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

The massive explosion sent Kikyo flying. The magical girl in her red and white shrine maiden outfit crashed down next to Iris and Seiran, clutching her chest and groaning, barely able to stand.

The chill and terrifying pressure made it almost impossible for Qingluan and Yuanwei to lift their heads. Both of them were in their untransformed state, and even breathing became a problem.

After a long while, the one-eyed iris finally managed to lift her head slightly with difficulty.

A faint mist of blood blurred her single pupil.

So much so that the purple-clad girl appeared somewhat ferocious and bloody in her eyes for the first time.

She maintained the same indifference as in Beihai, her arrogance that completely disregarded others, as if it were all perfectly natural.

A perfectly balanced arrogance and majesty that complemented her impossibly exquisite appearance.

With a casual gesture, she reached out her hand, and both Iris and Azure Phoenix were forced to their knees.

I can no longer stand.

A magnificent lotus flower, with twelve colors, unfolded in the girl's hands.

"Then I'll give you a small gift as a token of our meeting."

"Aster!"

The tiny Buddha's wrathful lotus landed in front of them.

Petals unfurled one by one, and terrifying magic collided and rippled layer by layer.

The three magical girls, along with the headquarters below and the remains of the Heart Image, were engulfed by the raging flames!

Half the world is ablaze!

Chapter 380 Second Slash of Aster (7,000 words, requesting monthly votes)

"Holy crap, why is she here?!"

Even with all the precautions taken, Kikyo almost didn't make it through when the explosion lit up the sky.

Dragging Qingluan and Yuanwei along, Yuanwei kept yelling, "Where's your absolute defense? Why didn't you activate it after all this time!"

"It's already open."

"what?"

"Otherwise, how do you think we survived..."

Kikyo coughed, and it felt like her internal organs were on fire.

When coughing, hot, dry breath is constantly exhaled from the mouth.

Even dried-up blood.

Twelve-colored Buddha's raging lotus.

In terms of power, it's somewhat beyond specifications.

I never imagined that at a time like this, my master would have time to create a twelve-colored instant-explosion lotus for her...

Could it be that Master thinks highly of me?

Iris, who was being held by Kikyo, immediately cried out, "Hey, hey, hey, what are you laughing at!"

"I was just thinking about happy things."

"You're a monster! Your absolute defense has been breached!"

“Not surprising,” Kikyo said with a faint smile. “Master has already broken through it before.”

The iris fell silent instantly. "That's an absolute defense against causality..."

Kikyo's magic has two uses.

One type is for offense, with arrows that are guaranteed to hit. Most of the magic she developed was designed around the effects of arrows.

Since we don't need to consider the hit rate, we only need to consider the additional effects after a hit—purification, damage over time, tracking, double kill, eat dust, frame drops and packet loss, NetEase Cloud Music depression time, truth or dare explosion, passivity, bondage, automatic costume change, sensitivity 3000 times, automatic lap pillow, hypnosis, servant transformation, invisibility, memory erasure...

The second use is for defense.

Once Kikyo's magic has been deployed as a defense, it is theoretically impossible to break through.

Because it must be blocked first before it can unfold.

It is still the effect of causality.

However, it's not so effective when facing a sect leader, since forcibly breaking through the law of causality with power and magic is something a sect leader can do with ease.

However, from the very beginning, Kikyo never intended to use this move to block the Twelve-Colored Buddha's Wrath Lotus.

Just keep your distance...

The swords above unfolded in concentric circles, locking onto Kikyo's position. Almost every sword possessed a power that terrified Iris and Blue Phoenix.

Those countless longswords, like a sky full of stars, even looking cheap, each one was the life of countless magical girls...

"Didn't you say that Shion can no longer use magic?!"

Under Iris's questioning, Kikyo shrugged and said, "How should I know? You saw that the Violet Gardenias didn't need magic anymore, which means the Thousand Needles Grass was successful, but it's normal for problems to arise."

Two or three more swords rained down. Kikyo was about to draw her bow when the longsword suddenly accelerated in mid-air!

Kikyo's pupils contracted slightly.

The arrow and the longsword collided at extremely close range, and the explosion knocked three more people off their feet.

[Star Pattern Descends: Wings of Foam.]

The three of them fell to the ground and with a "thud," they turned into foam. The three of them were enveloped in the foam and floated away in the impact.

Qingluan put away the card, glanced at Ziyuan who wasn't in a hurry to catch up, and began to recall:

"Although my memory of transforming into Shion is a bit hazy, I do remember that at a certain moment, all the magic in my body was sealed, and I couldn't use any of it..."

"That means it's working."

Amidst the torrential rain of swords, Kikyo took a deep breath and drew her longbow to its fullest extent once more.

This time, however, the dozens of arrows from the longbow were larger than her!

"—Arrow Thirteen!"

With a loud shout, dozens of arrows shot out of the air, splitting continuously in mid-air. In a short while, their number was comparable to the rain of swords in the sky!

Both Qingluan and Yuanwei were dumbfounded. Yuanwei immediately clapped her hands and said, "Wow, Kikyo, you're evenly matched with your master!"

Qingluan exclaimed in surprise, "I thought it would be defeated in one move..."

"I'm not that bad! Besides, this is an assessment. Master won't go all out from the start, otherwise how will I defend myself?"

"How come you're already defending your thesis..."

"After all, this is graduation."

Kikyo caught her breath, put away her longbow, and then pulled the two of them along, saying, "Let's go!"

Qingluan, clutching the severed arm of Iris, followed closely behind Kikyo: "Can we really escape by running around like this?"

"There's no escaping it." Kikyo's fighting spirit grew stronger. "And there's no need to escape!"

Iris suddenly panicked: "Damn it, you don't need to do this! We have to escape!"

"iris."

Kikyo glanced at her. "I might need your help."

"Hey!" Qingluan immediately waved Iris's severed arm. "Didn't you see she's lost an arm? And in such a short time, don't expect Iris to be able to recover her transformation!"

"It's alright," Iris reassured Qingluan. "So what do you need me to do?"

"Don't die."

"Don't talk nonsense at a time like this!"

boom!

Amidst the ripples of sword energy, the largest flower bloomed.

When Qingluan looked up, she thought she was seeing things.

Amidst the layers upon layers of sword energy, a beam of light suddenly appeared. It wasn't until the moment it landed that it was discovered to be a sword.

A colossal sword of unbelievable size, capable of cleaving even the Milky Way in two!

"How can we stop them!"

Iris immediately asked Kikyo, "This is beyond the syllabus, isn't it? Don't your teachers know not to involve irrelevant people in the exam?"

"Now that you're here, you're all examinees. Perhaps in the sect leader's eyes, you have a prestige no less than that of a true disciple... Since you are a true disciple, you shouldn't be afraid, but should forge ahead without hesitation!"

Qingluan stared at the greatsword that was almost upon her, and could only ask urgently, "So how do we stop this sword..."

Kikyo shook her head: "I don't know."

Iris: "I didn't know you were still pretending!"

Seeing that it was too late to escape, Qingluan and Yuanwei couldn't help but close their eyes.

Ruined.

The sword strike, almost impossible to avoid, carried the force to cleave the universe as it crashed down upon us!

Then a gale howled, and the faces of Qingluan and Yuanwei were distorted by the wind. The sharpness of the sword brought a stinging pain to their eyelids, but for a long time, the sword did not fall!

Both of them cautiously peeked out with one eye, afraid that if they made any sudden movements, the greatsword would fall and smash them to pieces.

Upon seeing this, the two suddenly became bolder.

The greatsword was now tightly bound by a dense array of chains, which looked very taut and were even sparking as they rubbed against the blade.

The chain ended at a strange plain.

Iris glanced over instinctively, then jumped in shock. "Holy crap, so many Coco corpses! Where am I? Is Coco alright?"

"Can't you worry about yourself first?" Qingluan said helplessly, tugging at her friend who was trying to walk over. "Don't run around!"

"Don't worry, Coco is fine."

Kikyo finally breathed a sigh of relief. "These are all her old corpses. It's too complicated to explain, so you'd better not ask what happened. I'm very irritable and annoyed right now. If you ask, I'm afraid I might not be able to resist shooting you both with an arrow."