Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

Li Mu looked at Su Hongxiu's four fire clones carefully with a sharp gaze. He did not rush to comment, but flicked his finger, and an invisible sword intent suddenly shot out, going straight to the center of the eyebrows of the red flame clone.

The Red Flame clone's eyes flashed, and the flames exploded. At the critical moment, it turned into a fire shield, barely blocking the sword intent. However, the fire shield collapsed in an instant, and the clone's body shook violently, almost disintegrating.

"Not bad." Li Mu nodded slightly, "Your Nine Lotus Spirit Division Technique and Nebula Visualization Technique are well combined. The four fire clones all have the embryonic form of Taoism, especially the red flame clone, which has begun to show the potential to burn the sky."

He paused, then changed his tone: "But the way of fire is not just about burning!"

Before he finished speaking, a chill spread out from his palm, and the void condensed into frost, surrounding the four fire clones. The flames were weakened by the cold air, and the violent flame clones retreated repeatedly and almost lost their balance.

Su Hongxiu's face changed slightly, and she quickly activated the Green Fire clone, using the principle of wood and fire to activate the Earth Fire clone to stabilize the foundation; at the same time, the Red Flame clone and the Violent Flame clone joined forces to forcibly tear open the ice blockade. The four fires merged into one, finally breaking free from the shackles and re-condensing into a complete fire array.

Li Mu retracted his hand and said calmly: "Although your four fires are strong, they lack a 'master' to control them. If you can refine a fifth original fire body - such as the 'Purifying Spirit Fire', you can control the essence of fire and make the other four fires become one, then you can truly enter the realm of refining emptiness."

Su Hongxiu was shocked and bowed quickly: "Disciple will remember the Master's teachings!"

Li Mu nodded and turned his gaze to the next disciple - Zhao Tianchen.

Zhao Tianchen took a deep breath, golden light flashing in his eyes, and stepped forward, clasping his fists and saying, "Master, I have practiced the Golden Palace Essence Art and have condensed five gold clones. Please give me some advice, Master!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Tianchen stepped out, clenched his five fingers, and the golden energy in his body rushed up to the sky. Five golden clones flew out of his body one after another.

Five figures emerged from the body, each of them contained a different golden Dao rhyme, sharp and powerful, yet each had its own mystery.

The first clone - Taibai clone

Its entire body was silvery white like frost, with a sword pattern on its forehead, and a dense sword energy surrounded its body, flowing like a galaxy. It raised its hand and waved it, and the sword energy turned into thousands of silver threads, interweaving into a net, and actually carved out a complex array pattern in the void, secretly matching the changes of the heavens.

The second clone - the black gold clone

Its entire body was dark gold in color, heavy and sturdy, its arms were like blades, and its every move was extremely sharp. When it took a step forward, a thin crack appeared on the ground silently, as if even the space was cut by its sharp blade.

The third clone - the golden clone

Its body is like flowing mercury, and it can change its form at will, sometimes turning into golden needles all over the sky, and sometimes condensing into nine flying swords, which are agile and unpredictable. It taps its fingertips lightly, and a wisp of golden liquid flows around, which can actually evolve the law of Taoism by itself and form a restriction.

The fourth clone - Star Gold Clone

Its body was covered with star patterns, and its every move carried a vast amount of star power. It opened its mouth and spit out a golden ball of light, which exploded in the air and turned into thousands of star rays, each of which contained a sharp golden energy that could penetrate mountains.

The fifth clone - Gengjin clone

Its entire body was like colored glaze, its skin was filled with pure golden Dao rhyme, and its eyes were as sharp as a sword. It put its fingers together and slashed, a pure Gengjin sword energy slashed out, and a tiny crack was cut in the void, which took a long time to heal.

The five gold clones each have their own characteristics, but they also echo each other: Taibai is responsible for change, Xuanjin is responsible for sharpness, Liujin is responsible for agility, Xingjin is responsible for vastness, and Gengjin is responsible for purity. The five merge into one, and they form a "golden sword formation" with sword energy running wild and unparalleled sharpness.

Li Mu's eyes flashed like lightning, and he suddenly raised his hand and pointed, and an invisible sword intent broke through the air and pointed directly at the five clones. This sword seemed simple, but it contained the changes of the five elements, and pointed directly at the flaws of the gold system's practice.

"Zheng——"

The five clones attacked at the same time: Taibai clone's sword energy turned into a net, Xuanjin clone's blade blocked, Liujin clone turned into a golden shield, Xingjin clone scattered starlight to dissipate, and Gengjin clone slashed out a pure sword energy to counterattack. The five layers of defense overlapped, and they barely blocked Li Mu's sword.

"That's right." Li Mu nodded slightly. "The most difficult thing about gold clones is to differentiate different characteristics without losing purity. You can make the five clones each have the Tao rhyme, and secretly change the gold. You have obtained the true meaning of gold."

Xue'er suddenly chuckled: "Brother Li, your test is a little too easy."

Li Mu raised his eyebrows: "What do you think?"

Xue'er raised her slender hand lightly, and nine fox tails appeared. Pink light flowed in her eyes, and a captivating charm spread.

——It is the technique of confusing people that the Sky Fox clan is best at!
When practicing the gold law, one should avoid being distracted. At this moment, being attacked by the mind is the biggest weakness. Zhao Tianchen's main body shook, and the five gold clones also showed a momentary delay.

"Gold represents the virtue of strength, uprightness and justice!" Li Mu shouted in a deep voice.

Zhao Tianchen bit his tongue suddenly, and the five clones suddenly merged into one, transforming into a golden colored statue. This statue held a sword in its left hand, and a seal in its right hand. Five golden wheels rotated behind its head, successfully isolating Xue'er's charming power.

"You were able to combine the five gold clones into one and evolve a form that can restrain the inner demons. It seems that you have mastered the Nebula Visualization Method to condense the soul into stars. Not bad!"

Xue'er retracted her magical power, smiled sweetly, nodded and praised: "Your golden light Dharma image has obtained the true meaning of gold's 'immortality'. It will be of great use to overcome the inner demon tribulation in the future."

Zhao Tianchen dispersed his Dharma image, and the five clones separated again, bowing respectfully: "Thank you for your guidance, Master."

Li Mu stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes deep: "In gold cultivation, the most taboo is to pursue sharpness blindly. The way of combining hardness and softness that you showed today is the right way. However... the time for the fusion of the clones is still too short. Next, you have to focus on practicing the realm of soul transformation into cloud in the Nebula Visualization Method. Then you can try to condense one or two more gold clones."

"Disciple will remember Master's teachings!" Zhao Tianchen thanked him respectfully, with a brighter golden light in his eyes. After this test, his understanding of the Great Dao of Gold has deepened.

Li Mu's gaze passed over Zhao Tianchen and fell on Zhong Ziyu who had been standing quietly and watching.

"Master, I have currently condensed four ice clones."

Zhao Tianchen put away his five gold clones. Zhong Ziyu hurriedly stepped forward, eager to demonstrate and seize the opportunity to ask for advice.

……

Just as Li Mu was instructing his disciples, a red crack suddenly appeared in the sky of the southernmost part of the Immortal Spirit Realm, spanning a thousand miles. The sacred Wutong tree where the Tianfeng Imperial Palace was located trembled violently, and the seven-layer protective formation lit up with dazzling rays of light at the same time.

"Wow—"

A shrill phoenix cry shattered the sea of ​​clouds in the sky. The glazed golden roof of the main hall of the Tianfeng Imperial Palace exploded, and the eighteen phoenix pillars that supported the sky collapsed one after another. The sky was filled with golden feathers mixed with blood rain. Seven phoenix elders wearing red gold armor flew out backwards, with strange gray-white chains wrapped around their bodies.

The gray-white chains were not physical entities, but were composed of countless twisted strange forces. They squirmed like living things, constantly devouring the immortal power of the elders and corroding their skin into gray-white humus.

"Emperor, be careful! This is the erosion of the Weird Dao!" The Great Elder coughed up blood and roared, condensing a burning flame in his palm, trying to burn the chains. But as soon as the flame touched the Weird Chains, it strangely backfired on itself. His arms withered instantly, his flesh and blood shrank like dead wood, but his bones strangely expanded, pierced his skin, and turned into white bone spurs. The Phoenix Emperor's phoenix eyes were filled with evil, and nine tail feathers burning in different colors spread out from his back, each representing a kind of extreme fire law - the white flame of purifying the world, the fire of burning the sky, the fire of red lotus karma, the fire of nirvana... The nine fires came out together, turning into nine fire phoenixes of different colors, and the blazing fire waves swept across the entire imperial palace, temporarily forcing back the spreading Weird Fog.

"Playing tricks!" She shouted coldly, and a wisp of pure white flame gathered on her fingertips, and pointed it at the chains on the Great Elder. Wherever the white flame passed, the strange mist was like snow meeting boiling oil, making a piercing scream, and the chains broke inch by inch.

But at the moment she rescued the Great Elder, the ground suddenly shook violently, countless pus-like swellings rose from the ground, and then suddenly exploded!

"Pfft-"

The sticky gray-white slurry splashed out, and a twisted "immortal soldier" crawled out from each pool of slurry. They were still wearing the armor of the Tianfeng Imperial Palace, but under the helmets were no longer faces, but swirling gray mists, from time to time dense eyeballs emerged from the mist, and from time to time "palms" made of nails and teeth were stretched out. When they walked, they made a wet and sticky squirming sound, and wherever they passed, the floor tiles corroded into pus, and even the air became fishy and smelly.

"The guards of the Imperial Palace...are all contaminated?" The pupils of the Immortal Emperor Tianfeng suddenly shrank.

"Hehehe... Tianfeng, how are you?"

A cold voice came from all directions, with a strange tone, sometimes low like the echo of the abyss, sometimes sharp like the howling of thousands of ghosts. Tianfeng Immortal Emperor suddenly looked up, and saw a figure walking slowly down the distorted space ripples in the gap of the broken dome.

Jade Lin Immortal Emperor.

No... maybe he can no longer be called the "Immortal Emperor".

His imperial robe was still elegant, but countless transparent tentacles extended from the hem, and at the end of each tentacle was a transformed immortal official. The faces of those immortal officials kept distorting, sometimes returning to their original appearance, and sometimes turning into Yu Lin's facial features, as if their souls had been completely devoured and they had become his puppets.

The most horrifying thing was that the eyes of the Jade Lin Immortal Emperor - originally as blue as the sea, had now completely turned gray, and there seemed to be countless tiny insects wriggling in the depths of his pupils. Just looking at it made people's souls ache.

"Yulin!" Tianfeng Immortal Emperor shouted coldly, "How dare you practice the evil way and pollute the Immortal Realm!"

"The Way of Tricksters?" The Jade Lin Immortal Emperor laughed softly, his voice sometimes male and sometimes female, as if thousands of people were speaking at the same time, "Tian Feng, you are too pedantic. What is the Way of Tricksters? What is the Right Way?"

Before he finished speaking, Yulin Immortal Emperor suddenly raised his hand, and the ground of the entire imperial palace instantly turned into a gray-white swamp. Countless pale arms stretched out from it and grabbed the feet of Tianfeng Immortal Emperor. Those arms were covered with rotten cracks and white strange mist was constantly surging.

"A trifle!" The Phoenix Emperor snorted coldly, and a bone-eating ghost fire ignited under his feet. The ghostly green flames instantly burned those arms to ashes. But the next second, hundreds of transparent tentacles suddenly rushed out of the swamp at an extremely fast speed, and instantly entangled her nine tail feathers!

"hiss--"

The flames on the tail feathers were actually devoured by the tentacles. The Fairy Emperor Tianfeng groaned, feeling an unprecedented cold force invading her body. Her immortal power suddenly became stagnant.

"Your fire cannot burn away my 'Formless Strange Mist'." Yu Lin Immortal Emperor said with a grim smile, "Because its essence... is 'nothingness'."

Tianfeng Immortal Emperor gritted his teeth and suddenly urged the nine fires to merge into one. A pillar of fire as bright as the sun shot up into the sky, burning all the tentacles that were wrapped around her. But at the moment she broke free, the figure of Yulin Immortal Emperor was as close as a ghost, and pressed his palm towards her heart!
"boom--"

Tian Feng Xian Di tried to block hastily, but a ferocious mouth suddenly opened in Yu Lin's palm, and the sharp white teeth bit her wrist fiercely!

"what!"

As the pain hit her, she could clearly feel her blood being devoured crazily. What was even more terrifying was that a strange force of pollution spread along the wound, and grayish-white lines began to appear on her skin, like rotten bark.

"Get out of here!" She yelled angrily, and the Nirvana Golden Flame burst out, forcibly repelling Yu Lin. But the wound on her wrist could not heal, and the gray and white lines were still spreading.

"It's useless, Tianfeng." Yulin Immortal Emperor licked the blood from the corner of his mouth and said with a sly smile, "Your fire can't save you."

The Phoenix Immortal Emperor was panting, with nine fires surrounding her body, but her breath had already begun to become disordered. She stared at Yu Lin intently, and suddenly realized something, her pupils suddenly shrank: "You... are not Yu Lin!"

Yulin Immortal Emperor's smile became more distorted: "Oh? Then who am I?"

The Immortal Emperor Tianfeng did not answer, but suddenly raised his head and looked towards the depths of the Imperial Palace - the Soul Storage Pavilion where the life lanterns of the Phoenix Clan from all generations were stored.

There, three thousand jade lamps exploded at the same time, and the splashing lamp oil condensed into weeping human figures in the air. They held hands and surrounded the central throne, wailing silently.

And sitting on the throne is another "Jade Scale Immortal Emperor".

No... maybe that's the real body.

"You...what on earth are you!" asked the Tianfeng Immortal Emperor in a cold voice.

Yulin Immortal Emperor chuckled, his voice gradually becoming inhuman, like the mutterings of millions of dead souls:

"We are...thirsty."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire Tianfeng Imperial Palace collapsed, and endless strange fog swallowed everything like a tsunami.

The Nine Fires of the Phoenix Emperor burned wildly in the strange fog, but the flames were getting weaker and weaker. Her left shoulder had completely turned into bones, and the crystal-clear surface of the emperor's bones was covered with creeping strange patterns. Those strange patterns continued to erode her soul, causing hallucinations to appear before her eyes.

The Immortal Emperor Tianfeng saw herself nailed to a withered paulownia tree, with thousands of transparent tentacles piercing her limbs and bones, greedily sucking her immortal blood.

At the same time, Tianfeng Immortal Emperor saw that Yulin Immortal Emperor was also imprisoned in the tree. Blood and tears flowed from his gray eyes, and his lips moved, as if saying:
"help me……"

But the next second, the illusion was shattered and the reality became even more cruel.

Her fire... went out.

The Fairy Emperor Tianfeng fell heavily to her knees and coughed out a mouthful of blood burning with gray-white flames. Her phoenix crown completely melted, and golden liquid dripped onto her face, burning black holes.

Yulin Immortal Emperor walked over slowly, put his hand on her cheek, and said softly:
"Go to sleep, Tianfeng...when you wake up, we...will be the same kind."

The eyes of the Immortal Emperor Tianfeng were filled with despair, and his vision gradually became darker.

At the last moment, what Tianfeng Xiandi heard was the sound of his heart - the origin of Dao Fire - being slowly eaten by something. (End of this chapter)