Cultivating for a Hundred Lifetimes: Bacteria Cultivate the Dao and Become the Plague Emperor

Medical student Chen Yifan transmigrates into an ancient cultivation world teeming with germs. Even the spiritual energy is infected. Mortals have no spiritual roots and can’t cultivate. They either die of disease or fail to live past thirty. To survive, people developed the Path of Pestilence Cultivation. They treat germs as spiritual energy. They cultivate germs, strengthen germs, and use germs. Different germs have different abilities, and their potential is every bit as great as that of ordinary Five Elements cultivators. But their knowledge and use of germs is crude and superficial. Medical student Chen Yifan, however, knows every germ’s habits and functions like the back of his hand. What’s more, he has brought along all kinds of modern germs, beneficial bacteria, and cancer cells. [Clostridium tetani]: Commonly found in soil and in the intestines of humans and animals. In nature, it can survive for long periods in the form of spores. These spores are extremely resistant and can withstand boiling for 15 to 90 minutes. They can survive in soil for decades. (When strengthened to the utmost, it can devour earth-type spells and fear no Samadhi True Fire.) [Micrococcus lysodeikticus]: Widely distributed in nature, it is commonly found in soil, water, and air, as well as on the bodies of humans and animals. It can survive in a variety of conditions and adapt to its surroundings. (When strengthened to the utmost, it gains some immunity to spells of various attributes, can regrow severed limbs, heal wounds in seconds, and forge an indestructible body.) With cancer cells in his body, Chen Yifan feels like he might be invincible. But just then, the imperial court issues the [Ban on Pestilence Cultivation], and from the start, he meets a hopeless romantic who loves reciting poetry on the brink of death: “Love has always left only sorrow behind; this sorrow will linger without end.”