Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

"efficient!"

Xinghuang coughed up a mouthful of blood, but a wild laugh appeared on the corner of his mouth. In the soul and star power domain, three hundred and sixty stars were arranged in the void to form an ancient star map, burning with blazing white sparks, completely blocking the space around the strange tree.

However, before the laughter stopped, Xinghuang's expression suddenly froze - a strange sword pattern slowly emerged from the broken Dao Fruit!

The sword pattern was simple and cold, as if it came from ancient times, carrying an unparalleled killing intent, and even faintly spiritual. The moment the sword pattern appeared, the entire star field trembled, and the star array he had set up began to twist and deform uncontrollably.

"Xiao Chenzi! Be careful of the backlash!"

Xing Huang screamed, his voice full of fear. He bit his tongue hard and sprayed a mouthful of blood onto the star disk, trying to stabilize the shaky star array.

However, before he finished his words, the sword pattern suddenly lit up, like thunder exploding in the night sky, the light was blinding!
Xiao Chenzi's nine flying swords were originally powerful weapons to suppress this place, but at the same moment, they lost control! As if controlled by some invisible will, they all turned their sharp edges and pointed directly at their master!
"The sword returns!" Xiao Chenzi's white hair flew, and the sword gestures in his hands changed continuously, trying to regain control of the flying sword.

However, those natal flying swords that had accompanied him for a thousand years seemed to be controlled by another "Xiao Chenzi" at this moment. The other party used the same sword intent as him, and they competed for the control of the nine natal flying swords.

The nine flying swords hummed and uttered a large amount of sword energy, completely replicating the gray-white sword light of Xiaochenzi's sword domain, cold, sharp, and ruthless! Under the control of the strange tree, these sword lights were even more perfect than the originals, and every trajectory was in line with the truth of heaven.

"puff--!"

A gray-white sword shadow pierced through Xiao Chenzi's shoulder, revealing wood-grained flesh and blood, as if even his soul had been cut apart.

Xiao Chenzi staggered back a step, and for the first time, a look of horror appeared in his eyes: "It's not only imitating... it's also optimizing my sword domain!"

Seeing this, Xinghuang immediately changed the star formation, and three hundred and sixty stars turned into streams of light to protect Xiao Chenzi.

However, as soon as those stars came into contact with the gray-white sword energy, the same sword patterns quickly appeared on their surfaces, and then they changed direction out of control and blasted towards Xinghuang instead!

"Be careful!" The roar of the falling star came from high in the sky, and it was wrapped in dark red starlight, smashing towards the trunk of the strange tree like a falling meteorite.
The blade was burning with sparks that were enough to incinerate a small world, and space collapsed wherever it passed.

The blow hit the trunk of the strange tree solidly, and dark red sparks spread out instantly.

However, before Xingyun could rejoice, he was horrified to find that the sparks were absorbed by the strange tree, and star patterns exactly the same as his appeared on its trunk!

"retreat!"

Xiao Chenzi endured the severe pain and a broken sword flew out of his hand, setting up a sword curtain in front of Xingyun. Almost at the same time, a dark red starlight exactly like Xingyun suddenly burst out from the trunk of the strange tree, but with even greater power!
Xingyun hastily raised his blade to block, and the shock wave generated by the collision of the two star forces threw him hundreds of feet away. He knelt on one knee, and the giant blade pierced the ground, leaving a long gully. His left eye had been blown apart by the backlash of the star power, and blood dripped down his cheek.

At this moment, Xinghuang's star array completely collapsed, and 360 stars exploded one after another, turning into stardust all over the sky. He knelt on the ground, and the same blood vessel patterns as the strange tree appeared on his chest, as if he had been eroded by it.

"It is using our Tao... to feed itself!" Xing Huang panted hard, his voice low and desperate. He looked down at his palm and found that there were already tiny roots wriggling under his skin.

The most tragic one was Xingyun, who launched a world-destroying attack, intending to destroy the Tao fruit with a fatal force.

But now, that attack not only failed to work, but instead caused a terrible backlash - endless star power poured into the body from the wound. It was not pure star power, but distorted star power contaminated by the strange tree!

Dark red blood vessels spread out from his burst left eye socket, climbing all over his body like parasitic vines. There seemed to be a foreign object wriggling under his skin, as if it would burst out of his body in the next second!

"Uhhhhhh-!"

Xingyun roared and knelt on the ground, the giant blade in his hand deeply inserted into the ground, barely supporting his shaky body. He had already transformed half of his body into a strange body, like a fusion of man and tree, hideous and terrifying.

Xiao Chenzi took a deep breath of Qi, and nine broken swords flew around him, cutting off the attacking roots. He noticed that the cut roots took root quickly after falling to the ground, and in the blink of an eye they grew into small strange trees, with miniature sword patterns appearing on the bark.

"It's learning our fighting style..." Xiao Chenzi's heart sank. He recalled the records of "Dao Devourer" in ancient books - this evil creature was born in ancient times and could devour the Dao of practitioners for its own use. But the evolution speed of this strange tree in front of him was far beyond any record!
The trunk of the strange tree began to heal rapidly, and a metallic wood layer grew at the crack, as hard as iron. Above the newly formed tree crown, three huge faces slowly took shape - they were the appearances of Xiao Chenzi, Xing Yun, and Xing Huang!

The three faces were lifelike, with their own charms revealed in their eyes and eyebrows, but their eyes were empty, their lips slightly parted, and they murmured in unison:

"Be... we..."

The voice was silent, but it directly penetrated the three people's consciousness, like a bewitching devil's voice, making people shudder. As the whisper sounded, the speed of the three people's wood grain transformation increased significantly. Xinghuang's right arm had already emerged with bark texture, and his fingertips began to turn into wood.

Xiao Chenzi leaned on the ground with his sword, his white robe already stained with blood. He glanced at his two companions:

Xingyun's half body has turned into a monster, the starlight of Xinghuang is fading, and he himself, six of the nine swords have been broken, his soul is damaged, and his life is hanging by a thread.

The surroundings were dead silent, with only the whispering of the eerie tree echoing.

At this desperate moment, Xiao Chenzi suddenly laughed.

The smile was indifferent and resolute, as if he saw through life and death, leaving only obsession.

"My two Daoists." Xiao Chenzi raised his eyes, the sword pattern on his forehead ignited with golden sword light, looked at Xing Yun and the other two, and said solemnly: "Now we are in a desperate situation, are you willing to... bet with me on the real 'Slash Dao'?"

Xingyun glared at him with his only remaining right eye. Half of it had turned into something strange, but it still burned with an unyielding fighting spirit. After a moment, he laughed wildly, "It should have been done long ago!"

Xing Huang crushed the last piece of tortoise shell with trembling hands. The starlight in his palm condensed into a dagger, with a cold and sharp light: "The Star Turtle Clan... is never afraid of gambling with life!"

The three of them formed seals at the same time, and the Taoist foundation in their bodies began to burn!
This is not an ordinary sacrifice, but a true mutual destruction - using one's own great path as fuel to ignite the fire of burning the path!
The strange tree seemed to sense the fatal threat, and all its roots retracted frantically, wrapping layer by layer around the core Taoist fruit in an attempt to resist the attack. The three human faces on the treetops showed expressions of fear for the first time and let out ear-piercing screams.

But it's too late.

Three completely different Dao domains reverse the origin of the Dao in the void.

Xiao Chenzi's Ten Thousand Swords Domain was completely condensed, turning into a golden light, like an ancient sword opening the sky, the swords rang loudly, as if thousands of sword qi were wailing;
The giant blade of the falling star was melted into dark red blood crystal, with red lines on its surface like a dragon, and the vibration caused the void to distort;
Xinghuang's dagger burst out with a blazing white fairy light, like the rising sun, and wherever the light went, even the space was burned.

……

"Kill!" The three shouts merged into one, and the three colors of gold, red and white Taoist rhymes intertwined, like a punishment from heaven, pointing directly at the Taoist fruit of the strange tree.

that moment--

The world is silent, and everything is stagnant.

A dark crack passed silently, as if the pen of heaven had wiped out a trace of existence. Countless fine cracks appeared on the surface of the Dao Fruit, and then... it collapsed inch by inch!
"Do not--!"

The strange tree let out a scream that did not belong to a living being, shrill, angry, and unwilling! Its trunk, which was perched on the sky, trembled violently, and the roots that were originally condensed by the way of devouring all living things twitched wildly, trying to repair itself.

However, it was too late.

The sky cracked, and the power of the stars poured back;

The earth collapsed, and the fire of the earth veins gushed out;
The laws are in disorder, time and space are dislocated, and even the long river of time is rippling.

The entire fairyland shook, space cracks spread like a spider web, the laws were disordered, spiritual energy flowed backwards, and even time was briefly disordered at this moment.

The cracks from the disintegrating Dao Fruit on the strange tree spread wildly like a spider web, and a dazzling silver light burst out from the dark cracks - that was the last struggle of the severed "Dao" before it dissipated.

The strange white branches of the main trunk of the strange tree were cracked layer by layer, revealing the beating strange white marrow inside. The marrow was like the heart of a giant beast that had been cut open. Every beat gushed out a sticky purple and strange white mist. Wherever the strange mist passed, tiny buds grew in the space, trying to stitch up the cracks.

But... the three-colored Dao rhyme was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, madly corroding along the marrow and veins. Intensive thunderstorms erupted wherever it passed, vaporizing all the granulation tissue in the blood mist.

The treetops suddenly collapsed violently, and thousands of branches twisted into three thick bone spurs, stabbing at the positions where the three people were just now. The surface of the bone spurs was covered with rotating star patterns, sword marks, and tortoise shell cracks - these were the manifestations of the laws left over when the three people cut the Dao.

However, before the bone spur was fully formed, it was swept by the aftermath of the Dao rhyme, flickering several times like a candle in the wind, and finally turned into powder and flew away.

The roots made a teeth-grinding creaking sound, and reliefs of three people's faces appeared on the surface of the roots that penetrated deep into the void, and were now weathering and peeling off at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Every time a piece of relief was peeled off, the corresponding root would break off. What gushed out from the broken parts was not juice, but countless vicious curses. However, as soon as they appeared, they were crushed by the rhythm of the sword, and turned into mournful ghost cries that echoed between heaven and earth.

When the last crack penetrated the heart of the tree, the trunk of the strange tree suddenly stopped, and even the tremors stopped abruptly.

The next moment, with Daoguo as the center, the space within a radius of ten thousand miles was like colored glass crushed by an invisible giant hand, crumbling into a pitch-black void. The newly born miniature strange trees twisted wildly in the void, emitting waves of terrifying wailing sounds...
The huge strange tree began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its thick roots withered one after another.

……

Win?

Did they solve this terrifying and strange tree?

But the price of this victory is so heavy that it is suffocating.
Xing Huang's figure gradually faded, like smoke dispersing, and in every ray of light that escaped, there was a reflection of his lifelong practice;

The right arm of Xingyun and the battle blade were destroyed together, like a mountain collapsing, shattering the mountains and rivers for hundreds of miles when they fell to the ground;
Xiao Chenzi knelt on one knee, his nine life swords shattered, the broken blades floating like a sword tomb, the sword pattern between his eyebrows dimmed, and finally... like a candle about to go out,

The three of them had weak Qi and blood, their foundations of Tao were damaged, and they all fell into a state where their cultivation had fallen and their Tao was broken.

But they did it.

They used their own Tao as fuel to ignite the fire that burned the Tao, truly completing the "cutting of the Tao".

only……

What was cut off was not only the strange path of the strange tree, but also their own great path.

However, they ultimately underestimated it - this evil creature, born from chaos and living by devouring all living things, had long since transcended the boundaries of life and death and wandered beyond cause and effect!

Just when the three were on the verge of death, a faint "ticking" sound came from underground, like some ancient heartbeat.

The drop of grayish-white sap that seeped deep into the earth veins suddenly boiled after absorbing the remaining Taoism of the three people!
"boom!"

The earth suddenly cracked open, and countless roots rose up like a swarm of snakes, tearing through the ruins and piercing through the void.

The originally broken trunk of the strange tree actually grew again at a speed visible to the naked eye. The twisted branches made a harsh friction sound in the wind, like a sharp blade scraping bones, which made people's scalp numb!
The strange white bark is as terrifying as a living thing, with blood-red veins similar to meridians appearing on the surface. With every wriggling, it seems as if life is rushing through it. The new branches are hung with human-faced fruits, and each face is roaring silently, as if trapped in eternal pain.

What was even more frightening was that above its crown, the three faces that once imitated the appearance of Xiaochenzi, Xingyun, and Xinghuang actually began to slowly open their eyes!

Those eyeballs were not ordinary pupils, but were pieced together from broken pieces of the Dao foundation, reflecting the scene when the three people finally performed "Cut the Dao and Return to One".

They did not simply copy, but devoured, reshaped, and alienated the three powerful men's unique skills, will, and even the residual souls... All of them!
"Be... we..."

"Your way... originally belonged to us..."

"Come back... eternal symbiosis..."

The three giant faces whispered in unison. The sound was no longer a simple telepathic voice, but was mixed with the echoes of the three people's previous voices, as if their consciousness was still trapped in the strange tree, being constantly extracted, squeezed, and recreated!
The entire strange tree rose from the ground, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in a blink of an eye it broke through the clouds and reached the sky.

Above the treetops, illusory cities appeared one after another. It was a fantasy world built from the memories of countless monks that were devoured by it. The vines hanging between the branches were all condensed from the obsessions of the dead in the past. When they swayed gently, they could fascinate people and lead them into an endless nightmare.

The most terrifying thing is that it is no longer just a single life form, but a living "graveyard of Tao", which contains the fragments of the Tao left by countless practitioners. Every inch of wood contains a forbidden power that does not belong to this era, and every branch carries traces of distorted laws.

Looking at this horrifying scene, the three people whose lives were hanging by a thread looked at each other and saw each other's powerlessness and despair.

What kind of monster did they encounter? (End of this chapter)