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

Before anyone else could speak, the iris had already shot out!

Like a shooting star, it pierced through the giant monster that was trying to move forward in an instant!

The enormous elephant was knocked off balance and tumbled to the ground!

A huge cloud of smoke billowed in from afar, and Peony clapped wildly, "As expected of Lady Iris!"

Susan snorted, "Shameful, you think you can bribe me with paid leave?"

"If you're not ashamed, then don't take it."

"Why not take it if it's free?"

Ultimately, as a magical girl in full bloom, dealing with a B-rank monster is nothing to worry about.

Susan and Peony chattered away as usual, and none of them even intended to watch Iris's spectacular performance.

However, Susan was the first to notice something and suddenly looked up. Coco and Peony also turned to look in the direction of the calamity beast.

The pierced beast thrashed to its feet, then froze in place, its body beginning to freeze.

Snowflakes fell from the sky.

Does it snow this time of year?

Iris looked around and found that only the outskirts of Beihai were experiencing snowfall.

Immediately afterwards, she heard a pleasant sound.

"The First Dragon has descended."

A loud and distant dragon's roar echoed from the snow-covered clouds.

"Transformation."

All the snowflakes suddenly stopped, and a huge ice dragon rushed down from the clouds, swallowing a nearby high-rise building in one gulp!

It then exploded into tiny ice shards, whipping up a gust of wind mixed with ice and snow.

The entire skyscraper was not destroyed, but transformed into a beautiful ice sculpture. On the skyscraper, ribbons fluttered like ice flowers. A blue magical girl held an umbrella in her hand, and her six-petaled ice flower-shaped pupils smiled as she looked at Iris.

"This is Qingyun Sect territory, newcomer."

Chapter 53: You Are the Challenger (5000 words)

Rock Sugar was in a bad mood.

On the chessboard of heaven and earth, a single move made, losing to Yu Mo, it's hard to be in a good mood.

She remembered that there was a winning strategy for Gomoku, but the match was rushed today, and she had forgotten to memorize it beforehand, which led to her carelessness and loss to Yu Mo.

This girl seems to have secretly memorized a winning formula, which is why she was so confident in demanding a game of chess between heaven and earth.

I've been infected.

Yu Mo is getting more and more cunning. What will she become in the future? As the deputy sect leader, I'm actually having trouble dealing with her.

This is absolutely outrageous...

Half of Shion's magic power is certainly enormous. Even if it is divided into two puppets, it is enough to last for two or three days as long as there is no intense battle that would accelerate the consumption of magic power.

But of course, I don't want the rock sugar to run out in just two or three days...

Asking Jiang Si for magic power once or twice is fine, but it's unlikely to work every time.

However, seeing Yu Mo's happy expression made her feel relieved.

Well, it's not like there isn't any, two or three days is fine.

Today is naturally the day to inspect the results of Qinghua's work. Originally, Bingtang was worried that the magic power of Qinghua's two magic puppets would not be evenly distributed.

The results showed that the magical power distribution between the two puppets was extremely precise, with a difference in magical power no greater than the thickness of a hair.

"Ugh, Yu Mo kept me up all night, I need to catch up on some sleep, but I feel like my control over magic has improved quite a bit..."

After handing in her task, Qinghua muttered to herself as she found a corner, wrapped herself in a blanket, and went to sleep.

Qinghua has now dropped out of school. Among the true disciples, she is the only one whose studies are terrible. Even the teachers don't care about her. Bingtang had initially considered letting her study properly.

But they found that she really wasn't cut out for it, and forcing her to study would only be torture for both of them, so they gave up on the idea.

Qinghua currently does some part-time work online. She enjoys it and earns some money, so there's no need for her to stay in school for long periods.

With the salary from the Qingyun Sect, as long as I don't mess around, I should have no problem living a comfortable life.

I'm afraid Qinghua will squander his money. Among his disciples, Qinghua is the most unruly.

Yotsuba, Rokuyo, and Yumo have all gone to school. Yumo stared at the blue-and-white porcelain all night yesterday, so she'll probably just catch up on sleep at school...

Although it's nothing, Qingyun Sect has special tutoring time. After all, they often miss classes when they are on missions to clear out disaster beasts. In order to avoid delaying their studies, Bingtang will hire teachers for them at her own expense to provide tutoring.

As for Bing Tang herself, since Jiang Si didn't go to school, she was almost too lazy to go either. She had a one-on-one tutor at home, and she had already finished all the high school courses when she was in junior high school.

If Jiang Si hadn't been still in high school, she would have already gone to university. According to her family's plan, after completing her university studies, she would immediately return home to take over the relevant business, and then find a husband to marry into her family and live a peaceful and stable life.

Of course, if Jiang Si were to marry into the family, Bing Tang thinks it wouldn't be out of the question...

To be honest, her family definitely wouldn't mind. It's just like an ordinary family's son marrying into the family, and Jiang Si is the kind of person who has absolutely no interest in money or company power. It's exactly what her family wanted, and there won't be any trouble.

Jiang Si definitely wouldn't agree to that...

Moreover, there is the Qingyun Sect business. Although it was built by Bing Tang, she never felt that the Qingyun Sect belonged to her. It was Jiang Si's business, and she was just a partner.

With such a large company and such strong capabilities, how could he possibly become a live-in son-in-law?

She manipulated Shion's puppet, sat down in front of her, and then shook hands with it.

The feel of a puppet is actually quite different from that of a real person. After all, magic has no temperature. The burning sensation that Shion feels when using magic comes from her own control over the magic.

Essentially, magic loses its warmth once it loses its master's control.

Although it looks nice, I always feel that the rock candy feels pretty good to the touch.

The craftsmanship of blue and white porcelain is still reliable.

She touched the fingers of the Purple Orchid Doll, pinching its nails; between its fingers, it was almost indistinguishable from a real person.

When you press your palms together, it feels like you're pressing them against a wall.

Of course, what's most hard to ignore is that perfect face.

She wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that she could still see some resemblance to Jiang Si in his facial features.

However, there are also many subtle changes in many places, so much so that the actual differences are quite large.

After all, Jiang Si's appearance can only be described as pretty, not particularly feminine.

She reached out and smoothed the Purple Doll's hair. Hmm, the hair felt much more realistic than skin.

She had thought about doing Ziyuan's makeup before, and even took a lot of cosmetics from her home vanity, but after looking at Ziyuan's eyebrows...

After trying to draw a couple of strokes, I felt like I had just gone to the wrong place...

No matter how much makeup you put on, it always seems like an unnecessary addition, or even ruins the overall aesthetic.

After wiping off the makeup, Bing Tang fell into deep thought.

Is it a bit too hasty to take the puppet shopping now? It might make it seem like my motives for asking Jiang Si for magic are impure.

But if I don't take the puppet out shopping now, I'll probably have even less time when I get busy later...

If it were really used for training, I'd be a little reluctant to use it. Combat consumes magic quickly, and it wouldn't last even two days.

Even if it's just for show, we still need to do combat training, otherwise we won't be able to ask Jiang Si for magic power in the future.

It would be best to wait until Jiang Si comes to the Qingyun Sect before showing it to him...

It would be great if it could be preserved permanently.

Jiang Si once said that the path to immortality encompasses everything, including puppet soldiers.

While the blue and white porcelain dolls are stunning, they are like water without roots or wood without soil, ultimately reflecting a lower level of thinking.

If we can obtain the necessary materials, we can certainly make further progress.

It concerns the art of crafting puppets and refining weapons for immortality, and in the future, it can provide sect disciples with the sect leader's personal trials indefinitely. It is practically all benefits and no harm.

It's absolutely not because of my own personal selfishness; for the sake of the sect, we must find a way to permanently preserve the Violet Puppet...

She lay comfortably on the lap of the Purple Puppet, looked up at it, and reached out to touch its chin. It was so tender that it seemed like you could squeeze water out of it. She wondered how Qinghua could make it so delicate.

She had worked with the previous Shion Puppet before, and the details of its skin were actually quite different from what she sees now.

It really was through making magic puppets, and with Yu Mo's encouragement, that I improved my precision in controlling magic by a lot.

My fingertips traced across the puppet's lips, feeling like I was squeezing jelly.

This makes me wonder if Ziyuan's lips are really that plump and bouncy? Did Qinghua add a little something extra...?

The puppet's lip was scratched by nails that hadn't been trimmed in a long time, though they were quickly repaired by magic.

But even such a small waste of magic made Bing Tang feel a little heartbroken, so she rummaged through her bag and took out nail clippers.

I was going to fix it myself, but after looking at Shion, I felt it wasn't necessary...

He handed the nail clippers to the puppet and manipulated it to begin trimming his nails.

Admiring the puppet's focused expression, one can imagine that Shion herself would have a similar look.

Then I thought of something else.

Since it's a puppet, the toenails should be fine too...

Lost in her fantasies about what to do next, the mirror left behind by Yotsuba lit up.

After the leaves emerged, a series of intelligence reports were transmitted.

The new magical girl at the General Administration is of the Blooming level, which Bing Tang also knows, but why did she suddenly go to Jiang Si's house and even try to recruit Jiang Si into the Disaster Management Bureau?

Upon hearing this news, the precision with which he manipulated the puppet dropped, and he almost cut his own flesh.

After receiving news of the appearance of a B-level disaster beast, Bing Tang quickly left Qingyun Sect and rushed to the scene immediately.

She only cut her nails halfway, and there was even a notch in the nail of her index finger.

For someone like me who always strives for perfection, this is extremely irritating.