My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1114: The Spiritwood War Begins

Within the Nether Prison, the passage of time felt utterly insignificant.

Day after day, nothing changed but the perpetual gloom. And the ceaseless screams of torment that rang endlessly in one's ears.

Those jailers made of black mist didn't seem very intelligent. When it came to Li Fan, the unexpected new inmate, they just let out mocking cackles before routinely triggering the arrays inside the prison pillar to try and punish him.

Of course, Li Fan handled them all without much trouble.

Still, he played along by faking his own cries of pain, tricking the black mist jailers into departing contentedly.

Apart from these common low-rank jailers that showed up often in the Nether Prison, patrols of cultivators from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance could sometimes be seen wandering by.

Just three of them altogether, rotating their visits. When it came to checking the Nether Prison, they usually just pretended to do their duty. In the end, the Nether Prison had stayed quiet for millennia, without a single incident.

That said, after watching things for a while, Li Fan figured out that the spot where he was hiding right now was only the outer edge of the Nether Prison. The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance didn't care much about the captives kept in this area. Li Fan had even seen with his own eyes how one of his nearby prisoners, overwhelmed by the array's torture, destroyed his own soul and vanished. No one bothered to investigate for ages.

Only during the black mist jailers' regular rounds did they notice. Afterward, they fired up the cleansing array, purified the dark pillar, and waited for the next inmate to arrive.

The conditions in the Nether Prison pleased Li Fan greatly.

The risk of being found was extremely low, and usually, nobody bothered him at all.

Savoring the peace, Li Fan worked on his ultimate plan to shatter the world from one angle, while keeping an eye on events in the Spiritwood Realm via the Holy Embryo from the other.

Once Li Fan gave the command to gear up for combat and escaped, the world outside stayed serene for a good stretch. Not a hint emerged that the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance was gearing up for conflict.

This made folks whisper doubts inside about Li Fan's foresight.

But intimidated by the power of the True Immortal of Salvation and Mortal Compassion, they kept it hidden.

Even so, Li Fan understood this was just the quiet before the chaos.

Events soon confirmed that Li Fan's forecast was spot on.

That particular day, subtle ripples stirred in the barrier array guarding the Spiritwood Realm's gateway, all without a sound.

The Holy Embryo version of Li Fan picked up on the oddity right away.

Concentrating his thoughts to watch briefly, Li Fan let out a cold huff: "They've got some tricks up their sleeve. Looks like the arrays I handed over to the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance have been picked apart completely by now. From what it was earlier, their skills with formations have jumped ahead by a full hundred years at least. Too bad though..."

"They're still falling short of me by over a whole era!"

"With their snail-paced efforts, it'll take them at least three months to break through the array. And that's assuming I don't fix it up. On the flip side, if I were in the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's shoes, I doubt they'd wait that long. Should the array-cracking fail, they'd probably just charge straight in..."

Li Fan had no faith that a single array alone could hold off the full force of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's troops.

"What if I make a gap and draw some of them inside first, then seal them up tight like rats in a trap!" With ideas flashing through his mind, Li Fan came up with a scheme fast.

Even though his real self had escaped for the sake of caution, Li Fan wasn't planning to give up entirely on pushing back against the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's advance.

Building up the Spiritwood Realm's base in this life hadn't come cheap; it had demanded huge amounts of time and resources.

With the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance now at the door, he absolutely needed to resist.

"Here's the ideal moment to gauge the strength of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance."

"To check if they really live up to being one of the Xuanhuang Realm's top two powers."

The Holy Embryo Li Fan alerted all in the Spiritwood Realm to ready themselves for war. Meanwhile, he worked alongside the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's array-disrupting techniques, slowly weakening the array's protections.

It looked like the array was genuinely falling apart.

The breach kept widening bit by bit. Soon enough, a slim split formed at the passage leading into the Spiritwood Realm.

The initial batch of attackers from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance darted right through those gaps into the Spiritwood Realm.

The instant the clash began, surprise hit both parties equally.

Those from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance were shocked to find the Spiritwood Realm's people had apparently sensed their sneaky approach long ago and stood ready in perfect order.

On Li Fan's end, they were stunned that the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's supposed front line wasn't a band of crack commandos ready to die.

Instead, it was more than a hundred arrows shining with icy menace.

"Sky-Patrolling Arrows?!" Li Fan felt a bit taken aback.

The Sky-Patrolling Arrows stood as a key weapon crafted by the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance during these times: blazingly quick, able to cross a whole region in just a few breaths. Their destructive force was immense too, almost matching a blow from a standard Dao Integration Immortal Sage.

But the scariest part wasn't that. What made the Sky-Patrolling Arrows truly formidable was how they could connect to form a unique array, weaving a huge web that warped and altered the rules of heaven and earth.

In the last big clash between the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance and the Five Elders Association, the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance deployed the Sky-Patrolling Arrows to mess up a huge swath of cosmic laws, stopping the Five Elders Association's Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereigns from joining the fight.

"Looks like the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance is going for a beheading attack. One hundred sixty-eight Sky-Patrolling Arrows; against a typical minor world, that'd wipe out every bit of resistance in one go. But..."

Li Fan gave a mocking grin, moving with impressive swiftness.

To start, he employed the massive array covering the Spiritwood Realm to disrupt these Sky-Patrolling Arrows, stopping them from linking up fully. Next, he sent out the Tianyang Immortal Puppet, relying on sheer power to grab and pin them down individually before they could spread out and cause destruction.

Fast as the Sky-Patrolling Arrows were, the Tianyang Immortal Puppet outpaced them!

A trail of blue light streaked as the Tianyang Immortal Puppet zipped to and fro in the heavens.

In no time at all, it had captured every last one.

"Grab a handful for research; let's see if we can flip this against them." The Holy Embryo Li Fan instructed Master Qiaogong.

Master Qiaogong took the Sky-Patrolling Arrows with enthusiasm and rushed away immediately to take them apart and examine their workings.

Over on the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's front, the abrupt cutoff from more than a hundred Patrolling Heaven Arrows left them reeling.

Dazed for quite some time, they held off on sending the following assault wave.

Noticing that, a spark lit in Li Fan's gaze. He pretended to scramble in mending the barrier array at the gateway.

With the "barely earned" split in the array starting to close gradually. The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance couldn't wait any longer and promptly unleashed a fresh attack.

On this round, slipping past the gateway's break and facing the Spiritwood Realm's defenders was a squad of cultivators decked out head to toe in golden war gear.

Enveloped in radiant gold, their features stayed hidden. Pinning down their exact spots proved tricky too. The moment they stepped into the Spiritwood Realm, the golden-armored cultivators scattered quickly.

Their pace was incredibly rapid, edging out even the Sky-Patrolling Arrows slightly.

The biggest headache, though, was the lingering ghost images they trailed behind them as they moved.