A viral cold, in certain eras, would have been an epidemic.
And these springtime diseases were common and came in many varieties. The same virus could undergo all kinds of changes, though their symptoms were largely similar.
They could be influenza, measles, scarlet fever... mumps... or chickenpox, norovirus, and the like!
"And then?" Xu Kun asked as he blew his nose.
Zhang Yuanbo blinked. "I ask that Your Highness prescribe the proper remedy and neutralize this poison."
Detoxify it?
Oh-ho!
Xu Kun suddenly understood. He had been wondering why they were making him taste poison for no reason.
In ancient times, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs. Today, Xu Kun sampled ten thousand poisons.
Poisoning Xu Kun was not the goal. The goal was for him to understand how the poison worked, then develop a means of neutralizing it.
Xu Kun had studied medicinal principles in depth, but he truly had not delved deeply into toxicology.
It was like how someone who had lived inland all their life would never consider typhoon disasters.
When even rain was rare inland, who had ever seen typhoons or tsunamis?
After acquiring the Manggu Crimson Toad, Xu Kun had become directly immune to all kinds of toxins. He had never needed to study toxicology in advance like others did when preparing to deal with powerful Poison Dao experts.
"This trial is pretty good. I like it. Should I neutralize them one by one, or all at once?"
In Xu Kun's view, this trial was meaningful and happened to fill a gap in his knowledge.
Zhang Yuanbo:?
Was that even human language?
The first poison pill Xu Kun had just swallowed contained the life-bound poison developed by the Poison Dao expert with the shallowest research into plague poisons among the forty plague shamans of the First