I raised a Nascent Soul Transformation cultivator!

When Shion was blasted beyond the world by three immense rules, her first feeling was one of relief and pride.

She barely managed to keep up with her Master.

Ever since taking over White Fox's training, Shion had been having a headache.

Guiding her emotions was one thing, but the subsequent path to becoming a god seemed to rely on luck.

No matter how she looked at it, White Fox's talent couldn't compare to the true Sea God. In short, Shion was at a complete disadvantage when it came to her disciple's potential.

It was only through her meticulous guidance and teaching that White Fox finally succeeded in seeking gold and achieving Full Bloom...

Meanwhile, according to Azure Cloud Sect's ranking system, Flourishing Branches equaled Nascent Soul, Cycle Sea was also called Immortal Platform, and Full Bloom was unquestionably Nascent Soul Transformation. She could now go around showing off her teaching credentials.

Although it did require supplementary lessons from the Mirror Kingdom to some extent.

But being able to find a tutor was also part of her ability. After all, only Mirror Kingdom's technology could help White Fox succeed in seeking gold. This was called rational use of teaching resources.

The Mirror Kingdom's technology was truly beyond imagination. Even Shion wasn't entirely clear how they managed to mass-produce Iris's half-finished Full Bloom Miracle Seeds.

Not to mention achieving the ability to use them together with other seeds to complete a second transformation.

Although Shion knew the Mirror Kingdom could replicate Iris's Full Bloom Miracle Seeds, directly conducting secondary development on Iris's Full Bloom seeds, faking a Full Bloom, and enabling Magical Girls to transform again—even Shion had to admit it was impressive.

Back then, she had gone through tremendous effort to find the path of secondary transformation through world bubbles, thereby stepping into the realm of "Immortal Platform Triple Body Integration: Taiyi True Position Golden Core Nascent Soul Fusion Nascent Soul Transformation Candidate."

Yet the Mirror Kingdom had achieved the effect of secondary transformation just through technology.

Even so, without a Mental Landscape, no matter how hard a Magical Girl tried, the result was ultimately a fake Full Bloom or an incomplete Full Bloom. That was the nature of the Dao path. Jade Fox's effect through the Dream Core was a fake Full Bloom.

And there was only one way to obtain a Mental Landscape—undergoing the Mental Landscape Trial, or having an Incubator enable a Magical Girl to obtain it in the old world through other means. The Emperor had acquired her Mental Landscape that way.

But aside from the fact that only the Emperor received such treatment, the Incubator had no reason to provide this kind of assistance to the Mirror Kingdom.

This could be learned from Central Bureau's Jincha and others.

Although the Disaster Control Bureau was useless in many ways, when it came to Incubator-related intelligence, no one else knew more than them.

Through her understanding of various Mirror Kingdom technologies, Shion boldly speculated that Prince Itaen intended to seize or replicate other Magical Girls' Mental Landscapes to achieve the final Full Bloom.

Because this technique of "Seizing and Stripping" perfectly embodied the imagery of "Heavenly Fire"!

All treasures gathered into my store.

Shoot the arrow first, then draw the target. Only in this way could the Prince and the Mirror Kingdom truly complete the plan of "Heavenly Fire Attainment"!

Afterward came careful verification. The three members of Azure Cloud Sect would provide the Prince with a Mental Landscape to help her achieve Heavenly Fire Attainment.

Even so, Shion wasn't entirely certain. Everything was merely deduced through her knowledge of web novels. If the Prince herself was simply an arrogant and overly confident person without any means of seizing Mental Landscapes or completing true Full Bloom, it wouldn't be surprising.

But she didn't suspect the Prince.

The Prince possessed the boldness and confidence to command the old world, and it wasn't unfounded. She had a clear understanding of her own abilities and limits—she was a rather excellent ruler.

Itaen must be capable of it, which was why she acted.

The only thing that puzzled Shion was how Itaen could be so sure Shion wouldn't disrupt her plan.

If Shion and the other Azure Cloud Sect disciples hadn't used their Mental Landscapes to suppress the three incomplete Full Blooms, the Mirror Kingdom would have suffered a complete defeat...

Come to think of it, Shion remembered there were supposed to be four Full Blooms. Why hadn't the last one from South China appeared?

But by now, she didn't care much about that anymore.

Because at this moment, she was outside the world.

Shion looked up toward the higher realms but didn't see the World Tree she had glimpsed before. Everything was pitch black.

Beyond the world was a void.

No World Tree visible, no path to follow, let alone the so-called Chongxu or Witch Association.

In this chaotic void, Shion couldn't see anything at all—not even the way back. Only suffocating darkness surrounded her.

As if she would be trapped here forever.

Like a speck in the ocean, the girl raised her hand in the void. A faint wisp of flame emerged from her fingertip, thin and delicate like a candle about to be extinguished.

Then the firelight exploded in the chaos!

It seemed to burn through the void and darkness itself, growing and spreading without cease!

The shape of a blade squeezed out from the light, followed by the back of the axe, then the handle. Eventually, it transformed into a Heaven-Cleaving Axe larger than Shion herself.

The world was a void; naturally, it needed to be split open. The primordial chaos legends had long recorded this.

Holding the flowing purple flaming great axe with one hand, Shion slammed it heavily against the boundary of the void world!

The entire world trembled under her terrifying Pangu Heaven-Cleaving Axe!

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Above the new world, in the sky.

After blasting Shion beyond the world, White Fox and the others were momentarily stunned.

They hadn't expected it to be so easy to exile this nightmare of theirs.

The others remained silent, their gazes vacant.

The heavens and earth fell into stillness. The whole of East China, West China, and North China was somewhat dazed.

Especially Beihai. Although everyone in Beihai was worried about Lady Shion—

After all, she was the hero who had long protected all of Beihai. No matter how powerful she was, people would still worry. Not a single mistake could be tolerated.

But no one had ever imagined that the Magical Girl Shion would lose.

For the Magical Girls and employees of the Beihai Disaster Control Bureau, it was nearly impossible to picture a scene where Shion would one day be defeated.

That girl had always seemed unimaginably powerful, her victories as natural as breathing...

People only worried about whether she would be injured, how long it would take her to win. They never thought she would lose. In fact, even the idea of her getting hurt was hard for many to imagine.

Casually crushing her opponents—that was the Sect Master of Azure Cloud Sect, the true Magical Girl Shion.

So much so that after Shion was blasted beyond the world by the power of three Full Blooms, all the people of Beihai simply waited for her to return from outside.

Until the spatial rift beyond the world closed, and everything settled into finality.

It signified that Shion would never come back.

The Central Bureau descended into chaos first.

Qingluan kept taking calls from the Disaster Control Bureau, back and forth, until even she started to feel unsettled.

Yes, if it were just disappearance, it wouldn't be so terrifying.

What was terrifying was that all of Shion's aura, all her mana, had vanished without a trace.

Even Azure Cloud Sect had no response. Normally, if there were no problems, Winter would likely come out to explain.

But now, even Winter couldn't be reached.

Looking around, Qingying smiled bitterly. The only one confident around her was Iris, who was eating the ice cream Qingying had treated her to and playing the Magical Girl Idol Project game.

"Don't worry. How could something like this defeat my destined rival? She's just temporarily gone. One day, she will return like lightning!"

Qingluan merely stuck her head out of the car window and looked up at the sky.

The three Full Bloom Magical Girls who had sealed Shion let out loud laughter, but their laughter sounded almost like crying.

"The old world is saved! We've defeated Shion!"

White Fox landed on a tall building.

She muttered in a daze, "Yeah, Shion lost. We won."

But soon, she heard someone shouting through a huge loudspeaker, as if trying to broadcast to the entire world.

"Shion hasn't lost! You bunch of despicable cowards!"

White Fox froze for a moment, then turned her head to look at Beihai—

The city the Magical Girl Shion had protected ever since her birth.

In the restless city, all the citizens seemed to be going mad.

Many people of Beihai emerged from their homes. Some contacted the Disaster Control Bureau, some contacted Azure Cloud Sect. Some grabbed weapons and foolishly charged straight at her!

But Azure Cloud Sect disciples quickly appeared, constantly trying to calm the rioting Beihai citizens, telling them it was fine, the Sect Master would be okay.

Yet even the Azure Cloud Sect disciples themselves were uneasy. How could they possibly soothe the people?

After all, that was the combined all-out strike of three Full Blooms!

Anyone with even a basic understanding of Magical Girls would know the weight of three Full Blooms. And on top of that, Shion's Mental Landscape had been stripped away...

But rather than sadness or fear,

The citizens of Beihai seemed filled with rage—boundless rage directed at her.

The entire city felt as if Shion were still there. The people's negative emotions boiled over, burning with terrifying Polluted Magic.

They wanted to devour her!

White Fox couldn't help but take a step back.

Suddenly, she remembered when Mother Jade Fox was defeated by Shion. The people of Black Mountain Realm had also been this frenzied and furious.

To them, she was a terrifying existence like a natural disaster.

But to the residents of this city, she was their most trusted and admired hero.

Constantly seeking hope, defeating enemies—at the same time, she was snuffing out others' hope, pushing them into the abyss of despair.

That was why her mother had eventually fallen into self-doubt and hesitation.

Was this really what it meant to be a Magical Girl?

But her Master said: Don't hesitate.

If you're going to do it, see it through to the end. Regret and guilt after hurting others are just the self-pity of hypocrites.

Do your best, never regret. Even if avengers come knocking, don't beg for mercy, don't confess, don't make excuses.

Even in defeat, let the avenger complete their revenge thoroughly. Never share your thoughts or struggles with them.

Let them feel they've killed a bastard and be satisfied with their vengeance.

So, from now on, she just had to bear the responsibility, protect Beihai like Shion did.

Find a way, in her own way, to let everyone survive.

No matter how much hatred or revenge came her way.

She would never look back.

But just as the three of them were about to leave the new world, a sudden voice came from behind:

"Fellow Daoist, please stay!"

They turned around nervously, and before each of the three Full Bloom Magical Girls flew an identical person.

"...Super White Fox?"

Above West China, Qianying was the first to recognize the girl who had flown before her. She relaxed.

That's right. Simo Tu's subordinate, an incredibly powerful Magical Girl known for her clones. Back at the old world meeting, she had shown off her divine might, using thousands of clones to beat Qianying into a pulp.

Qianying's shameful defeat became the biggest joke among the old world alliance during that period. The notoriously arrogant Mirror Kingdom Prince had even bluntly said back then, "The Great Forest Realm challenging my beloved like that—truly, they've thrown away both face and honor."

Thinking of this, Qianying's expression turned awkward as she looked at the other.

Above East China and North China, White Fox and Water in the Spring also recognized Simo Tu-sama's capable subordinate. They saw three Super White Foxes grinning and swaggering over.

They all gave a thumbs-up: "Congratulations, everyone."

Then, with a look of emotion, the crowd of women suddenly heard her recite in a long drawl:

"Millennia of earthly immortals vanish with the wind; today, three kings return to the Azure Clan;"

"The sun's fierce sorrow—who has no defeat? Rolling up the dust, return to claim the crown again!"

"All fellow Daoists have successfully attained the Full Bloom rank. From now on, the salvation of the world is within reach."

"Congratulations, congratulations!"

White Fox silently looked at her, recalling her Master's introduction:

Senior Super White Fox—she loves to pick fights with those stronger than herself...

Magical Girl Qianying remained wary: "What are you here for?"

"Simo Tu-sama is dead. I no longer care about right or wrong," the girl calling herself Super White Fox said with a slight smile. "I've only come to congratulate the three of you and see you off!"

Hearing the name "Simo Tu" from the girl's mouth, the three Magical Girls felt a pang of loss. Not to mention White Fox, even Water in the Spring and Qianying remembered that Simo Tu-sama had always stood on the front lines against Azure Cloud Sect, and had done great service for the old world.

The Full Bloom Plan's name "Heavenly Fire Attainment" was chosen by Simo Tu-sama. But now that they had succeeded, the man had ridden away on the Calamity Dragon...

For a moment, all three felt a sharp pain in their hearts.

Simo Tu-sama...

It hurt. It really hurt. So painful it felt like their hearts were being torn apart...

As White Fox dazedly looked down, she saw a two-colored arm of ice and fire.

It had already pierced through her chest from behind.

At the same time, Water in the Spring and Qianying stared blankly at the cold arm protruding from their own chests, their faces full of confusion.

"Huh?"

So it really was the pain of a heart being torn apart?

Before the three Full Bloom Magical Girls could speak,

The world shook again!

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That axe strike must have hit the world below.

Shion watched the chaos beneath her begin to tremble, faint glimmers of light appearing, and raised an eyebrow.

Although her purple mana could illuminate the world, in this pitch-black void, the light was devoured by the darkness instead. It could barely illuminate anything farther away.

Under this strike, Shion felt the surrounding environment tremble, but nothing abnormal occurred.

The darkness remained. The void remained. It only shook slightly before everything returned to dead silence, like an eternal prison.

Shion didn't care. She simply gathered more mana, continuing to extend her Heaven-Cleaving Axe.

The great axe, originally only half her size, gradually grew larger, until it was like a small mountain.

She slammed it down again!

She heard something crack. The world trembled more violently, but quickly calmed down again.

A corner of her mouth lifted. Shion relaxed.

It seemed the feedback was weak because her strength wasn't enough.

Having confirmed this, she stopped worrying.

For Shion, it had been a long time since she had fought with all her might.

In this place, there were no obstacles or speed bumps. She didn't have to worry about too much, constantly holding back with precise mana control to protect others.

She could release her power freely!

The great axe expanded again!

Mana poured in continuously, constructing each inch of the Pangu Heaven-Cleaving Axe as it greedily devoured the void, expanding and expanding!

Until the axe had grown to an unimaginable size.

The enormous axe formed from freely unleashed mana made her look incredibly small. Like an ant, she clung to an imperceptible notch at the end of the axe handle. Even the tiniest crack appeared to her as a terrifying abyss.

A true axe that could cleave heaven and earth.

The girl, as small as a sesame seed or an ant, gently gripped the axe handle.

There was no need to gather strength or roar. There wasn't even a prelude of wind and clouds. Shion simply closed her five fingers, and the enormous axe that could crush the sky obediently lay in her palm, like a lightweight toy.

Under her effortless swing, the terrifying Pangu Heaven-Cleaving Axe smashed down.

The pitch-black world finally let out an unbearable whimper!

The surrounding chaos rapidly receded and split apart. A terrible crack spread straight out from the center of the chaos, like a standard dividing line!

To the left of the crack, it rose, forming a somewhat empty sky. To the right of the crack, it sank, forming a somewhat broken earth.

After heaven and earth separated, everything finally became clear in her vision.

Shion looked up and saw veins spreading across the sky.

Around each vein were severed independent spaces. In the faint distance, she could see reflections of certain cities.

The veins of the world pieced together these independent spaces,

Forming leaves.

Though she still couldn't see the World Tree outside, she could basically tell

That she was on the outer layer of the world, but still inside one of the world's leaves. She should be in some sort of pocket dimension.

Just as she raised the great axe again, preparing to split the sky open,

A pitiful wail came from afar.

"What exactly do you want?!"

Shion turned her head to look. A girl was sitting on the ground, her face covered in blood, tears streaming down.

"Still chopping! Still chopping! If you keep chopping, we'll all die!"

Shion glanced at her indifferently and said nothing.

She simply raised the great axe again and smashed it fiercely toward the sky!

"Stop smashing! It'll really break!"

The girl had already fallen to her knees, desperately kowtowing to Shion. "Please, Fengqin begs you! Spare us! This world can't take this kind of torment anymore!"

The enormous axe, huge enough to make both girls look like ants, was pulled to a halt just before the sky, despite the terrifying momentum of the strike.

The girl, who had been kowtowing, froze. She wiped away tears, snot, and blood, looking up at the great axe that had stopped mere millimeters from the sky. For a moment, she even forgot to wail.

"Oh my god, how did you do that..."

"Who are you?"

Hearing Shion's question, the girl snapped to attention. She immediately stood up, puffing out her chest slightly,

As if regaining some confidence. "My name is Fengqin. I'm the leader of the Dream Incubator organization, guardian of the wor—"

The enormous axe turned and swung straight down toward her head!