Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

The legendary world lord, who was frozen into an ice sculpture, hovered at the edge of the vortex, his entire body covered with three feet of thick black ice, his face contorted in agony, as if enduring extreme pain.

"It's not some kind of Netherworld Ice Prison that's connected, but rather a man-made sealed passage."

Li Mu's eyes swirled with chaos as he saw through the vortex's true nature. The dark center was not emptiness, but a thin spatial barrier. Behind the barrier, countless ice crystal-like points of light could be faintly seen pulsating slowly, like sleeping stars.

He summoned the Chaos Axe, and with a light swing of the blade, a stream of chaotic energy sliced ​​through the vortex. The spatial barrier shattered in response, and a chilling current far exceeding the previous deathly cold instantly erupted forth, freezing the surrounding water into ice!

At the end of the passage, a ten-foot-tall ice crystal floated in the void.

Inside the ice crystal, a fist-sized rhomboid crystal was sealed, its surface shimmering with liquid light, and each pulsation emanated a chill that made the space tremble.

The aura emanating from the crystal was exactly the same as that of the Xuanbing, a figure at the level of a Frozen Realm Lord.

The moment the spatial barrier cracked, the chaotic energy around Li Mu automatically circulated, forming an invisible protective shield.

The icy current, capable of freezing even a cultivator at the Extreme Dao Realm, struck the protective shield with a crisp "crack" sound, but failed to penetrate it even slightly. After hitting the shield, the icy current turned into wisps of steam with the cracking sound.

"Such impact force is definitely not ordinary."

Li Mu stepped into the passage, and the Xuan Yin True Water behind him instantly froze, forming a crystal-clear ice wall. The spatial barrier that Li Mu had broken through also merged back together.

At this moment, the Cold Water Realm seemed to have fallen into hell. Originally, the Cold Water Clan could adapt to the bone-chilling cold of the Profound Yin True Water, and even newborn babies had the physique to resist this cold. But just now, the Profound Yin True Water, which was not a threat to them before, suddenly became even colder for some reason.

The few remaining high-level cultivators in the Cold Water Realm have all gathered together.

"Clan leader, what's going on? Why did the Profound Yin True Water suddenly go berserk?"

"This rampage is dozens or even hundreds of times greater than before. If this continues for a long time, our Hanshui tribe's younger generation will suffer a shortage!"

"Never before has there been such an intense burst of cold air. This time, its intensity even surpasses the sum of countless years before."

The crowd chattered amongst themselves in the palace of the Cold Water Clan, while the Lord of the Cold Water Realm sat silently on the main seat, his brows furrowed.

"Chieftain, say something!"

After an elder uttered these words, the palace gradually quieted down, and everyone's eyes turned to the Lord of the Cold Water Realm, their eyes filled with anticipation.

The Lord of the Cold Water Realm remained silent.

What the group didn't know was that the disaster they were talking about, which could lead to a generational gap and a lack of successors in their clan, was nothing more than some desolate cold air that surged out of the passage when Li Mu broke through the spatial barrier.

Li Mu, the instigator of it all, was currently observing everything before him with great interest in the passageway.

The inner walls of the passage are composed of layers of ice crystals, each inch of which is covered with tiny runes of law, just like the spatial fluctuations it emits.

The entire passage was like a long corridor, completely empty except for a ten-foot-long ice crystal that floated silently at the end of the corridor.

After breaking through the spatial barrier, Li Mu was able to feel more clearly the rhomboid crystals inside the ice crystals pulsating slowly, like a beating heart.

The liquid luster flowing on the surface of the crystal is actually countless tiny ice threads rotating at high speed, each containing absolute, deathly cold power.

With the help of his innate supernatural ability—All-Spirit Recognition—the information about the ice crystal leaped off the page and appeared before Li Mu's eyes.

【Eternal Silent Ice Soul】

[Rank: Ninth-Tier Divine Item]

【Characteristic: Dead Silence】

[Features: Serving as an anchor point for the Dead Realm, it is stored in the spatial passage between the Cold Water Realm and the Dead Realm, stabilizing the passage.]

[The Eternal Silence Ice Soul is a primordial crystal formed from the core of the Death Realm, containing the ultimate law of deathly stillness. It can cause a cultivator's spiritual power and soul to fall into a state of deathly stillness, as if frozen. As the core of the Death Realm, it can stop time.]

A ninth-tier divine artifact, and not just any ordinary ninth-tier divine artifact. Among all the ninth-tier divine artifacts that Li Mu has ever seen, the Eternal Silence Ice Soul is definitely one of the top ninth-tier divine artifacts. And this is just a crystal formed from the core of the Death Realm. What level is the core of the Death Realm?
Like the Underworld, the Realm of Death is one of the nine Great Domains among the Three Thousand Realms. Its overall strength is much greater than that of the Underworld. If Li Mu wants to touch the Eternal Ice Soul, the Realm of Death will definitely find out, and then he may be exposed.

However, Li Mu was not the kind of person who could resist taking a treasure right in front of him. Suddenly, the protective shield automatically generated by the chaotic energy around Li Mu expanded several times over, directly enveloping the Eternal Ice Soul within it.

Then, Li Mu's gaze fell on the base beneath the crystal, where intricate array patterns were engraved, comparable in complexity to those on the Misty Hidden Realm Spirit Pearl, but the two array patterns were quite different.

The array patterns in the Hidden Mist Realm are seals, while the array patterns here are guidance.

Like a lighthouse in the thick fog, it guides the creatures in the fog.

Li Mu also understood why the lower-level realms in the Yin Realm Star Domain all had some anomalies. These anomalies were not formed naturally in the lower-level realms. If they could form naturally, these realms would not be limited to the level of lower-level realms.

These are clearly various anchor points left here by other great realms, used as passages to connect different realms, or as coordinates, so that they can arrive here as soon as the seal of the Hidden Mist Realm is broken.

"A fine scheme." Chaotic energy condensed at Li Mu's fingertips, and a smile appeared on his lips: "Unfortunately, you all miscalculated one step."

Li Mu flicked out three wisps of chaotic energy in succession.

The first strand coiled around the crystal, breaking through the annihilation law covering its surface; the second strand seeped into the base, destroying the protective array runes; the third strand transformed into a giant axe, slashing towards the node connecting the passage and the Frostwater Realm.

The ice crystals cracked with fine lines, but did not shatter completely. The freezing laws released by the Xuan Yin Origin Crystal collided violently with the chaotic energy that had transformed into axe blades, causing the entire passage to tremble.

Li Mu formed a hand seal with his left hand, drawing upon the annihilating essence of the Returning Void Crystal, and pressed it onto the surface of the ice crystal: "Use annihilation against annihilation, Returning Void!"

Cracks spread rapidly across the surface of the ice crystal. The chilling aura released by the source crystal was forcibly absorbed by the True Meaning of Returning to Nothingness, condensing into a layer of pitch-black crystals on the outside of the ice crystal. The Eternal Silent Ice Soul trembled violently, and the outer shell of the ice crystal shattered inch by inch. The moment the crystal was exposed, an aura of deathly stillness far surpassing the previous one erupted, and the ice walls of the entire passage actually began to melt.

The previously closed spatial barrier opened at this moment, and a deathly cold current, countless times stronger than before, surged out and merged into the Xuan Yin True Water.

The Xuan Yin True Water, already rampaging due to the surge of the deadly cold current, now entered an even more violent rampage, its intensity exceeding a thousand or even ten thousand times. Almost instantly, it swept across the entire Cold Water Realm. The Xuan Yin True Water, which was originally suitable for the survival of the Cold Water Clan, now transformed into a deadly weapon.

Wherever it passed, even cultivators of the Cold Water Clan at the Refinement Realm were instantly frozen. Some cultivators at the Integration Realm with weaker physical strength were also affected by this cold current. Nearly 80% of the cultivators of the Cold Water Clan were affected to varying degrees, and even cultivators at the Great Ascension Realm could not completely avoid it.

Inside the passage, Li Mu reached out and grasped at the chaotic energy, which transformed into a giant hand that firmly held onto the Eternal Silence Ice Soul.

The crystal struggled violently in his palm, trying to freeze his meridians, but was enveloped by layers of chaotic energy, eventually turning into an ice bead the size of a pigeon egg, with a grayish luster flowing across its surface.

With the Ice Soul in hand, even with the obstruction of chaotic energy, Li Mu could still feel the bone-chilling stillness. This was the stillness power after the Returning Void Crystal had absorbed it, and the feeling it gave Li Mu was still far greater than that of the Returning Void Crystal.

Without the support of the Ice Soul, the array patterns of the passage collapsed instantly. When Li Mu turned around, the ice crystal corridor behind him had already begun to collapse, and countless ice shards turned into streams of light, flowing back into the Cold Water Realm through the cracks in the passage.

At the Guixu Sea Eye in the Cold Water Realm, the vortex of Xuan Yin True Water suddenly stopped. The ice sculpture of the Realm Lord, which had been suspended at the edge of the sea eye for an unknown period of time, let out a crisp sound and shattered into dust, ending his sinful life.

While the Lord of the Cold Water Realm was comforting everyone in the palace, he suddenly felt his spiritual energy stagnate. Then, an extremely fierce cold wave rushed towards him, and the Xuan Yin True Water was like a series of sharp weapons, constantly slicing through their bodies.

"Why is this happening? How could the Profound Yin True Water go berserk again in such a short time!"

"This is not Xuan Yin True Water. How could Xuan Yin True Water be so cold and gloomy? This is definitely not Xuan Yin True Water!"

Even the Cold Water Realm Lord, who was sitting in the main seat, was no longer in complete control and was also thrown into panic.

"Is this a sign that Heaven is going to destroy my Cold Water Clan?!"

……

On the other side, Li Mu, who had already obtained the Deadly Ice Soul, strolled out of the Cold Water Realm. The Cold Water Realm was in complete chaos. All that was needed was to wait for the surviving cultivators of the Cold Water Clan to withdraw from the Cold Water Realm before taking the source power of the Cold Water Realm.

At that time, the primordial power of the Cold Water Realm will be nothing more than an unclaimed object, and taking it away will be an extremely simple matter.

Having obtained the treasure, Li Mu did not intend to return to the Misty Realm. Instead, he turned around and headed towards the Night Realm.

According to his speculation, this so-called ancient existence might be a coordinate left here by another realm, a beacon to guide people from other realms to this place when the seal is broken in the Misty Hidden Realm.

Those who can establish a presence here across star systems must be at least capable of challenging the Nine Great King Realms, if not one of them. Otherwise, they wouldn't be qualified to participate in such matters.

Li Mu's idea was much simpler. Since he was able to make arrangements over such a long distance and for such a long period of time, the treasures he used must be of a high standard. They must be treasures of the same level as the Eternal Ice Soul of the Netherworld. If each of the other eight king realms besides the Netherworld had such a treasure in this star field, wouldn't he become rich?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but rub his hands together excitedly. One Deadly Ice Soul was already an unexpected surprise, so what if he got seven or eight more?

Without any hesitation—hesitation for even a second would be disrespectful to the treasure—Li Mu appeared outside the boundary of the Shadow Realm in just a few flashes.

The barriers of these lower-level realms were meaningless to him, as if they didn't exist. As he stepped out, the barriers seemed to have a mind of their own, cracking open and then closing again after he stepped in.

Upon entering the Nightshade Realm, Li Mu's first impression was of darkness. It wasn't the kind of darkness you see with your eyes closed, which could at least be called a color. But the darkness of the Nightshade Realm was an empty darkness, a deathly darkness.

After a while, Li Mu was able to see some things clearly. Here, his field of vision was only about the same as that of a cultivator at the Extreme Dao Realm, and his previous ability to directly see through illusions was no longer there.

This is also a way to judge a person's strength; the stronger the person, the less influence they will be after entering the room.

If a Realm King were here right now, he would probably be on the verge of collapse, because when a Realm King personally visited the Night Nether Realm back then, he only had the vision range of a Nascent Soul cultivator, and the rest could only be perceived through their own cultivation.

After regaining his sight, Li Mu gently waved his hand, attempting to touch the legendary and eerie Devouring Light Mist. When the mist touched Li Mu, it actually triggered the automatic protection of the Chaos Qi, which made him even more interested in the legendary existence sealed in the Night Netherworld.

Some time after Li Mu took the Deathly Ice Soul, in a desolate palace some distance from the Cold Water Realm, an incomparably powerful being opened his eyes. He had been sitting there for countless years without ever making a sound, but today he opened his eyes.

His dull, lifeless eyes gazed toward the direction of the Cold Water Realm, his expression inscrutable, as if he were lost in thought.

Upon sensing the disturbance, the two Extreme Realm cultivators responsible for protecting him immediately entered the Palace of Death Qi.

"Your Majesty, why have you suddenly awakened?"

The guard's voice trembled slightly, and he dared not look directly at the being.

After receiving no reply for a long time, the two guards dared not look up, for there was a rule in their household: one must not look directly at the king.

After a long time, just when the two guards thought they were about to be in big trouble, a voice as hoarse as dry grass rang out.

“The underworld is in turmoil.”

After uttering those four words, the being closed its eyes again. The two of them, as if granted a pardon, stood up, bowed their heads, and walked backwards out of the palace.

"Strange activity in the underworld?"

"Quickly report these four words to the king. All matters concerning the old king shall be decided by the king."

One of them instantly transformed into a streak of light and vanished into the sky.

Inside the Palace of Death, the being who had just closed his eyes opened them again. This time, his eyes regained a spark of life, and he murmured to himself.

"Hopefully it won't be too long." (End of Chapter)