Jiang Si

Biodata

Power Progression

Jiang Si develops his human body and transformed forms separately. Many cultivation labels are his own classifications rather than official magical-girl ranks 5 107 115.

Background / History

Previous Life and Search for the Supernatural

Jiang Si retains memories of a previous life. After finding his new world apparently ordinary, he pursues immortality through physical training instead. For more than five years, he exercises without interruption, trains even during class, and challenges local thugs to gain practical combat experience 1 2.

His new parents accept his unusual habits rather than forcing him to socialize. When Keke is born, he helps raise her from infancy, changing diapers, feeding her, and putting her to sleep. He later explains that his distant approach to her resembles how his father in his previous life treated him 2 10.

The Bus Attack and Magical-Girl Discovery

A family bus trip ends in a Calamity Beast attack. Jiang Si shields Keke in the wreckage, carries her to safety, searches for their parents, and then runs toward a magical girl. Keke later revisits the event and discovers their father dead and their mother fatally injured 67.

After learning that magical girls are real, Jiang Si undergoes memory erasure. He nevertheless preserves his discovery by gouging “I want to become a magical girl” into his arm. To him, magical-girl power is a route into genuine immortal cultivation, not an unacceptable alternative to it 3.

His refusal to attend his parents' funeral alienates Keke and their relatives. He and Keke continue living together for three years, but their relationship becomes little different from that of strangers 3 5.

Azure Cloud Sect and Cultivation Research

After acquiring magical-girl powers, Jiang Si trains with Bingtang in the Illusory Moon Cave Abode. He becomes the Azure Cloud Sect's master and works to replace the magical girls' unclear advancement process with a reproducible cultivation system 5 18 25.

He initially relies on absorbing magic crystals and Grief Seed power, then experiments with body tempering, multiple cores, a Nascent Soul, and dragon transformations. He also disseminates physical exercise within the sect, despite acknowledging that its direct magical-power gains are inefficient 9 18 49 81 107 120.

Witch Association Infiltration and Mental Image Remnants

Jiang Si enters Witch Association affairs under the identity Si Motu. After defeating Bai Mei and taking her Miracle Seed, he attempts to obtain Complete Witch research from Chilian. When she refuses his demands, he transforms into Shion and attacks the Jiangming City Disaster Countermeasures Bureau with a purple sun 82.

His investigation turns toward Full Bloom magical girls' Mental Image Remnants. Learning that An Shiyu can resonate with them gives him a potential means of entry. Within the remnants, increasingly convincing surroundings and appearances by Lu Ya and his mother fail to persuade him to abandon his attempt to escape 109 137.

Land of Mirrors and the Engagement Scheme

Jiang Si uses his connection with Prince, the Mirror King, to pursue the Land of Mirrors' Full Bloom research. He repeatedly tries to provoke her into canceling their engagement, but she interprets his actions as evidence of affection or commitment 278 308 310.

As the connection between Jiang Si and Si Motu becomes harder to conceal, he publicly separates himself from Shion. His intended cover story presents Si Motu as an infiltrator who seduced the Azure Cloud Sect's master and stole its intelligence. The ensuing pursuit by sect disciples helps support that deception 302 307.

Chongxu and Lu Ya

In Chongxu, Jiang Si investigates Lu Ya's history through forbidden memories transmitted by Sonora. He witnesses her creation of Chongxu, her betrayal, and her imprisonment, but rejects the despairing figure within the memories as the real Lu Ya and destroys the memory's tower 349.

Lu Ya AI later attempts to keep him in Chongxu using its administrative permissions. Jiang Si refuses to accept her as the Lu Ya he knows, masters the Time Dao Fruit while fighting her summoned magical girls, and resists until the Witch Association founder seals the AI. The founder then addresses him as the Association's future vice president 356.

The End and Return

Black Keke identifies Jiang Si as a variable absent from her previous loops. His existence—and Shion's—could represent either a chance to alter the future or another Enemy of the End 369.

After fighting Tiana, Jiang Si takes power originating from the Beast of the End and accompanies Black Keke to the Land of the End, where he reunites with Keke among the corpses of her previous selves 380.

He later enters the Magical Kingdom, conquers Bear Country, finds his mother living as its false empress, and confronts the first magical girl. His identity continues through Witch Shion during the final conflicts, culminating in his return as the world's curses gather into his transformed form 411 429 445.

Appearance

Jiang Si has delicate, refined features and a small, thin frame. His scholarly-looking face contrasts with an expression that usually suggests indifference to his surroundings rather than hostility 21 51.

• Build: Short and slender enough to appear physically outmatched beside a muscular adult, despite his overwhelming strength 51.
• Family resemblance: His father describes his eyes and brows as resembling his mother's 67.
• Shion form: Possesses an exquisite face; Jiang Si rarely studies the appearance of his transformed body 37.
• Late physical change: His blood turns visibly golden after the Beast of the End's power fuses the curses into his body 380.

Personality

Jiang Si places the pursuit of the Dao above convenience, social acceptance, and ordinary expectations. Repeated failures to find supernatural power do not discourage him, and he treats even slow progress as worthwhile once a viable path exists. He particularly dislikes power systems whose advancement depends on unexplained emotional surges rather than identifiable methods 1 3 18 20.

His detachment is especially pronounced around family and death. He sees blood ties without shared affection as meaningless, yet accepts responsibilities created by upbringing and long familiarity. The author identifies responsibility, habit, and repayment of kindness as central to his character, rather than conventional displays of grief or affection 10 258 446.

He is methodical about training but frequently interprets reality through webnovel conventions. Magical-girl transformation is no stranger to him than a fantasy protagonist's dragon transformation, and he applies elaborate cultivation terminology to bodies, cores, and powers that do not always fit orthodox categories 37 107 115 120.

His confidence also extends to schemes and social judgments that others interpret very differently. He considers himself highly intelligent and easy to communicate with, while repeatedly misunderstanding romantic overtures and strengthening Prince's affection during attempts to end their engagement 159 187 308 310.

He readily uses violence, including broken limbs and severe beatings. Although he initially claims never to kill people in fights, his later campaigns include killing those who resist him and slaughtering Wolf Country's capital 51 411.

Abilities & Skills

Physical Cultivation and Martial Combat

Jiang Si's principal long-term project is making his untransformed body strong enough to fight supernatural opponents without relying on a Miracle Seed 6 40.

• Maintains precise bodily control, training at his limits without injuring himself and moderating blows when he intends only to incapacitate 20 51.
• Uses kicks, knees, grappling, and direct strikes against both ordinary fighters and magical opponents 22 51 62.
• Reaches bullet-resistant durability early in his cultivation; later survives steel striking his eyes and a supernatural cutting force striking his head 63 186 237.
• Studies his own weaknesses by fighting a puppet of his magical-girl form 38 40.
• Remains vulnerable to sufficiently powerful attacks: Tiana severs his arm after reaching continent-crushing strength 378.

Magical-Girl Transformation and Puppets

His magical-girl identity is Shion, also rendered Ziyuan. He treats transformation as a source of power rather than a change in his personal identity 37 38.

• Prefers transformation as a final trump card because of its restrictions and the attention it attracts 6.
• Controls a Shion/Ziyuan puppet while acting independently in his male body 37 38.
• Uses the puppet to stage appearances as his own supposed girlfriend 110.
• Accesses Bingtang's position-swapping ability as an escape contingency if his identity is exposed 13.
• Restricts knowledge of his identity mainly to trusted legacy disciples, with approved exceptions 82.

Magic Manipulation and Named Techniques

Jiang Si studies magic as a controllable resource, experimenting with its accumulation, circulation, contamination, and combination 9 18 51 131.

Heretical Nascent Soul and Dragon Forms

His Nascent Soul incorporates Calamity Beast power rather than developing through the orthodox process he imagines from cultivation fiction 49 107 166.

• A Grief Seed establishes a tainted-magic core around the Nascent Soul, enabling his Dragonblood Warrior form 120.
• Calamity Beast anatomy lacks the organ needed for fine magical circulation, limiting control despite his technical skill 131.
• The deficient Nascent Soul cannot use Magic Sense; accumulating more magic alone cannot overcome its Early Full Blossom bottleneck 166.
• Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, researched by Helen, permits dragonification without magic power and strengthens his body 241 280.
• Later, excessive use of internally generated tainted magic involuntarily triggers Dragon Lord Shion. He uses Bigu Pills as an alternative source to preserve his disguise 301.

Emperor's Curse

The Emperor's curse becomes a continuous source of bodily reinforcement 216.

• Keeps his body in optimal condition without requiring active magical control 216.
• Allows physical attacks to cross magical boundaries, which he describes as turning physical damage into “true damage” 216.
• Eventually fuses with his blood and internal organs after he absorbs the Beast of the End's power 380.

Mental Image Domain and Personal Reality

Jiang Si researches his own Mental Image Domain and the relationship between magical power, worldview, and maturation 269.

• Regards his Personal Reality as that of a mature adult, making him confident that ordinary growing up will not cost him his powers 240.
• His Personal Reality also empowers Blue Flower's gender-bent ancestral magical puppets, which are later used against Witch Shion 429.

Time Dao Fruit

Filthy Magic Power draws out the Time Dao Fruit's temporal abilities 356.

• Learns time control during his resistance to Lu Ya AI 356.
• Stops time and breaks through Xiyue's Reality Marble 356.
• Possessing Full Bloom standing does not satisfy him; he explicitly seeks a realm beyond it 376.

Cultivation Research and Sect Management

Jiang Si intends to establish and publicly spread an advancement path for magical girls 18.

• Disseminates training methods through the Azure Cloud Sect 18.
• Investigates power fusion, Miracle Seed transformation, and gaps between established realms 20 160.
• Delegates threats to sect members rather than making the sect dependent on its master's personal intervention 376.
• Maintains separate identities and organizations, including the Azure Cloud Sect and Holy Church 302 358.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Miracle Seeds — Enable magical-girl transformations; his purple seed is discovered by Yinlian, and he later reveals three Full Blossom seeds 186 307.
• Grief Seeds — Sources of contaminated magic and catalysts for his Calamity Beast transformation 48 120.
• White Miracle Seed — Used in his potion-assisted Complete Witch experiment; had warned him not to undergo Full Bloom 166.
• Xilan's transformation potions — Retrieved from her imprisonment and tested as a possible route toward Soul Transformation; that breakthrough is only an objective at this point 165 166.
• Bigu Pills — Attempts to refine them himself; later uses them to obtain tainted magic without automatically becoming Dragon Lord Shion 109 301.
• Starfish Spear — Hurled at the ancient tower in Chongxu's second layer 349.
• Handgun — Humorously identifies it as a “Tang Sect Hidden Weapon” 267.
• Exercise equipment — Dumbbells, barbells, racks, punching bags, resistance bands, and other apparatus fill his cave abode 5.

Relationships

• Jiang Keke — Younger sister whom he helped raise. His absence from their parents' funeral causes years of estrangement, but she later seeks his help, fears being abandoned, and trains to become strong enough to assist him. He quietly takes pride in her tournament performance 5 10 160 165 211.
• Bingtang / Winter Lord — Deskmate, fellow magical girl, and close sect partner. She assists his training, supports his disguises, manages practical matters, and helps preserve his dignity as sect master 5 109 159 200.
• Bai Mei — Eldest disciple and formidable swordswoman. Jiang Si defeats her and takes her Miracle Seed, but remains wary of her ability to seriously injure his untransformed body 82 115.
• Shuangsheng — Assists his Witch Association infiltration. Later reveals that she regards Bingtang as her mother and Jiang Si as her father, then attacks him after Bingtang's death 82 109 429.
• Xilan — Witch Association subordinate and source of research and potions. Jiang Si values her steadfast convictions and threatens retaliation when told she has died 165 301.
• Yinlian / Li Yi — Develops feelings for him and learns that he is Shion. Her affection becomes entangled with Shion's killing of her sister Yinluo and her later understanding of Yinluo's actions 22 186 206 414.
• An Shiyu — Likes Jiang Si and can resonate with Mental Image Remnants. Initially resolves not to confess while believing Shion is his girlfriend, but later vows to disrupt his engagement 109 110 313.
• Lu Ya — A girl close to him in his previous life. Her history and connection to Chongxu become central to his investigations; he refuses to accept recorded projections or Lu Ya AI as the person he knows 1 349 356.
• Prince / Mirror King — Fiancée and ruler of the Land of Mirrors. Jiang Si seeks her Full Bloom research while repeatedly trying—and failing—to make her cancel their engagement 278 308 310.
• Jialan — Witch Association figure who fights him, recommends him for vice president, and sends him to Chongxu partly hoping its rules will humble him 214 347.
• Sonora — Guide toward Chongxu and Lu Ya's forbidden memories; exchanges blood with him to transmit those memories 314 349.
• Black Keke — A looper who regards him as an unprecedented variable and brings him to the Land of the End 369 380.
• Emperor — A soul serving him who generally avoids interfering, while privately recognizing that his apparent coldness does not mean he lacks feelings 292 390.

Notable Quotes

“I want to become a magical girl.”
— Words scratched into his arm to survive memory erasure 3

“My values are normal. … I never kill people in fights. … At most, I break both legs.”
— After incapacitating an honor guard member 51

“Our Azure Cloud Sect has done nothing to shame the world!”
— His assessment of the sect's conduct 200

Trivia

• His fabricated relationship with Shion begins as a cover to discourage Bureau suspicion and surveillance—not an actual romance with a separate person 302.
• His cultivation terminology grows so elaborate that later narration abbreviates parts of his realm names with “omitted” 115 166.
• The author explicitly states that Jiang Si does not undergo a conventional personality transformation: his outlook and methods remain consistent from the opening chapters through the ending 446.
• According to the afterword, his protection of magical girls repays the miracle that saved him and made his lifelong pursuit possible. The same explanation identifies long companionship and familiarity as his standard for liking someone 446.