A Magical Girl? There Was No Going Back!

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.

"Ah? 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 shake continuously, her chest trembling as well. The clear stream shifted its direction with her trembling body, slowly spraying about like Neuvillette after being nerfed in Version 4.8.

"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 complete despair, while also bringing an unimaginable sense of release. That ruinous experience tugged at a series of related organs, and the chain reaction it triggered mixed all kinds of strange fluids into it. Even after she had completely emptied herself, her bladder continued to spasm uncontrollably.

Li Xuan walked over and saw Tan Xiang lying there with lifeless eyes, staring blankly at the ceiling. Her body had not suffered any real injury, but her mind seemed to have taken a tour through hell. She did not understand why she had let down her guard 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 wetting herself.

"Looks like we'll have to compensate Qi Mo with a new bed." Li Xuan shook his head, extended his tentacles, scooped up Tan Xiang's limp body, and tossed her into the bathroom to be cleaned.

"Master! This is bad! It's a call from Qi Mo. She said they can't hold out over there. Yun Ye is far harder to deal with than 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'm going now." Li Xuan frowned. He knew Yun Ye could accomplish many things with that scripture, but the abilities she had displayed so far had mostly been support and healing. He had not expected two Demonfall magical girls to be unable to take her down. It seemed he would have to deal with her personally.

"Qi Mo, hold on a little longer. I'll be there soon!" After saying that into the phone, Li Xuan hurried toward the Sylvie Grand Hotel, where Yun Ye was located.

"Tan Xiang... really... can't hold on anymore~" Tan Xiang, sprawled in the bathroom, unconsciously whimpered.

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

On the way to the Sylvie Hotel, Li Xuan suddenly felt as though he had forgotten something. He opened his panel and checked it over, then slapped his thigh. "Damn it, that shitty system never gave me the defeat CG! So it doesn't work if I start without transforming first?"

While silently cursing the system, Li Xuan rushed to the Sylvie Grand Hotel as fast as he could. Qi Mo and Wu Yan were attacking Yun Ye from both sides. Although Wu Yan kept hurling high-temperature flames, Yun Ye merely sat cross-legged in a lotus pose, floating in midair. A white glow around her body blocked the flames. The yellowed scripture floated above her head, periodically releasing golden light to attack the two of them. Qi Mo was desperately blocking the attacks, but she clearly looked strained.

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

"So you're the real mastermind. The one we caught in the warehouse was just a substitute? You really are cunning. But before absolute power, tricks like these are meaningless." Yun Ye only opened her eyes after seeing Li Xuan, then sneered at him.

"Tan Xiang has already been caught. This is her underwear. Take a sniff and see whether it belongs to her." Li Xuan spoke as 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 from anywhere in the city whenever 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 sure is shallow." Li Xuan smiled and extended tentacles to surround Yun Ye from a distance. Dozens of compressed blasts of Evil Energy shot from their tips and bombarded her.

Li Xuan's Evil Energy had now reached C-rank as well, and his control over it was no longer as inexperienced as it had been during his first battle. Merely learning to compress the Evil Energy before releasing it had multiplied its power several times over.

Yet after the barrage, Yun Ye remained completely unharmed. The white glow around her body had merely dimmed a little.

"Huh? That's it? I didn't even feel anything." Yun Ye raised an eyebrow and sneered. "Did you think Prayer Type magical girls lacked combat power, so you could bully us however you pleased? In most cases, that would be true. But I'm different. I possess a magical artifact recognized by the world, the Eightfold Human Heart Sutra. As long as I chant the spell, it protects my body from harm and releases golden light to sweep away evil." Yun Ye stared coldly at Li Xuan. The scripture above her head instantly burst forth 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, leaving him looking utterly disheveled. Yet strangely, Yun Ye merely remained seated where she was, seeming to have no intention of pursuing him.

"What, you aren't coming after me?" Li Xuan panted heavily and stared at the seated Yun Ye. If she fired a few dozen more of those golden rays, I'd be seriously injured even if I survived. With her aggressive personality, she shouldn't let an opportunity like this go. Why did she suddenly stop?

Could it be that she could not decide when to use the golden light attack herself?

With that thought, Li Xuan formed a little ball of Evil Energy by hand and casually tossed it at Yun Ye.

As expected, such a soft, weak attack was easily neutralized.

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

Before her words had even faded, a spherical golden light drifted slowly toward Li Xuan, its speed and power nearly identical to the Evil Energy ball he had just thrown.

"My real strength isn't in head-on combat." Li Xuan smiled faintly and used one finger to flick aside the golden light.

"Quit bluffing. Tan Xiang will be here in three minutes at most... no, two minutes! I advise you to tuck your tails and get lost before you die too horribly." Yun Ye continued threatening them, but inwardly she was growing increasingly panicked. She had secretly sent Tan Xiang more than a dozen magical signals already, yet she had received no response. Had that useless girl really been captured?

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

"You saw through it that quickly?!" Yun Ye looked startled, but then snorted. "So what? If you don't attack, we can just drag this out. As long as Tan Xiang launches an attack, everything will be fine."

Yun Ye was quite surprised that her ability had been exposed, but she still believed Tan Xiang would soon come to rescue her. She also had complete confidence in her own defenses, so she did not panic.

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

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

She could only counterattack and could not 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 sphere of blood immediately appeared before him.

[Monster Name: Gum]

[Remaining Amount Consumed: 300 Milliliters]

[Additional Traits: Devouring, Strong Acid Digestive Fluid]

The blood sphere swiftly expanded, rapidly transforming into a massive white monster more than two meters tall and nearly spherical in shape. Its entire body was one enormous mouth. It had no sensory organs, not even limbs, and was literally a sack of flesh. Aside from swallowing whatever was in front of it, it had no means of attack and could not even move. In a direct fight, it would undoubtedly be 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 an Oracle Machine. What is that thing, and how does it work? Tell me, and I'll consider sparing you." Li Xuan commanded the monster to open its huge maw and asked.

"Th-this is a Church secret. I absolutely can't reveal it... Please let me go. I'm willing to trick Tan Xiang over and hand her to you. I won't be your enemy again in the future." Although Yun Ye was terrified, she had no intention of revealing information about the Oracle Machine. Instead, she wanted to trade Tan Xiang for her own safety.

"When you're backed into a corner, you don't think of fighting desperately. You think only of betraying your companion? You don't deserve to be a magical girl at all. Enjoy the sensation of being slowly digested by stomach acid." Li Xuan had no interest in wasting more time with her and directly ordered the monster to swallow her whole.

Holy shit, does she have cheats?

"Master is so strong! You figured out her ability in such a short time!" Seeing Yun Ye helpless inside the monster's stomach, with no more golden light shooting out, Qi Mo could not help feeling deeply impressed.

"Qi Mo is good at planning, but not at adapting during battle. Wu Yan is the same. When she fights, she only knows how to fight and observes her 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 rang again.

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

Li Xuan's heart lurched. He had only just captured this magical girl. If she died so easily, it would break his heart. He immediately had Qi Mo and Wu Yan return first, while he used his tentacles to carry the heavy Gum along behind them.

Gum itself weighed several tons, and it also contained Yun Ye, who had the build of a paperweight. It was nothing on the ground, but carrying it through the air was indeed a considerable burden. Li Xuan took a full ten minutes longer than the two girls to reach Qi Mo's home.

Li Xuan placed Gum on a nearby street for the monster to guard, then hurried inside. The moment he entered, he saw Qi Mo treating Tan Xiang. Tan Xiang's eyes were shut tightly, and her graceful body kept twisting as though she were enduring tremendous pain.

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

"No. Her symptoms don't look like drunkenness or drug poisoning. It seems more like she's been cursed. I can sense the distinctive aura of a curse on her. Unfortunately, none of us is a Prayer Type magical girl. Otherwise, we could use prayer to remove the curse." Qi Mo spoke with a frown.

"A curse?" Wu Yan's expression seemed to darken. She frowned and involuntarily reached toward her back.

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

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

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

"Actually... I didn't really want to mention it. Master knows my personality. I've always been hot-tempered and easily angered. Back when I was active in Flower River City, I caused plenty of trouble and offended Yun Ye, who was responsible for supervision. One day, she came looking for 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 took off her top. More than a dozen crisscrossing wounds were clearly imprinted across her smooth back. Like strokes of writing, those wounds formed some bizarre symbol that made people feel uncomfortable just looking at it.

"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 become more painful with time. Yun Ye calls them 'Holy Marks.' Their essence is a type of curse. If they aren't removed, they will keep growing and spreading until they make the victim die in unbearable agony." Wu Yan sighed.

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

"Agreed. But why have you never told us about this?" Qi Mo asked.

"The Church's power was something we couldn't offend back then. Telling you would only have caused you more trouble. Besides..." Wu Yan unconsciously frowned as though unwilling to recall that experience. "Besides, the process of receiving a Holy Mark was incredibly painful. It was like a nightmare. I don't want to remember those things again."

"Wu Yan, you said the Holy Marks would grow more painful until they killed you, but you left Flower River City years ago..." Li Xuan noticed the flaw in her words.

"Yun Ye originally intended to use the Holy Marks to control me, to make me beg her humbly to remove 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 like that would be better than bowing and scraping before a woman like her. But one day after school, I met 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, right?" Li Xuan asked.

"That's right. Her condition 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, tying them around Tan Xiang's waist before taking off 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. They crawled grotesquely across her entire back, as horrifying as if hundreds of Qianlong imperial seals had been stamped over one of Tang Yin's erotic paintings.

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

Only then did Li Xuan remember this. He quickly created three hundred milliliters of Fallen Blood, pried open Tan Xiang's mouth, and fed it to her. The pain-relieving effect of Fallen Blood was immediate. As her Demonfall progress increased, Tan Xiang's furrowed brow quickly relaxed, and her body stopped twisting so violently. But her breathing gradually weakened, while the coldness in her limbs began spreading toward her torso—clearly, Fallen Blood could not remove the Holy Mark curse.

"Yun! Ye!" Seeing Tan Xiang in that state, Li Xuan was consumed by rage. He turned and leaped directly out the window, pried open Gum's enormous mouth, and dragged out the sticky, slime-covered Yun Ye.

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

"Judging by your expression, that girl really was captured by you. What a useless fool." Yun Ye looked disappointed.

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

"Whenever I summon her with a magical signal, her Holy Marks grow a little. It's how I ensure she can support me whenever necessary. While you were surrounding me, I called her sixteen times. Her Holy Marks grew by one point six times. It's that simple." Yun Ye's tone seemed rather proud.

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

"Remove it? Dream on. The Holy Marks are how I control that girl. There are other ways to control her, of course, but none is as reliable as holding someone's 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 can your protective magic last in strong acid?" Li Xuan said as he looked at the faint white glow around her.

"Hehe, I can get out whenever I want. But this is a sacred ritual that can only be used once in a lifetime. It really pains me to waste it on trash like you. Still, since Tan Xiang that useless idiot has proven herself worthless, 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 sticky 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 wrapped around her was directly reduced to a pool of filthy blood under that light.

"Holy shit, does she have cheats?" Li Xuan could not help shouting.

Fine, if she can use cheats, then so can I.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Hahahaha!" Yun Ye laughed wildly as she rose from the pool of filthy blood. The scripture in her hand had already turned to ash, yet the light from the sky did not stop. Like a waterfall, it descended endlessly upon her.

Li Xuan instinctively felt that he could not defeat the magical girl before him. It was different from his first battle with Xu Rou, different from facing Wu Yan after her awakening, and even different from encountering the powerful Tan Xiang. It was not something he could overcome with a few tricks. Just as a person could not empty the sea with a spoon, he could not fight the supreme power descending from the heavens.

"So? Before the power of the world, have you finally felt your own insignificance?" Yun Ye slowly floated into the air, looking down on Li Xuan with the arrogance of a god. Her eyes were filled with mockery.

"Fuck your bullshit!" Yun Ye's gaze ignited Li Xuan's anger. He no longer cared whether he could win. Right now, he simply wanted to kill this hateful woman.

Li Xuan released every last bit of Evil Energy inside him without reservation. He leaped into the air and drove a fierce punch into Yun Ye's smug face. Yun Ye apparently had not expected Li Xuan to still have the courage to attack her. She looked both furious and stunned, then immediately gathered sacred power to counterattack.

This was Li Xuan's first time fighting with his full strength, and the energy he unleashed was even more powerful than he had expected. For a time, black and white forces collided, and neither side could gain the upper hand.

However, the sacred power Yun Ye had gained through the ritual was inexhaustible, while the Evil Energy Li Xuan had unleashed with all his strength would eventually run dry. As the two remained locked in battle, the sacred light continuously wore away at Li Xuan's Evil Energy.

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

The three magical girls, alerted by the commotion, rushed over and bravely charged at Yun Ye with their weapons.

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 part of the sacred light, and finally Xu Rou swung her giant axe down, splitting a wound from Yun Ye's shoulder to her chest.

"Overestimating yourselves!" Yun Ye roared, suddenly releasing a shockwave that knocked Li Xuan and the three magical girls to the ground. Li Xuan looked hopefully at Yun Ye's wound, only to discover that the seemingly fatal injury healed before his eyes under the light.

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

"Master, should we run?" Xu Rou asked timidly.

"Run? Not so easily!" Yun Ye sneered and waved her hand. Four smaller beams split off from the pillar of light, pinning the three magical girls and Li Xuan to the ground at astonishing speed, leaving them unable to move.

"Damn it, isn't this way too unfair?" Li Xuan struggled desperately and unleashed Mind Interference against Yun Ye. Yet to his despair, even Mind Interference had no effect on Yun Ye in her Light Crown state.

"Hehehe! Stop struggling! I'm invincible now—a body that cannot die, immunity to all negative effects, and the power of the world at my command! So, humanoid monster, come over and kowtow to me a few times. I might let you die a little more easily." Seeing Li Xuan unable to rise, Yun Ye laughed wildly.

But at that moment, a long string of system notifications suddenly rang out in Li Xuan's mind:

[Fallen Blood activated successfully]

[Individual Tan Xiang, Demonfall complete]

[Defeat CG reissued: Bedwetting Play (I)]

[CG Elements: Bedwetting & Bladder Orgasm & Despair]

[Experience +30]

[Current Experience: 1/100]

[Level increased to Lv. 4]

[Dark Pact upgraded to: C+]

[New skill unlocked: Delusive Badlands]

Tan Xiang's Demonfall had been completed! At the instant her Demonfall finished, the system had delayed its evaluation and determined that the CG he had unlocked earlier counted after all. It had even awarded him thirty experience points at once—ten full times what a C-rank magical girl was worth!

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

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

"You're allowed to use cheats, so why shouldn't I be?" Li Xuan sneered, clutching his crushed left arm.

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