"......"

Jiang Ye thought to himself: It's all yours! Such an amazing talent, if it doesn't belong to you, it'd be a terrible waste!

His SSS-tier [Salvation] talent was truly quite special in nature.

Moreover, the three initial skills it came with were remarkably compatible with his clone characteristics!

At first glance, the skill [Salvation Domain] was simply a god-tier survival skill.

Activating the domain could keep two players in an absolutely safe state.

The most outrageous part was, it not only prevented damage, but could even immunize against Erasure effects!

Of course, such a heaven-defying survival skill inherently had one major drawback—

If you were the only person within a 100-meter radius around you...

Then this skill could not be used.

It required designating two players to use.

But this fatal flaw would no longer be a flaw if paired with Jiang Ye's [Infinite Clones].

No one within a 100-meter radius?

Then we can just directly generate a clone!

This way, you could bind yourself and the newly generated clone together within the [Salvation Domain].

Furthermore, the "Salvation" judgment triggered by this [Salvation Domain] actually tested the level of trust between the two players in the domain.

If it was two people who could completely trust each other, then directly choosing "mutual trust" would extend the duration of the entire [Salvation Domain], meaning the survival time would be prolonged.

But if it was two people without a foundation of trust...

Then they would most likely choose "mutual betrayal."

In that case, not only would the skill's survival effect be reduced, but the skill's own cooldown would also be extended to 20 hours!

This would be a major blow to the skill user!

So, based on this characteristic...

Assuming you were forced to use this skill on an enemy in combat...

Then you could only obtain 1 minute of survival time, and after this minute, your skill cooldown would be extended to 20 hours...

As for the third scenario of "one betrayal, one trust," it was essentially a way to exploit the "mutual trust" effect.

Even if two people trusted each other and agreed to both choose "trust"...

As long as one person chose "betrayal," achieving the "one betrayal, one trust" situation.

Then—

The "trusting" party would lose everything;

The "betraying" party would gain everything!

So this third scenario was clearly testing human nature.

It gave players who should have chosen "trust" a sufficient motive to choose "betrayal."

And because this situation existed...

The triggering of this "Salvation" judgment would most likely lead to a "mutual betrayal" result.

After all, even in peaceful times, people's hearts were separated by layers.

Not to mention in this apocalyptic setting, who could choose to trust someone else one hundred percent?

However, if this "Salvation" judgment was used on clones, there was no need to worry about all that.

Jiang Ye himself, of course, would not betray himself.

So, this [Salvation Domain] skill itself was really quite compatible with Jiang Ye's [Infinite Clones]!

Besides, the other two skills that came with this SSS-tier [Salvation] talent could also perfectly adapt to clone abilities!

First was the SS-tier [Heart Demon Materialization], whose skill description was to generate a "Heart Demon player."

This "Heart Demon player" initially appeared as a copy of the skill user.

But over time, the "Heart Demon player" would continuously grow stronger, and in the early stages would disturb the skill user's mind;later on, it would even randomly challenge the skill user.

Of course, the skill user themselves could also challenge the "Heart Demon" at any time.

If the challenge succeeded, they would receive the reward for "defeating the heart demon."

This reward was based on how long the "Heart Demon" had existed.

The longer the "Heart Demon" existed, the higher the reward for "defeating the heart demon"!

Of course, if the challenge failed...

Then the skill user would be devoured by the "Heart Demon"!

So essentially, using this skill was quite dangerous.

You had to defeat the heart demon to get the reward.

One slip-up, and you could die from this skill!

But this kind of danger, for Jiang Ye...

If his clone ability was still present...

Then wasn't the so-called "Heart Demon," roughly speaking, just a clone?

Even better, this clone could actually automatically grow stronger over time!

And when this clone actively went to its death, it could still bring rewards to the skill user...

In short, this skill, combined with the [Infinite Clones] effect, was basically equal to free clones and free rewards!

It was even more outrageous than the effect of [Vow]!

Besides [Salvation Domain] and [Heart Demon Materialization], the third skill [Pain Sharing] was also essentially compatible with clones.

This skill could mark any player with the [Pain Sharing] mark.

All players marked with [Pain Sharing] would have any damage effects they suffered divided equally among all marked players.

Thus, the more players marked, the stronger the dilution effect of the damage!

Of course, players could refuse to be marked with [Pain Sharing].

They could even cancel this mark voluntarily at any time.

This skill could have decent effects when used in some teams.

And if it could be used on Jiang Ye's clone army...

The effect would be even better!

In short, these three skills of [Salvation] were simply perfectly compatible with [Infinite Clones]!

However, the pity was...

In the initial prison, Jiang Ye discovered he seemed to have lost his [Infinite Clones] ability.

The Data Panel showed no clone skills at all.

In the mist, he couldn't sense any other clones either!

Of course, now that he was out of the mist and could sense a full ten thousand Puppet Clones, Jiang Ye was basically certain—the clone ability had not disappeared.

But those clone skills were indeed unusable!

Even though he could currently sense ten thousand Puppet Clones, he simply couldn't perform [Clone Swapping] or [Clone Fusion] on those Puppet Clones.

There was another issue—

He also couldn't actively generate clones anymore.

Of course, this might be because, in this era's Data Panel, there was no longer something like [Survival Points].

Previously, Jiang Ye's clones could be generated as long as Survival Points were consumed.

Now the Data Panel didn't even have a [Survival Points] column...

Naturally, he couldn't use Survival Points to generate clones anymore.

But Jiang Ye felt in his heart that even if the current Data Panel had a [Survival Points] column, he probably still couldn't produce clones.

Because the current situation was very similar to the situation before his main body obtained the S-tier skill [Soul Link].

Before all clones were linked by [Soul Link], only the main body, Jiang Ye #0, could use clone skills and generate clones...

Jiang Ye suspected—

Perhaps traveling through time had caused all abilities of later-era players to be "formatted" in this era.

Meaning, all time travelers could only participate in this era as newcomers.

So, the clone skills mastered by the main body, Jiang Ye #0, might have all been "formatted" as well.

Of course, the special X-tier talent [Infinite Clones] probably wasn't formatted.

Otherwise, if this talent was also formatted...

Then there shouldn't be more Jiang Ye's existing in this era.

This situation was a bit troublesome for Jiang Ye, but it wasn't a big problem.

As long as the main body, Jiang Ye #0, could regain clone skills...

Especially the S-tier [Soul Link], and even more powerful clone skills.

Then all clones would be able to rapidly grow!

From this perspective, all of Jiang Ye's clones seemed to have once again fallen into the situation of "searching for the main body"...

Who knew if the other completely disconnected clones could quickly figure out this situation?

Anyway, the Jiang Ye currently with the identity of "Cheng Lin" decided to temporarily use this kid brother impersonating him to properly explore the Qiankun Land.

It would be best if he could find a way to figure out the situation with those ten thousand Puppet Clones...

While he was pondering this, the three kid brothers also had a discussion about this rare SSS-tier talent.

In their view, the two skills [Salvation Domain] and [Pain Sharing] had quite good effects.

Although they didn't have [Infinite Clones].

As Sun People, they had obedient Sun and Moon People!

The kid brother wearing "Cheng Lin's" appearance immediately marked all the Sun and Moon People in this train car with [Pain Sharing].

Then he casually slashed his own arm.

It looked like he used a lot of force.

But only a faint red mark appeared on his arm, not even breaking the skin!

Of course, identical faint red slash marks also appeared on the arms of all the Sun and Moon People in the entire train car.

"Cheng Lin's" eyes shone with delight and self-satisfaction: "Really good!"

"If I could mark all Sun and Moon People with the [Pain Sharing] label..."

"To what extent would the damage I suffer be diluted?!"

He was so pleased, but the slightly chubby kid brother next to him frowned and said:

"This skill looks incredibly overpowered, diluting all damage to an extreme degree."

"But think about it carefully, you wouldn't be getting a great deal either."

"Because not only would the damage you suffer be diluted, but the damage suffered by other players marked with [Pain Sharing] would also be diluted onto you."

"You might think that the damage diluted onto you from others probably wouldn't affect you much."

"But if you think deeper—all players marked with [Pain Sharing] are essentially one entity!"

"If any one of those players suffered a lethal, Erasure-level injury..."

"You wouldn't naively think that a diluted Erasure wouldn't be enough to kill you, right?"

"So I suspect that an Erasure effect diluted by [Pain Sharing] would cause all players under [Pain Sharing] to die simultaneously!"

"In other words—"

"All players marked with [Pain Sharing] have their lives and deaths bound together! As long as one marked player is Erased... it would trigger a spectacular, all-out massacre!"

Hearing this, "Cheng Lin's" expression instantly turned ugly.

After a moment of silence, he decisively canceled all [Pain Sharing] marks.

Clearly, he wasn't willing to share life and death with a bunch of Sun and Moon People.

So then, didn't this seemingly good skill become useless?

And the [Heart Demon Materialization] skill was too risky!

What if you couldn't call for external help when challenging the heart demon?

One careless mistake and you die at the hands of the heart demon, that's also instant death!

So after all that, out of these three skills, only [Salvation Domain] was usable?

Forget it, forget it, [Salvation Domain] was still a pretty decent survival skill.

Just as "Cheng Lin" was thinking this, the slightly chubby kid next to him offered another plan:

"This Cheng Lin seems to have an SSS-tier talent, but really only the SS-tier [Salvation Domain] is useful."

"But actually, all three of us can individually possess this skill!"

"Cheng Lin" also realized: "You mean, use the 'Salvation' judgment, with one choosing trust and the other betrayal, to transfer this skill to the betraying side?"

The slightly chubby kid nodded, smiling again: "I guess you instinctively only thought about pulling yourself and another person into the [Salvation Domain]."

"But actually, you can pull in two other people besides yourself!"

"That way, those two people, one chooses betrayal, the other chooses trust..."

"Then the new [Salvation Domain] skill will appear on the betrayer!"

"Then we use this [Salvation Domain] skill from the betrayer to pull two more Sun and Moon People into the domain..."

"Again, one chooses trust, one chooses betrayal... and so on, we can produce a large number of [Salvation Domain] skills!"

"Of course, the cost is that half of the Sun and Moon People who choose trust will be temporarily in a near-death state."

"Cheng Lin's" eyes lit up:

"Great! Let's test this out right now!"

"If this skill can really be replicated individually... then I don't need to keep using this 'Cheng Lin' identity, I can just exclusively enjoy the SS-tier skill!"

He even envisioned in his mind—

If Little Chubby's plan was truly feasible.

Then he could even sell this SS-tier skill in large quantities!

Let all Sun People in the Qiankun Land possess this skill!

But...

After this crazy idea popped up, "Cheng Lin" felt something was off in his heart...

Based on his nearly hundred years of life experience—

Such an outrageous situation probably shouldn't occur, right?

Whatever! Let's try it first!

For the first experiment, they naturally wouldn't go themselves.

"Cheng Lin" selected two Sun and Moon People, created a [Salvation Domain] for them, then demanded they undergo the "Salvation" judgment.

He also ordered them, one to choose "trust," the other to choose "betrayal."

The result...

The experiment went smoothly.

The Sun and Moon Person who chose "trust" immediately fell into a near-death state!

And this near-death effect was even more severe than the three Sun People present had imagined!

That Sun and Moon Person couldn't even maintain their flesh-and-blood body, directly reverting to their "primitive state" of a watchband with two eyeballs!

Moreover, the two eyeballs in this "primitive state" appeared with only the whites and no pupils!

A pair of pure white eyeballs, looking truly 'dead,' utterly lifeless!

Of course, the Sun and Moon Person who chose "betrayal" naturally gained the [Salvation Domain] skill!

The three kid brothers were all excited.

Because this meant the experiment was indeed feasible!

Their attention focused on the Sun and Moon Person who chose "betrayal."

They planned to use this Sun and Moon Person's newly acquired [Salvation Domain] to produce even more [Salvation Domain] skills!

Only Jiang Ye, who was being worn on "Cheng Lin's" hand, didn't pay much attention to the "betrayer."

Instead, he secretly observed the Sun and Moon Person who, following orders, chose "trust," was ultimately betrayed, and was now in a near-death state...

Looking at the two pure white eyeballs at the end of the watchband...

A strange thought inexplicably arose in Jiang Ye's heart.