So You've Been Blackmailed with Something Like That for Years? / Magical Girl Extravaganza! ...

"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 if his mind had been drained dry, and the world darkened with it. Looking carefully, he realized that the sky before him was no longer the sky, and the ground was no longer the ground. Everything had become hollow and chaotic. The five people on the battlefield stood upon fragmented footholds, drifting about as though they were wandering through space.

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

[Authority Level: Beginner]

[Development Progress: 0%]

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

"Hey, hey, this is a joke, right? What the hell is this place? Why can't the light of the world reach in here? No, no, no, this is definitely wrong, isn't it? Are you sick or something?!!!" Yun Ye stood atop a floating object, frantically stretching both hands toward the sky as if demanding something from it.

Seeing the disbelief in her eyes put Li Xuan in an excellent mood. He opened the skill's detailed description and finally understood why Yun Ye could no longer use her power:

[Delusive Badlands: An independent miniature world built upon the void. The master of this space may freely enter and exit by consuming a certain amount of mental energy. Other living beings may only enter or leave with the master's permission. Raising authority level unlocks more functions, eventually allowing control over this world's laws and everything within it.]

"So this is already another world. What a pity—you are currently outside the service area." Having figured out the principle, Li Xuan grinned viciously and extended his tentacles, grabbing the still-hysterical Yun Ye in one swift motion.

The moment Yun Ye was caught by the tentacles, she 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 people like you! If you dare touch me, the Church won't let you—"

Smack!

A crisp slap cut off Yun Ye's shriek. It was so loud that Li Xuan's palm went slightly numb from the impact.

"You dare hit me? You actually hit me? Not even my father has ever hit me!" Yun Ye clutched her already swollen cheek and glared at Li Xuan as though she had suffered the greatest injustice in the world.

Smack! Smack, smack! Smack smack smack smack!

A barrage of slaps from both sides answered her. Yun Ye's limbs were held by tentacles, and her head was clamped tightly in place as well. She did not have even the slightest room to dodge.

When Li Xuan stopped because his palm had gone numb, Yun Ye's already puffy cheeks had swollen high, leaving her unable to speak as if she had two apples stuffed in her mouth.

"Master! I don't know where this is, but it looks like you turned the tables?" The three magical girls did not have Li Xuan's flexible tentacles. After fumbling around for quite a while, they slowly climbed over to him.

"Don't panic. This is the Delusive Badlands, under my control." Li Xuan casually created a chair-shaped monster and sat steadily within the drifting void.

"Master, you had such power hidden away? Your disadvantage just now was all an act, wasn't it?" Xu Rou said in astonishment.

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

"Ugh... mmgh..." Yun Ye, whose cheeks had swollen high, seemed to be trying 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 flowed out, restoring Yun Ye's ability to speak.

"Master, I was blind and arrogant before. I had no idea you possessed such terrifying 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 anyone!" Yun Ye pleaded in a lowly, submissive manner. Her expression was utterly humble. If she had not been tied up by tentacles, she would probably already have knelt and kowtowed to Li Xuan in apology.

Li Xuan could not help feeling both irritated and amused. This girl was like a turtle's head—able to stick it out and pull it back in. She had been stubbornly tough just moments ago, yet now she had gone completely soft.

"Master, how are you going to deal with her?" Wu Yan asked worriedly. She and Yun Ye had a long-standing grudge. As a Grade B magical girl, Yun Ye was far more valuable than Wu Yan, perhaps even more valuable than the three sisters combined. If Li Xuan truly took her in as a subordinate, Wu Yan's life would probably become difficult again.

"I'm going to... slaughter a pig!" Li Xuan grinned viciously as he used his tentacles to suspend Yun Ye in a hog-tied position.

So You Were Blackmailed by This Weakness 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 inclined to mercy, Yun Ye hastily switched to threats.

"Whether it can be cured or not, we'll have to try and see. Qi Mo, heal Wu Yan." Li Xuan spoke confidently.

Qi Mo was somewhat confused. She had healed Wu Yan many times before, yet she had never managed to close the Holy Mark. But since her master had given the order, she did not ask questions. She took off Wu Yan's clothes and activated her healing magic.

A miracle occurred. As the green glow representing healing flashed, the scars on Wu Yan's back slowly closed until they vanished completely, leaving behind smooth skin without a single trace!

"What is going on???" Not only Yun Ye, but even Qi Mo herself, who had cast the healing spell, did not understand the reason.

"Just as I guessed. Prayer Type abilities directly interfere with the laws of the world, so they stop working once they leave the world. The Light Crown is like that, and so is the Holy Mark." After confirming his guess, Li Xuan immediately opened a passage between worlds and carried Tan Xiang from the room inside. She had completely undergone Demonfall by now, her body radiating powerful Evil Energy, but because of the Holy Mark, she was already on the verge of death.

Without waiting for instructions, Qi Mo stepped forward and activated her healing magic. This time, it took somewhat longer, but she still successfully healed Tan Xiang's wounds and restored her jade-smooth back.

"I'm still alive? Did I... become a monster?" Once her wounds 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. She was clearly still traumatized by the earlier humiliation.

"That's right. I blocked out the world's light and had Qi Mo heal your Holy Mark. The person who made you suffer is right here. If you want revenge, now is the time. She'll be busy later." Li Xuan pointed at Yun Ye, who was tied up on the tentacles.

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

"You can. Go on. Just don't kill her too quickly." Li Xuan encouraged her.

Tan Xiang walked toward Yun Ye hesitantly. Although her strength had improved after undergoing Demonfall, she still looked sickly and frail, as though a gust of wind could knock her over at any moment.

When the Holy Mark was healed, Yun Ye watched her method of blackmail lose its power, and despair slowly filled her eyes. But when Tan Xiang rose to her feet, Yun Ye seemed to find a faint chance at survival. She screamed hysterically, "Tan Xiang! Don't forget that matter! That matter! I wrote about what you did in my confession record at the Church! If I die, another Prayer Type magical girl will take over my confession record, and then just wait for it all to come out!"

Tan Xiang's entire body shook. She immediately did not dare take another step forward, quietly withdrawing even 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 on the Mississippi River that I'll never pursue this matter again! Hurry! Hurry up!" Yun Ye roared herself hoarse.

Yun Ye's shrill voice made Li Xuan's scalp tingle. He quickly extended a tentacle and plugged 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 sake?" Li Xuan asked, stressing each word.

Tan Xiang shook her head. "Master, I am a weak person. I have always known that I could never accomplish anything important. But even so, I am not so shameless as to repay kindness with betrayal. You saved my life. I cannot be ungrateful. But I also cannot let that secret become public, so I will return this life to you, Master!"

After speaking, Tan Xiang raised the wheel and smashed it toward her own head. Li Xuan had already been prepared when she began speaking. With one tentacle, he tugged her lower leg and pulled her into his arms, catching her tightly. Having lost the leverage to strike, the wheel naturally missed its target.

"Master?!" Tan Xiang looked at Li Xuan with a flushed face, startled and embarrassed. She had never been held so tightly before. Moreover, Li Xuan's eyes were filled with undisguised fervor, and his scorching body heat passed through the embrace into her body.

"Your life belongs to me. If I don't allow you to die, then you cannot die." Li Xuan spoke in the forceful, commanding tone of a domineering CEO.

"Yes..." Tan Xiang answered instinctively. Fallen Blood had already made her subconsciously regard Li Xuan as her master, and she also considered him her savior. That double loyalty made her incapable of disobeying his orders.

"Now tell me. What weakness of yours did Yun Ye discover?" Li Xuan pressed while the iron was hot.

Beside them, Yun Ye made frantic muffled noises. Xu Rou found the sound irritating and stepped forward to viciously strike Yun Ye's rear several times with the handle of her axe, finally making her behave.

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

"So what exactly was it?" By this point, Li Xuan's curiosity had been thoroughly piqued.

"Do I really have to say it?"

"You do. That is an order."

"All right!" Tan Xiang took several deep breaths and wore an expression of resigned determination. "After I use magic, Fire Poison builds up in my body and makes it burn. Prayer Type magical girls cannot always help me with Purification, so when the poison is not too severe, I find ways to relieve it myself."

"And the way you relieved it was..."

"At night, I secretly slipped into the church and used the table where the sacred rites were held..."

"Did you kill someone?" Li Xuan guessed.

"No, on the sacred table used for the rites, I... did it." Tan Xiang mumbled the crucial part too quietly to make out.

"What did you say?" Since he could not hear it clearly, Li Xuan only became more curious. Even the three little girls leaned in curiously, making Tan Xiang's already red cheeks turn even scarlet.

"I rubbed myself against the corner of the holy table... to reward myself... The holy table in the church had sacred power, and 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 sins. She used it to blackmail me, so..."

After blurting it all out in one breath, Tan Xiang turned her head and buried her face in Li Xuan's arms, wriggling inward as though she wanted to burrow into his body.

"So she took pictures of you?"

"No..."

"Did she see somewhere she shouldn't have?"

"No. I was wearing rubber clothes..."

"So that's all? You let her blackmail you for years over something like that?" Li Xuan froze for a moment, then burst into laughter. Tan Xiang became even more embarrassed upon hearing him laugh, but she could not escape his embrace. All she could do was twist around like a loach.

"Tan Xiang." Li Xuan extended both hands and lifted her up. His laughter faded as he looked at her seriously. "People need to face their desires. Rewarding yourself is not something shameful, and it is not wrong. Boys and girls alike need ways to release themselves. Under me, you do not need to suppress your instincts. I will personally help you relieve it!"

"I didn't do anything wrong? But this was obviously blasphemy..." Tan Xiang's eyes revealed utter disbelief, as though she had just learned for the first time that men had mammary glands.

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

Li Xuan's not particularly loud voice shook Tan Xiang's pure heart like a great bell. Everything she had believed about the world seemed to be destroyed and remade in an instant. She laughed wildly, first with the relief of liberation, then gradually turning into a self-mocking bitter laugh, as though she were laughing at herself for only realizing something so simple 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 only listen to Master." After speaking, Tan Xiang looked sharply at 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 have the ability to create monsters? I beg you to create an ugly, disgusting monster. She is most afraid of ugly things, so let an ugly monster torment her." Tan Xiang suggested.

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

"Little sister Tan Xiang, well done! Let her suffer bit by bit. That's the only way to satisfy our hatred!" 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's settled!" Li Xuan stretched out his hand and summoned a mass of Fallen Blood. In his mind, he imagined a greasy middle-aged man who often played the male lead in pornographic comics, then adjusted the monster's parameters.

[Monster Name: Breeding Uncle]

[Remaining Amount Consumed: 200 ml]

[Additional Attribute: Mental Contamination]

Ten minutes later, a hideously ugly and disgusting monster appeared before everyone. Merely seeing its greasy bald head and incomparably lecherous gaze made all four magical girls turn away in unison. Xu Rou, who had always been a neat freak, nearly threw up.

To keep the monster from disgusting his own people, Li Xuan gave it the order to violate 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 pressed the blushing Tan Xiang onto the sofa and kissed her, using his fingers in place of the table corner to help her dispel the Fire Poison, Yun Ye watched in despair as the ugly monster approached her step by step. She felt both terrified and hopeless, and an unbearable expression of disgust filled her face.

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 especially pathetic.

If she had not sent Tan Xiang out to work and had kept her by her side from the start, 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 to resist once the army arrived. Even at the very end, if she had used her limited skill to flee rather than stay and fight the monsters, she would not have met this fate.

However, it was already far too late for regrets. After the immensely strong monster tormented her to its heart's content, it forced open her mouth and shoved in a huge, ugly object, slowly piercing through her body from her throat onward. Yun Ye had always been a staunch vegetarian, yet in the final moments of her life, she ended up eating Binzhou. 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 thirty experience points received, Li Xuan also sensed Yun Ye's outcome through his authority over the Delusive Badlands.

While Yun Ye was still playing the game of having her life taken away and pumped back in again with the ugly monster, Li Xuan had already been drained to exhaustion by four young, energetic magical girls. Although the system's hidden function allowed him to replenish mana through dual cultivation, the extreme feat of serving all four still left his body abnormally exhausted.

Fortunately, after an unprecedented celebration, the magical girls were also too tired to move. Pale thighs and soft bodies sprawled across the sofa in tangled disorder, their lower bellies, waists, and hips still trembling faintly.

Shoes, socks, bras, and triangular scraps of fabric had been tossed everywhere. The room was filled with the unique body fragrance of magical girls, creating a scene of complete chaos.

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

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

The magical girls' thighs were covered in black tally marks. Li Xuan had handwritten them to show that he would not play favorites. Yet unexpectedly, the four magical girls fought among themselves and secretly added tally marks to each other's thighs, hoping Li Xuan would get to them sooner.

Fortunately, Li Xuan noticed in time. He harshly spanked the offenders according to the number of extra strokes they had added, then switched to counting in his head. Only then did he suppress the beginnings of that vicious competition.

Since Tan Xiang was the newest favorite, Li Xuan currently had his arm around her as they rested on the sofa. Seeing that she was still somewhat awake through her haze, he remembered something and asked curiously:

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

Tan Xiang had accepted her true self, but that did not mean she could remain unaffected by her old shameful history. Embarrassed, she used a cushion to cover half her face and spoke in a very soft voice. "The holy table in the church was just the right height. The corner was not rough enough to hurt, but it was not smooth enough to simply slide away without any stimulation either..."

"Damn, even Lingdi Ningning doesn't know how to have fun as well as you do." Li Xuan's heart stirred as he listened. He could not help rallying once more, patting Tan Xiang's rear to wake her up and forcibly starting another round.

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 was dead and the other had undergone Demonfall. No one would let that go. Although Tan Xiang had joined his side as a powerful fighter, the Church would definitely send more and stronger magical girls next time.

His current experience was 31/100. Even if the defeat CG of a Grade B magical girl gave as many as thirty experience points, he would still need at least three more CGs before he could 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 raw power. As long as he could remain hidden, gather intelligence, and slowly find their weaknesses, even the strongest magical girls could be conquered. But the mysterious Oracle Machine made Li Xuan somewhat wary.

Why did it know his information? Why had it received news the moment the trio underwent Demonfall? Unknown things 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. Tan Xiang had already undergone Demonfall, and the Oracle Machine could probably detect that too. He had to find magical girls from the Church and make them serve him without undergoing Demonfall.

Li Xuan looked out the window. It was already deep into the night. Seeing that the four magical girls were sleeping soundly, he stretched lazily as well, then fell asleep with his head resting on Tan Xiang's sweet, soft thighs.

Magical Girls? Magical Housewives!

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

While feeling slightly disappointed, Li Xuan also asked Tan Xiang about the Church's personnel deployment in the surrounding areas. At first, Tan Xiang stated firmly that there were no Church members in Clear Lotus City. But when she saw Qi Mo wearing an apron and preparing breakfast for everyone like a mother, she suddenly remembered something: