A Farmer's Journey To Immortality

“The fuc*k. There are still unknown problems even after depleting a decade’s worth of Spirit Farming Points? Isn’t this basically a swindling tactic?”

Aksai looked at Yelia with a gaze that clearly showed the complaints filling his heart.

Yelia smiled bitterly when she saw that look on his face. She understood what he was thinking.

To defend herself, she pointed toward a certain location. It was the raised central platform made entirely from pure void stone in the middle of the gu insect farm.

Void stone was supposed to be a good conductor of spatial laws, making it ideal for carving spatial runes for the best results. It was not supposed to behave like this, opposing all of Aksai’s extra senses the way it did. Especially when the void stone itself had no spatial, elemental, or any other kind of runes etched onto it.

What was even stranger was that, for some reason, this void stone platform had remained untouched by the rest of the formations inside the gu insect farm. It was as if the Gu Poison King and his disciple had given up on cultivating whatever was on that raised void platform.

The stretched shadows avoided it instinctively. Even the spatial runes flowing through the void seemed unable to fully approach that area.

Aksai immediately narrowed his eyes.

“Hmm? That thing is blocking the integration?”

Yelia nodded slowly.

“Yes, master. There is something on that platform.”

Her expression became more serious.

“Something strong or weird enough to interfere with the surrounding spatial laws themselves.”

Aksai’s gaze sharpened instantly.

Even Origin Energy was being obstructed?

What exactly was hidden there?

Yelia continued speaking.

“The Enchanted Everwood Farm can still forcefully absorb the remaining area,” she explained calmly. “However, the amount of Spirit Farming Points required would increase tremendously.”

Aksai’s face twitched slightly.

“How much?”

Once again, Yelia calmly stated the number. Aksai almost cursed loudly on the spot.

“Son of a… I don’t even have that many left anymore.”

Yelia nodded helplessly.

“I know. This is why the process is paused.”

Silence briefly filled the underground space.

The swallowing shadows continued consuming the farm around them while the central platform remained completely unaffected.

Aksai slowly narrowed his eyes.

“Alright. I’m broke so no use discussing if I should spend more points on this task or not. What are my remaining options?”

Yelia answered immediately.

“You either manually remove the obstacle yourself…”

She paused briefly before continuing.

“…or abandon this section of the gu insect farm completely.”

After hearing the explanation, Aksai continued staring at the raised stone platform from a distance for a few seconds.

The shadows created by the Enchanted Everwood Farm still moved around the rest of the underground region like living creatures. Entire sections of the gu insect farm continued disappearing into the void silently.

However, the central platform remained untouched. It stood there quietly like an isolated island in the middle of a black ocean.

Aksai narrowed his eyes slightly before spreading his Spirit Sense toward it once again.

Nothing.

The moment his Spirit Sense approached the platform, it disappeared. Not blocked. Not reflected. Not resisted. It simply vanished.

As if something had swallowed it whole before it could return any information back to him.

Aksai’s expression became serious immediately. He then activated his Qi Sense carefully.

Once again—

Nothing.

The moment the invisible sensing waves touched the area around the platform, they disappeared completely.

A faint chill ran down Aksai’s spine. Finally, he used his Aether Sense.

This was one of his strongest methods of perception. Very few things in the same cultivation realm could escape it completely.

Yet—

The result remained exactly the same. The feedback vanished instantly. It felt as if his senses themselves were being eaten away by something invisible.

Aksai slowly lowered his head. This was the first time since entering the cultivation world that all three of his extra senses had failed him at the same time.

Spirit Sense. Qi Sense. Aether Sense. None of them worked.

Aksai remained silent for a few moments before turning toward Yelia.

“Yelia dear, can you sense anything?”

Yelia quietly looked toward the stone platform for several seconds.

Then—

She slowly shook her head.

Aksai’s eyes widened slightly.

“You can’t?”

Yelia’s expression also looked uncertain now.

“No,” she admitted honestly. “I can sense that something exists there. Perhaps… Is it alive? I… I am not too sure. I cannot identify what it is.”

That answer shocked Aksai even more.

Ever since Yelia awakened properly, she had helped him countless times. Her knowledge was vast. Her understanding of formations, spatial laws, farming, artifacts, and isolated dimensions far surpassed his own.

Aksai had long suspected that the Enchanted Everwood Farm was at least a 5th Order Artifact. Perhaps even a quasi 6th Order Artifact. An artifact spirit belonging to such an existence naturally possessed mysterious abilities and profound senses.

And yet—

Even Yelia could not identify what was hidden there. Aksai slowly looked back toward the platform. For the first time since entering this underground space, hesitation appeared in his eyes.

’Looks like it’s above my paygrade. Should I just give up on that place?’ he thought silently.

The thought was not unreasonable.

He had already stayed inside the apothecary for far too long. At any moment, someone from the royal faction could notice that both Arkaal and Gu Poison King Qishan were dead.

Even though the master-disciple pair usually kept to themselves because of their poison experiments and personal projects, they were still extremely important figures within the royal faction.

Especially Arkaal.

He was one of the visible leaders of the royal faction. His disappearance would not go unnoticed for long.

As for Gu Poison King Qishan—

Perhaps only the higher figures of the royal faction knew he was still alive. His existence might even have been a secret hidden from ordinary members. If Qishan died quietly, the royal faction could suppress the information internally without affecting morale too much.

This was how the governments of all kinds behaved. They would suppress the chaos and deny its existence for as long as they could in order to peacefully fleece the masses for all that they had to offer.

But Arkaal was different. His death was the kind of chaos that couldn’t be hidden.