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Possesses Star Techniques:

1. Azure Flash: Powerfully strikes the enemy, increasing damage to the Azure Flash area, with a slight knock-back effect. (Bronze Quality, Upgradeable)

2. Endurance: Passive Star Technique, increases self-defense. (Bronze Quality, Upgradeable)

Mergeable.

3. Scorching Flames: Condenses lines of flame, covering the body or equipment. (Silver Quality, Upgradeable)

4. Explosive Flames: Condenses a fireball, creating an explosion. (Silver Quality, Upgradeable)

Mergeable.

5. Snowstorm: Condenses Star Power, combined with natural snow, to create a huge blizzard within a specific area. (Silver Quality, Upgradeable)

6. Heart of Ice and Snow: Passive skill, reduces the physical effects of severe cold and low-temperature environments. (Silver Quality, Upgradeable)

Mergeable.

7. Ice Bullet: Fires an ice bullet to damage enemies. (Bronze Quality, Upgradeable)

8. Ice Mist Armor: Enhances your defense and has a slight chance to inflict freezing damage on enemies who attack you at close range. (Silver Quality, Upgradeable)

9. Ice Roar: Summons an ice storm, condensing countless fragments of ice to form a rapidly rotating ice cyclone, dealing great damage to all targets within a certain area. (Gold Quality, Upgradeable)

Mergeable.

10. Sharpness: Makes body parts such as hands and feet as steel-like, extremely hard, sharper, and more lethal. (Silver Quality, Upgradeable)

11. Perception: Passive skill, enhances the five senses. Makes your sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch more acute. (Silver Quality, Upgradeable)

12. Agility: Passive skill, makes your movements quicker and reactions more agile. (Silver Quality, Upgradeable)

Mergeable.

13. Light Azure Scepter: Creates a scepter with Star Power to perform lightning attacks on units within a certain range. The duration of the scepter depends on the Star Power infused by the user. (Gold Quality, Upgradeable)

14. Deep Azure Scepter: Creates and controls a scepter with Star Power to bombard specific targets with lightning. The cascading lightning scatters, continuing to damage surrounding units. The duration of the scepter depends on the Star Power infused by the user. (Gold Quality, Upgradeable)

Mergeable.

15. Light of Swift Lightning: Unleashes a powerful lightning bolt to ravage your enemies, dealing massive damage to the target. (Silver Quality, Upgradeable)

16. Chain Lightning: Creates a fierce lightning bolt that pierces the target and continues to jump to nearby targets. (Gold Quality, Upgradeable)

Mergeable.

Gao Junwei's Star Bead didn't have anything remarkable, except for a Charging skill that was somewhat interesting, but Jiang Xiao couldn't use a Star Slot to absorb just that one Star Technique.

At this moment, the Star Bead in Jiang Xiao's hand was Gao's mother's Star Bead.

Among these mergeable Star Techniques, the ones he wanted were incomplete.

Sharpness, Perception, Agility – these were clearly the Ghost Tiger's Star Techniques.

Because Sharpness and Perception were Silver quality, not from the Dog-Headed Walker's Bronze Star Bead.

But here's the problem: the Ghost Tiger had four Star Techniques, missing the Gold quality War Cry.

Obviously, Gao's mother hadn't absorbed this Star Technique.

If Jiang Xiao merged and absorbed these three Star Techniques, he would be at a disadvantage.

As everyone knows, lower-level Star Techniques can be replaced by higher-level Star Techniques, but if Jiang Xiao merged and absorbed these three, what about War Cry?

When he absorbed the Ghost Tiger Star Bead again, would War Cry merge into this one-star-three-skill Star Slot? Or would it start anew? Occupying another Star Slot?

Jiang Xiao's Star Slots were already pitifully few; he didn't dare to gamble.

Also, he wanted Perception and Agility but didn't want Sharpness. If he only wanted Perception and Agility, there was a special kind of ape-like Other Dimension creature in Ebei Province, and they also had a few other interesting Star Techniques attached.

Jiang Xiao looked at the Inner Vision Star Chart. Among the remaining spell-type Star Techniques in Gao's mother's Star Bead, the "Ice Bullet, Ice Mist Armor, Ice Roar" from the Ice Soul were unexpectedly complete.

However, the Other Dimension space that nurtured the Ice Soul – the Ice Cave – was not open to the public, making it difficult to upgrade Star Techniques.

Alas, if Han Jiangxue could absorb Ice Roar, that would be great. Unfortunately, apart from Jiang Xiao, others could only use human Star Beads as Star Power-filling items and couldn't use them to absorb Star Techniques.

The newly emerged Light of Swift Lightning and Chain Lightning made Jiang Xiao's eyes light up. He had personally experienced the "Light of Swift Lightning" fired by Gao's mother, so he clearly knew its power.

And that Light of Swift Lightning was only a Silver-quality Star Technique!

In Gao's mother's hands, its power was terrifying!

On the one hand, it might be that lightning-type Star Techniques were just too powerful. On the other hand, Gao's mother had some skills.

Too bad she was slapped into the Shattered Void by Jiang Xiao...

Logically speaking, this Silver-quality Light of Swift Lightning was really good. The instant-cast Star Technique was fast and powerful, and it was Silver quality, making it very suitable for Han Jiangxue.

When he got back, he would see if this Other Dimension space was open to the public. If not, he would check the Ruifeng Trading Company, but since this Star Bead had Gold-quality Star Techniques, it probably wouldn't be cheap.

Jiang Xiao's sigh echoed softly in the cave, accompanied by the crackling of the campfire. Jiang Xiao shifted his body slightly; his right leg was a little numb from maintaining the same position for so long.

Why had Jiang Xiao maintained the same position for so long? Because there was a girl next to him, resting with her eyes closed.

Han Jiangxue's head was resting on Jiang Xiao's shoulder. As Jiang Xiao gently moved his body, her body trembled slightly, like a child without a sense of security. She wasn't sleeping very deeply and slowly opened her eyes.

"Mmm..." Han Jiangxue stretched her legs, moved her body, and said, "You sleep for a while; I'll keep watch."

But Jiang Xiao said, "Let's go back. We've been in the Snow Plains for many days. Second Tail said to go back before the New Year."

Han Jiangxue hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's stay a couple more days."

But Jiang Xiao pouted and said, "Look at your watch. We've been counting the days. Today is already the 29th day of the lunar month. I don't want to spend the New Year here."

Han Jiangxue smiled and rubbed Jiang Xiao's head, saying, "It doesn't matter where we spend the New Year. It's just the two of us."

"Uh..." Jiang Xiao muttered softly, "I want to eat dumplings. I want to drink dumpling soup, the warm kind."

Han Jiangxue was stunned for a moment, not expecting Jiang Xiao to say such a thing.

"I don't know how to make them. Let's buy frozen ones," Han Jiangxue replied, which was a disguised way of agreeing to Jiang Xiao's suggestion.

Jiang Xiao handed the Galaxy Stage Peak Star Bead of Gao's mother to Han Jiangxue and said, "Now you do."

Han Jiangxue looked at Jiang Xiao expressionlessly and said, "Is that so?"

"Uh..." Jiang Xiao waved his hands repeatedly, startled. "If you don't know how, then you don't know how. It's okay, it's okay. I'll learn online."

Jiang Xiao wanted to tease her, but the Snow Goddess wasn't cooperating.

Han Jiangxue's lips curled slightly, and she chuckled, "After the New Year, let's use this Star Bead to break through together. I think I'm almost at the Nebula Peak."

"Ah?" Jiang Xiao was completely stunned. What's the situation? I train so hard every day and I'm still only at the Nebula Stage, and I only got there by brute-forcing with skill points.

And now you're already almost at the Nebula Peak?

Are you even human?

Are you even my sister?

Tsk tsk,

30 Star Slots, so impressive, huh?"