The three physicians accompanying us are the most crucial component of this expedition. They are also Alchemy Room Cultivators from the Fengri City Thousand Households Station—able to treat illness and craft pills—possessing special expertise as members of the Xuanqing Guard. Their ranks may not be high, but their positions hold significant status.
Cultivators have long been studying plagues, these calamities threatening the very foundation of the Dynasty, but with scant results. To interpret microscopic biological systems using the intangible cultivation framework is inherently forced; Shen Hao could offer no aid here. After all, he couldn't possibly explain to these cultivators what a 'virus' or 'bacterium' was—he himself couldn't describe them clearly.
However, determining the presence of plague was still possible.
