Chapter 0
“Ah…” The next night, Jiang Xiao opened his groggy eyes, looking around in a daze. After a long while, he finally remembered where he was.

This was Xia Yan’s room, with a circle of nautical soul lamps still lit around it…

Although he had slept for a whole day and night, Jiang Xiao still felt his head buzzing.

Ugh, so uncomfortable.

The taste of overusing Hua Xing Cheng Wu (transforming stars into martial prowess) was truly enough!

Jiang Xiao grimaced, covered his head with one hand, and shook it vigorously. His body flickered, and he came to the Lakeside Forest.

Under the moonlight, it was so quiet here. Jiang Xiao squatted down and washed his hands, but he didn’t know what to do.

He fell asleep in the middle of the night, and woke up in the middle of the night… Were his teammates all resting?

What should I do? Train my physical skills?

Jiang Xiao hesitated for a moment and didn't wash his face to clear his head. He felt that his condition was really bad, his head was dizzy. Maybe… he should continue to sleep, until dawn.

While thinking, Jiang Xiao decided to indulge himself and take another night off.

Forget it, forget it, go back to sleep.

Better go back to Xia Yan’s room, and try not to disturb others.

His mind was filled with the image of Xia Yan’s “soul summoning ritual” last night. He was both amused and annoyed, and his figure flickered back to her room again.

Shi Kong Zhi Xi (Time-Space Gap), go!

*Shua!*

Instantly, Jiang Xiao was stunned!

The room was filled with the soft light of deep-sea blue, and nautical soul lamps were placed everywhere.

But the problem was, on the big bed that should have been empty, there was now someone lying there.

He had a tired look on his face, lying on the bed in a deep sleep, without any feeling of Jiang Xiao’s arrival.

Jiang Xiao: ???

Who is this?

Where did this decoy come from, stealing my bed? I just woke up and only went out for a few seconds, and you come to steal my bed?

Jiang Xiao was certain that when he woke up just now, there was no one in the room. Everyone knew the pain of overusing Hua Xing Cheng Wu (transforming stars into martial prowess), so no one wanted to disturb his rest, let alone his own decoy.

Wait!

Something's not right!

If Jiang Shou had taken the opportunity to steal the bed while he was at the lakeside, he wouldn't be sleeping so soundly!

What's more, whether it's the mech or the decoy, they are the same person as Jiang Xiao, there is no such thing as “stealing the bed”...

And looking at the extremely tired and drowsy appearance of the person on the bed, it was obvious that it was Jiang Xiao who had just finished modifying Xia Yan yesterday!!!

*“Ping!”*

With a loud noise, the sound of water splashing came from the lakeside!

Xia Yan stabbed a sword at Marta, who was treading on the lake surface with a panicked expression.

The battle in the lake was in full swing, and in Xia Yan’s room, Jiang Xiao looked at himself sleeping soundly on the bed, and felt his scalp tingle!

He seemed to realize something terrible…

“Glub.” Jiang Xiao’s Adam’s apple wriggled, his figure hurriedly flickered, and disappeared without a trace.

…

Under the moonlight, at the edge of the forest lake, a figure flickered.

Jiang Xiao… stood at the edge of the lake again.

Without the battle between Xia Yan and Marta, it was still quiet here.

Everything that had just happened had caused an uproar in Jiang Xiao’s heart.

He just… seemed to have returned to a day ago!?

Back to when Xia Yan had just been modified by *Star Martial Era* and he had fallen asleep?

Damn it!

Jiang Xiao broke out in goosebumps!

Fortunately, he had many decoys. The perceptive people in the villa probably regarded him as Jiang Shou.

And Jiang Shou, in order to make room for everyone, had always been in the Lakeside Forest, sleeping in the wooden house with Da Sheng, Fu Hei, Ying Ya, and Hou Mingming.

In order not to disturb other decoys and mechs, Jiang Xiao had also cut off the telepathy of all decoys and mechs when he was modifying Xia Yan yesterday.

Otherwise, Jiang Gong, who was sleeping on the first floor, should have been the first to realize that something was wrong.

Just now, he should have regarded himself as Jiang Shou…

Jiang Xiao stood by the lake, covering his buzzing head with one hand. What was… what was going on?

I just wanted to return to Xia Yan’s room and continue sleeping, why did I flicker back to last night?

Jiang Xiao’s Adam’s apple wriggled.

This is the highest quality·Jiao Yang·Shi Kong Zhi Xi (Sun Scorcher·Time-Space Gap)!?

This is the real outlaw!?

Jiang Xiao hurriedly opened his inner vision star map and looked at the text introduction again.

“Jiao Yang·Shi Kong Zhi Xi (Sun Scorcher·Time-Space Gap): Skillfully using the time-space gap, you have become a real outlaw.”

“Uh…” Jiang Xiao let out a slightly painful murmur. His head felt as if it had been pricked by a needle, and the sudden pain made him extremely uncomfortable.

A figure faintly appeared at the window on the second floor.

Han Jiangxue stood in front of the window, looking at Jiang Xiao by the lake in the distance. She couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Did her younger brother wake up? But why did he look so painful?

Just as Han Jiangxue was about to comfort Jiang Xiao, she found that Jiang Xiao by the lake had disappeared again.

Han Jiangxue closed her eyes and carefully sensed. With the Diamond·Sea Demon’s Intent star technique, she quickly found Jiang Xiao rummaging through Jiang Gong’s room.

Where is he going? Why is he changing his clothes?

Er Wei, who lived on the third floor, also slowly opened her eyes. In her perception, Jiang Xiao had changed into a dusty t-shirt, sports jacket, jeans, and a duck-tongue cap…

Then, Jiang Xiao disappeared.

Jiao Yang·Shi Kong Zhi Xi (Sun Scorcher·Time-Space Gap)!

Go!

Let me see, how capable are you!

This time, it was a simple flicker, but for Jiang Xiao, it was a spiritual journey. In this almost negligible flicker time, Jiang Xiao saw a lot of memories and found a lot of scenes.

*Shua…*

Jiang Xiao’s figure appeared in a stadium with tens of thousands of people.

The place was a boiling cauldron of voices! Extremely noisy!

“Hua Xia!! Hua Xia!!”

“Hua Xia!! Hua Xia!!”

In the noisy stadium, in a fiery red audience stand filled with cheers, Jiang Xiao’s figure appeared at the back of the audience stand.

Here, it was July 4, 2019, the World Cup battlefield!

Facing the battle on the green field, everyone was standing and watching, and they were also surging forward slightly. In the last few rows, although there were a lot of people, there were many empty seats.

Jiang Xiao lowered his duck-tongue cap and looked at the battlefield below.

On that green field, two people were fighting fiercely, like running horses in a lantern show.

Jiang Xiao saw the Great Meng Archer God Hai Ri Gu riding a black horse and drawing a bow and shooting arrows, and he also saw himself in the national team uniform, drawing a bow and shooting rapidly.

The two people’s warhorses were constantly circling, and the arrows shot out rapidly in their hands collided in the air. The scene was extremely fierce!

*“Ping!”*

In the front left, the host Qian Baiwan slapped the table and shouted excitedly: “Pure skills! The purest competition!”

Ye Xunyang’s familiar figure appeared in Jiang Xiao’s eyes. She clenched her fists and trembled: “Jiang Xiaopi really gave up his advantageous routine…”

The host Qian Baiwan was extremely excited and shouted loudly: “Fine rain is falling, the horse treads on the raging flames! Spear and halberd, bow and arrow!

Holding a strong bow, wielding a spear and halberd, galloping on a steed for several years, today, let’s be uninhibited!”

“Heh…” Jiang Xiao’s long-silent heart gradually became restless.

In the audience stand in front, it was a boiling cauldron of fiery red.

On the green field below, it was himself, who was once dressed in bright clothes and riding a horse, a young minister who wielded a spear…

In his ears, Qian Baiwan’s excited and extremely infectious voice was still resounding: “With great ambition, we look up to the heavenly palace, for whom do we act lawlessly!?”

Jiang Xiao lowered his head, lowered the brim of his hat slightly, stopped watching, and flickered away.

He had fought in alien planets for too long and had already… forgotten this wonderful taste.

*Shua…*

Jiang Xiao appeared on the World Cup arena again.

This time, it was like the end of the world, the sky was terribly gloomy.

In the heavy rain, above that distant green field, a face-to-face Du Nai (Poisonous Milk) was kiting the European Shield from close range.

This was July 11, 2017, Japan…

Sitting in the host seat was still Ye Xunyang, but the male host next to her was Ma Ke.

Ye Xunyang put her hands together and placed them in front of her chest. Like most of the Hua Xia audience, she looked at the arena with a worried expression.

Compared to the game two years later, the arena was silent at this time.

In the air, the Little Poisonous Milk, who甩开了巨刃 (Shuai Kai Le Ju Ren), lit up his elbow, fell from the sky, and aimed at Niel below, caused a burst of exclamations in the silent arena.

“How do you win me?”

“How do you win me?”

Jiang Xiao murmured, and on the green field, the mouth shape of the Little Poisonous Milk falling from the sky was also the same.

But…

Jiang Xiao suddenly discovered that the Little Poisonous Milk falling from the sky suddenly turned his head and looked at a corner of the stadium with tens of thousands of people, towards Jiang Xiao’s direction at this time.

On the green field, it was the area of injury and tears.

But outside the field, even the entire city, should be the scope of域泪 (Yu Lei)...

Jiang Xiao was shocked, was he discovered!?

The 2017 self was extremely terrifying!

At that time, his star techniques had not been sealed!

When the self at that time discovered another Jiang Xiao who suddenly appeared and was not his own decoy, what would be the reaction?

The 2017 Jiang Xiao threw out a Silence and a Blessing…

Then the current Jiang Xiao was likely to lose his life here!

Jiang Xiao’s face changed, he lowered his hat subconsciously, and his figure hurriedly flickered away…

…

May 13, 2016, Hua Xia·Chang’an People’s Stadium.

“Yuan Qinghua! Beat him to death! Beat him to death, ah ah ah ah!”

“Kill him! Educate this little brat!”

A burst of noisy voices came, with less cheers and more disapproval.

In the host seat, it was still Ye Xunyang, and she seemed to be defending the Little Poisonous Milk.

But on the green field, the Little Poisonous Milk was shouting loudly: “The Xia family’s sabre technique has a total of nine forms! Because I have mastered them all, I have created the tenth form myself. Wait and see, let me show you, and see if I am qualified to fight you!”

While speaking, Jiang Xiao, hiding in a corner of the audience stand, couldn’t help but cover his face.

“The tenth form of the Xia family’s sabre technique – a dagger hidden in a smile!”

The next moment, the Little Poisonous Milk on the green field, carrying a giant blade, turned around and laughed loudly towards the sky: “Hahahahahaha knife hahahahahaha!”

“Puchi…” Above the iron cage, came the delicate laughter of that smiling girl.

Jiang Xiao lowered the brim of his hat gently, shook his head with a smile, and flickered away.

Each match was a precious memory, and at this moment, it was clearly displayed in front of Jiang Xiao.

Top 8, Top 16… and the team qualifying competition.

In Chang’an·Ancient Imperial Mausoleum, Jiang Xiao followed his memory and appeared here, sighing deeply.

Here, the Jiang Bin First High School team rushed into the national competition, and it was also a qualifying competition with slightly dark rules.

Jiang Xiao looked at the wall on the left, and above it were carved various exquisite giant images…

He couldn’t help but reach out his finger and press it gently on the stone painting, his mind filled with memories…

Thank goodness he rushed out this time, otherwise, everything that followed would not exist…

Without the national competition championship, there would be no Void Calamity Shadow Star Pearl sent by Feng Yi, and Er Wei might not have been transferred to the Northwest Night Watch Army.

And Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue, in the sudden Yanpan Institute incident at the Capital Star Martial University, without the help of Shi Kong Zhi Xi (Time-Space Gap) and Calamity Shadow’s Ruins, their lives might have been lost in the Yanpan Institute that suddenly opened at the south gate of the school.

Not to mention the two World Cups in the future, there would be no North Atlantic seabed exploration, no Concorder mission, no alien planet journey, no peninsula war…

“Jiang Xiao!”

Jiang Xiao’s finger pressed on the wall stiffened slightly, he turned his head sharply, but saw a familiar yet unfamiliar figure in the dark corridor in the distance.

Familiar, because his mind had memories of this person.

This silent stone carver had left a strong psychological shadow in Jiang Xiao’s heart back then.

It was no longer a matter of violating the rules and withdrawing from the competition, but… Jiang Xiao was a little worried that this cloaked man would kill the Jiang Bin First High School team.

The stone carver in a cloak stood in the dark stone corridor.

Eerie and mysterious.

He lowered his head slightly, only revealing half of his chin, which was covered with sparse stubble. His voice was slightly vicissitudes and a little hoarse: “Which year?”

Jiang Xiao’s breathing stagnated slightly, and he did not respond.

The cloaked stone carver walked slowly from the dark stone corridor and asked again in a deep voice: “Which year did you come from?”

Jiang Xiao: !!!

...