Su Changfa's voice was cold, and his face was gloomy.
Together with the empty, desolate cities in the Grand Illusionary Land, they congregated into a gloomy cloud that was extremely depressing.
Although he knew that the guy was trying to brainwash him, Li Yao was still soaked in cold sweat. He could not help but ask, "What happened to the Curly Dragon civilization?"
"In the thousands of years that followed, the Curly Dragon civilization was no more," Su Changfa said casually. "There are few historical materials left. We can only speculate.
"First of all, as the crystals and spiritual energy ran out, the Curly Dragon civilization officially entered the Age of Doom. The last Cultivator perished, too. Nobody could awaken their spiritual root ever again!
"Without crystals, without spiritual energy, and without the leadership of Cultivators, the Curly Dragon civilization was trapped in its mother planet, as if it had been mired in a decaying swamp.
"As the population continued to explode and the longevity increased, the needs and demands of human beings were magnified infinitely. The problem of resource exhaustion could not be completely resolved!
"Yes. There were still abundant coal and oil resources on the Curly Dragon civilization. All kinds of chemical energy and even nuclear energy could be utilized, too.
"However, spiritual energy is the most advanced, purest, and strongest form of energy in the universe! Neither chemical energy nor nuclear energy can compare to spiritual energy at all!
"The starships driven by chemical energy and nuclear energy could never exceed one percent of the speed of light!
"Without one percent of the speed of light, it is impossible to establish a mature and stable navigation, collection, and transportation system in space. It's like a few boats that are riddled with holes will never be able to carry out a trade across the ocean!
"Besides, the coal and oil resources would run out sooner or later, too!
"Just like that, in the thousands of years after the crystals ran out, the coal, oil, and other resources ran out one after another, too.
"At that time, the people of the Curly Dragon civilization finally realized that they had to march into the sea of stars without caring about the cost. But how was it possible to do that with their boats driven by nuclear energy and chemical energy?
"Without energy, the civilization naturally declined. The Curly Dragon civilization did not collapse instantly but walked toward death slowly and 'died without any disease'!"
"Shua!"
The picture in the Grand Illusionary Land flashed. The empty, forsaken cities were gone, replaced by some naked, pale little people.
These little people were not much taller than dwarves, but their limbs were rather well-proportioned and slender, just like a scaled-down version of ordinary people.
Their faces were adorned with immature, almost idiotic smiles. Their big eyes, which took up almost half of their faces, were also blocked by a translucent membrane. There was not the slightest spark of wisdom or humanity in them.
Their movements were extremely slow. Even a simple stretch would take a few minutes to complete.
Looking at these strange little people, Li Yao couldn't help but think of an animal — sloth!
"These are the Coiling Dragon people after their civilization has deteriorated for thousands of years."
"After the expedition team of the Imperium landed on Curly Dragon, they discovered the survivors of the Curly Dragon Sector in the complicated sewers of the abandoned cities. In order to adapt to the world after the energy was exhausted, their bodies and habits had mutated to the mode that consumed the least amount of energy. For the rest of their lives, they spent most of their time lurking in the darkness below the ground, not moving at all. The amount of heat they consumed was one percent of what ordinary people consumed. They could survive as long as they absorbed some of the residues left by the previous civilizations."
Li Yao shuddered hard and mumbled, "Then, where are the descendants of the people of the Curly Dragon Sector right now?"
"They are still on Curly Dragon," Su Changfa said slowly.
"We have established a few 'nature reserves for rare species' on the Curly Dragon Sector to protect them and open them to all citizens of the Imperium. We are educating patriotism with the decline of the Curly Dragon Sector. In the meantime, we are warning all the Immortal Cultivators that they must not repeat the mistakes of the Cultivators.
"If you are interested, Fellow Cultivator Li, chances are that you can visit the 'Curly Dragon Nature Reserve' in person in the future. By then, you will understand how correct your decision to abandon the darkness and join the light today was!"
Li Yao took a deep breath, but he still couldn't help but ask, his voice shivering, "You have caged … human beings for exhibitions?"
"Have you not realized it yet, Fellow Cultivator Li?"
Su Changfa raised his voice. "They are not real human beings. They are hominoids! Hominoids!
"Hominoids are not human beings. They are just a bunch of shortsighted, lazy, and incorrigible animals driven by their instincts!
"You cannot show any mercy to such animals. If you show them the slightest kindness, they will push their luck and eventually destroy the entire civilization as well as themselves!
"Only by treating them as cattle and educating them strictly can we exploit the slightest bit of value from them as fuel for the civilization of mankind to move forward!
"Hehe. The Cultivators of the Curly Dragon civilization made such a huge mistake because they were too lenient and compromised!
"If it were the Immortal Cultivators, we would've disbanded the unions, stopped the strikes, suppressed the demonstrations, executed the leaders of the unions, skinned them, and shattered their souls so that they would never be reincarnated!
"All the guys who were bold enough to cause trouble were enslaved and sent to the resource planets for mining, along with their families and friends! Not just a ton of crystals that cost a couple of lives, even if it cost a couple of hundred lives, what was the big deal? Compared to the entire civilization, it was just a drop in the ocean!
"Just like you said, Fellow Cultivator Li, even the highest death rate would only be temporary. It would certainly drop in the future! Even if the death rate did not drop, the slaves would gradually get used to it!
"After hundreds of years of hard work, what does it matter if millions of slaves are killed? At the very least, the civilization will develop at a high speed. There will be more and more Immortal Cultivators, who will be able to produce starships of a larger scale and gain the ability to march to a vaster universe!
"By then, the energy problem will be resolved. All the sacrifices will be worthwhile. The entire civilization will continue its glory instead of committing suicide like the idiotic natives of the Curly Dragon Sector!
"There is a saying in the Imperium that 'the flower of civilization needs to be watered by endless blood'. That is exactly what it means. Fellow Cultivator Li, do you think I'm right?"
Li Yao swallowed and struggled to nod his head.
He suddenly felt that Su Changfa's hands on his shoulders were slippery and greasy, like five cold vipers.
His heart seemed to have been bitten by a viper, too. He could not have felt more uncomfortable.
Su Changfa could tell that he did not mean what he said, but he was not bothered. He smiled and said, "I know that Fellow Cultivator Li will not fully accept the mysterious theories of the true path of immortality for the time being. But it doesn't matter. Let's take our time and explore it. As long as you are not prejudiced, you will certainly be enlightened eventually!
"Now that we are done with the Curly Dragon Sector, let's talk about the story of the Medicine Fork Sector, the second civilization that self-destructed!"
Behind Su Changfa, the light and shadows were falling apart like dancing butterflies, congregating into a different space zone. At the center of the space zone was a translucent planet that seemed to be carved out of jade.
"The Medicine Fork Sector was a Sector that slowly prospered more than two thousand years after the glory of the Curly Dragon Sector.
"Different from the Curly Dragon Sector, the Medicine Fork Sector was not a world with multiple space zones. It had only one very prosperous space zone. All the resources of spiritual energy and crystals were concentrated on the 'Medicine Fork Sector', the mother planet. Therefore, the problem of spiritual energy exhaustion was never encountered!
"But the Medicine Fork Sector had its own threats, too.
"On the Medicine Fork Sector, other than human beings, a lot of demons lived there, too. The two parties had been fighting each other for a thousand years and were mortal enemies.
"The demons were very adept at biochemistry, virology, and other fields. They had developed countless biochemical weapons and virus weapons, which dealt tremendous damage to the Medicine Fork Sector and almost destroyed the Medicine Fork Sector that had just been born.
"At that time, the Medicine Fork Planet was an out-and-out 'Planet of Plague'. Everybody was tortured by viruses and plagues. Their lives were precarious and worse than death, and they were struggling to catch their last breaths!
"However, the rise of humanity was an unstoppable trend after all. After a thousand years of bloody battles, the Cultivators of the Medicine Fork Sector developed marvelous medical skills and epidemic prevention systems, too. Eventually, all the demons in the Medicine Fork Sector were annihilated!
"The golden age of the Medicine Fork Sector began!
"Without the natural enemies, nothing could stop the rapid development of the Medicine Fork Sector!
"Because of the painful memories of the plague and viruses in the past thousand years, and because of the enormous treasure trove of biochemistry and virology left by the demon race, the Medicine Fork Civilization's main direction of advancement is in the field of medicine!
"In only hundreds of years, the Medicine Fork Sector developed the most advanced medical skills and an almost perfect medical care system for all the citizens. Many of the advanced medical procedures are even beyond the reach of the Imperium of True Human Beings today!
"Encouraged by the belief to 'protect all the ordinary people', most of the Cultivators in the Medicine Fork Sector devoted themselves to the fight against diseases. Doctors were the most honorable profession in the Medicine Fork Sector!
"They almost wiped out all the bacteria and viruses in nature that were harmful to human beings. They also eliminated all the diseases that troubled human beings one by one. Also, by injecting all kinds of drugs, they established a solid 'internal barrier' for all the ordinary people to protect them from the invasion of any external enemies!
"In the hundreds of years, the Medicine Fork Sector was almost a 'disease-free planet'. All the ordinary people were never troubled by any diseases in their entire life. Not just cancer or serious infectious diseases, they did not even catch a cold once!
"As a result, the average life expectancy was significantly improved. The bodies of the ordinary people 'looked' better and better, too. They could easily live two to three hundred years old. Their quality of life had undergone drastic changes compared to the 'age of plague', too!
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