Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

Seeing this, Li Mu nodded slightly, turned to the last two disciples, his eyes moving over them, the starlight on his fingertips flickering.

Frost flowers unconsciously appeared all over Zhong Yuling's body, and the shadow of a phoenix formed by ice soul appeared in the cold mist; behind Zhao Tianchen, the sound of clear swords came, and seven golden small swords moved among the tips of his hair, reflecting his spiritual consciousness as sharp as a sword.

"Ice soul and cold marrow, sword intent soaring into the sky - it complements each other very well." Li Mu suddenly put his fingers together and pointed them towards the void, condensing a star-lit jade slip, which split into two halves. The left side of the fragment turned into ice crystals all over the sky and sank into Zhong Yuling's brow, while the right side condensed into a golden rainbow and penetrated into Zhao Tianchen's forehead.

A strange sight suddenly appeared in Zhong Yu's sea of ​​consciousness. Above the originally silent ice field, countless stardust was weaving into a silver river like an aurora. The Mysterious Ice Condensing Heart Technique that she had practiced for many years was running on its own. Those fragments of spiritual consciousness frozen deep in the glacier suddenly came to life and turned into thousands of ice butterflies that flew towards the galaxy.

It was seen that in Zhong Yuling's sea of ​​consciousness, where the ice butterflies were flying, the flow of the galaxy suddenly slowed down and solidified into an ice crystal star bridge across the sky, which continued to evolve and found an ice soul star.

Zhao Tianchen's side was a completely different world. The moment the golden rainbow entered his body, the seven spiritual swords suddenly grew longer and formed the Big Dipper Sword Formation on the dome of his sea of ​​consciousness. But when the starlight fell, the hard swords began to twist strangely, and finally disintegrated into countless golden light particles.

"Gold sword cultivators always think that it is better to break than to bend. But they don't know that the strongest swords are the easiest to break!"

Li Mu chuckled and waved his hand, transforming Zhao Tianchen's sea of ​​consciousness into a flowing galaxy of swords.

Zhao Tianchen looked at his spiritual consciousness and sword intent in shock - they were still there, but each sword energy had become a living star, naturally bursting out with unparalleled sharpness as it moved along the star tracks.

Inside the main hall, four people sat cross-legged on the ground. Strange visions appeared all around them, and the interweaving of their spiritual consciousness actually caused heaven and earth to resonate.

A five-star cloud appeared above Lin Maoshan's head. The five auxiliary stars of gold, wood, water, fire and earth revolved around the main star, mutually reinforcing and restraining each other. His spiritual consciousness continued to differentiate, and the nebula gradually expanded, and the outline of a galaxy appeared faintly.

Nine suns rotated around Su Hongxiu, and the blazing flames illuminated the hall. In each sun, there was a primordial spirit sitting cross-legged, swallowing and spitting out starlight. Her consciousness was no longer confined to the nine spirits, but turned into a sky full of flaming meteors, shuttling between the star tracks, burning away all shackles.

Zhong Yuling's ice crystal star bridge spanned the sea of ​​consciousness. Amidst the cold mist, a dark blue soul star hung in the center of the bridge, emitting a chilling chill. Her consciousness was no longer frozen, but transformed into countless ice butterflies, dancing on the star bridge. Every time they flapped their wings, the starlight became more condensed.

Zhao Tianchen's galaxy sword waterfall surged endlessly, and each drop of "water drop" was a sword energy, flowing in the star track, with a restrained edge but hidden murderous intent. His sword intent was no longer rigid and inflexible, but followed the ups and downs of the galaxy, combining hardness and softness, the sword moved with the stars, and the stars moved with the sword.

The four people's spiritual consciousness unexpectedly resonated unintentionally, and the interweaving of starlight vaguely revealed the true meaning of the "Nebula Visualization Method".

Inside the hall, the starlight gradually faded, and the strange phenomena around the four people slowly subsided.

Lin Maoshan opened his eyes first, and there seemed to be five-star stars flowing in the depths of his pupils, and his aura was stronger than before. He looked down at the jade slip in his hand and found that the starlight on it had all merged into his sea of ​​consciousness, turning into a vast star map.

Then, the nine shadows of the sun around Su Hongxiu gradually shrank and finally transformed into nine red divine patterns, which were imprinted on her brows. She exhaled a fierce breath and there seemed to be a flash of burning flames in her eyes.

The ice crystal star bridge in front of Zhong Yuling shattered into pieces and turned into frost and snow that drifted all over the sky. At the center of her eyebrows, a dark blue soul star shone brightly. The coldness was restrained, but her consciousness was more agile than before.

Zhao Tianchen's Galaxy Sword Waterfall also returned to calm, and the seven spiritual swords were condensed again, but at this moment the sword intent was no longer fierce, but like the flow of galaxies, combining hardness and softness, with a hidden edge.

The four of them looked at each other and saw shock and joy in each other's eyes.

"It seems that you all have gained something."

Li Mu's voice came from outside the hall. Everyone looked up and saw him walking in slowly, with Xue'er following lightly beside him.

"Master!" The four of them saluted in unison.

Li Mu nodded slightly and waved his sleeves. Four jade bottles appeared out of thin air and fell into the hands of four people.

"This is the Guixu Dao Pill, which can help you refine your clones and condense the Dao Realm! Next, I will be in seclusion for a while, so please don't disturb me if you have nothing else to do."

Li Mu looked at the four disciples and gestured.

"Thank you, Master, for the elixir!"

The four of them held the jade bottles in their hands and knelt down to pay their respects.

Lin Maoshan bowed deeply, his voice low and firm: "Master, your kindness in teaching me, I will always remember it in my heart. I hope Master will take care of himself during this retreat."

Su Hongxiu's eyes were slightly red, and she whispered, "Master, during your retreat, I will practice diligently and live up to your expectations."

Zhong Yuling pursed her lips, her eyes full of tears. Zhao Tianchen's usually stern face was now full of reluctance.

Li Mu had just returned to the sect not long ago. He first gave them pointers and answered their questions, and then taught them the Dharma and gave them elixirs, which greatly improved their cultivation and made their path brighter. But now he has to go into seclusion again, and they don’t know when they will see him again. The four of them are reluctant to let him go.

Li Mu's eyes swept over the four disciples one by one, and seeing their sincere expressions, a trace of relief flashed in his eyes. He stood with his hands behind his back, his robe fluttering without wind, and his voice was as gentle as a spring: "The path of cultivation is long, and your seclusion this time may be as short as a few years or as long as a hundred years. Now that you have understood the true meaning of the Nebula Visualization Method and have the help of the Guixu Daodan, you should concentrate on your cultivation and don't slack off."

After he finished speaking, Li Mu and Xue'er's figures gradually blurred in the morning light and turned into starlight and disappeared in front of the four people.

Deep in the Seven Gods Mountain, there is a quiet and spiritual valley.

Li Mu and Xue'er appeared in the valley. The morning mist in the spiritual valley had not yet dissipated. As far as the eye could see, everything was shrouded in the spiritual mist, hazy and mysterious. The spiritual spring in the valley gurgled, and the exotic flowers and plants exuded a faint fragrance. In the valley, a simple courtyard could be vaguely seen hidden among the lush ancient trees.

Li Mu smiled and tapped the air with his fingertips. Instantly, the formation of the entire Spirit Valley was reactivated, and countless formation patterns rose from the ground, interweaving into a huge formation net in mid-air, covering the entire valley.

As the array light converged, the spiritual mist in the valley quickly dissipated, and the overall picture of Zhanling Valley gradually became clear.

The spiritual energy in the valley was as rich as water, with a faint colorful halo in the sun. A winding spiritual stream flowed down from the mountain stream. The stream water was crystal clear, and the bottom of the water was covered with colorful spiritual sand that shone with spiritual light. Occasionally, a few silver-scaled spiritual fish swam by, stirring up tiny splashes of water.

Countless rare spiritual plants grow on both sides of the stream. The thousand-year-old Xuanling ginseng takes root in the spiritual soil, with jade-like leaves and dragon-like roots, emitting pure spiritual energy; the purple-glowing ganoderma grows under the ancient tree, with its umbrella cap glowing with a faint purple light and faintly surrounded by mist; the nine-heart lotus floats on the spiritual pool, with crystal clear lotus petals and nine drops of spiritual dew condensed in the lotus heart, each drop of which contains magnificent vitality. Further away, a field of star grass sways in the wind, with star-like fluorescence dotted on its leaves, flickering gently in the breeze, like a falling galaxy. And deep in the valley, a sky-soul tree stands tall, its trunk as deep as black jade, and a faint soul power flows between its branches and leaves, nourishing the spirituality of the entire spiritual valley.

Xue'er stepped barefoot on the soft spiritual grass, tapping her toes lightly, and faint spiritual ripples appeared under her feet. She reached out and gently stroked a magic orchid, and the petals trembled slightly under her fingertips, emitting a refreshing fragrance.

"It's been more than three hundred years! So much has changed!" Xue'er walked slowly on the path in Linggu, her ice-blue eyes rippling with memories, and she sighed sincerely.

The valley was filled with spiritual energy. The seedlings in her memory had long since grown into towering ancient trees. The Moon Soul Grass that she had planted with her own hands back then now formed a silver-blue halo between the cracks in the rocks.

Li Mu stepped into the villa and glanced at the scene in the courtyard. He had not been back for more than 300 years. Several clumps of spiritual moss had grown in the cracks of the stone steps in the courtyard, and the corners of the walls were covered with dense Qingxin vines. A thin layer of dust fell on the wind chimes under the eaves, and they swayed in the breeze, making a slightly dull sound.

Li Mu was about to raise his hand to cast a spell, but a pair of soft hands stopped him.

"Brother Li, let me take care of these trivial matters." Xue'er smiled softly, and then comforted him with a sense of realization: "Brother Li, you must have gained something from teaching a few disciples this time! If you want to retreat, go ahead, don't worry about me!"

"The great Dao is simple, and all things return to one." Li Mu seemed to be thinking, "Today, I have evolved various Dao principles for my disciples, which has given me some new insights into the Great Dao of Chaos."

Hearing this, Xue'er smiled happily and said, "Then Brother Li, go to the quiet room and retreat. Leave this to me!"

Li Mu nodded and stopped for a moment, watching Xue'er's slender figure moving around in the courtyard, sometimes casting spells to brush across the stone steps, sometimes lightly sweeping across the corridor pillars. Wherever she passed, the dust was gone and the spiritual light reappeared. This scene was so similar to that of three hundred years ago.

A smile appeared unconsciously on Li Mu's lips. He turned around and walked into the quiet room. He tapped lightly on the stone door three times with his fingertips. Suddenly, the whole quiet room was lit up with chaotic light, and the spiritual energy of the earth veins surged in like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

Li Mu sat cross-legged on the spiritual jade cushion, his eyes slightly closed, but his consciousness had already sunk into the depths of his sea of ​​knowledge.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, the chaotic star map became clearer and clearer. The nine originally disintegrated stars turned into star sand, floating in the vortex of the nebula. Li Mu's consciousness turned into a ray of golden light, shuttling between the star sands, and suddenly touched a grain of dark golden star sand. In an instant, thousands of golden ways surged like a tide.

"The way of gold is to kill with determination, but it is not just about sharpness."

Li Mu whispered softly, and the golden light of his spiritual consciousness suddenly split into thousands, and each ray turned into a different gold-based Dao. Some were like Gengjin war swords that split the chaos, some were like Xinjin soft swords that lingered and transformed into power, and there was also the Void Gengjin that appeared and disappeared in the nebula, stirring up the wind and clouds.

Suddenly, a particle of inky black star sand attracted his attention. The surface of the star sand was covered with fine cracks, but inside it surged with a power that made his heart palpitate - it was the [Guixu Zhongjin] that had not yet taken shape.

As soon as Li Mu's spiritual consciousness approached, he felt the chaotic energy around him boiling uncontrollably, and the star map in his sea of ​​consciousness was actually showing signs of disintegration.

"What a domineering backlash!"

Li Mu was not surprised but happy. His chaotic consciousness turned into a giant hand that covered the sky and suddenly grabbed the grain of star sand in his palm.

In an instant, thousands of images exploded in his sea of ​​consciousness: he saw the universe collapse into a singularity, and everything returned to nothingness; he saw gold and iron decay into sand in the long river of time, and even the laws themselves were erased; he also saw the Chaos Dao Realm that he had cultivated for thousands of years, crumbling inch by inch under the power of Guixu...

"So that's it!" Li Mu suddenly laughed out loud, and his chaotic consciousness exploded, turning into millions of golden rays that pierced into the star sand. The star map of the sea of ​​consciousness trembled violently, and nine rings of Tao appeared at the same time, with water and fire complementing each other, stars and wood giving birth to each other, and earth and gold resonating, forcibly maintaining balance under the power of Guixu.

"Chaos gave birth to all things, all things return to chaos, and returning to chaos is also a new life!" An unprecedented divine light burst out from Li Mu's eyes, and the grain of star sand suddenly burst out with a dazzling black light, but the moment it touched the Chaos Dao Realm, it turned into a wisp of pure white air and merged into the star map.

In an instant, the entire chaotic nebula suddenly shrank, and then expanded wildly in the next moment, evolving a true scene of the birth and death of the universe in the sea of ​​consciousness!

Deep in the nebula, a new grain of star sand slowly took shape, with a colorful glass-like luster flowing on its surface.

"With Guixu as the seed and chaos as the soil..."

Li Mu muttered to himself. Deep in his sea of ​​consciousness, the newly generated colorful star sand suddenly exploded and transformed into nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine golden Dao patterns.

These Dao patterns were not the color of gold or iron, but had a silvery-white luster like liquid mercury, with fine Guixu Dao patterns flowing on the surface. Li Mu's mind moved slightly, and one of the Dao patterns turned into Gengjin sword energy to split the chaos, and then turned into Xinjin soft silk to entangle the runaway spiritual energy, and turned into nothingness the moment it touched the stone wall, without even leaving any dust.

“Gold gives birth to all things, but also destroys all things, and eventually returns to the ruins…”

Li Mu's eyes suddenly opened, and deep in his pupils he saw the strange vision of the birth and death of galaxies. He raised his hand and clenched it, and nine extremely golden swords of different forms condensed out of thin air in the quiet room: some were as transparent as crystal but cut through the void, some were as viscous as black water but corroded the laws, and there was one sword made entirely of Guixu runes, which swallowed up even the light wherever it passed.

"I see!"

Li Mu opened his eyes slightly, and the chaotic scene was reflected in his pupils. He raised his right hand, and the nine kinds of extreme golden Dao rules in his palm evolved into a Hunyuan golden seed. This golden seed looked ordinary, but the moment it appeared, the space of the entire quiet room was distorted. The spiritual jade cushion was silently turned into powder, and then condensed again in the next moment.

"Guixu and destiny are two sides of the same coin!"

As Li Mu whispered, the golden seed suddenly cracked, and a pure white light shot up into the sky. In the light, a golden statue made of colored glaze slowly took shape. This statue was completely different from the ordinary golden statue. There was no sharp edge on it, but it exuded a sense of returning to nature.

Outside the quiet room, Xue'er, who was pruning spiritual plants, suddenly looked up. A white light that pierced through the sky and the earth was reflected in her ice-blue eyes, and all the metal objects in the entire spiritual valley were shaking slightly.

"This is." The jade scissors in Xue'er's hand suddenly turned into liquid gold, but solidified again the next moment, and its texture was three times better than before.

In the quiet room, Li Mu's Daojin Dharma has already reached perfection. In his right hand, he holds a plain long sword with no edge, and in his left hand he holds a group of chaotic nebulae, which contains the power of Guixu.

"The ninth extreme gold rule - [Primordial Gold Seed]." Li Mu's voice echoed in the quiet room, "No destruction, no construction, destruction before construction!"

As he finished speaking, the Chaos Dao Domain suddenly disintegrated, turning into countless golden light spots that merged into his body. Li Mu's aura suddenly changed, and the Chaos Dao Domain evolved into the Extreme Gold Dao Domain. Countless cracks appeared, and then healed again under the nourishment of the Chaos Qi, becoming more solid. (End of this chapter)