" The Corpse Immortal Emperor ----"
Jiang Si gasped.
The girl in the long black dress inside the crystal tilted her head, looking completely bewildered. "What's that?"
Although he was talking to this magical girl here, Jiang Si had actually already collected all the scrolls in the Three Kingdoms of Bear, Wolf, and Dog.
Looking at the severed finger, Jiang Si stepped back slightly, distancing herself from the girl in the long black dress.
"Oh, there's no need to be so afraid of me."
The girl was waving her arms and legs inside the crystal, and the clattering sound made Jiang Si realize that her limbs were bound by chains.
The chain was transparent.
"I'm a magical girl too, and I've saved many people. Everyone respects me and calls me the God of Magical Girls!"
She was the first magical girl, and one could even say she pioneered the path of magical girls.
The beings Incubators were given the title of gods.
"You created the Incubators."
"It can't really be called creation."
The first magician replied softly, "I merely gave them a possibility."
"Use cluster consciousness to control all Incubators and prevent them from rebelling."
"Uh, that's just to prevent them from disappearing completely. After all, the frequent existence of Material Soulification, Soul Materialization, will disappear very quickly over time."
Jiang Si, on the other side, viewed the records in the ancient book through Jiang Keke's perspective.
" The Calamity Beast was born because of you."
"The accumulation of human resentment will eventually lead to the destruction of the world, an invisible and colorless disappearance that can do nothing. So I materialize resentment, so that at least I know what I am fighting against."
" The Beast of the End was born because of you."
"It's just that too many Calamity Beast were born, resulting in various Remnants of different worlds affecting the operation of the World Tree. In the end, the Beast of the End was born to clean it up. This is a mechanism that the world operates on its own, and it has nothing to do with me, right?"
"Global warming is also your fault."
"Wait—what does this have to do with me?"
"Your neighbor's infertility is also your fault."
"I don't have any authority over these matters!"
" Jiang Keke is so stupid because of you."
Who is Jiang Keke?
"You are the root of all evil, the culprit."
"Whatever you want----"
While stalling for time with words, Jiang Si tried to purify the injury to her finger with Filthy Magic Power, pure magic, and Remnants magic, but all attempts failed.
The girl in black raised an eyebrow. "Wow, someone actually mastered all three powers?"
Jiang Si hadn't had a chance to ask yet.
The crystal suddenly expanded!
The entire World Tree is crystallizing.
The surrounding branches, trunks, leaves—everything was frozen in crystal.
"This is the Mental Image Domain, Eternal Chamber."
The girl, chained, skipped over to Jiang Si and sniffed him like a puppy. "You smell like a magical girl, but I don't remember boys turning into magical girls."
Underneath the black skirt, she wore no underwear, and with every movement, large expanses of her fair skin were exposed. Jiang Si swung her sword backhand, slashing sharply towards the magical girl's neck!
It has many weaknesses.
Bang!
The blade shattered, and the magic was eroded.
However, the number is too high.
Jiang Si casually tossed aside the magic longsword in her hand and carefully examined the other party.
This was the first time he had encountered someone whose stats seemed excessively high, even to him.
Unlike the Beast of the Beast of the End Beast of the End, whose stats aren't particularly outrageous, its mechanism of granting permanent proof is quite exaggerated.
But the magical girl before me is simply a figure of pure magical power.
"Don't waste your energy."
The girl in the long black dress didn't care. Barefoot, she stepped on the blade and crushed it. She then led Jiang Si forward.
Numerous phantom images of magical girls appeared around them. "Many, many magical girls have come here, wanting to change the world, but they have all failed."
Jiang Si naturally saw Shi Xin as well.
These magical girls, having reached the Full Bloom, broke through their limits, ventured into the World Tree, and even encountered the very first magical girl before them.
That is, the Corpse Immortal Emperor.
"But without exception, they all failed."
The magical girl in the long black dress turned around, bent slightly, and smiled mischievously, "Do you know why?"
"Because you long ago abandoned your identity as a magical girl."
The bells hanging from her ankles jingled, like the laughter of the first magical girl. "Because magic comes at a price, and miracles have their limits. I've reached the end of the magical girl's life. The methods they thought they could come up with, I've already tried."
Then, the magical girl pulled Jiang Si along and walked straight into the crystal.
When the girl opened her arms, an overwhelming magic, far beyond Jiang Si's imagination, surged forth!
For a fleeting moment, Jiang Si was forced to take a step back, her body creaking!
He was always the one using magic to suppress others; this was the first time he had been suppressed by someone else's magic.
Even Jiang Si had to admit that, in terms of magical power alone...
This guy seems to have more than I do.
The Beast of the End, which surpasses itself in terms of mechanics.
A magical girl who surpasses herself in power.
Jiang Si grinned and walked forward little by little, blood splattering from his body under immense pressure.
However, he walked with his head held high and an air of leisure, asking, "What exactly are you?"
She is neither human nor simply a magical girl.
They couldn't even sense the other person's presence.
Could this Corpse Immortal Emperor have already far surpassed my own rank?
Just as Jiang Si was on guard, pondering how to respond.
The girl in the long black dress smiled brightly, turned around, and waved.
The surrounding crystals suddenly changed!
An endless and prosperous world!
Jiang Si gazed at the seemingly endless, Infinity world—spaceships, space stations, and countless virtual creations.
That was a civilization that had almost reached its pinnacle, an ever-expanding microcosm, with data and people permeating every corner.
It's like a prosperous future for the Land of Mirrors.
Most importantly, it all felt real.
This Mental Image Domain Eternal Chamber.
It is False History.
It's exactly the same as the False History that Lu Ya created back then.
To sever and seal away the past, turning it into a False History that will never change or move forward.
But this place is different; the False History here is Infinity close to the truth!
These material energies, the aura of those people, all the mechanical data networks, all those miscellaneous things, are almost exactly the same as reality!
It almost turned False History into the real world.
Without a doubt, even if external life enters it, it can live normally.
"Huh? Aren't you surprised?"
The dark-skinned girl looked at Jiang Si with considerable surprise. "Many magical girls would be shocked to see this. Such a realistic and vast civilization—this is my trump card to intimidate everyone. Aren't you a little surprised?"
"Wow, that's amazing."
Jiang Si exclaimed in astonishment, her face expressionless, "To make False History look so realistic is truly remarkable."
The girl immediately leaned closer like a curious child. "Hmm? False History, what's that?"
"To cut off the past and create a timeline that never changes is called False History."
"Wow, that's so fitting! I've always called it ' Eternal Chamber.'"
The girl skipped and hopped to the center of the enormous civilization. "This civilization is also called the Eternal Civilization."
Here comes the segment featuring little stories that only the individuals involved know.
Jiang Si sneered inwardly. How dare he flaunt his short stories and experiences? Do you think you can fool me with my millennia of cultivation?
He immediately began to prepare his speech in his mind.
Clearly, the first magical girl hadn't noticed Jiang Si's fighting spirit and contemplation; she was simply lost in the past, saying to herself, "Because everyone believes that their technology, knowledge, and language will be passed down forever, possessing boundless territory and power, as if it were a technology that could last for thousands of generations."
"Until the World Tree was discovered."
The colossal World Tree unfolded, and the seemingly endless world crumbled little by little, falling into nothingness.
"We were the most dazzling fruit on the World Tree, and we also met the most tragic end."
Countless warships, a dense mass of water droplets, and a spatial attack capable of altering space to compress it.
The weapons of the Eternal Civilization traversed the World Tree, only to vanish without a trace. Countless attacks failed to make Splash in the world, merely reflecting back at their own worlds and intensifying the destruction.
"This struggle lasted for a full century. Isn't that amazing? The Eternal Civilization was able to survive for a century despite the destruction of the World Tree. In all my years since the Eternal Civilization existed, I have never seen a civilization more powerful or longer-lasting than the Eternal Civilization."
"That's because they haven't encountered our cultivation civilization yet."
"Maybe."
Tens of thousands of water droplets and warships exploded in space like a series of fireworks, while the branches of the World Tree stretched out, greedily drawing upon the origin of the Eternal Civilization's continuous world.
And so, the withered world met its end in a ghastly white hue.
"Our enemy is not the Calamity Beast, not the End, and certainly not the Incubators, but the world itself. The world, responding to the World Tree, returns to nothingness, leaving civilization with no place to stand. All technology is helpless, all power is powerless. The weapons, technology, and all the efforts of geniuses of the Eternal Civilization are a joke under the will of the world itself."
The girl said softly, " The Eternal Civilization has no faith because its Eternal Civilization technology has nearly achieved immortality and can cure all diseases. Here, technology can solve everything; there is no fertile ground for faith to survive."
"But in the face of the apocalypse, Eternal Civilization are like primitive civilizations."
"The wise, unable to find the reason for existence or the way to break the deadlock, eventually disappeared; the benevolent, unable to persuade the impending destruction or influence the World Tree, also disappeared; the king, unable to protect his people, was instead conquered by the apocalypse and disappeared as well."
Then, Jiang Si saw countless people kneeling on the ground.
The Eternal Civilization is simply too vast.
The universe encompassed by the New World and Chongxu is already terrifying, but the territory of the Eternal Civilization is tens of millions of times larger than this entire universe.
Countless creatures traverse the Eternal Civilization.
In the midst of the apocalypse, they wept bitterly, ran and shouted hysterically, and prayed.
Faced with despair and destruction, atheists became the most devout believers.
Subsequently, in this technologically advanced civilization, for the first time, all desires were brought together.
This is the violence of quantity.
The number of beings in the Eternal Civilization was simply too great, to the point that Jiang Si could no longer observe them.
Even if this is False History, he still can't get enough of it.
He looked at the dense, endless crowd, which, even after a century of apocalyptic devastation, was still larger than the total number of all the worlds combined!
Moreover, the Eternal Civilization used some unknown technology to unify the thoughts of all living beings, and at this moment, trillions upon trillions of beings began to pray together.
The terrifying power of will tears reality apart, turning fantasy into miracles!
No physical vessel is needed to bear it; the power of will itself transforms into a magical girl.
"I am the first magical girl, the origin of magical girls, the spreader of magic and miracles, shaped by the sorrows and prayers of the people."
Magic that transcends technology, a power that surpasses steam, electricity, oil, and atomic energy.
With a mere wave of his hand, he suppressed all disasters and saved countless lives.
It even stopped the World Tree from spreading and devouring other things.
"I am the god they pray to."
Jiang Si finally understood why the Incubators called her the goddess of magical girls.
Born from the purest desires and miracles, it is not a human being.
The struggle between civilization and the World Tree has transformed into a struggle between fantastical gods and the World Tree.
"My name is Qianye, magical girl Qianye."
The first magical girl uttered her name, gazing quietly at her False History self.
With a bright and cheerful smile, he comforts everyone, forever full of hope and motivation to save the world.
She is a magical girl who will never despair or be afraid.
As a pioneer of the magical girl path, she transcends technology with the power of idealism, bringing new peace to Eternal Civilization.
until----
"I have been recorded by the World Tree."
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Qianye turned her head and looked at the enormous World Tree, the parent that gave them life, and also the executioner that brought them inevitable destruction.
"Or rather, from the moment I was born, I was already recorded by the World Tree. The miracles that Eternal Civilization pray for, and all human desires, cannot surpass it; they are merely a small episode that it methodically imprinted."
A suffocating sense of despair pervaded the air. "Miracles have their limits, and even the magic of magical girls has its end."
Even if it means igniting the World Tree, even if it means severing its roots, even if it means merging one's own power with the World Tree.
It was still to no avail.
An ant trying to shake a tree.
Immense power and terrifying magic are meaningless atop the World Tree.
Because of the so-called miracle of magical girls.
It was just a drop of nectar from the World Tree.
"Even after eternal destruction, I continued to try to change the world for tens of thousands of years as a magical girl. I pioneered the path of magical girls, and I also brought it to an end. I proved that the miracles of magical girls cannot surpass the World Tree."
To whom should we prove it?
"To you," Qianye said firmly, "That's a path I've already walked, a path of failure. You've merely followed in my footsteps, embarking on a meaningless road, so I'm going to correct you."
"Is this why you had the Incubators collect the magical girl's essence?"
" The Incubators are actually doing a pretty good job."
Qianye looked thoughtful. "There was once a world that made full use of magic to develop technology, and it vaguely resembled Eternal Civilization. However, due to the abuse of magic, the world's origin was depleted, and one day the entire world suddenly turned into Remnants, losing its future. Only a very few people escaped into the mirror and eked out a living."
"Most worlds aren't as lucky as the Land of Mirrors, which still has a chance to breathe. Destruction always comes very suddenly. Fortunately, the Incubators came up with many ways to create the Chongxu of Magical Girls and the Full Bloom that Magical Girls have sublimated."
"As long as we use magical girls to maintain balance, the World Tree won't destroy the world more violently. A slow death is better than a sudden one, isn't it?"
Jiang Si sighed and rubbed her forehead. "What a disappointment."
Qianye blinked. "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
"Because the Beast of the End had expectations of you, I suppose that's my problem."
Jiang Si reached out and grabbed the crystal beside him; the False History shattered bit by bit in his hand!
"There was once a Great Thousand World where cultivators did not cultivate immortal foundations, but rather their destiny," Jiang Si finally uttered the prepared speech.
She should also know the profound depth and foundation of my cultivation of immortality. Short stories? We have plenty of those! There's no need to answer the beggar's question!
"Those who cultivate immortality through the divine path achieve the Golden Immortal realm with a destiny of 80,000, the Demigod with a destiny of 99,000, and the God realm with a destiny of 100,000. There was one person who reached the state of a destiny of 100,000, and his name was Wang Tian."
"The devil Wang Tian."
Jiang Si, immersed in the past territories he had traversed, said in a deep voice, "He was the master of Heaven's Dao, he controlled the Three Realms, he destroyed his enemies, and Heavenly Tribulation dared not utter a sound. He became a god through the Path of Ruthlessness, but after becoming a god, nothing changed. He believed he had reached the end of the road, the End Point of the world."
Out of boredom, he planned to destroy the three realms, but at that moment, a person stood before the gods.
Qianye immediately craned his neck, eagerly asking, "And then? And then?"
"I skipped it, go see for yourself." Jiang Si replied without hesitation, "In the end, the Heavenly Tribulation fell for humanity; the so-called end was just a deception."
"God is the End Point, man is the Qidian; without Transcendence, one is destined to be nothing more than an ant!"
As Jiang Si finished speaking, the entire False History shattered completely!
"I thought there would be some magical girl or god or something, but all I saw was a Wang Tian little brat. Sure enough, I'm the only one who can set foot on this Above the Sacrificial Dao."
You can indeed call me ----
Jiang Si stepped out of the Eternal Chamber and sneered, "Do you consider yourself a magical girl?"
I think I am.
Qianye's ankle bells jingled as she jogged after Jiang Si, saying, "The power of magical girls all originates from me; the fusion of miracles and Personal Reality is something I pioneered—"
"No, that's not what I meant."
After leaving the Eternal Chamber, Jiang Si pointed outside to the spot where Shi Xin had been standing, "Did you see the magical girl there?"
"You mean Shi Xin?" Qianye's face showed a hint of regret. "I told you, this is a path forsaken by the gods, there's no way it's possible. I've proven it to you, and sure enough, she failed. She should have followed me—"
"Magical girls don't need guides."
Jiang Si interrupted her, "They will reach the End Point on their own, and their success or failure is not up to you."
Qianye wasn't angry, but asked curiously, "Then who decides? Themselves? Hmm, a successful case of subjective judgment? Isn't that a bit self-deception?"
"No." Jiang Si's tone was indifferent, yet brooked no argument, "It's my decision."
"What's the difference between that and free evaluation of evidence?"
"The difference is that I will use them as a stepping stone to change everything, end the cycle of the World Tree, and prove their success."
"I told you, the path of magical girls—"
"They've already surpassed you and gone much further. Stop being such a useless, stagnant person and dragging your feet."
Jiang Si's words silenced Qianye, who finally pressed on after a long pause, "Do you have any evidence? Proof that they have surpassed me?"
My very existence is proof.
After another long silence, Qianye slowly said, "Even if I'm not a magical girl, it won't work. I abandoned the power of a magical girl and used Filthy Magic Power and Remnants magic, but I still couldn't shake the World Tree. I changed my body, changed my soul, and developed the Soul Materialization and the Material Soulification, but I still can't escape the records of the World Tree."
"Death, rebirth—all miracles become commonplace events in the World Tree's records, and nothing recorded in the World Tree's records can change the World Tree."
Qianye plucked a leaf from somewhere. "By altering, severing, and replacing your own soul, even if you become neither human nor ghost, even if your soul is completely different, the World Tree's records will not disappear in the slightest. Even if you forget yourself, the World Tree will not forget; it knows you better than you know yourself."
What are you trying to say?
"Your birth and death are merely part of the rules. How can someone within the rules possibly change them? The World Tree has no intention of destroying or harming anything; it is simply evolving according to the laws of nature."
As Qianye gradually fell into the crystal, deep within the World Tree, she shook the iron chains on her hands. "Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs. Don't you always say that, Jiang Si?"
So cultured!
How did you manage to connect the Mental Image Domain with Personal Reality to the heart? Knowing such profound things, how could you not even know basic biological knowledge?
Which college offers liberal arts programs?
Jiang Si was slightly surprised, but still nodded, "That's right, Heaven and Earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs."
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Then the girl laughed, "So, we----
"But I am the Heavenly Emperor!"
In an instant, Jiang Si's figure suddenly rose, and golden light fell on him once again. The power of the curse transformed into the Golden Calamity Dragon King!
With a long, roaring cry, he exhaled a breath that shot from the depths of the World Tree all the way to the Other Shore!
" The Heavenly Emperor is ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs!"
At the same moment, a golden light shone across the sky all over the world, and everyone looked up.
Golden flames scorched through the World Tree, opening a crystallized passage, from which a deafening dragon roar pierced through!
"You'll lose money on homophones, Dad."
"Shut up."
Watching Jiang Si walk away into the distance, Qianye glanced at the leaf in her hand one last time.
The above covers everything from Jiang Si's identity as a transmigrator, to the three types of Shion power, the transformation of the Golden Calamity Dragon King, her love for online novels, and her obsessive Personal Reality.
Qianye looked somewhat dejected and disappointed.
"But Jiang Si, you've already been recorded by the World Tree too—"