Magical Girl? There Was No Going Back!

"Delusive Badlands, activate!" Li Xuan had no time to read the skill description. Whatever kind of skill it was, he would activate it first.

The instant the skill activated, Li Xuan felt as though his mind had been drained dry, and the heavens and earth darkened with it. Looking closer, he realized that the sky before him was no longer sky, and the ground was no longer ground. Everything had become hollow and chaotic. The five people on the battlefield stood upon fragmented footholds, drifting about as though floating through space.

[Welcome back to the Delusive Badlands. You will be the master of this space.]

[Authority: Basic]

[Development Progress: 0%]

The system prompt sounded again. At the same time, Li Xuan was astonished to see the holy radiance around Yun Ye vanish.

"Hey, hey, this has to be a joke, right? What the hell is this place? Why can't the world's light reach here? No, no, no, no, this is definitely wrong, isn't it? What kind of sick joke is this?!" Yun Ye stood atop a floating object, clawing at the air over her head as though demanding something from the sky.

Seeing the disbelief in her eyes, Li Xuan could not help feeling delighted. He opened the detailed skill description and finally understood why Yun Ye could no longer use her power:

[Delusive Badlands: An independent miniature world built atop the void. The space's master may freely enter and leave by consuming a certain amount of mental power. Other lifeforms may only enter or leave with the master's permission. Raising authority grants additional functions, eventually allowing mastery over this world's laws and all within it.]

"So this is already another world. Unfortunately, the number you have dialed is outside the service area." Having understood the principle, Li Xuan grinned viciously and extended his tentacles, snatching up the still-hysterical Yun Ye in one motion.

The moment the tentacles seized her, Yun Ye let out a pig-slaughtering shriek. "Let me go! Let me go! I'm telling you, I'm a Prayer Type magical girl! I was born superior to you! If you dare touch me, the Church won't let you—"

Smack!

A crisp slap cut off Yun Ye's screaming. It was so loud that Li Xuan's palm tingled from the impact.

"You dared to hit me? You actually hit me? Even my father has never hit me!" Yun Ye clutched her swelling cheek and glared at Li Xuan as though she had just suffered the greatest injustice in the world.

Smack! Smack, smack! Smack, smack, smack, smack!

His answer was a flurry of alternating slaps. Yun Ye's hands and feet were held by tentacles, and another tentacle tightly clamped her head in place, leaving her not even the slightest room to dodge.

By the time Li Xuan stopped because his palms had gone numb, Yun Ye's already puffy cheeks had swollen high, and she could no longer speak, as though she had two apples stuffed in her mouth.

"Master! We don't know where this is, but it looks like you turned the tables?" The three magical girls lacked Li Xuan's nimble tentacles and only managed to climb over to him after fumbling around for quite a while.

"Do not panic. This is the Delusive Badlands under my control." Li Xuan casually created a chair-shaped monster and sat firmly upon it in the unstable floating void.

"Master, you were hiding such power? Your disadvantage just now was all an act, wasn't it?" Xu Rou asked in astonishment.

"Of course. Everything is within my grasp." Seeing how shocked the three magical girls were, Li Xuan was happy to establish an image of omnipotence in their minds. It would help preserve his authority as their master.

"Urgh... mmph..." Yun Ye, her cheeks swollen high, seemed to want to say something. Li Xuan nodded at Qi Mo, who immediately understood and used the tip of her staff to cut open both of Yun Ye's cheeks. Dark-purple bruised blood drained out, and Yun Ye regained the ability to speak.

"Master, I was ignorant before. I didn't realize you possessed such tremendous power. Now I am willing to join you. Please turn me into a monster too. I can definitely do better than those girls—no, better than everyone!" Yun Ye pleaded in a groveling tone, utterly humble in demeanor. If she had not been bound by tentacles, she would likely already have been kneeling and banging her head on the ground in apology.

Li Xuan found it both amusing and irritating. This woman really had the head of a turtle—she could bend or stretch as needed. She had been unbelievably stubborn just moments ago, yet now she had gone unbelievably soft.

"Master, how do you intend to deal with her?" Wu Yan asked anxiously. She and Yun Ye had a long-standing grudge. As a Grade B magical girl, Yun Ye's value far exceeded her own—perhaps even greater than that of the three sisters combined. If Li Xuan truly took Yun Ye in as a subordinate, Wu Yan feared her days would become miserable again.

"I intend to... slaughter a pig!" Li Xuan grinned viciously and used his tentacles to bind Yun Ye's limbs together like a trussed pig, then hung her up.

So You Were Blackmailed by That Kind of Secret for Years?

"You can't kill me! You can't kill me! If I die, Tan Xiang's Holy Mark will never be cured!" Seeing that begging was useless and that Li Xuan did not look kindly disposed toward her, Yun Ye hurriedly switched to threats.

"Whether it can be cured or not, we will only know after trying. Qi Mo, heal Wu Yan." Li Xuan spoke confidently.

Qi Mo was somewhat confused. She had treated Wu Yan countless times before, yet the Holy Mark had never healed. But since her master had given the order, she did not ask further questions. She removed Wu Yan's clothing and activated healing magic.

A miracle happened. As a green light symbolizing treatment flashed, the wound on Wu Yan's back slowly healed until it completely vanished, leaving behind smooth skin without the slightest mark.

"What is happening???" Not only Yun Ye, but even Qi Mo herself, who had cast the healing spell, could not understand it.

"Just as I guessed. The Prayer Type's power directly interferes with the laws of the world, so it ceases to function once it leaves the world. The same goes for the Light Crown and the Holy Mark." After confirming his theory, Li Xuan quickly opened a passage between worlds and carried Tan Xiang from the room inside. She had completely undergone Demonfall by now, and powerful Evil Energy radiated from her entire body. Yet because of the Holy Mark, she was still on the verge of death.

Without waiting for orders, Qi Mo stepped forward and activated healing magic. This time, it took longer, but she still successfully healed the wounds on Tan Xiang's body, restoring her back to a jade-smooth state.

"I'm still alive? Did I... become a monster?" Once her injuries healed, Tan Xiang gradually regained consciousness. She opened her eyes and looked at Qi Mo, who directed her gaze toward Li Xuan.

"I feel like I had a very long dream and went through so much. But now... I think I should call you Master?" Tan Xiang looked at Li Xuan with some fear, evidently still traumatized by the previous humiliating incident.

"That is right. I blocked out the world's light and had Qi Mo heal your Holy Mark. The person who caused you all that suffering is right here. If you want revenge, now is the time. She will be busy shortly." Li Xuan pointed at Yun Ye, who was bound atop the tentacles.

"Revenge? Can I? Can I really do that?" Tan Xiang asked in surprise.

"You can. Go ahead. Just do not kill her all at once." Li Xuan encouraged her.

Tan Xiang walked toward Yun Ye hesitantly. Though she had grown stronger after Demonfall, she still looked frail and sickly, as though the wind could knock her down at any moment.

When Tan Xiang's Holy Mark was healed, Yun Ye saw that her means of threat had failed, and despair gradually filled her eyes. But when Tan Xiang rose to her feet, she seemed to find a sliver of hope again. She screamed hysterically, "Tan Xiang! Don't forget that matter! That matter! I wrote about what you did in my Church confession record! If I die, another Prayer Type magical girl will take over my confession record! Then just wait for the truth to come out!"

Tan Xiang's whole body trembled. She immediately dared not take another step forward, quietly pulling back the half-step she had already taken.

"Kill him! None of them are your match! As long as you kill him, I'll tear up the confession record! I swear upon the Mississippi River that I will never pursue this matter again! Hurry! Hurry up and do it!" Yun Ye shouted herself hoarse.

Yun Ye's shrill voice made Li Xuan's scalp tingle. He quickly extended a tentacle and stuffed it into her mouth.

Tan Xiang turned back toward Li Xuan, summoning a dark-golden wheel into her hand. Her eyes were full of hesitation.

"Tan Xiang, are you going to kill me? For her?" Li Xuan asked with emphasis.

Tan Xiang shook her head. "Master, Tan Xiang is a weak person. I have always known that I could not accomplish anything great. But even so, I am not so ungrateful as to forget kindness. You saved my life. I cannot repay you with betrayal. But neither can I let that secret become public, so I will return this life to you, Master!"

As soon as Tan Xiang finished speaking, she raised the wheel and smashed it toward her own head. Li Xuan had prepared himself from the moment she began speaking. He tugged her lower leg with a tentacle, pulling her into his arms and catching her tightly. Without a point of leverage, her wheel naturally struck nothing.

"Master?!" Tan Xiang's face reddened as she looked at Li Xuan in shock and embarrassment. No one had ever held her this tightly, and Li Xuan's gaze toward her was filled with undisguised fervor. His blazing body heat passed through their embrace into her body.

"Your life is mine. If I do not allow you to die, then you cannot die." Li Xuan gave the order with the domineering tone of an overbearing CEO.

"Yes..." Tan Xiang agreed instinctively. The effect of Fallen Blood had already made her subconsciously regard Li Xuan as her master. On top of that, she considered him her savior. That double loyalty made her unable to defy his orders.

"Now tell me. What leverage does Yun Ye have over you?" Li Xuan pressed while the iron was hot.

Beside them, Yun Ye made urgent muffled noises. Xu Rou found the sound irritating and stepped forward, striking Yun Ye's rear hard several times with the haft of her axe. Only then did Yun Ye settle down.

"I committed an unforgivable sin... If anyone found out, I would die of shame." As Tan Xiang spoke, tears fell from her eyes.

"So what exactly was it?" Li Xuan's curiosity was piqued.

"Do I really have to say it?"

"You really do. That is an order."

"Fine!" Tan Xiang took several deep breaths, her expression turning resolute as though she had thrown caution to the wind. "After I use magic, Fire Poison develops inside my body and makes me burn up. Prayer Type magical girls cannot always Purify me, so when the poison was not severe, I found ways to relieve it myself."

"The method of relief was..."

"I would sneak into the church at night and use the table for conducting holy rites..."

"You killed someone?" Li Xuan guessed.

"No, on the sacred table used for holy rites, I... did something." Tan Xiang mumbled through the crucial part too quietly to hear.

"What did you say?" Since he could not hear her clearly, Li Xuan became even more curious. The three girls gathered closer as well, making Tan Xiang's already flushed cheeks turn even redder.

"I rubbed myself against the corner of the holy table... to reward myself... The holy table in the church had sacred power. I used it to vent the Fire Poison. Once, Yun Ye happened to catch me when she came back to retrieve something. According to Church rules, blasphemy was one of the gravest crimes. She used that incident to threaten me, so..."

After blurting everything out in one breath, Tan Xiang turned away and hid her face in Li Xuan's chest, continuously burrowing inward as though she wanted to crawl into his body.

"So she took pictures of you?"

"No..."

"She saw something she should not have?"

"No. I still had rubber clothing on..."

"So that was it? She blackmailed you for years over something like that?" Li Xuan froze for a moment, then burst out laughing. Tan Xiang became even more embarrassed at his laughter, but she could not escape his embrace and could only writhe around like a loach.

"Tan Xiang." Li Xuan raised her with both hands, stopped laughing, and looked at her seriously. "People should face their desires. Rewarding yourself is not something shameful to speak of, nor is it wrong. Boys and girls alike need ways to release their urges. Under me, you do not need to suppress your instincts. I will personally help you find relief!"

"I did not do anything wrong? But this was clearly blasphemy..." Tan Xiang's eyes filled with disbelief, as though she had just learned for the first time that boys had mammary glands too.

"Besides, you are already one of the monsters now. Our very existence is blasphemy against God, so what is there to say about blaspheming God? You do not need to worry about the church's confession record either. It happened years ago, and she has no proof. Who would spend the time investigating it?" Li Xuan reminded her.

Li Xuan's voice was not loud, yet it struck Tan Xiang's pure heart like a great bell. Her understanding of the world seemed to crumble and rebuild in an instant. She laughed freely, at first with the relief of liberation, then gradually with bitter self-mockery, as though laughing at herself for only realizing such a simple truth now.

"Master, I understand now. I am already a monster, so the Church's rules can no longer bind me. From now on, I will listen only to Master." Once she finished speaking, Tan Xiang turned a sharp gaze toward Yun Ye.

Magical Girl Grand Celebration!

"Have you decided how to deal with her?" Li Xuan asked as he admired Yun Ye's despairing expression.

"Master seems to possess the ability to create monsters? I beg Master to create an ugly, disgusting monster. She fears ugly things most of all, so let an ugly monster torment her." Tan Xiang suggested.

"Do you have any objections, Wu Yan?" Li Xuan asked.

"Little sister Tan Xiang, well done! Let her suffer bit by bit. That is the only way to make it satisfying!" Wu Yan stepped forward and patted Tan Xiang's shoulder. The two girls who had once suffered under Yun Ye instantly reached an agreement.

"Then it is settled!" Li Xuan extended his hand and summoned a mass of Fallen Blood, imagining a greasy middle-aged man often cast as the male lead in erotic comics while adjusting the monster's parameters.

[Monster Name: Breeding Uncle]

[Remaining Amount Consumed: 200 ml]

[Additional Trait: Mental Contamination]

Ten minutes later, an unspeakably hideous and disgusting monster appeared before them. At the sight of its bubblingly greasy bald head and incomparably lecherous gaze, all four magical girls turned their heads away at once. Xu Rou, who was always particular about cleanliness, nearly threw up.

To avoid sickening his own people, Li Xuan gave the monster its order to assault Yun Ye, then took the four magical girls back to Qi Mo's home to hold an impact-filled welcome party for Tan Xiang, leaving the Delusive Badlands to Yun Ye and the monster for their private time together.

While Li Xuan pinned the blushing Tan Xiang to the sofa, kissed her, and used his fingers in place of the table corner to relieve her Fire Poison, Yun Ye watched in despair as the ugly monster approached her step by step. She felt both frightened and hopeless, her face twisted with unbearable disgust.

Thinking of how she had once held so many winning cards, only to end up like this, she began to cry in grievance. Tears streamed freely down her swollen cheeks, making her look utterly wretched.

If she had not sent Tan Xiang out to work in the beginning and had instead kept her by her side, the monsters would never have had the chance to defeat them one by one. If she had listened to Tan Xiang and called for reinforcements, Li Xuan would have had no chance of resisting when the forces arrived. Even at the very end, if she had activated her limited skill and fled rather than staying to fight the monster, she would not have met this fate.

However, it was far too late for regrets. After the immensely powerful monster tormented her to its heart's content, it forced her mouth open and shoved in a huge, ugly object, slowly piercing through her body from her throat onward. Yun Ye had always been an unwavering vegetarian, yet she tasted something vile at the end of her life. It was, without question, an ironic ending.

[Defeat CG Unlocked: Piercing Play (I)]

[CG Elements: Piercing & Humiliation & Despair]

[Experience +30]

[Current Experience: 31/100]

With the thirty experience points credited, Li Xuan also sensed Yun Ye's fate through his authority over the Delusive Badlands.

While Yun Ye was still playing the game of having life taken from her and forced back into her with the ugly monster, Li Xuan had already been drained to exhaustion by four young and energetic magical girls. Although the system's hidden function allowed him to restore mana through dual cultivation, the extreme operation of satisfying four at once left his body unusually weary.

Fortunately, after an unprecedented grand celebration, the magical girls were also too exhausted to move. Their pale thighs and supple bodies crisscrossed over the sofa, while the areas between their lower bellies, waists, and hips still trembled faintly and continuously.

Shoes, socks, bras, and triangular scraps of fabric lay scattered everywhere. The room was filled with the unique fragrance of magical girls, presenting a completely chaotic scene.

The living room television was still playing an animation about female executives of an evil organization and magical girls getting along lovingly. The magical girls' delighted cries in the animation had been drowned out by louder sounds in the room, and only now could the television be heard clearly again.

Fortunately, Qi Mo had been asked to set up a soundproof barrier beforehand. Otherwise, even the security guard at the entrance of the residential complex would probably have heard them.

Many tally marks had been written in black ink on the magical girls' thighs. Li Xuan had handwritten them as a count to show he was not playing favorites. Yet unexpectedly, the four magical girls fought over him and secretly wrote extra tally marks on one another's thighs, hoping Li Xuan would get to them sooner.

Luckily, Li Xuan noticed in time. He gave the culprits a hard spanking based on the number of extra strokes they had written, then switched to counting in his head, finally suppressing this unhealthy competition.

Since Tan Xiang was the newest favorite, she was resting against Li Xuan on the sofa in his embrace. Seeing that she was still drowsily conscious, Li Xuan remembered something and asked curiously:

"Tan Xiang, I really want to know. Was the church table really that useful? You knew it was a serious crime, yet you still did it?"

Although Tan Xiang had accepted her true self, that did not mean she could remain unaffected by that dark history. She shyly covered half her face with a cushion and said in a very low voice, "The holy table in the church was just the right height. Its corner was not rough enough to hurt, nor smooth enough to slip away without any stimulation..."

"Damn, even Lingdi Ningning could not play better than you." Li Xuan felt his spirits stir at her words. He perked up again, patted Tan Xiang's rear to wake her, and forcibly continued the celebration.

All revelry eventually came to an end. Once Li Xuan finally regained his strength and began thinking with his upper head again, he quickly realized that he had quite a mess to clean up.

Of the two magical girls sent by the Church, one had died and the other had undergone Demonfall. No one would let that go easily. Although his side had gained a powerful combatant like Tan Xiang, the Church would certainly send more magical girls next time, and stronger ones at that.

His current experience was 31/100. Even if a Grade B magical girl's defeat CG gave as much as thirty experience, he would still need at least three more CGs to level up again.

Before then, did he have any way to deal with even stronger magical girls?

Of course he did. Almost every magical girl he had defeated so far had been stronger than him in direct combat. As long as he could remain hidden, gather intelligence, and slowly identify their weaknesses, he could find a way to overcome even the strongest magical girl. But the mysterious Oracle Machine made Li Xuan somewhat wary.

Why did it know information about him? Why had it received news the moment the trio underwent Demonfall? The unknown always inspired fear. Li Xuan thought for a long time before finally turning his gaze toward Tan Xiang.

He needed intelligence—intelligence about the Church. The Oracle Machine could probably grasp the fact that Tan Xiang had undergone Demonfall as well. He had to find a Church magical girl and make her serve him without undergoing Demonfall.

Li Xuan looked out the window. It was already very late at night. Seeing the four magical girls sleeping soundly, he stretched lazily and fell asleep with his head resting on Tan Xiang's sweet, soft thighs.

Magical Girl? Magical Married Woman!

Early the next morning, Li Xuan asked Tan Xiang about the Church. Tan Xiang explained some of its circumstances, which were largely the same as what Li Sijie had said. As for the most crucial Oracle Machine, Tan Xiang said it was a secret that only the Prayer Type was qualified to access. She only knew that Yun Ye had a way of receiving information from the Oracle Machine, but as for how the thing actually worked, she knew absolutely nothing.

Though slightly disappointed, Li Xuan continued discussing the Church's personnel deployment in the surrounding area with Tan Xiang. At first, Tan Xiang stated with certainty that there were no Church members in Clear Lotus City. But when she saw Qi Mo wearing an apron and making breakfast for everyone like a mother, she suddenly remembered something: