Gou Dao and Cultivation of Immortals, Start from Farming

The Thunder Punishment Divine Realm has been transformed into a purgatory of unpredictable thunder.

As far as the eye could see, there were endless gray-white lightning snakes rushing and roaming, hissing and tearing through the sky, ripping apart layers of void. The Soul-Eating Thunder Law roared and twisted wildly, devouring order, and all laws wailed.

The Starry Sky Array, jointly set up by Xingyan Daozun and Taiyu Immortal Lord, was now flickering with light, like a candle in the wind.

The celestial compass hangs high above, with chains of countless stars hanging down, tightly binding the extremely violent gray-white eerie tree in the center. Thunder serpents bite relentlessly, the chains break inch by inch, and stardust falls like rain.

The Taiyu Array spread out in all directions, with layers of space folding and compressing to form an invisible barrier, imprisoning the domain of the strange tree; however, the gray-white strange lightning was extremely fierce, tearing through the void each time, causing the array to ripple and nearly collapse.

The trunk of the eerie tree was deathly pale, covered with strange lightning patterns, and new bone spurs grew from the broken horn, twisting and grotesque, constantly bursting with soul-corroding electric fire; the eerie fire and lightning sea formed by the single eye boiled and rolled, the intent of destruction and madness almost solidified, drawing the remaining essence of the entire Thunder Punishment God Domain, causing it to go berserk.

"Xingyan, you can't hold on much longer!"

Taiyu Immortal Lord let out a clear shout, a wisp of silvery blood spilling from the corner of his lips, indicating that the Dao Yuan maintaining the array had reached its limit.

Xingyan Daozun's face was pale. He pushed the rotation of the Zhou Tian Star Chart to its limit, deducing countless changes, but still could not find a way to completely suppress this fiend.

The gray-white eerie tree is deeply connected to the Thunder Punishment Realm Core. Its lightning power is inexhaustible, making it difficult to destroy. In the confrontation, it continuously draws lightning energy, and its ferocity increases steadily.

"Jie!"

Suddenly, the strange tree let out a piercing shriek that tore through the soul. The one-eyed sea of ​​lightning abruptly contracted and then erupted. A gray-white lightning spear, thicker than a star and condensing the brutal intent of the lightning punishment of all realms, suddenly took shape. Ignoring the distortion of space, it carried the power to end all laws and directly attacked the weak connection node of the star array!

If this attack hits, the great formation will surely break, and Xingyan Daozun and Taiyu Immortal Lord will suffer a terrifying backlash!
Suddenly, the entire Thunder Hell froze, and a vast Daoist aura that surpassed all thunder descended!
An invisible force tore open a rift across the star field in the void, and chaotic energy surged in like a celestial river flowing backward. Wherever it passed, the rampant and eerie white lightning serpents cried out and retreated as if they had encountered their natural enemy.

Within the rift, the phantom of a towering Chaos Dao Tree manifested, its branches piercing through reality and illusion. As its leaves swayed, countless miniature worlds were born and died in rotation, radiating the supreme meaning of encompassing all things and evolving the heavens.

Beneath the Chaos Dao Tree, a figure in a green robe stepped out—it was Li Mu!
In his left hand he held the Chaos Dao Banner, its surface fluttering, with grayish-white light cascading down like a waterfall from the heavens, taking the lead to block the earth-shattering grayish-white lightning spear.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise.

The white lightning spear collided with the chaotic banner light, unleashing a terrifying impact capable of annihilating ordinary worlds. However, the banner only rippled slightly before swallowing and dissipating the violent lightning power, remaining as stable as a rock.

"Lord of Chaos!"

Xingyan Daozun and Taiyu Immortal Lord felt their spirits lifted and the pressure lessened.

Li Mu nodded slightly, his gaze already fixed on the gray-white strange tree. The chaotic star swirling in his eyes reflected the countless thick and violent strange lightning roots between the strange tree and the Thunder Punishment Realm Core, which were continuously drawing on the source power of this realm.

"Cut it off!"

Li Mu shouted sharply, his right hand grasping outwards, and the Chaos Axe materialized, its blade gleaming with cold light, reflecting the scene of creation.

Before he finished speaking, Li Mu waved his arm, and the Dao Axe transformed into an extremely dark gray line. Ignoring the barriers of time and space, it followed the trajectory of the Dao Fruit of Order and precisely slashed at the strange lightning roots that were deeply rooted in the core of the world!
“Crack! Crack! Crack—!”

A series of crisp cracking sounds rang out, like a galaxy collapsing. The incredibly close connection between the Strange Tree and the Thunder Punishment Realm Source was forcibly severed by the Chaos Dao Axe with the most domineering force!

"Roar-!"

The strange tree let out a deafening scream, its trunk convulsed violently, the light of its single eye's sea of ​​lightning dimmed abruptly, and its aura plummeted like an avalanche. Without the support of the source of the realm, the massive strange tree's body became illusory and unstable, and the power of the lightning serpents around it greatly diminished.

Upon seeing this, Xingyan Daozun and Taiyu Immortal Lord were invigorated, forcefully raising their Dao Yuan, and the Zhou Tian Star Chart and Taiyu Array Diagram shone even brighter.

The star chains and spatial barriers tightened abruptly, imprisoning the struggling, gray-white eerie tree in place.

Without hesitation, Li Mu opened his mouth and spat out the Chaos Dao Fire, which surged forth and transformed into a sea of ​​fire that enveloped the remains of the strange tree and the scattered strange lightning.

The Chaos Dao Fire burned the heavens, refining all laws. Gray-white lightning twisted and struggled in the fire, emitting sizzling sounds, and was finally refined into pure essence, flowing into the Chaos Dao Tree.

However, this strange tree is more ferocious than any other in the three realms, and in desperate situations, it is even more resolute than the previous two!
"Wan Lei...Tongji!"

The remaining will of the Strange Tree let out a venomous roar, and its illusory body suddenly burst forth with billions of pale white lightning bolts, which rolled back to its core; it was trying to detonate the gathered source of strange lightning, along with the remaining source of the realm that had not yet been severed, and reduce the entire divine realm to nothingness!
"not good!"

The expressions of Xingyan Daozun and Taiyu Immortal Lord changed simultaneously. Such a self-destruction was enough to severely injure or even annihilate a World Lord-level being.

"Banner is coming!"

Li Mu's eyes narrowed, and the Chaos Dao Banner expanded instantly, its surface unfolding like a celestial curtain. The gray flowing light transformed into a substantial barrier, not only protecting Xingyan Daozun, Taiyu Immortal Lord, and their allied forces, but also forcibly enveloping the core area of ​​the self-destructing Ghost Tree!
With a deafening roar, the world-destroying lightning exploded wildly inside the banner, its pale light shining through the banner and illuminating the void with blinding brilliance.

The surface of the Chaos Banner trembled violently, cracks appeared everywhere, but they quickly healed as the chaotic energy replenished it; the destructive power within it raged to the extreme, but ultimately failed to break through this protective layer.

As the endless lightning gradually subsided and the roaring ceased, Li Mu finally put away the Chaos Dao Banner.

All that could be seen was that the gray-white eerie tree had been completely annihilated, leaving only a scorching void and a large amount of pure yet violent eerie lightning essence, with fragments of shattered world source floating around.

The Chaos Tree extended its countless roots, like a giant whale sucking in water, seizing and devouring the origin and fragments; the Chaos Mother Source within the tree surged and circulated, forcibly suppressing and refining this last stubborn force of lightning.

At the same time, Li Mu raised his hand and pressed down on the crumbling Thunder Punishment Divine Realm below.

Having lost the source of the Thunder Realm, and after a great battle and self-destruction, this realm is on the verge of disintegration. All things are withering, the laws are collapsing, and the Thunder Spirits are scattering in sorrow.

"Chaos evolves, thunder source is reforged."

With a thought from Li Mu, the orderly fruits on the branches shone brightly.

The refined Thunder Punishment Origin underwent purification and restoration within the Chaos Dao Tree, transforming into a pure and new Thunder Punishment Origin imbued with a new order of renewal. Accompanied by the vast Chaos Mother Origin, it shone down like the divine radiance of creation.

"Buzz!" A Daoist sound resounded, piercing through the remnant realm.

The collapsed void began to mend, the shattered earth reformed, and the dissipated lightning laws were rebuilt and perfected under the guidance of chaos.

On the scorched earth, a new thunder pool was quietly being conceived; in the clouds, purple lightning and golden snakes darted and roamed; exuding terrifying thunderous intent, there was no longer any eeriness or deathly silence, but instead revealed the majestic and righteous power of heaven that could cleanse evil spirits.

The Thunder Punishment Divine Realm, now completely renewed and imbued with even greater thunderous energy than before, has been reborn amidst the radiance of chaos!
Star Dao Venerable and Taiyu Immortal Lord gathered their followers, gazing upon the newly born world, feeling its pure and boundless thunderous Dao essence. Their hearts were filled with indescribable shock. This great world, on the verge of destruction and utterly corrupted, had actually been reshaped in the hands of the Chaos Dao Lord.

These methods are almost comparable to the creation of heaven and earth by ancient gods.

"The Chaos Dao Lord's divine powers have seized the creation of heaven and earth. We... bow in submission." Xingyan Dao Venerable took a deep breath and, together with Taiyu Immortal Lord, solemnly bowed to Li Mu.

If Li Mu hadn't arrived in time, the two would likely have been severely injured, and the Thunder Punishment Divine Realm would have been doomed. Li Mu accepted the greeting calmly, his gaze sweeping over the newly born Thunder Realm. He successively devoured and refined the strange sources of the three great realms and a portion of their origins. The Chaos Dao Tree grew increasingly vigorous, its branches bearing full and round Dao fruits. With each pulsation, it stirred up the chaotic energy around him like the ebb and flow of tides, its aura unfathomable.

Li Mu raised his head and looked into the depths of the void, as if he could penetrate the endless star field and glimpse the still rampant and spreading plague of the strange race, and the many realms that had fallen into despair; his brows were furrowed.

Deep within the Temple of the Source of Decay, a crack suddenly opened in the trunk of the Ancient God of the Source of Decay, and a viscous, dark red, foul light surged out like a flood breaking through a dam, corroding through all the surrounding shadows.

The pale white mist formed by the Devouring God surged like boiling water, and countless resentful faces roared in unison, causing the entire temple to tremble violently in the storm of wills.

"Blazing Flames, Frost, and Thunderous Punishment—the three bizarre main realms have all collapsed!" The ancient god of decay's divine thoughts were like a world-destroying gale sweeping up from an ancient abyss, each word carrying bone-corroding resentment and raging fury.

Those three strange trees, nurtured with the foundation of a realm lord and with a massive amount of primordial energy, were originally the key fulcrums that eroded the main trunk of the Ancestral Tree of Myriad Realms, but now they have vanished into thin air in an instant!

The ancient god of the Devouring Realm condensed its mist into a ferocious maw, roaring angrily: "Lord of Chaos! It's that damned fellow again! Our clan has planned for ten thousand years, step by step, yet he alone has broken through three barriers! If this fiend is not eliminated, there is no hope of devouring the realm!"

"We can't wait any longer!" Countless branches pierced the void from the main trunk of the Ancient God of Corruption, connecting with the true form of the towering Mother Tree in the darkness: "Now, only by exerting all our strength and catalyzing the Mother Tree with the force of thunder can we reverse the tide!"

"Awaken the true form of the Mother Tree! With the sacrifice of the thirty-six remnant realms and the fuel of billions of living beings, quickly transform the Ancestral Tree!" The Devouring God of the Realms roared in response, and the mist boiled like a blood tide, transforming into thousands of pale and eerie patterns, merging with the power of the source of corruption, and together shaking the terrifying existence that slumbered in the depths of the endless void.

Beyond the myriad realms, a muffled, primordial roar erupted from the depths of nothingness, shattering the void inch by inch. An indescribable, colossal shadow slowly emerged from the broken pieces.

The monstrous mother tree, with only a corner of its true form revealed, already transcends the ordinary realm; its trunk is ashen white as a mountain of bones piled up over millions of years, its texture twisted, like countless painful faces squeezing and writhing; its branches and leaves are not green, but rather like gray, decaying organs extending outwards, with viscous, dark red sap flowing through its veins, exuding an aura of eternal death.

The roots, as thick as the Milky Way and as thin as a hair, pierced through layers of void from the main body of the mother tree, precisely embedding themselves into the thirty-six remnant realms—some already completely corrupted, others still struggling and wailing.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!..."

The myriad roots of the monstrous mother tree entered the boundary, like billions of greedy mouths, piercing straight into the depths of the boundary's core.

"Do not--!"

The remaining fire spirit of the Blazing Flame Domain let out a mournful cry, its body melting away like wax in the eerie mist.

The vast ocean has dried up, the seabed has cracked, and gray-white rock layers have been exposed.

In the Azure Profound Spirit Realm, all trees withered and died, and the lush mountains and rivers were transformed into a wasteland of white bones in the blink of an eye.

Trillions of living beings—cultivators and mortals, birds and beasts, plant spirits and monsters—all howled and perished as the roots devoured them; their flesh and blood dissipated, their souls shattered, and their most primal essence and spiritual energy were forcibly plundered, flowing back to the roots and merging into the bewitching mother tree.

With this massive infusion of primordial energy, the Demonic Mother Tree roared through the sky, its manifested body rapidly expanding, its pale light illuminating the star field, deathly silence pervading the air, its aura rising steadily, and its ferocious and greedy intent sweeping across the heavens like a tidal wave!

"Stop it! Stop it now!"

Enveloped in the pure light of the Primordial Dao Venerable, he stood on the edge of a collapsing starfield, his eyes blazing with fury. With a wave of his hand, the Primordial Pure Qi transformed into a ten-thousand-foot-long bolt of lightning, slashing at a thick root that had pierced into the core of a small world.

"Hey!"

When the pure light clashed with the strange power, the roots only rippled and left shallow marks. Then the strange power counterattacked, completely obliterating the pure energy. The roots of the strange mother tree fiercely pierced into the core of the boundary, and the collapse of the small boundary suddenly intensified.

……

Flames raged across the sky, and the laws of nature mourned.

As the allied forces resisted the Demonic Mother Ancestor, its roots emitted a piercing shriek and suddenly exploded, turning into a sky full of pale white pus that splashed in all directions; the pus had an extremely strong corrosive power, instantly turning several cultivators who had formed an array into demonic slaves, and backfiring on the array!
The allied forces were thrown into disarray.

The endless roots of the mother tree still penetrate the boundary without hindrance, frantically extracting the essence of all things.

With each realm it devours, the Demonic Mother Tree grows stronger, its manifested body expands, and its roots become increasingly dense!

The Ancestral Tree of All Realms—the majestic tree that supports all heavens and maintains all laws—trembled violently at this moment. Its clear light quickly dimmed, and gray-white patches appeared on its bark, spreading rapidly.

The original crystal-clear source network that connected the three thousand worlds was polluted by the continuous influx of the strange race's origin, becoming turbid and stagnant. Using the remnant world that had been controlled as a springboard, the power of the strange transformation frantically eroded in the reverse direction along the secondary branches and fine veins of the ancestral tree!

Some minor worlds, whose origins are scarce and which depend on the ancestral tree for survival, have their boundary walls cracked like glass, their mountains and rivers have lost their color, their spiritual energy has withered, and all things are rapidly decaying, sliding into a desolate and eerie realm.

"The Ancestral Tree... is being rapidly transformed into something bizarre!"

Hao Yi Daoist gazed at the ever-expanding gray-white area on the main trunk, his voice trembling slightly. The mournful cries and plea for help emanating from the Ancestral Tree gradually weakened, replaced by an increasingly intense, cold, and deathly silence.

The shadowy figure of the Eternal Netherworld Lord appeared in the void, freezing several spreading roots with the chilling energy of the Netherworld, but with little effect: "The Mother Tree has devoured billions of living beings and the origin of realms, and its power has surged! Its roots have become entangled and symbiotic with some of the ancestral tree's veins. Forcibly severing them may cause the ancestral tree to backfire and shake the foundation of all realms!"

The Celestial Lord of Illusion created countless time-space mirror images, attempting to disrupt the Mother Tree and devour the order of time. However, the Mother Tree was too high-level, and the power of time and space falling upon it only stirred up minor ripples.

……

Despair, like a plague, spread silently among the allied forces of all realms.

They witnessed realms turning into dead lands, and billions of lives being annihilated in an instant; they witnessed the ancestral tree of all realms, the foundation of all heavens, being corrupted and eroded, its clear radiance dimming; they witnessed the true form of the corrupted mother tree growing ever larger, its oppressive power causing the souls of realm lords to tremble.

Rescue?

How to save?
The roots of the demonic mother tree have spread throughout the heavens and myriad realms, invading countless domains. It is overwhelmed and beyond saving!
Destroy the roots? Ordinary methods are unlikely to harm them, and a powerful attack might damage the ancestral tree. It's a dilemma.

Sever the connection? The mother tree is hidden deep in the void, its roots intertwined with all realms, how can it be severed?

……

The Primordial Daoist's expression was solemn, his fingertips flashing with clear light. One command after another traversed the void, mobilizing the power available in all the heavens to try and save one more realm amidst the devouring frenzy. The ancient protective array was forcibly activated, the world-suppressing ancestral artifacts shone with their final brilliance, and countless cultivators rushed forward one after another, building a defensive line with their flesh and blood...

However, the tides of history are like a raging torrent, and human effort will eventually reach its limit.

The monstrous mother tree, like a bottomless black hole, greedily and efficiently devours everything. With each realm it consumes, its power grows stronger, its roots expand wider, and its erosion of the ancestral tree deepens.

All the heavens and myriad realms are sliding towards that eternally silent and bizarre abyss with unprecedented force.

Amidst the flames of war and the cries of despair, this was truly a scene of apocalypse. (End of Chapter)