Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

Just as Li Mu was removing the poison from several extremely powerful men, in the fairyland of the immortal spirit, Tianfeng Fairyland.

Xiao Chenzi stood in the clouds, his white robe rustling, and the sword pattern between his brows glowing slightly. He looked down at the prosperous Tianfeng Fairyland below, his brows furrowed.

"Something's wrong," he whispered to himself, gathering a wisp of sword energy at his fingertips, drawing a thin line in the air.

According to common sense, as the core territory of a powerful force, Tianfeng Immortal Territory should be filled with flying birds and auspicious clouds. However, the scene before him was a strange silence.

The outline of the immortal city was still there, but no monks were seen coming and going; the spiritual fields were still neatly divided, but no one was working in them. The most disturbing thing was that gray and white particles that were almost invisible to the naked eye were floating in the air, rising and falling gently with the rhythm of breathing like some kind of living thing.

"What are these?" Xiao Chenzi raised his sword and his spiritual sense captured a gray-white particle. The moment the particle landed on his fingertips, it grew roots as thin as hair and tried to pierce into his skin.

"Hmph!" Sword energy burst out, and the particles were instantly turned into dust. But Xiao Chenzi's face became more solemn - these particles could actually corrode the immortal body. If it weren't for his high level of cultivation, he would have been hit.

Xiao Chenzi carefully lowered his altitude and landed on the outskirts of a fairy city.

The city gates were wide open, but no one was guarding them. The doors of the shops on the streets were wide open, and the goods were neatly arranged, as if the shop owners had only left temporarily. But the storage bags and magic weapons scattered on the ground showed that the people here left in a hurry.

"Even the city defense formation has stopped working." Xiao Chenzi swept his eyes across the formation bases at the four corners of the city wall and found that the spiritual light that was supposed to be flowing had been extinguished, and the formation pattern was covered with a layer of gray-white mycelium.

Just as he was about to investigate further, two sharp sounds of breaking through the air suddenly came from the sky. Xiao Chenzi's figure flashed and disappeared into the shadows. Only two streaks of starlight cut through the sky one after the other and fell on the hill three miles outside the city.

"Xingyun, Xinghuang?" Xiao Chenzi recognized the auras of two powerful men of the same level and asked in surprise, "Why would someone from the Star Turtle Clan come here?"

Xiao Chenzi thought for a moment and decided to go for the meeting. If there really was a big change in the Tianfeng Immortal Realm, it would be safer to have two more powerful men accompanying them.

On the hill, Xingyun was kneeling on one knee, with the giant meteorite blade inserted three inches into the ground, and the dark red star power flowed along the blade into the earth veins.

"The earth veins have been polluted." Meteorite said coldly, and the scene of the stars collapsing in his left eye became more and more intense. "Some foreign matter has been mixed into the spirit veins and is spreading around."

Xing Huang held a jade ruler and drew a complex star map in the air: "The secrets of the sky have been obscured so much that even the positioning of the stars has been disturbed. The ancestor is right, there is indeed a problem here."

"My two Daoists." Xiao Chenzi appeared and bowed, "I am Xiao Chenzi from the Taixuan Sword Sect. I wonder why you two Daoists are here?"

Xingyun turned around suddenly, and the giant blade brought up a gust of wind: "Who?"

After seeing who was coming, Xing Huang held his companion's arm and nodded slightly: "It turned out to be Elder Xiaochen. The two of us followed the order of the ancestor to come and investigate the abnormal celestial phenomena in Tianfeng Immortal Realm."

"The celestial phenomena are unusual?" Xiao Chenzi raised his eyebrows. "I am here on the orders of the Sword Master to investigate the death of the Celestial Phoenix Emperor. It seems that we have the same goal."

The three exchanged their information, and their expressions became more solemn. Xinghuang Jade Ruler waved lightly, and a star map appeared in the air: "Three days ago, the star track in the direction of the Tianfeng Imperial Palace suddenly twisted, and all star divinations pointing there will be backfired. The ancestor suspects that a strange thing has appeared in the world."

Xiao Chenzi thought of the gray and white lines on Jian Zun's arm: "During the disaster of the Demon Abyss fifty years ago, weren't these things sealed away?"

Xingyun sneered: "The seal will be broken, and evil will be born. If it really is the same source as the Demonic Abyss, it would save me the effort of identifying it - I will just kill it."

As the three were discussing, a strange noise suddenly came from the distant Immortal City. They turned their heads at the same time and saw that the Power Transmission Tower in the center of the city was slowly tilting, and the tower was covered with gray-white vines. Those vines were wriggling as if they had life, crushing and devouring the entire stone tower bit by bit.

"Let's go and take a look!" Xingyun rushed out first, and the giant blade left a dark red trail behind him.

The three of them came to the ruins of the power transmission tower, and the scene before them made them shudder - dozens of monks' corpses were wrapped in vines, their skin had turned into wood grain, and their facial expressions were frozen in extreme fear. What was even more terrifying was that the eyeballs of these "corpses" were still moving, and their mouths were opening and closing, but they could not make any sound.

"They are still alive," Xinghuang Jade Ruler trembled slightly, and said in shock, "but their souls have been imprisoned in their bodies by some force and are being slowly digested."

Xiao Chenzi swung his sword and cut off a vine. What gushed out from the broken surface was not juice, but sticky blood with nerve bundles. The broken vine limbs actually wriggled on their own after falling to the ground, and quickly grew roots that penetrated into the ground.

"Be careful! Don't touch it directly!" With a wave of the Xinghuang Jade Ruler, sparks fell and burned the broken vine to ashes.

At this moment, the ground of the entire fairy city suddenly shook. The three of them stood back to back alertly, and saw countless gray tree roots rising from all directions, forming an encirclement.

"We've been discovered." He held the giant meteorite blade horizontally, with fighting spirit burning in his eyes.

Xiao Chenzi's white robe fluttered without wind, and nine sword shadows appeared around him: "It's not that I just discovered it now, but I fell into the trap from the beginning."

Xing Huang calculated quickly and his face changed suddenly: "Not good! The entire periphery of the fairyland has been surrounded by tree roots. When we came in, we triggered some kind of warning mechanism!"

As if to confirm his words, a continuous "crackling" sound came from afar - that was the sound of space being forcibly distorted by tree roots. The clouds in the sky were torn apart by an invisible force, revealing a dense network of gray and white trees behind them, wrapping the entire Tianfeng Immortal Realm.

"Trying to catch a turtle in a jar?" Xing Yun sneered, and slashed the giant blade towards the ground: "The star sinks and the earth shakes!"

The violent star power poured into the ground, and the ground within a radius of a hundred feet collapsed. However, what was exposed was not soil, but giant tree roots interwoven into a network. The surface of those tree roots was covered with throbbing blood vessels, greedily absorbing the energy of the meteorite attack.

"It is absorbing our power!" Xiao Chenzi warned loudly, and at the same time, nine swords came out together, forming a sword formation to protect the three people.

The Xinghuang Jade Ruler was raised high, mobilizing the Zhoutian Star Power: "We must break out! Once we are completely surrounded, we will also become those 'zombies'!"

The three of them exerted their strength at the same time and rushed towards the edge of the fairyland. However, with every step they took, the tree roots in front of them became thicker. What was even more terrifying was that the tree roots began to imitate their attack methods - Xingyun's giant blade chopped and was rebounded by the tree roots at the same angle; Xiaochenzi's sword energy was copied into a gray-white sword shadow to counterattack; Xinghuang's star technique was distorted into a strange gray-white beam of light.

"It's learning from us." Xing Huang's forehead was covered with sweat. "This monster's power is so terrifying!"

Suddenly, all the tree roots stopped at the same time. Then the ground shook violently, and a gray-white giant tree a hundred meters tall broke out of the ground in the middle of the three people! A huge mouth opened on the trunk, with seven rows of sharp teeth inside, emitting a deafening scream.

Amid the whistling sounds, countless gray-white moths swarmed out from the treetops, with the faces of three people clearly printed on their wings!
"Hold your breath! Don't inhale the powder!" Xiao Chenzi's sword array spun, slashing down a large number of moths. But there were still a few that slipped through the net and approached. The "Xiao Chenzi" faces on their wings suddenly showed a strange smile, and then exploded into a ball of gray mist.

Xiao Chenzi accidentally inhaled a trace of it and immediately felt a sharp pain in his left arm - the skin there was being eroded!

"Brother, be careful!" The Xinghuang Jade Ruler pointed out starlight, temporarily suppressing the changes for him. Xingyun then leaped up with a roar, and the giant blade slashed towards the huge mouth of the tree trunk with the force of collapsing a mountain.

"No!" Xiao Chenzi cried out, but it was too late. The giant blade did cut into the tree trunk, but the blade was instantly covered by sticky sap. What was even more terrifying was that a gray-white replica of Xingyun quickly grew at the wound on the tree trunk, and even the giant blade was exactly the same!

The replica grinned and attacked the original Starfall with exactly the same moves. The two fought in a group, their moves, strength, and even fighting habits were exactly the same, and it was difficult to tell who was better in a short period of time.

"It's copying our abilities!" Xing Huang finally understood: "This monster can gain the opponent's power through contact!"

Xiao Chenzi suppressed the change in his left arm and waved his sword finger: "Then use the move that it won't have time to copy! Nine Heavens Sword Formation: Heavenly Net!"

The nine flying swords simultaneously emitted dazzling light, transforming into countless sword threads that intertwined into a net, temporarily trapping the giant tree. Taking this opportunity, Xing Huang bit his fingertips and drew a complex blood symbol on the jade ruler: "Star Summoning Array: Reverse Yin and Yang!"

The jade ruler burst out with dazzling starlight, forcibly tearing a gap in the net surrounding the tree roots.

"Let's go!" Xiao Chenzi grabbed Xingyun who was still fighting with his clone, and the three of them rushed towards the gap.

Just as they were about to break out, countless vines suddenly dropped from the gap, and at the top of each vine was a human face—these were the monks they had seen along the way! These human faces spoke at the same time, letting out piercing, shrill laughs:

"Once you are here, don't leave. Become a part of us."

The vine in the front suddenly opened up, revealing the sharp tooth-like structure inside, and covered the three people's heads!

“New nutrients…”

A low, hoarse voice echoed throughout the heaven and earth. In an instant, countless gray-white roots broke through the air and attacked, like thousands of tentacles, trying to drag the three people into the abyss!
Xiao Chenzi's right leg was entangled by gray-white vines, his flesh and blood were corroded, and strange white lines spread rapidly. The sword light in his eyes surged, and he shouted in a low voice: "Sword Domain. Open!"

In an instant, with him as the center, the thousand-foot radius suddenly turned into a world of swords—countless sword qi condensed from the void, and each wisp contained the sharpness of severing the laws. The moment the sword domain unfolded, the vines wrapped around him broke into pieces, emitting a shrill scream. Those gray roots tried to regenerate, but were crushed into powder by the sword qi and could never heal again.

Xiao Chenzi stood in the center of the sword domain, his white robe stained with blood, but the sword pattern between his eyebrows was as bright as the scorching sun. He made a gesture with one hand, and nine flying swords surrounded his body. Each sword turned into a giant shadow thousands of feet long. Wherever the sword pointed, the gray-white tree roots collapsed.

"Sword Domain: Ten Thousand Tribulations Slash!"

The nine swords merged into one, transforming into a sword light that spanned the sky and the earth, slashing straight towards the body of the hundred-meter-tall strange tree!

At the same time, Xingyue roared, and the giant blade suddenly inserted into the ground, and the dark red star power gushed out like a volcanic eruption.

"Meteoric Star, Burning Sky!"

His left eye completely turned into a collapsed star, and countless star shadows appeared around him, each star burning with destructive sparks. The ground cracked, and the hot star power flowed like lava. Wherever it passed, the gray and white tree roots were charred and carbonized, and even the spores were burned to ashes.

Xingyun took a step forward, and the giant blade swept across. Wherever the blade passed, the space was torn into dark cracks. Those gray-white copies that tried to copy his moves were slow to move under the suppression of the star field, and were killed one by one by him.

"Meteoric Fall - Shattering World!"

The giant blade chopped down, splitting the trunk of the strange tree into an abyss-like crack, and sticky sap gushed out, making a howl similar to that of a living creature.

Seeing the two of them bursting out with all their strength, Xing Huang no longer held back. He formed seals with his hands, and the fragments of the jade ruler floated in front of him, transforming into 360 bright stars, arranging them into an ancient star map.

"Summon the Stars, Zhou Tian Suppresses Demons!"

The starlight fell and turned into a cage, covering the entire battlefield. Xing Huang's star field was different from that of ordinary cultivators. It was not a simple killing technique, but a ban - his star power could temporarily freeze the evolution and replication ability of the strange tree, making it unable to continue to imitate the three people's moves.

“You two, make this a quick fight!” Xing Huang gritted his teeth and shouted, “My star formation can only last for ten breaths!”

The three great Dao domains opened simultaneously, and the strange tree finally suffered heavy damage. Its roots broke under the sword light, and its trunk burned in the sparks. The copied gray-white monk's movements froze under the suppression of the star domain.

However, just when the three thought they had won -

"Hehehe...you...can't kill me..."

On the trunk of the strange tree, the twisted human face suddenly split open, revealing an even more terrifying huge mouth. Deep in the huge mouth, a gray-white... Dao fruit emerged.

"Dao Fruit?" Xiao Chenzi's pupils suddenly shrank.

Xing Huang's expression changed drastically: "Not good! It devoured the Dao Fruit of the Heavenly Phoenix Immortal Emperor! It is advancing!"

The next moment, the earth veins of the entire Tianfeng Fairyland trembled violently, and countless gray-white roots rose from the ground into the sky, strangling the three people like billions of tentacles.

What was even more terrifying was that sword patterns and star marks began to appear on those roots! They had begun to imitate the Dao domains of the three people!

"It wants to devour our Dao Domain!" Xing Huang's voice was almost torn, and blood like starlight oozed out of his seven orifices. The Zhoutian Star Array trembled violently, and the starlight chains broke one by one - the roots of the strange tree were analyzing his star domain laws!

Xiao Chenzi's sword domain shrank, and the nine flying swords kept buzzing. Gray and white lines began to crawl on the swords. He suddenly bit his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of blood on the sword formation: "Taixuan Sword Heart·Suppress!"

The blood-stained sword tip, the sword light surged, temporarily suppressing the erosion. But Xiao Chenzi knew that this was only a stopgap measure - the strange tree had already touched the threshold of "Sword Dao", if it dragged on, it could even replicate the complete sword domain!

"Starfall!" Xiao Chenzi shouted: "Cut off its Dao Fruit!"

Xingyun's left eye had completely turned into a black hole-like vortex, and his natal star was collapsing. He jumped up with a wild laugh, and his giant blade was wrapped with the power of shattering stars: "I don't even want the star field anymore, let's see how you learn! - Xingyun·Destroy the World!"

The moment the sword fell, his left eye exploded! A dark star mark pierced through the sky and earth, annihilating every inch of space it passed.

"boom--!"

The trunk of the strange tree was pierced by a dark star mark, and the gray-white Taoist fruit was shaking violently, with spider-web-like cracks on its surface. Countless faces on the treetops wailed at the same time, and the veins of the entire fairyland spasmed like a living thing. (End of this chapter)