While examining Tony, Lin Hai also used Life Force to carefully probe the interaction between the Second-Generation Miniature Arc Reactor in Tony's chest and the surrounding tissue and blood.
As expected, under the influence of his Life Force, the toxins produced by the reactor core material, palladium, in Tony's body were effectively suppressed, and a significant portion had even been eliminated.
Having confirmed this, Lin Hai stopped paying attention to Tony's physical condition.
First, since Life Force could effectively solve Tony's palladium poisoning, Lin Hai could pull Tony back from the brink of death at any time.
This meant that the risk of Tony spiraling into self-destruction because of palladium poisoning, arranging his affairs, becoming estranged from Pepper and Rhodey, then finally coming to his senses in the face of a life-or-death crisis and finding clues to his father's legacy—the path of emotional growth and maturation—had been greatly reduced.
Second, Tony needed to maintain a certain sense of crisis as a catalyst.
Compared with the advanced but still flawed second-generation reactor currently in Tony's chest, the triangular new isotope reactor Tony would develop in the future after deciphering the "City of the Future" model left behind by his father Howard, one with a new element at its core and that was truly safe, efficient, and clean, was the more ideal form.
If Lin Hai revealed now that he could completely eradicate Tony's palladium poisoning, then without the urgency of "If I don't solve this, I'll die soon," Tony's inner drive to seek out a new element to replace his current reactor might be greatly weakened.
That was not what Lin Hai wanted to see.
Therefore, he chose to use Life Force to eliminate most of the toxicity, ensuring Tony would not give up, lose control, or lose his mind because