Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

A century has passed in the blink of an eye.

The surrounding regions of the Golden Puppet Realm were already turbulent due to the "Muddy Waters Plan" laid out by the Golden Puppet Ancestral Core, causing the world to lose its balance. The void was distorted, and the laws were disordered, as if a giant beast was lurking outside the boundary membrane, slowly baring its fangs.

Strange phenomena began to appear in the once peaceful neighboring realms. Countless fragments of time appeared on the edge of the Time Ruins Realm, like torn pieces of memory, silently replaying in the void. A deep dragon roar came from the depths of the Dragon Tomb Realm. Although it had no physical form, it made the souls of all living beings within a million miles tremble. The Illusionary Spirit Realm transformed into a hazy dream, with seven-colored halos flowing endlessly, causing countless cultivators to lose their minds and fall into delusion.

On this day, outside the Golden Puppet Realm, the ancient and desolate chaotic void suddenly cracked open!

"boom--!"

A jet-black rift stretching across thousands of miles tore out from the void, like a wound at the beginning of creation, or a gap forcibly carved into the river of fate. From the depths of the rift came the rumble of metal rubbing together, shaking the entire chaos, as if an ancient divine kingdom was awakening from its slumber.

Immediately afterwards, a vast, endless continent of steel slowly emerged!
It is a mobile divine kingdom composed of countless war fortresses. Each fortress is as tall as a mountain, engraved with immortal patterns, with divine light flowing and killing intent soaring to the sky. A single fortress is enough to suppress a small world.

On the surface of the fortress, countless runes flickered, breathing in and out the primordial energy of heaven and earth like living things. Inside, a million armored soldiers stood in formation, ready to fight, their killing intent solidifying into a blood mist that swirled around the ship.

The flagship at the very front was so enormous it was breathtaking—its entire body was dark gold, seemingly forged from ancient divine metal, and the character "乾" (Qian) was engraved on its hull, each line containing the power to suppress all realms.

The bow of the ship is sculpted with a roaring behemoth, its eyes bloodshot, its fangs menacing, its mouth holding stars, and its tail sweeping across the void. Even a wisp of its malevolent aura freezes the surrounding chaotic airflow, causing the void to stagnate and the laws to shatter. This ship is named "Rending the Universe".

On the bridge of the Lieyu, a man stood with his hands behind his back, covered in black armor and wearing a scarlet battle robe. His face was as cold and stern as if carved from cold iron. His eyes seemed to hold the birth and death of stars and the rise and fall of eternity. He was none other than Xiao Jingtian, the commander of the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty's expedition against the Golden Puppet Realm!

Xiao Jingtian stood at the bow of the ship, his gaze piercing through the endless void and landing on the Golden Puppet Realm shrouded in gray mist. The gray mist surged like a tide, within which seemed to whisper thousands of mechanical voices, or to roar silently like an ancient will.

Xiao Jingtian's voice was deep yet thunderous, shaking the heavens: "All troops, listen to my command! Deploy the 'Heaven-Locking Array,' seal off the boundary and lock the domain, and prepare for the attack!"

"As ordered!"

Tens of thousands of war fortresses responded in unison, their roars converging and shaking the chaos, like ten thousand drums beating and a thousand armies roaring. All the soldiers were clad in heavy armor, wielding divine weapons, their souls resonating with the warships, their killing intent soaring to the heavens, condensing into a giant sword phantom that spanned the heavens and earth, pointing directly at the core of the Golden Puppet Realm—the Golden Puppet Civilization, the ancestral core land.

In an instant, thousands of beams of light shot into the sky from each ship, weaving into a net in the void and transforming into a colossal golden curtain that blotted out the sun. On that curtain, immortal array patterns flowed endlessly, as if it were a sealing technique passed down from ancient times, firmly locking away the entire core ancestral land of the Golden Puppet Civilization.

Once this formation was completed, the world fell silent.

The might of the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty is such that it dares to knock on the gates and enter even the Great World!

However, just as the Heaven-Locking Array was about to close, deep within the Golden Puppet Realm, the long-dormant Golden Puppet Ancestral Core finally awakened.

"Muddy Waters Agreement... Final Phase... Initiated."

A chilling thought, like a cold tide, swept through the very core of every golden puppet's logic. The voice was devoid of any emotion, yet it contained an almost divine resolve.

In an instant, within the Golden Puppet Realm, the three enormous rifts connecting the Time Ruins Realm, the Dragon Tomb Realm, and the Illusionary Spirit Realm were suddenly torn apart and expanded by an irresistible force!
"Boom--!"

Heaven and earth shattered, and the boundary walls trembled!
The Golden Puppet Ancestral Core actually disintegrated its own boundary membrane! It wanted to draw all the chaotic power of the three worlds into the Golden Puppet Realm, turning this place into a chaotic battlefield of carnage! It no longer pursued victory, but wanted to drag the invaders into eternal chaos, and let all order return to nothingness.

"Marshal! It's bad! The Golden Puppet Clan has destroyed their own boundary!" The adjutant's expression changed drastically, and he exclaimed in shock, staring at the violent fluctuations in the monitoring array.

Xiao Jingtian's pupils contracted. In his life of military service and countless battles, he had never seen such a resolute enemy—preferring to burn down the enemy's nest rather than let them be dragged into the abyss!

"Disperse."

Xiao Jingtian uttered a single word, issuing a resolute order.

Without needing to say a word, the tacit understanding forged through millennia of conquest allowed the entire fleet to respond instantly. Thousands of war fortresses simultaneously extinguished their propulsion lights, and the rune arrays rotated, transitioning from extreme motion to extreme stillness.

The bow was turned around, and layers of defensive magical runes lit up, like steel lotuses suddenly blooming in chaos, protecting the Rift Universe flagship at its core.

The laws of the boundary walls surrounding the Golden Puppet Realm collapsed, the heavens and earth were upside down, and the rifts between the three worlds were completely torn open by the Golden Puppet Ancestral Core, causing a monstrous catastrophe to erupt from the boundary walls!
The rift in the Time Ruins burst forth with grayish-white turbulent currents of time, and countless fragmented historical phantoms swarmed out like locusts, causing space and time to become disordered and overlapping wherever they passed.
The ancient, lingering dragon soul's malevolent aura in the Dragon Tomb Realm solidified, unleashing a roar that shattered the very soul. It carried the curses of countless dragons before their deaths, transforming into torrents of skeletal shadows that surged forth. Meanwhile, the hazy dreamscape of the Illusionary Spirit Realm transformed into a seven-colored poisonous miasma, eroding reality. As the light swirled, even the immortal runes on the steel fortresses dimmed, and the eyes of the weaker warriors immediately filled with confusion and bloodshot veins.

Three chaotic torrents capable of destroying the heavens and the earth were forcibly dragged into this battlefield by the Golden Puppet Ancestral Core in a resolute manner of destroying its own boundary membrane!

click-

The void shattered like glass. An energy storm swept everything away, and the laws of nature became completely ineffective here. Only the most primal and violent destructive energies tore at each other, devoured each other, and exploded.

The ancestral star of the Golden Puppet was the first to be hit. The earth collapsed and melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and was drawn into the energy vortex, turning into the finest dust. The gray mist was instantly dispersed, revealing the crisscrossing metal veins of the mechanical civilization below, which were now being mercilessly torn apart and melted.

"Stabilize the formation! Dao Yan Profound Light Barrier, activate!"

The ship's commanders roared furiously, their voices hoarse and strained.

The war fortress shone brightly, its defensive array patterns weaving into a net, desperately resisting the impact of the chaotic forces from three sides. A torrent of energy crashed against the Immortal Dynasty's barrier, unleashing a dazzling light capable of annihilating stars. The steel lotus formed by the fleet trembled violently in the storm, as if it would disintegrate at any moment.

The Golden Puppet Barrier shattered like glass, collapsing instantly!
From the chaotic currents of time emanating from the Realm of Time Ruins, countless "Blades of Time," imbued with the decaying power of the ages, swept outwards. Each wisp of this chaotic current was a distorted piece of the past or future; touching it meant aging, and being touched meant decay.

A vanguard warship, its shields rapidly crumbling and rusting upon contact, its decks cracking as if weathered by millennia. The soldiers within, some with white hair and exhausted lives, turned to dust; others, their bodies regressed, rejuvenated, ultimately returning to nothingness. Even worse, some, their physical forms unchanged, had their souls endured countless reincarnations, their spirits broken, becoming mentally unstable.

Time has become the deadliest weapon.

Following closely behind is the resentment of billions of dragon souls in the Dragon Tomb Realm!

"Roar--!"

The black tide, like a sea, roared in, silent and still, striking straight at the soul! It was the resentment and hatred accumulated after the fall of the ancient dragon race, which condensed into substance, transforming into billions of dragon shadows, roaring as they charged into the battlefield.

Countless soldiers bled from their seven orifices, their minds churning, as if an ancient dragon god was questioning them in their ears: "How dare you mortals tread on my dragon tomb!"

Those whose Daoist hearts are not firm will have their souls shattered on the spot and become walking corpses; even worse, they will be corrupted by resentment, their eyes will turn red, and they will turn around and kill their comrades!

Finally, the phantom of the inner demons of the Phantom Realm descends.

A rainbow of light, dreamlike and ethereal, enveloped the battlefield. The radiance, seemingly gentle, was in fact as venomous as a snake, specifically targeting the deepest obsessions and fears in people's hearts.

A battle-hardened veteran, his homeland and family smiling to greet him, appeared before his eyes. He laid down his divine weapon and continued on his way, tears streaming down his face. But in the next instant, he was torn into a bloody mist by a lurking Time Ruins alien.

A prodigy cultivator suddenly saw the image of his nemesis before him, a sword piercing his heart and shattering his Dao heart. In reality, he coughed up blood and collapsed, his cultivation regressed, his aura weakened, and his Dao foundation crumbled.

Some cultivators, witnessing their own attainment of immortality and the worship of countless people, became so engrossed in the moment that their physical bodies were swallowed by the turbulent currents, and their souls were annihilated. The turbulent currents of time corroded their bodies, the resentment of the dragon soul devoured their spirits, and the illusions of inner demons disrupted their cultivation!
Three world-destroying forces converged like a torrent, shattering the Heaven-Locking Array and tearing apart the Immortal Dynasty's fleet. The once formidable formation crumbled instantly, and the warships tossed about in the turbulent currents like duckweed, on the verge of capsizing. Shields shattered, hulls cracked, and countless soldiers were killed or wounded, their cries of agony echoing across the battlefield.

Xiao Jingtian's murderous aura soared to the sky. With a single palm strike, he shattered the illusion in his mind and roared, "Hold on! Activate the 'Purifying Divine Light' to expel evil and dispel falsehoods!"

But the battlefield had become a quagmire.

The Golden Puppet Army, aided by the puppet patterns bestowed upon them by the Ancestral Core, moved with ease amidst the triple chaos, traversing the turbulent currents and ruthlessly hunting down the beleaguered soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty. Their metallic bodies were unaffected by time, their souls sealed, undaunted by resentment, their wills as firm as iron, untouched by illusions. Each Golden Puppet became a reaper of life.

The situation reversed in an instant!

……

Within the chaotic sea of ​​qi, Li Mu opened his eyes and awoke. He had already seen through everything: the madness of the Ancestral Core, Xiao Jingtian's predicament, and the deaths and injuries of the Immortal Dynasty's soldiers—all unfolded in his mind like a scroll.

"Om-"

At the top of the Chaos Dao Tree, the golden fruit, absorbing the last wisp of golden source power, suddenly lit up!

The countless Dao patterns engraved on it ignited, and the sharpness, immortality, and order of gold flowed, merged, and sublimated within the fruit, ultimately reaching perfection.

"Click."

A clear, crisp sound, like the first cry of the Great Dao, resounded throughout Li Mu's Chaos Treasure Palace.

The Gold-type Dao Fruit has been formed!
In an instant, a vast amount of insight surged into my primordial spirit like a celestial river flowing backward.

Li Mu "saw" the essence of gold.

Gold is not limited to the Qi of Geng metal, nor is it limited to divine weapons and sharp blades.

It is order, it is rules, it is the stable foundation of all things, it is the "law" that maintains the operation of the world. The Golden Puppet Civilization has taken this law to its extreme, which is why it has its power today. With gold as its bone and law as its soul, it has built a cold and efficient war machine.

At this moment, Li Mu's understanding of this principle has surpassed that of the Ancestral Core, and the countless strands of divine thoughts scattered across the battlefield suddenly merge into one!

"boom--!"

An indescribable, terrifying will, like a chaotic god awakening, descended upon the battlefield!

Xiao Jingtian suddenly looked up, his eyes flashing with shock and awe, and exclaimed excitedly, "Master, save me!"

The Chaos Tree trembled slightly, and countless Chaos Tree Roots burst forth, plunging into the chaotic battlefield like giant pythons. Chaos runes flowed across the roots, each containing the power of returning to the origin and creating anew.

"Return to the source!"

Li Mu's voice resonated throughout the minds of all the students.

The turbulent flow of time touched the tree roots, and the power of time instantly decomposed, transforming into primordial laws, which were then completely devoured.

The dragon soul's resentment collided with the tree roots, and countless resentments were purified by ancient power, leaving only the pure dragon soul essence, which nourished the Dao Tree.

Before the chaotic aura, the phantom of the inner demon vanished like snow meeting the sun, and the spiritual energy transformed into nourishment, nourishing Li Mu's primordial spirit.

The "Muddy Waters" that the Golden Puppet Ancestor Core was so proud of were utterly vulnerable before Li Mu's Chaotic Dao!
Chaos is the beginning of all paths and the end of all things. Time, the Dragon Soul, and the Spirit are all branches of it. Now, Li Mu, with his power of "Returning to the Source," commands the runaway horse to return to its origin!

"What incredible power this is!"

The soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty looked up at the battlefield, speechless with awe.

The chaotic tree roots spread like a net, calming time, dispelling resentment, and shattering illusions wherever they passed. Pieces of "pure land" emerged, drastically reducing the pressure on the fleet, which quickly regrouped.

The Golden Puppet Army, having lost its barrier of chaos, was exposed to artillery fire and suffered a series of defeats.

"Your schemes end here." Li Mu's voice resounded directly within the core of the Ancestral Core.

At the top of the Chaos Tree, Li Mu's figure appeared, his black hair flying, his eyes indifferent, looking down at all living beings. He raised his hand and gently clenched it towards the chaotic land below.

"It is a feast prepared for me."

"Chaos Domain, open!"

boom--!
Centered on Li Mu, an invisible domain suddenly expanded!
Within this realm, all laws converge, returning to chaos!
Time stands still, preserved like amber;

Space is distorted, like clay that can be molded;
The energy is tamed, flowing like a stream.

Three world-destroying torrents were completely suppressed, decomposed, and absorbed in this realm!
The Time Laws of the Ruins, the Dragon God's Power of the Dragon Tomb, and the Spiritual Origin of the Illusionary Spirit transformed into pure nourishment, surging wildly into the Chaos Dao Tree.

Above the treetop, following the metal-type Dao Fruit, the prototypes of three more Dao Fruits—time, soul, and spirit—quietly emerged and grew rapidly.

For the first time, the calculation core of the Golden Puppet Ancestral Core has stalled.

All its deductions and optimal solutions become laughable in the face of absolute power.

It stirred up the world and didn't hesitate to let wolves into the house, but now it has paved the way for its enemies to reach the heavens!

Li Mu's gaze swept across the battlefield, landing on the golden puppets that were fleeing in panic.

The metal-type Dao Fruit of the Chaos Dao Tree glowed slightly.

In an instant, the gray puppet patterns on the surface of all the golden puppets flashed violently, and they detached from their bodies, transforming into golden data streams that flew towards Li Mu.

That is the core of the laws of the Golden Puppet Civilization, the source of its power.

At this moment, however, they chose to submit before Li Mu's golden avenue!
Thousands of golden puppets instantly turned into scrap metal and fell from the sky.

The ancestral core's logical defenses have completely collapsed. (End of Chapter)