Ascension Day

The Golden Armor Bean Soldiers were still charging forward, one after another, lunging at the strange blue birds. They continuously fell before Xu Ying, pecked to pieces by the birds and then swallowed.

But still, some Golden Armor Bean Soldiers managed to pounce onto the strange birds, using the Cyan Swords in their hands to fight. To them, the birds were like Divine Spirits thousands of times their own size, boundlessly vast, yet they fought on without fear of death!

Even though they were only beans, Xu Ying was moved.

He activated his Mud Ball Grotto Heaven, plunging it into the Sea of Chaos to convert its Energy into immense Activity!

He had never studied Nuo Art, but now he would fight as a Nuo Master!

He treated these soybeans as if they were people—people with thoughts and lives of their own!

For their sake, he would venture into a field he had never before explored!

Da Zhong, who had been recuperating, was abruptly woken. Residing within the Mud Ball Grotto Heaven, it immediately sensed the grotto heaven slowly beginning to operate. The Activity surging from it was incredibly potent, even seeping into its own body.

Of course, this Activity was of little use to it. It had no Flesh Body and couldn't use Activity to heal its wounds.

Comparatively, Xu Ying's Grotto Heaven was tiny, not even matching those of some ordinary Nuo Masters from the Zhou Family. But the quality of the Mud Ball Activity being drawn from it was exceptionally high!

'Is Ying actually going to perform Nuo Art?'

Da Zhong was dumbfounded. 'But he's never studied Nuo Art! He only just opened his Mud Ball Secret Treasury. He doesn't really think he's a Nuo Master now, does he?'

Xu Ying carefully recalled the strange state of his body when he was hit by the spell and shrunken. Sensing the immense Activity within him, he tried to treat it as his own Primordial Qi, circulating it to every nook and cranny of his body.

He circulated the Activity just as he would his Primordial Qi. Gradually, his Primordial Qi and the Activity began to merge, seeping into his organs and filling his flesh and blood. His Primordial Qi began to flow with a vibrant life, and he slowly felt a sensation as if he could create all things from nothing.

Suddenly, he activated the Elephant Power Ox Demon Fist. His back began to bulge, his body grew taller, and his fingers elongated, fused together, and transformed into hooves.

His nose grew long, his brow bone protruded, and his head grew larger. His ears fanned out, and right before Yuan Qi's eyes, he transformed. He became a being with the head of an elephant, the body of a man, and the feet of an elephant—an imposing Elephant King God, standing two beans tall!

'Ying has finally revealed his true form...'

Yuan Qi's eyes widened as he muttered, "The Stone Mountain God was right. He really is a monster!"

Xu Ying dispersed the form of the Elephant King God, and his body returned to normal. After this test, he was now sixty to seventy percent confident that he could use the All Grass and Trees Are Soldiers technique!

In his mind, there was no such thing as Nuo Technique, nor was there the Magic and Divine Power of a Qi Refiner. He had only one thought: to act according to his nature. He would leverage the unique qualities of his Primordial Qi and Activity and unleash his abilities naturally.

He simply felt that he now possessed the ability to use All Grass and Trees Are Soldiers, or Scattering Beans into Soldiers.

A strange blue bird stomped down, pinning a Golden Armor Bean Soldier under its foot. It opened its beak and pecked at the soldier's head.

Just as it was about to shatter the Golden Armor Bean Soldier's head, Xu Ying suddenly pointed a finger. The bean soldier's body instantly expanded, transforming in a flash from the size of a bean into a two-foot-tall Little Golden Armor God!

The blue bird's beak struck its chest, but the Little Golden Armor God ran it through the head with a single sword strike.

Xu Ying activated the Primordial Qi and Activity in his body and strode into the battlefield of bean soldiers and strange birds. With casual points of his finger, one bean soldier after another rapidly transformed into a two-foot-tall Little God, and the tide of battle instantly turned.

The Little Golden Armor Gods leaped and bounded, cutting down the strange blue birds. They quickly killed nearly half the flock. Seeing this, the other birds beat their wings and took to the sky.

A dozen or so of the Little Golden Armor Gods took out bows and arrows, drew their bows, and shot down the fleeing birds one by one.

Yuan Qi stared, his eyes wide. He hurriedly asked, "Ying, was that Nuo Art you just used?"

Xu Ying thought for a moment, then shook his head. "I don't know if it's Nuo Art. It just felt like the natural thing to do."

Yuan Qi was stunned. After a long moment, he finally asked, "Senior, which great divinity are you the reincarnation of?"

Hearing this, Xu Ying couldn't help but laugh. "Yuan Qi, you've been reading too many of those fantasy novels. Where does your mind wander? I'm just me, not some reincarnation. My family lives at the Xu Family's Field. My parents dote on me. I remember it all very clearly..."

Seeing that he was about to go on about that again, Yuan Qi quickly cut him off. "Stop! Ying, if you can use Scattering Beans into Soldiers on these Bean Soldiers, can you use the same magic on us and break that old demoness's Nuo Art?"

Xu Ying didn't get lost in his memories of the Xu Family's Field this time. His mind was clear as he smiled and said, "Breaking her Nuo Art isn't the hard part. The difficulty is that my Cultivation is nowhere near as profound as hers. If we want to break her Nuo Technique, we'll have to do it bit by bit."

Yuan Qi's spirits lifted. "As long as we can break it, that's all that matters."

Just then, an old woman's voice drifted over, chuckling. "And what is Young Master Xu trying to break?"

The expressions on Xu Ying and Yuan Qi's faces changed. They looked up to see a silk scarf falling from above, covering them and the Bean Soldiers.

The next moment, they found themselves in a basket. The old woman, Granny Zhou Yu, lifted the silk scarf and peered inside, chuckling. "It's a good thing I had these Bean Soldiers with me, or I really wouldn't have been able to find you, Young Master Xu. A pity these beans are broken."

With a gentle shake, she tossed the Bean Soldiers out of the basket, paid them no more mind, and started to walk away.

"Old demoness, Lord Qi will fight you to the death!" Yuan Qi leaped up and opened his mouth to bite the old woman's finger, intending to poison her. However, Granny Zhou Yu simply pinched him between two fingers, clamping down on his vital spot.

Granny Zhou Yu sneered, about to crush him to death.