Medicine Fork Sector

The Medicine Fork Sector and a Star Sector, which is close to both the Ancient Sages Sector and the Curly Dragon Sector ...

here, there was a civilization, which had destroyed itself ...

this star Sector, is invaded and conquered by the "Imperium of the True Human Beings" ...

*“This is everything about the Curly Dragon Sector. Then, let’s talk about the tales of the Medicine Fork Sector, the second self-destructing civilization!”*

*Behind Su Changfa, the light and shadow broke apart into dancing butterflies, only to condense into a space zone that looked vastly different from the previous one. At the center of the space zone was a glowing planet that seemed to be made of green jade.*

*“The Medicine Fork Sector was a world that slowly grew prosperous two thousand years after the glory of the Curly Dragon civilization.*

*“Different from the Curly Dragon Sector, the Medicine Fork Sector was not a world with multiple space zones; it only had one prosperous space zone. All the spiritual energy and crystals were concentrated on Medicine Fork, the mother planet. Therefore, the shortage of resources was never a problem!*

*“However, the Medicine Fork Sector had its threats, too.*

*“In the Medicine Fork Sector, other than human beings, a lot of demons were occupying the planet, too. The two parties fought each other for more than a thousand years as sworn enemies.*

*“The demons were very adept at biochemistry and virology. The biochemical weapons and virus weapons that they developed dealt tremendous damage to the people of the Medicine Fork Sector. They nearly declared the doom of the newly-born civilization of the Medicine Fork Sector.*

*“At that time, Medicine Fork was an out-and-out ‘planet of plague’, where everybody suffered from viruses and pestilence. They struggled to catch their breath, never knowing if they would live to see the end of the day!*

*“However, the rise of humanity was the unstoppable trend. After a thousand years of bloody battles, the Cultivators of the Medicine Fork civilization developed marvelous drugs and disease control systems. Eventually, they annihilated all the demons in the Medicine Fork Sector!*

*“The golden era of the Medicine Fork civilization thus began!*

*“Without the enemies, nothing could stop the rapid development of the Medicine Fork Sector!*

*“Because of the miserable memories of being tortured by plagues and viruses in the past thousand years, the main focus of the Medicine Fork civilization was the field of medication!*

*“In only several hundred years, the people of the Medicine Fork Sector had developed the most remarkable medication skills and an almost perfect fully-comprehensive health care system. Many of their advanced medication skills are tantalizing even for the Imperium of True Human Beings today!*

*“Under the creed of ‘protecting all the ordinary people’, most of the Cultivators of the Medicine Fork Sector were devoted to the fight with diseases. A doctor was seen as the most honorable profession in the Medicine Fork Sector!*

*“They basically destroyed all the harmful bacteria and viruses in nature before they cured the diseases that troubled human beings one after another. Also, through the injection of all kinds of medications, they established a solid barrier within the body of every ordinary person, preventing them from being invaded by any intruder!*

*“For the hundreds of years, Medicine Fork was almost ‘a planet without illness’. Many ordinary people lived their entire life without ever being affected by the slightest ailment. Not just cancer or seriously infectious diseases, they wouldn’t even catch a cold!*

*“As a result, the average longevity was greatly improved, and the ordinary people ‘looked’ healthier and healthier, too. They could easily live to two hundred years. The quality of their life had a drastic improvement compared with the ‘era of plague’!*

*“At first glance, just like the Curly Dragon civilization’s glory before their crystals ran out, everything about the Medicine Fork civilization appeared perfect when it climbed to the peak of development!”*

(Chapter 1247)

## Cultivation

“However, the Cultivators of the Medicine Fork civilization chose a different methodology from ours,” Su Changfa said. “They believed that the civilization of mankind was a whole. All human beings were brothers and sisters. Regardless of their sex, age, and wealth, whether they were ordinary people or Cultivators, and no matter how many deficiencies there were in their genes and how low their immunity was, they were worth saving through whatever means possible!

“Therefore, they modified the entire planet at a huge cost, establishing an ecological system that was devoid of fatal bacteria and viruses and was therefore extremely vulnerable. They also injected tremendous hormones, antibiotics, and chemical drugs into every citizen’s body, constructing an ‘impenetrable’ man-made immune system!

“At that time, the people of the Medicine Fork Sector would have injections from the moment that they were fetuses in their mother’s womb. The moment they were born, they would be soaked in the tanks of medicine. That was the cost to trade for a seemingly long and healthy life!

“It was a pity that the health and longevity on the surface were actually founded on an extremely feeble foundation. It’s like the Cultivators worked hard to build a greenhouse for all the ordinary people and kept them safe inside from the storms of the outside world.

“It was indeed an effective approach in the short term.

“However, the side effect was that everybody, including the Cultivators, became flowers in the greenhouse!

“As the saying goes, ‘a country without an enemy will soon die of arrogance’. The same logic applies to human beings, too!

“Without the attacks of diseases, bacteria, and viruses, there would be no chance of ‘drills’. Maintaining your health purely with medicine is like protecting your nation with foreign mercenaries. How could it possibly last long?

“Just like that, the people of the Medicine Fork Sector grew up in an enormous ‘sterile room’ generation after generation. Their immune system grew weaker and weaker until they lost the ability to survive on their own!

“The historians of the Imperium of True Human Beings, when studying the civilization of the Medicine Fork Sector, named their disease ‘Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome’. Because their environment was too ‘clean’ and overloaded with interventional medicative defense measures, their immune system collapsed completely, and even their genes were changed!

“Their immune system, just like our ‘appendix’ and ‘tail’, became useless organs and slowly degenerated, eventually vanishing!

“Hehe. Because the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome caused by the Cultivators’ ‘unconditional love’ for ‘all the brotherly human beings’, we also call it the ‘spoil disease’!

“Everybody having AIDS was just part their problem. What was more horrible was that, under the Cultivator’s principle that nobody should be left behind and everybody must be saved, many people who were unsuitable to survive because of their foul genes or, at the very least, unsuitable to have offspring were rescued by them and allowed to get married and have children like normal people, only to leave descendants that were even fouler.

“The Cultivators could suppress the ostensible symptoms of the carriers of foul genes with their incredible medicines and medication skills. However, it was impossible for them to address the problem from the source, which boiled down to the gene strands.

“As a result, the foul genes spread, lurking among the people of the Medicine Fork Sector. They were like an inactive volcano that was expanding incessantly and could wake up at any point!

“To suppress the symptoms of the foul genes, the Cultivators had to increase the dosages of drugs, but the increased dosages led to the escalation of AIDS. Such a vicious circle was utterly unstoppable!

“Although the Medicine Fork civilization was on the brink of destruction, it still looked prosperous and brilliant on the surface!

“They were not as foolish as the people of the Curly Dragon Sector. They had developed rather advance space cruising technologies after several hundred years, which were excellent enough to support space jumps across different Sectors!

“That was the peak of the golden era of the Medicine Fork civilization. When they gazed at the boundless sea of stars, every citizen was confident that they could conquer every enemy including nature!

“However, they never thought of one thing.

“While their immune system was deteriorating, the bacteria and viruses, their most dangerous opponents, were mutating or… evolving!

“The medicine and antibiotics that the Medicine Fork people produced could kill 99.99% of viruses. However, the surviving one, under the stimulation, would have shocking mutations and become even more sordid, mysterious, and fatal!

“Hehe. Survival of the fittest is the law of the universe. The Medicine Fork civilization led by the Cultivators stomped on the rule arrogantly, but the bacteria and viruses in the Medicine Fork civilization had always abided by the rule. Bolstered by the medicine and antibiotics, they were struggling, mutating, and evolving at a speed hundreds of times higher than before!

“Cultivators of the Medicine Fork Sector noticed that the bacteria showed more and more resistance and the viruses were mutating faster and faster, too. A newly-discovered disease could mutate into dozens of variants in only a couple of months.

“However, they still did not realize their mistake. They simply produced even more drugs, vaccines, antibiotics, and interferons crazily. It’s like when you are faced with a blocked flood, you simply want to increase the height of the dam for temporary safety, but you never foresee the damage that the collapse will cause in the future!

“For a while, their strategy seemed to be working.

“All the bacteria and viruses on the land were thoroughly examined by them. They had also developed pertinent vaccines and antibiotics for everybody.

“But they overlooked the ocean.

“Just when the first space fleet of the Medicine Fork civilization was about to set off to explore the sea of stars, an undersea volcano located at the west of the planet suddenly erupted and threw tremendous materials at the bottom of the ocean into the sky.

“The materials included an ancient virus that had hibernated for hundreds of thousands of years in the sulfur and mud near the undersea volcano.

“For the past hundreds of thousands of years, such a virus had never appeared on the planet before. The Medicine Fork civilization did not know the first thing about it or have a targeting vaccine.

“The virus swept across the entire planet like a hurricane. Mixed with the bacteria and virus that hundreds of generations of drugs and antibiotics had failed to kill, it led to a calamitous pestilence!

“The ‘greenhouse’ that Cultivators built for the Medicine Fork civilization after almost a thousand years was finally shattered ruthlessly. The ‘flowers’, with tremendous foul genes lurking inside their bodies and without an immune system, were exposed to the terrible storm!

“In only three months, the Medicine Fork civilization lost one fifth of its population. The social order was on the verge of collapse. It fell to the deepest level of hell from the clouds!

“In fact, at that time, the civilization could still have been saved.”

(Chapter 1248)