Chapter 681: Chapter 3: Unacceptable (4,000 Words)

Domains, or in other words Cyberspace, even up to now, are still one of the most powerful Ability types in existence.

Death Gods can advance to High Tier through accumulation, or become Demigods by doping or piling up resources, and Mercenaries can also rely on Military Level Prosthetic Body equipment to gain the combat power of a High Tier Death God.

But this thing called Cyberspace—if you don’t have it, you don’t have it. Those who can’t obtain it, or don’t have the "fate" for it, can’t get it no matter what methods they use.

Precisely because of this, up to this very moment, the people Yun You knows who possess Cyberspace amount to only "one and a half".

One of them is naturally Tian En, who has the [Blood Scale Rose Court], and the other half is Zhao Xuan, who can Summon the projection of the [Supreme Heaven Purification Field] in the real world and drag people into the Otherworld.

However, since the Supreme Heaven Purification Field itself doesn’t count as his Cyberspace, the role he plays in it is merely to construct a special "passage" to allow the Great Colosseum to descend, so he can only be considered "half".

You could say that any Death God who possesses Cyberspace is an undisputed elite among their kind, a true chosen child of heaven in every sense.

In the past, Yun You had always believed that among her senior brothers and sisters, the one most likely to obtain Cyberspace would only be her eldest senior brother, Jiang Wuji.

His Talent is excellent. Not yet forty, and he’s already reached Tier Five. Give him some more time, and he’ll definitely be able to reach Tier Six, or even Tier Seven.

And aside from Jiang Wuji, if she really had to pick one more person, that would be Yun You herself.

But no one was able to realize that the strongest... and also the most gifted one, aside from Yun You, would actually be this low-key second senior brother that almost no one paid attention to.

"What... on earth happened to them?"

Staring at Jiang Wuji and the others who were in that pure white space, Yun You muttered under her breath...

"The ’time’ they possess has been suspended."

Chen Zaikun patiently explained, "The effect of Eternal Moment is very simple—once deployed, as long as the opponent is completely unaware, it can in a short span cover the world they’re in, dragging both their body and Soul into this space."

"In this world, ’time’ itself loses all meaning, so no matter how powerful one’s strength may be, as long as they are fully incorporated into Eternal Moment, they’ll only be imprisoned in the white light, unable to move, let alone fight."

"But you don’t need to worry about them being harmed. As long as I don’t have that intention, those within Eternal Moment will remain forever in the state they were in when they entered this world—no hunger, no thirst, no sickness, and no death."

"They can return to this world at any time—as long as I’m willing."

Chen Zaikun was being quite frank; there was no intention of hiding anything.

In fact, Yun You could understand the deeper meaning in his words—being so candid was essentially a disguised way of saying that he wouldn’t use this method on her, Yun You.

After all, the prerequisite for releasing Eternal Moment is that the opponent must be completely unguarded, and now that the move’s effect had already been laid out in full, there was no way Yun You would be entirely defenseless.

"My goal has never been to kill people."

Chen Zaikun lightly shook his head, waving his hand to dispel his Cyberspace and that field of white light, and explained, "As you can see, I’m only using my own way to resolve disputes."

"As for what happened before, although you weren’t in Nest City No. 3 and don’t know all the details, I believe you more or less know some of the issues."

"In the short half year after the old man passed away, just 180 days, look at what a mess the organization has become. The Marshals are fighting each other, the Council only bickers and can’t produce any workable solution, some choose to sit on the sidelines, and some start placing their bets, openly using their support to seek personal gain."

"The eldest has never been good at handling interpersonal affairs, so even though he commands the most powerful legion, he can’t do anything. The fourth has the most lethal orbital fleet, yet chooses to side with the third instead of pacifying the conflict."

"As for you... our dear Political Commissioner Yun, in order to buy time for the organization, you had no choice but to go out alone and pin down the enemy’s forces."

"Have you noticed it, Ah You? No matter how grand a set of ideals an organization has, no matter how beautiful the intentions upon which it was founded, in the end it still can’t escape conflict over利益, over interests."

"Where there are people, there will inevitably be strife. No matter how many rules you set, people’s pursuit of fame and profit will always drive them to do things that betray their original intentions."

"Tang Jin, Vitinya, and those soldiers who sided with them all think this way."

"I still remember, more than ten years ago, when teacher had just taken them in, how clean and pure they seemed. They too were intoxicated by teacher’s ideals, believing that in the future they would surely shoulder a grand mission and do their utmost to change the world."

"But later, when they started to grow up, when they began to have their own power bases and attachments, the heavy gravity of reality pulled them out of that fantasy. They had to think about how to maintain their own influence, and fight for more利益, more利益 for it—this is often unavoidable."

"Half a year... in such a short time, the organization has already begun to split apart, people are fighting their own wars, and in order to gain support, they can even go against the rules teacher left before he died, allowing those consortia that ride on the people’s necks to grasp power..."