Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

Xue'er's figure suddenly flashed and appeared behind Li Mu, with her clothes fluttering in the wind and a hint of coldness.

"Brother Li, are we just going to let them go to the Tianhuang Mountains? That's a famous Jedi in the eastern region of Zhongzhou. Should we go with them?" Xue'er asked worriedly.

Li Mu frowned. If he didn't follow them secretly, he would be a little worried. Xiao Jin and Xiao Wa had followed him since they were young. For more than a thousand years, they had never left his protection. But if he followed them secretly, how could he help them break through the bloodline shackles between life and death?
"The path of cultivation must ultimately be taken on one's own. Although the Tianhuang Mountains are extremely dangerous, it is also the best place for them to hone their skills." Li Mu said hesitantly.

“But if they really encounter a ninth-level demon emperor, or accidentally enter an ancient killing formation,” Xue’er reminded.

"If I am by their side, they will always have a sense of dependence in their hearts. True transformation can only be stimulated in desperate situations. The talismans I send them can save their lives if they really encounter life-and-death crises." Li Mu's face showed a stern look, and he said seriously, "But I will not take action unless it is absolutely necessary!"

Hearing this, Xue'er brightened up and pointed out, "Brother Li, you still want to go back secretly, right?"

Li Mu turned his head away, too lazy to pay attention to her.

Xue'er smiled and said no more, but a sly look flashed in her eyes. Li Mu couldn't bear it after all, and couldn't let go of Xiao Jin and Xiao Wa who had been with him for a thousand years.

On the other side, the blue-eyed golden ape and the black jade rock lizard left Li Mu and headed east. After being excited for a while, they couldn’t help but feel a little depressed.

When leaving, Li Mu cast a spell to take back the spirit seals left on them, thus severing their ties with their master, which made them feel empty in their hearts.

"Xiao Wa, do you think the master doesn't want us anymore?" Xiao Jin scratched his head, a trace of confusion flashed in his golden eyes.

"What are you talking about! The master wants us to find our own opportunities, break through the bottleneck as soon as possible, and enter a higher realm, then we can return to the master!" The Black Jade Rock Lizard glared at Xiao Jin unhappily and said in a loud voice.

The two guys hurried on in silence, the wasteland beneath their feet gradually replaced by rolling mountains. In the distance, the Tianhuang Mountains crouched on the horizon like a ferocious beast, and the roar of the beast could be vaguely heard in the wind.

"Hey, tell me." Xiao Jin suddenly lowered his voice and looked back furtively, "Could the master be hiding somewhere and watching us?"

The pupils of the Black Jade Rock Lizard shrank slightly, and it tried its best to release its spiritual sense, but it did not sense any familiar breath.

"There is no trace of the master's aura." Xiao Wa shook his head, then said affirmatively, "However, since the master has prepared a large number of Taoist pills and Taoist robes for us, it means that he has not really ignored us."

Xiao Jin touched his head and grinned: "Hehe, that's right! Although the master looks strict on the surface, he must still be thinking about us in his heart!"

Xiao Jin and Xiao Wa no longer hesitated and quickened their pace towards the Tianhuang Mountains.

As the two entered the Tianhuang Mountains, the spiritual energy around them became more and more dense, and the demonic energy became more violent. After sensing the aura of the two seventh-level true spirits, the demonic beasts along the way retreated.

"It seems that our strength is quite impressive in this outer area." Xiao Jin smiled proudly, his golden hair shining in the sun.

Xiao Wa seemed much more cautious, "Don't be careless, this is just the outer periphery. We have encountered so many high-level monsters in the outer periphery. The depths of the Tianhuang Mountains must be very dangerous."

As he was talking, there was a sudden commotion in the woods ahead. Dozens of level six gray-backed wolves fled in panic, as if something terrible was chasing them.

"Huh? Why are those guys running?"

Xiao Jin couldn't help but feel a little curious, and stared warily at the back of the gray-backed wolf pack.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake violently, and a huge black shadow rushed out from the forest. It was a giant python with a completely black body, hundreds of feet long, a seventh-level demon spirit - the Xuanming Black Python!
When it saw Xiao Jin and Xiao Wa, a hint of hesitation flashed across the eyes of the Xuanming Black Python, and it turned around and was about to escape.

"You're here and you still want to run away?"

Xiao Jin's pupils glowed with golden light, and every hair on his body stood up. He suddenly turned into a golden lightning and chased after him, saying sternly, "It's rare to meet an opponent of equal strength. This is a good opportunity for me to stretch my muscles!"

Seeing this, Xiao Wa immediately dispersed the formation tacitly, and a yellowish-brown aura shone around him. He pressed his hands hard on the ground: "Earth vein lock!"

In an instant, dozens of rock pillars suddenly rose from the ground within a radius of 100 meters, forming a natural cage that blocked the Xuanming Black Python's escape route. The Black Python swung its giant tail angrily, cutting off several rock pillars in half, but its speed of breaking through had already greatly slowed down.

"Good job!"

Xiao Jin laughed loudly, and his body suddenly expanded in the air, turning into a five-meter-tall golden giant ape. His fists hit the black python's seven inches like beating drums.

The Xuanming Black Python felt pain, twisted its body violently, and opened its mouth to spray out a foul-smelling poisonous mist. Xiao Jin had been prepared, and the Taoist talisman on his neck glowed faintly, forming a layer of light golden light shield on the body surface, isolating the poisonous mist completely.

"Is that all you can do?" Xiao Jin grinned, his fists glowed brighter with golden light, and he punched out straight ahead.

"boom!"

The punch hit the black python's head so hard that half of its head was knocked into the ground.

The Xuanming Black Python roared in pain, and its scales suddenly emitted a strange black light, and its body actually expanded by another three points.

"Be careful! It's going to fight to the death!" Xiao Wa immediately warned, and at the same time, he quickly formed seals with both hands and cast a spell: "Rock Armor Protects the Body!"

A stream of earth-yellow spiritual energy condensed around Xiao Jin, transforming into a thick rock armor. Almost at the same time, the giant tail of the Mysterious Black Python swept over with a sound of breaking through the air, hitting Xiao Jin heavily.

"boom!"

The rock armor shattered, but successfully offset most of the impact. Xiao Jin took advantage of the momentum and leaped back. When he landed, his eyes were filled with more fighting spirit: "Good boy, this is powerful enough!"

"Hiss - two ignorant brats!" The Mysterious Black Python suddenly spoke in human language, and a billowing black mist rose from its body. In the twisted evil aura, it turned into a charming woman in black gauze.

The Mysterious Black Python sneered repeatedly, and the nails on his ten fingers suddenly grew three feet long, emitting a dark blue poisonous light: "I have been practicing in this Tianhuang Mountain Range for 4,800 years. Today I will let you outsiders know the rules!"

"Bah!" Xiao Jin spat, and a golden light came out of his ears. "How dare a mere worm put on airs in front of me?"

The golden light grew in the wind and turned into a long gilded stick. Nine lifelike dragon patterns were coiled around the stick, and a ferocious snake head was carved on the stick head. When the stick came out, all the plants and trees within a radius of ten feet were crushed into powder by the fierce energy.

A trace of fear flashed in the eyes of the Mysterious Dark Python, and suddenly his hands formed a strange seal: "Nether Poison Demon Realm, open!"

In an instant, within a hundred feet of her, the ground oozed sticky black liquid, and the air was filled with a sickening sweet smell. A thousand-year-old tree that had survived by chance was contaminated by the black mist, and its bark instantly rotted and peeled off, revealing a trunk that looked like a skeleton.

"Be careful of the erosion of the territory!" Xiao Wa shouted, and spit out a black stone seal from his mouth. The seal swelled in the wind and turned into the size of a house in an instant. The two simple seal characters "Zhenyue" on the bottom of the seal burst into an earthy yellow light.

"Black Rock Square Seal, rise!"

Following Xiao Wa's order, the square seal landed with a bang, blocking the spreading poisonous liquid three feet away. The earthy yellow halo emitted by the seal formed a barrier, supporting a piece of pure land around Xiao Jin.

"Good cooperation!" Xuanming Black Python smiled sinisterly, and suddenly his figure flashed in the poisonous fog like a ghost. "It's a pity that you are in my poisonous area, you will definitely die!"

Before Xuanming Black Python finished speaking, Xiao Jin had already swept over with his stick: "Shut up!"

"clang!"

The golden stick hit the poisonous sword of Xuanming Black Python fiercely, and the sound of metal clashing burst out. Xuanming Black Python was knocked back more than ten steps, and horror flashed in his eyes. She didn't expect the power of this golden ape to be so terrifying, and it made her arms numb.

"Watch this!" Xiao Wa seized the opportunity and controlled the square seal to smash down from the air. The Mysterious Black Python quickly turned into black mist and dispersed. A huge pit three feet deep had been smashed out where it had been standing, and the rocks at the bottom of the pit had turned into lava.

"You are looking for death!" The Mysterious Black Python was completely furious. It suddenly bit its tongue and spurted out a mouthful of blood, angrily saying, "A myriad of poisons devour my heart!"

The blood essence turned into poisonous needles all over the sky, each of which glowed with a strange purple light, drawing strange arcs in the air. Xiao Jin waved his long stick to form a golden barrier, but seven or eight poisonous needles still penetrated the defense.

"Hmm," Xiao Jin groaned, and his right arm instantly turned an abnormal purple color, and his muscles began to atrophy at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this, Xiao Wa's eyes were about to burst, and Fang Yin suddenly split into twelve phantoms: "Twelve Mountain Suppression Formation!"

The twelve large seals formed a mysterious formation, trapping the Mysterious Black Python firmly in the center. At the same time, Xiao Jin endured the severe pain, bit his left index finger and wiped the stick: "Golden Gang Nine Changes, Dragon and Snake Kill!"

The dragon pattern on the golden stick suddenly came alive, and nine dragon-shaped auras roared out. Each dragon aura was wrapped around a snake-shaped shadow, and they intertwined in the air to form a dragnet!

"Ah——" The Xuanming Black Python screamed miserably. Under the tearing of the dragon force, it could no longer maintain its semi-transformed state and turned back into its original form. However, at this moment, its scales were shattered, and a shocking wound was torn open at the seven-inch point, and dark green blood gushed out like a spring.

Xiao Jin was panting and was about to deliver a fatal blow when his face suddenly changed.

The seriously injured Xuanming Black Python suddenly raised its head to the sky and let out a sharp howl that pierced the sky. This howl contained a special rhythm that echoed among the peaks of the Tianhuang Mountains.

"Oh no! It's calling for its companions!" Xiao Wa hurriedly activated the square seal and said anxiously, "Hurry up and get rid of it!"

However, it was too late. A series of hissing sounds suddenly echoed from the mountains within a hundred miles. In the nearest valley, a black shadow three times thicker than the Mysterious Black Python was swimming rapidly. Wherever it passed, rocks collapsed and trees fell.

Xiao Jin struggled to stand up, but found that his right arm had completely lost feeling. What was even more terrifying was that the poison was spreading to his heart. He bared his teeth and looked at Xiao Wa: "You go first, I'll cover you!"

"Bullshit!" Xiao Wa cursed angrily, and suddenly took out a pill bottle from his arms, poured out a pill, and urged: "The Resurrection Pill can detoxify, take it quickly!"

Xiao Jin swallowed the Dao Pill in one gulp, and immediately a cool feeling ran from his throat straight to his right arm. The purple poison was forced to retreat step by step by the power of the medicine, condensing into fine black crystals on the surface of the skin and falling down.

"How brave!"

A voice that was even colder than before came from the direction of the valley. A larger purple-striped thunder python broke out of the forest, with a pair of ferocious bone horns on its head and purple lightning wrapped around its body. The ground trembled when it swam. It was the eighth-level peak "purple-horned thunder python"!
Xiao Wa's face suddenly changed, and the black rock seal in his hand trembled: "This is trouble!"

The Purple Lightning Horned Python's cold vertical pupils swept across the battlefield. When it saw the seriously injured and dying Xuanming Black Python, its pupils suddenly shrank into a thin line: "Third sister!"

"Sister, avenge me." The Xuanming Black Python was almost dead, and its tail twitched weakly twice before it stopped moving.

"You all deserve to die!" The purple-horned python roared to the sky, and the bone horns on its head suddenly burst out with dazzling purple light. In an instant, the sky within a thousand feet suddenly became gloomy, and lightning snakes danced wildly in the dark clouds.

"Boom!"

A purple bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket struck down and hit the barrier formed by the black rock square seal. Xiao Wa groaned, a trace of blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, and eight of the twelve square seal phantoms shattered in an instant.

"Golden energy protects the body!" Xiao Jin struggled to swing the golden stick. Nine dragon-shaped energy circles rose up and intertwined to form a golden barrier above the two's heads. The second thunderbolt struck down, and the dragon-shaped energy broke into four pieces on the spot. The aftermath made Xiao Jin retreat seven steps.

The Purple Lightning Horned Python swam with its hundred-meter-long body, scorching the grass and trees wherever it passed. It suddenly opened its mouth and spewed out a cloud of purple-black poisonous mist, which was completely different from the poisonous mist of the Mysterious Black Python before, and it was mixed with fine lightning.

With a "sizzling" sound, the rocks touched by the poisonous fog melted like wax!
"go!"

Xiao Wa suddenly shouted, and his hands formed seals as fast as lightning. A yellowish-brown aura surged around him, and the ground beneath his feet rippled like water waves. He grabbed Xiao Jin's arm, and the two of them sank into the ground in an instant.

"Earth Escape: Thousand Rocks!"

As Xiao Wa cast the spell, the two of them flew through the earth veins at high speed. The rock layers behind them continued to close together, forming dozens of thick rock walls. Ancient earth runes appeared on each rock wall, emitting strong spiritual power fluctuations.

"Ahem." Xiao Jin spat out a mouthful of black blood in the earth veins, "This poison has some tricks."

"Don't talk!" Xiao Wa's face was solemn. He maintained the earth escape technique with his left hand and quickly calculated the direction with his right hand: "The lightning escape of that demon python is very fast. We must..."

Before he could finish his words, the rock above his head suddenly shook violently!
"boom!"

Suddenly, a purple lightning came in an instant, penetrating the rock layer that was dozens of feet thick and striking directly at the location where the two were.

Xiao Wa hastily used the Black Rock Square Seal to block, but the seal was struck and sparks flew everywhere.

"I found you, little mouse~" The purple electric horned python's cold voice came through the rock layer, making people shudder.

Xiao Wa's pupils suddenly shrank, and the seal in his hand suddenly changed: "Earth Vein Swimming Dragon!"

The two of them accelerated underground, weaving through the intricate veins of the earth like dragons. Every time they passed a place, Xiao Wa would leave behind several earth-related talismans, which melted as soon as they hit the ground, forming small maze barriers.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

There were loud noises of rock bursting behind him. Through his spiritual sense, Xiao Wa was shocked to find that the purple electric horned python had turned into a human form, with purple lightning wrapped around its body, moving through the rock formations like a fish in water. Those maze barriers could only delay it for a moment at most.

"You can't escape like this." Xiao Jin bared his teeth and shouted angrily, "Let me out, I'll hold it back!"

"Shut up!" Xiao Wa's forehead was covered with beads of sweat. He suddenly bit his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of blood on the seal. "Return the earth veins to their source, escape!"

The two characters "Zhenyue" on the square seal suddenly lit up with a dazzling light. The two of them instantly merged into the torrent of spiritual power in the earth veins, and their speed increased by three times. The rock layers along the way automatically separated, forming a straight passage.

"Huh?" The purple electric horned python suddenly stopped in pursuit, looking surprised, "It can actually activate the origin of the earth veins. Interesting."

She sneered, put her hands together, and the horns on her head glowed purple: "Thunder Realm: Thousand Snakes Chasing Souls!"

"Chi chi chi——"

Hundreds of hair-thin purple lightning bolts burst out from her body. These lightning bolts drilled into the rock formations like living things, spreading rapidly along the direction of the earth's spiritual energy flow. Wherever they passed, the rocks vaporized, forming countless tiny lightning tunnels.

"Not good!" Xiao Wa's face changed drastically when he detected something strange happening behind him. "It's using lightning to pollute the ground!"

Sure enough, the purple lightning quickly caught up with the two of them, releasing terrifying destructive power. Xiao Wa had to change direction frequently to avoid it, and his escape speed suddenly decreased significantly.

"boom!"

A thick pillar of lightning suddenly struck down from above. Xiao Wa dodged hastily, but his right shoulder was still hit and was instantly charred.

"Got you!"

The figure of the Purple Lightning Horned Python slowly emerged from the rock formation ahead, with deadly lightning wrapped around its ten fingers. (End of this chapter)