My Simulated Road to Immortality

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Ultimately, the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals misjudged the number of Dao Yi Worms that might exist beneath Shilin State.

The extensive underground caverns were serpentine and vast, almost equal in size to the entire Shilin State.

And they continued to expand deeper into the earth.

Even Li Fan, who now controlled the entire worm swarm, hadn’t yet ascertained the full scope of the Hundred Stone Cave Heaven beneath Shilin State.

Thanks to such an enormous breeding ground, the Dao Yi Worms were able to proliferate so rapidly.

In less than a month, they could devour the spiritual energy of an entire state.

"Though paper is thin and easily torn with a flick of the finger, if stacked in great quantities, it can withstand thousands of soldiers and horses!"

"With you alone, how can you possibly kill them all?"

Feeling the number of Dao Yi Worms continue to grow, despite the massacre by the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign, Li Fan revealed an inexplicable smile.

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"Huff, huff..."

Looking at another emptied underground cavern, the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign finally felt a trace of exhaustion.

During this period, he hadn’t stopped for a moment. Thousands upon thousands of golden swords crisscrossed, illuminating one dark cavern after another, leaving behind the corpses of black worms.

How many black worms had he slain?

Ten billion? A hundred billion?

Even with his reserves of spiritual power as a Unity Immortal Monarch, he was now almost completely drained.

But it seemed that perhaps due to delving deeper underground where the number of black worms was too great,

the spiritual energy was extremely scarce and could not be absorbed to nourish himself.

Left with no choice, the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign could only rely on absorbing the spirit stones stored within his body for a slow recovery.

"It has been many years since I’ve been in such a sorry state,"

the seated Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign couldn’t help but sigh.

Memories surfaced in his mind of the days when he was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, exploring the ruins of his sect with his companions.

Suddenly, he rose to his feet with a serious expression on his face.

Because he had finally realized what that indescribable feeling in his heart had been about ever since he entered the Hundred Stone Cave Heaven.

It was a long-absent warning from his spiritual sense within his heart.

Three hundred years ago, it was precisely this sharp intuition that allowed him to become the sole survivor of that expedition team.

But after that close brush with death, he had smooth sailing and never encountered any disaster again, nearly forgetting that sense of crisis.

Until today, after many years, that premonition through his spiritual sense emerged once more!

"This..."

The Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign’s heart started to pound uncontrollably.

His thoughts raced, and he instantly made a decision.

Without caring to rest any further, he transformed into a beam of golden light and sped through the depths of the underground cavern.

He had to see for himself just how vast the Hundred Stone Cave Heaven truly was!

Three days later.

The Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign looked pale.

With his escape speed, three days was enough to circle the territory of the Immortal Alliance several times over.

Yet he still had not been able to fully explore the Hundred Stone Cave Heaven.

It was as deep as an abyss, seemingly bottomless, as if it had no end at all.

The Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign shivered as his mind was flooded with images of caverns teeming with black worms, like a surging sea, threatening to spill out into the world.

"Disaster, this is a disaster."

"No, I must urgently report this to the Immortal Alliance Headquarters."

The Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign quickly took out a communication talisman, intending to contact the Immortal Alliance Headquarters.

However, it seemed that the communication could not be established, perhaps due to going too deep underground.

The ominous premonition in the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign’s heart intensified.

He accelerated to his maximum speed, aiming to leave the underground cavern behind.

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Yet for some reason, the black worms that had been quietly lying in wait and feeding on Spiritual Energy, suddenly swarmed toward him like mad.

Trying to stop him from advancing further.

At this moment, the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign finally experienced what it means to be unable to take even a single step without difficulty.

No longer holding back, all the Golden Swords he had refined within his body were unsheathed at once, circling around him.

Grinding all the obstructive black worms into powder.

The Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign, with an unstoppable momentum, quickly made his way back from underground.

The stark difference in the behavior of the black worms only made the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign more certain that there were traces of a conspiracy behind this.

If he did not act quickly to stop it, the impact might not be limited to just Shilin State. Perhaps the entire Alliance of Thousands of Immortals and even the Xuanhuang World would suffer greatly!

"Who exactly is plotting such an atrocious act!"

The Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign felt both shocked and infuriated, hastening even more.

When he finally broke through the dense mass of black worms and saw daylight again,

he was about to urgently report to the Immortal Alliance Headquarters, but then suddenly stopped, sensing something.

The Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign looked up and extended his left hand toward the sky.

"Has it started... to wind?"

Out of nowhere, a breeze began to stir between Heaven and Earth.

Then the breeze grew stronger, becoming more and more violent.

The roaring sound was like thunder, rumbling loudly.

The sky, which had been clear with the blazing sun, was in a blink of an eye overshadowed by layers of dark clouds.

Under the shroud of shadows, every Cultivator in Shilin State felt a sense of impending disaster.

"Whoosh!"

An evil wind swept past, so fierce that even the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign struggled to maintain his form.

Although the violent wind disappeared in an instant, its implications sent a chill through the heart of this Unity Immortal Monarch.

He thought he could hear a faint, dense rustling in his ears,

but the Golden Sword sensed no trace of the wind’s presence.

As he was puzzled, countless flying insects surged up from below like a black tidal wave.

Riding the wind, they burst out of the Hundred Stone Cave Heaven.

Soaring straight to the sky, like the dark clouds of an apocalypse, they spread out unstoppable across the Various States of the Xuanhuang World.

In front of the immeasurable sea tide of black worms, even the Protective Spiritual Power around the Golden Sword appeared like a frail sapling in a storm, fragile and on the brink of destruction.

Filled with horror, the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign no longer had the will to stop the catastrophe.

He simply tried his best to ensure his own safety.

The black worms in the underground cave seemed endless. Everywhere the Golden Sword looked, there was nothing else to be seen.

Caught in a nightmare of a black tide, movement and breathing became delirious, foolish wishes.

Even though he was not the primary target of the black worms’ assault, he was merely being crushed in passing on their migratory path.

The boundless sea tide of black worms still caused this Unity Immortal Monarch to gradually lose consciousness.

"It’s over..."

In the instant before losing consciousness, the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign’s mind did not first flash with concern for his own life.

Instead, it was the subsequent blame and accountability from the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals after resolving the Insect Disaster.

"Damn it, if I had known, I would have never accepted this damned mission."

His form slowly faded, eventually turning into a Golden Longsword composed of countless smaller swords, which fell to the ground with a clang.

Indeed, the power of the black worms was such that at most they could exhaust a Unity-Path Cultivator and make him faint momentarily.

Executing them, however, was a bit out of their reach.

But...

Li Fan’s figure emerged from the black tide.

He picked up the Golden Longsword, a slight smile appearing on his lips.

Then he casually applied tens of thousands of Array Prohibitions onto it.