Cultivation Online novel Chapter 75

Chapter 75 - Doctor Wang

After sitting in the large bathtub for a few minutes, Yu Rou suddenly noticed something different about Yuan’s body, and she decided to ask, "Is it just me or... did you get fatter, brother?"

"What? Have you been feeding me more soup than usual?" Yuan responded in a puzzled voice.

"No, I measure everything I cook, and I don’t recall increasing the size of your meals. However, your body is clearly fatter than before, and it’s not as boney!" Yu Rou said as she looked at his bare body with a wondering look.

"Are you sure you aren’t imagining things? I cannot imagine why I would suddenly grow fatter... It’s not as if I had been eating more—" Yuan suddenly stopped talking midway through his sentence, as he realized something.

Although he hasn’t been fed more by Yu Rou, his meals have indeed increased recently— and by a fair amount!

’Impossible... Could it be caused by my food consumption in the game...?’ Yuan thought to himself, and his suspicions grew stronger.

"Well, as long as you don’t grow to the point where I can no longer carry you, it should be fine, but I’ll still ask the doctor about it later," Yu Rou said.

Ten minutes later, a servant knocked on the bathroom door and said from the outside, "Young Lady, Doctor Wang is here."

"Okay, let’s get out now, brother." Yu Rou tightly embraced his body from behind before standing up, pulling him with her.

A few moments later, she placed him on a specially made table that was located right beside the bathtub before pressing a few buttons on the table.

Soon, warm wind began blowing from the sides of the table, quickly drying Yuan’s body. In the meantime, Yu Rou dried her own body with a towel and wore a clean set of pajamas.

Once she was fully clothed, she helped Yuan with his clothes next.

After placing Yuan back on the wheelchair, Yu Rou led him outside and into another room, where an old man with greyish hair and a long beard was waiting.

"Thank you for coming here despite it being so late, Doctor Wang." Yu Rou bowed to him.

"Don’t even mention it. Even if it was past midnight and I am already asleep, I would immediately come here if summoned." Doctor Wang laughed as he stood up and walked to them.

"So? What happened? You sounded pretty frantic on the phone, so I thought something must’ve happened to the Young Master. But he seems perfectly fine." Doctor Wang said after looking at Yuan’s condition with his bare eyes. "In fact, he looks even healthier than my last visit!"

"Well, you see..." Yu Rou proceeded to explain the situation, telling Doctor Wang about the black gunks that smelled like rotten eggs and Yuan getting fatter somehow when he has only been getting lighter throughout the years.

"Black gunks that smell like rotten eggs? Interesting..." Doctor Wang closed his eyes to ponder.

After a moment of silence, he spoke, "I have only heard of such situations in ancient medicine books but have never seen it personally. Do you have a sample of the black gunks that I can look at?"

"Yes! I will be right back!" Yu Rou said as she rushed back to Yuan’s room for the sample.

Once Yu Rou left the room, Doctor Wang looked at Yuan with a pitiful gaze. Out of the tens of thousands of patients he’d treated before, Yuan’s condition was one-of-a-kind. While he has seen patients with similar conditions, they were mostly caused by accidents or due to natural-born illnesses. Yuan, however, is neither sick nor injured— at least not a single doctor from around the world was able to find anything wrong with his body after many years of effort. Even Doctor Wang himself, who is recognized as one of the best doctors in the world, cannot find the source of Yuan’s problems and was baffled by this phenomenon.

"Young Master, have you felt any pain or uncomfortable feeling within your body lately?" Doctor Wang asked Yuan sometime later.

"No," Yuan said, not telling Doctor Wang about the pain he’d felt when he tried to cultivate.

"What about other feelings besides pain or discomfort?"

"Well, this might sound weird but I have been feeling more energetic as of lately. If I could, I would be jumping around right now," Yuan said with a bittersweet smile.

"Full of energy...?" Doctor Wang looked at Yuan with wide eyes. This is his first time hearing such words coming from Yuan’s mouth.

"What about your diet? Have your meals changed lately?" Doctor Wang then asked.

"No, I am still eating nothing but soup," Yuan said in a sighing voice.

"What about the amount? Did the Young Lady increase your portions?"

"No, she told me that herself not long ago."

"I am going to feel your pulse now." Doctor Wang then turned his hand and began examining his pulses.

A few moments later, Doctor Wang retrieved a stethoscope from his bag and began listening to Yuan’s heartbeats.