Survival for All: I can deconstruct projections and synthesize everything.

Lin Xiao and Sikong Xinyou climbed up the mountainside again.

Occasionally, some mist creatures would appear along the way, but most of them were first or second tier, and third tier creatures like the Blackscale Mist Beast were extremely rare.

As Lin Xiao and his group gradually approached the mountainside, the mist at the summit was churning and swirling, as if something was about to emerge.

However, Lin Xiao and the others did not notice the change in the mist on the mountaintop. After the mist churned for a moment, it quieted down.

Soon, Lin Xiao and his group arrived at the mountainside without encountering any major danger.

Then, Sikong Xinyou counted on his fingers and slowly walked to the front.

Led by Sikong Xinyou, the two soon spotted the cave located halfway up the mountain.

Lin Xiao waved his hand and summoned two clones, sending them to scout ahead.

The two clones exchanged a glance, then looked at the clone that Lin Xiao was currently controlling, and nodded expressionlessly.

Okay, let them both go and die.

The two clones walked into the cave expressionlessly, but after walking for a short while, they discovered that there were two forks in the road.

Without exchanging words, the two clones each took a separate path.

Lin Xiao then attached a portion of his consciousness to the two clones, but did not control them; he simply used them as cameras to explore the path.

The passage on the right was covered with a layer of glowing moss, and it didn't look as dark as I had imagined.

The passage on the left was covered with rotting corpses.

Humanoid, beast-like, and even the skeletal remains of young dragons resembling those in novels.

"Hiss..." Lin Xiao looked around cautiously at the scene.

The starkly different scenes on the two paths aroused Lin Xiao's greatest vigilance.

The clone quickly left the area on the left, which was littered with corpses.

"This is..." Lin Xiao squinted and saw a black river surging underground.

I couldn't see where the river flowed in from, nor could I see where it flowed out from.

But when Lin Xiao looked closely at the Black River flowing inside the mountains, he would occasionally see things in the river that looked like the skeletons he had just seen.

Lin Xiao took two steps forward and his eyes widened in shock. What he saw was not a river at all, but a river of mist composed of pitch-black fog.

The River of Mist rushed underground, and Lin Xiao saw endless skeletons floating on its surface.

As for the origin of these remains, Lin Xiao couldn't see any entrance, as if they had flowed from other territories.

"Boom!" A wave crashed over the River of Mist, sweeping straight toward Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao's pupils contracted as the clone was swept into the river, and at the same time, Lin Xiao withdrew his consciousness.

"What is that? A river of rootless mist in the mountains?"

Lin Xiao recalled the scene in horror, but he could no longer connect with the clone.

"It looks like we can't go through that passage on the left! Let's look at the one on the right!"

The clone on the right continued deeper into the area after passing through a patch of glowing moss.

The strange river of mist was nowhere to be seen. Although it was two paths within the same cave, they looked like two different spaces.

As Lin Xiao walked, he came across a patch of glowing minerals.

Lin Xiao picked up a few pieces of the glowing ore and put them in his backpack before continuing on his way.

[Microluminescent mineral, which can be used for lighting and as a raw material for some light-emitting props]

After passing through the ore area, Lin Xiao found himself in an open space.

Lin Xiao glanced at the open space and said, "It feels like this open space is man-made?"

Lin Xiao looked at the obvious cutting marks on the walls around the open space, and even in the very center of the open space, there was a chair.

Lin Xiao's clone took two steps forward and saw a person sitting on the chair, which startled Lin Xiao.

But soon, Lin Xiao discovered that the person sitting in the chair was not a person, but a corpse.

The body was relatively well-preserved, and from a distance, it looked as if there was a person inside.

Lin Xiao mustered his courage and approached the corpse.

The corpse was sitting cross-legged, with a notebook filled with writing on its knees.

Lin Xiao glanced at the corpse and, finding that it didn't suddenly startle, picked up the notebook and began to read it with peace of mind.

"I was originally a fifth-tier mountain god in the realm of mountains, and this mountain peak was my territory. But one day, a fog suddenly enveloped the entire realm of mountains!"

"We... became survivors, and with our minimum Tier 4 strength, we are fighting against the misty world..."

"Our strength is utterly insignificant. I've hidden myself, but the Misty World always manages to find me..."

"I became the overseer of the misty world, and together with creatures of other races, I created the Earth Soul Domain..."

"I left, I shrank my territory, and hid in another territory..."

The further I went, the more disorganized the information in the notebook became, and even the number of words decreased.

Lin Xiao didn't read what happened next; he just looked at the corpse and sighed.

"Even the deity worshipped by the Grass Spirit Clan, a being approaching the seventh rank, is suspended in the sky, and you..."

Lin Xiao never expected that he would discover the origin of a race here, and that this race might still be living in the Earth Soul Domain.

"So, where is what Sikong Xinyou was talking about?"

Lin Xiao simply kept this matter to himself. With his current strength, worrying about such things would be completely pointless.

However, these things still need to be recorded.

Lin Xiao memorized the information in the notebook, but burned the notebook itself.

Then Lin Xiao looked around and finally found a strange place.

He tapped gently and found it was empty. He immediately withdrew his clone and led Sikong Xinyou inside.

Sikong Xinyou was startled when he saw the corpse, but he quickly realized that the corpse was not moving.

So he began searching the open space, pinching the buttons with his fingertips, and soon found the mechanism.

Sikong Xinyou fumbled around on the mechanism for a bit, then pulled it down, and saw a large door appear in the spot Lin Xiao had just discovered, slowly rising.

Lin Xiao and Sikong Xinyou exchanged a glance and went inside together.

Once inside, Lin Xiao discovered three stone platforms, on which were placed three stone treasure chests.

"Is it there?"

Sikong Xinyou pinched his fingertips again, then nodded heavily.

"Yes, the treasure chest contains what you wanted, sir!"

Upon hearing Sikong Xinyou's words, Lin Xiao stepped forward, opened the first box, and saw that inside was...