: The Method of [Natural Cultivation]

In the dead of night, when all is quiet.

Mu Ming, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes and sat up as if he had been startled awake.

He clutched his chest with one hand and propped himself up on the bed with the other, breathing rapidly for a while before finally catching his breath.

"Failed again?"

Feeling his heart gradually returning to its normal beating, Mu Ming wasn't annoyed.

Now, he can cultivate anytime, anywhere, but he can't entrust it to someone else.

You can't exercise while you're sleeping.

So he wondered what actions people would do while sleeping.

There are many answers, like breathing, like the pumping of the heart...

Within Mu Ming's body, black magic transformed into a membrane that re-covered his heart. This membrane connected to his limbs and bones, and it remained expanded as the magic within his body began to circulate.

Once the internal magical circulation is disrupted, the magical energy within the membrane stops flowing, and the magical energy will rush towards the limbs, causing the membrane to shrink and gradually bind the heart.

He falls asleep in a state of "cultivation" every day. Once the "cultivation" is interrupted, the membrane shrinks, pulling him out of his sleep.

Although he currently possesses a great deal of magical power, seven or eight tenths of it comes from [devouring], and this proportion will only increase in the future.

But after circulating the magic for so long, he also understood that the main purpose of the circulating magic was not to increase magic power.

Instead, it condenses and strengthens existing magic, improving the precision of magic manipulation; magic power growth is merely a byproduct of this process.

After taking the test with Jin Yu, some time later, his magic power also reached 677 points.

Although he was still in the second tier, he had observed the magical girls in the Bureau of Control, and many of the third-tier magical girls did not have as much solidified magic as he did.

Although their magical power is inferior, if they were to unleash it in a short period of time, they might be able to defeat them.

Mu Ming took a deep breath and closed his eyes again.

When he was fully awake in bed, the dark circles under his eyes had become even more pronounced.

He picked up the diary by the bed and wrote down a "9". There were several numbers on it: "28", "25", "17", "18", and "12".

The progress is obvious enough that it might not be long before I can maintain my cultivation and sleep soundly until dawn.

Mu Ming routinely and simply tidied himself up. In fact, this step could have been skipped entirely, since the state before and after the transformation did not interfere with each other. Even if he dressed like a homeless man, it wouldn't affect Wu An's beauty in the slightest.

However, washing up is also the prelude to the day, and skipping it always feels like something is missing.

He took out the Seed of the Heart and transformed.

A short while later, Wu An appeared above a shopping mall in the South District. She found a blind spot in the surveillance cameras, and black magic gradually condensed in her hand, turning into a rhombus-shaped crystal core.

It contained extremely subtle traces of unclean magic power; she had tested it, and even a third-tier magical girl passing by wouldn't notice anything amiss.

On the crystal nucleus, invisible threads spread out, and the sphere gradually shrank until it was only the size of a fruit pit after it had fully expanded.

The distribution of filthy magic in and around the shopping mall was clearly visible in Wu An's mind.

With her magical power, she couldn't cover even a part of a certain district, let alone the entire Changming City.

Even if you cover your eyes with filthy magic, you can only see a very small part of the area.

The countdown is now one-fifth over, and she's still swaying at the second tier. She needs to speed up her pace to [devour] the calamity beast.

Therefore, Wu'an abandoned the method of seeing with his eyes and switched to perception.

She selected more than ten locations in the South District and placed crystal cores forged by her magic in each location. Although it still couldn't cover the entire South District, the effect was not as intuitive as seeing it with her own eyes.

However, one good thing is that when a calamity beast appears near that area, the corrupt magic power in the crystal core will transmit corresponding vibrations, allowing Wu'an to lock onto the location and head there immediately.

However, the crystal cores not only require her magic to operate, but also need to be replaced every five or six days. In places with high foot traffic, like this shopping mall, they need to be replaced every three days.

buzz-

As if on cue, Wu An sensed something and looked in one direction.

Every morning is a time not to be missed, especially during the morning rush hour, because there are many commuters full of resentment, and it is easy for monsters to emerge on the subway.

When school starts, the situation will become even more serious for both working professionals and students.

As Wu An ascended into the sky, filthy magic flowed into his eyes, focusing his gaze and instantly locking onto a moving urban rail.

She didn't draw her bow from a distance; after all, the city rails were moving at high speed, and the distance from which the monsters spawned was too close to the crowd. If she missed, she would be in serious trouble.

Magic surged behind him, and Wu An rushed toward the city tracks at an incredible speed.

At that moment, a blue figure rose into the sky—it was Qing Xia—followed by a loud laugh:

"Haha—it wasn't for nothing that I staked out this place. Miss Wu'an, please come and talk to me about that Zhu Huan."

Wu An glanced at the girl. Three petals... no, it should be stronger than the third tier, like it was in its flowering stage.

I have a vague impression of her, but I can't remember who she is at all.

Judging from her voice, it felt like the Bureau of Statistics was targeting me.

"I've told you everything I know," Wu An said calmly.

"Besides this, there are other topics we can talk about, such as joining our General Affairs Bureau, or your true identity—" Qingxia started rambling on, seemingly not intending to let him go easily.

"trouble..."

Wu An muttered to herself, ignoring the magical girl lying in ambush, and instead accelerated towards the city rail.

"Hmph~ How could a mere second-tier cultivator possibly fly faster than me?"

A light, mocking voice came from behind, and the insect-shaped calamity beast revealed itself on the city rails.

Magic energy condensed in his fist, while some flowed to his back, forming an illusory bat wing. With a sudden flap of his wings, Qingxia, who had been closely following behind, was instantly left far behind.

"Huh???"

Qingxia stopped, thinking she was seeing things. Then, following the direction of the black light, she saw a calamity beast crawling on a railway track in the distance, and the two were about to collide!

"not good!"

Flying that fast, Wu'an won't be able to stop!

Qingxia was about to rush towards the city rail, but the black stream of light pierced through the calamity beast and then disappeared from her sight at the same speed.

"This...this isn't right, is it? How can it be flying so fast??"

Qingxia felt that she might be able to catch up if she tried her best, but the opponent wasn't a second-tier opponent.

Normally, even if you fly lightly, fly in circles, or even swim in the sky, you should be able to catch it easily.

"A speed-specialized type?"

She remembered that some people had wings when they became magical girls. These magical girls could fly very nimbly even at the first level, and their flight speed was significantly faster than that of magical girls of the same level at higher levels.

But Wu An doesn't seem like it... Besides, even if he could fly fast, he couldn't possibly fly that fast with only second-tier strength...

"I'll sneak up on them tomorrow..."

Qingxia pondered for a moment. She had previously confirmed that Wu'an undoubtedly lived in the South District of the city, and that she would clean up the disaster beasts every morning.

The other party seems to have a special ability to discern the direction from which the calamity beasts are generated. In the past few days, several magical girls have witnessed situations where "the calamity beasts have just appeared and have been killed by the black-clad magical girls from afar."

Why doesn't such a warm-hearted person join the Bureau of Statistics and receive a salary, so that they, who like to receive a salary without working, can have more peace of mind?

It would be better if they were more enthusiastic; they don't give people a chance to communicate at all.

Qingxia wasn't annoyed.

She even considered bothering Wu An afterward, wanting her and Mu Ming to do a bloodline test.

Jin Yu ultimately didn't make her actually eat the photo, but she made her hold it in her mouth for the entire afternoon. What's worse, after she finished holding the photo in her mouth, she was kicked out without even being given a meal!

We must prove that the statement "Wu An and Mu Ming have no relationship" was a misjudgment by Senior Jin Yu!