"What... is this?"
Wen Wen's mindset wavered between her trust in Ji Jue and her doubts about an artisan's basic competence. After hesitating for a long time, she finally politely omitted the expletive and asked the question.
"I call it the Paradise System Terminal, Version V0.7."
Ji Jue introduced it with animated excitement. "As an act of mercy, answering everyone's call and bringing a gentle harbor and a pure land of refuge to people suffering torment, this is a work Old Bastard and I created together!
"As long as you have it, you'll never feel lost or suffer again. Even if you work more than twenty-four hours a day, you won't feel tired.
"You can rest fully, sleep fully, and escape rea— ahem, escape dreams.
"It is truly a rare masterpiece, an unparalleled creation that benefits all living beings—"
Wen Wen fell silent. She looked at him, and her expression gradually turned dangerous.
"Speak normally."
"Uh, cough cough... Dream within a Dream."
Ji Jue stammered for quite a while before raising his head to stare at the sky.
"..."
The essence of "Paradise" was simple. It relied on Border Purgatory's nature—born from dreams yet existing apart from them—to create a new closed system, distinct from a divine kingdom.
A nested doll: a dream rebuilt within the dream.
That was the point of seizing Border Purgatory. They had forcibly broken off a piece of the dream created by the Millet Dream Remains from Wen Sheng's grasp... so wouldn't what they did with it be entirely up to them?
Even if it was fundamentally still the same server, there were now two systems. Surprised? Happy? Didn't see that coming, did you?
To this end, Ji Jue had made numerous painstaking preparations, exerting full effort to seize Border Purgatory, even intercepting large amounts