Relieved to learn that the Resonance Huan Hong had experienced was a good thing, Yin Lin finally let her guard down.
Thinking of something else, she repeated a question she had asked before, trying to catch the Contract Goddess off guard.
“By the way, do the Magical Girls in our version have Soul Gems? Is there any effect if the Despair Value gets too high?”
The Contract Goddess replied, “No.”
The answer came quickly.
It was clear she knew the question was coming and had already prepared a response.
“Then do we have something like Mankai or True Evolution?”
Yin Lin asked next.
The Contract Goddess said nothing, acting as if she hadn’t heard.
‘I see. There’s a high probability those exist.’
Yin Lin continued, “If I treat my Magic Wand better in the future, can it achieve Bankai?”
The Contract Goddess still didn’t speak, appearing to be lost in thought.
‘Understood. There’s a high probability of that too.’
A terrifying thought suddenly struck her.
If being nice to a Magic Wand could trigger a Bankai, then Greenfield’s wand—which was fed so well with delicacies all the time—was likely on the verge of its own Bankai.
The Jinyin Hong Sisterhood already struggled to defeat the current Greenfield.
Once Greenfield became even stronger, how were the three sisters supposed to fight her?
“So, is there a Bankai or not?”
Yin Lin felt a bit panicked.
“Ah, I forgot.”
The Contract Goddess clearly didn’t want to answer that kind of question.
Whatever the previous Contract Goddess refused to say, this one refused to say as well.
“If you just tell us how to get stronger, won’t we be able to crush the Demonic Creatures and protect Yiri City? We could protect the daily lives we cherish. There’s no reason for you to refuse such a good thing,” Yin Lin couldn’t help but urge.
As expected, the Contract Goddess refused.
“I’ve said it before—I cannot persuade you, just as you cannot persuade me.”
Unfortunately, Yin Lin wasn’t clever enough.
There were many obvious answers she simply couldn’t figure out.
“Fine.”
Yin Lin gave up for the time being, planning to ask again later.
“You can at least say something about the temple, right?”
“My advice to you is to stop looking into Yinmiao Temple for now. You are about to encounter some trouble, and Yiri City will face several challenges.”
The Contract Goddess had actually reached the point of revealing important information.
Yin Lin couldn’t help but feel tense.
“What challenges? With the East District Cannon King here to hold down the fort, can there really be a challenge?”
The Contract Goddess fell silent again, unwilling to continue.
Yin Lin quickly tried to provoke her.
“It’s a crisis where people will die, isn’t it? If you know people are going to die and still refuse to tell me in advance, aren’t you being a total scumbag?”
The Contract Goddess answered, “You need to obtain a pass to the Underground. The danger comes from there.”
“Is this something you want to tell me, or did the previous Contract Goddess tell you, and you’re just relaying it to me?”
Yin Lin asked.
“This is history,” the Contract Goddess replied.
“If that Contract Goddess hadn’t told you, would you have said anything on your own?”
The deity fell silent once more.
Yin Lin was both angry and incredibly curious.
They didn’t continue the discussion, as it was time to say goodbye.
She headed back through the cleft, but this time, something went wrong.
‘Crap, where is my body?’
In the past, after leaving the False Space, her spiritual body would be sucked back into her physical form.
This time, however, she began flying in a different direction.
The place where her physical body had been stored was completely empty.
The speed of her spiritual body wasn’t particularly fast.
Even when she accelerated to the limit, she was only slightly faster than an electric scooter.
She continued to drift in a specific direction.
It was a strange feeling.
It wasn’t like the free flight of a Magical Girl, but rather like floating while swimming in the sea.
She tried to swim back toward the cleft, but she couldn’t make it.
Aside from the fact that the cleft had already vanished, she found she could not resist the direction she was being pulled.
She soared over the city.
Her vision was slightly blurred, making it impossible to see things far away.
A soul projection like this probably couldn’t exist for long.
If she didn’t return to her body soon, something terrible might happen.
After a few seconds of panic, she suddenly remembered the Contract Goddess’s calm and composed expression.
She slowly began to cool down.
Though this situation seemed dangerous, she likely wouldn’t be in any real trouble; otherwise, the Contract Goddess would have warned her.
Once she relaxed, Yin Lin began to enjoy this extraordinary journey.
She observed Yiri City from a God-like perspective.
An unknown amount of time passed.
Her consciousness became more and more blurred.
It felt as if she hadn’t slept for days, and her eyelids grew incredibly heavy.
Vaguely, she realized she had returned to the hospital.
She passed through the corridor and entered a ward.
A powerful wave of exhaustion hit her, and she could no longer hold on.
***
When she opened her eyes again, the familiar hospital ceiling greeted her.
The room was quite bright; it was already daytime.
Jin Luan was asleep, leaning against the side of the bed, while Huan Hong was engrossed in playing with her phone.
It wasn’t until Yin Lin tried to sit up that she startled her.
“You’re awake? Jin Luan, she’s awake!”
Huan Hong shouted at the top of her lungs.
Her yelling woke everyone else up.
Jin Luan rubbed her eyes, looking very tired.
Seeing Yin Lin sitting up against the headboard, she quickly asked with concern, “How do you feel now? What happened yesterday? I saw you collapse in the cemetery. What happened?”
There were too many questions, and Yin Lin didn’t know where to start.
At that moment, Yin Lin felt very uncomfortable.
Even though she had just woken up, she was exhausted, her spirit was low, and her body was incredibly weak.
She quickly realized the reason for her lethargy: her blue bar was completely bottomed out.
This was the first time her mana bar had ever been nearly empty.
She soon understood.
To break the cleft of the False Space and maintain her spiritual body, she had to consume mana.
The longer the spiritual body remained away from her physical form, the more the mana consumption multiplied.
If her spiritual body had returned just one minute later, she felt her body would have deactivated the transformation due to the lack of mana.
Now that her spiritual body was back, the rate of mana consumption had returned to normal.
Only maintaining her Magical Girl transformation state required mana now.
Her remaining mana was enough to hold out, so she was fine for the moment.
“I’m hungry,” she said.
Her voice was raspy, and her throat felt parched.
Hearing her speak put Jin Luan at ease.
She and Huan Hong hurried out to get some food.
They brought back bread, water, drinks, buns, and soy milk.
Not knowing what she wanted to eat, they simply bought a bit of everything.
Yin Lin didn’t turn anything down, eating everything first.
The mana inside her body slowly recovered as she ate.
The amount wasn’t large, but it was enough to keep her mana reserves from the red line.
“By the way, Huan Hong, I know what’s going on with that situation you mentioned,” she said while eating.
“What situation?”
Huan Hong was stunned for a moment.
“Oh, do you mean that Unity of Heaven and Man state?”
“Yeah,” Yin Lin continued.
“That situation is called Resonance. it’s something that happens after you reach a new stage. From now on, you don’t need to train so hard. Just exercise normally. Don’t overdo it; keeping your body healthy is the most important thing.”
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