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

Keke becoming a Magical Girl didn't really impact Jiang Si's daily life much.

After returning from the Disaster Control Bureau, their daily routines remained largely unchanged - they continued attending school normally and handled their own food, clothing, and living arrangements separately.

However, the fact that he had gone to find Hyacinth was probably something Silver Lotus had informed her about after finding out.

In the evening, as he finished dinner and prepared to leave while Keke went to the kitchen to make her own meal, they passed each other and she suddenly dropped a cold comment.

"Don't meddle in other people's business."

He actually hadn't been meddling in anyone's business.

Not bothering to explain anything, Jiang Si returned to his room and began sensing his own magical energy.

Having absorbed the magical energy from the class B Disaster Beast, it felt more surging and immense than before, but still remained within the framework of the Blooming tier.

In Jiang Si's view, the so-called Sprout and Seedling tiers were essentially equivalent to foundation establishment.

Both these realms involved continuously increasing total magical energy and familiarizing oneself with how magical energy circulated. As long as one accumulated experience over time, any Magical Girl could advance from Sprout to Seedling.

One could say that becoming a Magical Girl was equivalent to a kind of empowerment, suddenly elevating an ordinary person to the early foundation establishment stage.

It's just that the foundation establishment body could only be obtained through transformation.

During the foundation establishment period, whether at Sprout or Seedling tier, one was merely drawing upon the Miracle Seed's magical energy.

It wasn't until stepping into Blooming.

Jiang Si called this the golden core stage. Only by entering Blooming did a Magical Girl truly begin to control the Miracle Seed, even reshape it, making it bloom.

The only problem was that the Miracle Seed wasn't inside the body but outside it, which made calling it a golden core somewhat abnormal.

But that was fine - Jiang Si called it an external core.

He remembered that among many cultivation novel methods, there were such unorthodox practices, using external cores to forcibly enter the golden core stage.

As long as he continued growing stronger, the so-called external core would eventually become an internal core, or help him reshape an internal core.

Although when he explained this theory to Bingtang, the girl who had been receiving his various cultivation knowledge teachings for three years still found it somewhat far-fetched.

But Jiang Si felt he had found the pattern...

After the golden core came the nascent soul stage, which corresponded to Full Bloom after Blooming, probably requiring the seed to completely break open and transform into human form or something else.

So to break through to Full Bloom, one must complete the form transformation of the Miracle Seed.

Over the past six months, Jiang Si had tried many methods, but no matter how much magical energy he absorbed, it was difficult to produce form changes in the Miracle Seed.

Perhaps some external assistance was needed, or perhaps his own enlightenment.

Besides searching for Miracle Seeds, the Magical Girl power fusion plan within the Azure Cloud Sect was still progressing, though insufficient research into the fundamental nature changes of magical energy was causing slow progress, and everything currently required time.

Breakthroughs ultimately couldn't be rushed - more haste, less speed.

From his previous life until today, patience was what Jiang Si lacked least. He had even managed to forge paths where none existed, let alone now when such a clear path to heaven lay before him - it was merely a matter of walking fast or slow, so why be anxious?

He would eventually reach the end, reach the very peak!

He attempted to circulate magical energy through his physical body for one complete cycle, then quietly dispersed it again.

But he could feel that some magical energy had still seeped into his flesh and blood.

Many small contributions make a big difference - eventually he would achieve sainthood through physical cultivation.

Just as his hopeful, relaxed, and pleasant cultivation session was nearing its end, he heard a "bang" from downstairs along with his sister's cry of pain.

His cultivation session was basically finished anyway, and he was preparing to sleep, so Jiang Si pushed open his door and glanced downstairs.

Keke had fallen on the floor, and the dumbbell he usually trained with had crashed into the TV console opposite her.

The dumbbell wasn't expensive - he had made it himself, with uneven iron blocks on both sides. Since he couldn't conveniently bring the Azure Cloud Sect's fitness equipment home, he had made many simple fitness equipment at home to make do.

He hadn't actually used this barbell downstairs for six months because it no longer provided any strength improvement for him.

He had planned to add more weight recently, but the welding uncle said it would cost a hundred yuan including the additional iron blocks.

The older they got, the more they overcharged.

It had been sitting untouched in the corner of the living room for a long time, already somewhat dirty and even a bit rusty.

The air had been quite humid recently too.

Keke looked up at him, got up, and wearing those tattered slippers with holes revealing her toes, she pattered over to the TV, moving the barbell back to the corner.

"What are you doing?"

"Post-meal exercise."

"I thought you hated exercise the most?"

"None of your business." As Jiang Keke spoke, she pressed her hand against her waist.

She had probably twisted it earlier.

Jiang Si casually pulled out some medicated plaster for bruises and injuries that their parents had bought from the cabinet under the TV.

Actually, that had been bought for him, because back when he was exercising desperately, his parents were afraid he'd get injured.

But he had never actually used it once.

Perfectly mastering his own body, knowing how to exercise to the limit without injuring himself.

If one wanted to enter the path through physical cultivation, this was definitely the most important lesson to master.

Getting injured once would take at least ten days to half a month to recover from, causing immeasurable damage to training progress. Jiang Si, who pursued efficiency, absolutely wouldn't allow that to happen.

"Since I'm going to be a Magical Girl, I need to get stronger." Jiang Keke looked at the bruise medicine Jiang Si had tossed by her feet, her tone still icy, "Don't you have any equipment that normal people can use?"

"One hundred and five kilograms, within normal human range."

"What kind of livestock are your normal people?" Picking up the medicated plaster, Keke leaned against the wall and slowly returned to her room, "I'll find something else to use tomorrow."

After returning to her room, she waited inside for a while until she heard her older brother return to his room.

Only then did Keke push open the door again and tiptoe out.

Looking at that heavy black lump of iron, a trace of determination showed on her face, "I don't believe I can't do it!"

Taking out her Miracle Seed, she transformed while suppressing her voice to the lowest level.

Crimson light bloomed during her transformation, illuminating the entire living room bright red.

She quickly restrained her magical energy, suppressing the escaping power to the minimum, then looked up to confirm Jiang Si hadn't noticed the commotion.

Only then did she reach out and grab that iron lump again.

Putting forth tremendous effort, she lifted the barbell.

"Nothing special..."

She wanted to say this, but even with her Magical Girl body while suppressing magical energy, lifting this large iron block made her feel an astonishing weight and strain.

Keke had seen Jiang Si exercising with this before - lifting it effortlessly, even holding it with one hand while reading a book and performing movements.

Was he really some kind of monster?

Even if someone suddenly told her that her only blood relative was actually a Disaster Beast, Keke wouldn't doubt it.

But it might also be that she was too weak...

The dumbbell wasn't expensive - he had made it himself, with uneven iron blocks on both sides. Since he couldn't conveniently bring the Azure Cloud Sect's fitness equipment home, he had made many simple fitness tools at home to make do.

After separating from Teacher Shion, she had gone with Silver Lotus to undergo testing, and the results were very pessimistic.

Among newly born Magical Girls, she was considered relatively weak.

Silver Lotus had comforted her, saying that Kingfisher's initial abilities hadn't been outstanding either, but she still became a top-tier Magical Girl.

But Keke never considered herself to be that kind of remarkable character.

Not being outstanding meant she would remain not outstanding - no reversals, no possibilities of amazing everyone with a single feat.

But she wanted to become stronger.

If she couldn't become stronger, she might never see Teacher Shion again, and she wouldn't be able to catch up to her and become, good friends.

Thinking about being able to become friends with Teacher Shion, Keke's heart suddenly warmed again.

Utilizing magical energy, precise control - using this black iron lump, she began truly training her abilities.

...

Early in the morning, when Jiang Si came down from his bedroom, he saw the dented floor and the somewhat deformed barbell.

Of course he had sensed Keke transforming into a Magical Girl yesterday - this dummy didn't know how to control power overflow at all, making it impossible not to notice.

For the first time, Jiang Si felt like asking her:

What was the point of staying up all night constantly using magical energy to mess with the barbell?

Even if she wanted to practice magical energy control, there was no need to fiddle with it back and forth late at night.

He had been awakened several times intermittently by the sound of the barbell dropping.

When Jiang Si came out, Keke also emerged from her room, complete with dark circles under her eyes. Glancing at the mess she had made of the floor, she turned her head away, "I accidentally yesterday..."

Accidentally for the entire night.

"This afternoon, go to Second Uncle's place and ask him to help repair the floor. Second Uncle still owes our family sixteen thousand, so he won't charge for fixing the floor."

"Mm."

Keke nodded, "Sorry."

"Next time, do it in the yard."

"Got it."

Coldness was coldness, arguments were arguments, but when she made mistakes, Jiang Keke would still honestly admit them.

From this perspective, his little sister's rebellious phase had never been very severe.

Carrying his backpack, he casually grabbed a leftover steamed bun from the kitchen, added some leftover dishes from last night, and headed to school.

Today was Saturday, so of course Keke, being a middle school student, didn't have school.

But Jiang Si was a second-year high school student, and his school had make-up classes on Saturdays.

Jiang Si skipped classes most of the time, but never skipped Saturday make-up classes.

Because the school had very few people on Saturdays - only second-year students attended classes (third-year students would be taking college entrance exams soon, so they didn't have Saturday classes).

This made it easy to encounter isolated students, giving delinquents from outside opportunities.

No. 4 High School's location was quite remote, and these delinquents would come nearby on Saturdays to swagger around, making it difficult for the school to catch them.

They were Jiang Si's most useful practice targets.

Although they were quite weak, he could still clearly feel his improvement in actual combat.

Finding sandbags that fought back wasn't easy.

Plus, there was no math class this morning, so he planned to attend.

It wasn't that Jiang Si couldn't understand math - he was simply already thoroughly familiar with high school math, and his test scores couldn't break through further.

And his math scores didn't drag down his total score.

So attending math class was purely a waste of time.

Among high school subjects, what he had forgotten the most was actually Chinese and English. Even if he had memorized these things before, not looking at them for a long time made them easy to forget completely.

He was still okay with math, physics, and even chemistry - with some review, he could basically regain his previous problem-solving feel.

His memory for text wasn't sensitive, but once he remembered formulas and equations, he rarely forgot them.

He needed to maintain a passable score, at least enough to get into a first-tier university, because in Beihai's first-tier universities, there were magical energy fundamental nature research majors specifically for Magical Girls, and the research was quite in-depth, with corresponding high-level papers and reports.

Far more efficient than their own tinkering.

Second-tier universities wouldn't do - the theoretical level of Magical Girl majors at BH City's second-tier universities was basically garbage.

As for vocational colleges, vocational college students in BH City weren't qualified to research Magical Girls.

So Jiang Si's goal was to maintain a total score for first-tier universities, test into universities with deeper Magical Girl research, and deeply study Magical Girl power and related knowledge.

The materials the Azure Cloud Sect could obtain were too superficial. To learn about cutting-edge Magical Girl theoretical research achievements, he needed to personally test into universities to find them, because many research results were directly sealed by the Disaster Control Bureau after completion and not made public.

And Bingtang's connections were also quite limited when it came to universities.

On one hand, her family basically didn't interact much with university-related personnel, and on the other hand, all the Azure Cloud Sect disciples hadn't reached university age yet - that's right, even Su Shan, the mole, was a high school student, though she was currently dropping out to focus on Disaster Control Bureau work.

Jiang Si looked up at the distant No. 4 High School, his thoughts already drifting to university.

He planned to try taking the college entrance exam at the end of his second year - dragging it out for another year felt too long for him.

"No money? Looking at how well you're dressed, how could you have no money? Don't be so nervous, just think of it as making friends. Later we'll treat you..."

A familiar voice came from not far away.

Actually, they were still some distance from the school - these delinquents didn't dare get too close to the school, but the routes to school always had relatively remote sections. Once running late, when someone tried to take a shortcut hoping to get lucky.

They easily got caught by these delinquents.

Jiang Si didn't know the boy surrounded by three delinquents, nor did he need to know.

He walked directly toward the three delinquents.

"Cripple."

Cripple referred to the leader among the three - he walked with a limp.

Jiang Si had broken his leg, and it still hadn't healed.

He had a lean appearance, with almost no flesh on his face, like a monkey, yet the sinister ferocity between his eyebrows frightened anyone who saw him.

This guy had been in jail before - he had chopped someone, severing one of their arms.

This was also why he became famous on the streets - he was ruthless enough.

Actually, around No. 4 High School, his gang had originally been the largest, with the biggest territory, and he could have over a dozen followers behind him every day.

Among his peers, he was undoubtedly a terrifying presence.

Hearing someone call him Cripple, he turned around, the ferocity on his face barely concealable, "The fuck you looking to die!"

But when he turned and saw Jiang Si, he froze for a moment.

The ferocity in his eyes instantly vanished, becoming somewhat clear.

The two other lackeys beside him immediately released the No. 4 High School student they were holding. The student immediately sprinted toward the school, but nobody paid him any attention.

They all nodded and bowed toward Jiang Si with smiling faces, even offering cigarettes: "Brother Jiang, what brings you to school today, Brother Jiang?"

"Make-up classes."

Jiang Si glanced at Cripple, "Come."

Among all the delinquents, Cripple had the most guts.

No matter how many times Jiang Si beat him, he still refused to accept it, still dared to fight him.

So this was always Jiang Si's first words when looking for him.

"Come fight."

Cripple instinctively took a step back, his throat moving.

He had fought Jiang Si three times.

Each time he got beaten miserably, losing all face.

From having over a dozen followers to only having two left willing to follow him.

He glanced back at his last two brothers, quietly lowering his head, "Not fighting."

Slap! Slap! Slap!

Three crisp sounds echoed as palm prints appeared on all three faces.

Jiang Si had slapped all three with one swing, then clapped his hands, "Fine, then one hit each. No. 4 High is my territory. No. 4 High students are under my protection. Next time you come causing trouble."

He lowered his voice, "I'll kill you."

Dealing with this kind of delinquent, only such straightforward threats were effective.

Of course, if he didn't have to bear consequences, directly beating one to death would be even more effective.

This wasn't really Jiang Si's personal hobby or some chivalrous upholding of justice.

Rather, it was an agreement he had with the principal.

As long as he made sure the surrounding delinquents stopped bothering No. 4 High students coming to and from school, the school would be lenient about his class skipping.

Ultimately, because they had provoked Jiang Si, getting beaten until they cried for their parents and having a finger broken, the principal had finally vented his anger thoroughly, achieving mental clarity.

So the principal simply made an agreement with Jiang Si - as long as Jiang Si beat the nearby delinquents into not daring to mess with No. 4 High students, he could skip classes however he wanted.

It's just that not many people in the school knew about this agreement. Jiang Si's teachers had repeatedly asked the principal to expel Jiang Si, but the principal always brushed them off saying they needed to educate every student well...

After the threat, the other two lackeys turned pale, smiling awkwardly and saying: "Wouldn't dare, wouldn't dare."

Cripple's face turned ashen, alternating between red and white, touching his burning cheek where he'd been slapped.

The force of that slap had been so great it left him dazed, as if a red-hot iron plate had smacked his face.

It stung fiercely.

After Jiang Si left, the last two lackeys said apologetically, "Sorry boss, I've got things to do at home, I should get going."

"My parents beat me last time, told me not to be a delinquent anymore. They found me a job, so I probably won't be able to accompany you anymore, boss."

Making their respective excuses, not waiting for his reply, they left on their own.

Cripple stood in place for a long time, then with reddened eyes walked deep into the alley, picked up a nearby brick and smashed it violently against the wall!

He followed with several frantic kicks.

"Really pathetic."

A somewhat hoarse female voice from beside him startled Cripple. An old woman in black robes emerged from the alley wall...

From the wall?

Cripple rubbed his eyes, confirming she had indeed emerged from the wall.

"Ordinary people encountering a monster like that who borrows Magical Girl power definitely can't fight back. It's not that you're too weak, nor that you didn't work hard enough, but rather that your starting points are different - very unfair, isn't it?"

Cripple stared at her, his gaze periodically losing focus, then nodded, "Unfair..."

The woman took out a seed from her bosom.

A pitch-black seed, filled with lament and resentment, emitting an ominous aura.

"As long as you obtain power, power to defeat him, you can take back everything you've lost. You can even trample him underfoot, washing away all past humiliation. The cost is just a little pain. Do you want it?"

Cripple hesitated for a moment, then Jiang Si's face reappeared in his mind. His gaze instantly became fanatical, "I want it, I want it! I want it!!"

"Take it."

The witch watched as the seed took root and began sprouting on the other's forehead, grinning, "A semi-finished product, but it should be enough. Go bring Jiang Si to me."