Chapter 356: Tips for Conquering Shion
Ninety-nine thousand times was still far too few.
For Black Keke, if she could, she would prefer to reincarnate tens of millions of times instead.
The memory of less than a hundred thousand cycles, thinking it could instantly overwhelm someone of Shion's caliber, was somewhat wishful thinking.
Even with a million cycles, Black Keke wasn't entirely sure if she could shatter Shion's consciousness in a single moment.
After all, this woman had way too many abilities, which always left Black Keke worrying that she might pull out some unknown magic from somewhere, completely ignoring this limitless memory assault.
That was why she needed the Beast of Eternity's gaze.
Because, fundamentally speaking, only the Beast of Eternity could affect Shion.
According to what big brother Jiang Si said, it was a difference in status.
The qualitative change caused by magnitude made it nearly impossible for lower-level beings to affect higher-level ones—this was something Black Keke had known for a long time.
Because she understood better than anyone just how despair-inducing the gap with the Beast of Eternity could be.
And Shion was an existence on par with the Beast of Eternity—or perhaps she was a new End created by the Magic Kingdom and those Incubators, maybe.
After all, most of the beings that appeared in previous cycles without having existed before were the Incubators' handiwork.
Now that she had entered the Magic Kingdom, she learned that they had the ability to directly alter souls.
So where those new characters that popped out of nowhere came from was self-explanatory...
Of course, these were all guesses. Black Keke couldn't confirm if they were true, since she had only ever seen the transformation of matter into soul in the Beast of Eternity.
Regardless, continuing to wait was extremely dangerous...
While planning her next move, Black Keke lowered her head to glance at Shion, who had completely quieted down.
Her pupils were still unfocused. This arrogant Magical Girl was surrounded by countless wings, the white power of the Beast of Eternity surging, completely engulfing her.
It looked as if she had been swallowed into the belly of the Beast of Eternity.
A rare sense of fragility emanated from Shion, stirring even Black Keke's compassion.
That face was simply too unfair. If it weren't for Shion's naturally cold personality, always wearing a stern expression, which diminished most of the charm and beauty of that perfect face...
Countless people would probably have fallen for her.
Now, with her quiet, just looking at that face, Black Keke could understand why her big brother had such a vague relationship with her—and why that idiot Keke over there kept shouting "Teacher Shion, Teacher Shion" endlessly.
Relying solely on her looks to captivate both Jiang Si siblings.
What a seductive fox.
Thinking this, Black Keke subconsciously pinched Shion's cheek.
Incredibly bouncy and smooth—what amazing texture...
Black Keke then reached out and pinched her own cheek.
Damn, the difference was way too small.
You never even pay attention to skincare...
It's probably L'Oreal's fault, definitely not my skin being bad.
Somewhat dejected, she stared at that face, then her gloom instantly dissipated.
If she were a bit older, her every frown and smile would be enough to bring ruin to kingdoms... but for the real Shion, looks probably didn't matter at all.
Because her strength alone was more than enough to bring ruin to kingdoms.
This was someone who could obviously rely on her looks to make a living but instead used her strength to make everyone overlook her appearance.
And actually, looking at her like this, she was really tiny.
Like a delicate doll, making Black Keke want to toy with her a little.
She lightly pinched and shaped a fox ear on top of Shion's head.
Now she was a real fox.
Then, inadvertently, she saw it.
Shion's left pinky finger.
Twitching slightly.
Black Keke instantly retracted her hand and created distance.
Even her breathing couldn't help but quicken.
Countless eyes stared fixedly at Shion once more.
For a long time, Shion made no further movements. Her pupils remained unfocused.
The drool at the corner of her mouth had already dried, gently wiped clean by the Beast of Eternity's feathers. The soft wings wrapped around Shion's body, tightening slightly again.
After a long while, Black Keke somewhat uncertainly thought she might have been seeing things.
Though she possessed the countless eyes of the Beast of Eternity, this was still her first time using its body.
She wasn't used to it, and the empty shell of the Beast of Eternity didn't have much power anyway. Visual errors weren't surprising...
The feathers began to penetrate, piercing into Shion's Magical Outfit. Black Keke subconsciously tried to thrust her hand into Shion's heart.
*Thump!*
That body suddenly moved!
Even surrounded by countless wings, even as the feathers pierced her skin and tore through her bones, Shion's body still moved with astonishing agility.
She threw a vicious punch straight into Black Keke's face!
Nearly sending Black Keke flying out of the Beast of Eternity's body!
The white fluid body even bulged from this brutal punch, taking a long time to recover—and this was the Beast of Eternity's body!
Yet when Black Keke braced herself and looked again, after throwing that punch, Shion's body went limp once more.
Her petite frame almost needed the wings' embrace to stay upright.
Her pupils were still unfocused. Her consciousness hadn't returned.
Was it just a reflex?
How the hell was that possible?
The more she understood, the more absurd and incomprehensible Black Keke found it!
To be honest, most people probably had no way of knowing just how many abilities Shion had.
Many couldn't even withstand a simple burst of mana, let alone that pile of spells.
After stripping all of that away, they'd find that Shion still had incredible physical capabilities—unmatched even without mana or magic!
And when they finally found an opportunity and broke through from the relatively weak spiritual aspect, causing her to lose consciousness...
If they attacked rashly, they'd discover that even without consciousness, Shion's body would instinctively counterattack...
This meant that even if you caused her brain death, if you let your guard down and tried to destroy the corpse, Shion's body might directly kill you.
Even an unconscious random blow from Shion was the most terrifying death sentence in this world...
What a minefield of pitfalls!
Black Keke couldn't imagine anyone other than herself, who could use reincarnation to probe out Shion's many abilities, being able to pull this off.
An absolute garbage boss.
Gasping heavily, Black Keke only relaxed after confirming that Shion wasn't moving anymore.
What she had stuffed into Shion's brain wasn't just ninety-nine thousand cycles of memories.
By using the Beast of Eternity's power, she had polluted these ninety-nine thousand memories. In essence, each memory was filled with massive amounts of garbage information extending to over 129,600 years in length—these garbage details were fatal forbidden knowledge for ordinary people, causing brain overload from even a small segment.
And Shion was now enduring ninety-nine thousand instances of this, each over 120,000 years long, all exploding in a single instant.
Furthermore, through matrix definition, she had kept Shion locked in that moment when the ninety-nine thousand memories exploded...
Logically, it should have been foolproof.
This move worked on the Beast of Eternity; there was no reason it wouldn't work on Shion.
But the previous attempt to attack triggering the body's automatic counterattack made Black Keke more cautious.
She tried to dissolve Shion's body into her own perfect body of the Beast of Eternity.
In other words, assimilation.
The Beast of Eternity finally spoke again: "That will contaminate the body."
"It's fine, don't worry," Black Keke said confidently. "I believe in your strength!"
"...What's the reason?"
"Faith doesn't need a reason!"
After the Beast of Eternity's voice faded, Black Keke breathed a sigh of relief.
In truth, this borrowing of the Beast of Eternity's perfect body was the final product that Black Keke had barely succeeded in after tens of thousands of cycles of planning.
If anything, if Shion hadn't suddenly appeared in this life, the Beast of Eternity still wouldn't have cast its gaze upon her—this Beast of Eternity was really petty. She had only annoyed it for a few million years, making it close its eyes and not see the future, and it held a grudge to this day.
Refusing to pay her any attention no matter what.
But Shion's existence was truly special. Even though the Beast of Eternity loathed her so much, once she borrowed its power during her fight with Shion...
It couldn't help but watch her.
Having been with the Beast of Eternity for so long, Black Keke understood its thoughts all too well.
And the way the Beast of Eternity was so fixated on Shion this time didn't require any guesswork.
She didn't know what had happened, but clearly, to the Beast of Eternity, Shion's existence was very special.
It wasn't just that it couldn't wait to fight Shion.
It was more like it yearned to defeat Shion.
This was the first time Black Keke had felt such strong emotion from the Beast of Eternity.
So she didn't need to do much. Just let the Beast of Eternity watch her fight with Shion and realize that, using its power, she was about to lose to Shion.
Then this monster would definitely lower its gaze.
The Beast of Eternity's body wasn't solid but rather a strange white fluid. Though it could still maintain a humanoid form, it was merely the Beast of Eternity imitating one.
The white fluid's power wrapped around Shion's body, showing no hostility or destructiveness.
Instead, like a repair process, it seeped into Shion's body bit by bit.
The precision of control made Black Keke feel incredibly exhausted, even starting to sweat.
Black Keke had never thought that even with complete control, she would still have to be this cautious...
However, as the power seeped deeper, Black Keke began to feel anticipation.
Who exactly was the true form of Magical Girl Shion?
All along, because of Four Leaf and Six Leaf's magic, the Witch Association's investigations into Azure Cloud Sect and related personnel had been incredibly difficult, and Magical Girl Shion's identity was almost airtight.
A Magical Girl who suddenly appeared from Beihai, but they had investigated all the girls in Beihai. The ones who could become Magical Girls were limited, and they simply couldn't find Shion's true form.
If they had to search other cities, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
And now, this secret was about to be unveiled before her eyes!
As long as she bypassed the Magical Outfit, even bypassed that layer of Magical Girl body wrapped in Personal Reality, the true form hidden by miracles would appear...
Black Keke's pupils abruptly contracted.
Nothing.
Beneath Magical Girl Shion's body was an empty void of pitch-black darkness—no true form, nothing at all!
How was that possible? No true form?
Born a Magical Girl without needing a true form?
Ridiculous, how could there be such a person?
Or was this one a fake?
It couldn't be a fake. She had reincarnated so many times, no inconsistencies...
Hidden? Where was it hidden?
Had she fallen for a trap?
An illusion, or something...
Just as her mind was in chaos...
Shion's purple pupils, which had been unfocused and silent, suddenly shifted upward slightly.
Meeting her gaze directly.
"Anything else?"
The inquiry was like a curse.
A question she had heard countless times across ninety-nine thousand cycles.
After failing, Shion's interrogation.
"Any other moves?"
An extremely dangerous fear rose from the depths of her heart.
This was the first time Black Keke felt at a loss, an unease like she was about to fall off a cliff.
*I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die...*
Casually, the white body twisted again. Black Keke directly channeled thirty million cycles of her own memories.
In an instant, she poured them into Shion's brain.
Along with the Beast of Eternity's pollution, the content that could crash and stupefy all the world's people at once frantically occupied Shion's mental processing, even causing pathological damage to her brain...
"The content is a bit much."
Shion slowly raised her head, extending a finger to tap her temple. "I've seen enough for today."
"Skip."
*Skip your head! Do you think this is a game?!*
Though she was talking, Black Keke definitely sensed that Shion's consciousness was starting to wander again.
This time, the content was even more, and from the processing speed just now, it could buy enough time...
Then Shion's finger pressed against her temple—
And pierced inward.
Her fair fingers became stained with red and white matter, defiled, and as she stirred her brain bit by bit, Shion muttered again.
"That feels much better."
*Physically skipping the plot!*
Then, Shion's head was nearly crushed by her own hands!
As it slowly recovered, the Beast of Eternity's power took the opportunity to seep back into Shion's body—through her mouth, ears, eyes, and every part of her, trying to fill Shion with the Beast of Eternity's power.
But as purple mana blazed, even the Beast of Eternity's polluted magic became fuel, causing Shion's aura to grow stronger and stronger!
"Not bad."
On the white perfect body, fist after fist caused the white fluid body to bulge, twist, and expand!
All the eyes closed together, slowly bleeding.
"Ninety-nine thousand attempts and designs, very impressive."
*Boom!*
Filled with purple mana, the perfect body finally shattered, splattering everywhere like fluid!
The little purple girl, crawling out from a mountain-like pile of white fluid bit by bit, her body stained with the Beast of Eternity's power, looking somewhat dirty.
And Black Keke, who should have been controlling the perfect body, was directly blasted out of the fluid, skipping like a stone across the river's surface.
She bounced over ten times before sinking into the water.
By the time she floated back up, blood began spreading across the river's surface. It took Black Keke a long moment to lift her head and look at Shion, who was picking off the clinging feathers bit by bit.
"Did you... thoroughly watch all ninety-nine thousand cycles of memories?"
"Of course."
Shion said calmly, then walked out of the sludgy white fluid, still sticky. "Otherwise, how would I know how you performed?"
"But those were... information polluted by the Beast of Eternity..."
"Well done, Keke." Shion praised her flatly. "Very impressive. You fully utilized your advantages and abilities. You're truly worthy of being my opponent."
Although Black Keke didn't know why the other party suddenly praised her.
And why she even felt a bit proud.
Black Keke just took a deep breath. "What exactly are you... You don't even have a true form!"
Shion simply grabbed at her, purple mana wrapping around Black Keke and yanking her up. "This is one of the three corpses—the Upper Corpse."
"I... completely don't understand..."
Black Keke struggled against the purple mana but couldn't break free at all.
The Beast of Eternity's perfect body needed more power—maybe she could use Shion's power to fill it, but the transformation was the problem.
But as long as she kept trying, it wouldn't be an issue.
"Matrix..."
Eternal Reincarnation began to restart.
But Shion only raised an eyebrow.
Those warm, full lips that invited touch moved slightly.
The words she spoke, however, made Black Keke feel like she had fallen into an ice cellar.
"Mental Landscape Expansion."
It was like time had stopped.
The backward wind froze, the reversed Milky Way fell silent, and even the upstream long river was completely frozen.
Black Keke watched as her own Mental Landscape, which shouldn't have been affected, began to slowly collapse, her expression gradually breaking down.
"No, your heart has already been destroyed..."
As for how Shion's Mental Landscape could override her own, Black Keke had stopped caring about that.
After all, since it was her, she could do it!
But no matter how powerful a Personal Reality was, it was impossible to expand a Mental Landscape without a heart!
This, at least, could not be conceded!
"Who told you that you can only have one heart?"
Shion patted her chest; another heart was still beating.
Dual SIM, dual standby!
Black Keke suddenly felt bitter.
No wonder she had easily crushed her own heart and didn't heal it.
She already had a contingency plan.
Shion's Mental Landscape expanded, and Black Keke's sky full of stars quickly retreated.
The two of them landed on a high mountain, below which was an endless ocean.
The place where all miracles vanished.
Black Keke, lying on the ground, struggled, but Shion crouched down and pressed her down.
With her Mental Landscape stripped away, her last trump card was gone.
She had no more power to resist.
"Anything else?"
So Shion asked that question again, which made Black Keke feel exhausted.
Anything else?
Was this the end?
From start to finish, it was as if Shion was just appreciating her performance.
*Stop asking.*
*If you ask again, I'll kill myself.*
Thinking this in her heart.
But Black Keke just smiled. "There is one last move."
Before Shion could react, Black Keke swallowed an eyeball!
Then, countless eyes opened in the sky above Shion's Mental Landscape.
The Beast of Eternity's voice slowly spread.
"Are you sure you want to perform the final summon?"
"I'm sure."
As she spoke, the End tore through the Mental Landscape, walking down from the sky step by step!
Shion casually tossed Black Keke aside and met it head-on!
The terrifying shockwave instantly crushed countless worlds!
Keke watched the Heart Image Remnants gradually dissipating below Chongxu and breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Then, on the other side, An Shiyu's little wings fluttered as she waved at her. "All done, Keke!"
Using An Shiyu's ability, they had transported some Heart Image Remnants that could no longer continue and were unwilling to return to the new world's fissures into Chongxu.
Within the larger Mental Landscape Space, those Heart Image Remnants quickly dissolved, and the remnant souls of Full Bloom Magical Girls among them were transcribed into data and entered Chongxu—Keke and the Disaster Control Bureau's Magical Girls didn't want these senior Magical Girls to disappear filled with resentment and hatred.
After all, they had properly saved the new world; without them, Keke herself wouldn't have been born.
As a beneficiary, she had to compensate them in some way.
So, while not letting them endanger the new world, giving them a place to stay as much as possible—entering Chongxu was really the most perfect outcome.
"Don't think that means we'll forgive you."
Even so, the senior Magical Girls who had entered Chongxu still said indignantly, "Keke, you owe us, and you'll never pay it back!"
Along the way, Keke had more or less learned what Black Keke had done back then.
Deceiving these Magical Girls into offering their world's origin, making them act as glue to keep the new world from collapsing, using them from head to toe to the fullest extent.
Getting angry was only natural.
This was the first time Keke had been blamed and hated so directly, and as a fellow Magical Girl, she also knew that the other party wasn't really evil.
Her mood couldn't help but feel a bit down and heavy.
"Those things weren't done by you, Keke, so you don't need to feel guilty or sad about it."
An Shiyu kept comforting her from the side, her little wings like hands gently stroking Keke's head.
This made Keke, who was watching those Full Bloom Magical Girl remnant souls that had angrily left, feel a little better.
"Brother Jiang Si and Miss Shion will definitely say the same. Keke, you've already done well."
"They definitely wouldn't say that." Keke softly rebutted.
The big screen advertisement promoting Magical Girl Ruri made Keke feel a bit embarrassed and uncomfortable.
"Magical Girl Ruri! The hope of Chongxu! The shining hero! The blazing flame! Join the Ruri Church now and get a 30% discount coupon..."
Who wouldn't blush hearing that? Keke felt like her toes were about to dig a three-bedroom apartment into the ground!
"Won't this make the seniors hate me even more? Can I get someone to take down the promotion?"
"This has a contract, probably can't be canceled. And it's good to get them used to it early, so they don't keep hissing at you. If they anger Shion and Jiang Si, the consequences won't be so simple."
Keke sighed as she listened.
That made sense...
But actually, she had a pretty good relationship with the local Harry Potter Branch Sect's Thousand-Pinweed.
In fact, the Beihai Disaster Control Bureau had always had a good relationship with Miss Thousand-Pinweed, since they were all Harry Potter fans and naturally shared common topics.
Keke had even chatted a lot with Thousand-Pinweed before and received some merchandise from her.
Even though they were soul vessels for sealing the World-Subduing Demon, Keke felt that she and Miss Thousand-Pinweed were already good friends.
Later, she could try asking Miss Thousand-Pinweed to help remove the promotion. She held considerable power in Chongxu.
Right now, besides Saint Hall, the largest organization in Chongxu was her Hogwarts Academy. Quite a few Saint Hall members had even defected.
Just as Keke was still pondering how to communicate with Miss Thousand-Pinweed and whether to buy a gift, the entire Chongxu suddenly shook violently!
Keke and An Shiyu immediately looked up.
In the distant depths of the void, terrifying tremors rippled out wave after wave.
Though they were tightly contained by some force, even the residual waves were enough to make one's heart pound with fear.
The Celestial Factory above Chongxu was shaken askew, as if it might fall at any moment.
"Is that Teacher Shion?"
Keke immediately flew in that direction!
An Shiyu quickly chased after her. "Don't run around! Be careful!"
But Keke acted as if she hadn't heard, her face full of anxiety.
Because she sensed not just Teacher Shion.
But also a terrifying aura that was actually on par with Teacher Shion!
More importantly, it seemed like big brother was over there too!
When An Shiyu followed Keke all the way to the End Land, she was completely startled.
The two little wings on her head immediately covered her eyes.
Then she peeked through the gaps in her wings, her face turning pale.
"So many of Keke's corpses!"
Even Mùjǐn was startled, watching the running Keke. "Damn, are we seeing ghosts? Is this Keke the real Keke? She's not a ghost trying to lure us here to harm us, is she..."
"Senior, you're also a ghost, you know."
"Oh, never mind then." Mùjǐn immediately flexed her muscles. "Don't be scared, Little An, I'll protect you. Hmph, I'm a Magical Girl ghost, a miracle among ghosts. Ghosts should be afraid of me..."
Just as the two were finding the multitude of Keke's corpses unbelievable, the deep tremors turned the entire End Land upside down!
A large number of corpses surged and flew up. An Shiyu and Mùjǐn were immediately frightened and flew upward!
Keke was also thrown off balance by the tremors. The mass of corpses directly blocked her view of An Shiyu, causing her to even separate from her. The flying corpses, combined with the unending terrifying tremors from over there, seemed to want to destroy heaven and earth. Everything was turned upside down, completely disoriented in the sea of flying corpses, no longer knowing which way was up, making it impossible for the two to reunite.
Just as Keke planned to delve deeper to investigate...
Among the many flying corpses, a hand suddenly grabbed her!
"Keke..."
Keke was startled. The other party's face was covered in blood, their expression fierce!
Not again!
Back when Black Keke had taken her power and identity and taken away big brother, she dreamed of being grabbed by the ankle by a corpse and dragged into hell.
But she wasn't dreaming now, was she? Why did a corpse suddenly move and grab her...
"You're finally here, Keke."
Taking a closer look, it was Black Keke...
Keke, who had been scared a moment ago, immediately erupted with anger. "How dare you show your face!"
She directly kicked Black Keke's face twice!
"Ow ow ow, go easy, would you? Why are you so hard on your own face..."
Before she could finish, Keke kicked her hands off.
She fell to the ground.
Then Black Keke quickly got up, limping over.
Keke immediately went on alert, transforming into a Magical Girl, watching her warily.
An Shiyu still hadn't caught up from behind—maybe she was lost, or maybe something was interfering.
But for now, it was just the two of them here.
Black Keke, covered in wounds, just looked at her cheerfully. "Don't be so tense. You're looking pretty good—have you made up with your friends?"
"What exactly do you want? How are Teacher Shion and big brother?"
"Rather than worrying about them, you should be more concerned about yourself."
Black Keke sighed, clutching her wounds as she sat on the ground. Blood was still flowing, and her pale, exhausted face looked a bit dazed. "To help you conquer your Teacher Shion, she almost beat me to death. She's really a monster. Honestly, I feel like facing the Beast of Eternity might be easier..."
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm just telling you that whether it's the Beast of Eternity or Shion, eventually, you'll have to face them and figure out how to defeat them."
"I won't be an enemy of Teacher Shion."
"That's not up to you."
Black Keke sighed. "Forget it. It's a waste of time talking to you now. When the time comes, you'll know what's going on. I was just like you before, always thinking things wouldn't be so bad, but in the end, they end up worse than you imagine."
"I don't know what you're talking about... How many people have you ruined!"
"That stuff doesn't matter anymore." Black Keke muttered. "It doesn't matter anymore."
Keke thought about bypassing Black Keke and flying toward the End Land.
An Shiyu was still behind anyway, so she wouldn't die.
"I'm about to die. Can't you keep me company for a bit, this version of Keke?"
But in the end, the other self knew her too well.
One sentence made Keke stop in her tracks. She turned to look at her. "What exactly are you trying to do?"
"Nothing."
Black Keke grabbed her hand.
"Just like big brother said, just like your Teacher Shion hoped—don't you not want to disappoint them?"
Keke still crouched down, instinctively wanting to use mana to heal her.
But Black Keke just pressed down on her hand, not letting her touch her wounds.
Her gaze was calm as she looked at her.
"Take my reincarnation power, Keke."