My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1114: The Spiritwood War Begins

In the Nether Prison, time seemed to lose all meaning.

Every day, one faced only unchanging dimness. And the endless wails of agony that echoed in one's ears without cease.

The wisdom of those black mist jailers appeared rather low. For Li Fan, this sudden additional prisoner, they merely issued cackling laughs, then mechanically activated the formations in the prisoner pillar, attempting to torment him.

Naturally, all were easily resolved by Li Fan.

Yet he cooperated by simulating his own screams of agony, fooling the black mist jailers into leaving satisfied.

Besides these frequently appearing low-level jailers in the Nether Prison, one could occasionally spot patrolling cultivators from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance.

There were three in total, taking turns to come. For the task of inspecting the Nether Prison, they often merely went through the motions. After all, the Nether Prison had been peaceful for thousands of years, with never any disturbances.

However, after a period of observation, Li Fan also discerned that the area where he currently hid was merely the outermost layer of the Nether Prison. For the prisoners held here, the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance truly paid little attention. Li Fan had even personally witnessed one of his neighbors, unable to endure the formation's torment, shatter his soul and scatter. For a long time afterward, no one came to check.

It was only when the black mist jailers conducted their routine patrol that they discovered it. Then they activated the purification formation, cleansed the black pillar, and awaited the arrival of the next prisoner.

This state of the Nether Prison left Li Fan quite satisfied.

The chance of discovery was very small, and normally no one came to disturb him.

Enjoying the tranquility, Li Fan prepared for the final world-destroying plan on one side, while observing the situation in the Spiritwood Realm through the Holy Embryo on the other.

After Li Fan issued the order for all to prepare for battle and fled, for quite a long time, the outside world remained calm and peaceful. There was no sign at all of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance about to launch a war.

This led everyone to murmur inwardly, doubting Li Fan's judgment.

However, awed by the might of the True Immortal of Salvation and Mortal Compassion, they dared not show it.

Yet Li Fan knew this was merely the calm before the storm.

Facts proved Li Fan's prediction correct.

On this day, the sealing formation at the entrance to the Spiritwood Realm suddenly showed faint traces of fluctuation, all in utter silence.

The Holy Embryo Li Fan detected the anomaly first.

Focusing his mind to observe for a moment, Li Fan snorted coldly: "They do have some skill. It seems the formations I gifted to the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance have already been thoroughly studied by them. Compared to before, their formation level has improved by at least a century. It's just a pity..."

"They still lag behind me by more than a generation!"

"At their turtle-like speed, without three months, they won't crack the formation. And that's even without me repairing it. But thinking the other way, if it were the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance, they might not have that patience. If breaking the formation fails, they should resort to a direct assault..."

Li Fan did not believe that a mere formation could withstand the assault of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's army.

"Why not create an opening and lure a batch of them in first, then trap them like turtles in a jar!" As his thoughts raced, Li Fan quickly devised a plan.

Although, for safety's sake, his true body had already fled, Li Fan had no intention of completely abandoning resistance against the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's pressure.

After all, accumulating the foundation of the Spiritwood Realm in this lifetime had been no easy feat; it had consumed vast amounts of effort and energy.

Now that the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance had come knocking, he certainly had to put up a fight.

"This is the perfect chance to test the mettle of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance."

"See if they truly deserve the title of one of the Xuanhuang Realm's two dominant organizations."

The Holy Embryo Li Fan notified everyone in the Spiritwood Realm to prepare for battle. At the same time, he cooperated with the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's formation-breaking methods, gradually easing the formation's defenses.

It appeared as though the formation had truly been breached.

The opening grew larger and larger. Once a faint crack appeared at the entrance to the Spiritwood Realm's passage.

The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's first wave of attackers instantly slipped through these fissures into the Spiritwood Realm.

In the moment of confrontation, both sides were momentarily taken aback.

The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's side was surprised that the Spiritwood Realm's inhabitants seemed to have long detected their covert maneuvers and were already arrayed in strict formation.

Meanwhile, Li Fan's side was astonished that the so-called vanguard of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance was not some elite suicide squad.

But rather, over a hundred arrows gleaming with chilling light.

"Sky-Patrolling Arrows?!" Li Fan was somewhat surprised.

The Sky-Patrolling Arrows were a major weapon developed by the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance in this era: incredibly fast, capable of traversing an entire prefecture in mere breaths. Their power was also astonishing, nearly equivalent to a strike from an ordinary Dao Integration Immortal Sage.

Yet that was not the most terrifying aspect. The true strength of the Sky-Patrolling Arrows lay in their ability to link together into a special formation, forming a massive net that could even twist and influence the laws of heaven and earth.

During the previous great war between the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance and the Five Elders Association, the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance had used the Sky-Patrolling Arrows to disrupt a vast expanse of heavenly principles, preventing the Five Elders Association's Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereigns from intervening in the battle.

"It seems the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance intends to execute a decapitation strike. One hundred sixty-eight Sky-Patrolling Arrows; for an ordinary small realm, this move would likely eradicate all living forces outright. However..."

Li Fan sneered, reacting with remarkable speed.

First, he used the grand formation enveloping the Spiritwood Realm to interfere with these Sky-Patrolling Arrows, preventing them from completing their array. Then, he dispatched the Tianyang Immortal Puppet, using overwhelming might to collect and suppress them one by one before they could scatter and wreak havoc.

The Sky-Patrolling Arrows were fast, but the Tianyang Immortal Puppet was faster!

The Tianyang Immortal Puppet transformed into a streak of azure light, darting back and forth across the sky.

In the blink of an eye, it had subdued them all.

"Take a few to study; see if we can turn this thing to our advantage." The Holy Embryo Li Fan said to the Master Qiaogong.

Master Qiaogong eagerly accepted the Sky-Patrolling Arrows and hurried off without delay to disassemble and analyze them.

On the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's side, the sudden loss of contact with over a hundred Patrolling Heaven Arrows caught them off guard.

Stunned for a long while, they delayed launching the next wave of attacks.

Seeing this, Li Fan's eyes gleamed. He feigned urgency in repairing the sealing formation at the entrance.

As the "hard-won" crack in the formation began to slowly heal. The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance indeed could not hold back and soon launched another assault.

This time, what passed through the entrance fissure and appeared before the Spiritwood Realm's inhabitants was a team of cultivators clad entirely in golden battle armor.

Shrouded in golden light, their faces could not be discerned. Even their precise positions seemed impossible to lock onto. Upon entering the Spiritwood Realm, the golden-armored cultivators swiftly dispersed.

Their speed was extraordinarily swift, even surpassing the Sky-Patrolling Arrows by a fraction.

Most troublesome of all, they left trails of afterimages along their flight paths.