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

Chapter 241: The Path of Purple Mansion Cultivation

Central Bureau, Mental Landscape site.

As the Magical Girls returned one after another, more and more Magical Girls gathered at the Mental Landscape site.

Most were very curious about how many people would obtain a Mental Landscape.

The first one to come out was Hongmian. As soon as she emerged, this Magical Girl revealed a look of utter despair.

Without a doubt, she had failed again.

"It's okay, Sister Hongmian! Look!" Iris pointed to a teary-eyed Magical Girl nearby. "Zimo is already preparing for her eighteenth Mental Landscape trial!"

That Magical Girl burst into loud sobs upon hearing this.

Iris vigorously cheered her on: "Sister Hongmian, your success rate has already reached 99.999%! You'll definitely succeed next time!"

Hongmian's face darkened:

"Go scrub the toilets for three days!""No way...."

Just as Iris clutched her head and wailed, she saw the seven true-transmissions of Azure Cloud Sect walk out one after another.

The moment Four Leaf and Six Leaf stepped out, the Iris Band Choir not far away erupted with a thunderous roar:

"Rejoice!"

A majestic symphony immediately followed, leaving everyone present stunned and bewildered.

"Wow, sister, we're just like the Sect Master now!"

"Four Leaf, don't talk nonsense. We're still far from that level... Thank you, everyone..."

The Mental Landscape site was essentially a place of memories and illusions, so for the two girls who possessed the Great Forest Wood,

it was simply too easy.

Next, Dandelion and Thousand-Pinweed walked out separately.

The two glanced at each other, snorted coldly, then turned their heads away, refusing to look at each other.

Following them was Silver Lotus. Although she looked somewhat weary, she still managed a smile.

She even had time to wave and greet others.

After scanning the area and realizing Keke hadn't come out yet, a look of concern appeared on her face.

When almost everyone had emerged, the remaining people gathered near the doors of the last two Magical Girls who hadn't come out.

So when Keke finally emerged from her domain, she got quite a fright.

Magical Girls were all around her, and Silver Lotus immediately hugged her. "You're finally out, Keke! Did you succeed?"

After the initial scare, Keke immediately raised her head, revealing a somewhat smug smile. "Of course I succeeded!"

"You came out so late, I thought you were going to fail."

"How could that be? It was a piece of cake for me."

Actually, when she saw her parents, she really thought she might fail.

Even though she knew it was fake, she wanted to spend more time being affectionate with her family. While enjoying the illusion of her parents, she also kept her mind tightly focused, trying to pull herself out.

Just as she was starting to get completely lost,

the memory the captain had stuffed into her inexplicably surfaced.

If big brother appeared....

So she desperately held on, persisted, and perseverance led to victory!

Finally, she waited for big brother.

And the result was him taking care of her in a very intimate and friendly way...

The trial's illusion instantly collapsed.

From every angle, it was far inferior to the illusion the captain had arranged for her back then.

After experiencing the illusion arranged by the captain, the Mental Landscape site felt like just another ordinary thing...

If she hadn't wanted to talk to her parents, she probably would have come out much earlier.

"After I went in, the result was my sister..." Yiyi whispered. "She told me to use my Mental Landscape on Shion for her sake..."

"So you successfully broke free from the illusion because of that?" Keke also whispered.

"No, it was because the Shion inside the illusion burned my sister..."

"That's too much. I'll talk to Teacher Shion about it later."

"Really? How do you plan to tell her?"

"I'll just kneel and beg her not to burn your sister so quickly next time."

"Tch..."

It seemed everyone saw similar things.

They were all objects of deep concern.

But actually, it didn't feel that difficult. She didn't understand why some people failed...

Over there, Hongmian hung her head low.

Complaining to her friend: "Once I went in, I couldn't remember anything..."

Memory confusion did indeed occur.

"Congratulations, Keke."

Jincha, standing nearby, also asked, "What is your Mental Landscape like? Can you expand it and show us?"

Keke was taken aback and glanced around. "This... isn't it inappropriate to expand it here?"

"It's fine," Jincha explained. "The environment here is very special."

As she spoke, Jincha expanded her own Mental Landscape first.

It was an open space filled with golden threads everywhere.

However, it was compressed around Jincha's body and didn't spread out.

"You can compress the Mental Landscape near your own body. There won't be any problems."

Hearing this, Keke immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Then she expanded her Mental Landscape.

Jincha immediately took a step back because Keke's Mental Landscape was a sea of fire.

An endless, boundless sea of fire, with magma constantly splashing and erupting.

"My Mental Landscape is this."

Keke scratched her head. "I still don't understand how to use it. Do I just drag people in and burn them with magma?"

She actually felt a bit guilty because her Mental Landscape domain had nothing but fire.

And it was all ordinary fire, without any special abilities.

Yet she had expended so much effort to get it...

"Um, you can slowly research your Mental Landscape domain."

Jincha also found it strange. Usually, when a Mental Landscape domain was first obtained, the user should immediately know its usage and abilities.

But Keke seemed to genuinely know nothing.

This Mental Landscape also seemed very ordinary. She couldn't think of any similar ones.

Was it just a simple environmental change?

This kind of ordinary fire probably could only burn ordinary people to death. Even Witches should be able to resist it.

Over there, Silver Lotus also expanded her Mental Landscape.

The Mental Landscape didn't envelop Silver Lotus, but instead spread out continuously along with cherry blossoms.

That's right, Silver Lotus's Mental Landscape was a cherry blossom tree.

But as the cherry blossoms drifted and scattered, the Mental Landscape spread along with them.

Keke stared wide-eyed. "Why is Silver Lotus's Mental Landscape different from ours?"

Jincha sighed and glanced back at the distant Iris. "Didn't she introduce Mental Landscape domains to you?"

"She talked about too many things at the time, maybe we didn't remember..." Keke scratched her head. "She talked too much about her own affairs."

Silver Lotus also nodded repeatedly. "There was hardly any knowledge about Mental Landscape domains."

Jincha sighed deeply, then expanded a portion of her Mental Landscape again and explained:

"Domains are divided into two methods: diffusion and replacement of the personal Mental Landscape."

"Mine and Keke's Mental Landscapes are the replacement type. Replacement-type Mental Landscapes directly replace the space of the real world with one's own Mental Landscape domain. They can instantly pull people into the Mental Landscape domain, giving almost no time to react."

Silver Lotus immediately raised her hand. "Senior Iris's is also the replacement type, right?"

"Correct."

Keke suddenly understood. Back in Beihai, she heard that when Senior Iris expanded her Mental Landscape, even Teacher Shion couldn't avoid it.

This basically meant that replacement-type Mental Landscapes were equivalent to guaranteed hits.

Because even Teacher Shion couldn't dodge it, meaning no one could.

Of course, not being able to dodge didn't mean not being able to break out.

"But the diffusion type is different."

Jincha pointed at Silver Lotus's Mental Landscape domain. The drifting cherry blossoms continuously carried the Mental Landscape domain as it spread, but the speed wasn't fast.

"Diffusion-type domains require time to expand. The expansion speed is slow. Generally speaking, if the opponent is too fast, it's very likely they might escape."

"Wait, doesn't that make diffusion-type pretty useless then?"

Thousand-Pinweed, who had been listening nearby, couldn't help but raise her hand. "With such a slow expansion speed, it would be completely useless against powerful enemies, right?"

Without a doubt, she was also the diffusion type.

Yumo nearby snickered gleefully.

Because she was the replacement type.

Her chances of winning had increased by another ten percent.

It was now one hundred and ten percent.

Jincha also smiled. "Don't worry. Although the replacement type is fast, once a replacement-type Mental Landscape is expanded, it completely seals the Mental Landscape. While it's hard to break from the inside, if someone attacks from the outside, it can be easily shattered."

Now Yumo couldn't smile anymore.

Thousand-Pinweed had many spells. Leaving a spell outside to break the Mental Landscape wouldn't be difficult for her...

"And when Mental Landscape domains are expanding against each other, a replacement-type cannot seal a diffusion-type Mental Landscape domain."

Jincha smiled slightly. "Do you know what this means?"

"It means that when both Magical Girls have Mental Landscapes, even if the replacement-type Mental Landscape domain captures the opponent first, it will eventually be destroyed from the outside by the diffusion-type Mental Landscape due to its expanding range."

Thousand-Pinweed raised an eyebrow and instantly provided the answer. "It holds an absolute advantage."

"Correct. The only advantage of a replacement-type Mental Landscape is its speed. After expansion, the opponent must be defeated before the diffusion-type Mental Landscape extends to the outside."

Jincha looked at Thousand-Pinweed with some admiration. Her reaction was incredibly fast.

The Magical Girls of Azure Cloud Sect, their talents were each better than the last. Then she looked at the Disaster Control Bureau's...

Hmm.

It couldn't be an education problem, could it?

Jincha thought this to herself, listening to the thoughts of the Magical Girls around her, and continued, "Replacement-type is absolutely sealed, diffusion-type is an open domain. It's hard to say which is better. After all, against enemies without domains, replacement-type has an absolute advantage, while diffusion-type can easily let enemies escape, or even be kited."

After all, expanding a Mental Landscape consumes a massive amount of mana. If you expand it and fail to capture the enemy,

it's a huge disadvantage.

Replacement-type Mental Landscape domains don't have this problem, since even Shion couldn't escape.

This also meant that in a battle between two Magical Girls with different Mental Landscape types, the diffusion-type side actually lacked the initiative.

Only when the opponent expanded their Mental Landscape could they follow suit and expand theirs, and they still had to ensure they didn't lose before their own Mental Landscape spread out.

However, in practice, if both sides were of similar skill level, as long as the opponent initiated with a replacement-type Mental Landscape domain first,

the diffusion-type domain side would have an absolute advantage.

After explaining the characteristics of Mental Landscapes, Jincha looked at several of the seven true-transmissions. "Can you also expand your domains to show us?"

"No, we don't want to leak information."

Yumo answered like this.

Jincha over there nodded. "Although that's the case, sometimes Mental Landscapes might have problems and need to be reacquired. So after coming out, it's best to expand your Mental Landscape first and confirm there are no issues."

So Yumo, Thousand-Pinweed, Four Leaf, and Six Leaf first looked at Bingtang, who had come out much earlier.

Bingtang, who was still playing with her hair over there, nodded. "Alright."

Only after she nodded did the other true-transmissions expand their domains.

Four Leaf and Six Leaf's domain contained a bamboo forest.

As for the abilities within, naturally, no one would pry.

Dandelion's was also simple, just a valley of wind.

Thousand-Pinweed's was complex: a massive Hogwarts...

When everyone looked at Bingtang, Bingtang just smiled. "Let's skip mine."

Jincha couldn't say much more, only adding, "If you didn't succeed, you can come again next time it's open."

"Thank you."

Just as everyone was still getting familiar with their own Mental Landscapes,

someone suddenly asked a question.

"What about Azure Cloud Sect's Sect Master?"

Everyone looked toward the last door.

All the Magical Girls had come out. Even Hongmian, who failed, and the other few Magical Girls who didn't succeed had already left.

Now, among all the Magical Girls who participated in the Mental Landscape trial, only one remained who hadn't emerged.

"She couldn't have failed, right..."

Someone said it, no one knew who.

The seven true-transmissions immediately glared fiercely in that direction. Even Thousand-Pinweed, who was usually quite gentle toward the Disaster Control Bureau's Magical Girls, revealed a somewhat icy gaze.

Jincha also immediately suppressed the chatter, quieting the murmuring Magical Girls.

"Should we go rest first?"

To be honest, Shion had been inside for far too long.

So long that failure wouldn't be surprising.

Most importantly, her Personal Reality was strange.

So strange that just her memories alone were almost constructing a real world.

Jincha even sensed spatial fluctuations. Had she already left the Mental Landscape site?

On one hand, she found it strange; on the other, she felt uneasy.

If she really disappeared, never mind the Azure Cloud Sect group causing an uproar—who could stop them...

Right now, Iris was already anxiously spinning in place: "How could this be, impossible, how could this be, impossible, how could this be, has my destined rival flopped? Impossible..."

In the background, the music played by the Iris Band Choir began to accelerate along with the uneasy atmosphere.

1.1x speed, 1.2x speed, 1.3x...

Just as she was thinking of stabilizing everyone first, then slowly figuring out a way to find the Incubators of the Magic Kingdom to solve the problem...

"Everyone..."

However, in the very next second, the music heard in her ears suddenly became harsh and muffled, as if stretched out infinitely, until it abruptly vanished.

All visuals froze.

Jincha was the first to sense the spatial fluctuations and immediately turned her head.

But with just that turn, the surrounding environment instantly changed!

"Mental Landscape,"

A surging ocean, a massive mountain peak.

Atop the cloud-shrouded mountain summit, the Sun was positioned directly overhead, golden rays piercing through the clouds, with myriad rays of morning light.

Most importantly, that set of rules completely different from this world!

It brought an extraordinary sense of abnormality.

"Expansion."

As the final words fell, what should have been a sealed, replacement-type Mental Landscape expanded once more!

Drawing in even the Magical Girls who were watching from afar!

Jincha instinctively wanted to expand her own domain.

Although when the opponent's domain expanded to the outside, it would directly shatter her own domain.

But if she condensed her domain around herself, forming a simple protective barrier, she could ensure her Mental Landscape domain wouldn't shatter for a short time.

However, this wasn't a long-term solution, because the shattering of the Mental Landscape domain was also just a matter of time.

But the moment she tried to expand it, Jincha discovered the problem.

Her Mental Landscape had disappeared.

A chill ran down her spine. Jincha immediately observed the other Magical Girls nearby.

Sure enough, everyone's Mental Landscape domains had vanished at the same moment!

"Wait, why can't I use my magic?"

"What's happening? What's going on..."

Jincha discovered the root of the problem. It wasn't an issue with magic or domains,

but rather, the entire Personal Reality had malfunctioned!

Moreover, this wasn't a simple Mental Landscape domain either!

She carefully observed her surroundings, listening intently to everything she could hear, over and over, until she finally found the issue.

This place was different from other people's Mental Landscape domains.

This was a real world!

And it was another world with different rules, similar to the old world, yet also different from it...

Because the rules of this world could actually suppress a Magical Girl's Personal Reality!

This was the reason their Mental Landscapes couldn't expand, and they couldn't even use magic!

They had already been suppressed by the rules of another world...

However, the seven true-transmissions over there simply knelt on one knee in unison toward that great mountain. Bingtang produced a banner that she had prepared who-knows-when, unfurled it, and let it fly into the vast sky.

Then, a phrase inexplicably echoed in the hearts of all Azure Cloud Sect disciples.

Thus, as if connected by a single mind,

all the disciples followed the true-transmissions, bowing toward the mountain peak and proclaiming:

"Congratulations to the Sect Master on the completion of the Purple Mansion!

"Henceforth, the Great Dao is in your grasp, the path of immortality lies smooth before you!"

"This world shall prosper!"

Only then did Jincha realize with shock that the Sun located atop the great mountain

pierced through the clouds and took a step downward.

The light converged.

And she saw that purple Magical Girl, who had been trapped in the Mental Landscape site for so long without emerging that people even thought she had failed the trial, walking down step by step from the mountain peak.

With each step she took, the world expanded once more.

Until all Magical Girls lost their Personal Realities!

Until that petite figure walked right before her!

Jincha couldn't help but stare blankly. "How did you obtain this Mental Landscape?"

All Mental Landscape domains should be formed by extracting and materializing a portion of ability from one's own inner world. At the very least, they should be related to one's own abilities. This Mental Landscape was completely different...

"Isn't it just directly using one's Personal Reality to erode a world, then carving out a portion of that world, molding it into a Mental Landscape?"

Jincha instantly couldn't hold back:

"That's not a Mental Landscape domain at all!"

Shion slightly raised her head and said proudly, "Compressing a world within one's Personal Reality, crafting it into a Mental Landscape—how is that not one?"

Jincha looked at this Mental Landscape that possessed both the rapid capture of the replacement type and the infinite expansion ability of the diffusion-type domain,

and was momentarily speechless.

"Indeed, it's not called a Mental Landscape domain now."

Shion stretched out her hand and clenched it tightly!

"Now it should be called 【Purple Mansion】—"

The entire world collapsed inward. All the Disaster Control Bureau Magical Girls instantly exited their transformation state!

"—【The Great Unity Yin-Yang Creation Cultivation Mansion】!"