Cardcaptor Xuan

The very second Ye Xuan's fingers closed around the Star Wand-

Buzz-!

A crisp vibration of starlight abruptly rang out.

Dazzling pink starlight burst from the wand in an instant, flooding the entire room without giving Ye Xuan any chance to react.

Countless ribbons of fragmented starlight frantically wound around his limbs and torso, wrapping his body tight.

"What's happening?!"

Ye Xuan's pupils contracted sharply, and panic instantly seized him.

He had only casually accepted a prop, never intending to trigger anything, but the Star Wand seemed to have locked onto his aura and instantly recognized him as its master!

Light enveloped his entire body.

An exquisite pink magical girl dress, covered in lace and star patterns, forcibly appeared on his body out of thin air.

His loose men's clothing vanished in an instant, replaced by a short skirt, white stockings, and starlight accessories. Even his hair was rendered silky and lustrous by the starlight.

The whole process took no more than a second-a forced transformation he could not resist!

The light slowly faded.

The formerly handsome, easygoing young man had now fully assumed the form of a stunningly beautiful magical girl, slender, pink, and adorable.

Just as Ye Xuan had been in childhood.

Ronova, lying on her stomach on the bed, stared in a daze.

She blinked, staring fixedly at the completely transformed Ye Xuan, utterly stupefied.

When she had recited the incantation earlier, there had been no response, not the slightest resonance.

And the result?

Ye Xuan casually took it and got the full transformation package!

Ye Xuan looked down at his pink dress and long, white-stockinged legs, feeling the absurd magical girl energy emanating from his body. His entire face went dark.

He completely lost it.

"..."

The air fell deathly silent for three seconds.

Ronova finally could not hold it in anymore. Her shoulders shook wildly, and her whole body trembled from suppressing her laughter. She nearly laughed aloud.

Eula completely lost her composure. Abandoning all noble etiquette and ladylike dignity, she braced herself against the table and burst into wild laughter.

Ye Xuan gritted his teeth, his voice furious beyond measure:

"Ro. No. Va!"

Ye Xuan threw the Star Wand away, undoing the outfit change and returning to his original appearance.

With one hand, he tossed Eula from beside the table onto the bed to join Ronova, then began undressing.

It was time to experience the power of the dragon.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. Shendu's Dragon Talisman could grant a person boundless strength, while the Horse Talisman could restore the body to perfect condition.

A mere Ronova and Eula could not withstand his current intensity at all.

With Eula, who was experiencing passion for the first time and was inexperienced in both body and mind, Ye Xuan at least knew to restrain himself.

Ronova, however, had truly suffered over those two days.

As a god, she needed neither food nor rest. For those two full days, she had remained in bed with him almost the entire time, thoroughly tempered into docile obedience.

After two days of fighting side by side, Ronova and Eula had grown considerably closer.

Meanwhile, the Tiger Talisman inside Ye Xuan was also quietly balancing the good and evil in his nature.

Now he could actually watch Timmie playing with pigeons without killing them. This was truly tremendous progress. A good disposition was the first step toward sharing joy with the people.

Nothing good would come of not eating beef.

Elsewhere, those trapped in the spatial labyrinth finally reached the end of their ordeal.

Paimon hovered in the air, her face full of irritation as she complained incessantly, "Tone-deaf bard! What kind of stupid labyrinth is this?! We've been trapped for five whole days!"

For those five days, Paimon had not eaten so much as a single Sunsettia.

Venti gazed at the collapsing spatial rifts around them, his expression unusually grave.

"This is the authority of Asmoday, the Archon of the Void."

"Keeping us trapped for five days is only to be expected."

"Asmoday..."

Lumine's heart jolted.

She knew that name all too well.

Ye Xuan had told her that the culprit who had forcibly torn her and Aether apart, separating the siblings for hundreds of years, was precisely this god.

Now Asmoday was attached to her brother.

Could it be... that the person who had trapped her for so long was Aether?

Why?

Her brother was so close, yet he still refused to meet her.

A biting cold wind blew past.

Venti's expression instantly turned utterly cold and grim.

Jean's heart tightened, and she hurriedly asked, "Lord Barbatos, what's wrong?"

"Something has happened in Mondstadt."

"The Abyss Order entered the city in full view and carried out a massacre. Many civilians and knights were killed or wounded. The Lawrence Clan has completely broken away from Mondstadt and migrated to Liyue in its entirety. Even Kaeya was taken away by the Abyss in public."

"What?!"

Jean's pupils contracted sharply, disbelief filling her face.

In just five short days, Mondstadt had suffered one earth-shattering upheaval after another!

She immediately pressed, "Lord Barbatos, there must be a reason for all this. Why did the Abyss suddenly invade in force? The Lawrence Clan has endured for a hundred years, so why choose this moment to defect from Mondstadt?"

"Lisa and Albedo have taken Klee to stay at Diluc's manor for the time being. They know everything that happened, from beginning to end."

Venti looked up at the two of them.

"Jean, Diluc, return to Mondstadt immediately. Mondstadt urgently needs you there to hold things together."

"But Dvalin...?" Jean hesitated.

"Leave things here to the Traveler and me."

Venti once again wore the Anemo Archon's composed smile as the wind rustled around him.

"Don't forget, I am Barbatos, the Anemo Archon of Mondstadt."

A breeze lifted them, and a gentle, sweeping wind carried Jean and Diluc straight into the sky.

Diluc had already guessed that this upheaval most likely had something to do with Kaeya.

But before he could ask, the wind had risen. The two could only deploy their Wind Gliders and race at full speed toward the Dawn Winery, toward the City of Mondstadt.

Once the two had left, Paimon spoke timidly. "Tone-deaf bard, where do we go to find Dvalin now?"

"Isn't he here already?"

A gale blew Dvalin, who had still been sleeping at home, all the way to Starsnatch Cliff.

The moment Dvalin saw Barbatos, he remembered Asmoday saying that if he caused Barbatos some trouble, she would stop controlling him afterward.

The wind dragon spread his wings, blotting out the sky and sun as an elemental storm gathered frantically.

Caelestinum Finale Termini!

Terrifying Anemo power tore through the heavens!

Dvalin glared ahead, his voice shaking the sea of clouds. "Barbatos, it's time to settle everything!"

Just as he was about to see what Barbatos looked like-

Venti changed into his divine attire. The Holy Lyre der Himmel vanished from his hands, replaced by the Skyward Harp.

Vast, surging Anemo energy gathered frantically around the arrow, locking firmly onto him.

"Dvalin, have you finished making a scene?!"

Dvalin sensed that something was wrong and hurriedly asked, "Can we settle this peacefully?"

"At a time like this, surely you must be joking."

The bowstring abruptly released.

The Anemo Archon's full-powered strike tore through the air!

An utterly pure surge of Anemo power instantly pierced the wind dragon's body.

A thunderous boom rang out!

Dvalin's enormous body was struck down outright, plummeting and crashing heavily to the bottom of the cliff, where he lost consciousness completely.

Venti put away his bow and said to Lumine, "All right, Traveler, I'll leave the rest to you. Please heal Dvalin's corruption."

Beside them, Paimon was already trembling all over in fright, her little face deathly pale.

So this tone-deaf bard, who usually slacked off and lazed around, doing nothing but playing the lyre and shirking work, was actually this terrifying when he got serious!