Lind confirmed his findings 5 times before he was forced to accept what his scans were telling him. The disease was a virus and it was a cultivator. It was at the Divine Realm!
How was such a thing even possible?! While micro-organisms were very much alive, cultivation required them to have compatible hosts to advance like beasts or plants.
Usually, if there was true symbiosis, that was possible but only as a part of the greater whole. In other words, on their own, they had no path forward but a virus?!
There was no way it could cultivate on its own. They consumed hosts on infection and without treatment, could kill them. Even if they did not, a disease ravaged host would prevent any hope of exposure to a steady stream of Qi to cause advancement before its own lifespan long gave out.
