novelraw Chapter 266: Searching for Lu Ya's Sky, Light and Shadow
Chapter 266: Searching for Lu Ya's Sky, Light and Shadow
A series of world bubble explosions, as if shaking the entire cosmos to the point of cracking!
The massive Disaster Beast crashed through several world bubbles in succession, finally smashing into a gigantic world bubble, barely halting its fall.
Amidst the flying debris of the shattered world bubble, the Disaster Beast struggled and roared, just about to rise.
A pitch-black staff descended, instantly piercing through its skull, nailing it firmly onto the world bubble!
A moment of silence, then the Disaster Beast reared up again, its wounds rapidly healing, forcefully trying to pull the staff of black magic out of its head.
Just then, a meteor streaked along its falling trajectory.
Carrying world-shattering might, it smashed down onto the beast's head once more!
The entire world bubble caved inwards, half of its structure instantly turning to dust. The unstable phantoms within gazed in terror at the calamitous scene above before completely vanishing.
"How cruel."
As Jiang Si grasped the Grief Seed within and looked up, the Incubator sighed nearby."Even if they are phantoms, they possess thoughts and life. With just a bit of power, they could become real people—you're actually committing murder, you know?"
As Jiang Si stomped hard on the world bubble beneath his feet, the remaining half of the world bubble shattered, transforming into dense bubbles drifting through the cosmos. The illusory figures within fell, screaming miserably as they disappeared.
Just as the boy shot towards the Incubator like an arrow from a bow, even more Disaster Beasts emerged from behind the Incubator, swarming towards Jiang Si in a dense wave!
Dragon wings suddenly unfurled!
The first several dozen Disaster Beasts were the first to suffer. The dragon wings, sharp as blades, sliced through the leading beasts like tofu, sending flesh and blood raining down!
The beasts that had managed to circle to the rear, seeing their chance to pounce on the boy.
A gentle sweep of the dragon tail instantly skewered six or seven Disaster Beasts, hanging them on the tail.
Then a fierce whip!
The corpses of those beasts exploded like cannonballs amidst the horde!
The dragon tail elegantly flicked once more, shaking off the blood, leaving behind a clean, sanitary black dragon tail.
"If the previous world bubble angered you, then I sincerely apologize."
He rampaged through the horde of Disaster Beasts, dragon claws constantly piercing and tearing their bodies, the dragon tail occasionally skewering them into strings before whipping them out like projectiles.
All the Disaster Beasts were like thin paper before him.
Easily trampled, shredded, crushed!
Flesh and blood flew everywhere. The roars of the Disaster Beasts gradually all turned into howls of sorrow and pain. The dull sounds of flesh tearing and severed limbs flying soon stained the originally white Incubator pitch black.
Only those button-like eyes remained, calmly and curiously observing Jiang Si.
"I just wanted you to understand my wish."
A dragon claw pierced through the torrent of beast flesh and blood, plunging into my pupil.
Squeezing half my face into a twisted shape, blood flowed from the Dream Incubator's large eye, yet it still spoke calmly:
"You and the disaster-human realm, surely have a connection as special as you and your lover."
As the dragon claw tore the Dream Incubator Xiao Qi apart, its voice finally faded.
The boy stood amidst the blood-soaked wreckage, the draconic features on his body gradually fading.
From killing Lu Ya until now, by his own reckoning, it should have been over ten hours.
Continuously slaughtering Disaster Beasts, even he was starting to feel somewhat weary.
The Azure Sky Dragon Transformation Technique could barely be maintained.
"Roar!"
Another Disaster Beast, with only its head remaining, stubbornly bit onto his ankle.
Cold pupils shifted downward, gazing at the beast head biting him. The originally ferocious beast actually hesitated for a moment upon meeting his gaze.
Before the beast could release its bite, Jiang Si stomped down again, completely crushing it.
An ink-like firework splattered across the world bubble below.
"If you don't like it, that's fine too."
That Dream Incubator Xiao Qi walked out from elsewhere again, this time bringing an astronomical number of Disaster Beasts behind it.
Jiang Si frowned momentarily, looking at the Dream Incubator.
To think it could control so many A-level Disaster Beasts, or perhaps create them?
The Witch Association's highest classified technology was just a little toy for these small things?
"I imagine you must be tired now."
The numerous Disaster Beasts growled lowly, beginning to stir eagerly behind the Dream Incubator again, seemingly endless. "Will you transform into a Magical Girl? If you continue fighting in this form, even you will be overwhelmed by the Disaster Beasts and defeated."
"Losing due to numbers is quite humiliating, isn't it? Your stamina, mana, have all reached their limit..."
But then Jiang Si suddenly extended his hand. A large handful of Grief Seeds appeared in his palm.
Xiao Qi's button-like pupils slightly dilated, as if surprised.
The Grief Seeds from all the Disaster Beasts hunted earlier had been collected by Jiang Si.
Now, grasping them all at once, he instantly refined them!
All turned into the Grain Abstention Pills he had tried making many times before.
He had optimized the pill refining process to be more concise and convenient.
Then, like candy beans, he swallowed them all in one gulp!
Vast Polluted Magic instantly surged again. The boy before them let out a roar more savage and ferocious than any Disaster Beast!
Filled with exhilaration and abandon! Dragon scales, dragon claws, dragon tail, all grew back anew!
"Limit?"
The Calamity Dragon let out a deep laugh. "Want to try again?"
The Dream Incubator Xiao Qi hung its head. "A truly incredible existence."
Scorching black roars washed over Xiao Qi and the beast horde again and again!
......
A moment later.
Everything gradually calmed. The densely packed Disaster Beasts had all turned into wreckage.
No new Disaster Beasts appeared.
Sitting atop the remains of Disaster Beasts, Jiang Si examined the world bubble he had collected.
The brilliantly shifting world bubble was now as clear as crystal. A white dot was very conspicuous within it.
That was White Fox, still enjoying her all-nighter sleep, being a web novel sloth.
Then, he completely absorbed it into his body, trying to cover it with a Magical Girl's Pure Mana.
The world bubble perfectly separated the Pure Mana and Polluted Magic.
It could even achieve dual mana operation without interference—using Polluted Magic to circulate internally within the world bubble while Pure Mana operated externally.
The legendary dual-card, dual-standby.
Holy Light Demon Body!
As everyone knows, the advantages of dual-card, dual-standby are incomparable. After all, after transforming into a Magical Girl, her biggest problem is actually the lack of an equally massive internal source of corrupted magic power.
The Magical Girl state cannot produce large amounts of corrupted magic power, and external Polluted Magic simply cannot integrate into Pure Mana.
After obtaining a world bubble, he simultaneously possessed two massive mana sources, the so-called dual-card, dual-standby, no longer needing to worry about conflicts or production issues between the two types of mana.
If he could also utilize dregs' polluted magic, perhaps he could achieve a triple combination.
The only thing missing now is a large source of dregs' polluted magic.
He needs spirit stones...
Thinking this, Jiang Si, having stored the world bubble, surveyed his surroundings. The many world bubbles were somewhat chaotic.
It's impressive that thing could find a world bubble related to him amidst this sea of stars.
Not only was its perseverance commendable, but it was clear the other party's preparations were thorough.
Jiang Si had never underestimated these Incubators. Their experience and abilities were deeply hidden.
Now, being targeted by an Incubator, having his exquisite disguise seen through early, and having so many countermeasures prepared against him.
This was definitely not someone easy to deal with.
So many Disaster Beasts constantly forcing him to transform likely had some purpose, but Jiang Si didn't need to transform for now.
Should he return to the disaster-human realm now?
Here, numerous world bubbles floated like planets within the vast space, making it difficult to immediately find the separated disaster-human realm.
However, locating the Golden Calamity Dragon King was simple. Without world bubbles blocking the way, the connection with the Calamity Dragon King was crystal clear.
Following the sensation, he soon saw his Golden Calamity Dragon King.
Although he had been kicked out back then, the Golden Calamity Dragon King itself hadn't disappeared.
It had been separated out, and now, amidst this sea of world bubbles, it seemed slightly lost.
And the one controlling the Golden Calamity Dragon King was none other than the Emperor of the Curse Realm.
Around her hovered a group of old world members, all driven in by the Prince to find Simo Tu's ashes.
Naturally, everyone knew the terror of that black world bubble. However, forced by circumstances and still wanting to compete for quota slots, they ultimately took the risk.
Now, with such a massive Golden Calamity Dragon King before them, the group was a bit dumbfounded.
The person isn't even dead yet, how are they supposed to bring back his ashes?
Actually, the Emperor was also somewhat speechless.
Just now, Jiang Si was suddenly swallowed by a world bubble, leaving her to control the Golden Calamity Dragon King.
She didn't know what happened, didn't dare run around, and could only flap her wings in place, waiting for Jiang Si to return.
Because if she ran off, wouldn't it be bad if Jiang Si came back and couldn't find her?
Most importantly, because Jiang Si was suddenly kicked out, even severing their connection, the remaining Polluted Magic in the Golden Calamity Dragon King wasn't much.
The transformation could end at any time.
The Emperor's true form currently had no combat ability...
So, amidst the group, the Emperor could only try her best to stay tense, acting fierce and imposing to intimidate these people.
But in reality, although the Emperor held a high position, she didn't like intimidating others.
With real power, such things weren't necessary. Moreover, she was currently manipulating the Golden Calamity Dragon King's dragon body, so she tried her best to bare her fangs and claws, demonstrating her fearsomeness.
Although in the eyes of the old world members, it looked like Simo Tu had suddenly gone crazy...
The Emperor didn't dare speak, afraid of saying the wrong thing and giving herself away, causing trouble for Jiang Si.
After all, she was just a deceased soul. That Jiang Si was willing to keep her lingering spirit, protecting her from dissipating, was an immense kindness.
From the day the Curse Realm was destroyed, the Emperor had always tried to minimize her presence, only appearing when Jiang Si needed her.
All to avoid Jiang Si seeing her as a burden.
Since she couldn't contribute anything to Jiang Si now, she would try her best not to cause him trouble.
And when the Little Black Dragon returned, Polluted Magic restored, and Jiang Si personally strangled his once best friend, that scene replayed in her mind.
The Emperor fell silent, momentarily feeling a pang of pain.
As if the Little Black Dragon's emotions had been transmitted to her.
Seeing other old world members gradually finding their way over, the crowd surrounding the Calamity Dragon King finally couldn't hold back.
Bringing Simo Tu back was related to the distribution of Full Bloom quota slots. More people discovering Simo Tu meant greater competitive pressure, so these people spoke up again:
"Come with us, Simo Tu!"
As they spoke, holding the cannons, mirrors, and various weapons that had previously repelled the Golden Calamity Dragon King, they issued a final ultimatum to the Golden Calamity Dragon King. "We don't want to be your enemy. Just come back with us to the Mirror Kingdom!"
That Mirror Kingdom cannon was specifically designed to deal with curses, capable of eliminating curses and causing chain-reaction internal explosions.
It was the most lethal weapon against curses. Later, after being purchased by other old world members, they created specialized artillery to deal with the Golden Calamity Dragon King.
Now, having delivered the final ultimatum, they prepared to use full power to blast the Golden Calamity Dragon King down completely!
However, the Emperor, snapping out of the Little Black Dragon's memories, looked down at these old world members.
From this position, she seemed able to understand a little bit.
Jiang Si's feelings when facing the old world.
Massive wings vibrated. Remaining Polluted Magic scattered, pushing back the surrounding old world members.
She momentarily lost interest in continuing the pretense.
Spreading her enormous dragon wings, they almost covered the surrounding tens of thousands of world bubbles. Shadows fell upon the old world people and the numerous world bubbles.
Raising her head in a dragon's roar, one of the covered world bubbles emitted a golden light, responding to the Calamity Dragon King's cry, then transformed into a meteor soaring through the sky to collide.
"Allow me to invite you all as guests to my home."
Some of the old world members surrounding the Calamity Dragon King, not reacting in time, all fell into this world bubble!
Instantly entangled by golden curses, losing their ability to resist.
Someone sharp-eyed shouted a warning: "Be careful, that's the Curse Realm's world bubble!"
The Emperor, manipulating probability, could even summon projections of her own world.
Everyone's expressions instantly changed drastically.
Holy crap, he's bringing out the shit!
Curses are curses, the Curse Realm is the Curse Realm. People aren't prejudiced against power, but the Curse Realm is an exception. Its terrible reputation is unparalleled even across the entire old world alliance!
Hastily avoiding it, their gazes towards the Golden Calamity Dragon King filled with even more disbelief.
You, Simo Tu, to avoid coming with us, you'd even serve up this indescribable filth?
The Emperor: "..."
"Silence!"
A voice resounding through the cosmos, solemn and dignified, carrying the Emperor's majesty and pride!
"You all, know your place, and cease these petty tricks."
Golden curses began spreading towards all surrounding areas. Many old world members, seeing this, immediately activated their weapons.
Countless shells carrying Mirror Kingdom black technology, even steel spears, long swords, densely shot towards the Golden Calamity Dragon King!
"Insignificant weeds, striving in the mire."
Yet all the shells, all the steel spears and long swords, upon touching the golden curses, either misfired, rusted, broke, or veered off course.
"Gathering as a crowd, moving with purpose."
Until the golden curses dyed the surrounding circle of world bubbles and old world members entirely gold.
"Yet know the heavens' height is beyond reach!"
The weapons in the hands of all present old world members instantly exploded!
Golden curses constructed a complete world.
That was a Mental Landscape.
An old world member screamed, "Mental Landscape! Why would a Disaster Beast have a Mental Landscape!"
It's one thing for Magical Girls to have Mental Landscapes, but how could a Disaster Beast have one?
Forget about Personal Reality. You, Simo Tu, are both a Disaster Beast and a Witch Association member. How could you possibly go to the Central Bureau to take the Mental Landscape trial!
Don't tell me you, Disaster Control Bureau Central Bureau, with your honest appearance, are also a traitor!
Not to mention those old world people, even Jiang Si himself watching from the side was momentarily stunned.
He didn't expect her to have actually completed the Mental Landscape.
And that dialogue just now was really good, very immortal-like.
It was just a bit too literary, making the coolness factor insufficient, needing further refinement...
Actually, back in the Curse Realm, the Emperor had already obtained a Mental Landscape with the Incubator's help.
But she could never use it well.
Compressing it into a throne, turning it into a magical artifact, didn't truly represent the Mental Landscape; that was just the roughest application.
All along, the Emperor hadn't thought about how to use the domain, only feeling she wasn't a Magical Girl.
That she couldn't use it.
Until Jiang Si obtained a Mental Landscape.
How to make the Mental Landscape erode reality, how to use magic to maintain the Mental Landscape's boundaries, including the details of its internal construction, the overall mana flow and weaving process.
After personally witnessing how Jiang Si completely mastered the Mental Landscape step by step, the Emperor also re-examined herself.
She realized that being a Magical Girl wasn't important at all.
As long as she possessed a Mental Landscape and passed the Mental Landscape trial, she could expand her Mental Landscape.
And the process of weaving a Mental Landscape with Polluted Magic, Jiang Si had also demonstrated for her.
So there was absolutely no problem.
Within the domain's range, all probabilities changed according to her will.
When probabilities shifted wildly, all the old world members' weapons lost their function.
If there was even a sliver of possibility of destruction, that 0.000... percent chance would instantly become 100%.
Consecutive self-detonations made the old world members afraid to even use their weapons, hurriedly discarding them!
And what the Emperor needed to do was simple.
A breath attack, like lightning, instantly streaked through the crowd!
The change in probability made the breath attack unavoidable.
For a moment, cries of sorrow rose one after another, forming monotonous notes with the explosions in the golden world.
However, the Emperor wasn't planning to kill everyone. She didn't want to waste too much mana either, only locking the mana to a level just enough to make the old world members lose their combat ability.
Then stuffing them into the Curse Realm's world bubble.
Go eat shit together...
Just after knocking everyone into the world bubble, the Golden Calamity Dragon King, swishing its tail, was about to leave.
Suddenly sensing someone touching its wing from behind.
The Emperor jolted in surprise, immediately turning her head, a dragon's breath blasting out!
Yet the other party blocked it with a single hand. The continuous dragon breath exploded in his palm but didn't cause much damage...
"It's me."
The Emperor abruptly closed her dragon maw.
After interrupting the breath, Jiang Si looked at his palm.
It was charred black.
"Sorry."
He didn't dwell on the Emperor's apology, just gazed thoughtfully at the surrounding golden Mental Landscape.
"Finally completed it?"
"Yes, it was actually almost done before." The Emperor said in a muffled voice. "I was just afraid you'd be disappointed. Now it seems my learning was fine."
"Well done."
Hearing these words, the Emperor was also taken aback.
She never thought that one day, as the Emperor, she would hear such words from someone else.
She was reminded of her teacher from long ago.
Jiang Si now indeed counted as her benefactor and teacher.
So, she couldn't help but reveal a faint smile—unfortunately, currently using the Golden Calamity Dragon King's body, perhaps Jiang Si couldn't see it.
"You flatter me."
"Lend it to me to play with... This Mental Landscape might not be fully utilized in your hands. Let me explore it a bit."
"This originally belongs to you." The Emperor said softly. "Whether it's my lingering spirit, my power, or even this Calamity Dragon body, it all belongs to you. Whatever you want, just take it."
Jiang Si didn't say anything, just returned to the Calamity Dragon's body, sensing this Mental Landscape that could manipulate the probability of all things.
He discovered it actually required calculation.
This Mental Landscape was like a program. First, you had to determine what you wanted to do, input the objective. Then you had to compile all executable operations, calculate related items and synergistic effects. For the calculation results, for all with an execution probability greater than 0, rewrite the probability to 1. For those impossible to execute, set to 1.
Finally, output all results with value 1, construct a model, select one based on execution time or other criteria, then proceed with actual operation.
The mana requirement wasn't high, but the computational load was significant. And changing probability was essentially infinitely adding independent variables to make the model's error infinitely approach 0, until 0.
Irrational rapid construction of theoretically optimal perfect models, quick output of results. It was indeed a powerful Mental Landscape.
Once the model was constructed, the same force, matter, could all be instantly destroyed by applying the model.
But, it's too troublesome!
Now there were two Mental Landscapes. One was anti-magic, strengthening one's own power. The other involved massive mathematical calculations from the start, then model construction, then continuously adding independent variables to the model to make the error infinitely approach 0 until 0, thereby manipulating probability. If the target object didn't...
If the target changed, you had to recalculate and reconstruct the model...
Who would choose the second one?
"You play with it yourself."
Jiang Si directly logged off from the Golden Calamity Dragon King account, throwing the Mental Landscape back to the Emperor.
Didn't expect to see the path of 'Advancing into Immortal Cultivation' here...
Scientific cultivation, this unorthodox path, is unacceptable. In the end, one must cultivate the heart.
"Careful, the world bubbles seem to be changing."
Following the Emperor's reminder, Jiang Si surveyed his surroundings.
The world bubbles were indeed beginning to churn. The originally tranquil world bubbles became active. Although Jiang Si still couldn't find the disaster-human realm.
He saw the Incubator Xiao Qi emerge from a world bubble.
Then, from various world bubbles, many, many Magical Girls emerged.
Pulling Magical Girls from the past, future, possibilities to deal with him?
Jiang Si didn't mind, just sat atop the Golden Calamity Dragon King's crown.
The Emperor carried him. Abundant mana poured in, and she roared towards the encircling Magical Girls, slightly hindering their approach.
"Jiang Si."
Seeing a group of Magical Girls about to fly up, the Emperor suddenly said softly, "After this, let's go find Lu Ya, okay?"
Sitting on the crown, watching the Golden Calamity Dragon King sweep back a large swath of Magical Girls with its tail—these projections separated from the world bubbles.
Each possessed astonishing strength, far surpassing those Blooming Magical Girls from the Disaster Control Bureau.
Probably each was a peerless genius of another world, or the strongest of their time.
He really had gotten overconfident.
"What do you mean?"
"If it's a projection from a world bubble, it means she truly exists in some world, right?"
The golden Mental Landscape continuously interfered with the Magical Girls' Magical Outfits and approach speed. The Emperor slowly said, "I want to meet her. I'm curious about what kind of girl she is. I also want to ask her about immortal cultivation."
"So, let's go find her, okay?"
A particular Magical Girl emerged from a massive world bubble.
The blue-purple Magical Girl's gaze locked onto the Emperor, then she flew over.
Countless golden curses altering probability wrapped around her, silently disappearing.
The only thing that could neutralize Mental Landscape magic was another Mental Landscape...
Upon getting close, the Magical Girl suddenly stopped, raising her Magic Wand.
"Mental Landscape Expansion."
The blue-purple Mental Landscape eroded the golden curses, gradually covering the surrounding world.
Transforming into a vast ocean!
Until cracks began to appear in the Emperor's Mental Landscape, Jiang Si finally replied calmly:
"Alright."