"Oh? There was such a thing?"
That very night, Heavenly Spirit Palace seemed to have suddenly started working overtime. Although the cultivators of Sky Spirit Ridge were already used to running themselves ragged, they still became flustered and rushed about.
At least when Ye Suqi received Chen Feng's spiritual message, he did not manifest an illusory body, merely transmitting his voice.
After hearing Chen Feng's report, he said, "I never expected that Houtu of Shenzhou would actually have such a plague... By your account, it really does resemble Yellow Crystal. Truly unexpected."
Ye Suqi could not be blamed for this. In truth, compared to Earth in the Aura Universe, Shenzhou cultivators were far less enthusiastic than their counterparts in that other universe when it came to researching plagues and toxins.
Because of "profit."
To Earthlings, "disease" was the great enemy of health, and these tiny, mindless living things did not distinguish between high and low, noble and base when they spread. Beggars fell ill, and so did the heads of nations. Thus, the whole of society had an urgent need to study disease.
Furthermore, researching disease often meant "vaccines" and "medicine"—and those two things were wealth.
Even opening a gold mine was not this profitable.
Medicine for common illnesses was practically a household staple, while medicine for rare diseases was often government-subsidized. Vaccines for epidemics were even greater opportunities to make a fortune.
But Shenzhou was completely different.
From the standpoint of "resistance," cultivators and mortals did not resemble the same species at all. Moreover, when cultivators treated patients, they had two all-purpose methods: "strengthen the body to raise nonspecific immunity" and "use spells to keep the patient alive until their body produces antibodies." Even terminal illnesses like the Corpse Horse Plague could be cured through cultivation alone.
The cultivators'