402: All cards revealed

These were all his foundations.

If he really consumed all these, he wouldn't have a single Heaven And Earth Treasure left in his hand for emergencies.

But without his life, nothing else mattered.

Isn't an emergency what's happening right now?

He kept half of the ancestral tree fruit, then took out the jade infant fruit and ate it in one bite.

The Grand Marshal, watching Jiang Ning, was stunned.

"Eating so many Heaven And Earth Treasures at once, aren't you afraid of exploding?"

The Grand Marshal felt it was a pity.

He had intended to kill Jiang Ning this time and also take the ancestral tree fruit along the way.

Saving him the trouble.

He didn't expect Jiang Ning to eat so much at once; it was truly a waste of Heaven And Earth Treasures.

Never mind, it wouldn't be impossible for him to go retrieve them again anyway.

The Grand Marshal gazed at Jiang Ning.

The military strategy Jade Slip in his hand slowly unfolded.

Characters floated and danced, then reassembled, narrating a magnificent epic.

The Grand Marshal smiled and said, "When I was in the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, I founded the Tiance Military Prefecture and, with a few friends, we fought in the Xuanhuang Domain.

At that time, there was a force called the Nine Heavens Sect; they monopolized vast resources.

And their actions were extremely overbearing.

We rallied a large group of Disciples to jointly crusade against them.

Finally, the Nine Heavens Sect was annihilated, and the Tiance Military Prefecture made its name in the Xuanhuang Domain."

As the Grand Marshal spoke, these characters seemed to be filled with the clashing sounds of swords, spears, and halberds, as well as the sounds of Cultivators fighting each other.

Jiang Ning's Divine Soul trembled.

His head throbbed with pain.

The attack hadn't even reached him yet, but he already couldn't bear it.

"I can't just sit here and wait for death."

...Inside the Small World.

Shen Jinhuan held Little White, looking at the ancestral tree branch Jiang Ning had planted in the soil before her.

"He should be able to turn danger into safety this time, right?"

"Of course he can!"

Little White waved her small paws, "When I become a Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, I'll definitely get back everything that wasn't fought for! Huanhuan, don't be scared, I'll protect you then!"

Shen Jinhuan was unenthusiastic.

If it weren't for an immense crisis, Jiang Ning wouldn't have thrown her into the Small World.

The only times he did were when Jiang Ning was fighting the strong with the weak.

Each time, he barely escaped with his life.

Especially the time he fought Marshal Xuan Hu.

Everyone thought Jiang Ning had perished.

"Huanhuan... Huanhuan?"

Shen Jinhuan was lost in thought.

Little White frantically tugged at her clothes.

"Look over there, the Void Weevil woke up!"

Little White was almost in tears.

Revered Master was suffering outside.

They were also suffering in the Small World!

Shen Jinhuan saw the enormous, sleeping Void Weevil open its eyes. Its strangely shaped body twisted, and then... it vanished.

Little White: ???

"Huanhuan, it's..."

"It went out." Shen Jinhuan was very nervous, "For Revered Master to summon the Void Weevil out, it must be huge trouble."

She grew even more uneasy.

The Void Weevil was Revered Master's ultimate trump card.

Outside.

The Jade Slip, which was both a military strategy book and a history of the Tiance Military Prefecture's wars, struck towards Jiang Ning.

Behind Jiang Ning, on the enormous Dharma Idol, several spatial azure lotus flowers simultaneously blasted towards the Grand Marshal!

The Grand Marshal smiled.

"These spatial azure lotus can tear open spatial rifts and kill people with Spatial Turbulence. It's indeed a killing move, but unfortunately, it's not effective against everyone."

He withdrew the Jade Slip.

"The Tiance Military Prefecture once encountered a major crisis. It was when the Tiance Military Prefecture was almost among the top forces, and various powers made things difficult for it.

I led three major army camps and successfully defended against tens of thousands of Cultivators.

And I Broke Through to the Late Nascent Soul Stage, killing a Late Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator. After that, the Tiance Military Prefecture's status could no longer be shaken by anyone."

The Grand Marshal's defense suddenly strengthened.

Jiang Ning didn't understand what kind of Dao this was.

If he had to name it, he would call it the "War Dao"; every war won would cause the Grand Marshal's strength to surge.

Jiang Ning began to understand that the outbreak of this war might not be for any particular reason.

It was simply because the Grand Marshal wanted to Breakthrough.

In the original work, the description of this part was actually not very detailed.

The Tiance Military Prefecture, especially its Grand Marshal, was not extensively described.

Xuanhuan romance mostly depicts how the Male Lead dotes on the Female Lead.

But after truly entering the world of the book,

the Grand Marshal's ruthlessness, that aura of "a general's success is built upon ten thousand corpses," made Jiang Ning tremble with fear.

For the sake of a Breakthrough, someone would actually launch a war of this scale.

How many people died?

Jiang Ning didn't dare to think too deeply.

The spatial azure lotus didn't blast towards the Grand Marshal.

Instead, they circled and dispersed, going around the Grand Marshal.

Spatial rifts tore open one after another.

The Grand Marshal frowned.

Jiang Ning was not a fool; he wouldn't waste so much rule power unless a killing move was hidden behind it.

Subconsciously, the Grand Marshal moved, no longer wanting to stay in this place.

But it was too late.

The Grand Marshal saw.

An enormous monster, seemingly slow but actually moving at extreme speed, rushed towards him.

Not towards him, but towards the spatial rift!

But this monster was too large; even a single bite would affect him!

"What is this?"

The Grand Marshal didn't feel any danger from the creature.

The Void Weevil devours space and doesn't attack people.

All its so-called "damage" is incidental to its consumption of space.

The hungry Void Weevil was extremely uncomfortable in the solid reality, almost dying.

Fortunately, not far away, it sensed fragile space, and the spatial power within made it drool.

The Void Weevil grew anxious.

This was a creature's subconscious self-preservation in a life-threatening crisis!

"It's done!"

Jiang Ning checked the progress bar in his mind.

Digesting these things required some time.

The jade infant fruit seemed to still be in his stomach; it was too difficult to digest.

Fortunately, the ancestral tree fruit had the effects of endless vitality and repairing Meridians.

The two actually had a complementary effect!

Under the promotion of the ancestral tree fruit, the progress bar sped up considerably!

"Not enough, it needs to be faster."

Jiang Ning was anxious.

Outside, the Void Weevil had already bitten down.

Its serrated mouth easily cut through the shattered spatial barrier.

It was even so fast that the Grand Marshal didn't react in time!

Boom—

Space collapsed.

Like bricks falling one by one to the ground, the city wall disintegrated.

The spatial openings connected.

A huge spatial rift appeared.

The Grand Marshal, at the center, widened his eyes.

He was about to be sucked into the Spatial Turbulence!

The Grand Marshal gritted his teeth, flung a straw man from his Storage Ring, and it flew into the Void Realm with the Void Weevil.

But his arm... The Grand Marshal looked at his empty right arm; even his clothes were torn.

The Grand Marshal lost an arm!

"Jiang Ning!"

The Grand Marshal was utterly enraged.

That arm was dragged in and completely ruined; it couldn't be reattached at all!

Rage soared to the heavens.

The Grand Marshal's Dharma Idol dropped the military book and drew the long sword from his waist.

"I will kill you!"