Chapter 811: A Plan for the Spirit Wood Realm
"The Spirit Wood Realm."
Li Fan and Tianyang stood high in the sky, their spiritual senses slowly sweeping across the small world below.
He couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of creation.
This was a small world devoid of cultivators and humans.
Its only inhabitants were a species of tree people, born from the spirit wood.
In fact, according to records from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance declassified in his 115th life, thousands of years ago, the Spirit Wood Realm had been a desolate world, utterly devoid of life.
But when a single spirit tree took root and sprouted here, the small world gradually blossomed with vitality.
Li Fan gazed at the colossal tree in the distance, towering thousands of meters high, and at the tree people who made their homes upon it. A flicker of regret crossed his eyes.
"It's a shame this tree is bound to this small world and can't be transplanted. Otherwise, I could just cut off one of its branches, plant it in other small worlds, and solve the problem of spiritual energy scarcity once and for all."
The immense tree, thousands of meters tall, suddenly stirred without a breath of wind.
Its branches swayed, and tens of thousands of tree people, like a black swarm of locusts, surged toward Li Fan.
Li Fan snorted coldly. "They're asking for death!"
"Tianyang!"
The listless Tianyang heard his senior brother's call but didn't quite grasp his meaning, shooting him a questioning glance.
A muscle in Li Fan's cheek twitched.
Seeing Tianyang's utterly innocent expression, he had no choice but to point at the approaching army of tree people.
Only then did Tianyang react.
With a furious roar, his body swelled in an instant, growing to the same colossal size as the spirit tree itself.
Black flames erupted from his entire being, instantly incinerating any tree person that dared to draw near.
"Easy now, don't damage our little sapling!"
Li Fan quickly sent a telepathic message.
The battle was, for all intents and purposes, utterly without suspense.
Most of the Spirit Wood Realm's tree people were only at the Qi Refining stage.
Foundation Establishment tree people were one in ten thousand.
A Golden Core tree person was already an elder-level existence within their society.
The strongest among them, the chieftain of the tree people, could communicate telepathically with the spirit tree itself, making them a nearly invincible presence in this world.
And yet, their power was merely at the Nascent Soul level.
Against Tianyang, a late-stage Soul Transformation cultivator, they stood no chance at all.
After losing nearly half their number, they were forced to surrender.
The tree people's chieftain had a rather delicate appearance, a stark contrast to the rough-hewn look of the others.
"Great Immortal, please show mercy!"
The voice was sorrowful, and surprisingly, it was female.
But Li Fan was completely unmoved. "Submit! Or die!"
The chieftain bowed low. "We are willing to surrender."
"Hand over the Heart of the Spirit Wood, and I will spare your people," Li Fan said coldly. "Don't make me take it myself, or this world will be reduced to scorched earth once more."
The chieftain's body trembled slightly.
She couldn't understand how this cultivator, who was clearly here for the first time, already knew of the existence of the Heart of the Spirit Wood.
But at this point, she had no other choice.
She opened her mouth and spat out a ball of green light, which drifted slowly into Li Fan's hand.
Refining it in an instant, Li Fan felt as if the spirit tree of this world had become an extension of his own body.
And the lives of the tree people born from it were now his to command with a single thought.
The Spirit Wood Realm now belonged to Li Fan.
A power gap of this magnitude was simply something the tree people could not resist.
Now, Li Fan had arrived at the center of the spirit tree.
Here, a vast, hollow space existed.
Hundreds of millions of roots converged at this point from every corner of the Spirit Wood Realm.
And it was from this same place that the spirit wood's countless branches originated.
The branches and roots were like the spirit wood's tentacles and eyes.
They allowed it to perceive everything that happened in this small world.
However, with the change in ownership of the Heart of the Spirit Wood, all these functions had been transferred to Li Fan.
Using the spirit tree, he perceived every minute detail of the small world.
A familiar sensation washed over him.
"This is the same method Little Black used to take control of the Beast Seed Realm's Heavenly Dao."
"But this world's revival is partly thanks to the spirit tree, so it was a bit simpler in comparison."
"A perfect chance to test the Heaven Transformation divine ability."
Li Fan's thoughts stirred.
As his will dictated, mountains and rivers suddenly rose from the lands of the Spirit Wood Realm.
He reshaped the world as he pleased, just as Mr. Bai had once done in his own grotto-heaven.
However, after only half a day, Li Fan's world-altering was forced to a halt.
It turned out that the spirit tree's own power could not withstand such extravagant use and needed time to rest and recover.
"How dull."
Li Fan shook his head slightly, his figure flickering to the very top of the spirit tree.
Looking down upon the lands of the Spirit Wood Realm, a magnificent and colossal array formation materialized before his eyes.
It was perfectly integrated with the world itself, without a single flaw.
Moreover, the array was constantly changing and improving with every passing moment.
"The Infinite Method."
Li Fan's eyes narrowed.
In that single instant, relying on the immense computational power of the Final Dissociation Disc, he had designed a grand array tailored specifically for the Spirit Wood Realm in his mind.
The core concept came from the Infinite Method of Zhang Zhiliang, the foremost formation master of the Cong Yun Sea.
With the Final Dissociation Disc, the last piece of the puzzle for his envisioned Infinite Method had finally fallen into place.
An array that would evolve forever, with no upper limit.
It would be the nightmare of every formation master.
"Once this grand array is complete, all ordinary methods of breaking formations will be useless."
"It can only be broken through brute force."
"Given the scale of an Infinite Method array covering the entire Spirit Wood Realm, it would be impossible without five or six Dao Integration cultivators attacking at once."
"And if I use some rare treasures to strengthen it further, and place Dao Integration-level defenses at the key nodes..."
"Then not even a Longevity Immortal could break it!"
The illusory diagram of the array slowly faded from Li Fan's eyes.
"As the protective array for the headquarters of the Federation of All Worlds, it's certainly grand enough."
"The only thing lacking now are the resources to build it."
The Five Elders Council immediately came to Li Fan's mind.
At this point in time, the Five Elders Council still harbored all sorts of ambitions concerning the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
They were restless, ready to make a move.
And Li Fan held a wealth of information they would be very interested in, information that could be traded.
The only question was who to contact in this life.
Zhou Qingang's handler, or Wang Qiupo?
Or perhaps...
A series of figures flashed through Li Fan's mind.
What were once absolute secrets had all become bargaining chips in his eyes.
Slowly, an idea began to form.
In the many cycles he had experienced before, though the two sides were said to be evenly matched, the performance of the Five Elders Council had been rather pathetic.
"Let me give you a helping hand."
"Let's see just how deep the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's foundations truly run."
Li Fan's gaze was profound and distant.
In this life, he would sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight!
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