As Long as Tanxiang Launches an Attack, Everything Will Be Fine / Holy Crap, Is That a Cheat? ...

Tan Xiang's gaze froze, and her mind went blank for a moment. By the time she realized something was terribly wrong, it was already too late.

"Ahh? Ahh~" Tan Xiang let out a scream. Her already narrow passage was forced open by a tiny gap, and a stream of liquid immediately broke through her defenses and sprayed out. The tremendous impact made her body tremble nonstop, her chest twitching as well. The glistening jet slowly shifted its direction along with her shaking body, like Neuvillette after the disastrous 4.8 nerf.

"Tan Xiang, how old are you? You still wet the bed?" Li Xuan deliberately teased from the side.

"Yes~ Tan Xiang is a bad girl? Ah~ I'm done for now??" The sensation of liquid violently rushing through her passage plunged Tan Xiang into utter despair, while also bringing an unimaginable sense of release. That ruinous experience tugged at a series of related organs, and the chain reaction caused all sorts of strange fluids to mix in. Even after she had completely emptied herself, her bladder continued to spasm.

Li Xuan stepped forward and saw Tan Xiang lying there with empty eyes, staring blankly at the ceiling. Her body had not suffered any real damage, but mentally, she seemed to have taken a tour through hell. She did not understand why she had let her guard down at the final moment, but none of that mattered anymore. How she wished she were a stone statue, or perhaps an inflatable doll, so she would not have to care about the overwhelming shame of leaking urine.

"Looks like I'll have to compensate Qi Mo with a bed." Li Xuan shook his head, extended his tentacles, scooped up Tan Xiang like a dead fish, and tossed her into the bathroom to be washed.

"Master! This is bad! It's Qi Mo calling. She says they can't hold on over there. Yun Ye is far harder to deal with than they expected!"

Just as Li Xuan was washing the despairing Tan Xiang, Xu Rou suddenly rushed into the bathroom with her phone.

"Keep an eye on her. I'll go right away." Li Xuan frowned. He knew Yun Ye could do many things with that scripture, but everything she had shown so far had mostly been supportive and healing abilities. He had not expected that even two Demonfall magical girls could not take her down. It seemed he would have to act personally.

"Qi Mo, hang in there. I'll be there soon!" After speaking into the phone, Li Xuan hurried toward the Sylvie Grand Hotel, where Yun Ye was.

"Tan Xiang... really... can't hold on anymore~" Tan Xiang unconsciously moaned from where she lay in the bathroom.

As long as Tan Xiang launched an attack, everything would be fine

On the way to the Sylvie Hotel, Li Xuan suddenly felt as if he had forgotten something. He opened his panel and checked it over, then smacked his thigh. "Damn it, that damn system didn't send me the defeat CG! So it doesn't count if I get started before she transforms?"

While grumbling inwardly about the system, Li Xuan rushed to the foot of the Sylvie Grand Hotel at top speed. Qi Mo and Wu Yan were attacking Yun Ye from the front and rear. Although Wu Yan constantly hurled high-temperature flames at her, Yun Ye simply sat cross-legged in a lotus pose, floating in midair. A white glow around her body blocked the flames' damage. The yellowed scripture floated above her head, occasionally releasing golden light to attack the two girls. Qi Mo was desperately blocking the attacks, but she looked to be having a hard time.

"Master, you're here!" The two girls immediately breathed sighs of relief upon seeing Li Xuan arrive and hurried over to him.

"So you're the mastermind. The one we caught in the warehouse was merely a decoy? How cunning. But before absolute strength, these little tricks are meaningless." Yun Ye only opened her eyes when she saw Li Xuan, then looked at him with a cold sneer.

"I already caught Tan Xiang. This is her underwear. Smell it and see whether it belongs to her." As Li Xuan spoke, he used a tentacle to toss a wet triangular piece of cloth at Yun Ye's feet.

"Stop trying to scare me. I can sense Tan Xiang's magical fluctuations anywhere in the city when she transforms. Since she hasn't transformed, that means you never fought at all. I already sent her a magical signal. She'll be here in five minutes at most." Yun Ye spoke disdainfully.

"You're partners, yet you can't even recognize each other's underwear? Your friendship really is shallow." Li Xuan smiled and extended his tentacles, encircling Yun Ye from a distance. Dozens of compressed blasts of Evil Energy shot from the tentacle tips and struck Yun Ye.

Li Xuan's Evil Energy had now reached Grade C+, and his use of it was no longer as crude as it had been in his first battle. Merely learning to compress it before releasing it had multiplied its power several times over.

However, after the barrage ended, Yun Ye was still completely unharmed. The white glow around her body had merely dimmed slightly.

"Huh? That's it? I didn't even feel anything." Yun Ye raised her brows and sneered. "Did you think Prayer Type magical girls had no combat ability, so you could bully them however you wanted? Most of the time, that is true. But I'm different. I possess the world-recognized magical artifact, the Eightfold Human Heart Sutra. As long as I recite its incantation, it will protect my body from harm, and I can release golden light to sweep away evil." Yun Ye stared coldly at Li Xuan. The scripture above her head instantly bloomed with dozens of rays of golden light, shooting toward him at astonishing speed.

Li Xuan hurriedly dodged, but more than ten of his tentacles were still severed in an instant. He looked exceedingly disheveled, yet strangely, Yun Ye remained seated where she was and showed no intention of pursuing him.

"What, you're not coming after me?" Li Xuan panted heavily and stared at Yun Ye, who was still seated in place. If those golden rays had hit me a few dozen more times, I would have been severely injured even if I survived. With her aggressive personality, she should not have let such an opportunity go. Why did she suddenly stop?

Could it be that she could not decide when to launch those golden-light attacks herself?

With that thought, Li Xuan shaped a ball out of Evil Energy and lazily tossed it at Yun Ye.

As expected, that soft, powerless attack was effortlessly neutralized.

"Huh? You want to deal with me using that? Don't make me laugh. Show me what you can really do. Otherwise, once Tan Xiang arrives, there won't even be ashes left of you." Yun Ye laughed so hard that the fat on her cheeks shook.

Before her words had even faded, a spherical ray of golden light drifted slowly toward Li Xuan. Its speed and power were both extremely close to the Evil Energy ball he had just thrown.

"My real strength has never been frontal combat." Li Xuan smiled faintly and flicked aside the golden light with a finger.

"Stop bluffing. Tan Xiang will be here in three minutes at most... no, two! I suggest you tuck your tails between your legs and get lost before you die too ugly." Yun Ye continued making threats, but inwardly, she was growing more panicked. She had secretly sent Tan Xiang more than ten magical signals, yet received no response at all. Had that girl really been captured?

"I've already seen through your ability. You simply absorb attacks and reflect them back. You reflect however much you absorb. If I don't attack, you can't reflect anything." Li Xuan smiled.

"You saw through it that quickly?!" Yun Ye was greatly startled, then snorted. "So what? If you don't attack, we can keep this up forever. As long as Tan Xiang launches an attack, everything will be fine."

Although Yun Ye was quite surprised that her ability had been exposed, she still believed Tan Xiang would soon come save her. She also had complete confidence in her defense, so she did not panic.

"There are ways to break it besides frontal assault. From what I've observed, your protective magic has another weakness: you can't move while using it, right?" Li Xuan spoke as he carefully watched Yun Ye's expression.

Sure enough, Yun Ye's eyes showed a trace of unnaturalness. It lasted only an instant, but Li Xuan was now certain his guess was correct.

Only able to counterattack and unable to move—against an enemy like that, the proper tactic was obvious.

"Fallen Blood, use 300 milliliters. Creation template: Gum!" Li Xuan snapped his fingers, and a ball of blood immediately appeared before him.

[Monster Name: Gum]

[Remaining Amount Consumed: 300 milliliters]

[Additional Attributes: Devouring, Strong Acid Digestive Fluid]

The blood ball rapidly spread and expanded, swiftly becoming a huge white monster over two meters tall and nearly spherical. Its entire body was a giant mouth. It had no sensory organs, not even limbs. It was literally a sack of flesh. Aside from swallowing food in front of it, it had no means of attack and could not even move. In direct combat, it was undoubtedly a useless living target. Yet in Yun Ye's eyes, it was the most terrifying enemy in the world.

"You can't do this! Tan Xiang won't let you get away with it!" The instant Yun Ye saw the Gum monster, she panicked completely. The fat on her face twisted with fear.

"I'll give you one last chance. It seems you learned of my existence through something called the Oracle Machine. What is it, and how does it work? Tell me those things, and I'll consider sparing you." Li Xuan commanded the monster to open its huge maw, then asked.

"Th-that's a Church secret. It absolutely cannot be revealed... Please spare me. I'm willing to trick Tan Xiang into coming here and hand her over to you. I won't be your enemy in the future either." Yun Ye was terrified, but she had no intention of revealing information about the Oracle Machine. Instead, she wanted to trade Tan Xiang's safety for her own.

"When backed into a corner, you don't even think of fighting. You only think of betraying your companion? You don't deserve to be a magical girl at all. Go experience the thrill of being slowly digested by stomach acid." Li Xuan had no patience to waste on her any longer and directly ordered the monster to swallow her whole.

Damn, does she have cheats?

"Master is amazing. You figured out her ability in such a short time!" Seeing Yun Ye helpless inside the monster's belly and no longer firing golden light, Qi Mo could not help feeling deeply impressed.

"Qi Mo is good at planning, but you're not very good at adapting on the battlefield. Wu Yan is the same. When you fight, you focus only on fighting and observe your enemies far too little. You both need more training." Li Xuan stroked their hair. Just as he was about to offer more encouragement, his phone suddenly rang again.

This time, it was Xu Rou. Her voice was extremely panicked, as if she feared being blamed. "Master, Tan Xiang seems sick. Her limbs are cold, but her body is hot. Her heart is beating very fast, and even her lips have turned purple. I don't know what medicine to give her. Please hurry and bring Qi Mo back! I'm afraid something will happen if you're too late."

Li Xuan's heart skipped a beat. He had finally caught a magical girl; if she died so easily, it would break his heart. He quickly told Qi Mo and Wu Yan to return first, while he used his tentacles to carry the heavy Gum monster behind them.

Gum itself weighed several tons, and it now contained Yun Ye, whose build was like a weight. That was nothing on the ground, but it was indeed an enormous burden while flying. Li Xuan took a full ten minutes longer than the two girls to reach Qi Mo's home.

Li Xuan left Gum on a nearby street under the monster's own watch, then rushed inside. As soon as he entered, he saw Qi Mo treating Tan Xiang. Tan Xiang's eyes were tightly shut, and her graceful body twisted continuously as though she were enduring tremendous agony.

"She drank alcohol and took some diuretics and computer parts. Could those things have caused it?" Li Xuan asked worriedly.

"No. Her reaction doesn't resemble drunkenness or drug poisoning. It's more like she's been cursed. I can sense the unique aura of a curse on her. Unfortunately, none of us are Prayer Type magical girls. Otherwise, we could use prayer to lift it." Qi Mo spoke with a frown.

"A curse?" Wu Yan's expression seemed rather unpleasant. She frowned and involuntarily reached for her back.

"Wu Yan, are you itchy? Want me to scratch your back?" Seeing that Wu Yan did not look right, Xu Rou circled behind her and asked.

"No need!" The moment Wu Yan heard the words "scratch your back," she jolted and leaped aside, her entire body involuntarily shuddering.

"Wu Yan, did you think of something?" Li Xuan asked.

"Actually... I didn't really want to talk about it. Master knows my personality. I've always been hot-tempered and irritable. Back when I was active in Flower River City, I caused plenty of trouble and offended Yun Ye, who was responsible for oversight. One day, she came to find me and said she would teach me an unforgettable lesson. Then she left these things on me." As Wu Yan spoke, she turned her back to Li Xuan and removed her top. On her smooth back were more than a dozen crisscrossing wounds. Like strokes of writing, they formed some strange symbol. Merely looking at them caused intense discomfort.

"You have so many wounds on your back? But I've used healing magic on you many times. They should have healed long ago." Qi Mo said in surprise.

"They can't be healed. These wounds will never close, and they grow more painful over time. Yun Ye calls them Holy Marks. At their core, they're a type of curse. If they are never lifted, they'll keep growing and spreading until they make a person die in unbearable pain." Wu Yan sighed.

"Yun Ye went way too far! I really want to split her in half!" Xu Rou said angrily.

"I agree. But why have you never mentioned this to us?" Qi Mo asked.

"The Church's power wasn't something we could offend back then. Telling you would only have given you more worries. And..." Wu Yan unconsciously frowned, as though unwilling to recall that experience. "And having Holy Marks carved onto you is extremely painful. It was like a nightmare. I don't want to remember those things again."

"Wu Yan, you said the Holy Marks become increasingly painful until they kill their victim, but you seem to have left Flower River City years ago..." Li Xuan noticed the inconsistency in Wu Yan's words.

"Yun Ye originally wanted to use the Holy Marks to control me, to make me grovel and beg her to lift the curse. But I refused. I came to Clear Lotus City with the Holy Marks and began a new life. I thought that even dying that way would be better than bowing and scraping to a woman like her. But one day after school, I encountered a Sealing Type magical girl I had never seen before. She sealed the Holy Marks on my back, temporarily stopping their growth." Wu Yan explained.

"So you suspect Tan Xiang has the same Holy Marks on her body too?" Li Xuan asked.

"That's right. Her reaction is far too similar to when the Holy Marks were tormenting me." Wu Yan nodded.

Seeing how certain she was, Li Xuan carefully used his tentacles to remove the stockings sealed inside the maid outfit, tied them around Tan Xiang's abdomen, and only then removed her maid outfit and top, revealing her slender back.

The instant her clothes came off, all four people present opened their mouths in shock. Tan Xiang's back was covered in thick, deep Holy Marks, crawling hideously over her entire back. The sight was as shocking as if hundreds of Qianlong imperial viewing seals had been stamped across one of Tang Yin's erotic paintings.

"Master, should we give her some Fallen Blood? Otherwise, my healing magic won't work on her either." Qi Mo reminded him.

Only then did Li Xuan remember that issue. He quickly created 300 milliliters of Fallen Blood, pried open Tan Xiang's mouth, and fed it to her. The painkilling effect of Fallen Blood was immediate. As her Demonfall progress increased, Tan Xiang's brow soon relaxed, and her body stopped writhing violently. But her breathing gradually weakened, while the coldness in her limbs spread toward her torso—clearly, Fallen Blood could not lift the Holy Mark curse.

"Yun Ye!" Seeing Tan Xiang in that state, rage surged within Li Xuan, and murderous intent rose in his heart. He turned around, jumped directly out the window, pried open Gum's giant mouth, and dragged out Yun Ye, who was covered in slime.

"What exactly did you do to Tan Xiang and Wu Yan?!" Li Xuan glared at Yun Ye furiously.

"Judging from your expression, that girl really was captured by you. How useless." Yun Ye looked disappointed.

"What are the Holy Marks? Why is Tan Xiang in so much pain?" Li Xuan asked in a low voice.

"Whenever I call her with a magical signal, her Holy Marks grow a little. It's how I ensure that she can support me whenever I need her. While you were surrounding me earlier, I called her sixteen times. Her Holy Marks grew 1.6 times. It's that simple." Yun Ye's tone seemed rather smug.

"Lift the Holy Mark curse immediately! I might spare your life!" Li Xuan suppressed the fury in his chest.

"Lift it? Dream on. The Holy Marks are how I control that girl. There are other ways to control someone, of course, but none are as reliable as holding their life directly in your hand." Yun Ye said fearlessly.

"Don't forget, your life is in my hand too. You're trapped inside a monster and can't move. How long do you think that protective magic of yours can withstand strong acid?" Li Xuan looked at the white glow around her body, which had already become extremely faint.

"Hehe, I can get out whenever I want. But this is a sacred rite that can only be used once in a lifetime. It really pains me to waste it on trash like you. Still, since that useless Tan Xiang can't be of use, I have no choice but to use it... Be proud. This is your honor." Yun Ye looked down at Li Xuan with lofty pity and pressed her hand against the equally slimy scripture.

"Holy Rite: Light Crown!"

At Yun Ye's sharp cry, a beam of light descended from the sky and enveloped her entire body. The monster wrapping around her was directly turned into a puddle of filthy blood under that light.

"Holy shit, she has cheats!" Li Xuan could not help shouting.

Fine, if she can cheat, then I can cheat too

"Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Hahahahaha!" Yun Ye laughed wildly as she rose from the filthy blood. The scripture in her hand had turned to ash, but the light from the sky did not cease. Like a waterfall, it continued pouring down upon her without end.

Li Xuan instinctively felt that he could not defeat the magical girl before him. It was unlike his first battle against Xu Rou, unlike facing awakened Wu Yan, and unlike even his encounter with the powerful Tan Xiang. That feeling was not something that could be made up for through a few tricks. Just as a person could not empty the sea with a spoon, he could not contend with that supreme power descending from the heavens.

"Well? Before the might of the world, have you finally felt your own insignificance?" Yun Ye slowly floated into the air, looking down at Li Xuan with the pride of a god. Her eyes were full of mockery.

"Bullshit!" Yun Ye's gaze stoked Li Xuan's fury. He no longer cared whether he could win. Right then, all he wanted was to kill that hateful woman.

Li Xuan released all the Evil Energy in his body without holding anything back. He leaped up and slammed a fist into Yun Ye's infuriating face. Yun Ye had apparently not expected him to have the courage to attack her, and she looked both furious and stunned. Once she recovered, she immediately mobilized sacred power to counterattack.

This was Li Xuan's first time fighting with his full strength, and the power he unleashed was even greater than he had expected. For a time, black and white forces collided, battling on even terms.

However, the sacred power Yun Ye had gained through the Holy Rite was inexhaustible, while the Evil Energy Li Xuan had unleashed at full force would eventually run dry. As the two became entangled in battle, the sacred light continuously consumed the Evil Energy around Li Xuan.

"Master! We're here to help you!"

The three magical girls heard the commotion and rushed over, each drawing her weapon and bravely charging into battle against Yun Ye.

Most of Yun Ye's borrowed power was being used to suppress Li Xuan, so she was caught off guard. Qi Mo sealed her movements, Wu Yan used flames to offset some of the sacred light, and finally Xu Rou swung her giant axe down, cleaving a wound from Yun Ye's shoulder to her chest.

"Overestimating yourselves!" Yun Ye roared. A shockwave suddenly burst from her body, knocking Li Xuan and the three magical girls to the ground. Li Xuan looked hopefully at Yun Ye's wound, only to find that the wound, which should have been fatal, was visibly healing under the light.

"How are we supposed to fight this..." Qi Mo said despairingly.

"Master, should we run?" Xu Rou also began to lose heart.

"Run? It won't be that easy!" Yun Ye sneered and waved her hand. Four smaller beams split from the pillar of light and pinned the three magical girls and Li Xuan to the ground at astonishing speed, leaving them unable to move.

"Damn, isn't this way too unfair?" Li Xuan struggled with all his strength and launched Mind Interference at Yun Ye. Yet to his despair, even Mind Interference had no effect whatsoever on Yun Ye in her Light Crown state.

"Kehehehe! Stop struggling. I'm invincible now—an Undying body, immunity to every negative effect, and the power of the world at my command! So? You humanoid monster, come kowtow a few times. I can let you die a little more easily." Seeing Li Xuan unable to rise, Yun Ye burst into arrogant laughter.

Yet at that moment, a long string of system notifications suddenly sounded in Li Xuan's mind:

[Fallen Blood activation successful]

[Individual Tan Xiang, Demonfall complete]

[Defeat CG reissued: Bedwetting Play (I)]

[CG Elements: Urine Leakage & Bladder Orgasm & Despair]

[Experience +30]

[Current Experience: 1/100]

[Level increased to lv4]

[Dark Pact increased to: Grade C+]

[New skill unlocked: Delusive Badlands]

Tan Xiang's Demonfall had been completed! At the moment her Demonfall finished, the system had unexpectedly judged that the CG he had unlocked earlier was valid after all, and it had given him thirty experience points at once! Ten whole times that of a Grade C magical girl!

"System, your timing is even more perfect than Xiao Yan's!" Li Xuan roared. Drawing upon the Evil Energy gained from leveling up, he shattered the beam pinning him down with a tentacle and stubbornly rose to his feet.

"!!! Your Evil Energy should have been exhausted already. Why can you still stand?" A trace of surprise flashed through Yun Ye's fanatical expression.

"You're allowed to use cheats. Why shouldn't I be?" Li Xuan covered his bruised left arm and sneered.

"Hmph, your power has indeed grown a little, but it's still nothing! Go die obediently! Stop causing trouble for everyone!" Yun Ye furiously controlled the sacred light and blasted it toward Li Xuan.