"All human bodies contain prions."
"Everyone here—including me—has pathogenic prions in their body."
When Ai Qinglan announced this in the Empirical Evidence Department, she scared everyone into a state of pandemonium.
The Empirical Evidence Department erupted into chaos.
Even Chen Feng showed a look of panic.
Only Song Shufu remained unmoved.
"Master, Master, are we going to die? Could we have caught those prions by accident... Could there have been an operational error at some point..."
"Shut up!" Song Shufu smacked the back of his disciple's head. "When have you ever heard of cultivators dying from something like this?"
"Huh?" The young disciple froze.
Everyone looked up at Ai Qinglan. "Huh?"
"Yes, that's right. Every human is born with prions." Ai Qinglan nodded, utterly unaware that there had been anything wrong with her wording. "It's just that the amount is extremely low, probably less than one ten-thousandth of the pathogenic threshold."
"Huh?"
"Everyone is born carrying prions, and as metabolism proceeds, as physiological activities continue, as Path of Living Beings Source is synthesized, the number of these prions keeps increasing." Ai Qinglan said, "And according to prion cyclic amplification technology, prion growth is basically exponential in its early and middle stages—that is, slow at first, but faster and faster later on. Once it passes a certain point, it becomes impossible to stop."
Someone secretly shuddered, as though they could feel a ticking time bomb buried inside their body.
Their body was clearly no different from before, but... the creeping horror made them feel terribly uncomfortable.
"But?" Chen Feng understood Ai Qinglan's implication. "You mean this is actually no big deal?"
"Because the prions accumulated by many people over an entire lifetime will never exceed that threshold." Ai Qinglan said, "Ah, though the degeneration of brain function in aging mortals may