Arc 16Chapters 419–446

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Ch. 419First blood!

Shion’s contamination overwhelmed Main God Space while Prince Itaen rallied the survivors and Yarrow fought her master to help them escape. Yarrow’s Reality Marble and sealing magic injured Shion and bought the Holy Church time to break free, but Hogwarts was swallowed by the Other Shore Plateau as Yarrow faced her wounded master.

  • Shion’s Anomaly contaminated Chongxu and Main God Space, turning infected Holy Church members into soil and sending the magical girls, including Sonora and Jialan, into the Time Furnace.
  • Yitaen used her access privileges and blood authentication to seize control of the Main God Space orb, then demanded the Holy Church members pool their points to escape.
  • Yarrow arrived in the Holy Church space, took the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, and left to fight Shion while Prince organized the evacuation.
  • Yarrow deployed her Reality Marble, used the Void Mirror and Heaven Devouring Demonic Jar to seal Shion’s magic, and was badly injured when her Mental Image Domain collapsed.
  • The Holy Church escaped the Other Shore Plateau while Yarrow lay wounded; Shion formed a spear of magical power, and the Plateau swallowed the ruined Hogwarts.

Ch. 420The killing begins

Shion's attack devastated the New World, and Keke discovered that Susan had burned the Beihai Disaster Countermeasures Bureau's members in the Time Furnace to send them to the Other Shore Plateau. Keke reached Chongxu and found Yarrow dead beside Bingtang and a vast pit filled with bodies, leaving her confronting Black Keke's argument that another cycle was necessary.

  • Shion spared Hogwarts after Bingtang asked her to let it remain, then told Bingtang that Yarrow had made her proud and was first among the Seven True Disciples.
  • Keke searched the shattered Beihai for her home, entered the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, and found Susan amid the purple flames of the Witch Tribunal.
  • Susan told Keke that she had burned the Bureau members on Shion's orders to use the Time Furnace to send them to the Other Shore Plateau, then the Tribunal collapsed around her and Peony.
  • Keke flew to Chongxu, fought through the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, and found Bingtang holding Yarrow's body beside the ruined Hogwarts.
  • Bingtang led Keke to an abyss filled with the bodies of magical girls, including Yinlian, while Black Keke asked whether Keke still opposed another cycle.

Ch. 421The most grudge-bearing person in history!

Shion seized the Void Mirror and Heaven Devouring Demonic Jar from Prince Itaen, then continued her destruction across the New World. Iris defeated Qingluan’s Shion form at great personal cost, but the real Shion arrived and unleashed a Buddha’s Fury Flame Lotus on Iris, Qingluan, Jiegeng, headquarters, and the Mental Image Remnants.

  • Jiang Si celebrated Yarrow’s death as the fulfillment of his vow to confront a Harry Potter fan, while Shion named Chongxu the Other Shore Plateau.
  • Prince Itaen confronted Shion with the Void Mirror and Heaven Devouring Demonic Jar, but Shion refused to fight her and persuaded her to hand over both weapons.
  • Prince advised Shion to keep White Fox and Keke ignorant of her identity, then left her near the surviving headquarters.
  • Iris and Jiegeng defended headquarters from Shion’s clones, and Iris trapped Qingluan’s corrupted form in her Mental Image Domain.
  • Iris risked her life and lost an arm and an eye to defeat Qingluan’s Shion form, restoring Qingluan to herself.
  • Shion arrived, destroyed Jiegeng’s bow, forced the magical girls to their knees, and engulfed them and the nearby remnants in a Buddha’s Fury Flame Lotus.

Ch. 422Nerfing Shion twice

Jiegeng, Iris, and Qingluan faced Shion in what Shion considered a graduation exam, while Jiegeng’s plan revealed that Shion could no longer use magic. Tiana’s trap wounded Shion and made her remember Tiana, but Shion unleashed her transformed power and ended the chapter by spearing through the Land of the End.

  • Jiegeng fled Shion’s sword assault with Iris and Qingluan, then drew Shion into a formation designed to disrupt the weapons and magic she was using.
  • Jiegeng and Tiana’s plan cracked the Void Mirror and exposed Shion’s inability to use magic, while Iris drew on the Beast of the End’s power before Shion defeated and cast her into the Land of the End.
  • Jiegeng revealed herself as Tiana, and she froze Shion briefly with Absolute Zero so an arrow could pierce Shion’s pupil.
  • Tiana explained that her arrow made its wound persist across the past, present, and future, forcing Shion to remember her, and Shion gave her full marks.
  • Shion merged the milky-white power with her Filthy Magic Power, transformed the Land of the End, and pierced through it with her grayish-white spear.

Ch. 423The strongest magical girl of the modern age and the strongest magical girl in history!

Shion defeated Jiegeng, while Iris rejected the Beast of the End’s offer of power and was sent back to headquarters. Shion reached the heart of the Bureau’s plan, where Keke confronted her in a blaze of magic.

  • Jiegeng revealed her dual-personality revival ability and used a star-filled arrow made from World Bubbles and Remnants worlds to wound Shion and destroy the Heaven Devouring Demonic Jar.
  • Jiegeng explained her bond with the Calamity Beast and her wish to die fighting Shion, then died after Shion granted her forgiveness and struck her down.
  • The Beast of the End offered Iris power in exchange for becoming its agent, but Iris refused and insisted she would fight for a future of her own.
  • Shion dismissed Iris after she returned without any new power and advanced through headquarters, incapacitating its magical girls as its connection to the Magical Kingdom drew the core space inward.
  • Qingluan relayed Tiana’s plan to use the Magical Kingdom as a temporary refuge, then stepped aside to reveal Keke burning the school and declaring that she wanted to kill Shion.

Ch. 424The ultimate battle

Keke and Shion fought while Qingluan’s enlightenment triggered an advancement, but Shion judged Keke’s repeated self-sacrifice a failure and moved to stop the evacuation. Iris held Shion back with her ultimate attack, yet Shion emerged from the black hole and awarded Iris a passing grade.

  • Tiana’s arrangements brought Keke to headquarters, where Keke fought Shion and Qingluan moved the magical girls into the Mental Image space for evacuation.
  • Qingluan attained enlightenment during the battle, advanced, and faced a black Ominous Transformation that Keke destroyed while fighting Shion.
  • Shion defeated Keke, explained that her assessment was whether she could let others sacrifice themselves for her, and gave her zero points.
  • Qingluan and Keke tried to protect the evacuation, but Iris seized Shion’s ankle and kept her from entering the Mental Image space.
  • Qingluan pulled Keke into the Magical Kingdom as Iris unleashed Star’s Wrath, forming a black hole that swallowed Shion and the Golden Calamity Dragon King’s abdominal body.
  • Shion emerged from the black hole and gave Iris a passing grade.

Ch. 427An eternal love for Bingtang

Shion reached Bingtang’s spreading ice Mental Image after Bingtang had dealt with Four Leaves and Six Leaves, and the two shared the engagement-breaking ceremony they had promised each other. Bingtang froze herself in an eternal moment, gave Jiang Si her Miracle Seed, and left him to continue the plan as the New World collapsed.

  • Shion encountered the Beast of the End, who said Iris’s death had meaning because she had witnessed and remembered it, and then headed toward Bingtang’s expanding ice domain.
  • Bingtang gave Shion Four Leaves’s and Six Leaves’s Miracle Seeds and said she had sent them to the Other Shore Plateau and awarded them full marks for their assessment.
  • Bingtang led Shion through an icy wedding hall, danced with her, and told her she would remain her shadow rather than become her enemy.
  • Bingtang changed the ice murals to show her memories with Jiang Si and asked him to tell Lu Ya that her time had stopped when she first saw him in the rain.
  • Bingtang froze herself and the crumbling New World, gave Jiang Si her Miracle Seed, kissed him, and declared that she would wait for and adore him forever.
  • Jiang Si took Bingtang’s token, realized she would not answer him again, and left the eternal space, where he saw Shuangsheng waiting.

Ch. 429Blue Flower Goes All Out-Into Battle!

Shuangsheng mourned Bingtang and her lost home, then transformed from a witch into a magical girl and challenged Witch Shion. After Xilan took over the fight, Shion entered the spatial turbulence and faced Blue Flower’s powerful, gender-bent ancestral magical puppets.

  • Shuangsheng told Jiang Si that Bingtang was her mother and that she had always considered Jiang Si her father, then lamented that Bingtang’s death had left her without a home.
  • Shuangsheng attacked Jiang Si and squeezed her Grief Seed back into a Miracle Seed, transforming into Magical Girl Shuangsheng.
  • Shion shattered Shuangsheng’s ice dragon and repeatedly overpowered her, but Xilan stopped Shion’s spear and demanded the chance to fight Shuangsheng herself.
  • Shion left Xilan and Shuangsheng to fight as the wedding hall collapsed, then entered the spatial turbulence and found a desolate expanse filled with flames.
  • Blue Flower revealed that she had prepared magical puppets modeled on Azure Cloud’s ancestors, gender-bent and empowered by Shion’s Personal Reality, and Shion began fighting them.

Ch. 430This world had countless heroes!

Blue Flower used ancestor spirit tablets and the Seven True Disciples to trap Shion in a battle that grew into the Chaos Universe Unfettered Golden Bridge Formation. Just as Shion began pushing back Blue Flower’s World Style, Bai Mei stabbed her from behind, and the descending sword sea swallowed her.

  • Blue Flower summoned ancestor Magic Puppets through the spirit tablets, and Shion clashed with Heavenly Emperor Ye in a battle of Heavenly Emperor Fists.
  • Shion merged with Heavenly Emperor Ye and used the Nine Secrets to defeat Huang and battle the assembled ancestor puppets, while Blue Flower complained about the heroes’ stories and their adaptations.
  • Blue Flower and the other six true disciples formed the Chaos Universe Unfettered Golden Bridge Formation, trapping Shion and empowering a giant Blue Flower dharma body.
  • Blue Flower unleashed World Style, combining the Seven True Disciples’ power and the ancestor puppets’ sword qi into a vast attack that overwhelmed Shion.
  • As Shion tried to push back the sword qi, Bai Mei stabbed her through the chest and the sword sea swallowed her.

Ch. 431A galgame's true end

Bai Mei, Blue Flower, and Yumo nearly killed Shion through a coordinated ambush, but Shion’s hidden Personal Reality let her transform again and defeat them. After punishing Blue Flower and Yumo, Shion faced Bai Mei, who drew her sword and challenged the Dragon Lord alone.

  • Bai Mei’s sneak attack let Blue Flower’s World Style sword formation swallow Shion and damage worlds hanging from the World Tree.
  • Shion escaped the formation and charged Blue Flower, but Blue Flower and the other disciples trapped her in the Chaos Universe Unfettered Golden Bridge Formation.
  • Yumo used the deaths of Four Leaves and Six Leaves and their Corpse Earth ritual to interfere with Shion’s Mental Image and nearly destroy her Personal Reality.
  • Shion’s hidden Dragon Chants the Moon Personal Reality let her transform again, unleash Sever All Concepts, and defeat Blue Flower and Yumo.
  • Shion praised Blue Flower’s all-out effort and promised Yumo a replacement hair clip, then swallowed both disciples in golden breath.
  • Bai Mei drew her sword and went alone to face the Dragon Lord.

Ch. 432A single sword strike

Keke struggled with whether to restart the run, rejected Qianye’s offer to help her defeat Shion, and continued toward a final battle. As Bai Mei fought Shion across the World Tree, Bai Mei unleashed a single sword strike that grievously wounded Shion and split the World Tree in two.

  • Keke reflected on the destruction of the Magical Kingdom and wrestled with whether she had the right to sacrifice others by restarting the run.
  • Qianye offered Keke a flower that could strip magical girls of their power, but Keke burned it and said she would defeat Shion before killing Qianye.
  • Qingluan told Keke that the Holy Church had made contact, but sword strikes from Bai Mei and Shion shook the Magical Kingdom and forced Keke and Qingluan to flee.
  • Bai Mei recalled the wooden sword Shion had carved for her and revealed that she had found its true form within herself.
  • Bai Mei used her sword technique, “No Sword, no self,” to sever Shion’s horn, wing, and tail and split the World Tree in two.

Ch. 433The Last Magical Girl

After Shion’s battle with the World Tree left the Holy Church and countless magical girls falling into an abyss, Keke sacrificed her own life force to transform into a sun and save them. She entrusted Yitaen with rescuing the souls stored in Chongxu, then confronted Shion for their final lesson as Shion struck at her with No Sword.

  • Prince and White Fox watched Bai Mei’s strike destroy half the World Tree, while Keke repaired and protected the damaged Main God Space.
  • Shion and the World Tree drained the magical girls’ power, and the Holy Church, civilians, and magical girls fell toward the Immortal Ruins.
  • Keke used Ashes Rekindled to become a blazing sun, drive back the darkness, and stabilize the space around the survivors.
  • Keke told Yitaen that the victims’ souls were stored in Chongxu and asked her to save them; Yitaen gave Keke her power-amplifying bracelet.
  • Keke approached Shion, said she could neither approve of nor forgive her actions, and faced her as the last two magical girls on the World Tree.
  • Shion began the final lesson and struck Keke with the selfless No Sword.

Ch. 436With His Back to All Living Beings!

Keke discovered that running forward gave her a view beyond Jiang Si’s back, and she surpassed him before reaching a dazzling sunrise. In the frozen cosmos, she returned to face Shion, whose No Sword slash split Keke and her Mental Image, but Keke’s Eternal Samsara reversed time and restored her for a retest.

  • Keke chased Jiang Si as he ran at impossible speed, then pushed past her limits and raced ahead of him toward the sunrise.
  • Keke’s body burned as the world shattered around her, revealing Shion alone before the frozen World Tree and the ice-encased New World.
  • Keke emerged from the ice despite her grave injuries, and her return stirred the worlds and the World Tree back to life.
  • Shion attacked Keke with No Sword, splitting her body and her Endless Fire Domain Mental Image.
  • Keke’s Eternal Samsara joined the divided halves of her Mental Image and reversed time, restoring her as she challenged Shion to begin the retest.

Ch. 437Sole Arbiter of All Eternity!!!

An Shiyu awakened as a magical girl and helped Keke rally Chongxu’s magical girls and ordinary people against Shion. Keke unleashed the wishes of thirty million cycles of reincarnation, but the power began destroying her body as she transformed into a vessel for everyone’s miracles and engulfed Shion.

  • An Shiyu leaped from a rooftop, awakened as a magical girl, and flew into the sky to help the wounded girl she had watched for so long.
  • Keke regained her wings and attacked Shion, while Su La broke Cognitive Obstruction and freed the magical girls across the Other Shore Plateau.
  • Keke combined the magical girls’ power with the wishes of Chongxu’s ordinary people and cut Shion, but Shion transformed and overpowered them with a single punch.
  • Keke accepted the support of everyone instead of trying to bear the burden alone, then joined with Black Keke and summoned the wishes and miracles of thirty million cycles of reincarnation.
  • Keke’s body began to break under the gathered power, and she sacrificed her identity and will to become its vessel before unleashing the force upon Shion.

Ch. 438Shrouding the Heavens

Keke survived the abyss and defeated Shion, only to learn that the Miracle Seed she had carried belonged to her brother, Jiang Si. After Jiang Si used the Time Branch to send her into the past, Keke returned to the day she first received the seed, where her brother began to disappear.

  • The souls of thirty million cycles called Keke back from the abyss and gave her the strength to fight Shion.
  • Keke defeated Shion with the power of the Endless Fire Domain, and Shion praised her before turning to ash.
  • Jiang Si revealed himself as Keke’s brother, grafted the Time Branch onto her World Tree branch, and sent her running beyond time.
  • Keke emerged in the past on the bus where she had first received her Miracle Seed and realized it had belonged to Jiang Si.
  • The Calamity Beast overturned the bus, and the young Jiang Si shielded Keke as his figure began to blur.

Ch. 439The Sovereign of a Lifetime

Keke relived a childhood with Jiang Si before waking at her parents’ funeral and wandering into a Calamity Beast attack, where she saved a girl and unleashed the power of her Miracle Seed. Meanwhile, Qianye discovered that Shion had used her own Miracle Seed to make the World Tree treat Keke and Shion as the same person, rewriting Keke’s records as Shion’s leaf burned away.

  • Keke recalled a warm family life with Jiang Si, then woke at her parents’ funeral with no memory of her brother.
  • Keke wandered through the rain until she found a girl trapped before a Calamity Beast, whom she rescued and protected with her blazing Miracle Seed.
  • Qianye explained that the World Tree usually corrected changes to the past and watched Keke’s records begin to turn purple.
  • Qianye realized Shion had nudged Shion’s Miracle Seed into Keke’s hands, causing the World Tree to recognize them as the same person.
  • Keke’s records replaced Shion’s, Shion’s leaf burned to ash, and Qianye forgot who Shion had been.

Ch. 440Sacred Ruins

Keke built the Azure Cloud Sect, grew into Magical Girl Emperor Liuli, and fought the Incubators’ attempt to overwrite her identity and destroy the world. Bolstered by the wishes of thirty million reincarnations, she kept her sense of self, destroyed the World Tree, and began rebuilding a new world.

  • Keke established the Azure Cloud Sect, taught its disciples, wrote cultivation stories, and developed a Bigu Pill from compressed biscuits.
  • Keke introduced a Heavenly Tribulation system with the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, then subdued Yarrow and let her establish an Azure Cloud Harry Potter Branch.
  • Keke suppressed threats across the New World and Chongxu, became Emperor Liuli, and concluded that the New World copied the setting of Shrouding the Heavens.
  • Keke defeated her black-clad counterpart at the Void Immortal Gold Stele and fought the Incubators on the World Tree, but they exposed and consumed the heart Lu Ya had given her.
  • A purple magical girl created from the heart and the World Tree’s records tried to overwrite Keke, but the people of Chongxu called out her name and restored her identity as Keke.
  • Keke wielded the wishes of thirty million reincarnations to destroy the World Tree and began creating a new world, while the Incubators fell silent.

Ch. 441Undying and indestructible!

Keke scattered her power to restore countless worlds, then fell asleep after remembering a birthday with an unknown companion. As a new World Tree began growing from her, a golden curse brought the erased young man back into being.

  • Keke used her remaining power to rebuild the worlds and guide lost souls home, then collapsed as the New World’s people sustained her warmth.
  • Keke remembered waiting with an unknown person for her birthday breakfast and heard him wish her a happy birthday before she fell asleep.
  • Qianye approached the sleeping Keke, but the Beast of the End confronted her, explaining its desire to protect a friend and gain freedom.
  • Qianye revealed that the World Tree was naturally regrowing from Keke, and the Beast of the End let her approach.
  • Qianye wished Keke a happy birthday, but the new sprouts withered when she touched them.
  • A golden curse emerged from the sprouts and traced the figure of the young man whose existence had been erased.

Ch. 442Tomb of Gods

The boy restored the New World and returned its people to life, then faced disappearance as the cost of Subtracting to Attain Emptiness. He became a purple magical girl through his Personal Reality, while Qianye reclaimed magical girls’ power and the chapter ended with him striking across time.

  • The boy explained that the Emperor had completed a curse through the World Tree, allowing him to be reborn after Keke surpassed him and erased his remaining karma.
  • The boy extinguished the sun and restored the New World’s people, while Keke spent her dream creating happy worlds for them before waking as an ordinary schoolgirl beside her parents and Li Yi.
  • Qianye reclaimed magical girls’ miracles through the World Trees and swallowed End, but the boy shattered the World Tree saplings with his own strength.
  • Qianye and End watched the boy begin to disappear because his existence had been erased, until his Personal Reality transformed him into a purple magical girl.
  • The purple magical girl said she believed in miracles because magical girls existed, remembered Larkspur saving her, and cut through the heavens and the river of time.

Ch. 443The First Grand Finale: A Perfect World!

Qianye confronted the Nameless One, transformed into a magical girl, and was consumed by the World Tree after remembering why she had chosen it. The Nameless One defeated the Beast of the End, restored the swallowed worlds, and reshaped time and the magical girls’ path before departing beyond the Other Shore.

  • Qianye realized the Nameless One had risked everything to give the New World’s magical girls a future and confronted her over her kindness and resolve.
  • Qianye transformed into a magical girl and tried to force the Nameless One to kill her, but the Nameless One stripped away her magic and exposed her inability to face her past self.
  • Qianye remembered that she had chosen the World Tree to prove she had done everything she could and to escape the blame and despair of those she had failed.
  • The World Tree consumed Qianye, and the Nameless One destroyed its remaining branches and power, ending Qianye’s life.
  • The Nameless One subdued the Beast of the End, pulled the swallowed worlds from its body, and found the original world that the World Tree had never recorded.
  • The Nameless One restored worlds across time, prevented new World Trees from forming, separated despair from the magical girls’ path, and continued upstream toward the Other Shore.

Ch. 444Reshaping the Grand Finale: The Other Shore of Deep Space

Shi Xin was rescued from the dead land by the Nameless Immortal Emperor, who restored the souls of the magical girls and sent them back to their lives. The Emperor then traveled upstream through time, repairing tragedies and visiting her own family, until a distant voice called her name: “Jiang Si!”

  • Shi Xin begged for the dead magical girls to receive a better ending, and the purple girl appeared, restored the souls, and led them out of the darkness.
  • The purple girl sent the souls back to their homes and past lives, including Shi Xin, who awoke in a hospital and reunited with Chilian.
  • Calling herself the Nameless Immortal Emperor, the girl reshaped worlds and altered events while traveling through the river of time with the Beast of the End.
  • The Nameless Immortal Emperor visited her mother, caught her before she fell from a mountain, and let her hold her despite the old woman's forgotten memories of Si'er.
  • She stopped a truck from hitting Lu Ya, then continued upstream through time, creating perfect worlds and preventing tragedies.
  • After walking alone toward eternity, she heard a distant voice call, “Jiang Si!” and turned to look back.

Ch. 445The Grand Finale: Great Emperor Shion Returns to the Mortal World!

Keke recovered her memories of Teacher Shion and her brother, Jiang Si, during a world-consuming golden curse, then called his true name and helped bring him back to the mortal world. Jiang Si returned before Keke as the Immortal Emperor, and she reunited with him.

  • Keke woke from recurring dreams of a missing figure and went to the school sports meet with An Shiyu, who was accompanied by Mujin.
  • A Calamity Beast attacked Beihai, and Yinlian defeated it before telling Keke that she and the Azure Cloud Sect disciples had dreamed of a mysterious man.
  • Bingtang took Keke from the sports meet, gave her a magical necklace, and asked her to help bring back the Azure Cloud Sect's missing master, whom they had seen in their dreams.
  • A golden curse spread across the world, isolating Keke from her friends and killing people as golden rain fell.
  • The necklace became a Miracle Seed, and Keke's memories returned: Teacher Shion was her brother, Jiang Si, whom she had once pierced through and erased.
  • Keke called Jiang Si's name, restoring him to everyone's memories and drawing him back through the river of time until he appeared before her as the Immortal Emperor.

Ch. 446Afterword

The author explained how the novel’s planned ending shaped its plot and Jiang Si’s characterization, and clarified misunderstandings about the story and the author’s family. The author thanked readers, described plans to write side stories and rest, and left open the possibility of writing again.

  • The author said the novel was built backward from Jiang Si’s ending and explained how its curses, reincarnations, and other plot elements supported that conclusion.
  • The author described Jiang Si as unchanged throughout the story, emphasizing his attitude toward his parents, death, responsibility, and repaying kindness.
  • The author clarified that Jiang Si repaid the magical girls as a group and that his gratitude did not mean he loved Larkspur.
  • The author denied rumors that the mourning-hall scene reflected a poor relationship with the author’s father and explained that it was written to portray Jiang Si.
  • The author thanked readers and cited inspirations for the novel, then said the author planned to write side stories, rest, and seek a stable job.
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