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Chapter 55 Cultivation Must Have Detailed Level Divisions (5,000 words)
It wasn't until the Civil Engineering Team from the Disaster Management Bureau entered the scene that Iris finally snapped out of her daze.

Watching a strangely shaped truck spraying hot mist that quickly melted the surrounding ice, followed by various super-giant engineering vehicles transporting all sorts of soil materials.

Numerous construction teams followed closely behind, filling and repairing the ground, buildings, and then utility poles and laying cables.

The speed was so fast that Iris was dazzled and dumbfounded.

"Although the local disaster relief agency is not very powerful, its civil engineering skills are still amazing."

Iris sincerely exclaimed in admiration, "Disaster management bureaus in other cities rarely operate with your efficiency."

Nonsense, the Disaster Management Bureau doesn't have many magical girls. To ensure efficiency, the former director repeatedly cut funding for other departments, and had the incubators do the work for some non-critical tasks.

The two places where the Disaster Management Bureau spends the most money are the Magical Girl Squad and the Civil Engineering Brigade.

Furthermore, since most of the disaster beasts are actually dealt with by the Qingyun Sect, the main task of the Disaster Management Bureau is to repair cities...

Although no one said it aloud, everyone tacitly agreed that the Disaster Management Bureau was the Qingyun Sect's post-disaster handling agency.

The spray that dissolves a large amount of ice from Dongjun was also prepared to complete the reconstruction as quickly as possible. It also included various materials and preparations to deal with the effects of the abilities of other magical girls in Qingyun Sect and to avoid delaying the reconstruction speed.

Thanks to the strong support of the Disaster Management Bureau, Beihai's civil engineering industry has flourished, and in the past three years it has become a mecca for civil engineering.

It even made civil engineering a very popular major at Beihai University.

Of course, Susan didn't plan to tell her this at the time, lest the North Sea Disaster Management Bureau's reputation drop again.

"Serving the citizens," Susan said in an official tone. "The Disaster Management Bureau's mission is not only to deal with the disaster beasts, but also to ensure the stability of citizens' daily lives and the city's economic development. We need to do it quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively..."

"Okay, okay, stop reading. Hearing this makes me sleepy."

Iris, having reverted to her original form, walked over to the car Susan had summoned and glanced at it. "What a shabby car."

Susan snorted, "That's really unfair to you."

"There's nothing to feel wronged about; the shabby car isn't slow either."

"Then you are talking nonsense."

Iris immediately covered Susan's mouth with a serious expression, "Hey, hey, hey, magical girls can't talk like that, it will shatter the fans' dreams."

"What's it to me?" Susan opened the car door and got in. "I'm not a magical girl anymore, not now."

"After all, that was true in the past..."

As the car started moving, Susan suddenly thought, "By the way, aren't you going to go back to the Disaster Management Bureau and organize some kind of honor guard and orchestra?"

Am I that stupid?

"..." Susan was silent for a while, then changed the subject, "Speaking of the previous honor guard and orchestra, what were you planning to do with them? In the end, they were never used."

"The money has been paid in advance, and I will take care of the medical expenses and compensation myself. It's not much money anyway, so don't worry."

It’s good to have money.

Susan sighed inwardly.

The purpose of visiting Jiang Si and his sister today was an extra task. Mudan, who had taken paid leave, ran away early and hasn't returned to the Disaster Management Bureau yet. Coco and Li Yi are currently unable to return to the Disaster Management Bureau either.

One brother is too deeply involved with the leader of the Qingyun Sect, and the other sister is too deeply involved with the Witch Association.

Susan, who knew more, couldn't help but admire the two siblings' talents: one brother was the leader of the Qingyun Sect, and the other sister was a core member of the Witch's Guild.

The magical girl family members of the Disaster Management Bureau are all highly skilled...

However, Susan's family didn't actually have such serious problems. Although her parents weren't exemplary, they raised her well, and they were proud of her after she became a magical girl.

After she joined the Disaster Management Bureau, her family was very supportive. Even when she gave up her studies, her family did not object. After she lost her transformation ability, her parents comforted her.

Both her mother and father love her very much. The only problem is that her parents are now divorced and have their own families and children.

She seemed somewhat out of place no matter where she was.

But compared to Li Yi's abstract parents and Coco's parents being both dead, it's much better. It's just that she occasionally feels a bit lonely and doesn't feel a sense of belonging.

Since joining the Qingyun Sect, I haven't even felt this loneliness anymore.

I wonder what kind of family this Iris comes from, but to develop such a personality, her family must be fine, right?

When the two returned to the Disaster Management Bureau, the new director had already taken office.

When Susan arrived at the conference room, she also saw the new director.

An aging incubator.

“Uh, I remember that ordinary people can’t see the incubators, right?” Susan suddenly remembered something. “How did it negotiate with the mayor?”

"As long as there is enough magic, the incubator can even disguise itself as a human."

Iris looked puzzled. "You didn't know?"

"I've never seen this kind of incubator in Beihai before."

Iris then gave me a look as if I thought the country folk were making a fuss over nothing.

The conference room contained only the incubator and the two women. Apart from a long conference table in the center, a large screen in front, and two water dispensers in the corner, the entire conference room was as simple as it could be.

When the Beihai Disaster Management Bureau was first established, the conference room was quite luxurious. At that time, various municipal government officials and business tycoons would often come to hold meetings.

Later, the former director realized it was a complete waste of time and couldn't solve any problems, so he simply stopped holding the meeting and sold off all the valuables in the meeting room.

It has become the simple place it is today.

"Thank you both for your hard work. Iris, I heard from a report that you've been in contact with the magical girls of the Qingyun Sect?"

Iris sat down opposite Susan and looked at the chief incubator who had asked her the question at the front. "Yes, Magical Girl Dongjun, the deputy of Ziyuan, the leader of the Qingyun Sect, and also the second strongest magical girl in their organization."

"How does it feel?"

"Very strong."

The elderly incubator was somewhat surprised. "Oh my, for Iris to say it's very strong, then it must really be very strong?"

"Yes, her magic control precision is among the best even in the Bureau. According to the Bureau's classification, her precision is over ten. Her magic power is also terrifying. Although she hasn't reached the Blooming stage yet, she can almost rival me. It's around eight. Of course, what's most incomprehensible is her development of her abilities."

Iris's expression was serious. "The abilities of low temperature and ice control are not uncommon. There are magical girls in other places who have similar abilities. However, visual illusion, substitution, freezing to slow down the flow of magic power, and the branch abilities developed are really numerous and powerful. Qingyun Sect may have better ability development tutorials than the General Administration."

Susan couldn't help but glance at Iris again.

She originally thought this guy was arrogant and didn't take the Qingyun Sect seriously at all.

If that were the case, Susan wouldn't have anything to worry about, but it seems that wasn't the case at all.

The battle with Lord Dong was stopped short of a decisive victory, and Lord Dong was allowed to leave. The author calmly and accurately analyzed Lord Dong's abilities and the differences between Qingyun Sect and the General Bureau.

She might be a tough one, this Blooming Magical Girl.

"The report said she was just a nascent magical girl," the Incubator said, somewhat puzzled. "Didn't you capture her?"

“This is the second thing I want to report.” Iris immediately looked at Susan. “At headquarters, a Budding Magical Girl is one with low magic power and can’t fly; a Sprout is one who can fly and has increased magic power; a Blooming is one with a huge increase in magic power and has developed two or three branches of abilities… That’s it. Let’s have a local explain to the director how the North Sea Disaster Management Bureau classifies magical girls’ strengths in more detail.”

"It's not the division of the North Sea Disaster Prevention Bureau either." Susan corrected the copyright ownership. "It's the division of the Qingyun Sect, and it's not a secret. They have emphasized in public many times that the strength difference between magical girls at the same level is also very large, so it cannot be generalized."

Iris nodded, then asked, "So what do 'half-step into full bloom' and 'peak early stage of full bloom' mean?"

"Half-step Bloom means that the magic power, the precision of magic power control and ability development are comparable to Bloom, but for various reasons, they have not been able to advance to Bloom. The main reason lies in their state of mind. Uh, this is the Qingyun Sect's saying. The state of mind is the intensity of the desire that a magical girl bursts forth in desperate situations. The more determined she is to believe in miracles, the stronger she will be."

Susan coughed, carefully choosing her words. Most of these were recorded in the internal documents of the North Sea Disaster Prevention Bureau. "Of course, most magical girls' advancement is just a momentary improvement in their state of mind. Because the desire at that moment transcends their own realm, they are promoted to a higher level. However, the Qingyun Sect believes that such advancement is not stable, the realm is superficial and weak, and they only have power."

For example, you, Iris.

This statement naturally came from Lady Ziyuan, also known as Jiang Si...

A momentary shift in mindset brings greater power, but in reality, the magical girl hasn't gained the mindset to truly control this power. Therefore, her hasty advancement leads to an unstable foundation, and even if she becomes a Blooming Flower, she has no advantage among those of the same level.

Therefore, within the Qingyun Sect, the sect leader requires his disciples, especially the true disciples, to lay a solid foundation and only improve their mental state when it is sufficient.

According to the internal chat of the Qingyun Sect, all the true disciples are capable of advancing to the Flourishing Stage, but they lack the corresponding mental state and are thus suppressed.

Even Lord Dongjun had the right mindset, but for some reason he was unwilling to be promoted.

The disciples of Qingyun Sect all guessed that she wanted to accumulate strength and then make a breakthrough, advancing to the peak of the Blooming Realm in one go, comparable to the Sect Master.

“The peak of the early stage of Blooming means that you have only recently entered the Blooming stage. Your mental state is not yet stable, but your basic abilities are adequate.” Susan added after saying that, “Of course, this is just what I heard.”

Iris ignored the bureau chief incubator at this point and continued to ask, "Besides that, do you know the more specific realm divisions of the Qingyun Sect?"

"I know a little," Susan replied. "The original four major realms are further divided into four minor realms and four minor extreme realms. The four minor realms are: early stage, middle stage, late stage, and perfect stage."

"The Four Extreme Realms are the initial peak, the middle peak, the late peak, and the peak perfect."

"If we break it down further, each minor realm is divided into nine levels, which the Qingyun Sect calls the 'Magical Girl Nine Revolutions Ascension Method'."

"Each revolution has strict requirements for magical power and control precision. Most newly promoted magical girls can only be assigned to the initial first revolution. After nine revolutions, accumulating one more revolution's worth of magical power to reach the tenth revolution can be called the minor extreme realm, which is the initial peak."

"I see. It seems that Dong-kun's opinion of me is not so low after all."

Iris quickly grasped the key point: "But if one continues to accumulate demonic power after the tenth revolution, will one still only be at the current minor realm?"

Susan nodded, inwardly admiring the other's intelligence and keen insight. "Our internal data shows that after the magical girls of the Qingyun Sect reach the Minor Extreme Realm, they are required to develop their abilities. Only after creating new abilities can they advance to the next Minor Realm."

"It seems that the criteria for evaluating new abilities are different for each major realm. However, the Qingyun Sect has not specified the exact requirements, but it is speculated that they generally increase with the advancement of the major realm."

"It is said that because the Qingyun Sect has strict requirements for ability development, many magical girls in the Qingyun Sect who are bad at developing their abilities will get stuck at the extreme level, accumulating magic power again and again... Some people's magic power has long exceeded ten levels."

Iris listened intently, "What about advancing to a higher realm?"

Susan nodded, "Advancing to a higher realm requires undergoing tribulation."

What is tribulation?

"It's that process where magical girls erupt in despair." Susan wasn't entirely sure either. "Something like that."

"I see." Iris said admiringly. "Accurate and professional."

The bureau chief, who was incubating the incubator, was quickly confused. "What is all this nonsense? What does 'Nine Revolutions' mean? What are minor and major realms? Why is there a tribulation?"

The General Administration's country bumpkins.

Susan inwardly scoffed, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if the director doesn't know. Anyway, it's just the Qingyun Sect's own realm classification, which may not be universally applicable. Our Disaster Prevention Bureau's classification is already sufficient."

You might as well drown in your garbage Four Realms system.

The bureau chief nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes, our own is enough..."

"That's not true, Chief!"

Iris suddenly shouted, interrupting the director's words. Her face was serious. "I've long felt that the division of ranks within the bureau is too crude. When I was a new magical girl, many new magical girls couldn't beat me at all, but they were still treated as new magical girls like me and carried out the same missions."

"Now that they've reached the peak of their bloom, the abilities of the Lark are vastly different from most of the other bloomers, yet they are still considered to be of the same level. Is this really reasonable?"

Iris took a deep breath and touched her chest. "The fight with Dongjun of Qingyun Sect shocked me greatly. This is the first time I've seen a magical girl in the seedling stage achieve this level. It shows that they have a better training method than the General Administration, and their realm division is more reasonable than ours."

The bureau chief stared in disbelief at the magical girl.

"You weren't like this before, Iris. You actually take the village rules and regulations of this remote area so seriously?"

“Because judging from the results, their realm division has indeed created a new seedling-level magical girl who can rival Sheng Zhan.” Iris shook her head. “We should not underestimate them. The Qingyun Sect is probably much more powerful than we imagined.”

The director sighed, "This is really not something you would say. But since even Iris has said so, it seems that the Qingyun Sect is indeed much stronger than we expected. I'll ask the headquarters for another Blooming Magical Girl to provide support as soon as possible."

Susan immediately chimed in, "Sending a Blooming-level magical girl is dangerous enough, isn't it? The A-rank monsters in North China have always been a serious problem. Sending another one might cause trouble, wouldn't it?"

"It has nothing to do with this."

Iris raised her head proudly and said, "I don't need any support. I am the Blooming Magical Girl Iris! Moreover, although I acknowledge their realm classification, I do not acknowledge the realm they assigned to me. I want them to know that I am not just some early-stage peak Blooming Magical Girl, but a super-full-scale Blooming Magical Girl."

"It is the pinnacle of perfection."

Iris nodded. "Oh, right, it's the peak of the Blooming Realm! Or even higher, the Super Peak of the Blooming Realm!"

"However, based on the difference in ability, they are also divided into half-step peak of the Great Perfection."

"And how were they divided?"

"In short, being at the peak of the Half-Step Blooming Realm means you're almost there, but not by much..."

Susan didn't really understand either, and even Lady Fuyu didn't quite understand it; only Lady Shion herself knew about this classification.

Anyway, there's no need to explain it to these country bumpkins from the General Administration; they wouldn't understand even if I made up a few things.

Although Susan felt that the Disaster Management Bureau was not worthy of using the realm classification of their Qingyun Sect, Iris's desire for enlightenment was commendable, so explaining it to her was not a bad idea.

The Qingyun Sect has always opened the path to enlightenment to everyone, and strictly forbids its disciples from obstructing or ignoring others' pursuit of enlightenment.

From this perspective, the Sect Master, Jiang Si, has a remarkably broad mind...

Iris listened attentively and finally nodded in deep agreement, "An excellent theory, enough to become the new cornerstone of magical girls' future. Once I capture Shion, I'll have her give me a more detailed and specific classification and the reasons for it."

Susan glanced at her: "Even Fuyu-kun is so difficult to deal with, are you sure Shion will be alright?"

“Even if the two of us team up, I still won’t lose,” Iris said proudly, raising her chin. “You can rest assured.”

Then he looked at the bureau chief:
"Director, once we understand the detailed principles behind this realm classification system, I will apply to the General Administration to request that all Disaster Management Bureaus use this realm classification system together!"

The incubator covered his forehead.

"Are you sure? This system of realm classification has been in use for so many years; the ancestral laws cannot be changed. We'll probably encounter a lot of resistance when the time comes; making changes within the General Administration is very difficult."

“It’s time for a change. If others can’t do it, then I will.” Iris smiled slightly. “I’ve had enough of being grouped with a bunch of magical girls who are not as good as me. It’s also unfair to the other stronger magical girls. A more detailed division can also help to distribute tasks more accurately, so that magical girls don’t receive tasks that are beyond their capabilities.”

"Most importantly, I want to obtain the title of Peak Perfection in Bloom!"

　I've managed to write 10,000 words in two days; I'm almost at the double-update stage. I've done my best, everyone!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)