novelraw Chapter 268: Suppressing the Supreme Being, Full Bloom Appears in the World
Chapter 268: Suppressing the Supreme Being, Full Bloom Appears in the World
"I revere Third Young Master."
Standing atop the mountain peak, the sea churned with turbulent waves, the sound of the tide echoing wave after wave through the strait.
Countless Magical Girls stood bewildered on the sandy beach by the coast, listening to the long, desolate, and somewhat lonely roar of the waves.
Only upon hearing a voice did the Magical Girls look up. A young man sat alone on the mountain peak, letting out a long sigh.
"Who is Third Young Master?"
Someone asked blankly.
"Xiyue." The young man sighed slightly. "Wielding a trident, undoubtedly, she is the Sea God. Without her pressure and purification, how could I have advanced further, mastering the advanced applications of the Mental Landscape."
Indeed, for Jiang Si, it wasn't that he hadn't thought about using his physical body to employ a Mental Landscape.
With the space Dao Seed of Great Emperor Mùjǐn in hand, logically, he could have copied the homework directly. But later, he discovered that when Mùjǐn recreated her Mental Landscape, she used an ultimate spatial compression technique.
Decompression was Mùjǐn's lie; trying to copy the path was impossible.Thus, even if he wanted to expand a Mental Landscape, he had to rely on the power of a Magical Girl.
But after a battle with Xiyue, his understanding of the Mental Landscape domain became increasingly clear, until he found a method to use the Mental Landscape with his physical body.
The grace of recreation is like Third Young Master's to the Gu Master!
May everyone meet their own Sea God.
Thinking this, Jiang Si gazed into the distance. When he carved out this Mental Landscape, he forgot to steal some light; it was pitch black. Now, the dim sky reflecting dazzling phantoms compensated for this, illusory like a dream.
One glowing bubble after another, a motley mix of colors, wrapped in primordial purple energy, as if possessing immortal power.
How similar this scenery was to the Immortal Ancient Secret Land!
Forgetting this, forgetting that, forgetting the true master, but the heart of the Concealing the Heavens trilogy endures forever!
Originally thinking he was just coming to serve as a Full Bloom's personal bodyguard, he never expected to mistakenly stumble into the Three Thousand Provinces' Immortal Ancient War. Feeling moved, a verse of poetry escaped his lips:
"Three thousand green stones, the ultimate leap, transforming all enemies, burying them in the Yellow Springs."
"The ancient, mottled realm ignites the divine flame, once more hailed as the Six Crown King of past and present!"
"This one, in honor of Third Young Master!"
The Magical Girls at the foot of the mountain exchanged glances. Although they didn't quite understand the meaning of the verses the young man recited,
"Don't you think he's so cool?"
"So cringey."
"He's my type..."
"Be serious! He's an enemy!"
Ignoring the clamor of the ancient freaks below, Jiang Si, communing spiritually with his ancestors, looked at the sky but frowned slightly.
Those clusters of small world bubbles, mottled with an ancient air, contained the breath of time, accumulated secrets from ancient times to the present. Through the barrier of the Mental Landscape, they now filled his sky like stars.
Not the stars of his own expressive domain, but those belonging to the numerous supreme Magical Girls, the Immortal Ancient ruins.
A chilling voice sounded.
"My cultivation Purple Mansion, how can it tolerate the light of a grain of rice?"
Thus, Jiang Si stretched out his hand. Purple mana surged, and then, the sky cracked open.
Revealing a pitch-black, abyssal slit in the sky!
All the Magical Girls looked up in horror, but none could fly—within this Mental Landscape, the fantasies of all supremes had their wings broken; no miracles were born.
Heavy gravity forced every Magical Girl to stand obediently on the ground!
Then, they saw the young man's fingers hook onto something like a thread within the dark slit and give a gentle pull.
A blazing white sun suddenly appeared in the world!
As if forcibly dragged into this world from outside by the young man, it fell into the seam where sea met sky and slowly rose.
A man-made sunrise!
The majestic morning sun made the sea waves churn with golden, sparkling ripples.
The previously chattering Magical Girls all fell silent. Xiao Qi, especially, lost her previous composure and calm.
Could he already transform his Mental Landscape into true reality?
A Magical Girl's Mental Landscape is the manifestation of her Personal Reality, the erosion and alteration of the world by a Magical Girl's self-consciousness.
But the Mental Landscape before them was a real world!
A Magical Girl's magic would also be engraved within the Mental Landscape domain, with no mana cost or cooldown, usable anytime, anywhere.
Iris's gravity, the Golden Calamity Dragon King's probability manipulation, and Xiyue's dissolution were all like this.
However, this Mental Landscape did not have any magic engraved within it.
Was this really a Mental Landscape? Did this guy directly create a world using his own Mental Landscape?
Incredible.
Although many incredible, irrational things always happened around this young man.
Still, it could not understand.
Why could this Mental Landscape expand at will, yet also possess a replacement-style sealing characteristic?
These two characteristics were perfectly combined in this Mental Landscape.
Even without any magic or abilities, this Mental Landscape was enough to remain undefeated in Mental Landscape combat.
More importantly, this Mental Landscape was not without ability.
After Jiang Si's Mental Landscape expanded, all other Mental Landscapes had already shattered.
Not because of sealing-style or expansion-style destruction.
Simply because, within this Mental Landscape domain, all miracles and magic had disappeared.
Mana and Magical Outfits still existed, not roughly stripped away. But trying to use mana to cast magic was almost impossible, let alone expanding a Mental Landscape domain.
The miracles achieved through Personal Reality were all erased here.
The peak Magical Girls, who originally possessed powerful magic and terrifying Mental Landscape rule power, had now become warriors who could only attack with the most primitive fists.
The good news was that basic things like mana enhancement could still be done.
The bad news was that even with mana enhancement, these Magical Girls, the strongest in their own worlds...
...were still no match in hand-to-hand combat against Jiang Si, who didn't even use mana...
Xiao Qi looked up, watching the young man on the mountain peak gradually stand up.
The strongest Magical Girl, yet a person who negates miracles?
"We need to think of a way to escape."
At Xiao Qi's suggestion, a Magical Girl shook her head. "Where can we run to?"
That was Magical Girl Sanshi, who once fought alone against five S-level Disaster Beasts, each extremely terrifying, yet she fought one against five.
The red Magical Girl Sanshi bumped her fists together, then laughed cheerfully. "Surrendering without even fighting isn't my style. If you want to run, run quickly. I'm going first!"
With that, she bent over and leaped upwards with force!
Under the effect of mana enhancement, Magical Girl Sanshi's jumping height was not low, charging directly towards Jiang Si!
Then, the mountaintop above began to crumble.
Rubble exploded into the sky. At the moment of the spray, Xiao Qi realized this wasn't caused by the red Magical Girl's impact.
It was Jiang Si jumping down from the mountain. The recoil from his leap alone made the entire mountain shake, nearly collapsing!
In the instant Sanshi and Jiang Si crossed paths, time seemed to stop.
A tough, rough palm covered her face. Sanshi was stunned, finding herself completely unable to move!
"Have you seen the seabed?"
She only had time to hear this one question.
No, I have thalassophobia.
She really wanted to reply like that.
However, the other party didn't give her a chance to reply. Monstrous force poured into her entire body starting from her head, using her head as the focal point of descent, plummeting downwards at an even faster speed!
The back of her head touched the sea surface first, hard as concrete. By the time it smashed through the sea surface, her whole head was already buzzing.
Jiang Si's monstrous force transmitted through her body, violently splitting the sea in two!
The Magical Girl Sanshi, cutting through the seawater, carved out a deep trench before finally crashing into the deepest seabed!
The supreme Magical Girls, who originally held a bit of hope thinking they might still be able to fight, all fell silent in unison.
Although they didn't gasp in shock, each one trembled.
After losing magic, they had to engage in hand-to-hand combat with this bizarre creature...
Xiao Qi also sighed, stepping back.
Even after such prolonged combat and massive consumption, judging from his movements, it seemed to have almost no effect on him.
Infinite stamina?
Just as the other Magical Girls also thought about retreating, a sudden icy aura enveloped everyone.
They all stopped in their tracks, then held their breath.
The young man who was just in mid-air.
In one breath, arrived at the center of the Magical Girls.
The out-of-place young man stood among the girls, cracking his neck. "Next Ten Crown King, come."
This place is the Burial World, or perhaps the Immortal Ancient.
Remnant souls reviving, heroic spirits appearing, ancient freaks, supreme first-generation talents.
How many emperors throughout history! He will suppress all enemies!
However, the Magical Girls showed no hesitation, turning together to strike Jiang Si with fists, feet, and even Magic Wands!
But facing the young man before them, mana enhancement seemed utterly feeble.
With just one foot stamping on the ground, the sand and dust surged up like a tsunami!
An invincible aura crushed over them. All the Magical Girls were blasted away amidst the flying sand and dust!
Some flew like bowling balls across the sea surface, skipping several times before plunging into the water. Some embedded directly into the mountain body. Some soared into the sky until they were out of sight. Some were directly crushed and obliterated by the sand and dust...
Yet, some supremes still stood firm!
That was a white Magical Girl most skilled in close combat. With Magical Outfit enhancement, using softness to overcome hardness, like a dancer, she continuously avoided Jiang Si's almost invisible attacks through light and agile movements.
Brave enough to dominate the world, capable of suppressing all demons of the same rank!
Xiao Qi immediately looked at that Magical Girl with anticipation.
Yes, among Magical Girls, there were also those skilled in close combat.
This Magical Girl AA, once also crowned with the title of strongest, was most outstanding for her hand-to-hand combat ability.
She mastered the magic of tempering the body with mana, achieving the extreme physical body, further enhanced by her innate magical eyes.
With formidable strength, extreme speed, terrifying defense, and flexibility, even when surrounded by a hundred peak A-level Disaster Beasts, she didn't need to use magic.
Seventeen-thousand-year giant cicada, three-headed hellhound, tyrant monster, cosmic dinosaur... She could beat numerous A-level Disaster Beasts to a pulp relying solely on her fists!
Seeing Jiang Si's punch land on the girl's body, only to be deflected by exquisite technique, spinning like a top on the beach, then turning to kick Jiang Si back.
The considerable force made Jiang Si's feet drag two deep trenches on the ground, his calves almost sinking into the sand.
Having gained the upper hand with one move, two silver symbols flashed in Magical Girl AA's pupils as she said somewhat proudly, "I'm also very good at close combat!"
Xiao Qi also nodded. "Yes, your Mental Landscape domain is uniquely useless against her. Jiang Si, don't underestimate Magical Girls..."
Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Si had already charged over again!
As he ran, the sand on the beach was swept up as if by a gale!
Under the impact of immense force, the white Magical Girl flew out like a feather.
Just as she was about to dissipate the impact force and distance herself from the young man, her ankle was suddenly grabbed.
Xiao Qi's words cut off abruptly, as if her neck had been choked.
Magical Girl AA was dumbfounded. "Wait..."
Immediately after, her whole body was swung up like a rag and smashed hard into the ground!
The tremendous force, even with sea sand as a buffer, still caused the earth to fracture, even making the mountain peak shake once more.
AA's eyes instantly turned red with pain, looking like she was about to cry, tears welling up as she said, "Actually, I'm better at magic..."
But before she could catch her breath, the young man raised his arm again, smashing her against the ground repeatedly, frantically!
At first, she thought about using falling techniques and mana enhancement to lessen the impact, but after just two or three smashes, she passed out completely, letting the young man drag her by the ankle and fling her around randomly.
Only after he had his fill did Jiang Si lift her up for another look, confirming her transformation had been dispelled, then tossed her aside.
By this time, when not a single Magical Girl remained standing, the rubble that had sprayed from the mountaintop finally began to fall into the seawater and onto the sand.
Xiao Qi looked up. The sound of the waves by the sea became more turbulent and powerful. A Magical Girl floated on the sea surface, gently rocking, then gradually disappeared.
After planning for so long, referencing all the intelligence transmitted by other Dream Incubators before their deaths, gathering so many of the strongest Magical Girls as a trump card to force his transformation.
All of it was exhausted just like that.
The young man approached, his shadow covering her. The light of the sunrise lengthened the shadow, leaving Xiao Qi with nowhere to escape.
"From a strategy perspective."
Xiao Qi said with a sigh, "You really are the worst kind of opponent."
"Abundant stats, abundant mechanics. Even if the Golden Calamity Dragon King is dealt with, your main body is still difficult to handle. You can even expand a Mental Landscape without being transformed. Honestly, although Dream Incubators shouldn't have too many negative emotions."
"You still make me feel anxious and angry. You should be the public enemy of Magical Girls, the dark, bizarre entity that can destroy all miracles. Your place should be among the Disaster Beasts... no, you are a Disaster Beast."
"Compared to you, even the S-level Disaster Beast [Bubble] that has swallowed numerous world bubbles seems like a fledgling. It can only provide materialization for a world bubble using its own rules, while your mana can revive so many world bubbles, only to destroy them."
"Merely possessing the power of a Magical Girl, requiring no effort, no sacrifice, having no emotions, no goals, no love or happiness whatsoever, just a walking corpse. Such a humanoid existence is destined to become an EX-level Disaster Beast that destroys all Magical Girls..."
Xiao Qi seemed stirred by a sense of mission. "You must be eradicated!"
"How much do you even know about him, to spout such nonsense here."
The Emperor, who had been inside Jiang Si all along, couldn't help but float out to refute.
What Jiang Si was truly like, she, who had witnessed everything from within him, understood better than anyone.
She had personally witnessed how Jiang Si destroyed an old world and dealt with the two sisters left behind in the Curse Realm.
How he pointed the way for the Magical Girl Jade Fox of the Black Mountain Realm and gave her a grand, dignified funeral.
She watched Jiang Si cultivate day and night, sleeping very little, always running, always striving.
Training, practicing mana circulation, constructing magic, researching Divine Sense.
Every night, no matter when she woke up and saw the young man,
he always wore a serious, immersed expression, striving to become stronger.
Apart from her, probably no one would notice how much effort Jiang Si had put in, nor would anyone care about how many attempts, failures, and countless restarts he had undertaken, tirelessly.
The first time she saw him, The Emperor only lamented how unreasonable the world was, that such a powerful existence existed.
If she had such power and talent, perhaps she could have saved the Curse Realm too.
But after accompanying him day and night, she no longer had such thoughts.
Perhaps he really had talent, perhaps it was just luck.
But what he gave and what he received were not out of balance.
He deserved such strength.
Everyone had their own luck and talent; some could grasp it, some could not.
Just like The Emperor herself. She once also had the possibility of becoming a Magical Girl to save the Curse Realm.
But ultimately, she still failed. Now, whenever she saw Jiang Si's actions, she would think,
perhaps she hadn't tried her absolute hardest.
Later, although she was suppressed, she also personally witnessed how Jiang Si lectured his father at the spirit hall.
And how he sent off his own mother on her final journey.
In the very end, when The Emperor watched the young man sitting on the mountaintop, gazing at the sunrise,
she felt the desire to hug him for the first time.
To hug him, to stay by his side, to say something.
Although as The Emperor, she wasn't good at saying gentle words, she was willing to learn and think for Jiang Si's sake.
Even after that, Jiang Si showed no change.
He seemed forever like this, no matter how turbulent the emotions or how unbelievable the experiences.
With one turn, he would revert as if nothing had happened.
Continue training, continue striving desperately, continue moving forward, spouting those cultivation theories The Emperor couldn't understand,
as if his eyes never held the past, only the present and future.
But from the exhaustion after pushing his mother, to the questioning after strangling Lu Ya...
He was definitely not some emotionless, goalless, loveless, happiness-devoid walking corpse!
After learning from Little Black Dragon that Jiang Si had personally strangled Lu Ya again, The Emperor had actually wanted to find a chance to talk to Jiang Si.
But until now, there had been no opportunity. Hearing Xiao Qi's unreasonable judgment now, she naturally couldn't help but speak up to refute.
However, Jiang Si showed no reaction to Xiao Qi's words.
He simply stomped, crushing this last Xiao Qi.
Then, he violently expanded his Mental Landscape domain once more!
His Mental Landscape domain could remove its boundaries at any time, becoming an expansion-type domain. As long as he had enough mana, it could continue to expand.
And what was different from The Emperor's expansion-type domain was,
his domain possessed mass.
The continuously expanding domain encompassed everything, then expanded towards the outside!
The Disaster Beast [Bubble] that had swallowed world bubbles let out a shrill, miserable scream!
Within a remote world bubble.
Ruo Yun and Hyacinth simultaneously looked up—they had been thrown into a world bubble full of Disaster Beasts, fighting their way through until now. The Disaster Beasts seemed endless.
Now, the world bubble shook, then became transparent.
The mana supporting the appearance of Disaster Beasts also vanished.
Ruo Yun and Hyacinth stood back-to-back, looking up at the sky. Through the transparent sky, they could see the expanding Mental Landscape.
And the young man standing atop the Mental Landscape.
Ruo Yun was slightly stunned. "The Saint Hall Envoy actually also has a Mental Landscape domain?"
"Yes, and not just a Mental Landscape domain."
"Indeed, our Saint Hall Envoy, the Heavenly Being, is invincible under heaven!"
"..." Hyacinth, looking at Jiang Si in the sky, couldn't help but rub her hands together.
Soon, soon, he will be exposed!
...
Within an independent mirror space.
Prince suddenly looked up. In the distance, that pitch-black world bubble actually let out a shrill scream—it was a living creature!
[Warning: A high-quality Mental Landscape domain is expanding infinitely. Please evacuate immediately!]
"Whose Mental Landscape domain! And how is that world bubble alive?"
[Apology: The fusion with the world bubble was too perfect, resulting in a scanning error by the system. Please, Your Majesty, leave the dangerous area immediately!]
"What about Simo Tu!"
[How can mere ashes compare to Your Majesty's safety? Even without Simo Tu, you still have me. I can also be your lover, accompany you, cherish you...]
"Go die!"
[Warning: Initiating forced transfer.]
"Wait for me!"
...
Beihai.
Keke and Silver Lotus, who had just woken up, were still eating breakfast.
Looking up, they found the sky covered by the phantom of a giant black sphere, as if separated by a curtain. The sphere kept growing larger, pressing closer!
A soft sound appeared in the minds of all who looked up at the sky.
The sky cracked open.
A terrifying aura continuously surged outward. The sphere seemed about to squeeze through and descend upon this world!
Scared, the two, still holding steamed buns and pancakes in their mouths, hurriedly ran towards the Disaster Control Bureau!
At the Azure Cloud Sect, the remaining true-transmission disciples were both protecting Beihai and standing guard around the crack.
"Most likely, Boss caused something again, meow."
Super Qinghua put down her phone and, for the first time in a while, bowed before the numerous ancestral spirit tablets. "I hope the ancestors protect that idiot White Fox so she doesn't die, meow."
As the Mental Landscape domain expanded further, the entire S-level Disaster Beast was not only violently burst open by the Mental Landscape but even its remnants were swallowed by it.
Only a completely smooth sphere shot out from within, desperately fleeing the Mental Landscape's devouring maw.
That was the head of the Disaster Beast [Bubble], and the disaster-human realm that had been hiding within the head all along.
With the body of the S-level Disaster Beast that swallowed world bubbles devoured, the remaining head could no longer fully protect the disaster-human realm. The Azure Cloud Sect, standing within the mountains, was soon exposed to the spatial turbulence!
The continuously expanding domain swallowed many world bubbles, but only the disaster-human realm, integrated with the head, fell into the external spatial turbulence outside, as if exiled.
And even more terrifying, the young man standing atop the domain walked step by step onto the domain's sun.
The continuously ascending sun was grasped in his hand. Then, a large bow appeared in his other hand. The crimson sun was continuously compressed and elongated in his grasp, transforming into a blazing, leaping arrow!
Placed upon the great bow, drawn to a full moon, what left the string was a radiant great sun!
Pure Mana combined with Divine Sense.
[True Sun Scripture · Solar God Arrow]!
A world-destroying, terrifying solar arrow shot straight towards the disaster-human realm!
Leaving scorch marks in space along its path, just as it was about to hit, the disaster-human realm suddenly began to tremble.
Then, a deep, ancient bell toll sounded!
Jiang Si's pupils contracted slightly.
He saw that Ling Mei, who had been impersonating Shion, walked silently to the forefront of the disaster-human realm.
Her expression somewhat mechanical, holding a Miracle Seed, facing the arrow that could almost reach the Immortal Platform, she spoke:
"Heaven and Earth are not humane."
An even more majestic power rippled out in waves, actually causing the great sun arrow to halt for an instant!
The storm of spatial turbulence ceased.
All surging power dissipated.
All things, all phenomena, before Ling Mei, came to a standstill.
Everything fell into an eerily quiet state.
"Treating all things as straw dogs."
A wine-red Magical Outfit covered Ling Mei's body. The trailing long skirt bore intricate patterns—flowers, grass, trees. Yet, as Ling Mei's skirt swayed, leaves and petals fell from it.
Indistinguishable from living things.
The ends of her golden, dazzling long hair seemed to dissolve into transparency, merging with space. Wide sleeves were adorned with coiling vines.
Her fingertip touched the burning arrow, causing the arrow to instantly dissipate.
Tilting her head, a pair of pentagram pupils held a non-human, alien quality. Her lips moved slightly, uttering a string of words.
"Go back."
Jiang Si's Mental Landscape domain, because of her one sentence, began to be compressed back bit by bit!
Lowering his hands, a brilliant light shone in Jiang Si's eyes.
True Full Bloom!