Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

The body of the tripod is simple and unadorned, and it exudes a majestic aura that can suppress the heavens and melt all things. Even the restless turbulence in the surrounding void seems to be calmed by its breath.

"Go!" Li Mu shouted in a low voice, and the Wanbao Ding in his palm trembled slightly, turning into a stream of light, and in an instant it flew above the azure star core that was doubly imprisoned by the Chaos Silk Thread and the Ice Soul Cold Ring.

The Wanbao Ding was suspended above the star core, with its mouth facing downward, aiming at the beating heart of the star. Li Mu formed seals with his hands, his ten fingers flying like phantoms, the Chaos Dao Seed in his body roared and circulated at an unprecedented speed, and the vast and pure Chaos Source Power surged like a river, pouring into the body of the Ding.

"Om-!"

A deep and distant sound of the tripod sounded, as if it had traveled through endless years and came from the beginning of the universe. On the body of the tripod, the originally silent and obscure Dao patterns seemed to come alive, lighting up and flowing one by one, emitting a hazy blue-gold glow.

The lights intertwined, forming a slowly rotating vortex below the cauldron's mouth. The center of the vortex was extremely deep, as if connected to an unknown dimension, emitting a terrifying suction force.

"Suppress!" Li Mu's eyes flashed with brilliance and his seal suddenly changed.

The Wanbao Ding's sapphire light shone brightly, and the suction force of the vortex suddenly increased tenfold! The azure star core that was sealed layer by layer below trembled violently, and the pale blue light membrane wrapped around it made an unbearable "crunching" sound, as if it would be torn apart at any time.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Deep in the core of the star, the dormant remnant of the ancient past was completely enraged by the terrifying power of the Wanbao Ding! A will full of violence, unwillingness, and a breath of destruction suddenly erupted, turning into a visible, twisted azure shock wave, fiercely slamming into the vortex formed by the Wanbao Ding!

"Hmph!" Li Mu had expected this. He snorted coldly and changed the seal again.

Deep in the core of the star, the dormant remnant of the ancient past was completely enraged by the terrifying power of the Wanbao Ding! A will full of violence, unwillingness, and a breath of destruction suddenly erupted, turning into a visible, twisted azure shock wave, fiercely slamming into the vortex formed by the Wanbao Ding!

"Hmph! You're resisting stubbornly!" Li Mu had expected this. He snorted coldly and changed his seal again. He did not strengthen the suction of the Wanbao Ding, but instead pressed his hands down suddenly!
"Chaos Dao Realm - open!"

hum!
With Li Mu as the center, an indescribable chaotic aura suddenly spread! This aura was not the majestic and powerful aura of Wanbaoding, but rather a vast and profound aura that embraced everything and returned to the origin.

Space seemed to be thrown into a sticky chaotic quagmire, and the flow of time became sluggish and blurred. The turbulent void that was originally smoothed by the Wanbao Ding was instantly swallowed up and assimilated by this new chaotic Dao domain, becoming a part of the Dao domain and becoming even thicker and stickier.

This new chaotic realm is invisible and intangible, yet omnipresent. As soon as it unfolds, it accurately covers the Wanbao Ding and the restless star core below, like a huge quagmire composed of chaotic source power.

"Boom!"

The violent blue shock wave slammed heavily into the whirlpool of the Wanbao Ding!

The expected shocking explosion did not happen. The shock wave crashed into the vortex, like a huge rock thrown into a bottomless quagmire, and the huge amount of energy was instantly swallowed, torn apart, and decomposed by the vortex.

The Wanbao Ding was shaking violently, the lapis lazuli patterns on its body flickered, and it made a dull humming sound like thunder. It was obviously under tremendous pressure, but the vortex did not collapse and still stubbornly maintained its suction force.

However, this is only the first wave of regretful attacks!
"Roar--!"

A roar from the soul level, filled with endless resentment and the meaning of the annihilation of the stars, exploded directly in the depths of Li Mu's soul! That remnant was not a simple energy shock, it carried the "Tao" and "Intention" solidified when it fell, and at this moment, with the star core crystal marrow as a carrier, it brazenly launched a higher level - Tao domain counterattack!
hum!
The azure star core suddenly burst out with an unprecedented bright light! This light was not gentle, but carried a terrifying mood of tearing, shattering, and everything returning to the abyss. A tiny but extremely condensed and extremely violent domain instantly expanded from the inside of the star core!

"Ninth level: Silent Realm!"

This regretful Dao Realm was not as vast as Li Mu's Chaos Dao Realm, but its condensation and destructiveness were so great that it made people's hearts flutter! It was like a rapidly expanding miniature universe made up of pure destructive starlight, with countless stars collapsing, space collapsing, and everything returning to nothingness.

Wherever the azure light reached, even the sticky source power of the Chaos Realm was forcibly torn apart, rejected, and annihilated!
Tsk-!
A sharp tearing sound was heard!
Sensing the special source of Tao contained in this power, Li Mu's eyes lit up slightly, and he immediately took this opportunity to exchange power and perfect the principle of 'self-source'.

Li Mu hurriedly gathered his strength, and the Chaos Realm enveloped the Remnant Nirvana Realm, like two torrents of power with completely opposite natures, fiercely colliding, squeezing, and corroding each other!
The Chaos Realm attempted to embrace, assimilate, and dissolve the destructive starlight. The Chaos Source Force was like billions of gray tentacles, entwining and penetrating into the azure microcosm, attempting to drag it into the embrace of chaos, smooth out its edges, and return it to its original state.

The Silent Dao Realm was madly erupting with annihilation power! The azure starlight was like millions of tiny star-splitting spears, madly piercing, cutting, and crushing the approaching Chaos Source Power. Wherever it passed, the Chaos Dao Realm was forcibly "plowed" into a vacuum zone, and the interior was filled with violent space fragments and annihilation energy.

The vortex formed by the Wanbao Ding was the first to be hit. It was shaken violently by the impact of the violent Silent Realm, and its rotation speed dropped sharply, and its suction force was greatly weakened!

"Woo——!" A buzzing sound filled with fear and pain came directly from the inside of the cauldron.

The spirit of Wanbao Ding, Xiaobao, was completely awakened by this terrifying impact that was enough to tear the galaxy apart! Its condensed, fist-sized, cyan-gold-glowing spirit shadow instantly appeared above Wanbao Ding. The small spirit body trembled violently and uncontrollably, like a firefly in a storm.

“Buzz…Buzz…” Xiao Bao’s spirit body emitted a tiny, almost whimpering sound. His eyes, composed of pure spiritual light, were now filled with horror as he stared at the destructive azure area below—the ninth-level Nirvana Realm!
In Xiaobao's perception, what kind of light was that? It was clearly the ultimate wail of billions of stars as they went into extinction in an instant! It was the sharp blade of nothingness that was left after the space was completely torn apart, which could obliterate everything! It was the embodiment of the Tao that solidified endless resentment and the will of destruction! Wherever it passed, even the master's chaotic Tao domain that could accommodate everything was torn apart and annihilated!
Xiao Bao felt that the body of the Wanbao Ding, on which he depended for his existence, was being stabbed by countless cold star-splitting spears. The extremely solid wall of the Ding wailed as it could not bear the heavy load. The essence of the spirit of the artifact seemed to be frozen by the coldness of annihilation, and tiny cracks like spider webs appeared. "It's over... It's going to break... I can't stop it..." Fear was like a cold tide, instantly drowning Xiao Bao's intelligence. He had never felt such a pure and high-level destructive force, which was the ultimate source of Taoism condensed when the essence of the stars fell! In his cognition, this was almost irresistible divine power!
At the moment when Xiaobao's spirit was trembling and almost falling apart, its "gaze" instinctively turned to the source of power - its master - Li Mu, with the last glimmer of hope.

Seeing this, Xiaobao's trembling suddenly stopped, and then turned into another more violent shiver - it was a shock and indescribable awe from the depths of his soul!

Li Mu still stood firmly at the core of the Chaos Realm. Under the impact of the "Silence Realm" that was enough to turn ordinary immortals and gods into ashes in an instant, and at the center of the terrifying confrontation that was enough to tear the Chaos Realm apart, his body was as motionless as a mountain!
Xiaobao's spiritual sense clearly "saw" this:

Li Mu's eyes were not as deep and calm as usual, but turned into two slowly rotating chaotic whirlpools! In that whirlpool, countless mysterious gray runes were constantly born and destroyed, as if they were frantically analyzing and deducing every trace of the Tao contained in the opposite destructive star field. There was no fear or panic in his eyes, only a kind of almost greedy concentration and an absolute calmness that controlled everything!

What shocked Xiao Bao even more was that Li Mu did not use his full strength. He was passively defending and did not fight with all his strength. The vast and majestic Chaos Dao Realm that was enough to suppress the heavens was like a living thing under the will of its master! It did not crush with brute force, but was like a chaotic mother sea that embraced everything, gently and tenaciously wrapping the violent "Nirvana Dao Realm".

The gray chaos source force is like billions of living tentacles, which continue to entangle, penetrate, and smooth the violent blue starlight. Every time it is shattered by the desolate starlight, more chaos source force will grow from nothingness to fill the gap and continue the process of tolerance, dissolution, and assimilation.

The Chaos Dao Realm itself seemed to be absorbing the other party's destructive Dao source characteristics in this extreme collision, erosion and tolerance, becoming heavier and more mysterious, and even... faintly revealing a hint of the rotation of extinction and rebirth that even Xiaobao could not understand!
"Master... he... he is not suppressing it... he is... 'digesting' that regretful Tao?!" Xiao Bao realized the situation and his soul trembled.

It saw that whenever a wisp of pure Dao source fragments containing the profound meaning of the annihilation of stars was assimilated and stripped out by the Chaos Dao Domain, a faint light would flash in the depths of the master's chaotic vortex-like eyes. Then, the stripped Dao source fragments were absorbed by the master himself and merged into his bottomless Chaos Dao Seed, just like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!

What a terrifying and heaven-defying method this is! Under the impact that was enough to destroy the origin of the stars, instead of retreating, he took the initiative to meet it, using his own Dao domain as a furnace and the ancient remnant of the source of destruction as firewood to temper and perfect his own Dao!

"Buzz... Woo..." Xiao Bao's spirit body trembled even more violently, but it was no longer a tremor of fear. Instead, it was the unbearable excitement and admiration of the soul when witnessing a miracle. He felt that the core of his spirit was heating up, as if it was about to melt in this incomparable shock.

Xiao Bao looked at his master's back, which was as still as a mountain and seemed to be integrated with the entire chaotic realm. He felt his master's will, which was still as steady as a mountain in the center of the destructive storm and even used the force to climb up... An unprecedented, almost blind feeling of admiration, like a flood that broke through a dam, instantly broke down all his defenses.

"Master... is too strong! Stronger than it could have imagined!"

At this moment, the spirit of the Wanbaoding - Xiaobao just wants to crawl at the feet of his master and offer his eternal loyalty!

The terrifying pressure brought by the "power of annihilation" seemed to still be there, and the wailing of the Wanbao Ding had never stopped, but in Xiaobao's perception at this moment, all this was no longer important.

Time flies, and after several years, the fierce clash of Dao rules reached its peak. The light of the "Realm of Silent Dao" began to show signs of dimming as its origin was constantly being drained.

The chaotic vortex in Li Mu's eyes that was spinning wildly and devouring the laws of nature suddenly froze for a moment!
An extremely subtle change occurred, as if a key gear of a high-speed precision machine suddenly got stuck. It was not due to exhaustion or injury, but a kind of... cognitive, fundamental level "confirmation".

The Starry Realm of Annihilation, transformed from the remnant of ancient times, contains a source of destruction that is indeed pure and powerful, and even carries the ultimate artistic conception of the falling of stars and the return of all things to the abyss.

Relying on the inclusive nature of the Chaos Dao Realm and the mystery of his own Dao Seed, Li Mu has already analyzed the trajectory of the Dao rules, the flow of power, and even the core of the will of unwillingness and resentment. He "understands" the power of extinction.

The Chaos Realm returned to Li Mu's body like a receding tide, and the profound aura that encompassed everything also disappeared. The Silent Realm had already dissipated into nothingness, and the remaining thoughts completely returned to nothingness.

Xiaobao quietly floated above the Wanbao Ding, his spirit body no longer trembling, and his eyes showed a trace of awe and determination. It seemed to have undergone a transformation, from an ignorant spirit to a glimpse of the top of the avenue.

Li Mu slowly opened his eyes, and a blue light flashed in the depths of his eyes.

"Brother Li, do you... understand its meaning?" Xue'er felt Li Mu's complicated emotions and asked with concern.

Li Mu nodded, but then shook his head: "I do understand its meaning of 'Nirvana', and I also see the 'Tao' it once pursued, but... my own meaning of origin still cannot complete it."

"It's too strong." Li Mu whispered, "Its Dao is the ultimate embodiment of the falling of stars and the extinction of power. Although my Self-Source Meaning can carry all Daos, it still lacks the foundation of true 'creation'... Without it, I cannot complete the cycle of extinction and rebirth, and I cannot truly enter the realm of great success."

Xue'er was stunned, then suddenly realized: "So... we still haven't found the key to make your Dao Seed sprout?"

Li Mu smiled bitterly: "Yeah... after all, we are still one step short, but at least we got the star core crystal."

As soon as the words fell, Li Mu's chaotic power poured into the Wanbao Ding. With a humming sound, the power of the Wanbao Ding increased, and the star core crystal was successfully collected into the Ding. (End of this chapter)