what... what is this?"

"Good stuff." Chu Chen grinned. "Materials for getting Mom a bigger house."

Lin Jianguo was even more confused.

Chu Chen didn't explain, but hugged his "treasure" and ran out.

"Grandpa, quick! Call that scoundrel Liu Zhen over to help! Hurry!"

When Liu Zhen came, he practically tumbled and crawled in.

As soon as he entered, he saw Chu Chen sitting cross-legged in front of the huge computed tomography scanner, holding a small carving knife and slicing across several pieces of black wood.

Lin Jianguo stood by, nervously handing him tools, barely daring to breathe.

"Sir! You called me!" Liu Zhen knelt down on the ground with a thud, his eyes filled with fanaticism as if he were looking at a god.

"Stop talking nonsense." Chu Chen didn't even look up. "Come here and do as I say."

He pointed to several reserved interfaces next to the CT machine.

"Fit these three pieces of wood in perfectly."

Liu Zhen looked at the three pieces of black wood covered with mysterious runes. Although he couldn't understand them, he could feel a calming power emanating from them.

"Sir, this is... a rune?"

"Why ask so many questions? Just do what I'm told to do."

"Yes! Yes!"

Liu Zhen and Lin Jianguo, one supporting and the other handing over, carefully followed Chu Chen's instructions and inlaid the three pieces of Soul-Nourishing Wood into the three positions of the CT scanner.

Finally, Chu Chen picked up the Seven-Star Life-Sustaining Grass again, crushed it into powder with his fingers, and sprinkled it evenly into the rune grooves of the Soul-Nourishing Wood.

After doing all this, he walked to the CT scanner, reached inside, and took out the calming jade that had become somewhat dull.

The spiritual energy in the jade pendant has been almost completely exhausted.

Chu Chen put the jade pendant in his pocket and patted the machine's control panel with his small hand.

"Power on!"

Liu Zhen frantically pressed the switch.

"Buzz—"

The massive CT scanner emitted a deep hum, louder than ever before.

The runes on the three pieces of Soul-Nourishing Wood embedded in the machine instantly lit up, emitting circles of soft white light.

On the screen, the galaxy that represented the origin of Lin Xiu's life suddenly lit up.

The once dim nebula has now become dazzling, as if the entire universe has been condensed into this small screen.

In the center of the Milky Way, the golden point of light that was transformed from the life-extending needle of the Big Dipper no longer flickered.

It stabilized and became several times brighter than before.

Thin strands of golden light extended from the point of light, slowly but steadily repairing the broken meridians and star charts around them.

"It's done!" Liu Zhen's voice trembled with excitement, and tears streamed down his face.

Lin Jianguo was also in tears, and he covered his mouth tightly to keep himself from crying out loud.

As Chu Chen looked at the stabilized Milky Way on the screen, his tense face finally relaxed.

A sudden wave of intense fatigue washed over me.

His vision went black, his body swayed, and he almost fell to the ground.

"Chen'er!"

Lin Jianguo reacted quickly and pulled him into his arms.

Chu Chen's face was as white as a sheet of paper, without a trace of blood.

He leaned against his grandfather's warm embrace, too weak to even lift a finger.

This time, in order to inscribe the talisman array and guide the spiritual energy, he almost exhausted his divine sense.

"Chen'er, don't scare your grandpa!" Lin Jianguo held his small body, his heart aching as if it were being stabbed.

"Grandpa..." Chu Chen weakly opened his eyes and licked his chapped lips.

He leaned close to Lin Jianguo's ear and spoke in a childish voice that only the two of them could hear.

"I'm hungry..."

"I want to eat braised pork belly, the fatty kind."

Lin Jianguo was stunned for a moment, then his tears fell even more fiercely.

"Okay, okay! Grandpa will have the kitchen make it for you right away! A big pot of it!"

He held Chu Chen in his arms and turned to leave.

Just then.

"Gurgle... gurgle..."

A strange sound came from the direction of the backyard.

The sound was like boiling water, or a muffled rumble coming from deep underground.

Immediately afterwards, a cold, decaying aura crept in without warning through the crack in the door, causing the temperature in the room to drop several degrees.

Wang Dequan, who was guarding the door, shuddered.

"What's that smell? It smells like...like a graveyard."

Liu Zhen frowned and subconsciously looked towards the backyard.

In the backyard, the dry well that had been dried up was now gurgling with black gas.

The black mist was as thick as ink, swirling and twisting in the moonlight, as if something was about to crawl out from the bottom of the well.

"Sir! Grandpa! Look!" Liu Zhen pointed to the backyard, his voice trembling with fright.

Lin Jianguo, holding Chu Chen, also witnessed that bizarre scene, and his scalp tingled with fear.

Chu Chen, who was in his arms, slowly turned his head.

His eyes, which had been somewhat unfocused due to fatigue, now appeared unfathomable.

He looked at the dry well that was constantly emitting black smoke, and his lips twitched slightly.

"After absorbing so much of my spiritual energy, it has finally decided to come out."