Romantic Medical Immortal-Chapter 309: Murong Wan’s Master

Furnace??

Hearing these two words, a trace of confusion flashed in Murong Wan’s eyes. Clearly, she had never heard about the furnace before, and she softly asked, "What is a furnace?"

"A Furnace is a means for cultivators to enhance their cultivation level!"

At this point, Yang Cheng had no reservations or hidden truths left and immediately spoke.

"So, you mean the cultivation technique that Master taught me is the furnace cultivation method? Treating oneself as a furnace to enhance power..."

After a moment’s silence, Murong Wan looked at Yang Cheng and spoke.

"..."

The question left Yang Cheng momentarily speechless; he first gave a bitter smile, then explained, "You probably didn’t understand what I just meant. Simply put, you are your Master’s furnace, and by making you a furnace, she improves her own cultivation level."

"I am Master’s furnace?"

Upon hearing this, Murong Wan gradually realized something was wrong, and her delicate eyebrows knit together slightly.

"Yes." Yang Cheng nodded lightly and continued, "Your Master probably reached a bottleneck, or for some reason, she couldn’t break through, so she resorted to creating a furnace to progress."

"Explain more clearly, I don’t quite understand!"

Murong Wan was utterly confused and said, "I want to know, what exactly am I now?"

"You are essentially the vessel carefully cultivated by your Master."

Yang Cheng’s voice lowered as he said, "Furnace does not refer to your personal cultivation method, but to the role you play in your Master’s cultivation system. The core of the Qi Gathering Technique she imparted to you is not to make you genuinely strong, but to turn you into a repository of Spiritual Energy."

Murong Wan’s face instantly turned pale, her lips trembling slightly: "A repository of Spiritual Energy? What does this mean?"

"It means..."

"The Essence Qi that you’ve absorbed...through that method, most of it has not genuinely been refined and absorbed by you. It is merely stored temporarily within your body, extracted and converted by the unique method of the Qi Gathering Technique!"

"When your Master needs it, she can, through some secret technique, or when your cultivation level reaches a critical point, harvest the pure energy accumulated in your body all at once or in stages and use it for her own, helping her break through bottlenecks or enhance cultivation, while you..."

Yang Cheng looked directly into Murong Wan’s eyes, enunciating each word clearly.

"What!!"

Learning of these things, Murong Wan’s eyes widened instantly, her face showing an unmistakable look of horror.

If you looked carefully, deep sadness could be seen in her gaze.

Originally, she thought that her efforts would soon allow her to become a cultivator like her Master.

But she didn’t expect that she turned out to be her Master’s furnace.

A tool for Master to enhance her cultivation level.

"Yes, exactly like that!"

Yang Cheng nodded gently and said.

"Then...then will my body be harmed?"

After the shock, Murong Wan voiced her doubt aloud.

Looking at Murong Wan’s pale face, Yang Cheng paused and then continued: "As a furnace, each use significantly drains your lifespan. At best, it damages your foundation and accelerates aging. At worst...when the energy is completely harvested, like a lamp run out of oil, you’ll perish, body and soul. That’s why I said you are not truly a cultivator; your cultivation level increases by burning your own life to make a bridal gown for your Master."

Boom!!!

In an instant, Murong Wan felt as if something exploded in her mind.

The towering image of her Master and the gratitude for her life-saving grace...suddenly shattered into pieces by Yang Cheng’s words.

"No...impossible..."

She instinctively shook her head, her voice tinged with tears: "Master she...she treated me so well...she saved my life...how could she...how could she make me into...make me into..."

"Why did she save you?"

At this moment, Yang Cheng was very calm and asked, "How did you two meet?"

"We were..."

In an instant, Murong Wan’s thoughts were forced back to that rainy night.

At the time, she was cornered by a few thugs in a dark alley, and just when she was in despair, a woman like a celestial from the Moon Palace descended from the sky, effortlessly resolving the trouble.

Her otherworldly demeanor and powerful force immediately filled the frightened Murong Wan with admiration.

At that time, she also wanted to have power as strong as her Master’s.

If she had that kind of power, she could avenge her foster parents!!

Afterward, she voluntarily knelt, crying and pleading to become her disciple... The Master seemed to hesitate for a moment before agreeing, saying that her physique was special and suitable for cultivating a shortcut cultivation technique, which was this "Qi Gathering Technique"...

Thinking of this!

Murong Wan was suddenly dumbfounded, as if she had thought of something, and looked at Yang Cheng in shock but said nothing.

"Have you thought of something?"

Seeing this, Yang Cheng immediately asked.

"I think it was a deliberate guidance!!"

"Although Master taught me many things about cultivation, whenever I asked about the specifics of the cultivation technique, her answers were always vague!"

"She just emphasized that Dual Cultivation is necessary and the only way and suggested that only by doing so could I quickly become stronger and protect myself. She never mentioned the Dantian, nor did she teach any real method to refine Spiritual Energy, only urging me continuously to find suitable partners to improve cultivation..."

As she said these words, Murong Wan’s face became increasingly unsightly, as if realizing the crux of the matter.

"Qi Gathering Technique..."

Suddenly, Yang Cheng’s gaze sharpened, his voice low: "This cultivation technique itself may not be evil. It might indeed absorb nature’s spiritual energy or even other energies but your Master only allowed you to draw men’s Essence Qi. That is the biggest question; she was shaping the quality of you as a furnace on purpose..."

Saying this, he suddenly thought of something and continued:

"Most likely, her cultivation relies on harvesting the Essence Qi or primal yin of others to elevate her own. Saving you, taking you as a disciple, teaching the Qi Gathering Technique; all of this was a setup from the very beginning to train you into a furnace to elevate her cultivation level!!"

"How could it be, why!! Why did it turn out like this!"

In a moment, Murong Wan felt utterly cold, like she had fallen into an ice cellar.

At this moment, her long-held beliefs crumbled instantly, her revered Master had become the most terrifying enemy.

And her proud cultivation achievements were actually the staircase toward death.

"Yang Cheng...I...what should I do??"

Overwhelmed by intense despair and fear, she couldn’t stop trembling, tears forming at the corners of her eyes. But when she saw Yang Cheng, it was as if she saw the final straw to clutch onto for her life. She immediately clung tightly to Yang Cheng’s arm, begging:

"I don’t want to die... I don’t want to become someone else’s nourishment... please... help me! Help me escape this... furnace fate!"