They traveled through time at the same time, but the villainous scientist

Chapter 355 Body Cultivation Furnace

the next day, early morning

A completely black sedan silently broke the tranquility, smoothly driving onto the mountain road leading to Biyou Village, and finally stopping in front of the familiar stone tablet at the village entrance.

The car door opened, and a pair of exquisitely crafted women's high heels stepped out first, followed by a tall, elegant woman.

It was Qu Tong.

She looked up and saw that the whole village was as quiet as a cemetery forgotten by time.

Gone are the days of hearing chickens and dogs, gone are the sounds of villagers working in the morning, and there's not even a hint of cooking fires in the wind.

Things took a completely different turn from what she had planned.

She strode into the village, her high heels clicking crisply on the stone path.

The further she went in, the more gloomy her face became.

The square was deserted, and the doors of every house were wide open, but the furnishings inside were generally tidy, with tables, chairs and benches arranged in an orderly manner, not like a place that had experienced a hasty escape or a fierce fight.

But how is this possible?
Ma Xianhong must have been given a hint by her that he couldn't leave this area.

A chill crept up her spine, not from the damp cold of the mountains, but from the unknown.

Her attention has been drawn to Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao over the past two days.

After all, the place they found was the very place where those thirty-six people had comprehended the Eight Extraordinary Techniques back then...

But at this very moment, trouble struck Biyou Village...

When she realized something was wrong and turned her attention back to Qianzhou, everything had already settled down.

Is it a coincidence? Or was it premeditated?

Qu Tong's lips were pressed into a sharp straight line, and the muscles in her jaw were slightly tense.

She always thought of herself as a chess player, but she never expected that she would one day be outmaneuvered by someone else...

She quickened her pace and headed straight for the largest wooden house in the center—Ma Xianhong's studio.

She pushed open the slightly ajar wooden door with all her might.

"Squeak-"

The door hinges emitted a piercing groan, as if telling the story of the changes that had taken place here.

Inside the room, the once-piled-up parts, blueprints, and unfinished puppets have all been cleared away.

In the very center of the room, the cultivation furnace to which she had poured countless efforts and placed great hopes, along with its enormous base, had vanished without a trace.

Qu Tong stood in that open space, silent for a long time.

She hasn't figured out yet which part of the process went wrong.

According to the information she hastily obtained, Zhuge Qing came to Biyou Village to capture a wanted criminal, and then probably discovered the secret of the place, and then took everyone away.

Logically, it made sense, but she still felt something was off...

This is too much of a coincidence, and if it wasn't prepared in advance, how could she have broken her control over Ma Xianhong?

The most crucial question now is: just how much does this kid named Zhuge Qing actually know?
……

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, in the deepest underground laboratory of the Bureau of Extraterrestrial Intelligence headquarters...

The enormous furnace, which had just been transported back from Biyou Village, stood quietly in the center of the laboratory, its body connected to hundreds of wires and detection probes of various colors.

A group of researchers dressed in white cleanroom suits were gathered around the furnace, carefully disassembling and analyzing it, their movements as gentle as if they were handling a rare treasure.

Zhuge Qing stood behind the one-way observation glass, holding a freshly printed analysis report that was still warm to the touch.

The pages, densely packed with data and structural diagrams, are revealing the core secrets of this miraculous creation.

Every line of data in the report confirmed his previous deductions. The principle of the Body Refinement Furnace was as simple as he had predicted.

Its entire theoretical foundation is based entirely on the "Dual Hands'" ability to control life.

The cultivation of extraordinary individuals is essentially a process of constantly adjusting and refining their "body" and "mind".

Theoretically, a dual-wielding technique can directly interfere with and modify both of these.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, the Dual-Handed Technique can indeed directly alter one's fate, thus omitting the arduous and rigorous training process.

However, this is only a theory.

Completely changing a person's physical and mental structure is an undertaking far beyond imagination.

It would be almost impossible to accomplish this by an individual alone.

Firstly, the human mind is ultimately limited and cannot maintain the kind of complex operation that requires extreme concentration for a long time. This is like using a personal computer to render a Hollywood-level special effects movie, which will inevitably crash due to insufficient computing power.

Secondly, and most importantly, changing one's body and mind requires consuming a massive amount of innate Qi as "fuel," and relying solely on the innate Qi within one's body is definitely not enough.

Ma Xianhong's ingenious methods perfectly solved these two problems.

Based on the research team's disassembly progress and the analysis of the complete design drawings obtained from Ma Xianhong, the function of this body-cultivating furnace has been clearly analyzed, mainly in two aspects.

First, it can use the ability of dual hands to accurately read a person's physical structure, meridian flow, Qi attributes, and even mental state, and transform them into "data" that can be stored and copied.

Secondly, through the extremely complex control unit and energy circulation system inside the cultivation furnace, this "data" is quickly "copied" to another person, forcibly changing their physical and mental state and meridian state, enabling them to gain corresponding abilities.

Simply put, the Body Refinement Furnace is a machine that industrially amplifies the abilities of the Dual-Handed Technique through the Divine Refinement Process.

Zhuge Qing tapped lightly on a corner of the report with his fingers.

Interestingly, only the hardware of this machine is currently complete, but its "software"—the internal control program—is still quite crude and full of logical flaws.

This is why, in the original story, Ma Xianhong urgently needed to find a sorcerer proficient in magic to help him improve the system.

Because he himself was not a sorcerer and did not understand Qimen Dunjia, he was unable to write a stable and efficient "operating system" for this powerful machine.

However, if this is all the function of the body-cultivating furnace...

What was the ultimate purpose of Naqu Tong's elaborate schemes and brainwashing of Ma Xianhong in creating it?
Zhuge Qing withdrew his gaze from the enormous object inside the glass wall and fell into deep thought.

This part, as far as he knew, was not depicted in the "plot".

Judging from Qu Tong's brainwashing method for Ma Xianhong, "recovering memories" seems to be a core bait.

Could Qu Tong's ultimate goal be to regain her "memories"?
Or is it really just to use the Body Refinement Furnace to create a large number of superhumans and build a powerful force of her own?
Just then, the laboratory door was pushed open, and a leading researcher walked in, his expression a mixture of excitement and awe.

He held a round metal core, which was placed in an anti-static buffer box, in both hands and respectfully handed it to Zhuge Qing.

"Boss, the furnace core has been completely removed."

It was a sphere about thirty centimeters in diameter, its surface covered with intricate patterns that were difficult to discern with the naked eye. It resembled both a state-of-the-art integrated circuit and a naturally formed divination array.

Under the light, a faint glow seemed to flow slowly through the patterns, creating a mysterious and beautiful effect.

"never mind."

Zhuge Qing accepted the heavy core, and the chaotic thoughts in his mind were instantly suppressed.

Whatever Qu Tong's ultimate goal is, it no longer matters.

With this furnace core as a sample, and with Lü Liang, whom he had already controlled and who was the source of the "Dual-Handed Technique," Qu Tong, his rival who had been hiding in the shadows for many years, had lost his greatest reliance.

Next, it will only take some time to fully analyze the double-hand technique.

That will be the time to officially operate on her...

(End of this chapter)