"You're just pretending!"
Just as Black Keke finished speaking coldly, Xilan had already stepped on her face, "Could you please stop using your head to press against the sole of my Si Motu's shoe?"
The Shuangsheng squatted down beside her, pinching Black Keke's cheeks and giggling, "What's with this 'please let us die' stuff? This stuff stuck to the soles of shoes is the hardest to wash off."
"Kneel down before Lord Si Motu!" Xilan practically wanted to sit right on Black Keke's face. "How could such an incompetent person lead the Witch Association for so long? No wonder of the three major organizations, the Witch Association declined the fastest. If you had given the position of guild leader to Si Motu earlier, the Witch Association would never have fallen to this state!"
Black Keke's cold gaze was as if she were looking at a rotting corpse, but the Shuangsheng were not easily intimidated. "What's wrong with you? What kind of look is that? Want to be captured by the Shuangsheng?"
"You even copied Si Motu's younger sister's appearance! Look at yourself, do you even resemble a human being? You're far inferior to Si Motu's sister! Imposter, let the Shuangsheng expose your disguise!"
The Shuangsheng pulled out a scalpel, viciously licked the blade, and grabbed Black Keke's ear. "Watch me peel off your face and show Si Motu your ugly true colors!"
Jialan stared dumbfounded at the two girls who were not even ranked in the Witch Association, who were humiliating and bullying the guild leader in various ways.
I kept rubbing my eyes, thinking I might be hallucinating.
Guild leader, how could we possibly let these two dual-zone teams overpower us!
The once mysterious, aloof, and all-knowing guild leader, who could subdue countless experts with just a glance without even lifting a finger, was now expressionlessly being tossed around between the two districts.
Just as Jialan was about to roar and charge forward to fight them to the death.
Black Keke had already pinned down the restless Shuangsheng, one in each hand and Xilan. Their heads were firmly embedded in the floor, struggling desperately as if they were drowning, unable to dig themselves out.
A grin spread across his face, revealing a fake-human smile, "Don't be angry. No matter how hard this world tries, it's useless. So why don't we just look forward to the next cycle? Isn't that more efficient? Right, bro?"
Jiang Si didn't say anything, but simply threw a punch at Black Keke.
He immediately released the Shuangsheng and Xilan, raised his hand to block—and both arms snapped with a crack!
Staggering, he sat down on the ground, while the Shuangsheng and Xilan, who had gotten up, both grinned maliciously.
They immediately pinned down the injured Black Keke.
This time, Black Keke did nothing more, letting the two districts roll over.
"How dare you let the Shuangsheng ' magnificent faces be rubbed into the ground! You're finished!"
The Shuangsheng even sculpted two demon horns from their magical costumes, revealing an evil smile. They licked their lips, poured a drink onto their toes, and caught it in a cup. "The president of the Witch Association has always been the biggest villain in the New World. Now that she's in my hands, I'll show you who the truly evil villain is! Hehehe, the Shuangsheng have finally waited for this day—"
Picking up the cup, she approached Black Keke. Meanwhile, Xilan, unusually cooperative, tickled Black Keke's armpits, trying to get her to open her mouth. "Go drink the Shuangsheng ' foot bath water! Open your mouth, open your mouth----"
"Seriously, ladies, how can you resist this?"
The two teams worked together seamlessly. Black Keke nowhere to hide, nowhere to avoid, and nowhere to delay. She simply looked at Jiang Si with a smile, but her eyes were devoid of any emotion.
" Keke will get to drink it too."
Jiang Si then slowly sat down, looking at the Shuangsheng and Xilan, "What are you going to do to Keke?"
Xilan and the Shuangsheng both froze, glancing at Jiang Si and then at the president.
Then Xilan cautiously asked, "Is she really your sister?"
"Hmm." Jiang Si said indifferently, " The Witch Association still need her to manage it in the future, so you all have to obey her. Keke's orders are my orders."
A long silence, deathly still like a tomb.
Jialan finally showed a happy smile.
Xilan and the Shuangsheng ' faces slowly began to contort, until Black Keke pointed at the "foot-washing water" the Shuangsheng had handed her, and said, "How long are you planning to keep putting this foot-washing water in front of me? How long are you going to keep disgusting me? Xi, Lan, Shuang, Sheng."
He pronounced the name word slowly and deliberately, and the murderous intent was clearly audible in his voice.
However, the smile on Black Keke's face gave off a sense of indifference and emptiness, and the way she spoke sounded like she was trying to intimidate and drive away someone.
The Shuangsheng' legs went weak, and they knelt on the ground, their faces contorted in a mournful expression. "No, I didn't mean to disgust you, President! I sell this foot bath water online; it's a pretty popular drink—I meant well! I'll drink it for you if you don't believe me—"
Xilan immediately fawned over the president, helping her up. "Look at this! Look at this! That scoundrel, Shuangsheng, dared to bully our Witch Association president like this! President, Xilan will definitely help you get revenge!"
The Shuangsheng' eyes widened immediately. "Damn it! You were the one who started it! You're making false accusations!"
"That wasn't something you, Shuangsheng, wanted me to do!"
"I didn't even say anything, you're a complete liar!"
"You double agent and traitor, how dare you accuse me of being a master liar!"
"You, the mastermind behind the Divided Witch Association— "
The two started fighting again.
Black Keke ignored them and simply walked to Jiang Si's side, presenting her severed hands to Jiang Si.
"Brother, I've broken my arm."
"I know, I did it."
"Please accept this for me."
Jiang Si casually caught it for her, and Black Keke counted on her fingers as if weighing the pros and cons, "You have to help me, otherwise I'll restart right now and show you. Since it's a full-star human rights card, let me make good use of it, otherwise if I restart and you're not in the record, you might not be in the next reincarnation----"
"There's such a rule?"
"Yes."
After stretching her arms, Black Keke continued, "Each cycle isn't exactly the same; there are always some deviations, leading to various problems. That's why achieving the perfect ending is so difficult—"
As Black Keke picked up her shoes, which the Shuangsheng had stepped on and put them back on, she said, "Your appearance, not to mention your old flame Shion, and all those Azure Cloud Sect magical girls Yantou, a whole bunch of messy stuff, many people who should have died didn't die, and people who should have lived didn't live, caused my previous plans to completely fail, and even many of the Enemy of the End I prepared were eliminated by you in advance, making this cycle a complete failure."
Jialan, the Shuangsheng, and Xilan all looked at Jiang Si as they listened.
No matter how you look at it, it seems to be Jiang Si's problem.
"That can't be right?"
Jiang Si suddenly said, "Before I changed the course of this world, you couldn't save our parents."
As she said this, Jiang Si looked up coldly at Black Keke, "From the very beginning, you never intended for this cycle to end, did you?"
Jialan, the Shuangsheng, and Xilan all turned to look at Black Keke at the same time.
That's right, what Si Motu said is absolutely flawless. Since she wanted a perfect ending, the fact that she didn't save her parents from the beginning proves that she never intended to end her cycle of reincarnation in this lifetime!
"Oh dear, didn't I tell you I'm late?"
"How did you manage to complete the witch experiment with Lu Ya when you were late?"
Black Keke shrugged. "Can I say I forgot at the time? There were too many things to do. When the day came up, the captain started the operation, and I completely forgot that I even had parents in Beihai."
"It's all the same," Jiang Si said indifferently. "It just proves that you didn't take this reincarnation seriously. It has nothing to do with me. From the beginning, not saving your parents and letting the Witch Association run rampant, causing so many casualties and even corrupting many magical girls, it just proves that this world is far from your so-called perfect ending."
Black Keke tapped her forehead and sighed, "Are Mom and Dad's brains really that sharp? How come you inherited all of that? They're so biased!"
The Witch Association's private space wasn't very large; it was more like an ordinary living room.
For Jiang Si, it was just that the TV had been replaced with a larger screen; otherwise, the layout was no different from her previous home.
It's fair to say that Black Keke's Witch Association space was designed based on the living room of a house.
"Alright, alright, I can't hide it from you anymore. I really never intended to achieve a perfect ending in this lifetime. After all, there's still a lot of information I haven't investigated, and some information needs to be verified—"
Black Keke hugged Jiang Si with a half-smile. "Preparing a perfect ending without sufficient information is exhausting. It's a huge burden, both mentally and physically, to futilely save those you care about and then watch them continue to die. Shouldn't we prioritize efficiency?"
"Have we reached a dead end?"
"Almost."
Jiang Si sneered, "Why don't you just breathe on it Return to Truth breathe on it?"
Black Keke tilted her head, her expression suggesting impatience. "What do you mean?"
"When you encounter a dead end, you can use the pressure to create your own cycle of despair. Over time, it will give you hints."
This is Return to Truth Keke.
Jiang Si thought about it again. Black Keke didn't have an aunt, so there was no way she could create any kind of "aunt's cultivation journey".
However, I can replace my aunt in this ecological niche.
She glanced up at Black Keke, whose expression remained calm, and thought to herself that she was probably already drenched in sweat inside.
Black Keke could roughly understand what Jiang Si meant by her nonsensical words.
He just shrugged. "Playing it safe just means you'll keep dying. What kind of hints are there anyway?"
After saying that, she waved her hand and led Jiang Si out of the witch's private space.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived in the Land of Chaos above the New World.
"Speaking of which, bro, you have no idea what the New World is, do you? Why can only one Full Bloom magical girl appear in other worlds at a time, but two can appear in the New World?"
Jiang Si saw Fengqin lying unconscious on the ground. Black Keke patted her awake. "The primordial world, anyway, it's inseparable from the World Tree and the first magical girl. Oh, do you know who the first magical girl was?"
"Have no idea."
"I don't know either."
Jiang Si suddenly realized that the ill-mannered Keke was actually quite deserving of a beating.
After the Fengqin woke up, Black Keke continued, "But at first, the New World was a complete world. Back then, it was a vibrant place where everything flourished. At its peak, it could Full Bloom dozens of magical girls. Let me think... it's been so long—maybe forty-nine."
"The Great Dao is fifty, and the Heavenly Evolution is forty-nine?" Jiang Si fell into deep thought.
Fengqin stared blankly at the two of them, drooling and with unfocused eyes.
After the World Weavers's complete breakdown, the Fengqin was left alone here, ignored by everyone.
Seeing that he's practically lost his soul, he's most likely suffered some severe injury, leading to mental confusion.
However, Black Keke didn't care at all. She simply touched the Little Bear ornament on the Fengqin head, picked it up, and continuously poured magic into it. "But with each cycle of reincarnation, the New World begins to shrink, with fragments constantly falling off and disappearing, making it smaller and smaller—"
"Until it becomes so small that it can no longer maintain its original historical evolution, and even in subsequent cycles it reaches a point of near collapse—!"
"You know, if the course of history in the New World changes, or if the New World collapses Keke born, then everything will end, and my cycle of reincarnation will come to an end."
Black Keke tapped her forehead, a cold glint in her eyes, her expression as indifferent as if she had just crawled out of her grave. "After all, I am a spirit that can only exist because I am attached to this world's Keke."
Jiang Si understood this point.
Although she currently appears as an independent individual, her Personal Reality depends on Keke for it to unfold.
In other words, once Keke disappears, the Black Keke in this cycle will also disappear because it has no anchor point.
"I'm wondering if this is the World Tree's strategy for dealing with beings like me? I'm not sure, but the world itself is trying to erase me."
As Black Keke spoke, the Little Bear ornament finally lit up again, followed by Little Bear voice, "Perhaps it's because each cycle consumes the world's own power?"
Jiang Si's gaze also fell on the teddy Little Bear keychain. "What's this?"
"An Incubators," Black Keke said nonchalantly, "Consider me my partner?"
"If you think that sealing a person inside an ornament and controlling their memories counts as being a partner, then I think your understanding is somewhat flawed, Jiang Keke."
Black Keke patted the Little Bear charm. "Oh, don't be so stingy. You said you're the best helper for magical girls, and I've always trusted you completely."
After saying that, he glanced at Jiang Si again, "This is the Incubators I used when I transformed."
As she spoke, seeing Keke and the Prince return to the Beihai, Black Keke immediately squatted down and watched as Keke was talking to people she no longer recognized.
Even if I lose my identity, name, and power, I will never stop moving forward with my head held high.
"How enviable!"
After muttering something, Black Keke crushed her Little Bear hair accessory.
" The New World is constantly splitting and shrinking. Throughout my reincarnations, I've tried everything I could. At first, I went back to the distant past, trying to guide history so that it wouldn't change drastically, but later I felt it was too troublesome."
"As long as we use the remaining fragments of the New World as the core and fill them with fragments from other worlds as the source, we can piece together the New World into a world that can exist completely—this must be done in every cycle, otherwise the New World will perish before Keke is born."
From within the crushed Little Bear hair ornament, an Incubators finally emerged, its face blank, seemingly unable to believe it had been released.
"I persuaded those near-extinct natives of the world to voluntarily give up their own world and contribute to the construction of the New World. However, the so-called salvation of the World Weavers is actually a lie, because they used all their resources to fill the New World, while their own world was already beyond saving. But it's a white lie, giving them the motivation to keep living. Ah, Keke is just that kind, don't you think, bro?"
Just as Black Keke was tilting her head and smiling, the Incubators had already turned and flown away into the distance.
It's like wanting to escape from here.
"So what information are you planning to find out in this lifetime?"
When Jiang Si asked, Black Keke didn't hide anything, "It's Magical Kingdom."
"Such a thing was never heard of in previous cycles. The world has been destroyed many times, but no Magical Kingdom has ever appeared. In countless cycles, Magical Kingdom has only appeared in these few instances."
Black Keke spoke, her indifferent expression slightly troubled, "Perhaps it's not so much an appearance, but rather that the Magical Kingdom of this era have begun to contact the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau ahead of schedule. I don't know what they're after, but it's clear they have significant control over the New World and the World Tree. I need to find out more about them first."
"Perhaps in the next life, the Magical Kingdom will have disappeared again, so this life is quite crucial, brother. We must find out the purpose of the Magical Kingdom and what kind of existence they are in advance. However, through the previous lives, I have roughly figured out one thing."
Jiang Si sensed something and suddenly looked down.
Below, in New World, accompanied by a strange and eerie wail, one after another Mental Image Remnants burst forth from the void!
Deep within the earth, at the edge of the ocean, above the clouds, throughout the universe.
The dense, fragmented Mental Image Remnants tore eerie spiderweb-like cracks in the sky and on the earth!
Mountains and seas, high walls, floating islands, jewels, scepters, thrones, wooden horses, giant beasts, strange birds, gears, broken bones, shattered swords, gardens, broken bridges, books— the Mental Image Remnants that had slumbered for countless years revealed a myriad of forms. Numerous afterimages of magical girls who had once Full Bloom flew out from them, their faces blurred, their pupils hollow, threatening to shatter and disintegrate the entire New World!
Jiang Si's pupils contracted slightly. This scene of world-destroying destruction was all too familiar; it had appeared countless times in his dreams, Dark Turmoil!
"The glue that held the world together was actually this group of Full Bloom magical girls. Some came from the New World, and some came from other places. From the time I met Lu Ya until now, many Full Bloom magical girls have burned themselves, fusing the Mental Image Remnants into their own worlds. Through the interweaving of Mental Image, they have offered Infinity time to the entire New World."
Even Jiang Si couldn't help but frown.
Because these Supreme of Dark Turmoil have begun to devour the New World, even though the disciples of the Azure Cloud Sect tried their best to stop them, they were caught off guard and could not destroy all the Mental Image Remnants in a short time!
But the New World has already shattered into hundreds of pieces!
Even when Bingtang unleashed her Mental Image Domain again, the clash between the Mental Image couldn't allow her to Freeze the world instantly like before; it could only slow down the separation of the fragments.
So Jiang Si made up her mind.
As they descended step by step, the oppressive aura of the current Great Emperor pressed down upon countless dark Supreme!
What exactly do you want?
Black Keke's tone remained robotic as she pointed into the distance, "Look over there."
Above them appeared countless Incubators, and in the center of these Incubators, a massive vortex was slowly forming!
And from within the vortex, a thick, old tree branch extended out!
After the world collapsed, the origin scattered everywhere.
The old tree branch continuously absorbed them into the vortex!
"That only happens when the world completely collapses," Black Keke sneered, her back to Jiang Si, looking down at the masses below as if they were ants.
The firelight and dust reflected in his pupils shimmered under the dazzling magic, yet he remained unmoved, numb as a player who had seen the same CG countless times.
"A passage to the Magical Kingdom."