CHAPTER 58: CHAPTER 55: A HISTORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF NEW HUMAN CIVILIZATION

New Era 471.

The upper echelons of the sanctuary announced to the people that they are about to enter the "Divine Creation Era."

Due to groundbreaking advancements in the exploration of brain’s qi and Soul Domain, their biological genetic engineering has achieved monumental breakthroughs, and the Genetic Engineering Technology has fully surpassed that of humans from the twenty-first century outside reality.

Soon, the older humans on the island called themselves the New Divine Race, wielding the power of life transformation and mastering the ability to edit and modify life.

"We are the descendants of that one Old God!"

They began to establish statues of their ancestors.

A statue of the Man with a Tear Mole, which they worshipped.

On either side of the Tear Mole God were two statues of the Immortal Herb, also worshipped, and referred to as the entourage of the Immortal Herb Gods.

Many times, they didn’t care whom they worshipped.

But during the rapidly shifting era of explosion, as they struggled with unknown fears from self-body modifications, annihilation of death and old age, they always required spiritual faith.

In reality, they were not mad; the voice in their hearts was only one:

"The body and skin are inherited from parents; no one wants to tamper with their body and experiment with unknown, side-effect-laden substances. But if it’s a choice between ’death’ and ’modification’... then there is no choice."

...

New Era 473.

The modification surgery formally began, but production capacity was scarce.

Extracting the juice and energy breath of the Immortal Herb was necessary, and it had to be at least humans with level three Witch’s hard skull to withstand the full-body mutation of the genetic potion.

But many high-ranking members had long since met the standards, mass transforming into plant mutants.

"We, containing the bloodline of the Immortal Herb, are the protagonists of the entire world!"

This batch of new humans fervently proclaimed, filled with unwavering confidence.

A whole lot of green-skinned plant life was born.

They were tall and sturdy, no longer resembling human physique.

They looked like bloated tree giants, standing three meters tall, with heavy tree joints making them move extremely slowly, but their defense was exceedingly high.

The weakness of the Witch was being attacked while asleep, targeting the vulnerable body.

Yet this mutant Tree-man completely remedied that weakness.

Thick bark and an exoskeleton, along with specialized plant structures, allowed them to quickly react even after being hit.

"Damn!"

"Holy crap, this is a Tree-man!"

"Is this the start of the true mythological era?"

"Indeed, this game tells the story of people in history pursuing ’immortality’; these mysterious prehistoric humans, in this new era, forsake humanity!"

"It’s not forsaking humanity; it’s self-modification, becoming Sub-humans!"

"Perhaps they should be called Elves!"

"We have witnessed an epic, the birth of the Elf Race!"

As they watched a group of tall and sturdy green-skinned tree-like humans walk on the ground, the Immortal Herbs were astonished.

This game’s worldview was simply too absurd.

However, Du Jingsheng didn’t choose transformation because he was waiting for the second batch of mutants.

New Era 475.

The first human population iteration began.

In a short span of twenty years, the young and middle-aged humans from the same period as those years had completely aged and died; population plummeted to 40%.

Yet the sanctuary’s upper echelons were already prepared for this and even pursued it intentionally.

They secretly implemented the "Human Completion Plan" on ordinary civilians, ensuring that the short-lived beings from the old era naturally grew old and died, thus being eliminated by nature.

"Despicable, low-IQ, ignorant commoners should be eliminated."

"They cannot be modified; if they marry, it would compromise the purity of our new humans."

"A species’s evolution requires sacrifice."

Their mindset had completely shifted; the previous fear of modification was now regarded as a great miracle, which is probably the true essence of the fragrant law.

Transforming the body to gain immortality is ultimately a privilege reserved for the noble class; common people could only welcome the destiny of aging and death.

Despite possessing the most advanced biotechnology, they appeared like aristocrats from a feudal slavocratic empire.

New Era 483.

After the first generation of "robust-type Tree-men" appeared, the second generation Tree-men technology also began to mature officially.

This was a more elegant, beautiful, and perfect Sub-human organism with a body closer to humans.

They had fair skin like tender tree flesh stripped of bark, with handsome features, as if every genetic structure in the body was precisely modified.

However, at the cost of grace, they naturally were no different from humans with fragile bodies, thus only capable of following the ordinary Witch Mage path, called Elves.

New Era 484.

Most of the upper echelons and scholars from Old Shanghai Beach were transformed, including Foreign Hospital, Ten-Mile Foreign Field, and each major gang in the concession.. marking the advent of a new kind of long-lived species governing this era.

The first generation of tall Tree-men and the second generation of handsome Elves were collectively known as the Forest Species.

By this time, the ordinary population had been eliminated by 99%.

The entire region had merely a few thousand plant mutants, along with a small fraction of ordinary humans kept for pureblood trials.

In the same year, numerous scientists who learned mature Genetic Engineering Technology from Zeng Ciwen started anew, attempting other life engineering modification technologies.

Research institutes opened one after another.

Beast species, marine species, and bird species were brought onto the agenda.

"Bird-men, Beastmen, Fish-men..."

One biological research lab after another was established.

They called themselves the Divine Race, not comparing themselves to mythology, yet they aimed to create a myth!

Perhaps, as modern humans say, when future humans master the mature technology of biological modification, then the reproductive and genetic barriers between species will no longer exist, and humans at that time...

Will create species from myths!!

New Era 486.

The Forest Species of the subterranean civilization undergo a major educational reform.

In classrooms, children do not need to study history or humanities; they primarily learn life engineering and witchcraft, establishing the discipline "Theory of Life Engineering."

New Era 489.

The equipment in many laboratories becomes increasingly simple.

Metal smelting, glass manufacturing, mechanized chemicals, power plants, various manufacturing industries... have completely vanished, as the once most prosperous world of Shanghai Beach returns entirely to the primitive.

The new humans begin a meeting that will decide the future direction, with eighteen Forest Species leaders starting to discuss decisions.

Unlike Bamboo Scenic Village, which has no choice, they possess the top scholars of that era in Old Shanghai Beach, and even a Reincarnator, but ultimately, they decide: not to restart manufacturing, allowing the era to decline.

"Because, how can this be a decline? This is clearly the progress of civilization."

"What else do we need? Guns? Cannons? Or airplanes?"

"How utterly ridiculous!"

"The advancement of the era, these weapons will not cease to exist; instead, we ourselves will automatically carry these weapons... In those days, old Witch, with bare hands, like a human-shaped machine gun, made us completely understand this point!"

"We only need to maintain the most basic metal smelting industry, with blacksmithing as the foundational profession, and that is enough."

"And the machinery needed in laboratories?"

"High-temperature sterilization? Precise microscopes? Various instruments?"

"We ourselves are sufficient."

"Such a civilization is not a regression, but a simplification, no longer a backward modern technological civilization... but a more advanced, divine civilization!"

Indeed.

Everyone in this council knows they still have the knowledge to restart all mechanical craft manufacturing, build circuits, and power plants, but they do not need it at all.

Perhaps, losing electricity and modern industry will cause some inconvenience to their lives.

However, if resolving this inconvenience requires spending 80% of their energy to rebuild all industries, they would rather not need it.

If they had the energy to research electricity, power plants, the automotive industry.... covering again, perhaps they have already driven the Witch’s power to become as convenient as modern electricity.

Rumble!

"Take off!!"

"We are going to explore other sea areas!"

Above the island, a simple animal skin woven glider flies through the sky, powered by witchcraft pulling rubber bands to drive the propeller, the most primitive airplane... but for them, this most convenient practical plane is enough.

New Era 490.

All Witches learn bioengineering, calling it... Life Refining Witchcraft!

Civilization begins to completely explode! All Witches engage in Life Refining, and students establish corresponding disciplines, teachers assign homework, and each semester they must submit their own experimental results.

New Era 491.

Humans discover that second remodeling causes genetic collapse, with the Beastmen, Fish-men, Bird-men, and various late-stage experimental plans being urgently halted!

Plant species are currently the optimal solution, being the most perfect genetic humans, while other secondary remodeled Beastmen have various genetic defects, and mating marriage with normal plant species will pollute their entire healthy gene pool, causing varying degrees of degeneration and bestialization.

This class of people is called "Evil Seed."

Thus, they begin to establish the prohibition law "Human Species Modification Management Regulations": Today’s mature perfect human species prohibits any form of human body secondary Evil Seed modification, tarnishing our ultimate achievements.

New Era 492.

The promulgation of the prohibition cannot curb the "Wizards’" mad self-experimentation, self-modification, severely polluting the gene pool of the Forest Species.

Everyone knows this will be uncontrollable.

——When people open the genetic door of the Divine Forbidden Area and gain treasures and wealth from within, they can never close that door and abandon the jewels within!

New Era 493 autumn.

The Evil Seed disease begins to spread wildly.

Because of the parental Witches’ self-remodeling and refining, a large number of newborns result in impure genes, infections, and death from genetic collapse.

This genetic collapse disease inevitably appears as a result of the technological proliferation of the era of genetic modification, already making the entire doomsday shelter face the possibility of no future descendants.

An emergency meeting is called again to discuss countermeasures.

New Era 495 winter.

Called the most powerful Life Alchemist in human history, Zeng Ciwen intervenes, reordering the fundamental structure of plant species.

He proposed stopping the viviparous manner of Forest Species, initiating the "New Test Tube Baby Plan," establishing a unified gene incubation pool where all newborns have pure bloodline genes of the Forest Species and are born in a unified location.

"Without us giving birth ourselves, this way we will not cause genetic pollution of our descendants through self-modification!"

"We can modify ourselves freely without consequences!"

Countless people cheered, agreeing to this requirement.

Moreover, many radical women stated human childbirth and ten-month gestation are the primitive biological bad habits, and in an advanced era, should be unified for transformation and elimination.

Through continuous attempts and experiments, a huge incubating mother pool begins to appear.

It is a lush verdant giant tree, swaying and stretching in the forest, the wind gently urging its branches; everyone knows it’s the entire wisdom crystallization of the Ancient Civilization, growing a newborn life tree in the new world,

"It nurtures all life in our race, guiding us from the Old Days to the New World, so let’s call it the Tree of Life!"