Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

The Wanbao Ding's hum gradually subsided, and its brilliance was completely suppressed, floating in Li Mu's palm in a simple and elegant manner. The core of the star had been firmly sealed inside, leaving only a gentle blue light flowing in the Ding.

Li Mu's mind moved, and the Wanbao Ding turned into a stream of light and fell into his palm.

"Pop!" The shadow of the spirit Xiaobao immediately emerged from the lid of the tripod, with a sapphire light flashing, and with fear and immense admiration: "Master... Master! You are so amazing! That thing just now was so scary, you actually... ate it?!"

Li Mu hummed, and his fingertips brushed across the warm body of the cauldron.

Xiao Bao approached Li Mu, his eyes full of the star core, and said pitifully: "Master, what are you going to refine with this star core! Can you add more energy to Xiao Bao? As long as I refine it, the treasure tripod will be able to advance quickly!"

"Dream on!" Li Mu frowned and glared at Xiao Bao coldly.

Xiaobao's spirit suddenly shrank like a frightened rabbit, and with a "woop" it instantly shrank back into the cauldron, not daring to say another word.

Li Mu ignored him and put away the Wanbao Ding. He looked at Xue'er who had been quietly guarding him.

"Let's go,"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Let's go find the next thing to inherit the Dao."

Xue'er tapped her forehead lightly to reactivate the star map array, forming a vast star field. Li Mu controlled the star ship and steered it to continue speeding through the vast star field.

After an unknown amount of time, the star ship drew a dazzling streak of light in the boundless sky, passing through one star field after another that was shining with various colors of light.

Li Mu stood at the bow of the boat with his eyes slightly closed. His vast and abyssal divine consciousness spread out in all directions like an invisible tide.

As far as his divine mind reaches, billions of stars are as numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges, the breath of life, the pulsation of spiritual veins, the ripples of laws...all kinds of information flow into his sea of ​​consciousness like trickles.

Li Mu patiently screened and searched for the unique Taoist rhyme that would belong to the next "thing that inherits the Tao".

Suddenly, the divine consciousness touched an extremely strange area.

It was a vast but dead star field. It was not the usual darkness of the universe, but a kind of...complete "nothingness", without the twinkling glow of stars, the surging tide of spiritual energy, and even without the dust tracks disturbed by meteorite belts. It was like a huge, greedy wound, embedded in the vibrant cosmic picture, devouring all the energy and light around it.

Li Mu's mind seemed to be stuck in a quagmire here, and his perception became extremely difficult and slow.

The core of this star field is an absolute spiritual vacuum. Any form of energy that enters it is like a drop in the ocean, disappearing without a trace in an instant.

Li Mu's powerful chaotic divine consciousness forcibly penetrated this suffocating "nothingness" barrier, and explored the core area with difficulty, and finally locked onto a planet isolated in the center of this dead zone.

This planet is much smaller than ordinary stars, and its surface is a frightening gray color, like a huge skeleton that has been completely drained of all vitality. There is no atmosphere, no ocean, and no signs of geological activity. There are only bottomless rifts all over the planet, like hideous scars.

Near the equator of this dead planet, at the edge of a huge rift that seemed to go straight to the core of the earth, Li Mu's mind captured the target he was looking for.

A vine!

It is not a plant in the ordinary sense, but more like a solidified, flowing dark substance. The vine is extremely thick, like a pillar supporting the sky, and its surface is covered with twisted and tangled Taoist patterns with countless ancient charms.

The vines were a deep dark green, almost black, and instead of branches, leaves or flowers, they extended countless longer branches that looked like tentacles of living things, penetrating deep into the core of the star, with some parts piercing into the void of space.

The entire vine exudes a law fluctuation that makes the soul tremble - "devouring" the area where it is rooted, causing space to distort and light to bend around it, forming a vortex that is difficult to see with the naked eye but is real and constantly collapses inward.

The deathly silence of this planet and the spiritual vacuum of this star field all come from this vine! It greedily and endlessly devours all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the essence of stars, and even... the life force of the universe itself!
The Soul-Devouring Heavenly Vine, a ninth-rank demon vine that controls the Law of Soul-Devouring.

Li Mu slowly opened his eyes, and in his deep pupils were reflected the shadow of the dead star and the terrifying spiritual vine that reached from the sky to the earth. The corners of his mouth curved up slightly, showing the excitement of discovering prey, and also the admiration for the mysterious creation of the Great Dao.

"Xue'er, I found it!"

Li Mu looked at Xue'er who was searching for a special star field and gave her a hint with a smile.

"So fast! Which direction is it?" Xue'er's eyes lit up and she asked while looking at the star map on the array disk.

"here!"

Li Mu stretched out his hand and clicked on the star map, which revealed a deep dark area.

"This? There is nothing here..." Xue'er was slightly stunned, a little confused.

"You'll know when we get there!" Li Mu smiled mysteriously. After that, he turned the star ship around and rushed towards the star position where the Soul-Devouring Heavenly Vine was.

Suddenly, a chaotic vortex condensed by chaotic power opened in front of them, and the star ship plunged into it. The vortex disappeared, and the star ship disappeared with it.

As soon as the starship escaped from the chaotic vortex, it was grabbed by a heart-pounding suction force, as if it had fallen into an invisible quagmire. The scene before her made Xue'er gasp instantly, and her crystal pupils shrank violently due to shock.

This is not an ordinary starry sky, but a 'cemetery of the dead souls' that is so dead silent that it makes one tremble with fear.

There was no starlight, no dust, and even the subtle hum of radiation in the background of the universe had disappeared without a trace. As far as the eye could see, there was only an absolute darkness that swallowed everything and was so thick that it could not be dissolved, as if a large piece of the universe had been forcibly cut out, leaving behind a greedy and desperate wound. Only the faint light emitted by the ship's shield, like a candle in the wind, stubbornly resisted in this endless "nothingness", illuminating the outline of the gray and dead planet in front of it - the star that had been rooted and drained by the Soul Devouring Sky Vine.

"Wow! What a scary place. Brother Li, where is this? Why is my essence being lost so severely?" Xue'er's voice trembled slightly.

Xue'er clearly felt that the demonic power in her body, and even the deeper source of life, were being frantically torn and pulled away by an invisible and overbearing force!
The body seemed to be becoming transparent and dissipating bit by bit. The feeling of emptiness that came from the core of life being plundered made Xue'er turn pale instantly. The body of the Demon King couldn't help but tremble slightly, feeling powerless at the soul level.

"The territory of the Soul Devouring Sky Vine, a place that devours everything." Li Mu introduced it calmly, his eyes becoming extremely sharp, like a hawk staring at its prey, and reminded: "Xue'er, just concentrate!"

Before he finished speaking, an indescribable chaotic divine light suddenly burst out from Li Mu's body!

"Om-!"

A layer of gray light curtain that seemed thin but contained the weight of the universe at its inception suddenly spread out with Li Mu as the center! This light curtain was not a simple barrier, it was more like a flowing projection of a chaotic ocean that was pregnant with infinite possibilities.

On the light curtain, countless fine and mysterious primitive Dao patterns flowed and died like living things, interpreting the truth of earth, fire, water, wind, yin and yang, the five elements, and the rotation of time and space. An ancient, primitive, all-embracing and all-annihilating breath spread, instantly enveloping the entire star ship.

Brother Li’s Chaos Realm!

Xue'er was stunned for a moment, and felt that the terrifying suction force that was tearing at her essence suddenly disappeared! It was as if a dam that blocked the flood of Doomsday was built in an instant. When the omnipresent and pervasive Devouring Law hit the light curtain with the Chaos Dao Pattern, it was like a violent torrent hitting an unchanging reef. It was twisted, deflected, and even partially assimilated, and the Devouring Power completely disappeared!
However, Xue'er could still feel the suffocating swallowing pressure from the outside world, like a billion-ton weight pressing on the Dao Realm's light curtain, making a dull humming sound. The light of the Dao Realm also rippled violently like water waves, but it was completely ineffective and was ultimately firmly blocked outside.

"call……"

Xue'er let out a long sigh, and a hint of color returned to her pale face. She looked at the pure darkness outside the Dao Realm with lingering fear.

"How terrifying! This force is too overbearing. Just being in this star field almost..."

Xue'er looked at Li Mu's back, her eyes full of admiration and dependence. If Brother Li had not opened the Chaos Realm containing the supreme laws in time, she might not have survived for more than a hundred breaths.

Li Mu did not look back. His deep gaze penetrated the light curtain of Dao Domain and locked onto the huge rift at the edge of the equator of the dead planet.

There, the dark green giant vine that reached the sky and the earth was clearly visible! It seemed to have sensed the intrusion of outsiders, especially the lock of Li Mu's powerful divine consciousness and the unique aura of the Chaos Dao Realm.

"Roar!"

It was not a sound, but a roar of law that was vibrating directly at the soul level, full of endless greed and brutality! The silent giant vine trembled violently!
The countless twisted patterns covering its surface suddenly lit up, emitting a deeper and darker dark green light. The countless slender tentacles that had originally pierced into the star core and the void suddenly rose up from all directions like the tentacles of a deep-sea monster that smelled blood! The tips were aimed at the star ship hovering in the dead void!

A miniature dark vortex condensed at the tip of each tentacle, which kept collapsing inward, emitting a devouring force that made one's scalp tingle. Even the surrounding space, which was already extremely thin, groaned under the heavy burden, and the light was completely distorted and swallowed up.

The absolute spiritual vacuum at the core of the entire dead star field seemed to come alive at this moment, transforming into an invisible, greedy giant mouth, which was ready to completely chew up and devour the star ship that dared to enter its territory and resist its swallowing, along with the chaotic light curtain!
"It has discovered us!" Xue'er frowned, clearly feeling countless cold, hungry wills that were born purely for the purpose of devouring. They were entangled outside the Chaos Realm like poisonous snakes, madly biting and sucking the power of the Realm.

The ripples of the Dao Realm light curtain became more and more violent, like the surface of a lake in a rainstorm. However, it was extremely stable. No matter how the devouring force outside exerted itself, the Chaos Dao Realm did not move at all!

Li Mu still stood at the bow, his robe fluttering in the invisible devouring storm. Facing this horrifying sight that was enough to turn ordinary immortals and gods into dry bones in an instant, he not only showed no fear, but the arc of discovering prey at the corner of his mouth became more obvious, and his eyes burned with pure fighting spirit and enthusiasm for exploration.

"What a Dao Devouring Spiritual Root! It is indeed extremely domineering!"

Li Mu let out a low roar, and the chaotic divine light around him grew again, as if injecting new vitality into the Dao Realm, resisting the crazy attack of the Soul-Devouring Heavenly Vine.

“Xue’er, just focus on protecting yourself! Next, let it see what the great way is!”

Li Mu glanced at Xue'er, then slowly raised his right hand, with chaotic energy swirling between his five fingers. With his palm facing downward, he pressed lightly in the direction of the dead star.

"Chaos returns to its origin, and the Tao spreads to infinity!"

With Li Mu's low shout, the chaotic Dao domain covering the star ship suddenly expanded and deformed! The gray light curtain with the original Dao pattern was no longer satisfied with just defense, but like an awakened prehistoric beast, it took the initiative to crush the greedy dark soul-devouring Dao domain in front!

Buzz - boom!
Two completely opposite and terrifying forces that both touched the origin of the Great Dao collided fiercely in the dead silence!

Wherever the Chaos Realm passed, it was not simply energy annihilation, but a deeper level of "assimilation" and "reconstruction". The Soul-Devouring Realm, which was originally overbearing and all-devouring, was like it had met its nemesis.

The dark green devouring ripples collided with the vast chaos, and it was like ice and snow melting, being engulfed and decomposed by the chaotic energy, turning into nutrients to nourish the chaotic Dao domain itself! The original Dao pattern flowing in the chaotic Dao domain shone brightly, and the speed of interpretation suddenly accelerated, as if analyzing and absorbing the mystery of the devouring law.

The Chaos Dao Realm expanded and spread at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in turn began to devour and compress the Soul-Devouring Dao Realm of the Soul-Devouring Heavenly Vine!
That area of ​​absolute darkness and nothingness was forcefully invaded and covered by the boundless chaos. In the dead silent void, the two colors of gray and dark green clashed fiercely and eroded each other, emitting a silent but soul-shaking roar of the laws.

The entire star field suddenly shattered and merged like fragile glass, forming short-lived areas of law vacuum.

The planet where the Soul Devouring Sky Vine took root began to tremble violently. The surface of the planet, which was already full of cracks, was torn into more bottomless gullies. The main body of the vine let out a silent scream full of shock, anger and violence! It felt a fatal threat, a higher level of original power was crushing its foundation!

Countless tentacles piercing the void danced wildly, and the dark vortex condensed at the tip suddenly increased a hundred times! They were no longer just targeting the star ship, but like countless gaping mouths leading to the abyss of destruction, they frantically bit at the expanding edge of the Chaos Dao Realm.

Chi Chi Chi -!
Violent ripples were torn at the edge of the Chaos Domain, and even a small area was "bitten" off by the terrifying devouring vortex, turning into a pure energy flow that was absorbed by the tentacles. The Soul-Devouring Sky Vine tried to use the most violent way to turn Li Mu's Chaos Domain into its nutrients!
"Hmph, a dying struggle!" Li Mu's eyes were cold, but the corners of his mouth still had that arc of control over everything. With a thought, the Dao Source Seal obtained from the Lord of Nothingness emerged from the Chaos Dao in his sea of ​​consciousness. (End of this chapter)