novelraw Chapter 170: Things Have Come to This, Let's Go to Sleep
Chapter 170: Things Have Come to This, Let's Go to Sleep
"Right now, the biggest problem isn't one or two old worlds invading," Helen, the Magical Girl Hunter—no, now renamed Witch Hunter—said nervously inside the Main God Space. "It's a whole bunch of old worlds, all itching to try!"
Hyacinth glanced at Ruo Yun beside her, who was still practicing how to use the Buddha's Fury Lotus.
Earlier, Keke casually forming the Buddha's Fury Lotus nearly blew up this Witch Hunter Helen, which really shocked Ruo Yun.
She'd had the card in her hand for quite some time, and the card contained the complete structure of the Buddha's Fury Lotus.
But after all this time, she still hadn't fully mastered it.
Seeing someone else grasp it so quickly naturally made her a bit unconvinced, so she immediately started working hard to master her own Buddha's Fury Lotus.
However, after fiddling with it for a while, she only managed to blow herself up, covering herself in dust and turning her hair into an explosion style.
When Hyacinth looked over, Ruo Yun opened her mouth and blew out a puff of white smoke.
The usually somewhat numb girl couldn't help but be amused by her.
Angry, Ruo Yun then formed a simple fire lotus and threw it at her.Hyacinth casually redirected it into the chaotic currents outside the Main God Space.
Having been on missions with Ruo Yun for so long, she was pretty much used to Ruo Yun's thin-skinned personality.
Although during missions she would become like a different person—very mature and skilled with old-fashioned methods.
In daily life, she often displayed childishness fitting her age, which actually made Hyacinth feel much more at ease.
Though she didn't consider herself very mature either.
"Aren't you afraid of being embarrassed if the Saint Hall Envoy comes later?"
"None of your business."
"Hmm, if it were Miss Bai Mei, she'd probably find it troubling too."
"Hmph, don't use my teacher to pressure me."
That's what she said, but Ruo Yun still fixed her exploded hair.
It was her transformed Magical Outfit anyway, an easy task.
"Actually, with your face shape, twin tails would look really good..."
"Why don't you tie your own hair like that?"
"It doesn't suit me."
Watching the two senior members bicker, Helen, who had been explaining the intel, paused, planning to wait for them to finish.
"You could try the skincare cream from Shidailaiya I recommended last time."
"I already said I can't afford it."
"I can give you a bottle for free."
"Think you're special just because you have money?"
"Sorry, having money really is special..."
"I don't want to use cosmetics. Only old people and ugly people use that stuff."
"You'd definitely get cursed out if you said that in public."
After waiting for a long time, the two of them only argued more vigorously.
Helen could only scratch her head and ask, "Um, are you still listening or not?"
Hyacinth waved her hand. "Just keep talking, we're listening."
No, sis, you two are practically about to go shopping together, chatting about makeup and fashion sense now. Where's the listening?
Did any of what I just said go in one ear?
But living under someone else's roof, as a little newbie, of course she didn't dare provoke the seniors.
She could only wait until the two of them were almost done before continuing, "A bunch of Old World Ghosts are itching to try, wanting to steal world essence from this world to create Full Bloom Magical Girls belonging to their own worlds, and thus, rebuild their already destroyed old worlds."
She originally wanted to wait for Hyacinth and Ruo Yun to respond.
But then the heavenly light sphere suddenly spoke: 「Recorded: [Dregs] Essence Theft Mission」
Helen was so startled she shuddered, looking up at the rotating giant light sphere.
Beside her, Hyacinth and Ruo Yun also looked up, seemingly surprised.
They had never seen the heavenly light sphere suddenly speak on its own.
Usually, it only spoke when they actively checked the exchange list or accepted missions here.
But after saying that, the giant light sphere fell silent again.
After waiting a moment, Hyacinth signaled Helen to continue.
Helen swallowed. She really wanted to hug her captain tightly;
only the great captain could give her a sense of security.
But after the captain handed her over to these Main God Space people, he went back to find Twins.
Although his memories and many words and actions were almost no different from before.
The captain was ultimately created by Twins' ability, and essentially needed to obey Twins' commands to exist.
Helen was just a bit surprised that Twins could still control the Vine Captain even from this far away.
Didn't everyone say she was a useless witch? Called one of the two shocking maggots alongside Xilan.
Never expected her strength to be this formidable...
"The Witch Association actually knew these old worlds were getting restless long ago. The higher-ups have always reminded us to pay attention to the movements of these World Ghosts, but the Mirror Kingdom is a cooperative partner of the Witch Association. They found other Old World Ghosts to cooperate with. This time's Magical Girl Killer was borrowed by the Mirror Kingdom through cooperation with another old world."
Hyacinth finally became interested, shifting her attention away from Ruo Yun.
Annoyed by Hyacinth's constant nagging earlier, Ruo Yun saw this guy lose interest in her the moment she turned away and couldn't help but stomp on this weirdly talkative senior's foot.
Luckily, Hyacinth didn't mind much, just asking, "How many old worlds are there in total?"
"This... this I don't know." Helen smiled awkwardly. "I'm just an accessory to the Magical Girl Killer, only know some basic information. Anyway, I heard there are many. These old worlds will stop at nothing to save their own worlds. They're a very dangerous bunch."
"Then why does your Witch Association still cooperate with them?"
"Hey, I don't like how you said that! What do you mean 'your'? It's *their* Witch Association!" Helen immediately corrected. "I'm one of *us*, the Saints of the Hall!"
Ruo Yun rolled her eyes. "Alright, no need to emphasize. You've only been a Saint of the Hall for a few minutes. So why does the Witch Association cooperate with the old worlds?"
Although Ruo Yun thought this was a good thing too.
Makes killing them less of a psychological burden.
But, the Witch Association is ultimately part of this world—
"Wait." Ruo Yun suddenly remembered something. "Are your Witch Association superiors locals?"
Helen immediately laughed. "What kind of joke are you telling? How could our Witch Association not be locals? We're all genuine local..."
Helen, who had thought of something, suddenly went mute.
"Holy crap, no way. Could our Witch Association superiors also be World Ghosts?"
"Very possible." Hyacinth nodded, her empty pupils showing rare curiosity. "Have you seen the Witch Association's president?"
"Only seen the Vice President, Jialan. She's a local."
Hyacinth let out a long, drawn-out sigh. "Really, this world is getting more and more interesting."
For who knows which time, she felt it was really great to have joined the Saint Hall.
「Received S-rank mission issued by Saint Hall Envoy.」
「Mission Requirement: Detailed intelligence and specific locations of old remnants and [Dregs] in the South China region.」
「Mission Reward: Supreme Emperor's Weapon and ten thousand points.」
「Current version has been updated to Great Thousand Worlds. Please fight for your world's survival.」
Ruo Yun shrugged. "Work's here. Perfect timing, I was planning to go to South China to search for Mirror Kingdom materials anyway."
She casually pulled up the list, opened the mission log, and selected accept.
「Central State Demon Squad has accepted the mission. Central State Demon Squad members updated: three. Before mission completion, the three will be unable to return to the Main God Space. Good luck to all.」
"Hey, hey, wait, I haven't said I would—"
*Whoosh.*
The three were ejected from the Main God Space. Hyacinth and Ruo Yun landed on their feet, only Helen fell flat on her face.
Hyacinth checked her watch. "But South China is so big. With just the few of us, it's not enough, right?"
Ruo Yun smiled slightly. "No problem."
She pulled up her phone's contact list.
Her private little army had already expanded to a thousand people!
"The current Infinite Demon Kill Squad is completely different from before! I used up all of Jiang Ming's Saint Hall branch funds! I even sold the Witch Association remnant Hua Hu to the Disaster Control Bureau for a good price."
Ruo Yun showed a bright smile. "The Bingdai Group really doesn't hold back in this area!"
"That's true." Hyacinth nodded beside her. "My parents also work at the Bingdai Group. Bingdai really shows no mercy to the Witch Association."
Helen, who had just gotten up nearby, also nodded repeatedly. "Yeah, yeah, many Witch Association comrades... no, villains, hate the Bingdai Group to death. But not a single Witch Association member who dared to act against the Bingdai Group ever came back. Some say they have cooperation with both the Azure Cloud Sect and the Disaster Control Bureau."
"Big corporations are like that. They'll definitely place bets on both sides."
Ruo Yun waved her hand grandly, clearly taking on the role of captain of the Central State Demon Squad.
"Set off, South China!"
...
Never expected the version to advance this quickly, already reaching the Seeking Gold Era.
Putting away his phone after issuing the mission, Jiang Si took a deep breath.
Along the way, with Bingtang's explanation, he finally understood the situation.
He originally thought it was the Great Thousand Worlds version: Small Thousand, Medium Thousand, Great Thousand, Super Great Thousand, invincible under heaven, invincible above heaven, then Divine Human, Divine King, Heavenly Venerable, all the way to Primordial Controller, Life-Death Dao Lord, Eternal Emperor Lord, finally Supreme.
But then he was told it's "Dharma Cannot Be Cultivated Together," where countless cultivators jointly seek Gold Nature.
It's known that the so-called Full Bloom rules can roughly be compared to Fruit Positions, one position per slot, possessing uniqueness. When a Full Bloom Great Emperor is in position, it's impossible to continue proving the Dao.
Only after a Full Bloom returns the Dao to Heaven and the Fruit Position becomes vacant can the Dao path continue.
Then the Awakening Moment said a whole bunch of serious-sounding stuff, but in plain terms, isn't it just a Heavenly Tribulation? The whole world faces the tribulation. Success means continuing the Golden Age;
failure means the Dark Turmoil, the End of Dharma Era.
What nonsense about the Profound Yellow World's lifespan countdown and Immortal Pivot, and it's only the kind of castrated worldview with two Fruit Positions.
If your world is a small-scale Immortal Pivot, then doesn't my Azure Cloud Sect become the East China Dao Court?
Then where's my Heavenly Dao?
Oh, the Heavenly Dao still needs me to patch it up.
This copy is just utter trash.
Only elementary school students would play this musical chairs game.
Absolute garbage.
For Jiang Si, without a doubt, the Great Thousand Worlds version was the best version.
Mainly because you could just fight your way through all the way.
He loves watching fights. How can you dominate all ages without fighting?
Once you enter the Seeking Gold Era, you have to consider Gold Nature, Fruit Positions, Intercalary Positions, Surplus Positions, skill combinations, and whether those old guys above will set traps.
The "one radish, one hole" setting makes it impossible to just kill your way through.
It's equivalent to changing from an action game to a puzzle game.
If you can't solve it, you die.
It's the type Jiang Si hates the most.
Straight up disqualifies it as a satisfying novel.
He went home early and lay down, resting for the night.
Keke didn't come back all night. Probably the Disaster Control Bureau was going crazy busy.
The Azure Cloud Sect was actually very busy too, but Bingtang was handling most of it. Bingtang never bothered him with this kind of thing.
He habitually got up, washed up, and casually made some food.
The room without Keke was comfortably quiet.
Living alone really is more comfortable.
Now that Keke has regressed from one-year-old transforming three infants back to the ancestral repayment period, it's best if we can live separately. Hopefully she'll just stay at the Disaster Control Bureau during this time and not come back.
After eating and cleaning up, he watched the TV report on the losses from this incident midway.
Even with Yumo, Bingtang, Qinghua, and the help of the inner and outer disciples, there was still quite a bit of damage.
Even Beihai's civil engineering teams couldn't handle it all at once.
Jiang Si saw that Magical Girl called Mochi, who looked like a dead dog exhausted on a table receiving an interview.
After one or two questions, she started foaming at the mouth, then her whole body slid into a red bucket.
About to roll away with the bucket.
The civil engineering captain urgently chased all the reporters away.
An interview accident, huh...
Thinking this, he turned off the TV. Jiang Si cleared the table, changed his shoes, and planned to go out for a run to the Azure Cloud Sect.
He had been thinking about going to South China.
Heard that extradimensional demons from old worlds mostly appear using South China as an anchor point. There must be many secrets over there.
But South China is too far. Going would probably take a lot of time.
Have to wait until after the college entrance exam.
Anyway, the exam is in a few days. Ultimately, no matter if it's Great Thousand Worlds or Old World Ghosts, extradimensional demons, or whatever messy stuff like Gold Nature and Fruit Positions.
None are as important as the college entrance exam.
Deal with it slowly after the exam. I'll ask Bingtang for some real past exam questions later. Haven't done problems in a long time, probably a bit rusty...
"Jiang Si."
Just as he stepped out, before he could start running, a voice called him.
Jiang Si glanced sideways. Li Yi was standing there holding a letter, looking at him somewhat nervously.
"Are you free right now?"
"Busy."
"Uh, with what?"
"Running."
Li Yi coughed.
She secretly glanced at Keke not far away, who made a small fist-pumping motion.
Just felt speechless.
Thought she wasn't coming home because the Disaster Control Bureau was busy, but turns out she's up to these pointless things.
Li Yi didn't really want to come deliver the letter so urgently either. After all, they just fought last night, and the Bureau was crazy busy.
Keke said if they delivered it any later, they might not find him, so she might as well take advantage of the break to deliver the letter first.
"Um, a, a letter. Hope you can read it."
Jiang Si casually grabbed it and was about to tear it open, startling Li Yi. "Don't! Wait, wait until I leave before reading it. Read it alone, absolutely don't let anyone else see! Just, just like that."
"Oh."
Jiang Si casually stuffed it into his pocket.
Only then did Li Yi breathe a sigh of relief.
The most important thing was finally delivered, and a weight lifted from her heart.
Although thinking about Shion last night also made her feel somewhat uneasy.
But, after all, they're just boyfriend and girlfriend. Surely she can't even stop him from receiving a letter of confession, right?
And...
"Jiang Si, have you seen what Shion looks like before she transforms?"
A long silence ensued.
Even Li Yi felt she might have asked the wrong question, immediately turning to look at Keke for off-field help.
Keke just made a gesture telling her to relax.
Jiang Si thought for a long time, then nodded. "See it often."
See it every day when looking in the mirror.
This time it was Li Yi's turn to not know what to say. "That, that, if Shion isn't actually what you think, or even if her true form is non-human, could you accept that?"
"Fine by me. Same difference."
Is this guy doing it on purpose?
Threatening me?
Jiang Si fell into confusion.
"No matter what." Li Yi took a deep breath before saying, "Your choices have never been just one, you know. Sometimes, you can also pay more attention to other girls around you."
"Oh."
They're all pretty weak. Not much worth paying attention to.
After thinking about it, Jiang Si still didn't say it out loud.
After exchanging a few more pleasantries, Li Yi finally said goodbye to Jiang Si, then jogged back to Keke.
She immediately pounced on her, hugging Keke tightly.
"Scared me to death, scared me to death, scared me to death, Keke!"
"There, there, don't be scared, don't be scared." Keke patted her head. "So amazing, Yiyi! You did it! Delivered the love letter!"
"Hehe..."
Giggling foolishly, Yiyi hugged Keke. As the two walked home, she asked again, "Keke, Keke, if Shion finds out I sent a love letter, she won't get angry, right? She won't kill me, will she?"
"Don't worry, I'll definitely protect Yiyi. Before Teacher Shion kills you, she'll have to kill me first!"
"What if Shion thinks it's double the happiness..."
"Don't jinx it!"
Giggling and play-fighting with Keke.
After gradually calming down, some doubts gradually surfaced in Li Yi's mind.
Last night, before the Calamity Dragon transformed, it was knocked flying by the Magical Girl Killer.
Although it was just a flash and very dark at the time, Li Yi had some impression.
That guy's clothes... he was wearing the same tracksuit Jiang Si usually likes to wear.
Last time on their date, she saw Jiang Si wearing that set too.
But today, Jiang Si actually changed clothes.
Doesn't he almost never change clothes?
It shouldn't be, right...
The moment she thought of the Calamity Dragon transforming into Shion, Li Yi suddenly tightened her grip on Keke's hand.
Keke, who felt the pain, immediately complained, "What are you doing!"
"Sorry, sorry..."
"Even if you're nervous, you don't have to grip my hand this hard. I'm not my brother."
"Go away, stop messing around..."
Looking at Keke's smiling face, Li Yi took a breath.
She swallowed her doubts back down.
Maybe it's just a misunderstanding, or maybe she got it wrong.
Since things have come to this, better not let Keke worry...