"You know what? All stray wild cats are reincarnations of cat abusers from their past lives!"

The Magical Girl Mochi from the Beihai Civil Engineering Team followed behind Qingluan, continuously emphasizing, "People who abuse cats will become wild cats in their next life!"

Qingluan held a pen and paper, recording the construction progress near the worksite while checking the construction quality. "Oh, then I really should punish those cat abusers from their past lives."

Mochi was stunned for a moment, then immediately denied it. "Not all of them! Just some!"

"Better to kill a thousand by mistake than let one escape."

"Really, there's no need!"

Originally, Qingluan's assignment wasn't in Beihai. Xingxuan had gone with Thousand-Pinweed to establish the Azure Cloud Sect's Hogwarts Branch Sect. After separating from Xingxuan, she had been on standby in Anyang.

Because Anyang lacked a Blooming-tier Magical Girl captain to garrison it, after the last Heart Image Remnant incident, Anyang also formed an Azure Cloud Branch Sect. However, it only had two or three local Magical Girls.

There was only one Seedling, and she had just reached the Seedling tier with an unstable foundation. When the class B Disaster Beast appeared in Anyang last time, she was even injured.

Lady Winter had transferred the idle Qingluan to Anyang.

But in reality, it was just occasionally checking in on them, teaching classes for the few local Magical Girls, and passing on some of Azure Cloud's mana control techniques, including some minor spells.

The Azure Cloud Sect always placed great importance on the old leading the new. Although Qingluan hadn't been here long, she had already entered the Inner Sect and mastered the basic Azure Cloud courses.

After teaching the Magical Girls in Anyang during this period, the three newcomers actually improved very quickly. After all, Anyang was relatively close to Beihai, and someone had cleared the Witch Association from the city after the Heart Image Remnant incident.

In reality, apart from the occasional threat from class B Disaster Beasts, most of the time it was as leisurely as a vacation.

Once the three local Magical Girls gained the ability to handle class B Disaster Beasts, they didn't really need Qingman's help anymore. And Qingluan herself didn't want to stay in such a backwater place—in her view, teaching newcomers every day and occasionally dealing with Disaster Beasts that weren't even class B was no different from exile.

She wanted to return to Beihai and enter Azure Cloud's core management. On one hand, it would be more convenient to contact Iris in the future. After all, now that she was a disciple under the Azure Cloud Sect, she couldn't just casually go play with Iris.

And the Central Bureau wasn't willing to let Iris out casually either. This was one of the Central Bureau's few Magical Girls close to Full Bloom, treasured like a precious gem, not even letting the Incubators get within half a step.

They were all researching how to enter this semi-Full Bloom state to boost the Central Bureau's strength and overtake Azure Cloud.

On the other hand, although Azure Cloud promised Qingluan they would enter the Magic Kingdom to help retrieve her senior's Miracle Seed and find a way to wake her senior up, ultimately, her position was too low. The priority of such a promise wasn't high. To get everyone in the Azure Cloud Sect to help save her senior, she needed to climb to a higher position.

Just as the Azure Cloud Sect's principle stated: in all matters, rely on yourself.

After her repeated requests, Lady Winter finally transferred her back to Beihai. However, her first assignment upon returning was this: overseeing the Disaster Control Bureau's civil engineering projects.

Although somewhat helpless, when she thought about it, there really wasn't much else she could do. In terms of combat, Beihai had plenty of true-transmission and inner-sect disciples; it wouldn't really be her turn anyway.

She heard Azure Cloud still didn't have a true-transmission administrative position. Qingluan actually wanted to take the administrative path to enter true-transmission, but she felt the hope wasn't very great...

"What did you feed the stray cat you took home yesterday?"

"Chicken bones and fish bones."

"Ah, no good!" Mochi almost jumped beside her. "Cats have delicate digestive systems! They can't eat those, it will hurt them!"

"No time to be fragile. It's been stewing all night."

Mochi was as if struck by lightning, standing frozen on the spot.

Regarding that cat-loving girl, Qingluan couldn't be bothered to care too much.

Calling it a stray cat was an understatement; it could practically be considered a Disaster Beast. It had been interfering with the construction progress. Mochi couldn't catch it, and couldn't bear to kill it, causing the project to stall for a while.

When Qingying arrived, her first task was to deal with that stray cat.

But she didn't actually kill it. She just took it home, stewed it with mana to purify the corrupted magic power, and then threw it away.

The current Qingluan didn't like keeping cats and had no interest in animals.

Because her actions were too rough when she took it away yesterday, Mochi always thought she was a cat abuser.

Qingying naturally didn't care.

"Senior, Senior Qingying!"

When they reached the next section, Mochi finally moved, running to her side. "How could you even eat cats!"

"I didn't eat it. Cat meat is sour, not tasty."

"Then why did you stew it!"

"Easy to handle."

Mochi was somewhat distraught, even stomping her foot.

Qingying finally looked up, glanced at Mochi, and then smiled.

"What's so funny..." Mochi complained softly.

"Nothing. Just feeling a bit nostalgic." Qingluan patted her head. Although Mochi was somewhat unwilling, Qingluan was, after all, a great senior and a Blooming-tier Magical Girl, so she ultimately stayed put obediently. "Pets are just pets, little Mochi."

"I know that..."

Just as Mochi wanted to retort something, her eyes suddenly lit up, looking past Qingying.

Qingying also turned her head to look. Yesterday's black stray cat had appeared at the construction site again.

"Senior, you're trying to scare me. It's clearly still fine."

"Maybe it just resurrected to come seek revenge on me."

"Don't treat me like a child to fool!"

Little Mochi smiled brightly, but didn't run to approach the stray cat. She was simply glad the kitten wasn't dead.

Qingluan shook her head, preparing to continue chasing the stray cat away and finishing the inspection of the remaining construction. She could report and rest for the day after that.

Boom!

A meteor abruptly crashed into the half-built building complex!

A rain of shattered stones and steel reinforcement bars buried the stray cat that hadn't had time to escape!

"Ah, the kitten!"

Mochi had just cried out when, the next second, another slash instantly cut through the building in front of them.

Electrical wires, glass, splashing coffee and coffee cups—the ones little Mochi bought earlier—metal and the piercing shriek of torn reinforced concrete accompanied a tsunami-like wave of dust, rushing to swallow the two of them!

Qingluan pulled Mochi behind her and casually swiped a card.

[Stellar Mark Descends: Passage Forbidden.]

The dust, glass shards, steel bars, and shattered stones were all intercepted in front of the two girls, rushing away to both sides.

Mochi was momentarily stunned, even forgetting about the crushed stray cat from earlier.

When she looked up, the figure that had crashed into the building flew up again...

No.

Mochi looked closely. That wasn't flying.

That guy was jumping!

He jumped directly into the sky, stepping on the scattered stones, leaping step by step upwards.

And at the very top was a Magical Girl wearing a Gothic-style dark red robe and a pointed witch hat.

At this moment, she had one hand pressing down her witch hat, the other resting on the broom beneath her, her black cloak fluttering dramatically behind her.

Originally, she was hovering quite dashingly and handsomely in the sky. However, that black figure, with three moves here and five moves there, stepped on those scattered stones and jumped up... Not to mention Qingying and Mochi watching from below.

Clearly, this Magical Girl dressed as a little witch hadn't reacted at all either.

Her ankle was grabbed in an instant. The black over-the-knee socks tore instantly due to the other party's force. The Magical Girl showed no panic, just chanted something under her breath.

Another colorless, transparent blade flashed past!

The youth who grabbed her ankle merely tilted his head, a small wound immediately appearing by the corner of his eye. Without hesitation, he yanked the ankle in his hand, swung it in a full circle, and fiercely hurled it towards the suburbs outside Beihai!

Mochi felt like she heard the roar of a cannonball. A massive amount of mud and soil surged up like exploding smoke, and even trees from the suburbs were sent flying into the city, directly piercing through a high-rise building's window!

And the youth in mid-air stepped on a stone beneath his foot again... or perhaps just the air, producing a sharp sonic boom as his entire body shot straight towards the falling little witch!

When everything quieted down, Qingluan looked at the devastated construction site and held her forehead.

"Ah, have to start over again..."

Meanwhile, Mochi beside her let out a shrieking sound. "Ahhhh! My building! My newly built building!"

She didn't even care about the cat anymore.

She directly ran to a parking area at a nearby construction site—where not only was there a bulldozer, but also a tractor.

Mochi looked fiercely at the constantly erupting earth and rocks in the distance, gripping the tractor's starting crank. Her posture and expression were as if she wasn't holding a tractor crank, but a hand-cranked Gatling gun. After a series of *chug-chug-chug* sounds, she finally got the tractor started.

Mochi plopped onto the tractor seat. The engine roared like a nine-million-dollar Maybach!

With a momentum that not even a deity could stop, she charged straight towards the suburbs!

"Give me back my building!"

Only then did Qingluan realize this tractor was actually her Magic Wand...

Sighing inwardly about how this truly was a talent with dual civil engineering spiritual roots, Qingluan also strode over to follow.

When she arrived at the suburbs, she saw densely packed World Ghosts.

They had descended.

...

"Simo Tu-sama, we have come to receive you."

Nearly a hundred customized Alice units landed one after another from the torn space.

Alice 10089 took a step forward, looking at Thousand-Pinweed being stepped on under Jiang Si's foot, and issued a stern warning. "Cease attacking Simo Tu-sama's shoe sole immediately, or Alice will proceed with elimination procedures against you!"

Both Jiang Si and Thousand-Pinweed, who had been fighting heatedly just moments ago, fell silent.

"Can't you see it's me getting beaten up!"

Thousand-Pinweed couldn't help but shout.

Her witch hat had been knocked flying, and now her loose hair was all messy.

She was already in a very bad mood.

The Sect Master always managed to strike at her most vulnerable moments during a fight, seizing openings, stealing turns, even interrupting her wind-up.

Although she hadn't won the previous fights with Senior Sister Bai Mei and Yumo, for Thousand-Pinweed, they were fought very satisfyingly. Even if she lost in the end, she was content and had made progress.

But fighting the Sect Master only left her feeling disgusted.

No less than fighting a furnace with a small round shield.

Utterly frustrating.

So from the beginning, Thousand-Pinweed had been bottling up a bellyful of depression and grievance.

And now, another roadside World Ghost popped up, seemingly mocking her, actually telling her to stop attacking the Sect Master's shoe sole!

Thousand-Pinweed stopped holding back. Fiendfyre directly activated on her own Magical Outfit—if she used it on Jiang Si, it would definitely get interrupted again. So this time, she seized the opportunity to use it on her outfit.

The tremendous explosion forced Jiang Si to push away. Without transforming, even he didn't dare to take Thousand-Pinweed's magic with his bare body.

Because almost all her magic now had Divine Sense reinforcement. His physical body, without mana protection, couldn't withstand it at all—in fact, even with mana protection he would get injured.

The enhancement effect of Divine Sense on magic was terrifyingly potent. Even Jiang Si found it troublesome and didn't dare to take it head-on.

Thousand-Pinweed, having flipped back up, first grabbed her witch hat. After putting it back on, she looked at Jiang Si and the hundreds of Alice units behind him, and took out her wand.

"Fiendfyre."

Dozens of Alice units immediately rushed to the front. They saw a strand of thick black smoke seep from the tip of the wand, slowly rolling and spreading.

Just as the Alice units charged halfway, the first cluster of flame abruptly burst from the black smoke!

The golden-red fire tongue emitted a low gurgling sound, like a waking heart beginning to pulse.

Then, it burst open, hurriedly and abruptly.

The exploding flames quickly took shape, transforming into a ferocious beast that opened its giant maw.

The dozens of Alice units *whooshed* in, slipping extremely smoothly into its mouth to be swallowed.

Then it gave a *burp*, exhaling a puff of black smoke. The body of the flame beast expanded another circle!

The blazing Fiendfyre was so intense that even Thousand-Pinweed found it hard to control, feeling a burning pain spreading over her body.

But Thousand-Pinweed didn't mind the pain. She stared fixedly at the distant Sect Master, her light blue eyes flickering.

With surging passion and wildness!

Fiendfyre, this most terrifying magic, prepared specifically for the Sect Master, the trump card to completely reverse the Harry Potter impression in one move!

"It's actually the Eight Desolation Fire Dragon."

Jiang Si's expression was grave, even carrying a trace of apprehension. "Without the Profound Fire Mirror, you can still activate the Eight Desolation Profound Fire Array!"

"Although it's Harry Potter's Fiendfyre magic... Whatever. In short, our Harry Potter magic can also achieve cultivation arrays!" Thousand-Pinweed fiercely pulled her wand. The fire dragon roared, heat waves spreading. "How about that, Jiang Si!"

"So even external paths can realize immortal techniques? You've really opened my eyes." Jiang Si nodded, full of appreciation. "Linglong."

"It's Thousand-Pinweed!"

The little witch retorted indignantly, then raised her head, waved her wand, and snorted. "You're deliberately calling me by the wrong name within a compliment to get my attention and try to win me over, aren't you? Well, too bad! I'm not a girl that easy to win over. Although your looks are in my strike zone, your personality and preferences don't quite match mine, so there's completely no possibility for now..."

"Save the chatter for after you win!"

Before Thousand-Pinweed could finish, Jiang Si took a step and arrived in front of the fire dragon. A steel pipe he had grabbed from somewhere slammed into the dragon's throat. The terrifying force directly drove the pipe through the dragon's throat!

However, Thousand-Pinweed merely waved her hand. The dragon just roared and lunged at Jiang Si again!

When he tried to pull out the steel pipe, he found the entire pipe had already melted.

Moreover, the part he was holding had turned into molten iron, sticking to his hand, sizzling and smoking.

The Alice units behind Jiang Si also sprang into action. Some rushed behind Thousand-Pinweed, some blocked in front of Jiang Si, and others pulled at Jiang Si, trying to make him escape.

Yet Thousand-Pinweed simply clenched her fist fiercely. The massive fire dragon exploded again! 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

This time, it was a giant serpent, along with dense flocks of fire crows and rats, surrounding Thousand-Pinweed tightly. Any Alice unit that approached instantly melted.

Everything around was turning into a molten state. The stone bricks and mud even began to vitrify. High temperatures distorted the light. The temperature gradually rose to a level completely impossible to resist.

"Escape!"

The Alice units immediately made the judgment. The Mirror Kingdom's own mirror surfaces reflected the constantly spewing flames and lava, including those fire rats, bats, and crows, completely disrupting the paths, making it impossible to attack the scattering, fleeing Alice units and the Jiang Si they were taking with them.

Thousand-Pinweed hesitated. Should it be about enough here?

However, she soon felt the Sect Master's gaze.

One part scorching heat, one part appreciation, one part favor, one part recognition, one part encouragement, one part passion, one part praise, one part affirmation, one part support, six-tenths commendation, three-tenths fervor, one-tenth approval.

Those eyes, without a doubt!

Were telling her—

Go all out! Don't worry too much!

Feeling the Sect Master's fervor, Thousand-Pinweed also ignited.

Through many hardships, daring to love and dare to act—this is the personality Thousand-Pinweed should have!

Thus, revealing an excited and carefree smile, she shouted loudly, "I won't care what happens next!"

"Less talk."

A strange light flashed in Alice 10089's eyes. She immediately captured this scene.

Recording: Lord Jiang Si has something going on with one of the Azure Cloud Sect's true-transmissions. This is likely the real reason he's being hunted by Shion... Unverified further speculation: Lord Jiang Si is secretly building a harem within the Azure Cloud Sect behind Shion's back. The Prince is under immense pressure...

Riding the fire serpent into the air—her broom had been broken by the Sect Master, so she couldn't fly for now, temporarily using the giant serpent as a mount. The Fiendfyre, which no one in Harry Potter could control, was docile in her hands, even unable to harm her.

In the massive pursuit, the waterfall-like swarm of fire crows finally caught up to the Alice unit carrying Jiang Si on the highway outside the suburbs, rapidly about to completely submerge Jiang Si and the Alice unit!

However, a violent gust of wind blew past. The flames were swept up by the wind, deviating from their target and scattering in all directions.

Thousand-Pinweed sharply looked up, staring at the Magical Girl manipulating the wind.

"Dandelion, what are you doing here?"

"Oops, didn't hold back."

Only during battle would Yumo reveal that unyielding, domineering side, as if the timid, shrinking girl from ordinary days was another person entirely. "Sorry. Your fire is just too weak."

"Seeing you struggle so much, I originally wanted to help, but who knew it would just get blown away like that. This mission really isn't suitable for you. Better let me handle it."

Thousand-Pinweed put on her pointed witch hat, glanced at Yumo, and laughed. "Looks like you're not satisfied with the result of our last match, huh? What, trying to steal credit?"

"The mission was always public. It never said it had to be yours." The gales around Yumo intensified, and the sky began to transform into a vortex!

"This time, I'll send you and that pile of scrap metal up to the sky together!"

"You can try!"

The moment the confrontational tone was uttered, the gale and flames intertwined and clashed. The atmosphere between the two instantly turned sharp!

Dandelion abruptly descended. Their wands clashed, then, leveraging the mana burst, they closed in.

Thousand-Pinweed lowered her voice. "What's the meaning?"

Yumo's voice was carried by the wind into her ear. "The Alice units are too weak. They can't withstand a full-force fake fight. Lady Winter said we should internally arrange to let them escape."

"Fine."

"And also, I want to beat you up."

"Got it. Me too!"

Boom!

Accompanied by the explosion of wind and fire, the two separated before colliding and exploding again!

Sure enough, the Alice units below were all stunned, not suspecting that the true-transmissions' actions were to let them escape.

They just seized the opportunity and immediately started running outward!

Among them, 10089 was even recording while running.

Shocking, big news, brand new intel. Lord Jiang Si actually caused two true-transmissions to fight over him. The previously speculated reason gains credibility. Further irresponsible speculation: Lord Jiang Si is secretly building a harem within the Azure Cloud Sect behind Shion's back. The Prince is under immense pressure...

However, Dandelion and Thousand-Pinweed attacked again. Flames and gales simultaneously blocked all the Alice units.

They couldn't make the act too fake.

They'd hold them back a little here. When they started fighting properly later, the Alice units would have plenty of chances to run.

But.

Thousand-Pinweed looked at Yumo above her, revealing a passionate and confident smile.

This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

To truly defeat Dandelion.

And Yumo clearly harbored the same thought. The two just exchanged a glance and immediately understood each other's intention.

Here, in front of the Sect Master, determine the winner at the fastest speed!

Fiendfyre roared as it charged towards the sky. However, the gale howled, easily diverting the all-consuming flames, guiding them to surge away on both sides.

Yumo's gale similarly found it difficult to get within half a step of Thousand-Pinweed.

At this point, no extra words were needed.

Both pressed a hand to their chests.

Almost in unison.

"Mental Landscape—"

To imbue their magic with unerring accuracy and decide the victor!

"—Expand!"

However, a third voice also chimed in simultaneously.

Both Thousand-Pinweed and Yumo were stunned, quickly looking up.

A pitch-black domain, carrying unstoppable gravity, squeezed into both of their Mental Landscapes!

The fire roaring within Hogwarts, the thunder churning within the Valley of Wind, and the pitch-black Mental Landscape like the moon all expanded simultaneously.

The three Mental Landscapes crushed, devoured, and destroyed each other, maintaining a delicate balance.

The azure, strongest, supreme Magical Girl who walked out from the gravity smiled brilliantly:

"After all, Jiang Si is a boy who pursued me. As a Magical Girl, I can't just stand by and watch him get hunted down without lifting a finger."

"Sorry, everyone. I'm taking him with me."

Instantly, an even more condensed and oppressive aura spread from within the domain!