Magic: Reincarnate from high-voltage electricity at the start, level up independently.

After receiving the spinach leaves, the three of them swallowed them all without hesitation.

"With the powerful spinach swallowed, my fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens!"

Xu Wan tilted her head back and laughed proudly.

Moments later, the girl felt her blood surging wildly, burning intensely, and her skin rapidly turning red and hot, as if she were being scorched by flames. She frowned, enduring the excruciating pain.

Wang Qiang, standing beside him, had the exact same reaction.

Yang Xueli stood in front of the two, her expression serious, meticulously recording every change in their bodies.

The white-haired girl stood quietly to the side, watching without showing any sign of anything amiss.

"Is my resistance to medication too high?" she murmured to herself, pondering to herself.

Yang Xueli walked slowly to Chu Ge, looked her up and down a few times, and asked curiously, "Do you feel anything unusual about your body?"

"no."

"understood."

Before long, Xu Wan's body underwent a second change.

Her long hair, eyebrows, and even her delicate eyelashes all loosened and fell out, one by one, falling to the ground. In an instant, she was completely bald, with not a single hair left.

Upon seeing Xu Wan's appearance, the white-haired, vicious dog-like girl beside her couldn't help but let the corners of her mouth turn up slightly.

puff--

On the other side, Wang Qiang's face was contorted in pain, clearly indicating that he had also triggered his own unique mutation.

After a short while, the unusual phenomenon of their bodies turning red and hot gradually subsided, and their tense expressions gradually calmed down.

"I felt power."

Xu Wan lowered her head and clenched her fists, a continuous and powerful force surging through her limbs and bones.

She didn't care at all about her bald head. She walked straight to the strength testing machine, suddenly gathered her strength, and threw a punch.

boom--

A dull bang rang out, and a clear number appeared on the screen: 987kg.

She threw two more punches in quick succession, with the values ​​being almost identical, bringing her close to the 1,000 kilogram mark.

In other words, after swallowing the Power Spinach, her basic strength increased by nearly 500 kilograms.

Xu Wan smiled proudly, certain that she had made the right gamble.

However, by giving up his body hair, he instantly became a top-tier power master, making it a huge win.

only……

She subconsciously glanced at Chu Ge not far away, a hint of speechlessness flashing in her eyes.

Even with his immense power, he was still worlds apart from this white-haired monster.

But she firmly believed that given time, she would be able to completely surpass her opponent and make Chu Ge see clearly who was the real chuunibyou with the potential to become an emperor.

Wang Qiang then stepped forward, stood in front of the testing device, and threw three punches in succession.

678 kg.

681 kg.

680 kg.

"It's barely acceptable..." Wang Qiang murmured.

He clearly sensed the surging power within his body, and thought he could punch the instrument to its limit, but the gap was still huge.

But this scene, witnessed by the competitive Xu Wan, instantly made her furious:

"Damn it! Crooked-Mouthed Dragon King Qiang! You've actually gained 600 kilograms of strength, even more than me!"

"Teacher Yang said long ago that the rate of increase varies from person to person. It's normal that there's a gap between us now, isn't it?"

After Wang Qiang finished speaking casually, he uttered two words lightly:

"Idiot."

"you!"

Xu Wan gritted her teeth in anger, speechless for a moment. A question lingered in her mind: could it be that her talent was inferior to Wang Qiang's, hence the weaker amplification?

If Chu Ge knew of these thoughts, she would probably just shake her head and sigh silently.

Be happy if you get any improvement, but I didn't react at all throughout the whole process.

Of course... it's not entirely nonexistent.

Just moments ago, Chu Ge also briefly felt his blood surging and his body slightly warm, but it all vanished in just a few seconds.

Now that everything has calmed down, she vaguely sensed that her own strength had indeed increased slightly, though weakly, but at least more noticeably than when she was injected with the gene enhancement drug at the Demon Hunting Bureau.

After recording Xu Wan and Wang Qiang's strength data, Yang Xueli's gaze fell on Chu Ge, who remained unchanged throughout the process, and she wrote four words in her notebook: Continue to observe.

As I stepped out of the laboratory, the sun was setting, and only the last rays of the setting sun tinged the twilight sky.

"Could you please stop touching me?"

"It's just a bald head, what's so interesting about that!"

Xu Wan turned her head and glared at the white-haired girl beside her.

Ever since she lost all her hair, Chu Ge has been staring at her head. Not only that, he even touched it directly, which is infuriating.

"……Feel sorry."

Chu Ge withdrew his hand, his gaze lingering on her bald head for a moment, still reluctant to leave.

What a smooth head! I really want to reach out and tap it a couple of times to see how it feels and hear the sound of it cracking.

"Speaking of which, do you really not need to wear a wig?" Chu Ge asked.

Yang Xueli had already prepared a spare wig in advance.

Xu Wan flatly refused, claiming that she acted with integrity and honesty, and had no need to hide anything.

Such a strong and excellent character must have been inherited from his father, who held a public office and was honest and upright.

At least, that's what she thinks.

In the study of Donghai City, thousands of miles away, Mr. Xu, who was always of upright character, suddenly sneezed loudly without warning.

As night deepened, outside the cafeteria.

When Tang Xiaoran saw her best friend of over ten years appear before her with a completely bald head, her eyes suddenly welled up with tears, and she almost burst into tears on the spot.

Why did you do this to yourself?

"Why are you crying?" Xu Wan looked at her with a puzzled expression. "Do you think I'm the kind of person who's obsessed with appearances and is superficial and vain?"

After saying that, she rolled up her sleeves and pretended to be domineering, showing off muscles that didn't actually exist.

"Let me tell you, my punch now has the force of a full ton, bringing me one giant step closer to becoming a Great Emperor!"

"I will surely rule the world before Chu Ge does!"

However, Tang Xiaoran completely ignored her bold words and just stared at her intently, remaining silent for a long time.

With the bond of growing up together right in front of her, how could she not notice the shocking and hideous scars on Xu Wan's neck and arms that she had been deliberately concealing under her collar and sleeves?

She didn't know what Xu Wan had gone through, only that after the magic was restored, her once familiar friend became increasingly insane and paranoid, strange and terrifying.

She tried to persuade them, but to no avail.

She was terrified that one day she would lose him completely.

"Xu Wan, just keep chasing your mad path like this, keep degrading yourself!"

A tear fell to the ground with a thud. The girl wiped her tears, turned around, and rushed into the darkness, disappearing from sight.

Xu Wan stood frozen in the evening breeze, her expression blank and confused, unable to grasp the situation for a long time, only managing to utter four words softly:

"baffling."

late at night.

Goodnight, my lovely baby girl.

Goodnight, Sailor Moon.

Chu Ge hung up the call, ending her two-hour video chat with her mother.

Afterwards, she went up to the dormitory rooftop alone to prepare for her routine meditation.

It's so late; Xu Wan should have been on the rooftop practicing asceticism long ago.

Chu Ge thought to himself, and even prepared for the scene where he pushed open the door and bumped into the other party practicing the Great Thousand Records and then frantically stabbing him.

But when she went up to the rooftop, the entire open space was empty, without a single person in sight.

"Was something holding you back?"

That's her guess.

Based on Xu Wan's Dao heart and my understanding of her, I know she would never waste even a moment of her cultivation time.

Chu Ge walked to the edge of the rooftop, preparing to begin his cultivation alone, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a furtive figure in the distance, crouching against the wall and moving stealthily.

"...Xu Wan."

Chu Ge recognized the other person at a glance, not because he could see the face clearly, but because the shiny bald head under the cold moonlight was too conspicuous and dazzling.

She looked in the direction the other person was walking, her target pointing directly at the Magic Plant Garden, which was about 200 meters away.

The white-haired girl instantly guessed that the bald girl was definitely going to do something bad, like stealing chickens and dogs, and immediately planned to step forward to stop her.

She jumped from the tenth-floor rooftop, landed steadily, quickly caught up with the other person, and gently patted their shoulder.

"Holy crap!"

Xu Wan was so startled that she turned around abruptly, caught a glimpse of a figure, blurted out a curse, and immediately covered her mouth.

Only after recognizing Chu Ge did she breathe a sigh of relief, her face full of resentment:

"You scared me to death!"

"I'm sorry," Chu Ge apologized sincerely, then asked, "What were you doing at the Demon Plant Garden so late?"

"Shh! Keep your voice down!"

Xu Wan made a shushing gesture, cautiously scanning her surroundings. Once she confirmed no one was around, a sly, mischievous smile spread across her lips. In the cool moonlight, she lowered her voice and spoke:

"Time to steal farm veggies!"

Upon hearing this English sentence, Chu Ge was stunned for a long time before slowly shaking his head: "Actually—"

"I don't understand."

"...As expected of you."

Xu Wan looked at the white-haired girl in front of her, whose face was both serious and adorably dazed, and her eyelids twitched. She sighed and rubbed her forehead, slowing her speech and clearly enunciating each word:

"What I mean is—"

"It's time to steal vegetables!"

"OK? My dear underachiever, Miss Chu Ge?"

Xu Wan grinned and pinched the cheek of the girl in front of her.

OK.

This time, the white-haired girl nodded emphatically.

She understood those simple words perfectly.