Douluo Dalu: The Legend of Liu Xiaoxiao
Chapter 1006

Wang Haochen's Day

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"As I said before, the concept of poison is actually very broad. Traditionally, poisons were classified according to the attribute of their energy. If it was an ice attribute, it was cold poison; if it was a fire attribute, it was fire poison. In reality, however, this so-called poison was not caused by toxins, but by foreign energy invading the body. It merely manifested in the same way as poison, corroding the body and depriving it of Life Force, which was why it was classified as poison.

"Modern classifications of poisonous attributes are somewhat different. As everyone knows, whether it is paralysis, excitement, corrosion, intoxication, weakness, dizziness, drowsiness, sluggishness, aging, palpitations, or any other abnormal state of the human body, regardless of whether it is harmful or whether its benefits outweigh its harm, it can all fall under the concept of poison. These conditions are not necessarily caused by poison-attributed energy. For instance, a sleep curse can induce sleep, and anything capable of causing such phenomena can be classified as poison.

"By cause, poison can be divided into energy corrosion, drug poisoning, viral illness, and many other categories. By target, it can involve bodily corrosion, organ failure, neural disorder, and different affected areas. By effect, it can be divided into lethal, disabling, rapidly spreading, and other types.

"Traditionally, only something that damaged the body was considered poisoning. Yet in essence, toxins can corrode the neural network of the human brain and affect the mind, which also counts as a kind of poison. If that is so, could words, images, audio, and other carriers of specific concepts that corrode and intoxicate thought also be called poison? For example, if someone read theories about enjoying life and became Slothful, would that count as an erosion of their mind?

"As we mentioned before,

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