Chapter 905: Fixed Pattern Dreamscape

In the blink of an eye, Xu Yang's team gradually recovered their senses. The scene before them had completely transformed.

It was a fixed space, so dark they couldn't see their hands in front of their faces, enveloped in a deathly silence. Not the slightest energy fluctuation could be detected. As this happened, at the edge of Xu Yang and his companions' vision, the outline of a portal, encircled by crimson flames, quickly materialized. In the center of this portal, a white soul body gradually emerged.

"Welcome to the Prison of the Underworld! This is the fixed space I created, the only dream-fixed space in the entire world. Once you cross the door behind me, the time laws within this space will be entirely different from the outside world. This means that if you cannot break free, you might not only perish within this fixed space but also be imprisoned for thousands, even tens of thousands of years—trapped in this cage for eternity. Only when your life force completely dries up or your soul utterly collapses will you have a chance to escape. While this portal has not yet opened, you can choose to leave now, thereby abandoning the territory of the Five Forbidden Zones. Don't say I didn't warn you: once you enter this place, escaping will be as difficult as ascending to heaven."

Xu Yang snorted coldly. "Stop trying to be mysterious! There isn't a dream in this world that can trap A-Yang. Open the door, and less talk!"

Unable to contain his emotions, Xu Yang waved his hand, sending a powerful aura striking through the air.

At that very instant, the white soul body vanished. Simultaneously, the Prison of the Underworld, outlined in crimson fire behind it, slowly opened, releasing an incredibly powerful, devouring aura from deep within the portal.

"My heavens, what a bone-chilling sensation! This place is truly more terrifying than the Nine Nether Purgatory!"

As soon as the Goddess of Winter entered the space, she instinctively began rubbing her arms.

"I say, your title 'Goddess of Winter' might as well be taken away. How can a woman who cultivates frost attribute powers still be afraid of the cold?"

Big Dog, standing beside her, looked utterly confused. He turned to the Goddess of Winter and posed this question.

This time, however, before the Goddess of Winter could even begin to explain, Boss Xu Yang personally spoke up to clarify the phenomenon.

"That Extreme Yin Ancestral Witch cultivates the origin of Yin Sha, which is a completely different concept from ordinary frost-attribute power. It's not an elemental force, but a special mental attack effect based on soul attributes. The reason you feel cold is that women naturally possess a stronger innate origin of Yin Sha within their bodies, thus causing a more intense resonance."

Big Dog listened to Xu Yang's explanation and nodded solemnly.

Soon, he also noticed that Yunxiao on the other side seemed to have an unnatural expression, though it wasn't as exaggerated as the Goddess of Winter. This was partly because Yunxiao was slightly stronger, and partly because she was not a delicate person to begin with, possessing an endurance far superior to the Goddess of Winter.

Xu Yang led the way, at the forefront of the team. However, he never dreamed that as they walked, some of his teammates would simply vanish.

Initially, Xu Yang didn't notice any change in the surrounding aura. He only instinctively felt that the Goddess of Winter had suddenly become much quieter. He casually glanced back, only to find that his four teammates, who had been following him, had completely disappeared at some point. Even Karl was gone.

What was even stranger was that the aura fluctuations of these individuals still lingered in their original spots.

This was precisely why Xu Yang hadn't immediately noticed his teammates' disappearance.

"People absolutely cannot simply vanish in such a dream! If my judgment is correct, there must be some special spatial transfer formation hidden within this dream space."

"Heh," he scoffed, "creating such a dream and trying to play tricks in front of me—do you think there's any point?"

Xu Yang smiled coldly and gently waved his hand at the lingering auras before him.

In that instant, all the lingering aura fluctuations completely disintegrated. However, the strange phenomenon did not vanish.

At the same time his teammates' auras dissipated, several corresponding shadowy souls suddenly materialized.

Each shadowy soul emitted an extremely chilling aura of slaughter and possessed a very potent origin of Yin Sha.

Yin Sha is an extreme Yin phenomenon; every living being naturally possesses an innate origin of Yin attribute power, though its intensity varies.

When this Yin attribute origin is refined to its extreme concentration, it produces an incredibly powerful malevolent aura that has an extremely potent suppressive effect on living beings.

Therefore, these shadowy souls that had materialized before them were not as easy to eliminate as one might imagine.

Moreover, these four shadowy souls were all formed from the original auras of Xu Yang's four teammates. Each of their pupils gleamed with a chilling green light, and they slowly approached Xu Yang's position.

They had no independent souls, purely guided by a specific will within this fixed dream, launching a furious assault on Xu Yang.

"Lost in the dream, are you? You will never find an exit from here! Insignificant invaders, this is the painful price you must pay. Eternal slumber can perfectly cleanse you of your sins!"

The soul voice of the Extreme Yin Ancestral Witch continuously echoed in his ears, attempting to cause soul interference for Xu Yang.

However, in Xu Yang's eyes, soul attacks of this intensity were nothing more than child's play.

A contemptuous sneer played on his lips. Xu Yang unhesitatingly condensed two incredibly solid crimson flames in his palms. Unbeknownst to them, this flame was precisely the Blazing Sun Scorching Palm technique, formed by activating the five Qi cyclones within his body.

The Blazing Sun Scorching Palm has a very obvious suppressive effect on such extreme Yin-attributed life forms and mixed-body states; it is a common technique in the Shangqing Yuan Qi path.

Since successfully cultivating it, Xu Yang had never used it before, but it just happened to come in handy in this place.

In an instant, from Xu Yang's palms, flames condensed from potent primal energy. They seemed to possess an autonomous, rhythmic form, and with a few fluctuations, Xu Yang gently pushed them forward. They advanced along a very strange trajectory.

Wherever they passed, any Yin Sha origin they touched was quickly extinguished in a very short time.

Three flames each shot towards the shadowy souls of Big Dog, Yunxiao, and the Goddess of Winter.

The three shadowy figures immediately began to tremble hysterically and instantly ceased their attack.