Chapter 1664: Using Poison to Attack Poison

After a moment of thought, Xu Yang had a sudden flash of inspiration, and his mind cleared. With a gentle wave of his palm, he held the Autumn Lament Spirit Weapon—the translucent sword outline he had just reshaped—in his palm. He then attempted to use his spiritual power to create an incredibly strong soul resonance with it.

Using this method, centered on his soul world, he covered every area of the surrounding mountains with an extremely intense sense of sorrow. This was what is known as fighting fire with fire.

Since everyone was already immersed in this Wind-Forest Dreamland permeated by sorrow, he decided to let the sorrow continuously expand until it reached a point of imbalance. This would naturally make the dream, which controlled everyone's souls, even more terrifying.

As expected, as Xu Yang continuously imbued the Autumn Lament Spirit Weapon with his spiritual power, intensifying the sorrow it emitted, the originally desolate autumn wind seemed to transform into a bone-chilling sharpness. It incessantly cut through the souls that had fallen into this dream, making thousands of beast experts, along with Long Kun, Xiao Hua, and others, feel an irresistible chill within the dream.

Sure enough, not long after, Long Kun and the others woke up one after another from this increasingly terrifying dream space. The peaceful beauty that had initially appeared in the dream began to distort little by little, influenced by the aura of Autumn Lament released by Xu Yang, forcing them to suddenly awaken.

"Oh my god, Boss, what did we just experience? I feel like hundreds or thousands of years passed in an instant; everything here seems exceptionally unreal."

Long Kun and the others were naturally filled with lingering fear, staring with shocked eyes at Xu Yang's location. By this point, Boss Xu Yang had already returned the Autumn Lament Spirit Weapon to the Emperor Cauldron, continuing its high-intensity forging and refining.

As for himself, he had returned to his usual calm and composed demeanor.

"You merely had a dream. There's no need to doubt your true selves. Remember to constantly strengthen your Dao hearts, clarify your beliefs and ultimate goals. This will naturally help your spiritual power gain sufficient defensive properties. That way, even if you unintentionally endure powerful spiritual attacks from enemies, you won't lose your composure."

Soon, more and more powerful beast warriors woke up. Those with stronger spiritual power recovered consciousness earlier after sensing the intense sorrow that shattered the dream's balance and made everything illusory feel exceptionally unreal. The relatively weaker beast warriors took longer to awaken, and the feeling of disorientation and confusion Long Kun had described was deeper for them.

Xu Yang was not in a hurry to travel. He waited until all hundreds of thousands of beast warriors had fully recovered and returned to their original combat state before leading the army to the next peak area of the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range.

After all, Xu Yang knew very well that leaving this area meant they would soon embark on a brand new part of their journey. Moving further ahead meant they would have left behind the dragon tail section of the massive Coiling Dragon Mountain Range.

Upon arriving at the third peak area, Xu Yang's army quickly felt that all the surrounding elemental energy had become extremely weak. Furthermore, the higher they ascended towards the peak, the dimmer the surrounding light became, until the army reached the summit of this third independent mountain range. At that moment, the sky completely turned into night.

A starless night always brings a suffocating sense of loneliness.

All the warriors in this mountain domain found it impossible to concentrate. If thousands of powerful cultivators were to suddenly descend at that moment, the beast army would likely suffer heavy losses.

Xu Yang increasingly felt that the dense dark elemental aura in this mountain region must be caused by a law exclusive to this mountain range.

He was eager to find the source of the endless dark aura's release in the shortest time possible and attempt to resonate with that law, but several attempts failed.

This was because Xu Yang discovered that this endless darkness seemed to possess a chaotic fluidity. Whenever Xu Yang concentrated his spiritual power, attempting to resonate with the hidden law's aura around him, this aura would become extremely chaotic.

Xu Yang was also unsure if this was caused by the inherent attributes of the law itself or if the law simply did not want to resonate with him, deliberately using this method to hinder his army's further advance.

"Heh, so you're playing tricks on me, are you? Then I truly want to see just how strong your dark elements are!"

After speaking, Xu Yang suddenly stepped into the air, positioning himself incredibly close to the endless black gloom overhead. Then, his tenth external Qi vortex, in the form of a Heaven's Eye, quickly activated a powerful devouring vortex. Guided by Xu Yang's spiritual power, it furiously devoured the endless dark aura above him.

Xu Yang's primal power cultivation method was incredibly potent, representing an ultimate power that, to some extent, surpassed the entire law system of the main continent.

Although Xu Yang did not use the physical energy unleashed by his first nine Qi vortexes at this moment, he merely utilized his tenth external Qi vortex to furiously devour the essence of the surrounding external power.

However, throughout the entire devouring process, the vortex formed by the converging endless dark aura seemed to be caught in a perpetual loop. No matter how powerful the devouring force, there was ultimately no way to restore light to this space.

"Hahahaha, are you surprised? Your cultivation method is incredibly powerful, but it has no effect in my territory because my darkness law is the only existing law within this mountain summit space.

Simply put, the mountain peak areas you previously experienced, which were protected by the power of laws, were not independently existing complete spaces.

Although their exclusive laws could still function, they coexisted within the greater world background of the Summit of Kunlun. However, the space created by my darkness law is an exclusive domain, an area established with my darkness law as the sole core power, completely unrelated to the greater world rules of the Summit of Kunlun.

Therefore, in my world, no matter how powerful your cultivation method is, you cannot exert your original strength in this domain.

Darkness can devour all kinds of power forms that appear in this exclusive domain. Even if you possess world-destroying abilities, in my territory, you will ultimately bow down to darkness."

The voice was slightly old, but unlike the laws that Xu Yang had previously forged into the Ling Xu and Autumn Lament Spirit Weapons, it did not condense into an exclusive soul form. Instead, only two crimson pupils slowly glowed above the pitch-black space where one couldn't see their hand, with everything else hidden in the depths of the darkness.