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

The array patterns rippled outwards from Lu Yu's feet, rapidly spreading across the entire battlefield. Dark blue light patterns merged with the earth, and in an instant, the properties of the ground around Pangolin No. 1 underwent a strange change—

Its forelimbs stomped down heavily, and the rock that should have been hard instantly turned into quicksand-like mud. Its limbs were stuck in the sticky soil, and with each struggle, it sank even deeper.

It roared and swung its claws at Lin Yue, who was closest to it. But as soon as it started to move, it seemed to be stuck in invisible glue. Its speed dropped by 70%, and its sharp claw wind became sluggish and powerless. Lin Yue rolled around in a mess and easily dodged it.

It twisted its massive body, trying to break free, but a stagnant pressure surged from all directions, as if the entire space was slowly solidifying. Dark blue light patterns appeared and disappeared in the void, like countless invisible chains, intertwining to form a huge cage, trying to completely imprison this behemoth here.

This is precisely the power of the "Du Gate," the fourth eye of the Eight Trigrams Formation, which focuses on "trapping" and "sealing."

Instead of confronting the beast's brute force head-on, or clashing with the high temperature of the magma patterns, the power of the array was used to distort the local terrain rules, turning a smooth road into a swamp and the void into shackles, thus trapping the overwhelming beast in place. This perfectly embodies the true meaning of the array: "go with the flow."

"Now!"

Lu Yu shouted sternly, veins bulging on his forehead. Maintaining the four gates of Rest, Life, Injury, and Block at the same time was a huge burden for him, but it ultimately created a valuable output environment for his teammates.

Shen Che's spirits soared, and his Shadow Hunting power surged once more. Shadows condensed like a tide into a ten-foot-long battle blade, which, along with the resummoned Shadow Hunting Battle Spirit, pierced the sparsely patterned area on the pangolin's abdomen from the left and right.

Zhao Changfeng mustered all his strength, and the pale blue wind blades around his body condensed into a spiral shape, slashing towards the giant beast's vital eye like a drill. The sharp sound of the wind blades tearing through the air was extremely piercing.

Lin Yue endured the pain of the backlash and urged the last bit of his wood-controlling power. The emerald green vines avoided the magma patterns and wrapped around the giant beast's neck, trying to prevent it from turning its head.

Han Bingshuo then gathered the remaining power of eternal freezing and transformed it into several ice spikes, which he aimed precisely at the gaps in the beast's scales. Even if he couldn't break through its defenses, he wanted to disrupt its movements.

Fire and energy fragments exploded on the pangolin's body. The Shadow Hunter Blade only left a shallow mark on the scales before being deflected. The spiraling wind blades were distorted by the heat waves from the magma patterns, grazing the corners of the beast's eyes. The emerald green vines that had just wrapped around the neck were scorched by the high temperature and sizzled. The ice spikes vaporized and dissipated before they even touched the surface of the body.

Most of the attacks were blocked by the indestructible scales and flowing magma patterns, but the one-sided crushing situation was finally broken, and the group finally got a chance to catch their breath and launch an organized counterattack.

Lu Yu's body was enveloped in a halo of pale gold, cyan, and pale green light, which flowed to its extreme. The pale gold true power completely merged with the crimson light patterns of the Wound Gate, and the Void-Breaking Light Blade condensed into dozens of short spears, which shot towards the ferocious beast imprisoned by the Gate of Confinement like a rainstorm.

He himself, with the extraordinary physique granted by the Spirit Plant Returning to Origin Body, moved around the giant beast like a butterfly flitting among flowers. As the power of the hundred herbs flowed, the scratches on his body caused by the rubble instantly healed. He deliberately passed in front of the ferocious beast, sometimes lightly stabbing its scales with the Void-Piercing Spear, attracting its frenzied hatred and becoming the most flexible "bait". He constantly guided the pangolin's attacks to miss, creating a safer output space for his teammates.

Even so, the results were still minimal.

Although Lu Yu's Void-Piercing Spear could pierce an inch, it could not reach the core, and instead completely enraged the ferocious beast.

Pangolin No. 1 roared furiously, its dark red pupils filled with even greater ferocity. The magma patterns inside its body burned like flames, and dark red light surged along its scales. The confinement field formed by the Du Gate trembled violently, and the dark blue chains flickered. Lu Yu's face grew paler and paler, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth. Clearly, he had reached his limit in maintaining the four gate array eyes.

Despair once again enveloped everyone. Despite Du Men's restraint, they were still unable to inflict any real damage on the ferocious beast. The sense of powerlessness brought about by the disparity in strength weighed on their hearts like a boulder.

As bait, Lu Yu had narrowly avoided the beast's attacks several times. Although the recovery power of the Spirit Plant Returning to Origin Body was strong, the continuous high-speed movement and the energy consumption of the four array eyes made his breathing gradually become rapid. Sweat slid down his cheeks and evaporated instantly on the scorching ground.

In the midst of this extremely tense atmosphere, fueled by the pangolin's continued frenzied emotions, Su Wan, who had been struggling to maintain her composure and try to sense the giant beast's intentions using her psychic powers, suddenly let out a painful groan. She clutched her temples tightly with both hands, her frail body trembling violently. The silver light of her psychic abilities flickered wildly at an unprecedented frequency, as if it were about to shatter at any moment. Her face was deathly pale, and cold sweat mixed with strands of hair clung to her cheeks, revealing her extreme pain.

"Su Wan!"

Lu Yu's heart tightened, and a wisp of the pale green herbal energy around him quietly enveloped her, trying to stabilize her mind; Liu Jiaqi also rushed forward immediately, and the pale golden healing light from her fingertips poured down to soothe her mind which was on the verge of collapse.

"The Path to Spiritual Connection - The Budding of the Path - The Realm of Divine Connection!"

An ancient and profound consciousness suddenly exploded in Su Wan's mind. The spiritual silver light instantly surged, shooting straight into the sky like a silver pillar of light, before suddenly receding and flowing into her brow.

She no longer tried to "control" or "communicate" with the behemoth's raging will, but instead involuntarily "immersed" herself in it, as if she had achieved a brief resonance with the beast's soul.

In an instant, endless pain, anger, and a sense of being torn apart overwhelmed her like a tidal wave.

She "saw" that in the deepest part of the beast's consciousness, which had been transformed beyond recognition, besides the violent force that had been forcibly implanted and driven to destroy, there was still a trace of extremely weak, yet incredibly pure, "protective" will!

That will, tinged with confusion and sorrow, seemed to be guarding a long-forgotten promise, yet it was twisted and almost dissipated by endless torment.

Immediately afterwards, countless chaotic fragments of perception assaulted Su Wan's soul!

That was the anger stemming from a long, dark "imprisonment"—

The cold metal restraints, the incomprehensible manipulation of power, the daily isolation—the instinct to lose freedom screams deep within the soul.

That was the pain of having one's body forcibly modified—

The magma patterns that did not belong to him burned his meridians like branding irons. The external power of the Great Dao clashed violently with its illusory origin. The two energies melted and tore at each other within his body, and every second was an excruciating torture.

That was the most excruciating torture—

The torment came from the dark red restraint collar around its neck that kept flashing and emitting a low-frequency buzzing sound!

Su Wan could clearly "perceive" that the collar was continuously releasing energy to suppress its will, more like a greedy parasite frantically extracting its own illusory power, including the violent energy of the magma patterns, and then converting this power into a stronger suppressive force, forming a vicious cycle that constantly eroded its vitality and sanity!

"A collar...a collar!"

Su Wan suddenly opened her eyes, her face ashen white, a trickle of blood escaping from the corner of her mouth. With all her might, she screamed, her voice trembling with a soul-piercing intensity, "It's torturing it! The collar is draining its power and suppressing it in return! It's...it's a cycle!"

Chen Mo's taut nerves suddenly jolted, and without hesitation, he focused the last remaining dim lines of insight in his eyes on the collar around the giant beast's neck.

The pale golden Sanskrit inscriptions swirled in his pupils, and the intricate runes on the necklace, the trajectory of energy flow, and the nodes of extraction and transformation were all clearly visible to him.

"Su Wan is right!"

Chen Mo's voice was hoarse with excitement and weakness, "The collar is undergoing energy conversion! Destroying the collar might be a breakthrough!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up instantly. The battlefield, shrouded in stagnation and despair, finally showed a glimmer of hope.