After communicating with Hu Ze's Avatar, Li Chen took out a glass vial about an inch tall in Wildstead and studied the white substance inside, which resembled clouds and mist, dispersing into silken strands.
This was the brood nest of the white meme, a wondrous substance created by modifying fungi grown on the Insect Race's mycelial carpet. It belonged to the category of Ma's blue mold.
Its earliest origins could be traced back five hundred thousand years to a Life and Creation Dao Fruit produced by a Puppet Dao Master. At the time, the Creation Sect was at the height of the Creation-Promotion Secret Art's popularity and the development of artificial human craftsmanship. Yet other paths had already begun to rise, and pathogens, bacteria, fungi, and the like were collectively classified as mustard-seed dust.
Ma's blue mold was an artificial creation cultivated through engineering methods, linking together many living substances on the basis of this Puppet Dao theory.
If humans could create humans, they could naturally research similar techniques to manufacture other types of living matter.
Even nature's creative power might not be able to produce such a substance, because in a sense, it was an entirely new concept of puppet: a puppet on a microscopic scale.
Thus, it was also called a mustard-seed puppet. In this world, anything on the scale of cells or pathogens belonged to the mustard-seed category.
But the substance itself was harmless and nontoxic, merely the equivalent of a microscopic biological factory capable of reproducing and spreading on its own.
It possessed the ability to manufacture and disseminate even finer substances. Those finer entities it produced were the true substance of the white meme-Jiaoming!
Jiaoming was also written with an alternate character: in the Eastern Sea there were insects that nested on mosquitoes' eyelashes, called