Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

Time surges like a turbulent sea.

The five-colored Dao lights intertwined and fought, like five giant dragons entwining in the void. One was eerie white, one was purple light, one was deathly aura, one was a thread of cause and effect, and one was the power of time. They carried a kind of Dao origin and collided in the sky above the Sea of ​​Time.

boom--

The void shattered.

The fragments hadn't flown far before some force forcibly bound them together again. They remained together for less than a breath before shattering once more. This cycle of shattering and reforming repeated countless times.

This void is indistinguishable between reality and illusion.

The battle among the five-colored Daoist lights reached a fever pitch.

The eerie white light transformed into a colossal beast, its jaws gaping wide as it devoured a sliver of purple light. The purple light exploded within the beast's belly, tearing it to pieces. Deathly energy seized the opportunity to surge into the cracks, transforming into countless fine needles that pierced the very source of the purple light. Threads of cause and effect silently coiled around the deathly energy, tightening them one by one, slicing it into fragments. The power of time, like an invisible serpent, weaved through every crevice of the light, leaving behind traces of accelerated time wherever it went.

In those locations where the Dao light was present, the flow of time was sometimes fast and sometimes slow.

When things move quickly, a moment can feel like an eternity; when things move slowly, an eternity can feel like a moment.

The five-colored lights fought each other, seemingly in chaos, but in reality they were vying for something, trying their best to stop the Evil Mother from devouring the source of time and strengthening herself to become the sole ruler of the Sea of ​​Time.

……

Time flies, three hundred years have passed.

The Demon Mother sat cross-legged in the void, her long hair hanging down, the eerie white light at the ends of her hair dim as a flickering candle.

Hundreds of millions of strange threads plunged into the depths of the Sea of ​​Time, frantically absorbing the essence of the Heavenly Eclipse Dao Master. However, the threads of cause and effect were entangled layer by layer, the Purple Heaven Dao Fire burned along the threads, death energy invaded like an ink tide, and the power of time rolled back... The strange threads collapsed inch by inch, and the devouring power of the strange path suddenly dropped by 90%.

The Ghost Mother's face was ashen white, her ghostly white eyes were dull and lifeless, and the ghostly white Dao Source around her flickered uncertainly, like a lamp that could be extinguished at any moment.

Within her body, fragments of time exploded like a tidal wave, the power of time eroding the origin of the demonic path. The Demon Mother tried her best to suppress it, but the speed of erosion was too fast, and the power of suppression could not keep up with the speed of erosion.

The Ghost Mother raised her eyes and looked at the gray figure deep in the void.

Li Mu stood in the void, holding an axe. His gray Dao light was contained, and his chaotic will enveloped the entire Sea of ​​Time. His face was calm, and his eyes were slightly closed, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep and was sitting idly by.

For three hundred years, a full three hundred years, he stood by and watched, never offering a helping hand!
The Demon Mother was furious and telepathically addressed Li Mu: "Master Li, three hundred years have passed. How long are you going to keep watching? When will you uphold our oath?"

Li Mu opened his eyes, his gaze filled with chaotic star vortexes. He looked at the Ghost Mother, then at the four Dao Lords, and said calmly, "The four Dao Lords are still holding on, and you're not dead either, so what's the rush?"

The Demon Mother roared, "I can't hold on much longer!"

"You said the same thing ten years ago," Li Mu said calmly. "It's not time for me to make my move yet!"

After saying that, Li Mu closed his eyes and ignored him.

The Demon Mother gritted her teeth and could only exert all her power to activate the Demon Source. The demonic white light surged, and new demonic threads poured out from the broken opening, continuing to plunge into the depths of the Sea of ​​Time.

……

Celestial Eclipse Palace.

The Lord of the Heavenly Eclipse Dao sat cross-legged deep within the Dao Palace, his face deathly pale, his gray eyes dull and lifeless.

For three hundred years, the Devouring Mother never stopped, and most of the Origin of Time was lost. If it weren't for the help of the three Dao Lords, the Dao would have been destroyed long ago.

The Primordial Dao Master sat cross-legged before the Dao Palace, his body radiating the Daoist aura of cause and effect, his eyes as deep as an abyss.

Three hundred years have passed, and the Primordial Dao Master's research on the art of deception has become increasingly profound. He has thoroughly understood the characteristics of the Deceptive Silk, the flaws in the art of deception, and the rules governing the Deceptive Mother's Devouring Technique.

The Primordial Dao Lord formed hand seals, and countless threads of cause and effect extended from his Dao Domain, seeping into the Dao Domain of the Demon Mother along the Demon Silk, attempting to sever and devour it from its root. Under the cutting of the threads of cause and effect, the Demon Silk sizzled and crumbled inch by inch.

The Primordial Dao Master smiled and said, "After three hundred years, I have finally figured out this treacherous path!"

The Lord of the Purple Extreme sat cross-legged to one side, surrounded by nine purple sun dharma images. He used the Purple Heaven Dao Fire to burn away the strange threads and then to destroy the traces of the Dao left by the Strange Mother in the Sea of ​​Time.

The Demon Mother took root in the Sea of ​​Time, and the Demon White Dao Traces spread across both banks of the long river, with roots penetrating deep into the riverbed. The Lord of the Purple Extreme used the Purple Heaven Dao Fire to burn the Dao Traces, burning them inch by inch and foot by foot.

The Dao traces were almost completely burned away, and the Devouring Power of the Evil Mother suddenly decreased.

The axe wound on the chest of the Lord of Purple Extremes had long since healed, the purple light flowed as usual, his complexion was rosy, and his aura had recovered to more than half of what it was three hundred years ago. He sighed and said, "The Dao trace of the Deceptive Path has been burned seventy percent. In another three hundred years, it will be burned completely."

The Lord of the Netherworld sat upon the throne of white bones, his deathly aura surging like ink. He used this deathly aura to invade the body of the Ghost Mother, which seeped into her body along the Ghost Silk, eroding the very essence of the Ghost Path.

The Devouring Method of the Demon Mother is essentially about using the Deceptive Path to erode the Origin of Time, and then using the Origin of Time to nourish the Deceptive Path. One devours, one nourishes, in a continuous cycle.

The Lord of the Heavenly Eclipse used the power of time to counteract the devouring, no longer simply resisting it, but instead turning the tables and causing the Time Origin swallowed by the Ghost Mother to be mixed with the power of time backlash.

"Mother of Demons, you have swallowed my three hundred years of essence, and I have made you suffer for three hundred years in return."

……

The four Dao Masters each performed their duties, and their cooperation became increasingly seamless.

The Primordial Dao Lord used threads of cause and effect to entangle the demonic threads, severing the path of absorption. The Purple Extreme Lord used the Purple Heaven Dao Fire to burn the demonic path's traces, weakening its foundation for absorption. The Netherworld Dao Lord used death energy to invade the demonic mother's true form, interfering with absorption. The Heavenly Eclipse Dao Lord used the power of time to push back, causing a backlash against the absorption.

Four forces intertwined to form a net, relentlessly suppressing the Demon Mother.

The Demon Mother sat cross-legged at the source of the River of Time, her long hair disheveled, her white eyes dim as a flickering candle.

Countless strange threads plunged into the riverbed, yet the threads of cause and effect were entangled too tightly, making it impossible for the strange threads to move an inch. The Purple Heaven Dao Fire burned away the Dao traces, causing the devouring power to plummet. Death energy invaded the body, causing the source of the strange path to be lost. The power of time pushed back, causing fragments of time within the body to explode like a tide.

The Demon Mother gritted her teeth and endured, while the Demon White Dao Source surged like boiling water: "Four old things, three hundred years, and they're getting better and better at fighting each other."

The Ghost Mother raised her eyes and looked at the gray figure deep in the void.

Li Mu stood in the void, holding an axe. His gray Dao light was contained, and his eyes were slightly closed, as if he had truly fallen into a deep sleep.

The Demon Mother transmitted a message: "Master Li, are you really going to stand by and watch someone die?"

Li Mu opened his eyes, his gaze filled with a chaotic vortex of stars. "I told you, I would wait until you reached your limit and the four Dao Masters were exhausted before making my move."

The Demon Mother retorted angrily, "Where are they exhausted? I am dying, and they are still holding on."

Li Mu said calmly, "You're not dead yet."

After saying that, Li Mu ignored him.

The Demon Mother gritted her teeth in hatred, activated the Demonic Path at full power, and the demonic white light surged, making a desperate gamble.

The strange threads frantically plunged into the depths of the River of Time, into the core of the Time Crystal, and frantically absorbed the source of the Heavenly Eclipse. The threads of cause and effect tightened, the Purple Heaven Dao Fire burned, death energy invaded, and the power of time pushed back.

The mother's long hair exploded, and the human-faced fruits screamed in unison.

"It hurts—it hurts so much—"

The colossal white beast opened its mouth and swallowed a wisp of purple light. The purple light exploded within the beast's belly, tearing it to pieces. Deathly energy seized the opportunity to surge into the cracks, transforming into countless fine needles that pierced the source of the purple light. Threads of cause and effect silently wrapped around the deathly energy, tightening them one by one, cutting it into fragments. The power of time flowed through all the gaps in the Dao light, leaving behind chaotic traces of the power of time.

With a loud bang, the five-colored light exploded.

The void shattered for thousands of miles, and turbulent currents surged backward.

The Demon Mother let out a muffled groan, a strange white liquid spilling from the corner of her mouth. Fragments of time within her body exploded like a tidal wave, the power of time eroding the very essence of her demonic path. She tried her best to suppress it, but the erosion was too fast, and she couldn't keep up.

"I can't hold on any longer."

The Demon Mother sent a message to Li Mu, her voice hoarse and strained, pushing herself to her limit.

The eerie white light dimmed like a flickering candle, the eerie threads crumbled inch by inch, and the devouring power decreased by 99%. Fragments of time within her body exploded, and the power of time eroded the origin of the eerie path. The Eerie Mother's face turned deathly pale, and her eerie white eyes became dull and lifeless.

Seeing this, Li Mu stood in the void with his axe in hand, his chaotic will enveloping the entire Sea of ​​Time.

The breath of the five directions is all within perception.

The Demon Mother's aura was weak, most of her demonic origins had been lost, and fragments of time within her body were exploding like a tide. She couldn't hold on for long, as she had already burned her last reserves.

Whoever falters first will die. Seeing this, Li Mu sheathed his axe and stood still, his gray aura concealed.

The Demon Mother's long hair flew wildly, and the human-faced fruits screamed in unison: "Eat them—eat them!"

The eerie white behemoth reappeared, opening its mouth to swallow the purple light, the death aura, the threads of cause and effect, and the power of time.

Five-colored light exploded inside the giant beast's belly.

The colossal beast shattered, and the Demon Mother was sent flying thousands of miles away. Half of her body exploded, and demonic white fluid splattered everywhere. The Demon Mother steadied herself, and the fluid from her shattered half surged as new flesh and blood grew.

However, before the new flesh had fully grown, the old wound reopened, and a strange white fluid gushed out from the wound, unstoppable and impossible to suppress.

The Demon Mother looked down at her chest, where a crack had spread from her heart to her waist and abdomen. The edges of the crack glowed with an eerie white light that flickered intermittently, and the power of time eroded her like maggots clinging to her bones. Fragments of time within her body exploded like a tide, bringing with them large swaths of the origin of the demonic path.

The ghost mother's pale eyes, dim as a flickering candle, looked at Li Mu for help and said, "Master Li, I really can't hold on any longer."

At this moment, the eerie mother's long hair fell down, the eerie white light at the ends of her hair was about to go out, the human-faced fruit dried up and fell off, the fruit exploded on the ground and turned into eerie white light spots that scattered.

Billions of mysterious threads were drawn back from the depths of the Sea of ​​Time, crumbling inch by inch.

The aura of the Demon Mother plummeted, and the origin of the Demonic Path surged violently like boiling water, gushing out from the wound uncontrollably. Half of her body exploded with fluid, exposing her white bones, and the demonic white Dao patterns flickered uncertainly on the bones.

"Master Li!" the Ghost Mother telepathically called out to Li Mu, her voice hoarse and strained.

Li Mu stood holding an axe, his gray light contained within, and his chaotic will enveloped the entire Sea of ​​Time.

The aura of the Demon Mother plummeted, and the essence of the Demonic Path was completely lost; she could no longer hold on.

The four Dao Lords were all weak. The Dao Lord of Primordial Beginning had a dim Daoist aura of cause and effect, the Dao Lord of Purple Extreme had an uncertain purple light, the Dao Lord of Netherworld had a surging death aura like a candle about to go out, and the Dao Lord of Heavenly Eclipse had exhausted his source.

Li Mu's eyes were bright, with chaotic star vortexes swirling within them.

"Then it's my turn!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Mu's figure vanished.

The colossal axe of chaos burst forth from the sky, expanding to a hundred million feet in size. Its axe light was hazy, flowing with both pure and turbid energies, and seven-colored Dao patterns shone brightly. Within it, the scene of the collapse of myriad worlds and the re-opening of chaos flowed endlessly.

Where the axe flashed, the void froze, time stood still, and cause and effect collapsed.

He slashed straight into the depths of the Sea of ​​Time, at the Lord of Heavenly Eclipse.

Celestial Eclipse Palace.

The Lord of the Heavenly Eclipse Dao sat cross-legged deep within the Dao Palace, his face deathly pale. The Time Crystal Core floated before him, its surface riddled with cracks, and a strange white light eroded its core.

The axe flashed and struck.

The Heavenly Eclipse Dao Master's expression changed drastically.

"not good!"

The Lord of Heavenly Eclipse formed hand seals, exhausting his very essence to activate the Time Crystal Core.

The crystal core suddenly shone brightly, the time scale surged, and it condensed into a gray-white light barrier to protect the Dao Palace.

With a "crack!", the light barrier shattered, and fragments of time scattered everywhere.

The axe's strike still hadn't diminished!

With a deafening roar, the Time Crystal Core shattered, and fragments of time rained down like a torrential downpour.

The crystal nucleus cracks spread from the center to the edge, densely packed like a spider web.

The Heavenly Eclipse Dao Master let out a miserable howl, flying backward and crashing through the palace wall. His body was covered with cracks, the time scales flickered, and his origin was completely exhausted.

The cunning mother seized the opportunity.

His long hair exploded, and billions of strange threads surged wildly from the broken opening, piercing into the depths of the Sea of ​​Time, into the cracks of the Time Crystal Core, and into the core of the Heavenly Eclipse Dao Lord's origin.

Wherever the eerie threads passed, a blinding white light exploded, eroding everything in its path.

The Lord of Heavenly Eclipse screamed in agony as his primordial essence surged forth like a tide, flowing into the body of the Demon Mother along the strange threads.

The aura of the Demon Mother surged, half of her body shattered and gushed with fluid, new flesh and blood grew wildly, white bones were covered with fluid, and Dao patterns reassembled.

"Swallow! Swallow! Swallow!"

The Demon Mother roared, unleashing the full power of her demonic arts, her devouring force like a whale sucking up water.

The Heavenly Eclipse Dao Master's source was losing power at an accelerated rate, the time scales on his Dao body were crumbling one by one, and his gray eyes were as dull as death.

"Primordial Beginning! Purple Extreme! Netherworld Fiend!"

The Lord of the Heavenly Eclipse, his voice hoarse and exhausted, transmitted his thoughts to the Three Lords.

The Primordial Dao Master's expression changed drastically. He formed hand seals, and threads of cause and effect emerged from his fingertips, wrapping around the Demon Mother.

Li Mu's eyes turned cold, and he slashed horizontally with the Chaos Giant Axe, unleashing a gray axe light that tore through the air.

Wherever the axe flashed, the threads of cause and effect crumbled inch by inch.

The Primordial Dao Lord groaned and retreated a thousand miles, his Daoist aura of cause and effect flickering uncertainly.

The Lord of Purple Extremes struggled to his feet, his chest torn open by an axe wound, purple light surging forth, powerless to offer any assistance.

The Netherworld Lord's death aura surged, his White Bone Throne was covered in cracks, and he staggered, unable to take care of himself.

The Lord of Heavenly Eclipse looked in the direction of the Three Lords, his gray eyes completely dimmed.

"So be it." The Heavenly Eclipse Dao Master murmured, and the next moment, his Dao body shattered.

Fragments of time exploded, scattering across the sky like a torrential downpour. The Time Crystal Core shattered along with it, and countless fragments floated in the void. Each fragment reflected a segment of the long river of time, where birth and death cycled, prosperity and decline alternated, and the river crumbled inch by inch.

The monstrous mother opened her mouth and inhaled.

The fragments of the eclipse primordial crystal core surged back like a long river, all disappearing into my mouth.

The aura of the Demon Mother surged.

Half of his body churned with fluid, new flesh and blood grew wildly, bones were covered in the fluid, and Dao patterns reassembled. A new arm instantly grew back from the severed arm, with five long fingers. His sunken face bulged as before, his eerie white eyes as deep as an abyss.

Long hair fell down, the ends of which glowed with a strange white light. The human-faced fruit reformed and opened its mouth to shriek.

A strange white light shot into the sky, illuminating the entire Sea of ​​Time.

The river of time lost its support, and the surging waves suddenly froze.

On the river's surface, fragments of time cease to drift, and the marks of time stand still.

The eerie white light spread like a plague, radiating outwards from the river's surface in all directions. Deep within the riverbed, the remaining essence of the Heavenly Eclipse Dao Master was completely devoured by the eerie threads, its grayish-white essence now tinged with an eerie white luster.

One by one, strange trees emerged from the water.

The tree trunk was as white as amber, its branches and leaves drooped, its roots dug into the riverbed, and it bore many human faces and fruits, with murmurs echoing like a tide.

Ten plants, a hundred plants, a thousand plants, ten thousand plants.

In the blink of an eye, the banks of the frozen river of time were lined with eerie trees, their pale whiteness blending together into one.

The Demon Mother stood at the source of the long river, her long hair flying, and the human-faced fruits screamed in unison, and the entire Sea of ​​Time returned to the Demonic Path.

Li Mu sheathed his axe and stood still, his gray Dao light subdued, observing coldly from the void. (End of Chapter)