Half an hour later, Zhao Guangyi's somewhat pale face had returned to normal.
He said softly, "Xiao Yu, thank you for the effort. I'm all right now."
At his words, Xiao Yu withdrew her power, then helped Zhao Guangyi sit up properly.
She glanced around and saw a small porcelain bottle on Zhao Guangyi's desk. Reaching out, she grasped at the air and drew the little bottle into her hand.
Zhao Guangyi was not surprised by her technique. Instead, he smiled and said, "I don't even know what realm your cultivation has reached anymore."
"Don't talk!" Xiao Yu snapped. She uncorked the little porcelain bottle, poured out a pill, and held it beneath her nose to sniff it.
"These are Heart-Protecting Pills, specially refined by the Valley Master of Medicine God Valley. It's thanks to these pills that my heart pain has eased," Zhao Guangyi said.
"How many?" Xiao Yu asked.
"Three!" Zhao Guangyi answered.
Xiao Yu poured out three Heart-Protecting Pills and helped Zhao Guangyi take them, then brought over a cup of warm water from nearby for him to swallow them with.
"After all these years, your injury still hasn't healed?" Seeing that Zhao Guangyi's expression had more or less returned to normal after taking the Heart-Protecting Pills, Xiao Yu could not help asking softly.
"It will never heal. My heart meridians were damaged back then. Living this many years has already been a miracle. Look at my elder brother-alas, his heart meridians were damaged too, but he couldn't hold on and died in his prime. Rumors spread everywhere, saying I murdered my brother and usurped the throne. But what was the truth?" Zhao Guangyi sighed. "Especially when my two nephews, Dezhao and Defang, died young, their deaths became an excuse for certain people to attack the government.