Chapter Summaries

Jiang Si devoted himself to becoming a webnovel-style cultivator, despite living in an ordinary world, while Lu Ya tried to persuade him to focus on his future. When a truck charged down their alley, Jiang Si stood in its path to protect her and was left gravely injured.

• Jiang Si dismissed his classmates’ debates about fictional fighters and insisted that Ye Fan and webnovel protagonists surpassed them.
• Jiang Si described his years of physical training and fighting local thugs as preparation to break through his limits and cultivate.
• Lu Ya met Jiang Si after school, brought him novels, and urged him to prepare for the college entrance exam, but he refused to change his plans.
• A small truck smashed through a wall and charged toward Jiang Si and Lu Ya in the narrow alley.
• Jiang Si kicked a rock beneath the truck, struck it with his body, and forced it to stop before it hit Lu Ya, suffering severe injuries in the process.

After dying in a collision with a truck, Jiang Si was reborn and spent years training his body in an otherwise ordinary world. During a family trip, a Calamity Beast attacked the city, and Jiang Si faced the disaster just as a magical girl appeared.

• Jiang Si recalled dying after a truck hit him and realized he had been reborn as a child.
• He trained from the age of three, regained his former strength by ten, and grew up with his parents and younger sister.
• Jiang Si joined his family on a trip despite his training bottleneck and noticed a monster outside the vehicle.
• A Calamity Beast attacked the city, overturned the vehicle, and left Jiang Si's family missing amid the wreckage.
• Jiang Si rescued his unconscious sister, searched for his parents, and saw a magical girl arrive before the Calamity Beast.

After witnessing a magical girl destroy a Calamity Beast, Jiang Si learned that only girls could become magical girls, then had his memories erased. Grieving neither his dead parents nor the life he had left behind, he used a piece of the Calamity Beast to make his wish come true and transformed into a magical girl.

• Jiang Si watched a magical girl defeat the Calamity Beast, then learned from caregivers that magical girls were born from wishes and only girls could transform.
• Jiang Si's younger sister confronted the visiting magical girl about arriving too late to save their parents, and the girl apologized and cried with her.
• Jiang Si learned that departing victims would have their memories of magical girls erased, but he had scratched his wish into his skin so he would remember it.
• Jiang Si ignored his parents' funeral and, in the rain, declared that he would become a magical girl despite the obstacles.
• Jiang Si pulled Calamity Beast roots from his body, transformed into a purple-haired magical girl, and burned the roots away with purple magic.

Jiang Si left his younger sister with the relatives who planned to adopt her and sought to learn why he could no longer transform. When a Calamity Beast attacked, he discovered the transformation trigger and became the magical girl Ziyuan, leaving an injured girl awestruck by his appearance.

• Jiang Si told his younger sister to pack and go live with their uncle, then left despite her tearful pleas.
• Jiang Si pressed his companion spirit for answers about transforming and learned he needed to resonate with the Miracle Seed and create an incantation.
• Jiang Si walked through the panicked crowd toward a Calamity Beast and found an injured little girl in the wrecked parking lot.
• Jiang Si recited an incantation, transformed into the magical girl Ziyuan, and sent the Calamity Beast crashing into a car.
• The injured girl watched Ziyuan begin the cleanup mission and vowed never to forget him.

Jiang Si skipped school to train in his underground cave abode with Bingtang, his deskmate and fellow magical girl, while the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau pressured her to join them. He assessed his growing strength and placed himself at half-step Bud great perfection, beyond the Bureau’s vague ranking system.

• Jiang Si ate breakfast with his estranged younger sister Jiang Keke, who refused his offer to attend her parent-teacher meeting.
• A Calamity Beast attacked Jiang Si’s crowded bus, and Winter Lord froze and destroyed it before Jiang Si needed to transform.
• Bingtang caught up with Jiang Si and told him the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau had warned her to join them or leave BH City.
• Jiang Si and Bingtang entered their hidden Illusory Moon Cave Abode near the school, where Jiang Si trained and Bingtang offered to do his homework.
• Jiang Si dismissed the Bureau’s four magical-girl ranks and declared himself a half-step Bud great perfection after demonstrating his strength.

Jiang Si trained with Bingtang by fighting a recreated Calamity Beast, then used a purple flame to destroy it when it trapped him. Bingtang received a warning that a Calamity Beast birth singularity was at Jiang Si’s younger sister’s middle school.

• Bingtang transformed into Winter Lord and recreated the Calamity Beast she had fought that morning for Jiang Si to battle.
• Jiang Si shattered the icy Calamity Beast with a kick, but it reassembled and immobilized him with its eye’s red light.
• Jiang Si briefly drew on the purple seed’s power, burned the airborne Calamity Beast, and returned to training.
• Bingtang received a message from Lingling that the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau had detected several Calamity Beast birth singularities and lacked staff to respond to all of them.
• Bingtang discovered that one birth singularity was at Jiang Si’s younger sister’s middle school.

Jiang Keke, grieving her parents and resenting her brother Jiang Si, was trapped by a Calamity Beast after it incapacitated everyone at her school. A purple-haired magical girl rescued her, leaving Jiang Keke alive and facing a new source of warmth.

• Jiang Keke avoided her classmates and remembered how Jiang Si had seemed indifferent after their parents died.
• Jiang Keke ate her cold lunch at school and recalled happier days with her parents, deepening her resentment toward Jiang Si.
• A bat-like Calamity Beast burst onto the school grounds and its shriek knocked down the guards, students, and teachers.
• The Calamity Beast cornered Jiang Keke, whose gray Magic Seed could not transform her, and she gave up hope of surviving.
• A purple-haired magical girl struck the Calamity Beast with purple flames and told Jiang Keke that her death would make the beast stronger.

Jiang Keke transformed into a magical girl under Shion’s guidance and helped destroy the Calamity Beast, but she could not contact her departing teacher. Yinlian, an injured captain from the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, arrived and began questioning her about the incident.

• Shion urged Jiang Keke to transform, and Jiang Keke succeeded despite her empty seed and lack of an Incubator.
• Shion taught Jiang Keke to concentrate and release her magic, then explained that Calamity Beasts had to be destroyed completely.
• Jiang Keke blasted the Calamity Beast with a crimson beam while Shion stopped her from wasting more magic, and Shion collected its Grief Seed.
• Shion left before Jiang Keke could ask how to contact her, and the school staff began evacuating the students and teachers.
• Yinlian arrived, introduced herself as a Disaster Countermeasures Bureau captain, and asked Jiang Keke to cooperate with her investigation.

Jiang Keke met Yinlian, who urged her to join the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau and warned her about the Azure Cloud Sect, while Jiang Keke kept her trust in Ziyuan. Elsewhere, Jiang Si experimented with absorbing Grief Seeds and learned that the Bureau had contacted his younger sister, but he chose not to interfere.

• Jiang Keke bought drinks with Yinlian, who invited her to join the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau and explained its oversight of magical girls.
• Yinlian warned Jiang Keke that the Azure Cloud Sect hunted Calamity Beasts, raised them, and had a dangerous purple sect master who had killed magical girls.
• Jiang Keke recognized the sect master as Ziyuan, who had taught her to transform, but kept that encounter to herself and continued trusting her.
• Jiang Si absorbed the power from a Grief Seed, noted the diminishing returns and pollution to his Miracle Seed, and tested whether magical power could strengthen his body.
• A thread-made bird told Jiang Si that the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau had contacted his younger sister, and he told it to leave her alone.

Yinlian visited Jiang Si and Jiang Keke to persuade Keke to join the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, but Jiang Si insisted that Keke should choose for herself. Keke remained undecided, agreed to visit the bureau, and wondered why Teacher Shion had saved her without recruiting her into the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Jiang Keke introduced her friend Yinlian to Jiang Si, then told Yinlian that her brother was difficult and that their parents had died three years earlier.
• Yinlian tried to talk to Jiang Si about Keke becoming a magical girl, and he asked whether Keke had been hurt before admitting he knew magical girls were powerful.
• Yinlian asked Jiang Si to persuade Keke to register with the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, but he said Keke should make her own choices and bear their consequences.
• Jiang Si said he wanted to visit the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, and Yinlian agreed to ask Keke what she wanted without pressuring her.
• Yinlian told Keke that Jiang Si respected her right to choose, and Keke said she would think about joining and might visit the bureau.
• Keke wondered what Teacher Shion wanted her to do and why Shion had saved her without taking her to the Azure Cloud Sect.

Jiang Si accompanied Jiang Keke and Yinlian to the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, where their tense family relationship came into sharper focus. At the Bureau’s hidden entrance, Jiang Si revealed startling physical strength by leaping onto a flying broomstick, leaving Yinlian wondering what he was.

• Jiang Si dressed in his late father's suit and set out with Jiang Keke and Yinlian for the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau.
• Jiang Keke told Yinlian that Jiang Si had skipped their parents’ funeral to work out and had shown no grief over their deaths.
• Yinlian led the siblings through winding streets to a concealed doorway in a wall and revealed the Bureau’s hidden station beyond it.
• Yinlian rang a bell, summoning a broom-drawn carriage, and boarded it with Jiang Keke.
• Jiang Si leaped nearly six meters and grabbed a broomstick as it took off, prompting Yinlian to ask what he was.

Jiang Si and Jiang Keke reached the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, where Jiang Keke registered as a magical girl and remembered the magical girl Larkspur who had once saved her. Before her registration was finished, an alarm announced that a Miracle Seed had been stolen, and armed soldiers surrounded the lobby.

• Yinlian caught Jiang Si when he fell through the clouds, then brought him and Jiang Keke safely to the Bureau.
• Yinlian and Jiang Keke discussed whether Jiang Si had visited the middle school division out of concern for Keke, while Keke insisted he had not.
• Jiang Keke recognized Larkspur’s portrait and told Yinlian she wanted to apologize for blaming Larkspur after their parents died.
• Jiang Keke decided to join the Bureau, and Jiang Si signed her employment paperwork as her guardian.
• An alarm reported that a Miracle Seed had been stolen, and a blonde girl in a military uniform questioned Jiang Si and Jiang Keke about disturbances in the clouds.

Jiang Si was released from Susan’s interrogation with Yinluo’s help, but Susan obtained approval to test whether he could pass through the clouds. In the sealed room, Susan revealed that she recognized him as a fellow Daoist.

• Susan questioned Jiang Si about his fall through the clouds, while Yinluo argued that the bureau had no grounds to detain him.
• Yinluo vouched for Jiang Si and led him out, warning him that Susan was suspicious and explaining that she had lost her Miracle Seed.
• Yinluo warned Yinlian that the Witch Association had located the bureau and stolen its Miracle Seeds.
• Susan returned with authorization to conduct a cloud test on Jiang Si, and he agreed to go with her.
• Alone with Jiang Si in a dark room, Susan recited a Daoist phrase, and Jiang Si answered it before she greeted him as a fellow Daoist.

Jiang Si questioned Susan about the stolen Miracle Seeds and agreed to help investigate Hyacinth in exchange for part of Susan’s wages. As Jiang Si, Keke, Yinlian, and Yinluo left the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, a B-rank Calamity Beast appeared and charged at them.

• Susan told Jiang Si that the Witch Association had stolen all three Miracle Seeds from the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau.
• Susan identified Hyacinth and Aqin as suspects, and Jiang Si agreed to investigate Hyacinth for a share of Susan’s wages.
• Susan used her wand to give Jiang Si mana beneath his shoes so he could cross the cloud bridge, then escorted him out of the interrogation room.
• Yinluo, Yinlian, Keke, and Jiang Si left the bureau, but Jiang Si began falling from the cloud bridge after only a few steps.
• A B-rank Calamity Beast appeared above the bureau, and it charged at Jiang Si, Keke, Yinlian, and Yinluo.

Jiang Si and the magical girls escaped the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau as Yinlian and Jiang Keke confronted a B-rank firebird Calamity Beast. When the beast split into two equally powerful creatures and Keke was left exposed, Teacher Shion intervened at the last moment.

• Yinlian transformed and rescued Yinluo while Jiang Keke caught Jiang Si, then Yinlian ordered Keke to help lure the firebird away from the Bureau.
• Yinluo led Jiang Si out through a hidden route and told him to go home, while he watched the magical girls battle in the sky and longed to claim the firebird’s Grief Seed.
• Yinlian and Keke split up to fight the firebird, but it divided into two B-rank beasts, forcing Yinlian to call Keke back.
• One firebird struck Keke and left her dangling from her broom as Yinlian fought the other and tried to protect her.
• A firebird charged Keke, but Teacher Shion appeared and smashed it into the ground.

Shion revealed her Full Blossom-level power by destroying a fleeing B-rank Calamity Beast, then defeated a Witch Association member who offered her Miracle Seeds. The chapter left Shion with the beast’s Grief Seed and the Witch Association’s stolen resources, while Keke vowed to grow strong enough to become her friend.

• Yinlian recognized the purple magical girl as Shion and watched her shoot down the fleeing firebird with a powerful arrow that devastated part of the expressway.
• Shion burned away Yinlian’s petals and knocked her unconscious, while Keke praised Shion and asked why she had never been invited to join the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Shion told Keke she was too weak and better suited to the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau; Keke promised to become stronger and asked Shion to be her friend.
• Shion found a Witch Association member holding the firebird’s Grief Seed, and the woman offered to cooperate and provide Miracle Seeds.
• Shion killed the Witch Association member, took the Grief Seed, and told Winter Lord that she would claim the association’s resources herself.

Ziyuan and Winter Lord investigated the Witch Association’s theft of three Miracle Seeds and learned the group had infiltrated the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau. The Witch Association planned to extract the seeds after three days and ordered Du Juan to capture Jiang Keke’s brother, suspecting he could become a Calamity Beast.

• Ziyuan and Winter Lord watched the Bureau and police respond to the expressway incident, then Winter Lord told Azure Cloud Sect disciples to investigate the Witch Association and its stolen Miracle Seeds.
• Winter Lord explained that the Witch Association had infiltrated the Bureau and could create B-rank Calamity Beasts, while Ziyuan asked her to monitor Hyacinth, whom Susan suspected of being turned.
• Ziyuan refused Winter Lord’s invitation to visit a nail salon and left to attend class and finish her training plan.
• Oleander told the Witch Association leaders that the stolen Miracle Seeds were still inside the Bureau and could be removed after its three-day alert ended.
• Oleander reported that Jiang Keke’s brother had jumped six meters and nearly fallen off the clouds, and the captain suspected he might become a human-vessel Calamity Beast.
• The captain ordered Du Juan to capture Jiang Keke’s brother and use him to threaten or recruit Jiang Keke.

Jiang Si continued searching for a systematic path for magical girls to advance and went with Yumo to find Hyacinth after Bingtang confirmed her location. At Perching Cloud Academy, Hyacinth recognized Jiang Si and immediately asked him to take off his clothes so she could inspect him.

• Jiang Si considered how magical girls could grow stronger, noting that absorbing Calamity Beast magic power was inefficient and physical training offered only modest gains.
• Yumo admitted she had changed Jiang Si’s incense to the wrong kind and told him Bingtang had found Hyacinth but was too busy to guide him herself.
• Jiang Si learned that Bingtang was unhappy with him and asked Yumo to lead him to Hyacinth at Perching Cloud Academy.
• Jiang Si and Yumo reached the school, where the guard refused to let them in because he assumed they were Hyacinth’s fans.
• Hyacinth came out to meet Jiang Si, identified him as Susan’s newly debuted magical girl’s older brother, and told him to take off his clothes.

Jiang Si met Hyacinth to ask whether his physical changes and the stolen Miracle Seeds threatened his younger sister, Keke. Hyacinth reassured him that Keke would be protected, revealed her failing Miracle Seed and past defeat by a purple magical girl, and Jiang Si left suspecting that Hyacinth had little connection to the Witch Association.

• Hyacinth examined Jiang Si and found no trace of Witch Association curses or Calamity Beast magic, then explained that prolonged exposure to a magical girl could affect his physical fitness.
• Jiang Si asked whether the stolen Miracle Seeds and a traitor in the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau endangered Keke, and Hyacinth promised that she and Yinlian would protect her.
• Hyacinth showed Jiang Si her withered Miracle Seed and said she had once sought power from the Witch Association after a purple magical girl defeated her.
• Hyacinth explained that she continued serving as a magical girl to protect BH City, despite her declining strength.
• After leaving the academy, Jiang Si told Yumo he had forgotten whether he had defeated Hyacinth before, then urged her to strengthen her Dao heart.

Jiang Si continued cultivating while Keke secretly trained as a magical girl, then he confronted the thugs harassing students near No. 4 Middle School. After Jiang Si drove them off, a witch gave Limp a dark seed and ordered him to bring Jiang Si to her.

• Jiang Si reasoned that advancing beyond Full Blossom required changing the shape of his Miracle Seed, though he had not found a way to do so.
• Keke secretly transformed and spent the night using Jiang Si’s heavy barbell to train her magic and strength.
• Jiang Si found the damaged floor and barbell the next morning, and Keke apologized for the mess.
• Jiang Si confronted Limp and his two lackeys, slapped them, and warned them to stop harassing No. 4 Middle School’s students.
• After Jiang Si left, Limp’s remaining lackeys abandoned him, and a witch emerged from a wall and offered him a dark seed.
• Limp accepted the seed, and the witch told him to bring Jiang Si to her.