Reversing Falsehood and Preserving Truth: All Gods and Gods Are in My Hands

The snow on Shennong Mountain gleamed coldly in the afternoon sun. Behind the bushes at the edge of the pit, two watchmen huddled in a sheltered spot, their cotton hats pulled low. Their eyes scanned the surroundings warily, the screens of their thermal imaging cameras glowing a pale green, but they were unaware of the four figures quietly approaching in the snow.

"It's just ahead," Chen Mo said in a low voice.

Lu Yu nodded, and the blue array patterns on his palm suddenly lit up. With a thought, the illusion array was quietly set up.

Pale blue array patterns spread like a spiderweb around the four people, disappearing upon landing and leaving only a fleeting glimmer on the snow. The moment the array patterns took effect, the four figures seemed to blend into the wind and snow.

"This really works?" Zhao Lei subconsciously tried to raise his hand to wave, but Chen Mo pressed him down, so he could only mutter in a low voice.

"Don't move around, the array patterns aren't stable yet." Lu Yu stared at the Watcher not far away, his fingertips subtly adjusting the array pattern nodes. "The Misdirection Array can distort light."

Sure enough, the watchers behind the bushes suddenly rubbed their eyes. One of them frowned and said, "Did you just see a shadow flicker by?" The other leaned closer to the thermal imager, but the screen only showed the cold color of pure white snow. He shook his head and said, "No way! You've been staring at it for too long and your eyes are playing tricks on you. There's nothing in this godforsaken place except snow."

The two whispered to each other, their gazes refocusing on the pit opening, completely unaware of the four people standing about ten meters away.

Lu Yu made a shushing gesture and took the lead in climbing down the pit wall. The frozen soil on the pit wall was soft, mixed with gravel and rotten wood chips, clearly indicating that it had been artificially filled in. His Spirit Plant Returning to Origin Body greatly increased his physical strength, and with the help of the array power to sense his footing, his movements were as light as a monkey.

The bottom of the pit was empty, with snow up to ankle height. The cold wind howled as it rushed in, and there was nothing to be seen at all.

"Nothing at all? What a wasted trip?" Zhao Lei stamped the snow under his feet, his face full of disappointment.

"It's not that it's not there, it's that it's been deliberately covered up." Chen Mo squatted down, and the vertical lines of insight in his eyes quietly lit up. He ran his fingertip across a seemingly flat layer of snow. "The frozen soil has been crushed, the soil particles are uneven in size, and there are tool marks on the edges. It has been artificially treated."

Su Wan raised her hand, and a silvery light spread out like fine threads: "There are emotions... very mixed negative emotions."

Her brows furrowed, and her voice trembled almost imperceptibly, "Sadness, pain, despair, and anger, as if they were crushed and mixed together, but they were too faint, intermittent, and indistinguishable as remnants of people or spirits."

Lu Yu withdrew the illusion array, and a faint golden power surged in his palm, but he couldn't detect any energy flow. He pondered and said, "There should indeed have been activity here, but there's not much useful information. Let's go to the cave you mentioned."

With a thought, he withdrew his true power, and the blue array patterns lit up again. The illusion array was re-laid, and the four climbed back to the ground, bypassed the Watcher, and stealthily moved in the direction marked by Chen Mo.

Reaching a secluded mountain hollow, Chen Mo stopped and pointed to barely perceptible tracks in the snow: "Look here."

The snow almost completely covered the tracks, and he wouldn't have noticed them if he hadn't had sharp eyes. Chen Mo squatted down and gently brushed away the soft snow with his fingertips, revealing the firmly pressed footprints underneath, which snaked their way to a cave not far away.

"These footprints go back and forth between the pit and the cave, the ones going into the pit are deeper, and the ones returning to the cave are shallower." He measured the depth of the footprints, "They carried heavy loads when they went out, and the weight was lighter when they came back."

"This isn't right!" Zhao Lei leaned closer, scratching his head, feeling like he was finally getting a brain. "If they were moving things from the deep pit to the cave, it should have been shallow going there and deep coming back. Isn't this the opposite? Did they carry things to the deep pit and then throw them away? But why would they bother to cover up the traces of what they threw away?"

Su Wan pondered seriously: "Could it be... that someone retrieved something from the pit and brought it back? But we didn't find anything unusual in the pit."

Lu Yu stared at the footprints, lost in thought: "Either we missed something, or they did something in the pit that caused the change in weight during the round trip, and this change is completely opposite to what we thought."

Chen Mo stood up, a hint of confusion flashing in his eyes: "The snow particles around the footprints are frozen to different degrees, which means they were left within the last few days."

"Who cares if they rebel or not, let's go in and see for ourselves!" Zhao Lei clenched his fists and took the lead in walking towards the cave.

The cave was hidden behind dense, withered branches and vines. The entrance was covered with snow and moss, and the stone walls were rough and rugged. It was a completely natural entrance to a secret place. If it weren't for those few footprints, no one would have been able to find it.

Lu Yu raised his hand and conjured a light blade, silently severing the vines. A damp, musty smell mixed with a faint fishy odor wafted over, making one's nose itch.

"Stay alert," he said in a deep voice, taking the lead into the cave entrance.

The cave was pitch black. Chen Mo took out a flashlight he had prepared beforehand, and the beam of light pierced the darkness, illuminating an area of ​​about three zhang in front of him. Fine water droplets condensed on the stone walls, dripping onto the ground and making a "drip-drip" sound that echoed continuously in the deep cave, making it seem even more quiet and eerie.

As the beam of the flashlight swept across, a sudden loud "whoosh" rang out, and countless black bats were startled from the crevices in the rocks, their wings unfurling and carrying a foul stench as they swarmed towards the four like a black cloud.

"Watch me!"

Zhao Lei let out a low roar, his muscles bulging, and his fist, carrying a gust of wind, swept out like a thunderclap. Several bats that were close by were scattered and flung by this fierce force, crashing against the stone wall with dull thuds. They fell to the ground, struggled for a few moments, and then lay still, their black blood splattering on the stone wall, exuding a strange, fishy smell.

"These bats have blackened teeth; they might be poisonous." Chen Mo stared at the bats on the ground, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.

Before the words were finished, a rustling sound suddenly came from the stone walls on both sides. Countless red-headed poisonous insects crawled out from the cracks in the rocks. Their bodies were dark red like blood, and their legs gleamed coldly. There were also a few poisonous moths with purple wings that fluttered their wings and flew over. Scales fell in a flurry, instantly corroding small pits on the ground and emitting pale purple poisonous smoke.

"Be careful!"

Lu Yu gave a stern warning, and the pale golden true power in his palm instantly condensed, transforming into a semi-transparent thin shield with sharp, penetrating light at its edges, firmly blocking the oncoming poison powder from the outside.

Seeing this, Zhao Lei strode forward and threw punches in alternating motions. The wind from his punches howled, and each strike carried the force of a mountain collapsing. The fastest-crawling poisonous insects were smashed into a pulp, and dark red venom splattered on the ground, wisps of white smoke rose, and a pungent smell permeated the air.

Su Wan's fingertips shone with a surge of spiritual silver light, transforming into countless ethereal threads that coiled around the poisonous moths' wings like sharp swords. With a pull of the silver light, the poisonous moths lost consciousness and collided with each other, killing one another.

With a thought, Lu Yu condensed his pale gold true power into dozens of fine golden needles, which shot towards the swarm of poisonous insects like a rainstorm. Each golden needle accurately pierced the vital points of the poisonous insects, without missing its mark.

Chen Mo sidestepped the attack of the poisonous moths, his fingertips tracing the stone wall before he suddenly stopped: "There are scratches here, from being rubbed by a hard object recently."

The group worked together seamlessly and quickly cleared out the first batch of poisonous insects and moths. But after taking just two steps forward, a hissing sound suddenly came from the darkness ahead, accompanied by heavy breathing and a slight tremor in the ground.

As the flashlight beam flickered, a huge black shadow could be vaguely seen writhing in the darkness, rapidly approaching the four of them!