My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1114: The Spiritwood War Begins

In the Nether Prison, the flow of time felt completely insignificant.

Day after day, nothing changed but the constant shadows. Plus the unrelenting cries of suffering that filled the air nonstop.

Those black mist jailers didn't strike anyone as particularly clever. When it came to Li Fan, the unexpected new captive, they only responded with eerie chuckles before routinely setting off the arrays inside the prison pillar in an effort to make him suffer.

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

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

Apart from these common lowly guards roaming the Nether Prison, patrols from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's cultivators showed up from time to time.

Three of them rotated the duty. For overseeing the Nether Prison, they usually just did the bare minimum. After all, the place had stayed quiet for millennia without a single incident.

But after watching for a while, Li Fan realized his hiding spot was just the outer edge of the Nether Prison. The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance barely bothered with the captives kept here. He'd even seen a nearby prisoner shatter his own soul and perish from the array's endless abuse, and no one checked on it for ages.

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

This setup in the Nether Prison suited Li Fan just fine.

The risk of getting caught was minimal, and disturbance from others was rare.

Basking in the peace, Li Fan worked on his ultimate doomsday scheme on one hand, while keeping tabs on the Spiritwood Realm's events via the Holy Embryo on the other.

After Li Fan commanded everyone to gear up for war and escaped, the outside stayed serene for a good stretch. No hint emerged of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance gearing up for conflict.

This made folks grumble in their minds, questioning Li Fan's foresight.

Even so, in fear of the True Immortal of Salvation and Mortal Compassion's power, they kept their doubts hidden.

But Li Fan understood it was only the quiet before chaos erupted.

Events soon confirmed Li Fan's hunch was spot on.

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

The Holy Embryo sensed the oddity right away.

Concentrating briefly to check it out, Li Fan let out a cold huff: "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 didn't think a simple array could hold off the full force of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's troops.

"Why not create an opening and lure a batch of them in first, then trap them like turtles in a jar!" As his mind whirled, Li Fan swiftly cooked up a strategy.

Though his real self had fled for caution's sake, Li Fan wasn't about to give up fighting the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's advance entirely.

Building up the Spiritwood Realm's base in this life had taken immense toil and resources, after all.

With the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance now at the door, he had to make them work for it.

"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 alerted all in the Spiritwood Realm to ready for combat. Meanwhile, he synced with the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's cracking techniques, slowly weakening the array's barriers.

It looked like the array was genuinely falling apart.

The gap widened steadily. Soon, a slim rift formed at the Spiritwood Realm passage's entry.

The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's initial attackers poured through the cracks into the Spiritwood Realm without delay.

In that instant of clash, surprise hit both parties.

The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's forces were shocked that the Spiritwood Realm's defenders had apparently foreseen their stealthy approach and stood ready in perfect order.

On Li Fan's end, they were stunned that the famed vanguard from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance wasn't some crack team of daredevils.

Instead, it was more than a hundred icy-glowing arrows.

"Sky-Patrolling Arrows?!" Li Fan showed some astonishment.

The Sky-Patrolling Arrows stood as a key weapon crafted by the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance in this time: blazingly quick, crossing a whole region in seconds. Their destructive force was immense, rivaling a blow from a standard Dao Integration Immortal Sage.

But the real horror wasn't just that. The Sky-Patrolling Arrows' deadliest feature was linking up into a unique array, weaving a huge web that could warp and sway the rules of heaven and earth.

In the last massive clash between the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance and the Five Elders Association, the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance had deployed the Sky-Patrolling Arrows to scramble a huge swath of celestial laws, blocking the Five Elders Association's Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereigns from joining the fray.

"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 smirked, moving with lightning reflexes.

He first unleashed the vast array covering the Spiritwood Realm to disrupt these Sky-Patrolling Arrows, stopping them from forming their pattern. Next, he sent out the Tianyang Immortal Puppet, relying on sheer power to snag and pin them down one after another before they could flee and cause destruction.

The Sky-Patrolling Arrows moved fast, but the Tianyang Immortal Puppet outpaced them!

The Tianyang Immortal Puppet turned into a bolt of blue light, zipping through the heavens this way and that.

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

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

Master Qiaogong grabbed the Sky-Patrolling Arrows with excitement and rushed away at once to break them down and examine their secrets.

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

They froze in disbelief for quite some time, putting off their follow-up strike.

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

As the "barely gained" fissure in the array started closing bit by bit. The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance couldn't wait any longer and quickly pressed the attack again.

This round, what slipped past the entry gap and faced the Spiritwood Realm's people was a squad of cultivators decked out in full golden armor.

Enveloped in radiant gold, their features stayed hidden. Pinning down their exact spots proved tricky too. Right after stepping into the Spiritwood Realm, the golden-armored cultivators scattered fast.

Their velocity was downright incredible, edging out even the Sky-Patrolling Arrows slightly.

Worst of all, they trailed ghostly echoes wherever they dashed.