Chapter 2: Miracles and Magic Exist

"I thought it was a speed bump..."

"I couldn't see it in the blind spot..."

"You tell that to the insurance company."

These were the last few sentences Jiang Si heard before losing consciousness.

He should have been killed by the collision.

The reason he was so certain was because when Jiang Si woke up, he discovered he had become smaller.

And the world had also transformed into an unfamiliar appearance.

He felt slightly regretful.

He hadn't wanted to commit suicide.

Challenging beyond one's level, surpassing limits - this was the most common method to break through bottlenecks, and Jiang Si naturally adopted the wisdom of his predecessors.

The facts proved that in the process of confronting the truck, he had indeed surpassed himself and forced the truck to stop.

He might have even unlocked his genetic potential.

The regret was that he couldn't preserve his life. If he hadn't died, his body would probably have strengthened to a new stage.

Now that everything was reset to start over, it was natural to feel some regret.

However, that was all there was to it - just five years' time.

This time he started training from childhood. A young body had stronger plasticity and could actually break through to higher levels.

He began attempting training at three years old.

By age seven, he had achieved some results, and by age ten, he had caught up to his previous life's level.

The speed of growth made even Jiang Si himself feel incredible, as if some force was helping him become stronger faster.

But this world didn't seem to have any supernatural abilities.

His parents were very ordinary office workers, the people around were all average, and daily TV news only reported traffic accidents and current politics.

Except for the name of this city - Beihai, which he had never heard before - everything else showed no changes.

Jiang Si had long grown accustomed to it.

Although he had fantasized about whether he had traveled to a world where he could cultivate immortality, he didn't hold too many expectations. After discovering the world wasn't much different, he immediately abandoned his fantasy.

His parents in this life were relatively open-minded. Although he was obsessed with training, hardly acting like a normal child - never interacting with others, never throwing tantrums, never playing with peers - his parents never showed any dissatisfaction.

Although they had asked him why he didn't play with other children, after Jiang Si said he didn't like it, they didn't pressure him.

Later, because Jiang Si was always so independent, his parents almost stopped questioning him about anything.

Life was stable and peaceful. The couple weren't wealthy, but their salaries weren't low. When Jiang Si was four, they bought a house in the city center. The timing wasn't great but wasn't terrible either - the price wasn't low, but two years later it rose even higher.

When Jiang Si was five, he gained a younger sister. Although the couple occasionally argued, their relationship remained sweet.

Compared to Jiang Si who didn't like getting close to people, his sister was more normal, often sticking to their parents' side, very dependent on them, and therefore particularly spoiled by their parents.

After all, they finally had a normal child.

Although Jiang Si wasn't particularly interested in his sister, usually, even if just to repay his parents for raising him, he would take some care of this sister.

Therefore, for a period of time, his relationship with his sister was actually quite good.

Until that day.

When his parents, on vacation, were excitedly planning to take them on a trip, Jiang Si was actually quite unwilling.

Recently, his body training had reached a bottleneck period. After reaching an extreme point in training his physical body, it became difficult to make further progress.

While seeking new breakthroughs, Jiang Si really wasn't in the mood for traveling.

But with all three family members looking at him with expectant expressions, he couldn't bring himself to spoil their mood.

In the end, he went along with the three's wishes and got in the car.

Throughout the journey, he felt drowsy. Recently, it wasn't just fatigue - his strength had been stagnant, making him feel somewhat unsettled.

Perhaps he should find some external stimulation to help himself break through. But in this place that was almost identical to his previous life, where could he find any supernatural power to help him take the first step into cultivation?

In his ears were his sister's chattering voice, his mother's light snoring, and his father coaxing his sister while holding her, with occasional laughter.

The car felt stuffy and hot, forming a layer of white mist on the windows. Jiang Si, leaning against the window, looked outside at the ordinary buildings, ordinary pedestrians, and ordinary vehicles, lost in thought.

Except for the city name being somewhat different, this world showed no differences from his previous life. Even that monster hanging on the building outside looked completely ordinary...

Monster?

Jiang Si suddenly raised his head.

A monster that looked like some kind of parasitic plant was flailing wildly, its dense roots spreading from the rooftop all the way down, completely engulfing the building, with more root tendrils piercing into the ground.

Someone somewhere let out the first scream, the sound seeming distant through the car window.

The glass of the monster-parasitized building shattered loudly, along with stones and dust, submerging the people below like a waterfall.

Then panic began to spread. Vehicles in the distance were overturned by root tendrils, crashing into another car. Right ahead, someone flew up into the air, pierced through by root tendrils.

"It's a Disaster Beast!"

The heat from a distant car explosion rushed toward him. The window Jiang Si was leaning against was covered in cracks and smelled of burning.

Root tendrils grew from under the car, pressing against the window right at the tip of Jiang Si's nose.

That scent carrying a certain plant's fragrance, mixed with blood, rushed through his nose and mouth. Jiang Si tightly grabbed one of them and twisted it off.

Supernatural power...

Then he was suddenly pulled backward.

"Careful!"

The entire car was overturned.

Everything spun wildly, terrifying immense power far beyond what ordinary people could imagine. His vision and thoughts together became chaotic.

Jiang Si struggled to reach out to grab the people around him, ultimately only managing to grab his sister.

After who knows how many times they rolled, he protected his sister underneath him. Fortunately, this physical training was strong enough to consistently provide a safe space for her.

Otherwise, just the rolling and crushing would be enough to kill the little girl.

Glass scraped past his face, the pain carrying some burning sensation. That sweet fragrance persistently lingered annoyingly in his nose and mouth. After who knows how many times the car rotated, it finally stopped.

Everything around was smoke. Jiang Si coughed and kicked open the car window, holding his sister as he fell to the ground. The ground was covered in glass fragments. He single-handedly pushed himself up from the ground, found a relatively safe spot and placed his unconscious sister there.

Whimpers and moans from inside the car spread with the smoke. His hearing seemed damaged - sounds felt like they were covered by a layer of cloth, blurry.

Jiang Si raised his head and looked at that Disaster Beast.

For some reason, the other had retracted its root tendrils, its body size shrinking, curling up inside the building, as if fearing something.

He staggered to the car side, forcibly pulled open the car door. Dead and injured people flowed out from inside. He pushed through the crowd, searching for that couple.

But he couldn't find them. When the car flew up, some people had fallen out.

He turned to look at the chaotic road, then heard the whistling sound from above.

It didn't sound like an airplane, didn't sound like a bird.

Jiang Si raised his head. A blue rainbow light stopped in front of the building where the Disaster Beast was.

That was a young girl wearing gorgeous fluffy short skirts, dazzlingly beautiful, with a particularly conspicuous magic staff in her hand.

That was...

"Magical Girl!"