Chapter 3 The Qualifications

Three days later, Jiang Xiao's team qualified to represent Class 2 in the competition.

More precisely, the bald brothers earned that qualification.

Zhu Wen and Zhu Wu were indeed fiercely unmatched. In the class selection matches, Jiang Xiao and Elena barely had to lift a finger. In two 2v4 matches, they thoroughly convinced their classmates.

Clinging to these two thick legs, Jiang Xiao and Elena became the participants for Class 2, which could already be considered a reward.

After all, no matter how incompetent the representative members were, they would still receive a participation award.

The participation award was said to be a White Ghoul Star Bead.

This made Jiang Xiao somewhat excited. If the participation award was a White Ghoul Star Bead, what about the top three? Surely they would be even better than the participation award, right?

According to the seniors from the previous year, the Class 2 students said that their team won first place last year, and each member received a Silver-Grade Star Bead. The best student of the entire event was even awarded an additional Silver-Grade Star Bead.

Moreover, this additional Silver-Grade Star Bead wasn't just any Lava Ghoul Star Bead that could be bought on the market, but a rare Lava Ghoul General Star Bead.

Xia Yan's Flame Arc Star Technique was the reward that their team received after winning first place.

During her freshman year, Xia Yan led her team to first place in the military training and was selected as the Most Valuable Player, earning the Flame Arc Star Technique as a reward.

Not only were there rewards for military training events, but there was also a large-scale competition during the final exams each year.

Han Jiangxue also benefited from this. During her freshman year final exams, she led her team to first place in the freshman group as their commander, and was ultimately selected as MVP, earning the extremely precious Barren Wind Star Technique as a reward.

This kind of Star Technique was very difficult to purchase, even in the chambers of commerce.

But in her sophomore year, due to internal conflicts and discord among the members, Han Jiangxue and Xia Yan's team never won first place in any of the large or small field missions.

They barely managed to win first place in the final exams with this team that was together in name only.

Han Jiangxue still won MVP, earning a rare Star Bead as a reward.

However, even Han Jiangxue, with her heaven-defying talent, wasn't able to absorb the Star Technique within the Star Bead this time.

For Han Jiangxue, she had no source of income, she could only live in the house left by her parents, sheltered by them, and enter the Snow Plains for free, making a living by selling White Ghoul corpses.

Therefore, obtaining rare Star Beads through official channels, as a reward from the school, was the greatest guarantee for improving her own strength.

Although Xia Yan could buy these rare Star Beads, it would cost a lot of money and favors. If she could get a Star Bead as a reward from the school, she would of course be ecstatic.

Most importantly, some honors can't be bought.

These honors were the foundation for her to strive for a better university and a better life. She absolutely couldn't tolerate the disintegration of the team, as it concerned her future.

This year, Xia Yan and Han Jiangxue were determined to win the graduation exam for the senior group, as well as the final college entrance exam.

With 9 months left until the college entrance exam, if Jiang Xiao could succeed, Han Jiangxue would tutor Jiang Xiao in all of his academic subjects within those 9 months, and prepare him for the senior group's graduation exam and the final exam, the National Unified College Entrance Examination.

This was the biggest difference between Awakened students and ordinary students. Ordinary students were on their own, facing a college entrance exam paper alone.

The college entrance exam for Awakened individuals, in addition to the written exam, was more of a test taken by a four-person team.

So far, Jiang Xiao didn't know that he was working hard, step by step, towards hell.

Jiang Xiao was full of confidence in his team, and he had another purpose, which was to gain some more face after winning first place, by challenging the senior group's school bully team.

If they were to line up and fight seriously, ten Jiang Xiaos wouldn't be a match for Han Jiangxue.

There was an absolute gap in strength, and their roles were different, so there was no way to fight.

But since they had already reached an agreement in private, and there were objective problems with Han Jiangxue's team, this gave Jiang Xiao's team some hope.

Win or lose, Jiang Xiao had to show his value.

Leaving aside Star Techniques, in terms of martial arts alone, Jiang Xiao didn't think that the senior students could compare to the two bald brothers.

Of course, the senior students had cultivated for two more years, so their physical strength was definitely there. Even if he had reached an agreement with Han Jiangxue in advance, this would inevitably be a difficult battle.

In the midst of intense preparations, Jiang Xiao was waiting for the start of the competition, but instead, he came across an interesting news story.

In the past two days, a big news story broke out in Beijiang Province. It had already made it to the top of Weibo's real-time trending list: a White Ghoul Witch Baby suddenly appeared at Ruifeng Commercial Bank...

The result, of course, was a frenzy. The price went up like crazy. As of this morning, someone had offered a price of 400,000 ocean coins, which really shocked Jiang Xiao.

You should know that the price of a White Ghoul cub was only two or three thousand, and even then, it was hard to find.

The price of this White Ghoul Witch cub was soaring like a rocket; it was simply unbelievable.

During high school, Jiang Xiao had hardly seen any students with Star Pets.

On the one hand, the students were still lost in the basic skills, and their strength wasn't enough to absorb Star Pets.

On the other hand, and most importantly, Star Pets were relatively rare and extremely difficult to absorb.

To obtain a Star Pet, to embed a living extradimensional creature into one's own Star Map, was itself a very difficult thing. Without the corresponding strength to support it, it was almost impossible.

The Star Map was also extremely strict about embedding Star Pets, a hundred times more difficult than simply absorbing Star Beads to obtain Star Techniques.

According to popular belief, to be eligible to become a Star Pet, it had to be a cub of an extradimensional creature.

This seemed to be a common requirement, and no one was 100% certain that an adult extradimensional creature couldn't be absorbed as a Star Pet, it's just that no one had ever succeeded.

Those lucky bastards who obtained Star Pets all got them in their cub state.

A Star Pet with good aptitude could transform an Awakened one, allowing their strength to undergo earth-shattering changes, even a qualitative improvement.

First of all, Star Pets are easy to carry. Whether it's a cub or a Star Pet that slowly grows into an adult, it can be stored in one's own Star Map at any time.

This sounds unbelievable, but that's just the way it is.

Even if it's a behemoth, as long as you tame it and put it into your Star Map when it's small, no matter how heavy or big it gets, it can still crawl into your body and be embedded in your Star Slot.

This ironclad fact made people even more awestruck by the magical Star Map.

Although everyone has their own Star Map, with warriors and mages, no matter what your profession is, the magical Star Map itself has the attribute of "extradimensional space," which is also an area that the Awakened are actively exploring.

Otherwise, where would such a large Star Pet go?

How could it just casually enter and exit your body like that?

Um...

Star Pets are easy to carry and can provide Star Power support to their masters.

It's like resource sharing, which reminded Jiang Xiao of a migrant worker anime.

A nine-tailed fire fox was sealed inside a blonde teenager, and from then on, the teenager had almost endless energy.

The principle is similar.

When your Star Power is exhausted, it doesn't matter, the Star Pet inside your body can give you enough support.

This is the second benefit.

The third benefit is that the Star Pet itself carries Star Techniques. As long as it is properly cultivated and trained, it will be a powerful and loyal teammate.