183: Eternal Mine

The Human Federation was filled with shock and ecstasy.

Within the Shining World Celestial Vault, the "surviving" half of the Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom members plunged into a deeper level of despair and chaos!

They had just experienced the terror of the descending will and witnessed the "disappearance" of nearly half of their companions and the capital, and they were now immersed in the collapse of their faith and boundless hatred toward Huang Yu.

At this moment, they discovered that they, along with the very ground beneath their feet, had been uprooted by an irresistible force and tossed... right next to their enemy's lair?!

This subversion of their perception terrified them more than death itself!

"No! What's going on?! Why are we here?!"

"It's that existence! He grabbed us and brought us here!"

"What does he want to do?! Is he going to kill us?!"

"Huang Yu!!! This is all your fault!! I curse you to never be reincarnated!!!"

...

Panic spread among the survivors as they looked up at the nearby Kunlun Star...

Looking up at the floating Pillar of Leaders outside the planet, which emanated an aura that froze their Soul...

They could feel the aura of the great existence Chen Jun on the Pillar of Leaders, and like lambs awaiting slaughter, they trembled in fear...

They did not know—that their "disappeared" other half of friends and family had not actually died!

At the moment of "erasure," Chen Jun's will had precisely transferred and sealed that half of the lives and buildings into a temporary, absolutely isolated sub-space layer!

In the eyes of the survivors, that half of the people had died.

In the eyes of the "disappeared," they themselves, along with the survivors, might have all died or were in some unknown desperate situation.

This was the first appetizer Chen Jun had carefully prepared for them—to let both sides suffer in endless speculation, fear, and "mourning" and "resentment" for each other!

...

On the Pillar of Leaders, Chen Jun slowly opened his eyes.

Those black-hole-like eyes swept across the "Shining World Celestial Vault" floating outside the window like a toy model, and the corners of his mouth curled into an ice-cold arc.

"Qingshan." He said indifferently.

"I am here!" Li Qingshan appeared instantly at his side, bowing to receive the order, his eyes filled with boundless fanaticism and awe.

"Take those eleven pieces of trash on the plaza," Chen Jun pointed to Huang Yu and the others who were still struggling in painful Reincarnation, "and toss them into that 'ruin.' Let them... really feel the enthusiasm of their people."

His words were flat, yet they contained a hair-raising, twisted sense of humor.

Li Qingshan instantly understood Chen Jun's intention and trembled with excitement: "Yes! Ancestor Chen! Your subordinate will go do it immediately!"

His figure flashed, appearing above the plaza. Looking at the eleven enemies below who no longer resembled humans, a cruel, satisfied grin appeared on his face.

With a wave of his hand, a majestic force swept up Huang Yu, Brilliant Light, and the other eleven people. Like tossing trash, he crossed the Void Realm directly and smashed them hard into the very center of the surviving area of the Shining World Celestial Vault!

...

Shining World Celestial Vault, surviving area.

Countless Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom members were trapped in desperate panic when suddenly—

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...!"

Eleven twisted figures descended from the sky like meteors, smashing heavily onto the celebration plaza that was once the most prosperous but now riddled with cracks!

Dust filled the air.

When the dust slightly cleared and everyone saw the appearance of those eleven figures, the entire surviving area... instantly fell into dead silence!

Then, like a volcano that had been suppressed for hundreds of millions of years, it erupted!!!

"Is... is that the Dominator?! And Lord Brilliant Light and the others?!"

"How... how did they become like this?!"

"Thrown over here like dead dogs?!"

...

After a brief moment of shock, a tidal wave of pent-up fear, anger, and hatred surged up!!!

It was them!

It was these eleven idiots, tyrants, and executioners!

Who brought disaster upon their Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom!!!

"Huang Yu!!! You damn idiot!!!" A Galaxy Level beginner member with bloodshot eyes was the first to rush up, kicking hard at Huang Yu, who was lying on the ground like a pile of mud!

The hatred contained in this kick landed solidly on Huang Yu's face!

"Pfft!" Huang Yu's already twisted cheeks collapsed further, and golden blood mixed with broken teeth sprayed out.

This kick seemed to ignite the fuse!

"Beat them to death!!"

"It's all their fault! Kill them!!"

"Avenge our dead loved ones!!"

"Brilliant Light! Give me back my sister's life!!"

"Thunder Punishment! Today I will eat your flesh raw!!"

...

Crazy!

Completely crazy!

Countless surviving Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom members, whether they were former nobles, generals, or ordinary soldiers and attendants, all transformed into vengeful demons at this moment, their eyes red as they surged toward those eleven figures like a tide!

Fists and kicks!

Teeth!

Even broken stones they picked up!

Broken weapons!

...

Everything that could be used to attack became a weapon for them to vent their hatred!

They dared not resent that Chen Jun who was like an Incarnation of the Universe, so they could only pour all their fear, all their despair, and all their anger onto these eleven "culprits"!

"Ah!!! I am your Dominator!!!" Huang Yu let out a shrill wail. He tried to mobilize his power, but found his body completely empty; he couldn't even lift his arm to block!

He could only watch and feel as those people who once prostrated themselves before him and held him in awe now pounced on him like mad dogs!

Using the most primitive and brutal methods, tearing at his flesh and trampling on his dignity!

And he could only endure! Whenever he was on the verge of death, a force of "authority" would restore his flesh!

"Dominator? Screw your Dominator! You're the one who killed my whole family!!"

"Repentance?! You know how to repent now?! It's too late!!"

"Kill him!!!"

...

Brilliant Light, Thunder Punishment, and the other ten venerable ones suffered the same miserable fate!

They were surrounded, beaten, and bitten by countless beings they once viewed as ants!

The physical pain was far less than the despair of being completely betrayed and drowned in frantic hatred at the level of the Soul!

They could clearly feel the profound hatred contained in every attack that landed on them!

That was a hatred that even all the water in the star sea could not wash away!

And this was exactly the effect Chen Jun wanted!

To let these "gods" who considered themselves noble and viewed all living beings as ants have their pride torn apart and their dignity trampled upon by the very people they were supposed to protect!

To let their people become the executioners who carried out their punishment!

...

Time lost its meaning of calculation here...

On the Pillar of Leaders, Chen Jun stood with his hands behind his back, coldly "appreciating" the bloody and chaotic revenge feast in the Shining World Celestial Vault.

There was no expression on his face, only deep within his black-hole-like eyes, wisps of frenzied flames were quietly burning.

"Is it painful? Is it despairing?"

"This is just the interest."

He slowly raised his hand and made another profound gesture toward the Void Realm.

"Hum—!"

An even grander, more irresistible will instantly enveloped the entire Shining World Celestial Vault and completely covered the space where Kunlun Star was located!

The Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom survivors who were crazily attacking Huang Yu and the others suddenly froze, forced back by an invisible power, and separated from those eleven blood-soaked enemies.

Everyone looked up in terror, feeling that will that froze their Soul descend once again!

Chen Jun's raspy and magnificent voice, like the judgment of the Laws of the Universe, resounded in the depths of the Soul of every Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom member and Human Federation citizen:

"The revelry is over."

"Now, proceeding to... the final judgment."

As his voice fell, under the horrified gaze of everyone, the absolute void region next to the Shining World Celestial Vault that had been "erased" rippled like water!

Immediately after, in the eyes of the survivors who looked as if they had seen a ghost, that "disappeared" other half of the capital... and that other half of the Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom members who were originally thought to be "dead"...

Like a phantom, transformed from void to reality, slowly and completely... re-emerged!!!

"!!!"

Dead silence!

Absolute dead silence!

Whether it was the "disappeared" who had just reappeared or the original "survivors," everyone had their eyes widened and mouths agape, their minds completely blank!

They looked at the friends and family opposite them whom they had thought were long dead, looking at the same unbelievable shock and confusion in the other's eyes...

A massive, absurd, suffocating impact swept through everyone's Soul like a cosmic storm!

He didn't kill them!

He had just... locked them up before?!

So the "erasure" just now... was fake?!

Then what did their previous fear, despair, hatred for Huang Yu, and mourning for the "dead"... count for?!

A sense of ultimate humiliation from being played in the palm of one's hand, mixed with the confusion of surviving a disaster, and a deeper fear of that existence's methods, made all the Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom members almost mentally schizophrenic!

"Bro... brother?! You're still alive?!"

"Lina! My daughter! You didn't die?!"

"This... what on earth is going on?!"

...

After a brief dead silence, there was a deafening clamor mixed with wailing, questioning, and chaos!

However, Chen Jun's will did not give them any time to digest this information.

That cold voice sounded again, carrying an absolute indifference that decided the fate of billions of lives:

"Surprised?"

"Life and death, existence and void, to me, are but a thought away."

"Your life and death, from the moment your Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom angered me, have not been under your own control."

His words were like the final verdict:

"Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom, having slaughtered my people and abducted my wife and daughter, your crimes are unforgivable."

"However, Heaven has the virtue of cherishing life, and I am not one who craves slaughter."

"Therefore, I sentence—"

The voice suddenly became sharp, like a peerless divine weapon unsheathed, severing the last shred of luck for all the Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom members!

"All members of the Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom, and all future generations born to them—"

"Deprive you of all rights, strip away all power!"

"Imprisoned forever within this 'Shining World Celestial Vault,' including your descendants, you shall not take a single step out!"

"The meaning of your existence, from now on, is singular—"

"That is to condense 'source coins,' 'origin crystals,' 'source marrow,' and 'source heart' for the Human Federation!"

"Until... the end of the Universe!"

"This sentence is to be executed immediately! Those who defy it... will have their bodies and Souls destroyed, and their Bloodline eradicated!"

Boom—!!!!!!

The final judgment, like billions of thunderbolts, exploded in the minds of all the Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom members!

Slaves for eternity?!

Mine Slave?!

Condensing source energy for the Human Federation they previously viewed as ants...?! Until the end of the Universe?!

Their descendants will never have a day to rise again?!

This is billions of times more cruel than killing them directly!!!

This is to nail them, and their endless descendants, forever to the pillar of shame!

Never to be reincarnated for eternity!!!

"No—!!! You cannot do this!!!"

"Great existence! Please have mercy! We are willing to work like beasts of burden! Please do not make us slaves for eternity!!"

"Kill us! Just kill us directly!!"

...

Countless wails, pleas, and curses erupted from the Shining World Celestial Vault like a tsunami!

However, Chen Jun's will did not waver in the slightest.

He pointed his fingers like a sword and made a light stroke toward the Void Realm!

"Chi—!"

A golden divine mark traversing the star sea, containing endless Seal and enslavement Law, was instantly generated, like a huge, infinitely complex brand, branded fiercely onto the space barrier of the entire Shining World Celestial Vault!

At the same time, another relatively gentle, yet equally authoritative silver divine mark enveloped Kunlun Star, echoing the golden divine mark from afar, forming a perfect master-slave contract cycle!

"In the name of I, Chen Jun—"

"Contract! Formed!"

Hum—!!!!

The golden and silver divine marks simultaneously erupted with light that illuminated the star sea, then slowly faded away.

But all the Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom members could clearly feel that a cold, absolute, irresistible shackle had been deeply branded into the Origin of their Soul, and even integrated into their Bloodline genes!

They could feel that their perception and control of Universe energy had been forcibly twisted and redirected, and could only be used to condense source energy, a specific energy crystal containing pure Universe Origin!

They could feel an invisible barrier locking the entire Shining World Celestial Vault, and they would never be able to take a single step out for eternity!

From this moment on, they, and their countless generations of descendants, would be the most humble... Mine Slave of the Human Federation!

...

After Chen Jun finished all this, he slowly withdrew his fingers.

He looked down at the "satellite" that had completely fallen into despair and dead silence, looking at the Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom members who were collapsed on the ground like walking dead, and looking at the eleven culprits who had been beaten by their hateful people until they were unrecognizable and were now ashen-faced...

He slowly exhaled a breath of... foul air, as if it had been suppressed for ten billion years.

The frenzied fire in his heart seemed to calm down a little.

But those black-hole-like eyes remained cold and dead.

"Clean up the plaza."

He said indifferently to Li Qingshan, Shi Yue, and others who were standing respectfully by his side.

"Let them... live forever among the people who hate them, 'enjoying' the 'adoration' of their people."

"Yes! Ancestor Chen!" Everyone received the order excitedly and immediately began to act.

Chen Jun took one last look at the Shining World Celestial Vault, which he had personally forged into an "Eternal Mine" and a "Cage of Hatred," turned around, took a step, and disappeared from where he stood.

The next moment, he returned to the depths of the manor, in front of the familiar lounge chair.

He did not collapse into it immediately, but stood there quietly, looking at the newly appeared "satellite" that was emitting a dim golden light in the star sea outside the window.

The pleasure of revenge, like strong liquor, scorched his Soul...

But the memories of ten billion Reincarnation deaths still surged in the depths of his Soul like a cold tide.

He needed time to digest the pain of these ten billion Reincarnations!

He sat down slowly and closed those black-hole-like eyes...