A swarm of maggots in a sea of filth.

Staring at the ground littered with Keke's corpses, even Witch Shion paused to gaze from afar for a long moment.

Actually, from a distance, it wasn't that horrifying.

Staring at the ground covered in Keke's corpses, even Witch Shion paused to gaze from afar for a long moment.

"Beyond Chongxu lies the wild White Profound Yellow Sea, with ravines stretching for billions of miles and bodies piled into mountains. From afar, they look like districts; up close, they resemble flowers, inedible..."

If she were writing this world's *Classic of Mountains and Seas*, Witch Shion would definitely record this entry.

When she touched one of the bodies, she saw the memories of what that corpse had been confronting before death, some kind of monster.

I see.

Shion quickly realized these weren't real corpses.

They were some kind of residue from a mix of personal reality and memories.

When she touched them, she unlocked the memory image from the moment of the corpse's death.

It was a sea of fire. The surrounding world had been flattened into barren wasteland. The starry river had turned into a sea of fire. Chongxu had collapsed, and the void had shattered. There was almost no one alive in the entire world.

And in front of Keke was the already-dead Silver Lotus. The younger sister hugged her close friend, her face covered in tears. She only looked up, with hatred and madness, toward the distance.

So Keke could make that expression too.

Shion thought this as she followed that gaze.

A massive figure, shadowy and indistinct, its shadow almost drowning Keke.

Although she couldn't see clearly, Witch Shion recognized it at a glance.

That was a Disaster Beast.

A colossal Disaster Beast formed from unimaginable polluted magic. She had never imagined a Disaster Beast could be this powerful.

So much so that she subconsciously swung her sword at the Disaster Beast in that memory.

But it only rippled slightly.

That enormous Disaster Beast shimmered with starlight.

Like a waterfall, it drowned Keke and the bodies of the magical girls beside her.

"Next time... next time, I will definitely save you all... definitely..."

Her pained murmuring voice was ultimately swallowed by the radiance and frozen into the reflection of death, kneeling on the ground.

Shion looked at the kneeling Keke. Drops of tears actually fell from the death reflection.

She continued walking forward. Every step she took, when she touched a body, she could see the memory reflection of that body's death.

The result was mostly the same each time.

No matter how hard she tried, she was ultimately destroyed by that enormous Disaster Beast.

Clearly, Keke's stats were way too low.

As she walked along the way, Shion examined Keke's past operations and couldn't help feeling somewhat disappointed.

Although each time Keke reincarnated, her power reset to zero and she needed to train to get stronger, the way she got stronger didn't change much. It seemed she had tried a few other methods. But she gave up immediately after hitting a wall, so that in the end, when facing that Disaster Beast, she never had enough power.

She relied too much on Death Returns.

But it couldn't be helped.

Keke really was a bit dumb. She wasn't smart enough when it came to getting stronger, and she hadn't tried many times. She only wanted to find shortcuts through Death Returns, giving up too early on the method of trying different builds by reloading saves to become stronger and defeat that Disaster Beast head-on. She always thought about using some mechanism to solve it once and for all without a direct confrontation.

It wasn't like playing a game to find the solution.

All of the Kekes here had almost all died in battle against that Disaster Beast, ending up here, frozen at the moment of death.

From the beginning, the Kekes' expressions were pained, despairing, and sorrowful, until the very end, when Keke looked completely numb.

Not knowing how many times she had died, even Shion was starting to get impatient.

Then Keke seemed to find some way to affect that Disaster Beast.

Immediately after, the corpse disappeared from here.

Shion turned to look back. The dense pile of bodies—if these were all of Keke's reincarnations, then all she could say was that she was truly awful.

Truly a swarm of maggots in a sea of filth.

With so many trial-and-error opportunities, all she had managed in the end was to find a way to affect it.

She hadn't even thought about getting stronger.

Fortunately, under her careful education, the current Keke wouldn't be like this.

Walking this path, Shion didn't feel any pity or sympathy.

More than anything, it was the anxiety of seeing iron that wouldn't become steel—like watching a noob play a game and wishing you could grab the controller and do it yourself.

And from that, a burning spirit of education was born.

She had to seriously improve Black Keke's abilities and combat IQ.

On the contrary, the current Keke actually didn't need her education much anymore. Keke already possessed basic combat IQ and the pursuit of power. The so-called heart of a strong person, Keke was gradually mastering. The rest was up to her own luck and opportunities.

That was to keep applying pressure, forcing her to grow.

This identity swap was a great opportunity. All along, she had companions and her protection.

If this continued, it would be hard for Keke to grow to a level Shion would be satisfied with.

All the ancestors of Azure Cloud Sect had advanced rapidly under high pressure. The greatest terror between life and death nurtured people the most.

Especially when one was all alone, with no one to rely on, that was also when a person grew the fastest.

So Keke could already be left to her own devices. For now, her main task was still to improve Black Keke, this noob who had reincarnated so many times without making any progress...

As she was thinking this, Shion suddenly stopped and looked up. She saw that the massive, shadowy black figure, which had only existed in memories, was now beginning to appear in the distance...

"ROAR!"

That roar instantly caused the polluted magic within Witch Shion to boil.

It was like encountering a superior existence. The polluted magic even tried to break free from her body and fly toward that roaring giant beast!

Shion snorted coldly and forcefully suppressed the restless polluted magic.

The last time she had encountered Lu Ya AI, Witch Shion had experienced a loss of control.

But back then, it was because Lu Ya, as the source of all witches, could be considered the Dao Master of the witch path. Adding in their past connection, if Lu Ya AI took it, so be it. There was nothing to say about it.

But now, a mere Beast actually wanted to directly control her polluted magic.

How could Shion, who always advocated for complete self-control, allow that!

Although that Disaster Beast that hadn't shown its face seemed to be the source of all polluted magic, possessing strong control and dominion over corrupted magic power—

But Witch Shion directly turned the tables and began to frantically absorb the polluted magic from its body!

After the upgrade from the heart and the Time Dao Fruit, Witch Shion could also temporarily wield the Full Bloom status of a Magical Girl, mastering Divine Sense. When she used Divine Sense to replace all the corrupted magic power in her body, she directly surpassed the source and dominator of that opposing polluted magic in terms of status!

That monster had probably never imagined that an existence using polluted magic would absorb its polluted magic instead. It immediately let out an enraged and piercing shriek.

The stars that had appeared in the memories shimmered from the distant void. The starlight, like a waterfall, came pouring down!

Witch Shion simply gathered her mana and threw a serious punch.

The starlight split in half down the middle. The immense force of her fist directly shattered the shimmering stars!

As Witch Shion frantically absorbed mana, the graveyard piled high with Keke's corpses began to gradually change. All the bodies started to disappear, and the ground began to turn into pitch-black nothingness.

Accompanied by the low growl of that Disaster Beast, sounding injured, from within the nothingness.

Everything before her eyes gradually vanished.

Witch Shion immediately gave chase deeper into the void!

...

Magical Girl Shion opened her eyes. She first instinctively looked down to check on the original body still practicing with Bingtang.

They had now reached the hand-kissing stage.

But Bingtang had directly bitten down on her own finger.

She didn't know which region's hand-kissing ceremony involved biting fingers. Just holding back from knocking out Bingtang's teeth was exhausting enough.

By the time she pulled her finger out of Bingtang's mouth, the entire finger was frozen solid.

According to Bingtang, this was cleaner. After breaking off the ice, there wouldn't be that wet, sticky feeling either. Very convenient.

After who knew how much time had passed, the practice for the divorce ceremony was finally, barely, over.

It was more complicated than she had imagined.

She felt they would have to optimize the process later.

As she was thinking this, she glanced over at An Shiyu and Black Keke, still fighting.

Of course, it was actually Mujin doing the fighting now, since Mujin had a grudge against the Mirror Kingdom. When enemies met, their eyes burned red with hatred.

"Why did you resurrect Changgeng!"

Mana cannons traded blows back and forth. The Void Mirror hadn't been fully repaired yet, so it seemed it could only deflect and analyze abilities for now. Many of the spells it had recorded before couldn't be used.

As they fought, Mujin began to interrogate, "Why did you resurrect Changgeng and brainwash her!"

"Who resurrected her? That's just an Alice that copied her data. And it's not brainwashing; it's just the result of her data's own thought process."

The Prince spun her mirror as she spoke coldly, "What do you think her last regret was before she died? It was the loneliness and remorse of betraying the Mirror Kingdom and being killed by her own country. I just gave her a chance to make up for her regrets. Or do you think that you, as a friend, could fill the void in her heart and make her completely forget the country and loved ones she lived with her whole life?"

"What else would I do?"

"You're an even more arrogant idiot than I am." Mujin's spatial ability kept sealing off the Prince's Mirror Space permissions, until in the end, the Prince had only the Void Mirror in her hand to rely on. "If you like her so much, I can replicate more for you."

"I'll beat you to death!"

"I haven't settled accounts with you yet for the crime of destroying the Mirror Kingdom!"

"You only lost your country and family, but I lost a dear friend!"

Watching the girls argue was more interesting than she had imagined.

Both aimed for fatal blows, clearly intent on killing the other.

This battlefield was far more dangerous than anywhere else, so much so that Magical Girl Shion had to keep a constant eye on it.

She also noticed that Mujin's combat awareness was sharper than she had imagined.

She quickly deduced the Void Mirror's capabilities and used her spatial power to engage the Prince in a tug-of-war. She kept compressing the Prince's range of motion with spatial ability and always kept a guard against the Void Mirror, not letting it reflect any threatening attacks.

It was even obvious that as time went on, since the Void Mirror hadn't been fully repaired and with most of the Mirror Kingdom's system lost, the fact that Itaen was a complete ordinary person, her defeat was only a matter of time.

Just as Shion thought the outcome would be decided quickly.

The Void Mirror activated.

After completely analyzing Mujin's spatial ability, it began to compete with Mujin for control over space.

Both sides fell into a stalemate again.

Although she had long known about the power of a Supreme Emperor's Weapon, seeing the Void Mirror display its might now, Shion couldn't help but marvel at the terror of a Supreme Emperor's Weapon.

Carrying an ordinary person as a burden, it could still match a Prohibition Zone Sovereign.

Ruo Yun had not disappointed her.

The only question was when she would get to play with it...

Although she was the Saint Hall Master and technically had ownership of the Void Mirror, it had been shattered by her before and was still in repair. Shion was well aware of that.

If she didn't want to lose the Void Mirror, she could only let the Prince use it for now. She would get it back after the Prince fixed it, and then it would be her turn.

Shion could only watch from the sidelines, envious as the Prince, who didn't know how to use it, still pulled off all kinds of amazing feats.

She had already simulated hundreds of ways to use the Void Mirror in her mind...

As for White Fox.

She had already laid down and fallen asleep.

After losing the ability to transform, she couldn't even withstand a single blow.

Of course, the so-called loss of transformation ability was mainly because the current White Fox had almost no attachment to transformation.

She herself was an ultra-slacker, with very little emotion.

Although Shion had originally used her heuristic quality education to make White Fox grasp emotions and successfully transform, ever since the old world began to shift toward Chongxu, White Fox had basically been in a slacking state, hardly caring about the transformation at all. This left Shion with no way to make her take back her Miracle Seed.

After all, magical girls ultimately recovered their power by relying on their own powerful personal reality. She only played a supporting role.

If all magical girls were as lazy as White Fox, even if she tried her damnedest, she couldn't help them recover their magical girl power.

Anyway, White Fox's account was already abandoned.

Shion no longer had any expectations for this one. Having once reached Full Bloom was already more than enough for what she was worth.

She set her sights on Black Keke instead.

"Wait! I am you! Keke, we are the same person!"

"Die!"

Shion sighed, unable to bear watching, and rubbed her forehead.

Black Keke was already being thoroughly thrashed by Keke.

As soon as Keke blasted a cannon over, Black Keke was sent flying and rolling like a wild dog.

That's right. At the beginning, she had been all high and mighty, acting like she had some trump card. After all, as the President of the Witch Association and having reincarnated so many times, she should have been exceptionally outstanding in both experience and ability.

Especially since Black Keke had the same transformation ability as Keke—Shion could naturally tell she had stolen Keke's power by relying on their identical personal reality.

In terms of power, the gap between the two wasn't very large.

But after a period of probing, Keke detected the other's weakness and quickly overwhelmed Black Keke's thinking time with a continuous barrage of attacks.

And then it was just crawling on the ground to dodge Keke's pursuit...

She had been hoping this one could put some pressure on Keke, but it seemed she had been thinking too much.

No wonder there were so many corpses. After so many reincarnations, she hadn't learned a single lesson or grown at all. If you don't get beaten, who will?

Seeing that if things continued like this, Black Keke would be finished off by Keke.

Shion finally pressed two fingers together like a sword and lightly swiped downward.

A sharp Sword Energy split the space between Keke and Black Keke with extreme precision!

Keke, who had been planning to press the attack, stopped in her tracks. She turned to look at Shion with a bitter and aggrieved expression.

It looked like she could cry at any moment.

"When I was being bullied, you didn't help. Now that she's being bullied and losing to me, you step in. And before, Teacher Shion, didn't you always say that if you don't have strength, you deserve to be bullied?"

"Wait until your strength surpasses mine, then come teach me."

On the other side, the entangled Prince and Mujin also separated because of this sword strike.

Shion's mana instantly locked onto Keke and the Prince. Then she raised her hand.

Vast mana gathered at her fingertip.

"Handling you one by one is too troublesome. Let's have you all disappear together."

Black Keke also took the opportunity to hide behind Shion, her face bruised and swollen as she made a face at Keke.

She had the typical look of a petty person who had achieved their goal, reminding Keke of the time when she first got home and tattled to her big brother.

For a moment, blood rushed to Keke's head.

"Fine! If you really hate me that much, then just kill us all!"

With that, she actually imitated Shion, gathering her mana, seemingly ready to go all out in a head-on clash with Shion!

Mujin immediately used her spatial ability to retreat behind Shion. After An Shiyu regained control of her body, she just looked at Keke and the Prince with some worry and confusion, then back at Shion.

Although she wanted to say something, given the situation, she knew anything she said would just be annoying, so she could only remain silent.

Just as both sides had finished gathering their mana, a moment before they were about to fire.

"Void Mirror."

The Prince suddenly spoke, "Teleport."

With that, the mirror flashed. The intense light made Shion squint slightly, and Keke, who had just finished gathering her mana, vanished instantly.

At the same time, White Fox and the Prince also disappeared.

Black Keke immediately ran out from behind Shion, looking around, "They're gone!"

Then she actually turned around and blamed Shion, "Are you kidding me? You let them get away!"

Shion slapped Black Keke across the face.

Right now, she felt that swapping Black Keke in for Keke had been the right call.

It was so stress-relieving.

There were no concerns at all.

Black Keke, who had been shouting, immediately fell silent. She just held her swollen cheek, looking at Shion with tearful eyes.

"Aren't you supposed to replace Keke?" Shion tilted her head, her deep purple eyes fixed on her. "Next up is special training. If you dare say a single 'no,' I'll beat you to death."

Black Keke's vision went dark.

She felt that her method of replacing Keke might have been a bit problematic...

She had thought she would take Keke's place and enjoy life.

Instead, she had come to suffer in Keke's place.

But it was too late to take it back. Shion had already begun to teach her, through actual combat, how to get stronger and use magic!

The entire suburbs echoed with Black Keke's wailing screams!

...

It wasn't until late at night that Black Keke limped back from the suburbs.

When she saw Jiang Si, her eyes reddened, and she almost cried.

"Do you know what I went through? That thing is not human, absolutely not human! What kind of crappy place is this? What kind of crappy place? A crappy place!"

As she spoke, she wiped her tears. "I'm sure now. She is the new End of All Things. Absolutely, she is."

"Don't let your emotions get the better of you."

"I'm serious..."

"After dying so many times, you really haven't improved at all."

"Who said you have to improve just because you die?"

"You had to die that many times to beat a Disaster Beast boss?"

"You..." Black Keke, who had been wiping her tears, suddenly went quiet. Her expression turned slightly cold, as if her previous crying had all been an act. "What did you see?"

"Just while I was looking for the World Tree, I saw your mountains of corpses and that Disaster Beast that had killed you who knows how many times."

A murderous intent and chill flashed in Black Keke's pupils, but she quickly calmed down. "Oh, how did you find that place..."

"With a friend's help."

The streets of Beihai were quiet in the dead of night. A nearby streetlamp flickered and crackled before finally going out.

The road was plunged into darkness.

Black Keke scratched her head, looked up at the distant high-rise buildings, and sighed. "Alright, it's nothing to hide. It really was a super troublesome giant. Actually, after dying that many times, I still couldn't handle it. I could only temporarily seal it away..."

"Noob."

"What the hell, you try it if you're so good."

"Fine."

"Tch." She hadn't expected the other party to agree so readily. Black Keke was stunned for a moment. "It's not that simple to handle—you're not going to call Shion in to help, are you? Let me tell you in advance, she really might be the End of All Things. If two Ends of All Things meet, they'll join forces, and things will get even more troublesome."

"I'll go alone."

It was just a Disaster Beast. Jiang Si planned to deal with it personally.

It was long past time he relied on magical girls to defeat Disaster Beasts.

Black Keke stared at him for a long time, as if she hadn't quite processed what he said.

"Alright, alright." In the end, she just barely nodded. "Anyway, if it doesn't work, I can save you. As someone not recorded by the World Tree, you should know your mission is to change the future that is destined for destruction..."

"When are you going?"

"Are you in a hurry?"

"I can go right now."

Black Keke looked somewhat helpless. "What's the rush? We haven't even cleaned up the trouble in the new world itself. If you go there and get delayed for a long time, and the hidden End of All Things here descends suddenly, things will get even worse. Before we deal with that big problem, we need to clean up the remaining Ends of All Things in the new world. Those are all very troublesome..."

Jiang Si walked behind her, looking at the brightly lit Beihai, and was momentarily confused. "What other Ends of All Things are there in the new world?"

He had been all over the new world. The only one with the qualifications to be an End of All Things was the Mirror Kingdom, and that had already been cleaned up. Now, the Prince was completely under the Saint Hall's control. The entire new world had no visible threats.

Hearing Black Keke's words, he couldn't help but feel curious. "Where is it hiding?"

Black Keke pulled out a small notebook and flipped to a certain page.

"An ultimate End of All Things that has destroyed the world fourteen times and given me headaches for a long time is right in the new world, even in Beihai itself."

"Who?"

"Xilan."

"Who?"

"Xilan."

"Who?"

"... " Black Keke had no choice but to pull out her old memories and show Jiang Si the images of Xilan destroying the world in past reincarnations, to prove her claim. "Xilan! The super witch who destroys the world, Xilan!"

Jiang Si was silent for a long time, staring at the image of Xilan laughing maniacally. He took a deep breath.

So even trash could overturn the entire world.