Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

Time passed quietly like flowing water. The Mahayana Demon Cultivator searched almost every inch of land near the Demon Palace, but still failed to find any trace of the peeper. His face became more and more gloomy, and the anger in his eyes was like a suppressed volcano that could erupt at any time.

The demon guards around him felt the terrifying pressure emanating from him, and they all lowered their heads and held their breath, not daring to make the slightest sound.

"Who on earth is this person and how could he hide so thoroughly under my nose?" The Mahayana demon cultivator pondered in his heart with a frown. He boasted that his cultivation was unparalleled and his spiritual awareness covered a thousand miles, but he could not catch even a trace of unusual aura.

In desperation, the purple-robed Mahayana demon cultivator had to give up the search temporarily. With a cold snort, he flashed back to the towering sacrificial magic tower deep in the Demon Palace and took charge personally.

However, he never expected that the peeper who had caused him so much trouble had already sneaked into the Demon Palace quietly.

Li Mu was a man of great skill and courage. He took advantage of the laxity of the guards outside the Demon Palace and quietly made a move, killing a demon guard in the Spirit Transformation Realm. Then he used the Principle of Chaos to simulate the guard's aura, disguised himself as the guard, and sneaked into the Demon Palace.

Li Mu’s purpose was very clear - he wanted to thoroughly understand the details of this force, especially the true purpose of the magic tower.

The divine object "Earth Vein Divine Fire" is sleeping in the volcano below the magic tower. If Li Mu wants to seize the Earth Vein Divine Fire, he must first understand the strength of the Demon Abyss forces, and then try to eradicate them in one fell swoop to prevent future troubles.

Li Mu was among a group of demon cultivators and guards. He looked calm and behaved naturally, as if he was originally a member of the Demon Palace. He was dressed in a black robe, had a stern face, and exuded a faint demonic aura. This demonic aura was not a disguise, but the blood demon aura he derived from the Chaos Dao, which was enough to be mistaken for the real thing. Even if a great demon cultivator personally investigated, it would be difficult to detect any abnormality.

For several days, Li Mu kept a low profile and carefully avoided the high-level cultivators in the Demon Palace, successfully deceiving the eyes and ears of many demon cultivators. While silently observing, he drew a layout of the Demon Palace in his mind, and gradually figured out the guard rules and power distribution inside the Demon Palace. At the same time, he also had a deeper understanding of the purpose of the Demon Tower deep in the Demon Palace.

The magic tower was a hundred feet tall, pitch black, and covered with strange magic runes. Each rune seemed to be wriggling, emitting a terrifying aura that could devour living things. On top of the tower, a huge black crystal was suspended, and countless distorted faces could be vaguely seen in the crystal. They wailed silently, as if they were imprisoned souls that could never be freed.

Li Mu was awed. The real purpose of this magic tower was far more terrifying than he had imagined. It was not just a sacrificial tower, but a tower for taking over bodies! The imprisoned human monks were the "vessels" used by the demon spirits of the Demon Abyss to take over bodies. By sacrificing their bodies and souls, the demon spirits of the Demon Abyss were injected into them, thus obtaining new bodies and a new life.

"Mo Yuan actually mastered such a cruel technique of possessing bodies!" Li Mu was secretly shocked and at the same time felt extremely angry.

In order to strengthen their power in the spiritual world and completely occupy it, the forces of the Demonic Abyss were so cruel and brutal that they harmed the human monks in the spiritual world. Those monks whose bodies were possessed not only had their bodies destroyed, but their souls were also imprisoned forever, becoming tools of the demons, unable to be reborn forever.

Just as Li Mu was thinking, there was a sudden violent fluctuation in the Sacrifice Tower. The black crystal on the top of the tower suddenly burst into a dazzling light, and then a black shadow rushed out of the crystal and headed straight for the sacrificial altar under the tower. The black shadow was extremely fast and disappeared into the body of a human cultivator on the altar in the blink of an eye.

"Ah——!" The monk let out a shrill scream, his body shaking violently, as if he was enduring unimaginable pain. After a moment, his screams stopped abruptly, his body stopped struggling, and he slowly stood up. However, at this moment, his eyes had become cold and unfamiliar, and a strong demonic aura emanated from his body, and it was obvious that he had been possessed by a demon.

Witnessing this scene again, Li Mu was shocked beyond words. The Demonic Abyss's ability to possess other's bodies had reached an extremely terrifying level. If they were allowed to continue, the human race in the Spirit World would fall into endless darkness.

Li Mu frowned and looked at the towering magic tower with a serious look. It was almost impossible for him to destroy the magic tower head-on with his own strength. Not only was there a great magic cultivator sitting in the magic tower, but there were also countless restrictions and a large number of magic cultivators guarding it day and night. If he was not careful, he would fall into an irretrievable situation.

At the moment, relying on one's own strength is not a good idea. We must find another way to destroy the magic tower and completely eradicate this force of the Demon Abyss.

Li Mu's spiritual thoughts quietly spread out, like an invisible thread, slowly extending to the depths of the Demon Palace, penetrating through layers of restrictions, and finally locking onto the location of the divine fire dormant in the bottom of the volcano.

The magma veins dozens of miles at the bottom of the volcano, and the important divine fire are like a sleeping beast. Although it has not awakened yet, it already emits a terrifying aura that makes people's heart palpitate.

Looking at this dormant ninth-order earth vein divine fire, a bold idea vaguely emerged in Li Mu's mind.

If one could activate this ninth-order earth vein divine fire and use its violent power to detonate the entire volcano and completely unleash the earth vein flame power, perhaps one could use this power to destroy the magic tower in one fell swoop, or even completely eradicate this demonic force!
The ninth-rank Earth Vein Divine Fire is the most powerful spiritual fire nurtured by heaven and earth. After being unsealed, it plundered high-ranking spiritual fires everywhere to repair its own spirituality. Nearly a hundred years have passed, and now the Earth Vein Divine Fire has recovered most of its power. Its power is strong enough to burn mountains and boil seas. Therefore, it is not easy to seal it again.

If we can first activate the earth vein divine fire, use its power to destroy the magic tower and the forces of the Demon Abyss, and then seal them when their power is greatly consumed, the difficulty will be greatly reduced.

Three birds with one stone!
Thinking of this, Li Mu's heart was pounding.

However, if this plan is to be implemented, there are many problems that need to be solved.

It is almost impossible to quietly set up a Chaos Sealing Array of the Ninth Order Earth Vein Divine Fire throughout the entire Demon Palace. The Demon Palace is heavily guarded inside and outside, especially near the Spirit Sacrifice Tower. There are a large number of Void Refining and Combined Demon Cultivators patrolling day and night. Any slight movement will arouse the vigilance of the Mahayana Demon Cultivator.

Once discovered, not only will the plan fail, but Li Mu himself will be in dire straits.

Unless! One can quickly set up a large array in advance, create chaos, and plunge the entire Demon Palace into turmoil, and take this opportunity to draw out the ninth-order earth vein divine fire, and use its power to destroy the Demon Tower and the Demon Abyss forces in one fell swoop... How to quickly set up several large arrays?
Use puppets to set up formations!
A gleam of light flashed in Li Mu's eyes, and a bold plan gradually emerged in his mind and was gradually perfected.

Not long after, Li Mu appeared in a remote corner of the Demon Palace. He hid in the Painting World Treasure House and began to refine the formation equipment.

Inside the Painting World Treasure House, the spiritual energy was rich, forming a small world of its own. Li Mu sat cross-legged, holding the storage ring he got from Wan Gu Yu in his hand. He probed into the ring with his spiritual sense to check the spoils inside.

The space inside the storage ring is vast, and is filled with all kinds of rare spiritual materials, elixirs and magic weapons. Li Mu swept his spiritual sense over it and was secretly amazed in his heart. Wan Guyu is indeed the big boss behind the Wanbao Pavilion. The spiritual objects in his storage ring are enough to make any high-level cultivator jealous.

Before the seal formation of the Three Realms Passage collapsed, Wanbao Pavilion had branches throughout the four regions of the Spirit Realm. It had been operating for thousands of years and had an extremely deep foundation, having accumulated a vast amount of cultivation resources. Its foundation far exceeded that of those large sects.

As the boss behind the Wanbao Pavilion, Wan Guyu's storage rings contain all the extremely rare treasures, including the spiritual materials, elixirs, and magic weapons. Li Mu's consciousness carefully explored the storage ring, and he was more and more shocked.

Not to mention the low-level spiritual materials, the number and variety of the sixth and seventh-level spiritual materials alone were enough to make him dumbfounded. Among them, dozens of them were particularly precious and were rare items that were indispensable for setting up the formation.

The first thing that came into Li Mu's sea of ​​consciousness was a fist-sized "Sky Star Meteorite Crystal", with fine star patterns on its surface, as if it had absorbed all the starlight in the night sky. This was the best of the eighth-level spiritual materials. Legend has it that it could only be formed when a meteorite fell from outer space and was tempered by the fire of the earth's core for thousands of years. The Sky Star Meteorite Crystal was not only extremely hard, but also an excellent material for refining array instruments, which could greatly improve the stability and power of the array.

Then, Li Mu's eyes were attracted by a green "Nine-Turn Spirit Vine". This spiritual vine was about three feet long, with nine spiral lines wrapped around it. Each line seemed to contain infinite vitality. The Nine-Turn Spirit Vine was a treasure among the eighth-level spiritual materials. It was said that it would only grow once every thousand years. After the ninth turn, it would have a spirituality that defied the heavens and could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on its own. It was the core material for arranging advanced formations such as the Gathering Spirit Formation and the Soul-Nourishing Formation.

Next to the Nine-Turn Spirit Vine, Li Mu found ten bottles of eighth-level Xuanyin Youshui. The bottles were completely black, as if they could swallow up all the light around them. Xuanyin Youshui was the most yin thing among the eighth-level water spiritual materials. It could only be collected in the abyss of the extremely cold land. It could reconcile the yin and yang forces in the formation, making the formation run more smoothly, and was especially suitable for arranging a large formation with yin attributes.

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In addition to a large number of seventh- and eighth-rank spiritual materials for setting up formations, Li Mu also discovered many other rare spiritual materials, such as "Purple Thunder Wood", "Cold Jade Marrow", "Earth Vein Refined Gold", etc. Each of them is a high-level, top-level spiritual material for refining weapons. The purple thunder wood is purple in color, with faint flashes of lightning on the surface. It is an excellent material for refining thunder-attributed Taoist tools; earth vein refined gold is the metal essence extracted from deep in the earth veins. It is extremely hard and suitable for refining gold-based Taoist tools,...

"Okay! Okay! Senior Wan, your death will not be in vain. I will make good use of these high-level spiritual materials and make Demon Abyss pay a heavy price!" A cold light flashed in Li Mu's eyes and he made up his mind secretly.

Li Mu quickly sorted and organized these rare spiritual materials. With a sharp gaze, he carefully selected the most suitable materials for refining array devices. Rare spiritual materials such as Sky Star Meteorite Crystal, Nine Revolutions Spirit Vine, and Sky Realm Stone were placed in front of him one by one. Each one exuded a unique aura, as if containing infinite power.

Even though Li Mu already had the Chaos Zhenyuan Disk, as well as the natal instruments of the Scarlet Fire Phoenix, Blue Moon True Dragon and other beast tamers, he was able to easily drive and set up the Chaos Soul Sealing Formation, which was enough to suppress and seal the Ninth Rank Earth Vein Divine Fire.

However, the environment for driving the Chaos Soul Sealing Array this time is completely different from the past. Li Mu not only has to activate the Ninth Order Earth Vein Divine Fire to cause its spiritual riot and use its violent spiritual power to completely eliminate the forces of the Demon Abyss, but he also has to seal it at the critical moment to prevent it from completely getting out of control and causing an irreparable disaster. This task is extremely arduous and any carelessness could lead to devastating consequences.

Li Mu took a deep breath, clasped his hands together, and as his spiritual power surged, the fire of chaos rose from his palms and quickly condensed into a chaos refining furnace.

Soon, the Sky Star Meteorite Crystal gradually melted under the burning of the Chaos Furnace Fire, turning into a ball of silver liquid, as dazzling as a galaxy. Then, other high-level spiritual materials were also refined one by one under the action of the Chaos Fire and merged into the ball of silver liquid.

Li Mu used his magical power of refining equipment - the Divine Refining Method, to meticulously manipulate the ball of liquid, condensing the embryo of the array equipment and shaping it into small array flags. Dozens of intricate equipment patterns were condensed on each array flag, emitting faint star-like light and containing endless star power.

These formation flag embryos quickly took shape in the refining furnace condensed by the chaos fire. They will become the core components of the "Star Array".

The Star Array must not only serve as the energy to guide the Earth Vein Divine Fire, but also seal the power of its violent divine fire to prevent the Earth Vein Divine Fire from escaping. Li Mu knows very well that the success or failure of this array will directly determine the life and death of this operation.

Next, Li Mu took out the Nine Revolutions Spiritual Vine. This spiritual vine was emerald green, with nine spiral lines wrapped around it. Each line seemed to contain infinite vitality. The vine was cut into several sections, each of which was carefully processed and integrated into the core of the formation. The Nine Revolutions Spiritual Vine was extremely spiritual and could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth by itself, providing a continuous source of energy support for the formation.

Li Mu refined it into an array diagram as the core hub of the array, ensuring that the array could operate stably at critical moments. Even when the earth vein divine fire erupted and the power of the fire element was violent, the spiritual power output could be maintained during the flushing.

In addition, Li Mu obtained a large amount of fifth-level star wood, sixth-level star crystal cores, and other rare spiritual materials, and began to refine a batch of special puppets. These puppets were not ordinary combat puppets, but "formation puppets" specially used for setting up formations.

There are a total of 360 array puppets, all of which possess sixth-order power. Under the control of the puppet spirit - Mingyue, they will follow Li Mu's instructions to arrange the array flags, array plates and other array tools in predetermined positions to ensure that the star array can be formed in the shortest time possible. Each array puppet has been carefully designed by Li Mu, and their bodies are engraved with complex array patterns and puppet patterns, so that they can perfectly fit with the star array.

Li Mu's movements were skillful and smooth, as if he had practiced them thousands of times. As the sixth-level puppets gradually took shape, a hint of satisfaction flashed in his eyes. (End of this chapter)