Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

Hiss—!
A scream sharp enough to tear the soul apart exploded directly in the space itself! The space around the weak "pulsation" was like glass hit by a heavy hammer, and was instantly covered with millions of fine cracks like spider webs!

Swish!
A translucent "claw" made entirely of pure space fragments distorted, poked out from the crack without any warning! The claw had a strange shape, as if it was forcibly pieced together from countless broken mirror edges, emitting a power that devoured order and brought endless nothingness.

It was invisible and intangible, but more ferocious than any divine weapon! Ignoring the barriers of space, as soon as it appeared, it rushed towards Li Mu with the annihilation force that could destroy all stable structures!

Wherever the claws passed, the space no longer shattered, but directly "dissolved" into a sticky, chaotic, empty paste that had lost the support of all laws!

Ninth-level star beast-Lord of Nothingness!

Innate supernatural power - identifying all spirits, Li Mu saw through its origin at a glance.

No wonder this "Void Source Core" can maintain order in the core of chaos for billions of years. Its guardian is actually such a terrifying existence that was born in the cracks of space and feeds on order and substantial things!
Its form is strange and unpredictable, its attack method is completely contrary to common sense, and its aura is more dangerous and violent than before! Its destructive instinct for "order" and the "self-source" Taoist core that Li Mu seeks form the most direct and cruel - life and death!
Li Mu's eyes suddenly became as sharp as a blade that could split the sky. Instead of retreating, he faced the terrifying claws that cut through space and destroyed order. His five fingers were like hooks, and he clenched his hands back! In his palm, a point of "self-source" light that was pure to the extreme, as if it could determine the fate of the world and suppress all things, suddenly lit up!
hum!
Wherever the light reached, the surrounding "melting" viscous space actually made a harsh creaking sound, as if it was forcibly solidified by an invisible giant hand!
The sharp claws made of chaotic space fragments, with the intention of annihilating everything, slammed into the range covered by the self-source light!
laugh--!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a tooth-grinding sound, as if a red-hot iron was immersed in ice water! The moment the claw tip touched the light spot, the spatial fragments that made up the claw trembled, disintegrated, and reorganized wildly, trying to drag the solidified order into the abyss of nothingness.

The "self-source" light spot in Li Mu's palm is like the base point that stabilized the universe when chaos first began. Although the light is faint, it is indestructible. No matter how the chaotic waves hit it, it remains motionless, and even erodes in the opposite direction, forcibly combing and stabilizing the chaotic and disordered "paste" at the contact of the claws!
Li Mu's arms were as steady as a rock. The moment his five fingers clenched together, a powerful force of chaos burst out from between his fingers, containing the embodiment of the original laws of the Great Dao of Chaos that he cultivated. They wrapped around the claws of nothingness like living things, ignoring the virtualization of their physical form, and pointed directly at the core of their existence - the law of nothingness that maintained the form of the claws!

"Give me - pieces!"

The low roar shook the heaven and earth, without any emotion, but it seemed to contain the power of the creation of the world! The power of chaos exploded, like thousands of troops charging together, rushing straight to the core of the claws of nothingness!

Tsk-!
A shrill and extremely piercing wail exploded. It was not an audible sound, but the sound of the "disintegration of laws" that shook the entire space! The claws of the space fragments that were originally invisible, intangible, and untouchable were violently twisted and collapsed under Li Mu's suppression, and finally turned into a wisp of nothingness energy and was swallowed up by the "self-source" light spot!
From the depths of nothingness, a vague and unpredictable shadow quietly emerged.

It has no fixed form, sometimes like a beast, sometimes like fog, with broken space threads entangled around its body, as if it is a monster bred from the cracks of nothingness, with the will to devour everything.

Its eyes - or rather the direction in which it was looking at Li Mu - emitted an extremely deep black light, like two miniature black holes swallowing up light.

"You... touched something you shouldn't have touched!"

A wave of thought that did not belong to any language system directly penetrated Li Mu's soul. It was cold and indifferent, but carried a kind of primitive instinctive anger.

Li Mu's expression remained unchanged. He took a light step and stood in the air. The Great Dao of Chaos appeared behind him and turned into a phantom like a vast sea of ​​stars. This was the "self-originated foundation" evolved from the laws of chaos that he had comprehended.

"If you want to die, I will grant your wish!" Li Mu's eyes flashed with chaos and he shouted angrily.

However, before Li Mu could finish his words, the Lord of Nothingness had already taken action!
Its body suddenly tore through the space, turning into countless black tentacle-like cracks, and rushed towards Li Mu frantically! In each crack, a distorted shadow emerged, as if thousands of worlds were collapsing and annihilating in it.

Li Mu's eyes shone brightly, he formed seals with his hands, and the chaotic Taoist power instantly boiled!

"Chaos Dao Realm: All things return to one!"

In an instant, heaven and earth reversed, and nothingness froze!
The chaotic sea of ​​stars beneath Li Mu's feet surged and roared, billions of stars lit up at the same time, and the starlight intertwined into an incomparably grand Taoist network, locking, sealing, and refining the incoming cracks of nothingness one by one!
The attack of the Lord of Nothingness was forcibly stopped under the Dao Net. Those phantoms that were originally elusive seemed to be trapped in the long river of time. Their movements were slow and full of flaws!

"You... are not the source of the Dao of this world..." The voice of the Lord of Nothingness sounded again, with an unprecedented solemnity: "Are you establishing your own Dao?"

Li Mu sneered: "Yes, I cultivate chaos, plant the Tao as the foundation, use myself as a furnace, and refine all things for my own use. You, who rely on nothingness for existence, are nothing more than a parasite of the Tao!"

After saying that, Li Mu put his palms together, and the chaotic Taoist power in his body surged to its peak!
"Chaos returns to its origin - cut!"

With a point of his finger, the world loses its color!

The power of chaos turned into an invisible judgment, passing through layers of nothingness and directly hitting the source of nothingness of the Lord of Nothingness!
At the moment of judgment, the space around the Lord of Nothingness suddenly collapsed and twisted, instantly turning into a deep and boundless void! This area seemed to be completely separated from the laws of reality, and all energy, matter, and even attack intentions were swallowed and decomposed by it.

A "chi" sound.

The Chaos Slash pierced into the void with unparalleled sharpness, but it was like a drop in the ocean, without causing any ripples! The power that was enough to cut through the laws was instantly disintegrated and dissolved into nothingness by the pure "nothingness"!

The realm of nothingness surged silently, not only easily dissolving Li Mu's killing move, but also like an abyss with a huge mouth, swallowing Li Mu in the opposite direction.

"laugh--!"

Li Mu, along with the surging sea of ​​chaotic stars, was swallowed up by the extremely expanded nothingness realm! The absolute "nothingness" instantly submerged the "something", and the devouring annihilation force frantically gnawed at his foundation, and the chaotic starlight quickly dimmed.

However, chaos is not order, but the womb of all things!
The moment he was swallowed, the eyes of chaos in Li Mu's eyes burned fiercely. He did not resist excessively, but turned into a seed and merged into the void! The "self-source" light in the palm of his hand suddenly restrained to the extreme. It did not extinguish, but turned into a chaotic seed, brazenly rooted in the core of the void source of the Lord of Nothingness! The ecstasy of the Lord of Nothingness swallowing his opponent had not yet dissipated, and a sudden change occurred!

The decomposed fragments of the Chaos Dao, instead of being completely reduced to zero, were frantically absorbed, reversed, and assimilated by the "Self-Source Dao Seed" in the heart of absolute nothingness!
The source of chaos, the reverse evolution of primordial chaos!

The fragments used the Dao Seed as their core, and they forcibly reversed themselves in the depths of the void! They forcibly incorporated the Dao of the void that had devoured them into the chaotic evolution system! In the pure "nothingness", a chaotic "something" was born - a bubble of time and space, energy turbulence, the prototype of the law of collapse, and so on.

"You! Stop it!"

The Lord of Nothingness screamed in anger and fear: "I admit defeat, I admit defeat! I give you the thing!"

"It's too late! If you could have the cultivation you have today, you would have destroyed countless Dao principles and killed people without restraint. Today, I will enforce justice on behalf of Heaven!" Li Mu's will shook in absolute nothingness, cold and resolute.

The Lord of Nothingness's begging for mercy was like a stone thrown into the Dead Sea, failing to cause even a ripple.

At this moment, Li Mu transformed himself into a Chaos Dao Seed, taking root in the most core Dao Source of Nothingness of the Lord of Nothingness. He was not struggling for survival, but to - remove the fuel from the cauldron!
"The Chaos Dao Seed, created the world!"

The core of Li Mu's soul, that "self-source" light point suddenly burst out with unprecedented brilliance! It was no longer a fortress to resist annihilation, but turned into a chaotic furnace that melted all the ways and evolved the universe!

Buzz——boom——!
An indescribable sound of the Tao rang out at the source of nothingness!

The five elements rotate! Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. The five-color origin of the Tao burst out from the chaotic furnace, turning into five huge entangled and rotating light wheels, crushing into the surrounding nothingness and darkness!

Wherever the light wheel touched, pure "nothingness" was forcibly given attributes, decomposed, transformed, and turned into the original energy that nourished the furnace! The darkness melted like ice and snow, making a hissing sound of being "burned".

Yin and Yang come together, and two chaotic energy dragons, one black and one white, rise from the furnace, chasing each other and forming a huge Tai Chi millstone! The millstone turns, and the power of birth and death is unstoppable!
The energy of nothingness decomposed by the five elements was forcibly incorporated into the Yin-Yang system. Under the grinding of the millstone, the chaotic "nothingness" was sorted out and reconciled. Part of it was sublimated into pure and spiritual energy to nourish the Tao seeds, and part of it was precipitated into turbid evil power to be discharged and annihilated! The purity of the nothingness principle was completely broken.

The long river of time! An illusory shadow of a long river composed of countless fragments of time flowed around the furnace.

Under the scouring of the long river, the "eternal extinction" characteristic of the void law was disturbed! The flow of time inside the furnace was forcibly accelerated by Li Mu, accelerating the evolution of the Tao seeds and the evolution of all the Taos!
At the same time, the power of the long river eroded the will of the Lord of Nothingness, making his perception blurred and sluggish, as if he was trapped in the quagmire of time.

The web of cause and effect, countless fine, tough, golden threads that sparkle with the luster of destiny, spread out from the furnace, ignoring the obstruction of nothingness, and penetrated deeply into the core of the source of the Lord of Nothingness!

These lines of cause and effect not only firmly lock onto the existence of the Lord of Nothingness, but also begin to trace back and link the countless remnants of "order" that it has devoured and annihilated in the past!
The law fragments, the resentment of the living beings, the debris of the star field that it destroyed... were forcibly awakened and gathered by the power of cause and effect at this moment, turning into invisible shackles and curses, entangled in reverse, and corroded the nothingness of the Lord of Nothingness! It was repaying the cause and effect of "annihilation"!

Space-time barrier! Outside the Chaos Furnace, space was twisted and folded, and time fragments solidified! A "small world barrier" forcibly blended and constructed by chaotic space-time fragments was taking shape!
Although this barrier is inside the realm of nothingness, it is a self-contained entity, isolating itself from the continuous erosion of the external nothingness and providing a relatively stable "soil" for internal evolution. On the barrier, bubbles of time and space are constantly born and destroyed, and each birth and death consumes a huge amount of the source of nothingness.

Ten thousand ways roar together, creating chaos!

Driven by Li Mu's will, the Five Elements laid the foundation, Yin and Yang were harmonized, the years accelerated, cause and effect were entangled, and time and space were stable... This "chaotic world" forcibly opened up in the heart of absolute nothingness is evolving and expanding at an unprecedented speed! It is like a greedy, living black hole, madly devouring and consuming the pure source of Tao that constitutes the realm of nothingness!
The Lord of Nothingness let out a scream of pain that went beyond his limit! He felt that his "existence" was being torn apart, dissolved, and reconstructed from the inside! The source of nothingness on which he depended for survival was being used as fuel by the Chaos Furnace, being smelted into nutrients to nourish the other party's Tao Seed!

The Lord of Nothingness tried to shrink his Dao Domain, tried to drive Li Mu away, and concentrated his strength to strangle the "cancer" and spit out his own Dao Domain of Nothingness.

However, the thread of cause and effect entangles its will, the long river of time delays its reaction, the five elements of yin and yang decompose its power, and the barrier of time and space isolates its counterattack!

“No! I am the incarnation of nothingness! The end of all things! How could it be… How could it be…”

The Lord of Nothingness's mind was filled with incredible fear and madness, but its struggle seemed increasingly powerless in the face of the Chaos Furnace where thousands of paths were roaring in unison.

Li Mu's consciousness sank into the core of the Dao Seed, like the God of Creation, watching with cold eyes. The Chaos Furnace roared, and the light of thousands of Daos became brighter and brighter in the darkness of nothingness.

That point of "self-source" light, after smelting a vast amount of the Dao of Nothingness and the essence of all Daos, is undergoing some kind of mysterious transformation. Its light is restrained, but it contains a more magnificent, more inclusive, and closer to the artistic conception of "the origin of chaos" than before.

The void realm of the Lord of Nothingness was becoming thinner and darker at a speed visible to the naked eye. This absolute "nothingness" that swallowed everything was being replaced by "something" at a speed visible to the naked eye. The darkness receded like a tide, and the brilliance of the Chaos Furnace was like the rising sun, tearing through the curtain of nothingness.

"How dare you go against the will of heaven and use all the Daos as firewood to burn my origin... Do you know what kind of disaster this will bring? You will never be able to achieve enlightenment. This world cannot accommodate you. I am waiting for you in the Abyss of All Daos. Can you bear such a price? The Dao of Chaos will eventually collapse..." The voice of the Lord of Nothingness became weaker and weaker.

Li Mu did not respond, his soul had already sunk into that point of "self-source" light.

This is the core of Li Mu's Dao foundation after the Dao realm. It is the Chaos Dao Seed that he has tempered through thousands of disasters and all kinds of laws. The Evolved Small World has completely digested the Dao Source of the Lord of Nothingness, absorbed his Dao Source will to annihilate all things, and is gradually transforming it into nutrients for nurturing the Dao Seed. (End of this chapter)