My Little Pony: The Daily Life of a Cultivation Pony

Ahem, sometimes Tomato's chapters appear, so they're numbered; sometimes they don't, so I have to type them out myself... And now they're numbered again.

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As a violent explosion rang out, a fierce gust of wind swept smoke and dust in all directions.

Applejack, standing in front, stared in shock at the shattered shield in her hand and said:

"Damn it, it shattered my shield in one go!?"

However, Applejack clenched her fist, and a brand new shield appeared before her. She breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Phew, thankfully I can summon one more..."

Then, looking down at the dulled crystal on the glove, he said with some concern:

"...The magic in my Dream Key is almost gone."

Standing to the side, Suilong glanced at the Dream Key hanging around his neck and said:

"Mine too, I'm almost out of magic."

Surrounded and sitting on the ground, Colorful stopped taking the magic crystal from the space crystal.

At this moment, a large pile of magic crystals had been stacked in front of Colorful. The magic crystals of various colors were piled together, emitting a rainbow-like light.

Colorful looked at the magic crystal in front of her and breathed a sigh of relief, saying:

"These magic crystals... should be able to withstand it..."

He then picked up the Rainbow Sword, stood up, and began to inscribe patterns around the magic crystal, saying:

"...Spiral Dragon and Applejack can hold off Radiant Afterglow for a while, but I need some time to prepare."

Spike and Applejack replied at the same time:

"it is good"

At this moment, Zhenqi, looking at the pile of glittering, faintly glowing magic crystals in front of her, had her eyes sparkle with stars as she muttered in fascination:

"What beautiful crystals!"

Twilight Sparkle looked at the magical crystals in front of her and asked in confusion:

"Colorful, what are you doing? Are you removing the seal from these magic crystals?"

At this point, Twilight Sparkle's eyes lit up, and she took out her Dream Key, which had become dim from exhaustion of magic, and said:

"Is it to replenish the magic of our Dream Key? That's great, I was just wondering what to do."

After hearing what Twilight Sparkle said, Colorful continued to carve the patterns as she spoke:

"There's no time to remove the restriction, so I can only forcibly shatter the magic crystal and gather it together for use. The magic after it's shattered is too chaotic and can't replenish the magic of the Dream Key."

Twilight Sparkle said with a hint of disappointment:

"What should we do? I can't just stand here and watch, I..."

Before Twilight Sparkle could finish speaking, Applejack interrupted her with a hurried voice:

"Are you done yet? Suilong and I can't hold on much longer."

At this moment, Applejack and Spike were enduring the relentless bombardment of the shimmering afterglow, while the magic within the Dream Key was rapidly dissipating.

Applejack's shield was no longer intact and was full of cracks. The shield that Spike Dragon had cast, which was originally a circular shield, could now only maintain one side.

At this moment, Yu Huishuo, who was suspended in mid-air, casually waved his hand, and hundreds of dark blue magic orbs appeared around him. Looking at Applejack and Spike, who were struggling to hold on, he smiled and said:

"Alright, it's time to end this farce."

The moment the words fell, all the magical orbs, brimming with violent energy, rushed towards Chloe and Twilight Sparkle.

Applejack looked at the sky filled with dark blue magical attacks and couldn't help but smile wryly as she said:

"I just had an apple, and now I can't resist..."

Bebe, watching this scene, tilted her head and blinked, reaching out her little hand to touch her hair as if searching for something.

Immediately afterward, Pinkie Pie's eyes lit up, and she took her little hand out of her hair. In her hand, she held a jade handle with two symmetrical V-shaped crystals at the other end, forming a rounded spindle shape. Golden lines extended along the wing edge, outlining the shape.

"...Colorful!!"

Immediately following a sound of crystal shattering, a burst of colorful light erupted from in front of the rainbow, but was immediately blocked by the peach-pink patterns, while a rainbow-colored sound rang out:

"All right!"

As the voice rang out, a colorful magic instantly spread outwards. The moment this magical wave came into contact with the magic orbs attacking them, it neutralized the orbs, turning them into the purest magical elements that dissipated into the air.

As Yu Huishuo watched the colorful magic spreading in front of him, he casually stretched out his palm. The moment it touched him, the colorful magic was blocked in front of him.

Then, Yu Huishuo looked at Colorful, who was standing behind Applejack, and said with a light laugh:

"Oh, not bad. If I remember correctly, your name is Colorful... um."

After pausing to recall her memories, she continued:

"...Splendid and colorful, is that so? You're quite interesting."

At this moment, Colorful held the Rainbow Sword in one hand and made a hand seal with the other, controlling the magic floating around her body to gather into a ring of law behind her. Looking at the shimmering afterglow, she said:

"Not bad? You seem quite confident now. Are you really that sure you can take us down?"

Yu Huishuo raised an eyebrow slightly as he watched the magic gathering behind Duocai, and then several dark blue spears appeared around his body and rushed towards Duocai in an instant.

As the magical spears charged towards her, Duocai casually raised her hand and twirled her rainbow sword in front of her, shattering the spears in the instant they were within reach.

Then, looking at Yu Huishuo, he chuckled mockingly:

"A sneak attack is not befitting of a strong person, especially one who aspires to be king."

Yu Huishuo seemed oblivious to the sarcasm in Duocai's words, and chuckled as she said:

"Really? Ha, an ancient book once said, 'Those who achieve great things don't concern themselves with trifles; that's the key.' Moreover..."

At this point, Yu Huishuo raised one hand and clenched it tightly, saying:

"...Victory is written by the victors, isn't it?"

The moment the words left her lips, dozens more spells attacked Colorful and the others beside her, including Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy.

Yu Huishuo's thinking was simple: if you can block it, what about the people next to you? Judging from your current state, you probably can't move.

Colorful couldn't help but smile bitterly. He really couldn't move easily now; forcibly breaking the magic crystal would make the magic become abnormally violent and disorderly.

Not to mention that he now has to forcibly condense these magics together to form a ring of laws that he can use, so he can't afford to be distracted. He's already close to his limit to be able to talk to Yu Huishuoshuo.

As for the Ring of Laws, it is a technique that can temporarily grant the caster an additional limit to magic/spiritual energy. In the world of cultivation, this technique is often used to protect the mountain gate and is basically one of the essential techniques for protecting the mountain.

*Are you a little confused? According to the above statement, this Taoist technique can increase a person's spiritual energy limit, so it should be quite common. After all, having one or even several times more spiritual energy than others allows one to use more spells, which is a very obvious advantage, isn't it?

However, once you add a "but," many things become completely different, and the reason is quite simple.

First, no matter how much spiritual energy a caster possesses, their cultivation level and understanding will not improve; they can only use the techniques they currently know. (However, for some techniques whose power increases with the amount of spiritual energy used, there is indeed a significant improvement.)

Second, the spiritual energy that can form a ring of laws must be of the same attribute as the caster's spiritual energy; otherwise, there will be a conflict, and in severe cases, it may even explode directly with considerable power. For the caster, this could result in serious injury at best, and severe injury at worst, with all meridians severed. (The damage can be offset by the amount of spiritual energy forming the ring of laws, depending on the caster's current realm and the amount of spiritual energy, but it will still cause damage to the caster.)

*Third, the formed ring of laws has a time limit. The bound spiritual energy will gradually dissipate. The speed of dissipation depends on the formation that formed the ring of laws. However, no matter how it is optimized, the spiritual energy will eventually dissipate. After all, even the spirit stone itself will gradually dissipate spiritual energy. Moreover, the formation itself also has a certain time limit. The longest duration before Duocai left was 12 hours.

Fourth, preparation takes time. The more complex the array that forms the ring of laws, the longer it takes. The more spiritual energy is restrained, the longer it takes. However, the time will be reduced to a certain extent depending on the caster's realm and proficiency.

Fifth, even if all the above conditions are met, a perfectly condensed ring of laws will still cause damage to the caster. After all, if this spiritual energy is used forcibly without being refined by the caster, it will damage the dantian and meridians.

These are the most obvious flaws of the Ring of Laws, directly causing its low usage rate. (However, it can be extremely useful in certain extreme situations.)

Secondly, people discovered that when using refined spiritual energy—that is, the spiritual energy of others—to condense the Ring of Law, all the above-mentioned defects are greatly reduced, and there are basically no negative effects on the person who voluntarily provides the spiritual energy.

Moreover, after these spiritual energies are refined and their attributes transformed through a large-scale refining array, negative effects can be further reduced. The caster only needs to stand at the array's core to use various Taoist techniques almost without restriction.

*The threat posed in the sect war even exceeds that of the strongest in the current battle. In some extreme cases, if the strongest person were to act as the spellcaster, it could even fight beyond one's level without being at a disadvantage.

* (This isn't exactly obscure trivia; fighting someone of a higher level is practically impossible. After all, there's a huge gap between different realms, and not everyone is a chosen one, let alone someone of a higher level who can fight without being at a disadvantage.)

Therefore, this method has been continuously optimized by various forces to enhance its power, but so far, the results have not been significant.

*As a protective mountain formation, it is not without its flaws. The biggest flaw is that it cannot be moved. All members within the formation cannot move, and only the caster can move within a limited range.

Secondly, the duration remains a problem. Although sect disciples are continuously supplying spiritual energy, individual spiritual energy is still limited, and since they are all acting as spiritual energy providers, their cultivation levels are generally not very high.

*Besides, the attacker won't stubbornly confront the caster head-on. As long as they stall, they'll be forced back to their original form once the time is up. And even if the side effects are reduced again and again, they're still there. Once used, it can't be used again for a short period of time.

*The above is roughly the general situation of the Ring of Laws. (Although the results of this Dao technique are not significant, a certain ignorant and fearless fellow changed the perspective. Since quantitative change is not enough, let's try qualitative change. He then researched a higher-level Dao technique called the [Ring of Dao Laws]. However, no one has used it so far because it has been calculated that using it will cause one to drop a major realm.)

Keke, get back to business.

Colorful could only release the Rainbow Sword and draw magic from the still incomplete Law Ring behind him, channeling it into the gems on either side of the crystal in his chest space to activate the defensive array within and defend against the wave of magic.

But the attacks did not stop; they continued to surge forth relentlessly. Colorful could only condense the ring of law while continuously guiding magic to maintain the defensive formation.

Although Ember Darkness didn't know what was behind Colorful, she wasn't the kind of villain who waited for others to prepare their ultimate moves before launching an attack.

Although I don't know what it is, judging from its colorful appearance, it's clearly in a state where it can't move.

As for why Ember Darkness kept using ranged attacks instead of charging in and attacking Chromatic directly, wouldn't that have been a better way to force Chromatic to leave its spot and defeat it?

The reason is simple: Remnant Darkness sensed danger from the Ring of Laws behind Colorful. As mentioned before, the magic within the forcibly shattered magic gem was extremely violent, and the forced fusion of magic of different attributes further exacerbated the situation.

It will only become more violent, and once it gets out of control, the power it generates will be considerable.

So Ember Dark chose a safer approach; all it took was getting him to move.

However, Colorful's control over formations was beyond the comprehension of Remnant Darkness, and Remnant Darkness didn't even know what formations were.

However, this was not a long-term solution, because at this moment, the gem on Colorful's chest was cracking with a crisp sound, and at the same time, blood-like lines appeared on Colorful's arms.

Duo Cai frowned as she looked at Yu Hui Shuo Shuo, who was completely different from the one in her memory. But seeing that Yu Hui Shuo Shuo looked completely different from the ugly demon in her memory, Duo Cai frowned.

On the contrary, it looked almost identical to when it was fully recognized by magic, except for its color, so I couldn't help but ask:

"Shining Sunset, have you completely abandoned yourself?"

Yu Huishuo paused for a moment after hearing what Duocai said, and muttered to herself:

"I think I forgot to introduce myself..."

Then, looking at the colorful smile, he continued:

"Twilight Sparkle? Giving up on yourself? Hahaha, right, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Ember's Darkness, not that cowardly Twilight Sparkle."

Upon hearing what Yu Hui Shuo Shuo (now called Can Jin You An) said again, Duo Cai actually breathed a sigh of relief.

Feeling the ring of laws about to be completed behind him, Colorful looked at the gloomy remnants and said:

"Embers of Darkness...I see. Then there's nothing more to say. Beating you down is the best option."

Upon hearing this, the lingering embers laughed loudly and said:

"Haha, really? You're very brave, but..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly saw a fierce sword aura appear in front of him. Remnant Darkness's pupils shrank, and he instantly raised his hand to grab the sword aura.

He then exerted force, dispersing the sword energy. Looking at the colorful ring of laws floating before him and behind him, and the figure slowly rising, gripping the Rainbow Sword, he spoke in an unfriendly tone:

I hate being interrupted when I'm speaking.

Colorful looked at the ashes and said with a smile:

"Is that so? If it annoys you, then I'm happy. Besides, I don't like wasting my breath on people. I'm waiting for my big move. What are you waiting for? Get ready!"

The moment he finished speaking, he rushed towards the gloomy remnants.

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