Starting with magical girls, I'll reign supreme for eternity.

Chapter 20 Go and capture Tang Sanzang.
Coco becoming a magical girl didn't have a significant impact on Jiang Si's life.

After returning from the Disaster Management Bureau, their daily routines remained unchanged; they continued to attend school as usual and took care of their own food, clothing, and shelter.

However, the fact that he went to find Hyacinth was probably something Yinlian told her after she found out.

After he finished dinner and was about to leave, Coco went to the kitchen to cook her own meal. As they passed each other, she suddenly said something.

"Don't mind your own business."

In reality, I wasn't meddling in other people's business.

Unwilling to explain anything, Jiang Si returned to her room and began to experience her own magic.

Having absorbed the magic power of a B-rank disaster beast, it is more surging and enormous than ever before, but it is still within the framework of Blooming.

In Jiang Si's view, the so-called budding seedlings are actually the foundation building.

Both of these realms involve continuously increasing the total amount of magic power and becoming familiar with how magic power operates. As long as you accumulate experience over time, any magical girl can grow from a bud to a new sprout.

It can only be said that magical girls are like a kind of empowerment, suddenly elevating a mortal to the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

However, one needs to transform to obtain the Foundation Establishment Body.

During the foundation-building stage, whether it is a sprout or a seedling, it is simply absorbing the magic of the miracle seed.

Until it reaches its full bloom.

Jiang Si called it the Golden Core stage. Only when it reaches the Blooming stage can the magical girl truly begin to control the Miracle Seed, and even reshape the seed to make it bloom.

The only problem is that the Miracle Seed is not inside the body, but outside, which is a bit unusual for a Golden Elixir.

But it doesn't matter, Jiang Si calls it external alchemy.

He remembered that many cultivation novels contained such unorthodox methods, using external elixirs to forcibly enter the Golden Core stage.

As one continues to grow stronger, the so-called external core will eventually become the internal core, or help one reshape the internal core.

Although when this explanation was told to Bing Tang, the girl who had been receiving his various cultivation knowledge for the past three years still felt it was somewhat far-fetched.

But Jiang Si felt she had found a pattern...

After the Golden Core comes the Nascent Soul, which is the full bloom after the blossoming. It requires the seed to be completely broken open and transformed into a human form or something else.

Therefore, to break through to full bloom, the form change of the Miracle Seed must be completed.

Jiang Si had tried many methods over the past six months, but no matter how much magic she absorbed, it was difficult to cause any change in the form of the Miracle Seed.

Perhaps it requires some external assistance, or perhaps it's based on one's own insights.

Besides searching for the Seed of Miracles, the Qingyun Sect's plan to integrate magical girl powers is also underway. However, insufficient research into the fundamental changes in the nature of magic has led to slow progress, and all projects require time.

Breakthroughs are things that cannot be rushed; haste makes waste.

From his previous life to today, Jiang Si has never lacked patience. He can even find a way out of a dead end, let alone the right path to heaven that is so clear in front of him right now. It's just a matter of whether he walks it fast or slow. What's there to be in a hurry for?

He will eventually reach his end, reach the very top!

He tried circulating the magic power within his body for one full cycle, and then it dissipated silently once again.

However, one could sense that some magic had seeped into the flesh and blood.

Little by little, one will eventually achieve sainthood in the physical body.

As his hopeful and enjoyable cultivation was drawing to a close, he heard a loud crash downstairs, followed by his sister's painful cry.

Jiang Si was about to go to sleep when she pushed open the door and looked down. Her cultivation was coming to an end.

Coco fell to the ground, and the dumbbells he used for training hit the TV cabinet opposite him.

The dumbbells weren't expensive; he made them himself. The iron weights on both sides weren't very even. Since it was no longer convenient to bring the gym equipment from the Qingyun Sect home, he made a lot of simple gym equipment at home to make do with.

Jiang Si stopped using the barbell below six months ago because it didn't improve his strength.

I was planning to add more weight a while ago, but the old man who welds iron said it would cost 100 yuan including the weighting iron block.

The older they get, the darker they become.

It had been sitting untouched in the corner of the living room for a long time, and it was quite dirty, even a little rusty.

The air has been very humid lately.

Coco looked up at him, then ran off, wearing those tattered slippers with exposed toes, and pattered her way to the TV, where she carried the barbell to the corner.

"what are you doing?"

"Exercise after meals."

"Didn't you hate exercising the most?"

"None of your business," Jiang Keke said, pressing her lower back.

I think I twisted my ankle just now.

Jiang Si casually pulled out a plaster that her parents had bought before from the cabinet under the TV. It was specially for treating sprains and bruises.

Actually, it was bought for him because his parents were afraid he would get injured from training so hard back then.

But in reality, he never used it even once.

How to perfectly master your body and train to your limits without injuring it.

If you want to cultivate yourself and enter the Tao, this is undoubtedly the most important lesson you need to master.

An injury like that takes at least ten days to half a month to heal, and the damage to training is immeasurable. Jiang Si, who values ​​efficiency, would never allow that to happen.

“If you’re going to be a magical girl, you have to become stronger.” Jiang Keke looked at the liniment for bruises that Jiang Si had thrown at her feet, her tone still icy. “Don’t you have any equipment that a normal person could use?”

"One hundred and five kilograms, which is within the average range for an average person."

"What kind of livestock are you talking about, the ordinary people?" Coco picked up the plaster, leaned against the wall, and slowly went back into the house. "I'll find something else to use tomorrow."

After returning to the house, I waited for a while and heard my older brother come back inside.

Coco pushed open the door again and tiptoed out.

Looking at the heavy, black lump of iron, a hint of ruthlessness appeared on his face. "I refuse to believe it!"

He took out the Miracle Seed and suppressed his voice to the lowest level of transformation.

A fiery red light shone during the transformation, illuminating the entire hall in a crimson glow.

He quickly withdrew his magic power, suppressing the dissipated energy to a minimum, and looked up to make sure Jiang Si hadn't noticed anything.

She then reached out and grabbed the metal lump again.

With a sudden burst of strength, he lifted the barbell.

"But that's it..."

She had intended to say that, but even with her magic suppressed, she felt an astonishing weight and struggle as she lifted the massive iron block with her magical girl body.

Coco had seen Jiang Sina's exercise before; she could lift it up easily, even with one hand, and do the exercises while reading a book.

Is it really a monster?
Even if someone suddenly came and told her that her only blood relative was actually a calamity beast, Coco wouldn't doubt it.

But maybe I'm just too weak...

As a newly born magical girl, her magical power and control precision are both very poor.

After parting ways with Ms. Ziyuan, she and Yinlian took another test, and the results were very unfavorable.

She's considered relatively weak among the new magical girls.

Silver Lotus comforted her, saying that even though Celeste's initial abilities weren't outstanding, she still became a top magical girl.

But Coco never thought of herself as that kind of amazing person.

If you're not good enough, you'll always be not good enough, and there's no chance of a turnaround or a meteoric rise to fame.

But she wants to become stronger.

If I don't become stronger, I might never see Shion-sensei again, and I won't be able to catch up with her and become her good friend.

The thought of becoming friends with Ms. Ziyuan warmed Coco's heart once again.

Using magic and precise control, she began to truly hone her abilities with the help of this dark, iron lump.

……

Early in the morning, Jiang Si came down from her bedroom and saw the sunken floor and a slightly deformed barbell.

He certainly sensed that Coco transformed into a magical girl yesterday; that idiot has no way of controlling the overflow of power, it's impossible not to notice.

For the first time, Jiang Si wanted to ask her:

Why stay up all night and keep using magic to torment the barbell?
Even if you want to practice manipulating magic, there's no need to tinker around late at night.

He was intermittently awakened several times by the sound of the barbell falling.

When Jiang Si came out, Coco also came out of the house, still with dark circles under her eyes. She glanced at the mess she had made of the floor, then turned her head away, saying, "I accidentally..."

I accidentally spent the whole night there.

"Go to your second uncle's house this afternoon and ask him for help to repair the floor. Your second uncle owes the family 160,000 yuan, so he won't charge you for repairing the floor."

"Ah."

Coco nodded. "Sorry."

"Let's go to the yard next time."

"know."

Despite her coldness and arguments, Jiang Keke would still honestly admit her mistakes. From this perspective, her younger sister's rebellious phase had never been too severe.

He carried his schoolbag, grabbed a leftover steamed bun from the kitchen, added some leftovers from last night, and headed to school.

Today is Saturday, so Coco, a junior high student, doesn't have to go to school.

But Jiang Si is a second-year high school student, and the school has make-up classes on Saturdays.

Jiang Si skips most classes, but she doesn't skip the make-up classes on Saturdays.

Because there are very few people at school on Saturdays, only the second-year high school students come to class—the third-year students will be taking the college entrance examination soon, and there are no make-up classes on Saturdays.

Therefore, it is easy to encounter students who are alone, which gives opportunities to hooligans outside the school.

The location of No. 4 Middle School is remote, and these thugs come to the area on Saturdays to show off, making it difficult for the school to catch them.

It is Jiang Si's best practical target.

Although I am a bit weak, I can still clearly feel my progress in actual combat.

A punching bag that can fight back is hard to find.

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

It's not that Jiang Sixue doesn't understand math; it's just that he's thoroughly familiar with high school math, so he can't improve his grades in this subject.

Moreover, his math score didn't drag down his overall score.

Therefore, taking math class is a complete waste of time.

Of all his high school studies, the subjects he forgot the most were Chinese and English. Even if he had memorized them, he would easily forget them if he didn't look at them for a long time.

He's pretty good at math, physics, and even chemistry; with a little review, he can usually get back the feel for solving problems he used to have.

He has poor memory for written words, but he always remembers formulas and equations very well once he has memorized them.

You need to get a decent score, at least enough to get into a top-tier university, because top-tier universities in Beihai offer majors that study the fundamental nature of magical powers in magical girls, and the research is quite in-depth, with corresponding high-level papers and reports.

It's far more efficient than what they could accomplish by themselves.

A second-tier university is no good. In BH City, the theoretical level of the magical girl major at a second-tier university is basically garbage.

As for junior college graduates, they are not qualified to study magical girls in BH City.

Therefore, Jiang Si's goal is to keep her total score at the first-tier university level and get into a university that has a deep understanding of magical girls, so as to study the power of magical girls and related knowledge in depth.

The information that Qingyun Sect can obtain is too superficial. If you want to know about the cutting-edge theoretical research results on magical girls, you have to go to university to find them yourself, because many studies are directly blocked by the Disaster Management Bureau after they are completed and are not made public.

However, Bing Tang's network of connections at universities is rather limited.

On the one hand, her family doesn't have much contact with people related to universities, and on the other hand, none of the disciples in the entire Qingyun Sect are old enough to go to university yet—that's right, even Susan, the mole, is a high school student, although she has dropped out and is currently focusing on her work at the Disaster Management Bureau.

Jiang Si looked up at the Fourth High School in the distance, her thoughts already drifting to university.

He plans to try taking the college entrance exam again at the end of his second year of high school; another year is too long for him.

"Don't you have money? You're dressed so well, how could you not have money? Don't be so nervous, just consider it making friends, we'll treat you next time..."

A familiar voice came from not far away.

Actually, the school is quite far away, so these hooligans don't dare to get too close. But there are always some less convenient routes to school, and if they're late, they might try to take a shortcut.

That would make it easy for them to get caught by these thugs.

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

He walked straight toward the three thugs.

"The cripple."

The "cripple" refers to the eldest of the three, whose leg is limping.

It was broken by Jiang Si, and it still hasn't healed.

He was rather thin, with almost no flesh on his face, like a monkey, yet the sinister look between his brows was enough to frighten anyone who saw him.

This guy's been to jail before; he's chopped someone off, even cutting off one of their arms.

This is also why he became famous in the underworld; he's ruthless.

In fact, he was the most powerful person in the vicinity of No. 4 Middle School, with the largest territory and more than a dozen followers following him every day.

Among his peers, he was undoubtedly a terrifying figure.

When he heard someone call him a cripple, he turned around, his face barely concealing his ferocity. "You fucking asking for it!"

However, when he turned around and saw Jiang Si, he was stunned.

The fierceness in his eyes vanished instantly, replaced by a clearer look.

The other two henchmen beside him immediately released the student from No. 4 Middle School, who then ran towards the school, but no one paid him any attention.

They all bowed and scraped, smiling at Jiang Si, and even offered him cigarettes: "Brother Jiang, what brings you to school today?"

"Make up lessons."

Jiang Si glanced at the cripple, "Come here."

Of all the thugs, the cripple is the most courageous.

He hit her countless times, but she was still defiant and dared to fight him again.

That's why Jiang Si's first words to him every time she talks to him.

"Come and fight."

The cripple instinctively took a step back, his throat churning.

I fought Jiang Si three times.

Each time, he was beaten terribly and lost all face.

He went from having a dozen followers to only two who were still willing to follow him.

He glanced back at the last two brothers, then silently lowered his head and said, "Let's not fight anymore."

clap clap clap!
Three crisp sounds rang out, and a handprint appeared on each of the three people's faces.

Jiang Si slapped three people across the face, then clapped her hands. "Alright, one slap each. Fourth Middle School is my territory, and all the students there are under my protection. Don't cause trouble again."

He lowered his voice, "I'll beat you to death."

Only such blatant intimidation is effective against these thugs.

Of course, if there were no consequences, simply beating someone to death would be even more effective.

This isn't just Jiang Si's personal hobby, like speaking out for justice when she sees injustice.

It was an agreement between him and the principal.

If the local thugs stop disturbing the students of No. 4 Middle School when they go to and from school, the school will be lenient with his absence.

Finally, it was because he offended Jiang Si that he was beaten so badly that he cried for his parents and lost a finger. Only then did the principal get his revenge and feel relieved.

So the principal simply made a deal with Jiang Si: as long as Jiang Si beat up the local thugs so badly that they wouldn't dare mess with the students from No. 4 Middle School, he could skip class as much as he wanted.

However, not many people in the school knew about this agreement. Jiang Si's teachers went to the principal countless times to ask him to expel Jiang Si, but the principal always brushed them off, saying that he had to teach every student well...

After the threatening remark, the other two henchmen turned pale and said with sheepish smiles, "No, no, we wouldn't dare."

The cripple's face turned ashen, then flushed red and then pale, as he touched his burning face, which had been slapped.

The slap was so powerful that it stunned him, as if a large, hot piece of iron had been slapped across his face.

Hot.

After Jiang Si left, the last two underlings said apologetically, "Sorry, boss, I have something to do at home, so I'll be leaving now."

"My parents beat me up last time and told me to stop being a hoodlum. They found me a job, so I probably won't be able to spend time with you anymore, buddy."

Each of them found an excuse and left without waiting for his reply.

The cripple stood there for a long time, his eyes red, then walked to the end of the alley, picked up a brick and smashed it hard against the wall!

He then kicked her several more times in a frenzy.

"It's so miserable."

A slightly hoarse female voice suddenly came from beside him, startling the lame man. An old woman dressed in a black robe walked out from the wall of the alley...

Inside the wall?
The cripple rubbed his eyes and realized that he had indeed come out of the wall.

"Ordinary people would have no chance against a monster that uses the power of a magical girl. It's not that you're too weak or not trying hard enough, but that you two started from different points. It's very unfair, isn't it?"

The cripple stared at him, his gaze shifting unfocused for a moment, then nodded. "It's not fair..."

The woman took out the seeds from her bosom.

The seeds, pitch black and filled with sorrow and resentment, exude an ominous aura.

"As long as you gain power, the power to defeat him, you can take back everything you lost, and even crush him under your feet, washing away all the shame of the past. The price is only a little pain. Do you want it?"

The cripple hesitated for a moment, then Jiang Si's face flashed into his mind again, and his eyes immediately turned fervent, "I want it, I want it! I want it!!"

"take it."

The witch watched as the seed sprouted on the other person's forehead, and grinned. "A half-finished product, but that's enough. Go and bring Jiang Si to me."

(End of this chapter)