Starting as a Magical Girl, I Alone Shall Rule for Eternity

Chapter 167: A Typical Physical-Dao Witch Magical Girl!

"Come here, Keke."

While calling to Keke, the witch Shion felt her magical outfit.

The greatest danger of corrupted magic power lies in those frenzied negative emotions.

Not just ordinary people — even cultivators would experience fluctuations if such a massive flood of negative emotion were suddenly poured in.

A torrent of negative feelings can destroy a person's mind.

Even a Complete Witch who was experimented on from childhood and possesses extraordinary tolerance to corrupted magic power has limits to how much she can take.

Once the amount exceeds a danger threshold, madness is inevitable.

So most Complete Witches cannot match Magical Girls in pure combat power;

they must rely on mechanisms and tricks to deal with them.

If your magical power is insufficient, it simply is — you become a natural weak point in a fight.

Besides, the vast majority of Magical Girls traditionally do not kill. No witch, however reckless, would risk her life for nothing. And when overloaded with corrupted magic power, death might even be a mercy.The worst outcome is living in a state worse than death.

Witch Shion understood this perfectly.

Negative emotions can be overwhelming;

resisting them only brings worse backlash.

You have to accept those emotions.

And once accepted, you will be affected. This time Shion absorbed the city’s negative emotions — otherwise she could not have forged a magical outfit at all.

A city's Disaster Beasts plus countless people's negative feelings, all converted into corrupted magic power, barely sufficed to form the outfit.

Almost the entire negative emotional output of Beihai, combined with the strength of those Disaster Beasts, threatened to drown her consciousness.

But for Shion there was one negative emotion she would never reject, one she believed was inevitable on the path to the Great Dao.

Arrogance.

Anger? Grief? Suffering? As for emotions that want to swallow her or change everything about her,

Shion only sneered.

She was the progenitor of cultivation in this world, the Dao master who opened the path and guided people. She looked down on all rivals, defeating the world with her temperament!

Destined to leave a name for ten thousand generations.

Without such grandeur, how could one walk to the very end above Heavenly Dao?

Indeed, if not for the pride that discards all techniques and reveres Immortal Way above all, how could she have reached today?

Heaven and earth — only she could tread the lonely height of the Heavenly Dao, and that alone let her crush all negative emotions!

The thick, tangled negative feelings were ultimately tamed and suppressed by the pride that pressed down an era,

until they turned into stubborn, rebellious malice!

The Magical Girl Killer was powerful;

she had never faced such a strong opponent and Shion felt a strange delight.

Even a reckless explosion and pouring-out of power could still be withstood by her terrifying strength;

a full-strength strike of her physical-Dao left only half a body and the forehead torn away, yet she remained.

In terms of vitality, she, Shion, could rightfully call herself the strongest!

The final Disintegration Moment astonished her as well.

It did not merely collapse a magical outfit.

It erased the personal reality’s distortion of the world.

This is almost the fatal weakness of Magical Girls.

All Magical Girl transformations are realized through personal reality. Pure mana comes from converting one’s wish via personal reality, ultimately spawning a Miracle Seed.

Magical Girls do not cultivate the physical body;

they rely on the body formed by the transformed outfit to fight — in cultivation terms, using Dao Heart to command the formlessness of heaven and earth to build a physical body.

Personal reality is the Dao Heart, pure mana is the heaven-and-earth power, and transformation is the physical body.

One could say personal reality is everything for a Magical Girl.

It's a classic imagined innate physical-Dao approach.

Forcibly severing personal reality is no different from directly killing a Magical Girl.

It’s like cutting the link between Dao Heart and the material world in the dark side of the sea of consciousness, unless one has achieved a Primordial Spirit.

By Azure Cloud Sect standards, this move even surpasses the Spells stage — it could be called the full Bloom-level Divine Art.

That explains why even Full Bloom Magical Girls could not withstand it.

If they could unfold their Mental Landscape — a Full Bloom Mental Landscape integrates personal reality into world rules, becoming part of the world — then the Disintegration Moment's damage would be useless.

Unfortunately Full Bloom Magical Girls may not be aware of that. If caught on the spot and stripped of their transformation, immediate death is common.

But the key point is here:

Complete Witches' transformations do not rely on personal reality.

As a core technology of the Witch Association, Complete Witches imitate Magical Girls but cannot use personal reality, which causes great defects in magical conversion. Against the Magical Girl Killer before her, this weakness is the perfect counter.

That is the strongest restraining point.

Unable to strip the outfit, the Killer had already lost its threat to Shion.

Purely through magic control or magical power, or arts outside the physical-Dao, the Magical Girl Killer was still far inferior to her.

And its trait of bleaching magic into residue is actually a double-edged sword.

When Shion was still the Magical Girl Shion, she discovered that if her emotions were intense enough, she could dye that gray-white residue with her own hue.

Once she grasped the properties of the opponent’s abilities, the Magical Girl Killer wasn’t so troublesome.

In terms of ability rules, it was actually inferior to Full Bloom Mujin.

Mujin’s space could even connect to another world;

the Killer’s ability specifically targeted Magical Girls and might struggle even against S-rank Disaster Beasts.

But against Magical Girls its lethality was different.

After swallowing its eyeball, Shion basically discerned this thing’s origin.

Clearly it was a technology similar to the Mirror Kingdom’s, turning emotional residue into a kind of magical substance.

But it differed from the Mirror Kingdom’s residue — the taste, the explosion on the palate, the stimulating flavor were unlike the Mirror Kingdom’s lifeless residue.

It seemed a more advanced usage.

The Magical Girl Killer before them was not human either, but a puppet made from residue.

Yet even if it was only a puppet, witch Shion could still use corrupted magic power to give it emotion.

Supreme corrupted magic power could make the inorganic fear.

This coincided with a Dao truth —

All things have spirit!

If she pushed this subtlety further, she might step across the blurred border between dead matter and living spirit, perhaps gaining more Dao-fruit imagery.

Rebirth cycle proof, Ruler of Reincarnation!

Heaven-and-earth spiritual mechanism proof, Great Ocean Water!

Or take a step back: use a Heavenly Tribulation image as the Dao base, expand the pollution of corrupted magic power’s emotions to the scope of Heavenly Tribulation, turning all of East China into a giant Heart Demon Dojo.

That would fuse Heart Demon Tribulation proof into Heavenly Tribulation, making Heavenly Tribulation even more magnificent!

Because the existence of negative emotions is itself a sign of heart demons.

At this moment, no one understood corrupted magic power better than witch Shion.

If one could, beyond mere ascension, always confront heart demons and defeat magnified negative emotions like fear, Magical Girls outside Azure Cloud Sect might gain truly joyful change.

Even Shion herself, after absorbing such volumes of negative emotion, found her words and actions changing unconsciously.

She actually did not like to speak much, especially during battle.

Small fry chatter;

true masters speak little.

But under this surging negative emotion, even Shion could not help but speak more.

She even tasted that eyeball.

Although she was interested in the gray-white magical outfit, she didn’t need to eat the eyeball to analyze it.

She just did it on a whim.

Now that she had seized a demonic cultivation fruit, she naturally displayed demonic cultivation mannerisms.

Without great terror, great shock, great temperament, how could one speak of demonic path?

Righteous path, demonic path — both end at the Great Dao. She could be the sect leader of Azure Cloud Sect on the righteous path, or the lord of demonic cultivation.

That was all.

Besides a slight external projection of emotion, corrupted magic power did not alter her much.

She was already a fusion of right and wrong, yin and yang, the orthodox route of Heavenly Dao.

And she stood as the foremost inheritor of the current true cultivation lineage, the Taiyi Yin-Yang True Cultivation Way.

Yet even an inadvertent leak of negative emotion made the people around her tremble.

Keke sat on the ground, suddenly feeling the urge to pee...

But witch Shion obviously had no intention of letting her off;

instead she sauntered over.

"You still haven't improved. Stand up."

Keke's lips trembled, "I—I—my leg cramped..."

Bai Mei burst out laughing.

Keke was the only one who hadn't had her transformation canceled.

A Magical Girl with a leg cramp, really.

Even Bingtang couldn't help but cover her face.

What nonsense is she spouting!

Seeing witch Shion move closer again, Bingtang took a deep breath and stepped in front of Keke.

"Didn't you see Keke is terrified already?"

Witch Shion finally stopped moving.

But even her approach sufficed: the corrupted magic power radiating out made non-transformed Bingtang feel restless, unable to control her emotions.

There was a sense that simply being near her was contaminating.

"You better get far away."

Shion's icy eyes brimmed with contempt, "or you'll lose your mind and be unable to transform again."

Bingtang's heart lurched;

she knew Shion wasn't bluffing.

She could feel her Miracle Seed losing vitality.

If she stayed, she would soon face the same result as before.

But looking back at trembling Keke, she gritted her teeth and did not retreat an inch. "I am the captain of Beihai Magical Girl Combat Team!"

"Protecting my teammates is the captain's duty!"

"Ca-captain, you don't need to worry about me."

Keke struggled to stand and reached to pull Yi Yi away.

A terrifying surge of corrupted magic power instantly engulfed the two!

Keke froze. Although the corrupted magic wrapped her whole body, she did not feel pain.

Rather, the corrupted power was merging with her magical outfit, even giving a sense of reinforcement.

But Bingtang suffered — she fell to her knees, coughing violently.

Even the Miracle Seed in her hand became polluted again!

"Captain!"

Keke clutched her friend in panic and looked up at Shion. "Teacher, please spare Yi Yi! She just regained her Magical Girl power!"

"A person with no resolve should not transform."

Witch Shion sneered disdainfully. "If you have no power, yet want to protect others without paying the price, this world does not need such naive Magical Girls."

Bingtang painfully pushed Keke away and glared at the dark Shion who wasn't that much taller. "No, I wouldn't! I know you will make me lose my power!"

Holding the nearly polluted Miracle Seed, the girl endured the assault of negative emotions and shouted, "If I'm afraid of losing power and therefore won't protect Keke,

then I shouldn't have reclaimed my Magical Girl power in the first place!"

"Bloom again!"

Pink mana flared fiercely, drowning the blackness. "Flawless, drooping-branch cherry!"

Crossing the cooldown, Bingtang transformed again and stood up, gasping, "I won't let you hurt Keke!"

But as soon as she rose, witch Shion glanced at her and the horrific corrupted magic pinned her back to the ground.

Smiling contemptuously, eyes looking at ants.

"I prefer you begging on your knees."

Keke finally could not bear it and stepped in front of Bingtang. "Teacher, please don't do this!"

"Since your progress with orthodox cultivation is slow," witch Shion walked calmly to Keke's side, "then try the demonic method."

Saying that, she reached out and touched Keke's eye socket.

Keke shivered, recalling the gray-white Magical Girl who had her eyeballs picked out;

her heart nearly leapt from her chest.

Die, die, die, die...

But the finger did not gouge into the socket;

it simply traced the rim and slid across her face, then came to her lips.

It pried her mouth open.

Keke dared to peek with one eye and saw Shion's other hand on her own right eye socket.

With a sudden twist, Shion plucked out her golden eye!

Keke's eyes widened in shock.

Shion shoved the extracted eyeball into Keke's mouth.

"Eat it."

Teacher, you’re perverse...

She thought that inwardly, a tearful laugh in her chest.

She might be the first Magical Girl to eat an eyeball... unclean.

Yet the eyeball in her mouth did not disgust her;

it even tasted faintly sweet.

She could not help taking another bite, and Shion said, "Swallow it. The outside layer of power is only one;

after it's processed don't spit it out."

What sugar coating?

Keke hurriedly swallowed the eyeball. Immediately she felt the corrupted magic in her body go wild!

Endless negative emotions and terrifying power spread outward in all directions!

But these negative feelings seemed tamed by something;

they did not instantly crush her consciousness. She felt fear and agitation, but when she looked up she saw the corrupted magic on her body dispersing.

Not only did it engulf the people around her, it was spreading into Beihai City! This corrupted magic was gradually polluting everyone in the city!

"If you cannot control corrupted magic power, then all Magical Girls here will lose their transformations because of you."

Witch Shion looked at her with a gentle smile that filled Keke with immeasurable dread.

"Not only that, the people of Beihai will be drowned by your corrupted magic;

perhaps the whole city will die because of you."

Shion watched her with interest. "Come on, Keke, choose — become a witch who kills everyone, or remain your Magical Girl."

"Teacher."

Sweat poured down Keke’s face, the black magic covering her body threatening to engulf her pupils.

But an unquenchable flame still danced in her eyes, burning!

"You're so annoying!"

Senior Jincha, Camellia, and to her side Xingxuan, and not far off Susan and Qingying — almost all were affected by that corrupted magic.

Even Bingtang next to her fainted outright!

Witch Shion was not the Shion she knew.

This one truly could kill people!

Realizing this, Keke’s anger surged.

"Isn't it obvious! I will always be a Magical Girl!"

"Magical Girl Ruri!"

All the corrupted magic began to burn up!

Yet the black mana did not vanish;

it fused more and more into Keke's crimson magic!

Bai Mei sheathed her sword and stood behind her master;

Bingtang and Yumo had lowered themselves as well.

Bingtang even took the sect master’s small hand and carefully wiped dust from Shion with a handkerchief.

The gray-white Magical Girl who had been touched needed a proper cleaning.

Her nail polish was almost gone;

they must figure out how to repaint the sect master’s nails...

Even between the fingers was carefully wiped clean. Shion remained unreactive, letting them tidy her.

No matter what she became, Shion would always be their sect master;

their attitude would not change.

Bingtang wiped the right eye socket where the eyeball had been plucked — a lot of blood, that is, magic power, had flowed from the hollow.

But wiping so meticulously, Shion could not help asking, "Not done yet?"

"Almost, almost."

Yumo looked on expectantly, Bai Mei found their master almost like a little girl, intriguing.

Bingtang had barely cleaned when Shion tilted her head and immediately looked toward Keke.

Everyone knew what the sect master cared about.

As Keke's magic gradually fused with the corrupted magic, the flame shifted from bright red to a darker crimson, like bloodfire!

"Truly worthy of the sect master’s..." After thinking, Bai Mei could not find the words, "student."

Yumo nodded slightly, "Amazing, you mastered magic fusion and altered its nature so quickly. Yumo took forever... Yumo doesn't want to lose."

Bingtang finished cleaning and glanced at her younger sister. "Congratulations to the sect master."

"Hmph, it's not over."

Despite the words, anyone could see satisfaction and relief in Shion’s remaining golden eye.

Keke’s magic fusion was reaching its end.

As the teacher had said, you don’t resist but accept, then control your negative emotions.

Once accepted, you find those corrupted magic feelings are not a flood to be feared.

They are, in fact, part of you.

When pure mana and corrupted magic merged, there was even a sense of rediscovering herself.

She stared at the corrupted magic swirling on her hands,

and immediately began absorbing all the leaked corrupted magic around — Jincha, Susan, Bingtang...

Even the corrupted magic that had been spreading to engulf all of Beihai City was drawn into her.

Then Keke realized:

The proportion of corrupted magic to her pure magic formed a three-thousand-five-to-seventeen ratio...

This delicate ratio made fusion easier.

Best fusion ratio?

Lost in thought, she looked up and found the witch Shion’s face close at hand.

She could even feel the breath against her.

Keke blinked but did not move.

"Well done."

Up close, Shion examined her carefully and nodded. "Light and dark in one body, purification and destruction — a good seed for a holy-light magic body."

"Don't be arrogant, keep working."

"Oh..."

What an old-fashioned parental praise line. Not trendy anymore, Teacher Shion.

Keke adjusted her breathing and looked closely.

Purple turned to black, golden pupils, the black hem of the skirt.

The slightly altered outfit combined with her changed temperament produced a strong unfamiliarity.

Add the constant radiating malice and violence, and it was hard to associate this with the Magical Girl Shion she had known.

Yet her expression remained calm;

even as negative emotions churned around and infected inanimate objects, she stayed indifferent.

That smile just now had been terrifying.

Is this really the Shion teacher I know?

Shion simply reached out and tapped her forehead.

Keke shrank her neck in fear and shut her eyes. But there was no pain.

Her emotions even quieted.

A current of magic poured from the forehead into her body, guiding her corrupted magic to gradually coat the Magical Girl outfit.

When she opened her eyes, Keke stared at her altered outfit in surprise.

The crimson outfit was brighter and more vivid than before, even a bit wicked.

Corrupted magic and pure mana existed together in harmony.

Previously, under the captain’s coercion, she had been forced into a witch-like transformation, which only yielded half corrupted magic and half pure mana.

She had not been able to make both coexist. With Shion’s help she had barely held the witch form.

It was too easy to lose control;

Keke felt it was unsuitable.

Even if she could handle corrupted magic earlier, she could not use corrupted magic to reconstruct her outfit.

But now, with Shion’s help, she had successfully fused the two kinds of magic to build the outfit...

"Remember this feeling," witch Shion said faintly. "There are two ways to circulate magic;

you have only preliminarily awakened the holy-light magic body. Practice well."

Despite enduring terrifying corrupted magic, Shion showed no change.

Ashamed of her earlier fear, Keke nodded vigorously, "Yes!"

"Expect growth. Don't disappoint me."

A mix of indescribable joy and dread — Keke looked up once more.

Indeed, she was terrifying.

Those golden pupils gave off a trace of malice that Keke could hardly bear.

Or perhaps Shion’s authority had already taken deep root in her heart...

Only when Shion had gone to tell her brother she could feel less fear.

No — Keke finally sensed the anomaly.

This Shion was far from the Shion teacher.

Fake!

Perhaps fear made her jumpy, or excitement did, but Keke quickly reviewed the situation in her mind and confirmed the truth.

That Shion was not the one she knew — there was something wrong!

But when she looked up, witch Shion had already walked far away.

Winter and Dandelion, who had been watching nearby, now leaned against Shion as if totally unaffected by the negative emotions.

When Winter turned her head and looked at Keke with a gentle, slightly apologetic wave,

that figure seemed to faintly overlap with the earlier Shion.

Did she impersonate Teacher Shion? Why?

Or was Keke being too suspicious?

Dazed, Keke came to her senses and found the Magical Girls lying on the ground.

Xingxuan and Qingying were gone, but Susan, Jincha, Camellia, even Bingtang lay unconscious...

Shion did not walk far before stopping.

Winter, Dandelion, and Bai Mei also halted and looked at the sect master. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just a bug."

Witch Shion said lightly, then smiled, "Since that's the case, if we just reverse the witching now, it would be a waste of the reagent."

Saying so, she made a pose as if taking a photo toward the sky, then seemed to lock onto something.

With a light sweep,

a crack appeared in the space above the sky!

Shion took a step and flew upward, grabbing the rift with both hands,

and ripped it open!

The narrow seam tore into a huge rupture! Space shattered and spread, even swallowing specks of starlight!

On the other side of the torn spatial rift, two gray-white girls stood, astonished, staring at the witch who had burst in.

"Welcome our guests, Bingtang, Yumo."