Starting with magical girls, I'll reign supreme for eternity.

Chapter 49 Yin and Yang Across the Strait (Posted by mistake, now corrected)
The Calamity Egg, once swallowed, is of no use.

Not only could I not feel any power, but I even felt as if the egg of calamity was melting and disappearing.

After retrieving the Calamity Egg, Jiang Si took out a knife and gently made a cut in her abdomen.

Then, the tiny egg of calamity was inserted.

Three years ago, he left behind the tentacles of the calamity beast, nourished them in his body, and thus gained the ability to transform into a magical girl.

He still remembers that feeling: a flood of negative emotions seeping into his brain from his flesh and blood—irritability, terror, anxiety…

Once the same negative emotions are evoked, they become nourishment for the monsters. Moreover, negative emotions generated by the people around them also nourish the monsters.

Using human bodies to raise monstrous creatures is far too risky and could easily spiral out of control.

However, Jiang Si has always had good emotional control, so even after several days, the calamity beast will not grow to the point of being out of control.

However, as soon as the calamity egg was inserted into his flesh, Jiang Si immediately noticed the difference.

There is no large spread of negative emotions; in fact, one's own negative emotions are absorbed by the Calamity Egg, ensuring one's emotional well-being.

Once it enters the flesh and blood, there is no feeling of foreign objects; instead, it quickly integrates into the flesh and blood.

The calamity egg seemed to come alive, beginning to circulate within Jiang Si's flesh and blood. Jiang Si immediately sensed that the calamity egg was moving towards his heart.

Naturally, it wouldn't give it a chance. Purple magic power quickly surged into its body, enveloping the calamity egg layer by layer.

Although the attempt to reach full bloom failed, the seed not only underwent a change in its morphological form, but its magical properties also changed considerably.

The current state of the Purple Orchid is roughly the peak of its full bloom, reaching the Great Perfection stage.

At this moment, the purple magic was no longer as violent as before, but as gentle as water. After enveloping the egg of calamity, it neither emitted heat to destroy the egg of calamity nor disappeared immediately.

Instead, the viscous substance slowly fused the outer shell of the Calamity Egg with the flesh.

The purple magic gradually disappeared only after the egg of calamity was fixed near the ribs.

It can stay in the body for a longer time, but in essence it is still the same as before, it will always be in a state of dissipation in the physical body, only its magical properties have changed to a certain extent, and its adhesiveness is stronger.

I sensed that the calamity egg, which was fixed near my ribs, still possessed vitality and was quite active.

Even Jiang Si couldn't treat this thing as a Nascent Soul.

Not to mention that it is not something one can control, nor does it originate from one's own Golden Core—that is, the seed—and is far from the so-called Nascent Soul.

Although Jiang Si doesn't watch many movies, she has seen Infinite Terror, and this thing should be more similar to an alien egg.

With the Calamity Egg constantly active, he was unable to sleep.

So he simply picked up the dumbbells in the room, weighing about 200 kilograms, just enough to warm up, and planned to ignore the active calamity egg inside his body and go to sleep when he got tired.

Unexpectedly, after a little activity and expending its energy, the originally active Calamity Egg actually became a little quieter.

Slightly surprised, they then began to exercise even more vigorously.

Jiang Si quickly noticed the anomaly: a faint power was continuously being transported into her flesh and blood from inside the Calamity Egg.

Although the enhancement effect was not very satisfactory, it maintained his physical vitality and was reducing his fatigue.

Furthermore, the Calamity Egg has gradually become less active than before.

But as soon as he stops moving, the Calamity Egg immediately becomes active, struggling inside him, trying to escape.

Jiang Si had almost figured out the characteristics of this thing.

Once integrated into the body, as long as one engages in high-intensity exercise, this calamity egg will uncontrollably provide magical energy.

So that's how it is. Compared to the Nascent Soul stage, it should be classified as the second Golden Core stage?
I've finally found it—my own inner core.

However, it is difficult to use it together with the Miracle Seed of External Elixir.

Sensing that the struggle of the Calamity Egg was becoming increasingly intense, Jiang Si stretched her body and smiled.

For Jiang Si, exercise is certainly interesting, but endless exercise without a goal can sometimes feel boring.

But now, this inner core has given him a pure goal.

Feeling cramped inside, he came downstairs to go to the yard.

Coco and Li Yi seemed to have finished eating, and the table was cleaned up.

As Jiang Si walked past Coco's bedroom, she could faintly hear sobbing and the whispers of two girls, but she wasn't interested in listening.

I pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard. It was drizzling again in Beihai that night. The cool raindrops pattered on my face, which felt refreshing.

Nice weather.

Jiang Si liked this kind of weather; the rain wasn't heavy enough to be a nuisance, and the soaked clothes made her skin feel uncomfortable as they stuck to her fabric.

It wasn't so small that I couldn't feel it at all; it was just like the air was humid.

The perfect drizzle, with its refreshing touch on the forehead, made for the best weather for exercise.

Take a deep breath and start warming up with squats.

Next, I did burpees, push-ups, and running in place, venting all my excess energy!
The calamity egg within her body soon began to wail, as if begging for mercy, and stopped struggling altogether.

But Jiang Si completely ignored this and focused solely on training, squeezing the energy out of the Calamity Egg.

Show me your limits, Inner Alchemy!
……

"My older sister has loved magical girls since she was little."

Li Yi had changed into a somewhat childish pink pajama set.

That was what Coco wore when she was in elementary school; it fits Li Yi perfectly...

Fortunately, after her parents passed away, Coco didn't throw away her old clothes because she was nostalgic.

Both of them were holding a cup, which was the milk tea that Coco had brought back yesterday.

"Back then, I didn't really believe magical girls existed, but my older sister always insisted that they definitely existed when we were little. She always wanted to play magical girl games with me, made me magical girl dresses, and we would fight monsters together. The code name Silver Lotus was also given to me by my sister..."

After a whole day of silence, when the dazed Li Yi finally began to pour out her heart, Coco listened quietly beside her.

She had similar experiences when her parents passed away.

I want to vent, I want to find someone to talk to about my past with my parents, to alleviate my pain.

But Jiang Si didn't stay by her side at all, and Coco couldn't confide in those unfamiliar relatives. In the end, she could only cry and complain in front of her parents' photos in the middle of the night until she was too tired to cry and fell asleep.

She didn't want Yiyi to suffer like she did, so she sat quietly beside her, hoping to ease her pain.

"Later, my sister could never become a magical girl, but I did. Although my sister never told me, I knew that she was very disappointed and sad. Her younger sister, who was inferior to her in every way, became a magical girl. My sister worked hard since she was a child but could never get the miracle seed. On the one hand, I was secretly happy that I could catch up with my sister, but on the other hand, I also knew that it was not fair to my sister at all."

“There’s no such thing as fair or unfair.” Coco took the glass that Li Yi had finished drinking from and placed it on the bedside table next to her. “The selection of magical girls is inherently random and cannot be controlled by humans.”

"Ah."

Curled up, hugging her legs, Li Yi rested her chin on her knees. "I know my sister has never given up on her dream of becoming a magical girl. She often risks her life to face monsters, hoping to obtain a miracle seed, but she has never succeeded and almost lost her life. The last time, when I saved her, my sister suddenly became very scary and angrily accused me of not wanting her to become a magical girl..." She sighed softly.

The Disaster Management Bureau has already issued a statement regarding Yinluo's membership in the Witch's Guild.

Both Li Yi and Ke Ke knew about this.

Presumably fearing that Li Yi might cause trouble and clash with the Qingyun Sect, the Disaster Management Bureau immediately notified Li Yi and gave her all the evidence.

Coco felt there was no need to rush...

At the time, Yiyi clearly didn't have the ability to seek revenge, and Coco believed she wasn't such a reckless person.

Although she is small in stature and sometimes appears innocent and cute, Yi Yi is truly a very competent captain of the magical girl combat team.

However, I can understand the Disaster Management Bureau's thinking, but I still feel a little uncomfortable.

"Actually, I know that my sister is very unwilling. She put in the most effort, but she got nothing in return. Every time she sees me transform into a magical girl, she is both proud and unwilling. She always seems very lonely. I know all of this."

Speaking slowly, Yiyi took out a seed from somewhere.

Coco stared at the seed, momentarily stunned.

Yi Yi's seeds are pink, she has seen them before, and Yi Yi's seeds are only at the seedling level.

She understood the magical reserves and properties of the new seedlings, because she herself was about to enter the new seedling stage.

The seed before them was not only white, but also not Yiyi's own miracle seed.

The amount and nature of the internal magic are significantly higher than those of a seedling; it should be at the peak of bloom...

"There are three unclaimed miracle seeds within the Disaster Management Bureau."

Yiyi stared blankly at the Miracle Seed in her hand. "I applied for a Miracle Seed from the Disaster Management Bureau. Although they didn't agree, I still got one in the end. I want to fight alongside my sister and make her a magical girl too, just like when we were little. Together, we'll fight monsters..."

At this point, Li Yi finally couldn't help but sob softly, burying her head in her knees:

"It was so close, Coco... Why did it turn out like this..."

Coco hugged Yiyi, her eyes also red, unsure of what to say.

Having spent so many years with Jiang Si, I have absolutely no idea how to comfort people; all I can do is cry with Yi Yi.

After sobbing for a while, Li Yi held the Miracle Seed and said, choking back tears, "Back then, the Disaster Management Bureau absolutely refused to give me a single seed, and now, I'm the only one left."

Just as Coco was about to say something, she heard Jiang Si coming downstairs.

Yi Yi cried softly. Jiang Si quietly changed her shoes at the door, then pushed the door open and walked out without pausing.

The familiar voice, the familiar situation, and it was still drizzling outside.

It seemed as if nothing had changed.

"Sister, I used to hate the Witch Society the most because it always hurt the magical girls she liked, and it also made Susan, the senior she used to admire, unable to transform. Every time my sister talked about the Witch Society and the Qingyun Sect, she looked like she hated them to the core."

Keke was pulled back to reality by Li Yi's soft-spoken words, listening to her unwilling and aggrieved voice:

"How could she be a member of the Witch's Guild?"

So Coco whispered, "It's because she was too eager to become a magical girl and went down the wrong path. Susan said that in the end, she still transformed."

"Yeah, I saw it."

Yi Yi said blankly, "But that can't even be called a magical girl, that's just a witch. How could she be satisfied with that? Just because of that, she was killed by Shion..."

His tone became increasingly strained and choked with sobs, until finally, he could no longer speak.

Teacher Shion would not kill innocent people indiscriminately.

Coco couldn't bring herself to say those words.

Amidst the faint sobs, thunder roared outside, and Keke thought the rain was about to intensify, so she turned her head to look.

Jiang Si was exercising in the courtyard, looking almost frantic...

No matter how many times, Coco found it both absurd and magical.

Being with Jiang Si, one would never be entangled in such painful and agonizing emotions.

It was as if his world was completely independent and out of place here.

Every time I look at it like this, it's like looking at people from another world.

For the first time, Coco felt a little envious of Jiang Sisheng.

"Perhaps I should have challenged Shion back then."

"boom!"

A deafening roar, like thunder, echoed outside the window.

Looking away, Coco snuggled close to her friend, holding her hand. "That's not right."

"I actually guessed it at the time. Shion had her reasons because she had never killed the wrong person. I also witnessed my sister transforming into a witch. But at that time, I didn't think too much. I just wanted to hug my sister and hope that she was still alive."

Pushing Coco away, Li Yi lay on her side on the bed. "Later, I kept thinking that if I had fought Zi Yuan back then, even though I wouldn't have been her match, and even though I wouldn't have been in the right, I could have said that because my sister passed away, I couldn't stay rational, and everyone could have understood me."

“Unlike now, I clearly can’t forgive her, I can’t forgive her for killing my sister with her own hands, for not being able to see her one last time, for not knowing what my sister was thinking, for not being able to save her. But, I also clearly understand that she was right, and I can’t even take revenge on her, even hatred would make me seem ungrateful.”

Coco hesitated for a moment, and in the end, she only replied with a sentence that Jiang Si had said:
"It will get better with time..."

"I'm so unwilling to accept this. She's the one who killed my sister, but she's right. There's nothing I can do."

Yiyi tilted her head and looked at Coco. "If I can't help but seek revenge on Ziyuan in the end, will Coco help me?"

“I’ll stop you.” This time Coco didn’t hesitate. “I absolutely won’t let you go!”

Another loud clap of thunder sounded outside, but Coco resisted the urge to turn around and look.

With a silent grin, Li Yi took out her Miracle Seed with a blank look in her eyes.

The seeds, which were originally pink, turned completely black.

"Don't worry, I won't do that, because I can no longer transform, Coco."

……

Outside the window, Jiang Si, who had already pushed himself to his limit, took a deep breath.

The Egg of Calamity had completely fallen silent. He went back to his room, took a shower, and fell into a peaceful sleep.

My physical strength has increased again, as long as I can maintain the magical supply to the Calamity Egg.

His physical body was finally able to enter the early stages of the seedling stage.

　P.S.: I've completely run out of drafts, so I need to work on saving up drafts these next few days...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)