I was slightly surprised that Bingtang was comparable to Iris extract.
Although Jiang Si had never underestimated Bingtang, in the entire Azure Cloud Sect, Yumo had the best precision in controlling magic power, and there were others with the greatest magic power. Bingtang was not outstanding in either of these aspects.
Their ability development is among the best in the entire Azure Cloud Sect, thanks to Jiang Si's considerable help.
In Jiang Si's own classification, the development of magical girls' abilities is divided into three types: [ Spirit Art ], [ Magic Technique ], and [ Spell ]. In the Bud stage, Spirit Art Techniques are used. When they become New Sprout, Spirit Art are upgraded to Magic Technique or new Magic Technique are developed. After that, Spell Full Blossom.
Each ability is divided into three categories: Heaven, Earth, and Human.
Jiang Si was quite fond of this skill classification system, but the only problem was that it was too complicated and therefore could not be widely adopted within the Azure Cloud Sect.
Currently, only a few disciples can understand it.
The Magic Technique and Spirit Art associated with Bingtang are not only plentiful, but also of quite good quality.
But after all, she is a magical girl in her New Sprout Stage. Jiang Si had fought with Bingtang quite a few times in the past. Bingtang was quite outstanding in her New Sprout Stage, almost catching up with Jiang Si's strength when she was in her New Sprout Stage.
Compared to Full Blossom, she is quite different, and Jiang Si is not optimistic about her chances if she really faces Full Blossom.
Not only had Bingtang never beaten him, but in his opinion, her progress was also quite slow, and she was far from Full Blossom.
I never thought I would misjudge him.
Of course, it's also possible that Iris, this "Full Blossom " level magical girl, is overrated.
There are countless disciples in major sects who rely on a large number of pills to boost their cultivation level. There are also many so-called holy sons and daughters who rely on the methods of their elders to forcefully raise their cultivation level, just for the sake of face. Their foundation is unstable and their future is uncertain. Most of them will eventually be defeated by geniuses and become stepping stones for challenges from higher levels.
This is not unusual in online novels, but Bingtang is still some distance from the genius he sees as capable of defying the odds Full Blossom, so he didn't think of this.
After Bingtang left, Susan went to the scene to clean up, while Peony took a ride home and slept soundly, saving herself the trouble of ordering takeout.
not bad.
Jiang Si regained her composure and focused her attention back on her inner core.
Ever since that day when he tested the limits of his inner core, Jiang Si discovered that it had begun to enter a dormant state.
Occasionally, it can unleash a little power, but most of the time, the inner core will forcibly enter a state of suspended animation, completely unresponsive.
After Jiang Si infused a large amount of the corrupted magic power of the Grief Seed, he could actually sense that the inner core had begun to take shape.
Of course, it took the form of Calamity Beast.
Although the inner core has not yet been broken, the rudimentary form of the Calamity Beast inside has already taken full shape.
Jiang Si guessed that before the Calamity Beast was born, the inner core was actually unable to prevent itself from providing magic power to the body it was inhabiting.
It's probably necessary to ensure the quality of the host so that the Calamity Beast will be stronger when it's born.
Judging from the extreme magical power provided by the inner core, even if a normal person were to practice until they fainted, they probably wouldn't be able to use up Filthy Magic Power that the inner core continuously extracts from the negative emotions around them.
Therefore, when this inner core was created, the issue of insufficient magical energy supply was not taken into consideration at all.
Then he encountered himself, and his drained inner core nearly collapsed.
In order to protect itself, the inner core hatched the Calamity Beast in advance. After the Calamity Beast hatched, the inner core would no longer provide magic power to the outside world, thus locking in the loss of magic power and ensuring that its own existence would not be consumed.
The downside is that this prematurely hatched nascent form of the Calamity Beast is unlikely to possess any intelligence, and its full development is even more impossible.
A malnourished Nascent Soul... no, it should be called a pseudo-infant.
After several failed attempts to control his inner core, Jiang Si realized that he lacked the necessary cultivation techniques.
This inner core is not a native inner core after all; it must be used in conjunction with appropriate cultivation techniques to be effective.
While techniques for manipulating inner cores might be hard to find, Jiang Si remembered that the Witch Association possess methods for controlling Calamity Beast.
With some modifications, it can be used as a method for cultivating inner alchemy.
Upon such consideration, the Witch Association truly possesses many things that I need.
Previously, Jiang Si only wanted to pry some useful information out of the core members of the Witch Association, but now the path to advancement for magical girls is temporarily blocked, and the only way is to seize the Filthy Magic Power of the Calamity Beast.
That Witch Association very important to him.
Simply capturing some core members of the Witch Association to inquire about cultivation methods was no longer sufficient to meet Jiang Si's needs.
He needs all the Witch Association's techniques; perhaps they contain another great path.
The cultivation method itself is not evil; what is evil is the person who uses it. Even if it is Human Emperor Banner made by thousands of mortals, as long as it is used properly, it can still be a righteous path to save all living beings.
Of course, the Azure Cloud Sect is a righteous sect, and it needs these demonic sects to successfully refine it to avenge the dead before it can seize it for its own use. Only then can it avoid karmic entanglement and be worthy of the common people...
He was uneasy about letting his disciples join the Witch Association. After all, the disciples of his sect lacked both strength and mental fortitude, and were also young. If they were to enter a heretical sect, they would inevitably be influenced.
Most importantly, it would be very difficult to pass on the original Witch Association techniques and skills.
It would be more appropriate for me to personally take action and become a member of the Witch Association to obtain my own great opportunity.
However, the requirements for joining the Witch Association are quite high and complicated; one must be fully prepared to avoid arousing suspicion...
As he was contemplating when to join the Witch Association, his phone suddenly rang. He glanced at it and, as expected, it was Bingtang calling.
"How was my performance just now, Sect Master?"
The moment the call connected, he asked with a hint of smugness.
In the past, when the two of them were training in actual combat, Jiang Si often criticized Bingtang for being too far away from Full Blossom, saying that if this continued, she would probably be powerless to fight back when she met Full Blossom.
Now that Bingtang has finally proven her sect leader wrong, it's only natural that she needs to settle scores.
However, the sect leader said, "It's not very satisfactory."
Bingtang was taken aback. "Is that so? What is it that the Sect Master is not satisfied with?"
Deep down, she felt a little wronged. Jiang Si had always said that she was inferior to Full Blossom Full Blossom and would inevitably lose to her.
Now that they've successfully captured the Full Blossom, they're still not satisfied? That's unreasonable...
"The main problem is that I didn't hear you say enough appropriate lines." Jiang Si pondered for a moment, "The situation at the time was very suitable for the twenty-sixth line of the cultivation saying: 'Uphold the prestige of my sect and pay tribute to our ancestors.'"
Inside the Azure Cloud Sect, Blue Flower and Four Leaves Six Leaves exchanged glances, then whispered, "What is the twenty-sixth line of the cultivation sayings?"
Beside her Yumo took out a small notebook and flipped through it, "At the pinnacle of immortality, I reign supreme over the world; where there is An Lan, there is heaven." (Note: An Lan can be replaced with one's own name.)
"Oh, so that's the pinnacle of immortality, the place of unparalleled power. With our Winter Lord here, there is heaven." Blue Flower nodded in approval. "As expected of the Sect Master, you are indeed very suitable. Lord Bingtang made a big mistake, forgetting to say such a crucial line."
Six Leaves: "Lord Bingtang Tang is blushing."
Four Leaves: "I think she's angry..."
Bingtang Tang, expressionless, said, "Is that all?"
Jiang Si nodded. "That's it. Besides, I underestimated you, Bingtang. I never imagined you could fight the Full Blossom Magical Girl without being at a disadvantage. It seems my vision and experience are far from sufficient. I take back what I said before and apologize to you."
Bingtang, who had been planning to keep a straight face, had her expression melt away after Jiang Si said something.
She pursed her lips and said Bingtang, "It's not that exaggerated, it's just that the magical girls from the General Administration are a bit overrated..."
"That makes some sense."
"I was just being polite! You mustn't take it seriously!"
"Oh." Jiang Si was used to her immediate change of expression. "Indeed, it's not much of a rip-off, but it can't compare to the solid foundation you've worked so hard to build."
Bingtang glanced at Yumo, who looked at her with suspicion, bit her lip, and kept her expression steady so as not to embarrass herself. Bingtang always paid attention to her demeanor in front of the sect disciples.
"In short, I can handle Iris's level, but I don't know if she has any more, uh, trump cards up her sleeve?"
"No need to take risks, let me do it."
Feeling she had regained the upper hand, Bingtang teased with a smile, "Oh, are you worried about me?"
"Yes."
After all, without Bingtang, Jiang Si simply couldn't keep the Azure Cloud Sect running.
After replying, there was no response for a long time. "Hello? Why aren't you saying anything? Did you call just to say this?"
"Sister, Lord Bingtang Candy's head is steaming. Is it from the cold air?"
"It must be heat."
"Sect Master, Sect Master is so bold! Yumo also wants that kind of answer..."
"Oh dear, I knew Lord Bingtang Tang hadn't had enough romance. What's with the shyness at a time like this? Don't just stand there spacing out! The right thing to do right now is to press your advantage and get the Sect Leader onto the Bingtang Tang route..."
A cacophony of chattering came from the other end, and Jiang Si couldn't tell who it was.
As Jiang Si was considering whether to hang up, she felt a chill from the phone, which quickly crept up from her ear to her forehead, causing her to instinctively move away from the phone.
It was then discovered that it was just an illusion, and the Azure Cloud Sect on the other end of the phone fell silent instantly.
He vaguely heard someone transforming, but it was hard to confirm because it was through a phone.
He had no choice but to ask, "What's wrong? What happened over there?"
"Ahem, it's nothing. I was just spacing out. Sorry. I'll get them quiet down first."
Winter Lord looked at the disciples who were frozen in ice. The cold air permeated the Azure Cloud Sect, turning the water curtain into an ice curtain as well.
The drop in temperature brought her slightly flushed face and earlobes back to normal, and she calmed down.
She lost count of how many times she was thankful that her ability was to control low temperatures...
So what's the matter with calling?
"It's the Magic Crystal taken from that Calamity Beast bull, also known as the Grief Seed." After regaining his composure, Winter Lord's speech became fluent again. "Through retrospection, we discovered that it's the completed form of the Calamity Egg."
" Witch Association release it?"
"It must have been done by members of the Witch Association, but we haven't detected any movement from the Witch Association yet," Winter Lord said in a deep voice. "If the final form of all the Calamity Egg is at least a B-rank Calamity Beast, then that's going to be troublesome. We don't know how many Calamity Egg are left in BH City. Once they're all completed, a large number of B-rank Calamity Beast will suddenly appear, which will be difficult to handle."
"Fortunately, they accelerated the maturation of the Calamity Egg a few days ago. Many of the semi-finished products were not only easier to handle, but they also gave us an early warning. The Azure Cloud Sect needs to make more preparations given the possibility of a large number of B-level Calamity Beast appearing in BH City."
"How's your training going?"
Jiang Si suddenly asked, " The Magic Puppet battle training needs to be accelerated to lay a solid foundation for advancing to the Full Blossom as soon as possible."
"Uh, I'm working on it, I'm working on it..."
Winter Lord glanced back at the Shion Magic Puppet had changed her clothes, then looked down at the Shion Magic Puppet lying on her lap, her tone slightly guilty, "I will definitely advance to Full Blossom as soon as possible."
"Yes, I always trust you to get things done. After that, help me find out the specific ritual for joining the Witch Association."
"Oh oh..."
A sense of guilt immediately welled up in his heart; he felt as if he had betrayed Jiang Si's trust.
After hanging up the phone, the transformation ended, and the other girls also recovered from their frozen state. Blue Flower sneezed and rubbed her hands, looking like she was frozen, while Four Leaves Six Leaves, and Yumo acted as if nothing had happened.
Of course, Bingtang Tang would be careful not to actually hurt anyone, and Blue Flower was mostly just putting on an act.
Her magical power is the greatest among the group so far.
"The sect leader said he hopes we can advance to the Full Blossom as soon as possible."
Looking at the girls exchanging bewildered glances, Bingtang sighed, touching her Magic Puppet with a mixture of reluctance and regret.
"Anyway, let's get started quickly, the Shion Magic Puppet's battle practice."
"Oh dear, this is the only way to control the Calamity Beast."
Sitting in a fast food restaurant, watching the defeated Calamity Beast from afar, the Shuangsheng were filled with disappointment.
"This is of absolutely no value in getting the Azure Cloud Sect to spare my life."
The fast food restaurant was practically empty. It was too close to the area where the Calamity Beast had appeared, so people were evacuated immediately. As a result, there were no customers, not even the owner, chef, or waiters in the restaurant.
She grabbed two skewers from the food dispenser—a sausage and a fish tofu—and skipped out the door.
Walking on deserted streets evokes a sense of joy and excitement, like a lone journey through an apocalypse.
He casually ate a couple of bites of the grilled skewers, threw them away, then grabbed a drink from a nearby shop. After taking a couple of sips, he didn't like it, so he threw away the bottle cap and started spilling the drink on the ground as he walked away.
They even poured drinks onto their feet while wearing slippers to wash them.
Although the sticky feeling was a bit uncomfortable, the pleasure of wasting it made up for it.
I'm practically a born supervillain!
Shuangsheng thoughts.
Such a vicious act would surely enrage many magical girls.
Especially Winter Lord.
They might grab their own ears and spank themselves hard.
This is how Winter Lord punished her when she wasted food at the Azure Cloud Sect.
Well, even if Winter Lord gets really angry, he's actually quite gentle when he takes action.
It was clearly a punishment, but after hitting her, they still asked her if she was hurt, if it hurt a lot, and so on.
Instead, it made the Shuangsheng feel guilty.
Reaching the riverbank, she dipped her sticky feet into the water, kicking and splashing them, looking somewhat distressed.
It's unlikely that they can defeat the Azure Cloud Sect.
Shion of the Azure Cloud Sect is terrifying, ruthless, and elusive. If she dares to attack a disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, you might run into Shion the moment you turn your head.
I'll have nightmares.
During her time living in the Azure Cloud Sect, Shuangsheng hadn't actually met Shion many times, but the memory of how Ziyuan had smashed the members of the Witch Association into all sorts of bizarre shapes during their first Shion was deeply etched in her mind.
Monster, devil, madman.
Even after searching through all my vocabulary, I could only find these three, and even they weren't quite right.
Non-human.
Even though I grew up in the Witch Association and saw all sorts of the Witch Association, including some who were considered cruel.
But the Shuangsheng knew that even the most cruel person would actually react to the act of killing.
It could be excitement, panic, nausea, or confusion.
But that Shion didn't have any of that.
Killing someone is as easy as stepping on an ant; there's no emotional fluctuation whatsoever, whether the person begs for mercy, bravely resists, or feigns pitifulness and cries.
Shion kills with effortless fluidity, naturalness, and ease.
It is precisely because Witch Association that she has a deeper fear of Shion.
The most terrifying reaction is the lack of reaction to murder.
Those who laugh maniacally or take pleasure in killing ultimately treat killing as something special, either to show off or to prove their own uniqueness.
But Shion was different. Shion never thought killing was anything special; to her, it was as ordinary as eating and drinking.
I did it on a whim.
Only after meeting Shion did I realize that most of the so-called abnormal lunatics and mentally ill Witch Association just pretending to be abnormal.
The one who truly possesses a unique understanding of the world and even of life, far different from that of ordinary people, is actually Shion; she is disguised as a human.
Even the Shuangsheng who Witch Association could only sense inhuman terror from that person.
Therefore, the Shuangsheng could not understand why Winter Lord liked her so much and always stayed by her side. When Shion was around, he only had eyes for that inhuman monster and could not tolerate anyone else.
Look at me more often.
Despite being completely different from Shion, the gentle Winter Lord is simply not suited to be around someone like that.
Frustrated, Shuangsheng kicked at the river water, sensing the surrounding Calamity Egg. She had to make some more noise, or the captain would cause her trouble again. It would be best to go near the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau.
She was very interested in that Iris, Full Blossom Magical Girl, who was rarely seen even by the Witch Association. If she could bully a Full Blossom Magical Girl, even the captain wouldn't be able to say anything to her...
Under the warm afternoon sun, the Shuangsheng sitting by the river turned their heads and looked at another pitiful little girl sitting under a tree in the distance, holding a pink letter in her hand.
The other person was staring intently at the river.
The Shuangsheng got up and hopped over to each other.
"Hello, lovely little sister! Are you interested in our great Creator?"
Li Yi stared blankly at the shimmering river in the distance, and replied listlessly:
Do you provide eggs?