Douluo Diary: Wielding the Herrscher of Reason at the Start
Chapter 45

Meme Virus "Meme Body"

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Nothing happened overnight? The next morning...

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the third day's diary entry. You have received one diary reward:] ["Myriad Poisons Codex" cultivation method, God-bestowed Spirit Ring ×5]

Qin Moyu had just finished washing up and opened his diary when the system notification sounded beside his ear.

"Oh? A cultivation method without a rank?"

he murmured, immediately intrigued.

Since it was still early, and Xue Ke in the next room had not yet gotten up, he activated the diary-recording function.

The overall appearance of the "Myriad Poisons Codex" resembled the diary's material. Its cover was a deep, jet black, with a texture like obsidian. The whole book looked more like a spellbook.

The only difference was that at the very center of the "Myriad Poisons Codex" cover was an engraved two-dimensional projection of the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core from a certain angle.

As a four-dimensional technology, every image recorded by observing the high-dimensional Divine Core from a low-dimensional perspective would be different...

The appearance of the "Myriad Poisons Codex" also implied that this was a cultivation method exclusively suited to the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core. Even if someone else obtained it by chance, they would be unable to cultivate it...

[A new day has begun. I feel like I'm quite a bit stronger than I was yesterday.]

[The Diary System is simply too efficient. Other people work tirelessly at cultivation, spending their entire lives pursuing opportunities on the Great Dao, while I only need to casually write a diary to grow stronger. This is perfectly reasonable.]

[After all, everyone else's cultivation is built through training, so it's flimsy and unstable. My strength, on the other hand, has been built up bit by bit through system rewards...]

[Compared side by side, the difference is obvious!]

Soul Land I Qian Renxue: "Is that reasonable?"

Soul Land I Xue Ke: "What's unreasonable about it? I think it's perfectly reasonable!"

Soul Land I Qian Renxue: "6"

Soul Land I Ye Lingling: "Indeed. All this way, all I've seen is Brother Mo Yu's sweat and hard work!"

[Yesterday's diary reward has already arrived: a cultivation method called the "Myriad Poisons Codex." It looks rather interesting.]

[The theme of today's diary entry happens to be related to the "Myriad Poisons Codex" cultivation method.]

[With the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core as its core, the first stage of the "Myriad Poisons Codex" reaches completion by thoroughly transforming every gene and cell in the human body into toxins, creating an entirely new race—the Toxin-based Lifeform.]

[Carbon-based lifeforms are people like us, made of flesh and blood. Pigs, cattle, sheep, and chickens are also carbon-based lifeforms. Silicon-based lifeforms are intelligent robots capable of thought; even cold metal can evolve into a lifeform.]

[As for Toxin-based Lifeforms, they are an entirely new form of life derived through high-dimensional technology. Their genes and cells share the same origin as all poisons, passively absorbing every miasmic poison, baleful poison, gu poison... They only need to lie down and absorb poisons to grow stronger.]

[This is a cultivation method that develops from technology into biotechnology. Since the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core has already transformed the body into a Toxin-based Lifeform, toxins will not cause backlash. Toxins will no longer be a threat, but the sole nourishment for evolution!]

[Not gonna lie, this cultivation method is quite suitable for people like Dugu Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, who possess innate poison-body talents...]

Soul Land I Ning Rongrong: "Another useless piece of knowledge acquired. So we're carbon-based lifeforms."

Soul Land I Qian Renxue: "Passively absorbing poison and getting stronger just by lying down... Compared to that, why does my Angel Martial Soul seem so useless... Can't you try a little harder!"

Soul Land I Shui Yue'er: "If you're bad at it, don't blame the road for being uneven, boohoo..."

Soul Land I Shui Bing'er: "My sister drank too much. Don't mind the details. Please continue."

Soul Land IV Bai Xiuxiu: "Toxin-based Lifeform?! Directly rewriting a lifeform's nature and creating an entirely new race? Isn't that a bit... absurd?"

Soul Land IV Lan Mengqin: "This should be what they call biotechnology. This kind of technology that tampers with the origin of life seems to have been banned by most federations. It's forbidden research that violates ethics and morality..."

Battle Through the Heavens Xiao Yi Xian: "I'm jealous. Can one really cultivate by absorbing poison without any backlash at all...?"

Soul Land II Wu Feng: "What's there to envy? After the transformation, can they even still be called human? Who knows whether there might be hidden dangers..."

Soul Land II Wu Feng: "Wait... Battle Through the Heavens? Could the person above be the female lead from the Battle Through the Heavens world?"

Soul Land II Xu Jiujiu: "Holy shit, sis, you're actually a big shot from the Battle Through the Heavens world. Welcome, welcome!"

Soul Land II Xiao Xiao: "Welcome, newcomer! Newcomer, post a photo!"

Soul Land II Meng Hongchen: "Welcome, newcomer! Newcomer, post a photo!"

Soul Land III Dai Yuner: "+1"

[The first stage of the "Myriad Poisons Codex" merely transforms the physical body. It can only be considered a three-dimensional cultivation method, not something truly powerful.]

[The second stage of the "Myriad Poisons Codex" cultivation method is somewhat abstract. It completely transcends the realm of the physical body and involves poisons on the spiritual level.]

[The most typical mental viruses include hallucinogenic mushrooms, Meme Viruses, strange mental contamination, and Cthulhu-style sanity erosion that drains SAN points...]

[These soundless, invisible, formless toxins can directly alter cognition and assault spiritual consciousness, often killing without leaving a trace.]

[Take Meme Viruses, for example. They are mental cognitive viruses developed on the basis of biotechnology.]

[The transmission method of Meme Viruses transcends the limitations of physical viruses. They do not spread through the air, but use information from technological civilizations as their medium. No matter how one comes into contact with virus-containing information, they will be infected by the Meme Virus.]

[I remember a genius named Primal Doctor. No one knew his real name, but his crimes were known throughout the universe, striking terror into countless galactic civilizations. The most infamous among them was the Atavism Experiment.]

[Primal Doctor had always believed that the path of technological civilization had gone astray, and that only by "regressing" intelligent life could civilization develop an entirely new path.]

[Of course, the ones who truly put this mad theory into practice were a group of scholars who fanatically followed Primal Doctor.]

[They believed in one sole truth: "Only 'regression' is salvation. Just as new shoots of knowledge can sprout from the ruins only after the dead branches of ignorance are cut away."]

[To prove his theory, Primal Doctor personally created the Meme Virus and spread it throughout the civilizations of an entire galaxy, using billions of living beings as samples in a grand experiment called "Atavism."]

[The Meme Virus spreads through information. Whether through sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, even a single glimpse of an image, a whispered sentence, or a passage of text can cause meme infection. No one can escape the virus.]

[Even blind people who decipher information through Braille cannot escape the Meme Virus's clutches!]

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