novelraw Chapter 263: A World Where Only Lu Ya Exists
Chapter 263: A World Where Only Lu Ya Exists
When did she arrive, or had she been following Sir from the very beginning?
Why is she here, why did she find me? Was it Sir's intention?
Has he completely given up on me, so he threw me to Shion?
The destroyer of the old world, a humanoid natural disaster, an absolutely undefeatable monster, the Asura of two hands, the purple tyrant, the Death of the new world.
An existence that was distant and absolutely unreachable to her, now appearing right before her eyes.
As a natural disaster, she was an overly exquisite work of art.
But as a destroyer, she possessed a contrast terrifying enough to instill fear.
"If you can't even generate anger and hatred."
"Then give up on revenge."
White Fox had always known what Sir meant by those words.Because, without anger and hatred,
she couldn't even fight against the most basic instinct of a living being—fear.
This wasn't the first time she had seen Shion.
Back in South China, she had seen Shion once.
At that time, Jade Fox Mom had just passed away. While White Fox was sorting through Jade Fox Mom's belongings, she had glimpsed Shion once in South China.
The other party hadn't noticed her; it was merely a chance encounter on the road.
Yet, just from that distant glance, White Fox had formed the thought that she must never get close to her.
She wanted to gain the power to stand before Shion.
She needed even more the courage to stand before Shion.
And before Shion, even inorganic matter couldn't resist.
That instinctual fear.
But this time.
"Shion..."
She uttered the other's name from her mouth until Shion's gaze pressed down on her like a mountain.
Yet this time, White Fox slowly, step by step,
defying her biological instincts, walked towards the terrifying monster.
An overwhelming killing intent pressed against her skin through the air. In a daze, she seemed to see Shion ahead transform into a fifty-meter-tall giant, looking down upon her, insignificant as an ant.
She took a deep breath.
In her heart were the coldness and bitterness she had felt that day after being abandoned by Sir, on the rain-drenched street.
And the emotions that had erupted when Sir finally stood before her again.
Sir told her to remember, that was called anger.
And also, when Sir personally admitted he had killed the Disaster Beasts of the Black Mountain Realm, the feeling that made both her brain and heart stop.
Sir said, that was called hatred.
It began to devour her body from within her pounding heart.
The Blue Silver Grass in her hand began to grow, nourished by fear, anger, and hatred.
Like a towering tree!
Mom, I've become stronger.
Although the process seemed like child's play, and White Fox herself had once doubted whether it was useful,
at this moment, she deeply felt the change within herself.
Sir had never lied to her.
The power to overcome her own instincts, the emotions that nourished her Blue Silver Grass—
every step was the best path Sir had carefully considered and arranged for her.
The Blue Silver Grass wildly entangled towards the purple-haired Magical Girl.
The ultimate move from the Battle Demon Continent.
Blue Silver Entanglement!
As purple flames erupted and Blue Silver Grass scattered, White Fox's figure vanished like a ghost.
Tang Sect footwork, Ghostly Shadow Labyrinth!
Although she didn't have the Purple Extreme Demonic Pupil nor the Profound Heaven Skill, by wrapping Blue Silver Grass around her body and utilizing its elastic properties at critical moments,
she could instantly change her movement trajectory and direction, creating the effect of Ghostly Shadow Labyrinth.
Just as Sir said, don't be constrained by the process; as long as you achieve the same result,
that is the authentic Ghostly Shadow Labyrinth!
Her previous position was instantly engulfed by purple flames.
Swinging through the city sky using Blue Silver Grass like Spider-Man, White Fox's gaze met Shion's.
She successfully escaped the other's attack.
Her heart was pounding at an unbelievable speed.
This feeling of deeply sensing growth and change
caused her body to tremble uncontrollably.
Sparks flying over scorched the Blue Silver Grass. Blue Silver Grass feared fire, but the methods to deal with it were numerous.
Altering the nature of the Blue Silver Grass, preventing the flames from spreading from the edges to the mana core,
while the flames continuously burned and consumed the Blue Silver Grass, the mana within the grass itself also assimilated the flames.
The originally purple flames, while constantly eroding the Blue Silver Grass, gradually turned blue.
Then, instead of destroying the Blue Silver Grass, they became like an enchantment wrapped around it.
This was also a usage method she thought of by reading web novels.
Sometimes, victory in battle requires whimsical ideas and different perspectives.
Especially for someone like White Fox, the biggest limiting factor was insufficient imagination.
This was also why White Fox found reading web novels painful; she had to align her thinking with that in the novels,
continuously imitating, learning, until she developed the same way of thinking during combat.
Now, unleash your imagination, White Fox.
Amidst the chaotic flight of Blue Silver Grass and flames in the air, White Fox, using only Ghostly Shadow Labyrinth to weave through safe zones, suddenly clenched her fist towards that purple figure!
Countless Blue Silver Grass erupted from the ground, instantly trapping Shion within.
Blue Silver Prison!
The Blue Silver prison burning with flames seemed to come alive. Moreover, due to assimilating Shion's mana,
even though Shion continuously released mana outward, she couldn't break the Blue Silver prison immediately.
Following that was the final killing move.
Blue Silver Thrust Array!
In an instant, sharp Blue Silver Overlord Spears filled the Blue Silver prison so densely that not even an ant could survive!
Hanging onto Blue Silver Grass, swaying on a tall building, White Fox breathed slightly rapidly, her gaze fixed on the prison now filled with the Blue Silver Thrust Array.
Then, a pale hand stretched out from the cage, simply grabbing the prison covered in thorns and flames, and gave a light pull.
The entire prison, along with the spears inside, instantly turned to dust.
The purple Magical Girl walking out from the flames and dust looked up at her.
"A complete mess."
After saying that, she took a step forward.
Yet in White Fox's eyes, she instantly disappeared.
By the time White Fox reacted and looked back,
that small hand that had instantly annihilated the Blue Silver prison was already pressed against her face.
Although the mana was as scorching as lava, the skin was terrifyingly cold.
Perhaps it had temperature; perhaps that palm was also soft and tender.
But, in White Fox's perception,
there was only an impenetrable coldness, like an iron pillar in winter.
For a moment, it gave White Fox the illusion
that the one pressing against her head wasn't Shion,
but Sir.
Yet the scorching mana denied that.
"Start over from the beginning."
Her thoughts were interrupted.
A terrifying force instantly pressed down from her forehead. The wind roared in her ears like crashing waves.
She couldn't open her eyes, but she knew she was falling rapidly.
She sighed, the Blue Silver Grass around her frantically snapping.
Yet White Fox had already lost the ability to struggle.
I'm sorry, Sir.
White Fox... will probably disappoint you again.
Her slender figure pierced through several buildings before crashing violently into a distant square!
...
A flurry of impressive moves, but the damage was negligible.
However, Shion wasn't actually very disappointed.
After all, expecting a World Ghost who hadn't felt emotions for a long time to suddenly have a breakthrough wasn't very realistic.
From the results, being able to seriously absorb the essence of web novels, learning about seventy to eighty percent of the Sea God's early skills, and using them fairly well—
enchanting Blue Silver Grass, enchanting the Blue Silver Prison—the performance wasn't actually bad.
After all, White Fox was an ordinary person without a Miracle Seed or Grief Seed. Her only advantage was having a successfully fused Disaster Beast, Blue Silver Grass.
Perhaps because she was a World Ghost, fusing with a Disaster Beast didn't cause any destructive consequences.
But similarly, due to her lack of emotions, both her mana and combat abilities were rather unsatisfactory.
Throughout the entire fight, the most frequently used move was just Blue Silver Entanglement.
Entangling enemies, entangling herself, entangling flames, Blue Silver fire suppression.
Seems she needs to be reminded later: unless it's a biological mother's soul bone or foster mother's soul ring, it's best not to learn from Bai San and make Blue Silver Entanglement the core of your build.
Otherwise, such high-energy operations reminiscent of Peerless Tang Sect thrown into a highlight reel would make anyone unable to hold back their laughter.
She relied too much on Blue Silver Entanglement.
But such foundational issues can be gradually accumulated later.
Now that White Fox is willing to learn and has found a method to draw combat knowledge from web novels, the future looks promising.
Even though she was somewhat satisfied internally, Shion didn't plan to praise her or give her any encouragement.
For White Fox, pressure-based education was most suitable.
As a qualified and excellent teacher, one must know how to teach according to the student's aptitude. With Keke's personality, pressing too hard could easily make her withdrawn. Moreover, she's a Magical Girl; having more positive emotions is beneficial for her growth, though she still needs occasional reprimands to ensure she doesn't get carried away.
But White Fox was different. A girl with a Disaster Beast and a reserved personality must be heavily pressured.
Creating more negative emotions and making her generate resistance and negativity would nourish the Disaster Beast and ensure the growth of corrupted magic power.
Furthermore, the future White Fox would face was different from Keke's.
Shion intended to give White Fox one of the Full Bloom quota slots from the Mirror Kingdom.
Since she intends to seek revenge against me, without Full Bloom power she has no value. Since I said I would cultivate and help her, Shion would naturally give her the best.
Hopefully, she won't disappoint me.
Picking up White Fox from where she fell, the completely dazed girl had fallen into a deep sleep and likely wouldn't wake up for a while.
Shion checked her own Magical Outfit again.
When she fell into this world bubble, not only did she separate from the Calamity Dragon form,
but she also automatically transformed into a Magical Girl.
The transformed state wasn't great; her mana had nearly halved, and her control over mana showed slight fluctuations.
Probably because this world bubble was somewhat abnormal, having unusual interference regarding mana and magic.
Not surprising, and it actually pleased Shion quite a bit.
Because it meant there were more powers and rules different from the Magical Girl world.
There truly was a larger world outside.
Just knowing that was enough for her.
Next, she just needed to find a way to break through the Magical Girl world, then she could leap out of the Profound Yellow World, beyond the void, to higher worlds.
Change maps to play... no, change maps to cultivate.
Although some people always like to disparage changing maps, who doesn't genuinely like the opportunity to start over from scratch, work hard, and show off?
Life doesn't give you a second chance, but web novels do.
Moreover, to stand alone for ten thousand ages, being domineering in just one world is useless.
The tragic scenes of prodigies from small worlds being kicked around like balls in larger worlds are common, not to mention the schemes of Upper Cultivators with pitfalls everywhere.
She couldn't wait to go up, join some sect to mine, then when the sect is besieged and suffers heavy losses, arrive at the perfect moment to save the day, after which the Sect Master kneels on one knee before her, crying and kneeling at her feet, excitedly and urgently shouting:
"Please, Senior Sister Shion, strengthen our Dao Sect!"
If the other disciples joined in the shouting, that would be even better...
A famous scene that once made Shion jump out of bed in the middle of the night. Though expressionless, she threw punches at the air.
For her, being able to personally experience it once would be wonderful.
After all, over here, she was the founder of the Azure Cloud Sect. Not to mention whether Azure Cloud needed strengthening, the roles simply didn't match.
She also couldn't give the protagonist's role to someone else, kneeling on one knee begging someone else to strengthen her Azure Cloud.
She had actually once thought the Disaster Control Bureau might shoulder such a role, helping her stage a petition to strengthen their bureau.
But later, she found it basically impossible.
Because of the Central Bureau's existence, the Disaster Control Bureau wasn't actually at a disadvantage against the Witch Association; in many areas, they suppressed them quite effectively.
For example, when going to South China, there were basically no Witch Association strongholds left. South China mainly dealt with Disaster Beasts. Witches like Yun Ke hid in small corners doing business, running factories, not daring to cause trouble.
They definitely wouldn't be moved to tears, seeking her out to say "strengthen our Disaster Control Bureau."
She still had to fight her way beyond the heavens, to higher worlds to realize her pursuits and ideals, to reach the end of the Heavenly Dao!
World bubbles were reflections of real worlds, also coordinates and guides to other worlds. It meant that by finding the corresponding world bubble, it was possible to trace back to the original world.
Shion's current journey through world bubbles was to find a world bubble that satisfied her, then use Witch Association or Mirror Kingdom technology to trace back to the original world and begin her adventure.
Unexpectedly, during the spatial turbulence, she was swallowed by a world bubble.
The surrounding world bubbles hadn't been very stable, so sudden fluctuations weren't surprising. What was surprising was that the disaster-human realm's world bubble simultaneously split, and the Golden Calamity Dragon King form was immediately isolated outside the world bubble, while she and White Fox were thrown here.
Undoubtedly, it was that Incubator's doing.
Even the Disaster Beast that swallowed the disaster-human realm couldn't be exempt from suspicion.
This was also within her expectations. The reason she easily agreed to help and entered the Disaster Beast's interior to travel through world bubbles was also to see what Xiao Qi and its disaster-human realm intended to do.
She also really wanted the disaster-human realm Disaster Beast's ability to control world bubbles.
After all, she was from a reputable orthodox sect; she wouldn't resort to outright robbery. Of course, she thought of fair trade. But if they did something improper during this process, she wouldn't have to continue playing the righteous gentleman.
Rather, Shion looked forward to Xiao Qi making a move against her.
That way, she could justifiably seize the other's ability. But if the other didn't act, Shion could only try to find what the other wanted for a fair trade...
Dragging the deeply sleeping White Fox along the street.
The entire world was quiet. Besides the sound of walking and White Fox's face scraping the ground, there were no other living sounds.
Moreover, the construction of the buildings felt somewhat familiar, yet she hadn't actually seen them before.
Although the school, alleyways, blocks, and even the square were very similar to the world she had used for her Mental Landscape,
there were many differences—for example, the number of school buildings was wrong, the playground's location was wrong, the street's fork in the road didn't match her memory. She had been there once and was quite familiar with it.
There were some deviations.
Perhaps the timing was wrong.
Past? Future? Or a parallel world?
As she walked while speculating, she suddenly felt a bit strange.
This somewhat similar yet different world bubble was probably specially arranged for her by the Incubator Xiao Qi.
But how did the other know she came from another world? Where did they get the intelligence? From the previous Mental Landscape site? Or simply by locking onto this world bubble based on the nature of the Mental Landscape...
Moreover, this world bubble was absurdly large. Extending her demonic sense, it took a long time to touch the edges.
The more she used mana, the more intricate and detailed the world bubble's buildings became.
Was the entire world bubble, like a living being, continuously absorbing the mana from her body to become clearer?
Shion sneered coldly.
She stretched out her hand and suddenly clenched!
Spatial cracks continuously twisted, tearing numerous fissures in the world bubble! The connection with the Golden Calamity Dragon King outside the world bubble, which had felt faint and indistinct before, suddenly became crystal clear.
No matter what world bubble it was, Great Emperor Mùjǐn's Mental Landscape was effective.
As long as it involved space, there was nowhere Mùjǐn's domain couldn't break through!
Just as she was about to tear space and first leave to check outside,
she suddenly heard a faint sobbing sound.
The crying was somewhat familiar, causing Shion to pause slightly and release her grip on tearing space.
She looked towards the direction of the crying.
Right at the school gate.
Dragging White Fox over, she saw the source of the crying.
A girl was currently sitting on the ground leaning against the school gate, hugging her curled-up legs, her head buried in her knees, softly sobbing. The crying echoed in the quiet world bubble, seemingly audible everywhere.
Shion quietly looked at that girl, not speaking, turning her head intending to continue tearing space to leave.
"Dad!"
A dark Disaster Dragon phantom emerged from within her body. The semi-transparent little black dragon shouted towards her with wild joy.
Shion paused slightly, looking at the little black dragon that had somehow emerged from within her.
Logically speaking, having been suppressed until now, it should have long fallen into permanent sleep...
"It's Lu Ya Mom!"
The phantom little black dragon quickly flew to the crying girl's side, circling around her. "Mom, Mom, don't cry! Little Black will do a somersault for you!"
Saying that, it really did a somersault in the air.
The originally crying girl paused, though her body still trembled slightly.
Then she slowly raised her head, her face tear-stained, evoking pity.
It was none other than Lu Ya.