What exactly is Sprout Great Perfection?

Why does Great Perfection have a half-step prefix?

Bingtang could never quite grasp the underlying principles, but she knew one thing for certain.

That Jiang Si truly knew a lot.

He always came up with these amazing terms she'd never heard before. Even though she didn't understand them, she felt they sounded incredibly impressive.

She trusted everything Jiang Si said without question. Over three years, she'd almost stopped asking him what those terms meant anyway.

If it was useful information, he'd explain it eventually. If it wasn't, she'd probably never hear about it again.

Jiang Si had quite the collection of one-time vocabulary himself.

By the time she finished copying the homework, Jiang Si had already completed his warm-up exercises.

Indeed, regular exercise could make you feel yourself getting stronger.

But for Jiang Si, only training that could be applied in real combat was truly meaningful.

It was like how the essence of studying was actually developing your own learning methods.

Most high school and university knowledge becomes useless in the real world, but learning methods never lose their value.

If you couldn't see through to the essence and became obsessed with exercise itself, that was putting the cart before the horse—just lying comfortably in your comfort zone, numbing yourself.

He'd gone through a confused period like that himself once, but nowadays he'd long stopped being deceived by superficial strength gains.

If his training couldn't be converted into actual combat power, it was completely meaningless.

After every training session, once he felt that tangible increase in strength, he had to verify it through practical combat.

"Winter."

"I told you, just call me Bingtang..."

She complained quietly, but still obediently took out her Magic Seed.

The clear blue seed looked like it was carved from ice.

When she gripped the seed, ice-blue power began to bloom, cold air wantonly spreading as Bingtang's gaze gradually solidified.

In a voice too quiet to be heard, she softly chanted the incantation.

Ice crystals coalesced into a giant dragon, its massive body emerging from the seed in her hand and covering the entire cave dwelling with frost.

"Primordial Dragon Descent!"

The enormous ice dragon bit down from above, swallowing Bingtang whole!

Thus the girl became frozen within ice that resembled a dragon, until she reached out and gave a gentle push.

The surrounding ice shattered into scattered starlight and dispersed, revealing Bingtang had already transformed into the blue Magical Girl who had eliminated the Disaster Beast at the school bus stop that morning.

Magical Girl Winter.

Over the past three years, while Jiang Si concealed his identity, she had handled most of the Disaster Beasts.

Her strength went without saying—she was already half a step into the Blooming tier.

Even the current Disaster Control Bureau had no good way to deal with her, and they still hadn't managed to locate her.

Though Jiang Si felt this was mostly because the Disaster Control Bureau was just incompetent.

"Why are you chanting the incantation so quietly? Didn't you eat breakfast?"

Facing Jiang Si's abrupt question, Bingtang tugged at her crystal-like Magical Girl dress. "It's just too embarrassing to say out loud..."

I think it's actually pretty cool though.

Bingtang's transformation incantation had been thought up by Jiang Si himself, but if she didn't want to say it out loud, there was nothing he could do. He just urged her, "Whatever, just quickly summon that Disaster Beast from this morning."

Taking a deep breath, the blue Magical Girl extended her right hand clad in white gloves, the lace at her wrist resembling strings of ice crystals.

"Mediocre Creation, First Form: Clumsy Reflection in the Mirror."

The frost emanating from her hand rapidly solidified, coalescing in front of them into the form of the big-eyed Disaster Beast from that morning's bus stop.

The icy body moved somewhat stiffly, with fragments of ice even falling off when it moved.

Bingtang exhaled a puff of white mist. For her, prolonged manipulation of ice would significantly lower her own body temperature.

Magical Girls who hadn't reached the Blooming stage always had various limitations.

"Oh, right, besides the four major stage divisions, the Disaster Control Bureau actually has specific data classifications that divide Magical Girls' abilities into six specific values, including strength, magic power, reaction, speed..."

"Data analysis is even more garbage."

Watching Jiang Si charge toward the big-eyed Disaster Beast, Bingtang could only say nervously, "This Disaster Beast's data is comprehensively higher than your physical body..."

Before she could finish speaking, a fierce side kick, sharp as an axe, smashed brutally into the big-eyed monster's body!

The ice crystals shattered into pieces all over the ground with a crashing sound.

Bingtang's eyes widened in shock.

Her ice magic, even when first constructing a reflection, had undeniable strength.

According to the data, it should have been one tier higher than Jiang Si's untransformed state.

"During combat, who compares data points with you?"

Jiang Si's disdainful comment brought Bingtang back to her senses, and she nodded deeply in agreement.

"You're right, it ultimately comes down to practical combat. But your physical body is getting stronger and stronger—I'm afraid some Magical Girls are no match for you now. It's truly incredible."

"Just average."

Jiang Si wasn't being modest. His current body was still far from his power when transformed into a Magical Girl.

Transforming into a Magical Girl had limitations and made him an easy target.

If possible, he wanted to push his physical body's strength, reaction, and speed into the Magical Girl's domain.

Transforming into a Magical Girl should be his final trump card, not his regular combat method.

Xiao Yan wouldn't start with Buddha's Fury Lotus, and Tang San wouldn't begin with Blue Silver Entanglement.

But unfortunately, he couldn't achieve that yet. His physical body was strengthening too slowly—he could only take it step by step.

After slightly stretching his body, just as Jiang Si was about to turn back to continue training, he noticed the shattered ice fragments on the ground reforming into the big-eyed Disaster Beast.

"But it's not over yet. That big-eyed Disaster Beast's most special feature is its recovery ability."

Looking at Bingtang's mischievous smile, Jiang Si just snorted coldly.

Just as he was about to go smash the big-eyed monster again, the red light shining from the Disaster Beast's eyes instantly froze him in place.

Then it slowly rose into the air, creating distance.

Power gathered around it, the massive crimson energy in its eyeball becoming increasingly concentrated as it aimed at Jiang Si.

No matter how much he trained, his powerful physical body couldn't jump that high.

This height required flying, and his physical body couldn't tread air yet.

At the moment the big eye's crimson energy burst forth, a wisp of purple flame quietly rose.

A fleeting, beautiful figure made the icy Disaster Beast in the air instantly drown in purple flames, burning fiercely!

Jiang Si, who had practically crashed to the ground, had his feet embedded in the earth. He held the scorching purple seed in his hand and blew on it.

The burning flames in front of him instantly dissipated.

A momentary transformation? Or no transformation at all? Just borrowing power from the seed?

Bingtang realized she simply couldn't keep up with Jiang Si's speed.

Of course, what disappointed her more was that she hadn't gotten a clear look at Jiang Si's adorable appearance after transformation.

That Magical Girl who had saved her back then—it wasn't easy to catch a glimpse of her now.

"It seems I still need more training."

Somehow arriving at this conclusion, Jiang Si had already put away the seed and returned to his fervent training state.

Bingtang canceled her transformation, rubbed her hands together, blew warm air into her palms, then glanced at her phone.

"Lingling, who's infiltrated the Disaster Control Bureau, sent a message."

Jiang Si, who was doing push-ups over there, casually asked, "What message?"

"The Disaster Control Bureau detected several Disaster Beast birth singularities, but they're short-handed and plan to temporarily abandon a few..."

Bingtang, looking at her phone, suddenly froze, then picked up her phone to look again.

"One of the birth singularities... is at your younger sister's middle school..."