Jiang Xia surveyed his surroundings.
"How is it?" Gu Yue asked.
"Still a little short, just as I thought." Jiang Xia shook his head.
Both his spiritual power and Soul Power had undergone a tremendous leap.
His spiritual power, in particular, had now broken into four digits.
With his powerful spiritual power supporting him, Jiang Xia could also use three layers of Dream Overlapping, allowing his Broken Dream and Spirit Detection to cover a wider area.
But that was still not enough to cover much ground.
Compared with the entire Spirit Ascension Platform, the area it covered was less than one percent.
Jiang Xia was clearly dissatisfied.
"Gu Yue, I'm counting on you."
He said this quietly to Gu Yue.
Gu Yue nodded.
At that moment, Jiang Xia's Broken Dream was already connected to her spiritual will.
Together, they constructed a massive soul circuit array within Broken Dream.
The array was enormous, so enormous that even a rank-four mecha designer would feel dizzy at a glance.
A rank-five mecha designer might barely be able to analyze it.
"And you still tell everyone you're a rank-three mecha designer. If they knew you could build a soul circuit array like this with me, their entire worldview would collapse."
Jiang Xia could not help quipping.
Gu Yue rolled her eyes.
"Aren't we inside your Broken Dream? Building arrays in here is so easy."
She refused to admit it had anything to do with her own ability.
Jiang Xia had no rebuttal.
Building arrays inside Broken Dream was indeed easy, but not to such an outrageous extent.
Jiang Xia himself was already close to becoming a rank-five mecha designer, and he was also mindlessly copying everything, using templates Gu Yue had designed in advance.
Only then could he work with Gu Yue to create a soul circuit array like this.
Of course, although he was mindlessly copying them, Jiang Xia had studied these arrays beforehand.
He also had to guard against Gu Yue using mind control on him.
Soon, the soul circuit array was complete.
Within the virtual, invisible world, a virtual space took shape.
As this virtual space was completed, four layers of virtual space stacked together within Jiang Xia's Broken Dream.
With four layers of Dream Overlapping, Jiang Xia's control immediately underwent an earth-shattering change.
"This improvement is huge!"
Jiang Xia was stunned, because he felt he could directly control space itself.
Not real-world space, of course, but the space within the Spirit Ascension Platform.
With just a slight exertion, space throughout the entire Spirit Ascension Platform froze for an instant.
Gu Yue looked at Jiang Xia in surprise.
Jiang Xia's face was deathly pale.
"What happened? Are you all right?"
As the Silver Dragon King in human form, Gu Yue had naturally sensed everything that had just happened.
Though it had lasted only an instant, a vast expanse of space had indeed frozen.
Jiang Xia shook his head.
"A new breakthrough. I'm not quite used to it. I won't experiment recklessly next time."
The others also looked over, unsure what had happened.
"Let's hunt soul beasts normally for now and let me recover. Once I'm recovered, I should be able to extend the detection radius to two kilometers."
Detection on that scale could naturally only last a moment.
But a moment was enough, enough for him to map the distribution of the various soul beasts within Broken Dream.
This method of searching was undoubtedly extremely efficient.
But Jiang Xia's single attempt at freezing space had completely drained both his spiritual power and Soul Power.
He swore he would never dare do that again.
Next time, he would definitely freeze a small patch of space.
In addition, four layers of Dream Overlapping gave him the feeling that he could teleport.
Within the domain of four layers of Dream Overlapping, he could teleport!
Of course, this domain was far smaller than the area Broken Dream and Spirit Detection could reach.
But it was still more than enough.
After all, an ability like teleportation was overpowered anywhere.
Gu Yue directly controlled spatial power, using techniques involving spatial power to teleport, which was already incredibly broken.
Jiang Xia, however, could teleport directly.
This could already be considered an exercise of authority over space.
If he could turn the illusory into reality and use it this way in the real world, it would absolutely be overpowered.
Unfortunately, so far, Jiang Xia had learned less than twenty percent of even the most basic version of the technique for turning the illusory into reality.
The five of them hunted soul beasts as a group within the Spirit Ascension Platform.
A day passed before Jiang Xia barely managed to recover.
He once again entered the state of four layers of Dream Overlapping.
He still needed Gu Yue's cooperation to build the grand array that constructed the illusory space.
This temporary illusory space had to be built on-site every time.
There was no helping it. Jiang Xia's Broken Dream could not support this additional illusory space.
For now, building it on-site relied not on a Soul Spirit to bear it, but on Gu Yue.
Jiang Xia's current limit was four layers of Dream Overlapping.
Two layers used his own Soul Spirits as their vessels.
One layer was the Spirit Ascension Platform's space.
The remaining layer was Gu Yue.
Others might also be able to serve as vessels, but first they would have to be able to cooperate with Jiang Xia to complete this grand array.
But who in the elementary Spirit Ascension Platform could do that?
Soul masters with four rings or more could only enter the intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.
Four layers of Dream Overlapping, combined with the spreading Broken Dream, rapidly enveloped the surroundings.
In mere moments, the radius extended to two kilometers.
Jiang Xia quickly memorized the locations and coordinates of the high-level soul beasts, then withdrew from this state.
More than half his Soul Power had been consumed, and his spiritual power was somewhat depleted as well.
The group began following the coordinates to hunt.
When they encountered other teams along the way, they cleared them out while they were at it.
And so, an invincible team appeared within the Spirit Ascension Platform during its seven-day riot period.
They rampaged unchecked, hunting in the richest areas of the entire Spirit Ascension Platform.
And whenever they ran into other teams, they swept them aside.
The Spirit Pagoda's administration received many reports and complaints.
Even Pagoda Master Chen Xin received word.
However, after carefully investigating the situation within the Spirit Ascension Platform, the Spirit Pagoda took down all those reports and complaints.
If you're bad, practice more!
This was the Spirit Ascension Platform's riot period to begin with. Mutual plundering was encouraged; being weak was your original sin.
As for Jiang Xia and his companions plundering everywhere, it did cause the Spirit Pagoda considerable losses, but Jiang Xia and Gu Yue reaped the greatest gains. Both were important figures in the Spirit Pagoda, so Chen Xin would not blame them.
On the contrary, he was delighted that the two could absorb all these resources.
Stepping out of the Spirit Ascension Chamber, Jiang Xia felt his head swelling somewhat.
Gu Yue also emerged from the pod beside his.
Her face was somewhat pale.
Within the Spirit Ascension Platform, she had repeatedly served as a vessel.
This placed great pressure on her spirit.
After all, the Spirit Ascension Platform simulated only the level of spiritual power she had revealed.
It could not simulate her spiritual origin as the Silver Dragon King at all.
Gu Yue looked at Jiang Xia with a somewhat reproachful gaze.
To save himself some effort, Jiang Xia had unconsciously dumped all the pressure on Gu Yue while using four layers of Dream Overlapping.
There was no helping it. In Jiang Xia's subconscious, Gu Yue was invincible on the spiritual level.
Whatever pressure there was, he could just toss it to her.
"Don't dump everything on me next time, or I won't help you with this anymore!" Gu Yue said angrily.
The spiritual exhaustion had been transmitted to her physical body through the Spirit Ascension Chamber.
It felt very real!