Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

"The Golden Puppet Realm, the origin of gold and the principle of order, can be used for the war of celestial dynasties to expand their territory, and can also add the element of gold to my Chaotic Great Dao!"

As Li Mu finished speaking, it was as if a divine decree had been promulgated, and the fortune of the entire Xirang Realm surged! The immortals felt an unparalleled will bestowed upon them, and their fighting spirit and sense of honor were instantly ignited to the extreme!

"Prepare for battle!" The Valley Master of Burning Heaven roared, and immortal flames soared into the sky, his voice shaking the universe.

"Prepare for battle!" King Zhenhai followed closely behind, his voice booming and his aura powerful.

"Prepare for war! Prepare for war! Prepare for war!"

The shouts of the immortals merged into an unstoppable torrent, shaking the chaos and shattering the stars! They had waited for this day for far too long. Centuries of recuperation and a hundred years of diligent governance were all for the sake of following this supreme being who was both godlike and demonic, and planting the banner of the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty throughout the myriad realms!
Li Mu nodded slightly, a hint of approval in his eyes. What he wanted was this indomitable spirit, this courage to conquer all.

"Where is Xiao Jingtian?" Li Mu asked calmly, his voice not loud, but clearly reaching the ears of every immortal.

As soon as the words were spoken, a young general clad in silver dragon scale armor, with a handsome face and sharp eyes like an eagle, stepped out from the immortal formation, knelt on one knee in the void, and spoke in a voice as clear and powerful as metal striking stone: "This humble general, Xiao Jingtian, awaits the decree of his master!"

Xiao Jingtian was one of the most outstanding disciples among Li Mu's three thousand disciples. He was born with a battle physique and had reached the peak of the Extreme Dao Immortal King realm in just a few hundred years of cultivation. He was an unparalleled genius who grew up among Li Mu's three thousand disciples, and his respect and loyalty to Li Mu were deeply ingrained in his bones.

"I hereby appoint you as the vanguard of the expedition, commanding the 'Rending Universe' fleet. Within three days, march on the Golden Puppet Realm!" Li Mu's order was concise and direct.

"Your subordinate obeys!" Xiao Jingtian's eyes blazed with a brilliant light, an irrepressible surge of excitement and fighting spirit. He abruptly rose to his feet, turning to face the fully armed and ready army of the Immortal Dynasty behind him. He raised his dragon-patterned spear high, its tip pointing straight to the heavens!

"Rending Universe Fleet, assemble!"

Rumble!
With his command, a colossal vessel slowly emerged from the void behind the Xirang Realm, a space shrouded in celestial light.

It was a colossal ship whose magnificence defied description!
Its bow is a refined star core, sculpted into a ferocious dragon head with its mouth slightly open, within which the five elements flow, as if it could spew out a terrifying breath at any moment.

The ship's hull stretches for countless miles, having been reforged over the past century. It is made from the core of the "Nine Heavens Breath Soil" of the Breath Soil Realm and countless rare immortal materials, and is engraved with billions of array patterns, forming huge and complex arrays.

Above the deck, celestial palaces and pavilions stand in rows, resembling a moving heavenly court. In the center of the giant ship, a towering white jade tower, tens of thousands of feet high, pierces the clouds. The top of the tower serves as the core hub of the entire giant ship and even the entire fleet.

This is the ultimate achievement of the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty—the Rift Universe!

Around the Rift Universe, thousands of slightly smaller immortal ships and warships were arranged like stars surrounding the moon, forming a huge cone-shaped battle formation. On each warship stood powerful immortal soldiers and generals, their immortal light shining, their armor imposing, and their killing intent soaring to the sky!
"Reporting to Senior! The Rift Universe Fleet is fully assembled! It is ready to set sail at any time!" Xiao Jingtian rode a beam of immortal light, standing atop the head of the Rift Universe, and reported to Li Mu.

Li Mu's figure appeared silently atop the white jade tower in the center of the Rift Universe. He stood with his hands behind his back, his blue robe fluttering, his gaze calmly fixed on the metallic lights representing the Golden Puppet Realm before him.

"Set off."

Li Mu only said two words.

Om-!
Within the dragon's head and mouth of the Rift Universe, spiritual light suddenly expanded, transforming into a massive vortex that tore a bottomless chasm open in the chaotic space ahead. This was the passage to the Golden Puppet Realm!

"All troops, march!"

Xiao Jingtian pointed his spear forward, and the massive hull of the Rift Universe trembled slightly. Then, it transformed into a streak of light piercing through the chaos and plunged into the spatial rift. Following closely behind, a steel torrent of tens of thousands of warships sailed majestically toward that unknown world!

……

The Golden Puppet Realm.

This is a world completely different from any other cultivation civilization.

There is no sky here, or rather, the entire world's celestial dome is a "celestial net" woven from countless enormous gears, intricate components, and energy conduits. This net envelops the entire world, slowly operating according to some supreme logical law, regulating the world's light and darkness, and the tides of energy.

The earth is metallic, the mountains are solidified alloys, and the rivers are flowing liquid energy. Cities rise from the ground, enormous mechanical assemblies, each building itself a sophisticated instrument, interconnected to form a logical network covering the entire planet.

In this world, there are no living beings of flesh and blood. What rules everything are mechanical life forms known as "Golden Puppets".

From the "worker bee" units, which are no more than half a meter tall and are responsible for maintaining the city's operation, to the "giant spirit" units, which are hundreds of feet tall and are responsible for mining resources, and then to the "garrison" units, which have different shapes and powerful combat capabilities, the entire Golden Puppet civilization is like a perfectly functioning supercomputer, and each Golden Puppet is a part of it, an execution unit.

There are no emotions, no desires, only absolute reason and order.

Just as the Rift Universe Fleet tore through the chaos and entered the spatial passage.

In the central region of the Golden Puppet Realm's celestial net, an energy core with a diameter exceeding ten thousand miles, resembling a giant eyeball, suddenly flashed with a dazzling red light.

[Alert: Anomaly in curvature fluctuations in high-dimensional space detected.]

[Alert: The outer logic lock of the boundary barrier "Order Crystal Wall" has been forcibly broken.]

[Alert: An unknown, high-intensity chaotic energy source has been detected approaching.]

Streams of cold, emotionless messages instantly spread throughout the entire Golden Puppet Realm.

The next moment, the whole world seemed to awaken from its slumber like a war behemoth, and instantly sprang into action!

"Buzzing—"

A piercing buzzing sound echoed through countless cities. On the celestial network, countless gears began to spin at an accelerated pace, and the light in the energy pipes became brighter than ever before.

In a colossal mechanical city located in the center of the continent, known as the "City of the Central Hub," atop a metal spire reaching to the heavens, sits a throne atop a humanoid golden puppet ten zhang tall, its entire body crafted from a mysterious dark gold metal, its form perfect, its lines fluid, brimming with the beauty of power and order.

Its eyes were two gems burning with blue data flames.

[The Supreme Logic Core activates the war contingency plan.]

[Command: All non-combat units immediately enter hibernation mode and transfer energy to the War Nexus.]

[Order: The 1st to 360th Garrison Legions, immediately assemble at coordinates 'Void Gate' and construct the 'Absolute Barrier' defensive line.] This dark golden golem is the supreme ruler of the Golden Golem Realm, the war mastermind codenamed "Primordial". It has no name, only a codename. It is not an individual, but a collection of billions of years of data from the entire Golden Golem civilization, the embodiment of the order and laws of the Golden Golem Realm.

As soon as it issued its command, the entire Golden Puppet Realm began to operate with unprecedented efficiency, even surpassing the speed of light.

Countless "worker bees" and "giant" units that were working instantly extinguished the light in their eyes, curled up into metal spheres, and entered a dormant state with minimal energy consumption. The enormous energy they saved flowed into massive arsenals through a global energy network, like rivers flowing into the sea.

boom! boom! boom!
One after another, underground bases that had been silent for thousands of years suddenly opened up, and thousands, millions, even hundreds of millions of combat-type golden puppets stepped out of the darkness with perfectly synchronized steps.

They come in various shapes and sizes.

There is the "Arbiter," who stands three meters tall and wields a high-frequency vibrating blade and an energy shield; there is the "Shadow," whose body resembles a cheetah, with sharp blades at the ends of its limbs and a small warp drive mounted on its back; and there is the "Destroyer," who stands a hundred meters tall, like a mobile fortress, and carries a huge planet-destroying cannon on its shoulder.

These cold war machines, their eyes flashing with the same red light—a sign that they had entered a state of war—converged into torrents of metal, instantly appearing on the edge of the realm, in the star battlefield known as the "Gate of the Void," via teleportation matrices that spanned the continent.

Meanwhile, in the chaotic void outside the Golden Puppet Realm.

Boom——!
A deafening roar shook the heavens and the earth, as if the universe itself was mourning.

The boundary barrier of the Golden Puppet Realm—that "Order Crystal Wall" composed of countless law runes and shimmering with metallic luster—was forcibly blasted open by a gray pillar of light containing endless chaotic power, creating a huge gap!

The source of the beam of light was none other than the ferocious dragon head of the Rift Universe!
Annihilation Spirit Cannon!

Fragments of the Order Crystal Wall, like shattered mirrors, flew in all directions, revealing the strange world behind them, filled with the aura of metal and order.

"All troops, charge! For the Celestial Dynasty, expand our territory!"

Xiao Jingtian stood at the bow of the ship, his spear pointing forward, exuding confidence and his voice carrying for miles!

The Rift Universe took the lead, charging through the breach first. Its massive hull exuded an unparalleled sense of oppression as it descended upon the skies above the Golden Puppet Realm. Closely following behind were tens of thousands of Immortal Dynasty warships, swarming in like sharks smelling blood, quickly deploying an attack formation around the Rift Universe.

The celestial light was dazzling, and the Daoist aura flowed freely, forming a stark contrast to the cold and orderly style of this world.

However, what awaited them was not a world without any defenses.

The moment they rushed in, what they saw was an endless sea of ​​metal!

Hundreds of millions of golden puppets had already formed ranks in the void. They were arranged into perfect hexagonal honeycomb battle formations, each formation composed of golden puppets of different types, their energy circuits interconnected, their auras unified, forming a huge and terrifying war machine.

There were no shouts, no roars, only deathly silence.

Billions of golden puppets, and billions of pairs of electronic eyes flashing with a fierce red light, locked onto the invading Immortal Dynasty fleet in perfect unison. That cold, pure, and unadulterated killing intent solidified into a tangible form, causing many of the Immortal Dynasty's new recruits, stepping onto the battlefield for the first time, to feel a chill rising from the depths of their souls.

At the very front of the golden puppet army, twelve particularly enormous golden puppets floated.

Each of them was thousands of feet tall, with a different shape. Some resembled three-headed, six-armed demon gods, some resembled metal dragons about to take flight, and some were floating fortresses covered with cannon barrels. They were all made of a higher-grade alloy, and their bodies flowed with terrifying energy fluctuations comparable to those of immortal venerables.

These are the twelve "War Commanders," the highest combat force in the Golden Puppet Realm!
The leader among them, codenamed "Ares," is the war commander whose appearance is most similar to that of a human. He wields a huge energy battle axe, and his blue electronic eyes scan the Immortal Dynasty fleet before finally settling on the bow of the Rift Universe, on the spirited young general Xiao Jingtian.

[External data stream...in analysis...]

[Life form: an energy-based, flesh-and-blood life form.]

[Energy Level: Determined as 'Threat'.]

[Behavioral pattern: Intrusion.]

The cold analysis was completed in an instant. War General Ares raised the energy battle axe in his hand, without the slightest unnecessary movement, pointing it directly at Xiao Jingtian.

[Logical determination: Threat unit, serial number 001.]

[Execution command: Clear.]

A wave of thought devoid of any emotion swept across the entire battlefield in an instant.

The next moment, the army of billions of golden puppets moved!
boom--!
There were no war drums, no horns, only the chillingly synchronized roar of engines! Billions of beams of energy burst forth from the ranks of the Golden Puppet Army, converging into a destructive rain of light that poured down upon the Celestial Dynasty fleet!

"Form ranks! Defend against the enemy!"

Despite the danger, Xiao Jingtian remained calm, his spear trembled, and he roared!

The Celestial Dynasty fleet reacted just as swiftly. Tens of thousands of warships instantly shone brightly, and massive defensive celestial arrays opened up, connecting with each other to form a huge five-colored light shield that stretched across the front of the fleet.

“Boom, boom, boom, boom—!”

The destructive rain of light collided violently with the multicolored light shield, unleashing a terrifying energy storm powerful enough to tear stars apart. The entire void trembled wildly from the violent collision, and countless spatial rifts spread out like a spider web.

The first encounter ended in a draw!
Xiao Jingtian narrowed his eyes, his fighting spirit growing stronger rather than calm. What a magnificent Golden Puppet Realm! What an orderly and efficient civilization of war! Such an enemy is worthy to be the first whetstone for him, Xiao Jingtian, to be the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty as it steps out of chaos!
"Vanguard Battalion! Charge with me! Pierce through the enemy lines!"

Xiao Jingtian let out a long roar, his whole body transformed into a silver streak of light, holding the dragon-patterned war spear, and fiercely leaped out of the Rift Universe, like a shooting star going against the tide, heading straight for the enemy's war commander Ares!

"kill!"

Behind him, tens of thousands of the most elite warriors of the Immortal Dynasty, also riding on immortal light, formed an incomparably sharp cone-shaped charging formation, following closely behind, and charged towards that boundless sea of ​​metal!
At the top of the white jade tower of the Rift Universe, Li Mu watched all this quietly, his expression unchanged.

His gaze pierced through billions of miles of void, past the army of billions of golden puppets, and landed directly on the spire of the central city of the Golden Puppet Realm. There, he and the dark golden mastermind codenamed "Primordial Beginning" completed a cross-dimensional eye contact.

The war has only just begun. (End of Chapter)