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

Chapter 217: Divine Sense Appears!

Sitting on the plane heading home, Keke seriously began to contemplate something for the first time.

She wanted to break through to Full Bloom.

Ever since stepping into Blooming, she had increasingly understood the gap between herself and Teacher Shion.

As long as she remained at the Blooming level, it was impossible to catch up to Teacher Shion.

And the Azure Cloud Sect had added new ranks between Blooming and Full Bloom, as Senior Dandelion had previously told her.

The newly added Lush Leaves, Flourishing Branches, and Cycle Sea; among them, Lush Leaves involved the fusion of three or more types of mana and the control precision of fusion mana.

The Azure Cloud Sect's recognition standard was that each additional type of mana fused equaled one more divine ability, until achieving the minimum requirement of [Five-Colored Mana Perfection], which meant two [Innate Divine Abilities] plus three [Minor Divine Abilities].

Although Keke still hadn't figured out what a divine ability was, what exactly a divine ability was...

But Senior Dandelion said that with her foundation, the path to the Lush Leaves realm was already completely cleared. All she needed to do next was advance.

As a veteran Magical Girl who had been one for two months now, all the effort and sweat she had put in so far had not been wasted.Once she stepped into Peak Blooming, she only needed to accumulate mana quantity to reach Great Perfection, and then she could seamlessly step into Lush Leaves.

Because multi-mana fusion had already been achieved early with the captain's help, and her progress in the control precision of fusion mana had also been significant.

Most of the Azure Cloud Sect's disciples were also stuck at the step of mana fusion.

As for Cycle Sea, as long as one could obtain a Mental Landscape, they qualified to step into Cycle Sea.

Now that she had already obtained the trial qualification for a Mental Landscape, it meant that as long as she succeeded, she would be half a step into Cycle Sea.

"Borrowing the Dream Core to fuse with another's Personal Reality can help you step into Full Bloom. However, doing so might cause another Magical Girl to lose her power. Moreover, if the eroding nature of your Personal Reality is too high, leading to the overwriting of the Personal Reality, it could result in the death of the other Magical Girl."

"So you must be very careful when using it. Of course, if the Magical Girls of the Azure Cloud Sect use it, they probably wouldn't have much psychological burden."

This was the final thing the Incubator from South China said to them.

Keke didn't understand why outsiders had such misconceptions.

They believed that the Magical Girls of the Azure Cloud Sect disregarded life, killed innocents indiscriminately. Even if not that, they thought them emotionally indifferent, willing to sacrifice others' lives for power, and capable of giving up everything in pursuit of strength.

Although in Keke's eyes, the Magical Girls of the Azure Cloud Sect were indeed a little cold, not as enthusiastic and easy to get along with as the Magical Girls from the Disaster Control Bureau, and they were also quick to deal lethal blows when fighting members of the Witch Association.

But everyone in the Azure Cloud Sect was very gentle...

Probably.

At least in Beihai, everyone in the Azure Cloud Sect paid great attention to the safety of civilians. Although they rarely paid attention to property damage, that was unavoidable when Magical Girls fought.

Finding reasons for everyone in the Azure Cloud Sect in her heart, after all, because of Shion, she held great fondness for the Magical Girls in the Azure Cloud Sect, even feeling they were all her seniors who deserved respect.

After all, everyone was very capable and followed the rules, good people who, just like Teacher Shion, didn't like to show it obviously, pretending to be fierce and scary.

In reality, as long as you didn't do bad things, the Magical Girls of the Azure Cloud Sect wouldn't harm others.

But regarding the misunderstandings and prejudices within the Bureau, Keke also knew there was no way to change them.

Even now that the Azure Cloud Sect and the Disaster Control Bureau had reached an official cooperation, the prejudices and misunderstandings about the Azure Cloud Sect couldn't be completely overturned.

Human prejudice was like that.

Once the first wave of fixed impressions was formed, it was hard to change. People always said rumors stop with the wise.

But in fact, they don't stop with the wise; they stop with those who take things seriously. Because only those who truly take things seriously can seek out enough information to piece together the truth beneath the rumors.

So-called rumors are like that. Whether you believe them or not, whatever you're thinking, when you don't expose them, the rumor has already succeeded.

The rumor that left the deepest impression on Keke was one that circulated when she was little, the claim that MSG, as an industrial product, was toxic. After it was clarified, she always thought this rumor had disappeared.

Until not long ago, while browsing online, she suddenly saw someone talking about the safety and hygiene of chicken bouillon compared to MSG, saying MSG was phased out because it was toxic. Although some people refuted it, there were still a bunch of people who believed this rumor.

Keke then realized that rumors don't disappear just because they're clarified. Rumors are like viruses; once spread, they always linger forever in certain places.

Therefore, the attacks and slander against the Azure Cloud Sect could only be suppressed through official cooperation, preventing these rumors from spreading into the mainstream. As for the rest, even the Disaster Control Bureau and Magical Girls were powerless.

Someday, at the very least, Magical Girls would understand the goodness of the Azure Cloud Sect, right...

Taking out the Miracle Seed Leia had given her, the white seed transmitted a strange feeling. She seemed able to hear Leia's voice.

A Miracle Seed retaining a Personal Reality was somewhat similar to a Magical Girl's avatar, like another self?

After leaving South China, the voice from this seed became increasingly clear, making Keke curious.

Carefully controlling her mana, gradually permeating the Personal Reality within this seed, Keke finally clearly heard what the other party was saying.

"Sister..."

"Sister, is that you? Sister, have you come to pick me up?"

Listening to Leia's voice, she felt a bit strange but didn't think much of it. She was just about to reply that she was Keke, her friend.

However, the entire plane suddenly shook!

The tremor was very strong. Even several people who had fastened their seatbelts were shaken, nearly hitting the seatbacks in front.

Sitting next to Keke happened to be a mother with her child.

Holding her daughter now, she was trembling.

"Currently experiencing mild turbulence. Please do not walk in the cabin. All services are suspended."

Flight attendants kept walking through the plane, reminding passengers. However, the shaking showed no sign of stopping and was even intensifying!

The daughter in the mother's arms beside the seat started crying. The mother kept comforting her in a low voice while apologetically glancing at Keke.

She seemed uneasy about her daughter disturbing others.

Keke also fumbled in her arms, pulling out small gifts she had brought from South China for her big brother and others at the Bureau.

Among them was a piece of crispy candy. Keke lowered her head and handed it to the terrified little girl.

The little girl, who had been crying, couldn't help but open her mouth and take a bite when Keke brought the sweet crispy candy to her lips.

Then, with tears still hanging, she revealed a somewhat silly smile.

Keke simply handed all the crispy candy to the little girl.

"Thank you, big sister." This not very old mother expressed her gratitude.

Keke just waved her hand, too embarrassed to say anything.

She just looked at this crybaby little girl and remembered her former self.

She had reached the age of being a big sister now...

Keke, who had just turned twelve not long ago, thought with such distress.

She always felt she was just a little kid, needing her big brother's protection, even unable to live independently without her big brother in daily life...

For a moment, thinking about growing a little older and having to live independently away from Jiang Si, a sense of resistance arose in her heart.

Big brother wouldn't abandon me...

And once I also break through to the level of Full Bloom, both big brother and Teacher Shion will look at me with new eyes, right? Maybe they'll be the ones who can't do without me.

Musing randomly in her heart, the Personal Reality in the Miracle Seed in her hand unconsciously began to partially blend with her own Personal Reality.

Keke was stunned. She had tried several times before and found she couldn't fuse with the Personal Reality in the seed, which was why she had left it aside.

Now, somehow, it was fusing so smoothly.

However, when she started considering the fusion, the Personal Realities began to repel each other again.

Just now, I was thinking about big brother and Teacher Shion. The wish of my Personal Reality is about a future with them...

Realizing this, Keke immediately began envisioning a future life with her big brother and Shion.

Sure enough, her Personal Reality started fusing with Leia's Personal Reality again.

After two Personal Realities achieved synchronous resonance, they could fuse this smoothly...

Not devouring, not overwriting, but purely like friends understanding and accepting each other. Eventually, the two Personal Realities harmoniously fused together and could separate at any time.

Keke also sensed the sole wish within Leia's Personal Reality.

To be with her sister forever.

On this point, Keke felt the same.

She also wanted to live with her big brother forever.

That's why the fusion was so easy.

Personal Realities must share the same wish to fuse this safely and smoothly.

However, Keke didn't dare to confirm this based solely on this instance. She would try again with Yiyi later.

"Outside, what is that?"

While still immersed in the Personal Reality fusion brought by the Miracle Seed, Keke suddenly heard the mother beside her ask softly.

Keke instinctively turned her head to look. Outside the plane window, in the distance among dense dark clouds, a long, immense rift stood grandly across the sky!

It looked as if the sky had been split open. This spectacular scene caused many passengers on the plane to exclaim.

Immediately afterward, a fierce gale swept over from the distance!

The entire plane shook again, and this time it was more severe. Something seemed to have gotten caught in the propeller. The plane's altitude and speed began to noticeably drop!

"Attention all passengers, the aircraft is entering an unstable air current zone. For your safety, please return to your seats immediately and fasten your seatbelts!"

As soon as the flight attendant finished speaking, another, even more violent shake occurred!

Then, something slammed heavily against the window!

Keke took a look but didn't have time to identify what it was before that thing smashed through the plane window. The fierce wind instantly swept out several people who hadn't fastened their seatbelts!

Luggage and glass fragments flew around the cabin. Screams and cries rang out.

And the mother beside Keke was hit in the head by a piece of luggage during the shaking. Dizzy, she loosened her grip, and the child in her arms slipped out from the seatbelt!

The mother, knocked unconscious, soon struggled to open her eyes. Widening her eyes, she immediately unfastened her seatbelt and was about to lunge toward her child!

Until a warm, crimson-red flame rapidly spread throughout the entire cabin.

Glass fragments, luggage, even the people who had been swept out were all engulfed by this blazing crimson fire!

All the noise quieted down within these flames. Passengers, flight attendants, even the co-pilot who ran over from the cockpit all looked toward the source of the fierce fire.

A red Magical Girl floated in the sky. Those crimson-red mana strands, like safety airbags, wrapped around the several passengers who had been swept out and much of the luggage, even patching up the smashed window.

Restoring safety and calm to the entire cabin.

Urgently, the swept-out passengers and luggage were sent back one by one through the mana-patched gap.

"It's Magical Girl Ruri!"

Someone recognized her, and then cheers and applause erupted in the cabin.

However, Magical Girl Ruri seemed a little embarrassed. She just raised a finger to her lips, making a "shh" gesture.

Thus, the cabin returned to quiet.

The flight attendants, while looking at the red Magical Girl outside, arranged for everyone to sit back down properly. The gap temporarily blocked by mana was also temporarily sealed with other boards.

Keke did not re-enter the plane but kept circling outside it. After using her mana to help maintain the operation of the propeller that had sucked in Disaster Beast remnants, she also checked around for any other victims.

Passing by her original seat, she saw the little girl waving and laughing at her, and her mother who kept crying, wanting to kowtow to her.

She felt a little shy.

Thinking in her heart that it was good she listened to the Disaster Control Bureau and took this flight; otherwise, everyone would have been in danger.

But generally, flight routes were reported to the Disaster Control Bureau for safety checks. If there was interference from Magical Girls or Disaster Beasts, they would usually reroute to avoid risks.

And Disaster Beasts generally didn't attack in the sky, since there were no people up there, nor the negative emotions Disaster Beasts needed.

Looking far toward the place where the sky had been split open, the sea below had also been parted by that sword slash.

In this awe-inspiring scene, two girls the size of sesame seeds were incredibly conspicuous.

She used her mana to probe that area, and both people there looked over.

Sect Master Teacher, and another one she didn't know, wearing clothes like a little witch, probably a Magical Girl from the Azure Cloud Sect.

So it was Sect Master Teacher who suddenly caused such a big commotion...

Although essentially she was killing Disaster Beasts, the Disaster Beast remnants flew all the way over here, nearly causing the plane to crash.

Be more careful...

Muttering in her heart, Keke didn't go over to greet them. Instead, she kept watch beside the plane until it landed at the airport in Beihai, and only then did she leave.

Watching as many people got off the plane, waving at her gratefully, seeing the excitement and admiration in those girls' eyes...

As Keke turned and flew away, a small sense of accomplishment welled up in her heart.

Perhaps this was the reason she became a Magical Girl...

She needed to become even stronger.

If Teacher Shion didn't pay attention, then she would be the one to save them.

Those people whom Teacher Shion might not notice, who were easily hurt.

If the reason for becoming a Magical Girl was just this, that wasn't bad either.

Keke didn't want to change the world, nor did she have the ability to save the world. Those were probably things only beings like Teacher Shion could do.

Keke only needed to save the people she could help.

So, on the way back, the little girl about to enter ninth grade happily circled in the sky before landing back at the Bureau.

...

"Huh, a red Magical Girl?"

Thousand-Pinweed gazed into the distance at the departing plane and the Magical Girl escorting it, saying curiously, "A Magical Girl from the Disaster Control Bureau? But that was amazing just now, the mana quantity and mana control, like one of our Azure Cloud Sect disciples..."

Shion also withdrew her gaze, "Don't meddle in other people's business."

"I was thinking if she could be my first disciple for my branch sect..."

"You can try."

For some reason, she sensed danger from the Sect Master's narrowed eyes.

So Thousand-Pinweed settled down.

After all, although the Sect Master had seemed very angry earlier, she basically hadn't been serious.

She could feel it was at most just fooling around; even if she took action, she wouldn't hit that hard.

But now, she clearly sensed a hint of ominous danger emanating from the Sect Master.

Although Thousand-Pinweed was called the most rebellious true-transmission disciple by everyone in the Azure Cloud Sect, she never truly wanted to anger the Sect Master...

She just hoped that the things she liked could also be recognized by the Sect Master.

Like a child wanting to share what they like with their parents to gain approval.

Ultimately, it all started because when she first learned her initial magic by imitating Harry Potter,

the Sect Master noticed her for the first time.

And praised her with one sentence.

Well done.

Before that, the Sect Master had never spoken a word to her. She was just a nobody in the sect.

Those cultivation methods in the sect she couldn't comprehend, and she couldn't advance through them at all. But because Thousand-Pinweed loved Harry Potter so much,

imitating Harry Potter actually led to rapid progress.

Initially, she also wondered if this method was too unorthodox, whether she would be ostracized and isolated by everyone in the Azure Cloud Sect.

But the Sect Master just said, if you can advance, it means it's a valid path, no need to avoid it.

That's why Thousand-Pinweed's obsession with Harry Potter grew deeper, and she began wanting everyone in the sect to also appreciate the beauty of Harry Potter.

Frankly speaking, this so-called rebelliousness was still due to Lady Bingtang and Lady Shion's indulgence toward her.

So she often did things others saw as rebellious. In truth, it was because Thousand-Pinweed knew the Sect Master and Lady Bingtang didn't mind.

And now, she sensed that the Sect Master might actually get angry.

Immediately, she became more well-behaved than anyone else.

Sitting on her broom like a model student, "Well, back when Lady Bingtang asked us to help guard several places where old world enemies were likely to appear, after I repelled a few enemies, I found that the gray-white dregs' polluted magic had infected some people. So I thought about helping everyone recover and used Reparo..."

"What nonsense."

"It's a spell to repair damaged items."

"You don't learn our ancestors' stuff, just useless foreign words."

"Who says it's useless, Sect Master? I've always read the original Harry Potter; I'm first in English in my grade..."

Shion glanced at her, "Who asked?"

Thousand-Pinweed just said "Oh" and continued, "Anyway, this magic's ability is to restore destroyed things to their original state. Then I discovered that when this effect is applied to Pure Mana, it repairs the Pure Mana back into dregs' polluted magic..."

Before she finished speaking, she saw the Sect Master directly use Reparo (restore to original state).

Not surprising. If the Sect Master wanted, she could use every disciple's ability in the Azure Cloud Sect.

After all, the purpose of establishing the Azure Cloud Sect was for the Sect Master to explore all possibilities of Magical Girls...

She saw that when Pure Mana was continuously restored, initially there was no reaction.

She didn't know how much time passed. Even the seawater beneath their feet began boiling again. Shion's always bright purple mana.

Finally, for the first time, lost its color.

Then it became pure white. Next, gradually turned into the gray-white dregs.

Shion looked at the mana in her hand and remained silent for a long time.

She finally understood why the Magical Girl Killer back then could break through her Personal Reality to pollute her mana, turning her mana into gray-white dregs.

Because that wasn't pollution; it was restoring the mana to its original state.

The gray-white dregs were the most fundamental form of mana.

Pure Mana and Polluted Magic were the forms after polluting the primal mana...

Polluted Magic, Pure Mana, dregs' polluted magic...

Now she had finally touched a corner of the Upper Cultivation.

As the saying goes, when the Lower Cultivation thinks, the Upper Cultivation laughs.

Who would have thought she was also part of the Lower Cultivation, deceived until now.

Although she had always been able to feel that the dregs' polluted magic had a higher status than Pure Mana and Polluted Magic, even Fusion Mana was slightly inferior.

Because it was Primal Mana!

Pure Mana and Polluted Magic were actually its lower forms, just like spiritual energy in the greater world and battle qi in lower planes!

The true form of Primal Mana was actually Source Energy!

An ancient sage made a move, polluted the essence of Source Energy, concealed the secrets of Source Energy, cutting off this world's path to ascension!

Without Source Energy, is it truly impossible to cultivate to Battle Emperor?

Hard to say.

Because the essence of Source Energy is spiritual energy from the greater world, immortal essence from the immortal realm, etc. And now that Source Energy has been polluted, its status lowered, causing only battle qi and true qi to exist in this world, namely Pure Mana and Polluted Magic.

Meaning it completely locked the upper limit for those in the Lower Cultivation who couldn't perceive the truth of this matter.

Another level of Perception Obstruction.

Fortunately, she had now finally stepped into some perspective of the Upper Cultivation.

Backed by the entire web novel world, she had already recognized the existence that did this. Undoubtedly, a true Dao enemy.

Then...

Further releasing more Pure Mana, transforming it into Primal Mana.

Next, Shion also drew a large amount of Polluted Magic from the God-Inscribed Throne.

Then Primal Mana, Pure Mana, and Polluted Magic were fused in the optimal ratio!

Black and purple intertwined mana all poured into the gray-white dregs, but no expected change occurred.

Shion's heart stirred. A powerful consciousness accompanied by her Personal Reality was injected into the dregs.

Then, she discovered everything around her, her vision changed.

It was like demonic sense expanding, yet more transparent than demonic sense.

The entire sea, even every creature on the seafloor, clearly appeared in her mind! She freely spread it out until she saw Keke landing in Beihai with the plane!

The previous limitation of demonic sense by Polluted Magic in the Curse Realm would never happen again. Her consciousness could penetrate any mana, reaching all places it could expand to!

No matter what things existed in the old world, they could no longer escape her eyes.

This was—

True Divine Sense!