[Alliance Leader Bonus Chapter 4/17]
"That's right." Facing Xue Bufan's question, Yue Luo Liuli readily admitted it. "There is indeed another race that uses Spirit Resonance Hormone."
Upon learning this, Ai Qinglan let out a long breath.
Her guess had basically been correct.
That right-handed hormone was equally effective on life forms with left-handed Path of Living Beings Source. No one knew what methods that unnamed race had used or how it had designed it, but Ai Qinglan was certain that this was indeed an exquisitely sophisticated design. And the various "words" within it were truly enough to form a complete system, supporting the spiritual power of shapeshifting.
On the other hand, the reason those Nan Clan apprentices had suffocated was now self-evident.
Yue Luo Liuli had not been wrong. This Spirit Resonance Hormone was not very toxic—one could even say it had virtually no toxicity. Most of its properties were identical to those of its isomer, but it was still a molecule whose chirality differed from that of the Nan Clan. If absorbed, it would produce secondary metabolic effects, even poisoning reactions.
Although most of these highly complex compound Spirit Resonance Hormones were steroids, their complexity made them easily broken down by the digestive tract, so they could only be used as inhalants. [Of course, in theory, they could also be used as injectables. But first, the Nan Clan had no concept of injectables; second, that mighty figure of the unknown insect race had used this stuff as an inhalant, so the Nan Clan presumably did not dare alter its method of use.]
And when large amounts of lung tissue fell into a negative state due to secondary metabolism, the Nan Clan would suffocate to death from oxygen deprivation.
They were only Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
Xue Bufan