Chapter 1 A Happy Task

Corpse collecting is a joyful thing.

Collecting "live" corpses is even more joyful!

Jiang Xiao acted as a top-tier masseur, giving the city an extremely comfortable spa treatment. Now, he was searching everywhere for creatures that had been knocked unconscious by the milk and throwing them into his Calamity Shadow World.

"This one's good, this one's good..." Jiang Xiao shook his head vigorously. After using Candle Dragon's Blessing to its limit earlier, he was in a very bad state. His head was muddled, and his vision was a bit blurry.

But Jiang Xiao could hold on!

Thanks to Jiang Xiao's top-notch service, he now had the good fortune to approach a Troll Flame Master – the very one that could tear the earth apart, cause volcanic eruptions, and summon Heavenly Falling Meteors.

Jiang Xiao knelt on the ground, carefully examining the massive humanoid creature. He found it somewhat creepy. Its skin... was too terrifying.

Its skin was like dried earth, with cracks and fissures all over. And within that skin, a trace of magma-like liquid flowed.

Although Jiang Xiao was unwilling to admit it, the skin was really cool.

Poke~

Jiang Xiao opened the gate to the Calamity Shadow World. A faint blue light appeared on his fingertip, and with a gentle poke, he shoved the Troll Flame Master's "corpse" into the Calamity Shadow World.

Nearby, soldiers were constantly transporting corpses over.

"This one's good, saving it for Little Jiang Xue, to upgrade her Heavenly Falling Meteors later..."

"This one's also good, saving it for Big Meow, to upgrade her Lava Four-Piece Set later..."

Jiang Xiao muttered to himself, closing and adjusting the position of the Calamity Shadow World gate again and again, opening the gate again and again, throwing all the corpses that the soldiers had collected into the Calamity Shadow World.

Soon, a pile of Small Fire Mud and Large Fire Mud was piled up beside Jiang Xiao.

Well... other creatures had to be divided into areas, a few at a time, but these cute Small Fire Mud and Large Fire Mud didn't need that.

No matter how many there were, just find a mud pit and throw them all in.

"You're tired," said the blind girl, who had been silently guarding Jiang Xiao, standing on the barren land of the Inferno Judgment Grounds, suddenly speaking.

"Yeah, I can... can hold on," Jiang Xiao said casually, although his mind was muddled, he was in a good mood.

This pile of mud was a bronze-quality creature on Earth, but in this alien planet, it was gold-quality.

Moreover, what was amazing was that the Small Fire Mud on Earth was the size of a yoga ball, too big for one person to hug, but the Small Fire Mud, after being promoted to gold-quality, was much smaller, only the size of a basketball now...

Jiang Xiao reached out and touched a motionless ball of mud beside him, but was burned and quickly withdrew his hand, feeling much more "energetic."

Right, speaking of energy...

The consumption of energy could not be alleviated by any star technique; it could only be replenished by normal sleep.

But there was a way to make Jiang Xiao last longer, at least until all the star beasts were collected, and then he could go to sleep.

Jiang Xiao directly summoned Little Candle.

"Wu?" Little Candle's pair of candle eyes flickered, seemingly not liking the extremely hot environment around it.

It even jumped up and down with its little feet, hurriedly pouncing into Jiang Xiao's arms, making a cat-like and dog-like whimper: "Wu~"

Jiang Xiao directly put Little Candle on his head, pressed it down hard, and said, "Little Candle, use the Icy Star Technique!"

"Holy crap..." Jiang Xiao's head buzzed, feeling extremely cool, completely refreshed!

Not only was he refreshed, but his brain was also a little over-chilled...

Enduring his extremely tired body, Jiang Xiao worked hard to cooperate with the soldiers in collecting corpses.

Jiang Xiao, drinking poison to quench his thirst, finally couldn't hold on any longer after the army quickly swept through the Imperial Capital City.

Baze quickly flickered over, opened the Seamount Sanctuary, and Jiang Xiao plunged into it. His body went limp, his eyes went dark, and no matter how cool Little Candle was, even if it could clear his mind and brighten his eyes, Jiang Xiao's body was far beyond its limit.

His state was exactly the same as the aftereffects of overusing Star Transformation into Weapon.

It was a little sad to say, but the exhausted Jiang Xiao actually slept particularly soundly.

Since he entered this alien planet, he had never slept so deeply...

When he woke up again, it was already dusk the next day.

He had slept for two whole days and one night!

...

Inside the Seamount Sanctuary.

"Ugh..." Jiang Xiao opened his eyes groggily, feeling a coolness on his cheeks.

He tilted his head and looked to his left, seeing Little Candle, its Q-bouncy and smooth body pressed against Jiang Xiao's cheek, sleeping peacefully.

Even if Little Candle wasn't using a star technique, its body was cool enough.

Jiang Xiao sat up and tried to open his mouth, but the left half of his face seemed to be numb. Jiang Xiao immediately became anxious and threw a Blessing on himself.

"Mm~"

"You're awake." A faint voice came from not far away.

Jiang Xiao took a while to recover before looking up, seeing the blind girl standing by the beach, her white dress fluttering, facing the boundless sea outside the air wall.

When Baze opened the space gate to let Jiang Xiao in to rest, the blind girl had also followed in.

Her identity was somewhat special, and without Jiang Xiao, she wouldn't have been qualified to stay by the army's side.

Even though there was Jiang Gong acting as bait outside, the blind girl was very aware of her own position and followed Jiang Xiao in.

Although... it was nominally to take care of Jiang Xiao, in reality, everyone knew that she couldn't stay in the army.

All along, she had never followed the Huaxia army, but only the person "Jiang Xiao."

Many things were tacit.

Feng Yi and the others, of course, knew the blind girl's identity. He Yun, as a soldier, had reported all the information as soon as he returned to Earth.

After investigation, the blind girl's "Three-Tailed" identity also had nowhere to hide.

But the army had been fighting for several days, and everyone, including Feng Yi, seemed to have not noticed the blind girl's existence.

Complete cold treatment.

Special period, special environment, special treatment.

In this world, would there really be such a thing as "atoning for sins with merits"?

The blind girl's actions after entering the alien planet, as well as her identity as a member of Jiang Xiao's Starfall Team, made her a conflicting presence in the army.

No one knew what would eventually await her.

But what was certain was that there would be no final verdict at this special stage. If one day the final judgment came, it would definitely be sometime after the alien planet and Earth merged.

"Sigh..." Jiang Xiao sighed silently, hugged Little Candle beside him, crushed it into a pile of star power, and absorbed it into his star map.

He said, "Let's go, let's go out. The army is now on the Yan Zhao land, and the pace of the southward advance is extremely slow, needing my Injury Tears to help.

But they're resting now and will set off tomorrow morning.

Let's go to the Jinmen area first and throw all the creatures in the cave into the Calamity Shadow World. This Candle Dragon's Blessing is really delaying things; I guess I'll get scolded."

The blind girl remained noncommittal, merely turning around silently while standing by the sea.

Jiang Xiao said, "When we accompany the army south and push to Ye Old Pagoda City in the Central Plains, I'll apply to the higher-ups for the Starfall Team to act alone and go to the most dangerous areas."

The blind girl said faintly, "Do what you should do, don't consider my feelings."

Jiang Xiao laughed, saying, "That's what I should do. You've seen their military configuration. As long as the star beasts don't have special star techniques and their ranks aren't particularly high, with the cooperation of various star technique effects, it's still possible to achieve a smooth push all the way through.

I'll help them clear out the most dangerous areas, the ones that can't be pushed through, so that they can better complete their mission."

Blind Girl: "Little Pi."

Jiang Xiao: "Huh?"

Blind Girl: "Many people call you that, is that your real name, Jiang Xiao Pi?"

Jiang Xiao shook his head gently, saying, "No, that's a nickname. My real name is Jiang Xiao. When I met you, I told you my real name. The Jiang of Yangtze River, the Xiao of daybreak."

Hearing this, the blind girl was silent for a long while, nodded silently, and said, "Jiang Xiao."

Jiang Xiao: "What's up?"

Blind Girl: "If one day, I leave Starfall, it won't be because of you."

Jiang Xiao's expression froze slightly, hesitated for a moment, and said, "You can leave me, but I don't want you to leave the Starfall Team."

When they first recognized each other, the blind girl acknowledged Jiang Xiao's designation of her as "Three-Tailed."

At that time, she believed that the alien planet was independent of Earth.

But now, when the relationship between the alien planet and Earth had changed, when the Huaxia army had truly appeared before her eyes, and even a future where the alien planet and Earth might merge, her mentality seemed to have changed a little.

Jiang Xiao said, "You can leave at any time, I'm the captain, I said so.

If you no longer accept the 'Three-Tailed' codename, in the Starfall Team, your codename will be 'Blind Girl.' In my heart, I've always called you that."

The blind girl suddenly said, "I'm not blind."

Jiang Xiao nodded and smiled, "Of course I know."

The blind girl suddenly grabbed the strip of cloth covering her eyes and tore off the white cloth.

Jiang Xiao's expression was shocked, seeing the blind girl suddenly open her eyes!

She lowered her head slightly, using her pitch-black, ink-like eyeballs to look at Jiang Xiao sitting on the ground.

At the very moment she opened her eyes, specks of black ink seemed to be out of control, filling her eye sockets, as if they could flow down at any time, staining her fair face.

But, to Jiang Xiao's disappointment, the group of strange goddess statues in front of him were not stained by the ink stains. The ink filling her eyes gradually faded, merging into her eyeballs, not flowing down.

Jiang Xiao stared blankly at the blind girl standing by the beach in the distance, her back against the air wall, suddenly feeling that she was very unfamiliar, and the distance between the two seemed to be getting farther and farther.

If she hadn't taken off the cloth strip, everything would have been the same, but now that she had taken off the cloth strip, she seemed to have made a decision in her heart, at least made a change.

Blind Girl: "My Star Transformation into Weapon made it so that I couldn't open my eyes for a long time. Once I open my eyes, I can't suppress the ink from flowing. Every drop of ink comes from my star map and is mixed with a large amount of star power."

Jiang Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Then... you can control it now? There's no ink flowing from your eyes?"

"Mm." The blind girl said faintly, "Last night, while you were fast asleep, I advanced my star power level."

Jiang Xiao's breathing slightly stagnated: !!!

In the blind girl's pair of pitch-black ink eyeballs, a flower of ink appeared in each.

Logically speaking, the black ink flower and the black eyeball should be the same color, so Jiang Xiao couldn't see the shape of the flower.

However, the black ink flower was outlined by subtle blue star power.

Jiang Xiao had seen her state of fully using Star Transformation into Weapon. At this moment, the small ink flower in her eyes had the same outline as the huge ink flower that was dozens of meters high.

"Star... above the Starry Sky?" Jiang Xiao widened his eyes in disbelief, staring blankly at the blind girl in the distance.

The blind girl nodded: "After advancing, my control over the ink flower is more refined, and I also have some more abilities."

As she spoke, the blind girl's eyes, flickering with exquisite ink flower patterns, quietly looked at Jiang Xiao.

And on the ground around Jiang Xiao, eight small black ink flowers quietly bloomed.

Just as Jiang Xiao was carefully observing the small flowers that surrounded him, a layer of black oil suddenly spread across his chest, and an ink flower quickly bloomed at his heart.

Jiang Xiao only felt that his body was out of control, and under the blind girl's control, slowly stood up.

Jiang Xiao tried his best to move his body, but... he was powerless.

Jiang Xiao tried to use Space-Time Rift, but he was shocked to find that the star power in his body had been cut off from contact with his body!

What does that mean? Silence?

This...

The blind girl did indeed walk the path of control, but after this second Star Transformation into Weapon, the effect was too amazing!

In the past, the blind girl could also seal the opponent's star power and body, and could also control the opponent's body, but at least she had to bloom flowers on the ground, and the target had to touch the flowers and step into the trap she had set before she could use the effect.

But now... she only needed to take a look from afar...

"Swish..."

The ink flower on Jiang Xiao's chest quietly shattered, turning into a small puddle of oil, staining Jiang Xiao's clothes.

Jiang Xiao moved his body, and then looked into the distance, towards the blind girl by the beach.

He also received a particularly shocking piece of information!

The benefit gained from improving the star power level was "cyclical"!

Star Cloud rising to Star River was a leap in physical fitness.

Star River rising to Star Sea was possessing the ability to Star Transform into Weapon.

Star Sea rising to Starry Sky was a second leap in physical fitness.

And this Starry Sky, rising to a higher level, was further developing and utilizing Star Transformation into Weapon?

Then... what should the next level above Starry Sky be called?

Don't ask Xia Yan about this, just ask "Big Starry Sky"!

Now the question is, if you can Star Transform into Weapon a second time, can your Nine Star Map trace back to an even more distant time?

In this way, those impossibilities... might become possible!?