Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

The Xuan Yuan Jin Realm, like a primordial beast that has slumbered for countless ages, slowly opens its eyes in the stillness of death.

Deep within the ashes-covered earth, thirty-six Heaven-Burning Refining Towers roared in unison, the Nine Heavens Burning Fire Array surging with spiritual energy like the breath of heaven and earth. A Chaos Dao Tree, piercing the very lifeblood of the realm, rose from the earth's core, its roots deeply embedded in the "Heaven-Burning Core," its branches piercing the sky, every vein of its leaves flowing with the Dao rhythm of new life. This colossal tree was the heart of this realm's revival, pulsating with the boundless vitality of the primordial chaos.

The cultivators of the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty stepped upon it, their eyes blazing with intense fire. They witnessed firsthand how human effort defied fate, transforming a barren land into a source of spiritual energy. Milky-white magma, gushing from the fissures in the earth, nourished their meridians, cleansed their souls, and washed away worldly tribulations. On the scorched earth, chaotic fire lotuses bloomed one after another, their eerie light spreading like wildfire, dispelling the ancient darkness and igniting the first glimmer of life in this desolate place.

The Rift Universe hovered in the void, with Xiao Jingtian holding the "Map of the Ash Realm." The scroll shimmered with light, depicting mountains and mineral veins scattered like stars, resonating endlessly with the earth beneath his feet. He sank his mind into the depths of the realm, sensing the transformation of the laws—the path of destruction was being sorted and transformed, and endless possibilities were being conceived from the chaos. The Heavenly Dao of this realm was being reshaped by a grand Dao principle.

"Master's hand has already taken control of the universe..."

Xiao Jingtian murmured, his gaze fixed on the end of the void, where there was nothing but the Daoist aura that seemed to cover the heavens and the earth—the very place where his master was in seclusion.

However, such acts of seizing the source with human power and reversing the way of heaven eventually disturbed the taboos slumbering at the bottom of the Sea of ​​Ashes.

The Burning Sea, a fiery inferno formed by the fusion of divine and demonic resentment and shattered laws. The King of the Sea had once quelled it with the "Mysterious Water Purification Array." Now, however, ripples spread deep within its eye. At first, they were like gentle waves, but in an instant, the entire Burning God Sea silently boiled, viscous liquid flames surging into giant bubbles. Where the bubbles burst, a vast amount of resentment overflowed, and strands of ancient will were awakened.

King Zhenhai was shocked. His Xuan Shui True Body, which was ten thousand feet tall, suddenly swelled up, and the array shone brightly, trying to suppress the change. However, the power surged from the origin of the realm, vast and boundless. The array was like paper meeting a blade, and was torn apart in an instant.

"not good!"

King Zhenhai coughed up a mouthful of blood and staggered.

"Boom!" A deafening roar.

In the deepest part of the Ember Sea, in that abyss of nothingness beyond the reach of even divine sense, a pair of colossal eyes slowly opened. Neither blood nor flesh, they were formed from the laws of molten lava and the Dao of Destruction. Within their pupils, nebulae of scorching energy swirled endlessly, and the whites of their eyes flowed with ancient, resentful flames. The moment they opened, all flames submitted, the scorching energy trembled, and remnant souls murmured—it was as if a king had descended upon the world, and all flames paid homage!

A vast and boundless will swept across the eight wastelands, filled with an endless desire for destruction.

"The...fire thief..."

The divine thoughts erupted like billions of volcanoes, piercing the souls of all living beings. The weak bled from all seven orifices, their consciousness on the verge of shattering.

"...He should be... executed!"

The last two characters transformed into the laws and decrees of Heaven.

Above the heavens, where the crimson-gold vortex had split open, dark red, like blood, stained the sky. A colossal hand, rising from the sea of ​​embers, compressed from billions of tons of ember energy, tore through the void, blotting out the sun. The palm's markings were chains of surging laws, and its fingertips burned with the flames of burning stars, aiming directly at the roots of the Chaos Dao Tree that had pierced the "Heavenly Core"!

This is the wrath of the supreme will of this realm—the "Burning Heaven Ancestral Spirit," born from the fusion of the remnant soul of the Burning Heaven God and Demon with the shattered Heavenly Dao. It has slumbered for countless epochs, but has finally been awakened because the Chaos Dao Tree has absorbed its essence.

Before the giant hand even arrived, the void for a thousand miles was already shattered like glass, with chaotic currents surging forth. The Nine Heavens Ember Fire Array wailed, and cracks appeared on the thirty-six weapon-refining towers, teetering on the verge of collapse.

Xiao Jingtian and the others looked ashen-faced. This was beyond human resistance; it was the wrath of the world itself, bordering on chaos!

At the critical moment, a clear and cold voice resounded throughout the heavens and earth.

"presumptuous."

Mingyue stood atop the Rift Universe, her platinum hair fluttering in the wind, her golden eyes burning with battle intent. The Dao Seed formed from the Chaos Puppet Dao core within her body spun rapidly, resonating intensely with the myriad Chaos Ember Puppets.

"All weapons unite as one, heed my command!"

The divine will of the bright moon, as steadfast as the law, spread throughout the four directions.

"Roar--!"

Ten thousand ash puppets roared in unison, their dark gray bodies disintegrating and melting into a chaotic torrent of metal and ash fire energy, soaring into the sky, traversing thousands of miles, and all merging behind the bright moon.

"The battle begins—ten thousand weapons burn the heavens!"

With her hands forming a hand seal, the surging energy behind her was reorganized and recreated under the control of the Chaos Puppet Dao. Using the Dao as a pen and the laws as ink, she wrote the name of a war god.

Gears meshed, a skeletal structure was built, puppet patterns formed the foundation, and array patterns formed the veins. A colossal god, ten thousand feet tall, swiftly took shape in the void.

Its entire body is a blend of dark gold and gray-white, its metallic form exuding an aura of destruction. It has three heads and six arms, each face resembling the bright moon, yet exuding an even more majestic and cold aura. Its six arms wield a giant blade, a spear, and a pagoda, all formed from the laws of puppetry. In the center of its chest, a massive chaotic Dao seed mark slowly rotates, a projection of the Bright Moon's original Dao seed.

Chaos God of Extinction!

Mingyue fused three ember cores, using millions of puppet soldiers as the body and herself as the core of the formation, to create an unparalleled battle formation!

"war!"

With a thought, the Chaos God of Ashes opened all six eyes, and twelve divine lights pierced through heaven and earth. He clenched his arms together, meeting the giant palm of ash energy with a powerful punch!
Silently.

Where fist and palm collided, space annihilated, transforming into an ever-expanding black singularity. Laws were obliterated into chaotic particles, surging forth in all directions. The earth cracked, mountains turned to dust, and the sea of ​​embers unleashed a raging torrent!

The array light on the Rift Universe flashed wildly, and Xiao Jingtian and the others steadied themselves, their eyes filled with horror.

One man, commanding an army of thousands, became a god, and stood against the wrath of the World Spirit!
High above, the giant palm of ash energy stretched endlessly, but the Chaos God of Ashes revealed his talent – ​​"Ember Fire Devouring".

At the point of impact, a chaotic vortex opened, frantically devouring the power of the giant palm; the stronger the opponent, the stronger it became! The aura surged, and the fighting spirit burned ever brighter!

"Roar--!"

The ancestral spirit of the Burning Heaven roared in fury, and the giant palm of ash energy ignited primordial ash fire, transforming into a venomous dragon of resentment that coiled around the body of the Burning God.

The Chaos God of Ashes moved all four arms in unison—a spear swept across, decapitating a poisonous dragon; a giant blade cleaved through the sea of ​​fire; a pagoda suppressed the resentment, obliterating it. High in the sky, the war between gods and demons reignited, the radiance of laws shining brightly over the Ashes Core!
The battle waves swept across tens of thousands of miles, turning the newly reborn land into scorched earth once again.

Mingyue remained calm, but the chaotic Dao patterns within her golden eyes flowed endlessly. Her true intention was to take advantage of the collision of laws to invade the core of the ancestral spirit and peek into its origin!
With each bit of power absorbed, a wisp of the law sample returns to the transmission path, endlessly analyzed, and under the onslaught of massive amounts of data, the truth emerges.

The Ancestral Spirit of Burning Heaven is born from the entanglement of remnants of divine and demonic souls and fragments of the Heavenly Dao, like two sides of a coin—one side is protection, the other is destruction. What holds these two together is a hidden source—the "Origin of Nightmare," which shares the same origin as the Lord of Nightmare, but is even more ancient and pure!
This thing twists and corrupts remnants of the soul, polluting the Heavenly Dao, turning guardians into tyrannical forces, and destruction into rage. This is the root of the ancestral spirits' loss of control!
"found it."

The bright moon's golden eyes suddenly shone.

When the Chaos God and the giant hand clashed to their extremes, their energies intertwined most deeply, and the ancestral spirit's will was fully poured into it, the Bright Moon Divine Consciousness transformed into a Chaos Thorn, flowing upstream along the Devouring Channel, piercing straight into the core of the ancestral spirit, the Nightmare Origin that coexists with the remnant soul and the Heavenly Dao!

Not for destruction, but for analysis and stripping away!
"Om-!"

At the bottom of the molten sea, the giant lava eye trembled suddenly, revealing confusion and pain.

High above, the giant palm of ash energy paused for a moment.

This is the moment!

"break!"

With a clear shout from the bright moon, the six arms of the Chaos God merged into one, transforming into a Chaos Divine Drill that pierced through heaven and earth, rotating with a mysterious trajectory and penetrating the palm of the giant hand!
On the divine drill is a mark of the Chaos Puppet Dao—the very source of the law that Mingyue deciphered, specifically designed to sever the connection between the Nightmare Origin and the remnant soul and the Heavenly Dao!

Stab it--!
The invisible chain broke.

The colossal hand that blotted out the sky collapsed with a deafening roar, and the ashes fell like dust.

Chaos God of Ashes pierced the giant palm with a single strike, but did not pursue the attack. Dao patterns flowed within Bright Moon Golden Eyes; the true purpose of that strike had been achieved—the Chaos Puppet Dao Mark had taken root in the core of the Ancestral Spirit like a seed, frantically analyzing that strange Nightmare Origin!

"Om-!"

Deep within the Sea of ​​Ashes, the giant lava eye trembled violently, its confusion and pain transforming into a raging fury. The entire Xuan Yuan Ash Realm trembled, and the scorched earth for thousands of miles crumbled once more. Endless ash energy surged from the earth's veins, rising like billions of black dragons into the sky and merging into the body of the ancestral spirit.

"You blasphemers...I...will burn your souls to ashes for eternity!"

The will of the Burning Heaven Ancestral Spirit materialized into sonic waves, carrying the power of the realm's origin, and exploded with a deafening roar. The sky turned completely dark red, and countless chains of laws descended from the void, intertwining and instantly constructing a terrifying domain covering tens of thousands of miles—the Burning Heaven Prison!
Within the domain, flames boiled, and all laws transformed into blades of destruction. Space solidified like divine iron, and the flow of time became chaotic, sometimes stagnant like ancient ice, sometimes accelerating like a fleeting moment. The brilliance of the thirty-six Heaven-Burning Refining Towers dimmed rapidly, countless cracks appeared on their bodies, and the earth beneath them crumbled inch by inch, forcibly assimilated by the power of the domain and reduced to nothingness.

The Chaos God's towering body suddenly sank, its dark gold surface creaking under the pressure of an invisible force, with fine cracks appearing on its surface. Its six arms reached for the sky, and its pagoda, giant blade, and spear erupted with intense chaotic light, struggling to withstand the crushing force of this world.

The bright moon stood atop the Rift Universe, its long platinum hair dancing wildly in the raging energy storm.

With a flick of her fingertips, Mingyue conjured countless intricate runes behind her, which swirled like a galaxy, constantly calculating, analyzing, and adjusting the Chaos God's responses. Each collision of laws stirred up a shower of chaotic light, annihilating and reborn.

The two supreme realms clashed violently, the aftershocks like countless celestial blades slicing across the earth. The newly built immortal city shook violently, its protective array flickered unpredictably, countless cultivators' blood surged, and those with weaker cultivation collapsed to the ground, their faces filled with despair. The milky white lava gushing from the earth's core was forcibly forced back into the ley lines, and swathes of chaotic fire lotuses withered away. The world, which had just begun to come alive, seemed on the verge of returning to death.

Xiao Jingtian activated the "Ember Realm Map" with all his might. The mountain and river veins in the map flickered wildly, trying to stabilize the earth's veins, but it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

The King of Zhenhai roared, and his Xuan Shui True Body and the Purification Array combined their power to transform into a monstrous blue wave that surged upwards, causing only a ripple at the edge of the Burning Heaven Prison before being completely evaporated.

In that instant when all living beings were terrified and the world was about to collapse, a formless and intangible Daoist aura, as vast as the first opening of a starry sea, emanated from the deepest part of the void.

This aura was gentle yet irresistible. Wherever it passed, the boiling embers quietly subsided, the shattered earth healed as before, and the chaotic spacetime returned to order. The Burning Heaven Prison domain, which covered tens of thousands of miles, was gently smoothed and dissolved by this power, like snow melting in the spring sun, and could no longer cause any damage.

The shattered immortal city was restored to stability, the swaying Chaos Dao Tree was revitalized, and milky white magma began to gush forth again.

All the devastating effects were smoothed over in an instant.

It was as if an invisible giant hand had effortlessly erased all the wounds.

In the void, Li Mu's figure quietly appeared, shrouded in a hazy chaotic aura. His gaze was calm as he looked towards the earth-shattering battle between gods and demons in the distance. His Chaotic Dao Domain had already unfolded, silently protecting this newly born land, but he did not directly intervene in the battle.

At the heart of the battlefield, the fierce battle between Mingyue and the Ancestral Spirit of Burning Heaven has reached a fever pitch.

The Chaos God of Ashes moved all six arms in unison, each strike triggering the Chaos Puppet Dao Laws, transforming into divine powers that tore apart the universe, colliding wildly with the raging waves of the Ashes Sea and the chains of destruction driven by the Burning Heaven Ancestral Spirit.

The light of the laws vanished and was reborn, and the roar of the Dao resonated throughout the soul.

Mingyue's golden eyes grew brighter and brighter. With the help of the Chaos Dao Seal's analysis, Mingyue had reached the most critical step in stripping away the origin of the Nightmare. The counterattack of the Burning Heaven Ancestral Spirit was also becoming more and more frantic and violent!
Li Mu gazed silently, his eyes filled with endless chaos and decay.

The Chaotic Dao Domain instantly enveloped the entire battlefield. The tyrannical laws of the Heaven-Burning Prison, and the aftershocks of the collision that were enough to tear apart stars, touched the hazy chaotic energy surrounding him, and melted away silently like ice and snow thrown into a furnace, unable to cause even the slightest ripple.

Li Mu's very existence is an absolute barrier, protecting the crumbling new realm and creating an undisturbed vacuum of laws for Mingyue.

With this supreme protection, the chaotic Dao patterns in Mingyue's golden eyes suddenly shone brightest!

"Analysis complete... The essence has been stripped away; now is the time to act!"

With a sharp shout, Mingyue Qing abruptly changed the hand seals.

High above, the Chaos God of Ember, who was clashing head-on with the endless raging waves of the Ember Sea and the chains of destruction, suddenly had the Chaos Dao Seed mark on his chest spin wildly, bursting out with hundreds of millions of fine, silk-like Chaos Puppet Patterns. These Patterns spread and permeated wildly like countless roots along the Chaos Dao Seal that had previously blasted into the core of the Ancestral Spirit!
"Roar--!"

At the bottom of the Ember Sea, the Ancestral Spirit of Burning Heaven let out a roar that shook the universe. Within its molten giant eye, madness and savagery surged violently, and wisps of extremely subtle yet twisted, lifelike dark purple energy were being forcibly extracted from the Ancestral Spirit's core by the chaotic puppet patterns!

It is that ancient and pure "Origin of Nightmare"!
Once this object was disturbed, the power of the ancestral spirit immediately became chaotic, like a flood. The countless chains of law hanging from the sky became dim and flickering, and the Burning Heaven Prison Domain trembled violently, showing signs of collapse.

"town!"

The bright moon would not allow itself to change. The Chaos God of Embers spread out all six arms, and a giant blade, a spear, and a pagoda shot out simultaneously, intertwining in the sky to form a chaotic cage that covered the four extremes and eight wastelands! On the cage, countless puppet patterns flickered and fell, constantly suppressing and regulating the violent and scattered power of the ancestral spirit.

At the same time, the extracted Nightmare Origin, though as fine as a hair, erupted with an evil and resentment that could freeze one's soul, frantically assaulting the constraints of the Chaos Puppet Pattern.

Mingyue's face turned pale, clearly under immense pressure. (End of Chapter)