She was being hunted down, so she became a magical girl.

"What's going on up ahead? Why is it so noisy?"

Xu Ting parked the car at the foot of the mountain, and the temple was just a short walk up the mountain road.

But on the other side of the mountain, there was a great commotion, with shouts and curses echoing through the night sky.

"It's two groups fighting, isn't it?" The crow had a unique perspective and had already seen the scene clearly.

"Fire? I didn't hear any gunshots?" Xu Ting said, somewhat puzzled.

"Not everyone in the downtown area is a gangster, always risking their life to fight," Crow said.

"The fight was between two nearby residential areas. One side felt that their electricity supply had been stolen, while the other insisted that they hadn't done anything."

"They talked for a long time but couldn't reach an agreement, so they started fighting."

"However, both sides exercised restraint, using only low-lethal weapons such as machetes, daggers, and steel pipes. The combat personnel with cybernetic bodies were on standby in the reserve, and no firearms were used."

"After all, this is where they live, and they don't want things to get too big and hurt themselves."

Shells don't discriminate; if your house gets bombed, you'll have nowhere to cry.

Insurance companies never insure houses, especially houses in the downtown area.

"Since they are just two groups of ordinary people, then it has nothing to do with us."

Xu Ting walked up the mountain and said.

She quickly arrived at the temple gate. It was already late at night, and the gate was tightly closed. Xu Ting leaped over the wall and landed in the courtyard.

Then they looked at each other in bewilderment with the monks who were sweeping the courtyard.

"Still not asleep this late?" Xu Ting thought to himself, grinning.

Crow rolled its eyes at Xu Ting: "The fight next door is so loud, how are people supposed to sleep?"

Left with no other choice, Xu Ting had to summon his magic and prepare to use the Eye of Fear.

But the monk was neither alarmed nor wary of her intrusion. He simply put his hands together in a gesture of respect to her and continued sweeping the floor as if nothing had happened.

this......

Xu Ting hesitated for a moment, but still did not take drastic measures against the mute monk.

She simply marked the mute monk to prevent him from running out of the mountain gate to seek help.

"This monk seems to know a lot," said the crow. "Perhaps he already knew you'd come back?"

"Maybe they just have a natural talent," Xu Ting said casually.

"Get to work. Didn't you say that we could open the barrier with the token?"

The crow immediately became serious. It used its claws to pick up the golden leaf that Xu Ting had taken out and flew back to the backyard where the barrier had been discovered.

Then, it infused the leaves with black magic, causing them to darken and turn black, but ultimately retaining their overall golden color.

After completing this step, it loosened its claws, allowing the leaves to float in the air.

A bright golden light shone from the ground deep within the temple.

Golden light began to gather at the leaves, like guards checking the pass pass.

The leaves rustled for a moment, the pass was confirmed, and the guards began to return to their posts.

But black magic instantly burst forth from the leaves, binding all the golden light. The dark magic corroded the golden light just as it corroded the leaves, turning them into its puppets.

"Xu Ting, do you see the door ahead? Hurry up and go in!"

A phantom image suddenly appeared in the open space deep inside the temple; it was the shape of a door.

"Only now can you bypass the limitations of the Ascension level and enter the barrier!"

Without further hesitation, Xu Ting accelerated and rushed towards the illusory figure.

After she burst through the door, a whole new world unfolded before her eyes.

The temple was still the same temple; she hadn't arrived at a new place, but a small pagoda had suddenly appeared on the once empty wasteland.

"This barrier conceals the building." The crow dispersed its magic and picked up the leaf.

"Don't stray too far from this tower, or you might accidentally wander outside the barrier."

"How amazing!" Xu Ting exclaimed. "We explored the entire area before and never realized there was a tower hidden here."

The crow explained:

"That's because the tower has been hidden in another dimension within the barrier. If you don't activate the barrier, you'll never encounter it in your entire life."

It looked up at the small tower and said:

"It seems that the monk really knows a lot."

"This small tower is clearly part of the temple, but Shaohua pulled it into the barrier."

"The monk saw that he knew or even tacitly approved of Shaohua's behavior, so he was not surprised by your arrival."

Xu Ting nodded and asked:

"There shouldn't be any danger inside the tower. I scanned it and only detected residual golden magic."

The crow answered:

"We entered normally with the token, so even if there were guard mechanisms, they shouldn't have been activated."

"I didn't detect any danger, so you can go in without worry."

Normal entry...

What's normal about it?

Xu Ting entered the tower, which was pitch black inside. All the candles hanging on the walls had been extinguished, leaving only charcoal residue.

"It looks like no one is protecting it."

Xu Ting summoned a magic ball, and the red magic illuminated the pitch-black corridor.

Under the red light, the carvings and Buddha statues inside the pagoda appeared particularly ferocious. The Buddha's body was outlined with a blazing red light, and his wrathful eyes and fangs looked especially terrifying in the reflection.

Even so, Xu Ting remained completely unmoved by the sight.

Her thoughts were completely elsewhere.

"It smells like a dead person."

Xu Ting sniffed and frowned as he spoke.

"He's been dead for some time now, maybe a week or more. The ventilation here is terrible, so my judgment of the time might not be accurate."

She tried to scan with the magic ball, but was interfered with by the magic of the Tower of Youth.

Sure enough, just like the underground facilities on the floating island, this place also prevents magical detection.

Xu Ting had no choice but to follow the stench of the corpse into the tower.

The stench was coming from above, so Xu Ting climbed the stairs. The wooden stairs creaked and groaned in the darkness, as if they would break at any moment.

Fortunately, Xu Ting reached the destination room before the stairs broke.

The stench of the corpse was clearly coming from the room in front of them.

Xu Ting held a magic shield in front of him and cautiously opened the door.

A highly decomposed corpse lay in the center of the room.

It had been dead for some time and was in the most terrifying "giant" stage, where the hydrogen sulfide and methane that could not be expelled properly were swelling the body's chest and abdomen, making it swell like a balloon.

Its skin turned dark green and dirty purple, and due to the decay of the subcutaneous blood vessels, a dark red network of veins bound its body like a red rope.

A nauseatingly sweet and putrid stench emanated from its body, along with the rustling sound of insects eating away at it. Xu Ting forced himself to suppress his nausea and looked at the corpse's face.

Ignoring the excessively protruding eyeballs and everted tongue, its facial features are largely intact.

This is a female corpse.

Who is she? Why did she die here?

Xu Ting felt a sudden, extremely ominous feeling rise in her heart. She subconsciously looked at the crow beside her, and the crow gave her an equally ominous answer.

"Judging from the remaining magic..."

"The corpse before me is Shaohua."

"The magical girl we're looking for."

The crow spoke solemnly.