Chapter 398 Time Traveler

"So... what is the effect of your secondary Star Awakening into Martial?" Gaia looked at Jiang Xiao with anticipation, even her voice trembled slightly.

Clearly, she also yearned for freedom.

With hope right in front of her, this God-level Star Warrior was also slightly flustered.

Jiu Xing·Xiao, while absorbing the star beads of the Void Calamity Shadow, frowned and said, "I can trace time, trace back a long, long time..."

Jiu Xing·Xiao sighed softly.

The previous Nine Star Eyes could also allow Jiang Xiao to trace back and see what had happened in the past, but at most, he could only trace back a year and a half.

But any further back than that, the amount of energy consumed would increase exponentially, and he couldn't see any specific images at all. Jiang Xiao would faint due to excessive energy consumption.

But now, things seemed a little different...

The secondary Star Awakening into Martial of the Nine Star Array clearly stated that Jiang Xiao could almost trace back to the past without limit!?

Although he couldn't reach the level of "knowing five hundred years later," Jiang Xiao could now "know five hundred years before"!

In other words... if Jiang Xiao were to enter the Dragon's Den again, as long as he had a stable environment, he could trace back to how his parents disappeared back then!

The second Star Awakening into Martial effect of the Nine Star Array was still spatial positioning, but... compared to before, the positioning was now clearer and more accurate.

Overall, the secondary Star Awakening into Martial of the Nine Star Array did not add any new abilities, but only further enhanced the existing abilities.

Tracing back time was a qualitative change, while spatial positioning was a quantitative change.

While pondering, Jiu Xing·Xiao had already absorbed the Space-Time Rift Star Technique. With full of hope, Jiang Xiao teleported!

Teleported in place!

For a moment, Jiang Xiao was silent. Seeing Jiang Xiao's expression, Gaia's tense heart gradually relaxed, and a hint of disappointment could not be suppressed in her eyes.

"Sigh..." Gaia sighed softly.

Crossing dimensions with teleportation, how could it be so easily accomplished?

Perhaps, she had placed too high of expectations on him...

The atmosphere around the forest lake was terribly oppressive. Gaia thought for a while, and finally spoke, diverting Jiang Xiao's attention, saying, "In other words, your bait can now also turn into a mountain."

"Yeah..." Jiang Xiao came back to his senses and nodded lightly, re-summoning a Star Epoch·Xiao and looking at the Earth·Xiao beside him.

Gaia suddenly said, "Let's go somewhere else, preferably somewhere more open."

"Yeah... right." As Jiang Xiao spoke, he teleported everyone away.

Standing in the vast Sahara Desert, Jiang Xiao and Gaia watched from a distance, while Star Epoch·Xiao stood in front of Earth·Xiao, holding up a thick book.

Under Gaia's gaze, a series of text symbols floated out, spinning around Earth·Xiao's body.

Earth·Xiao's expression was solemn as he smoothed his green hair. With his raised hand, the waterfall flowing down the cliff on his shoulder changed direction slightly, flowing towards his side.

But when the waterfall left Jiang Xiao's body, it disappeared without a trace, and would not fall on the ground to become real water stains.

"The relationship has changed... the earth is no longer my backing, but is integrated with me." Earth·Xiao muttered in his mouth, recalling Gaia's earnest teachings, "I am not only able to manipulate the surrounding land at will...

The earth will give me nourishment, provide me with endless energy, and bear all the damage to my main body...

Well, or rather, there is no question of bearing it for someone, because I am the earth, I am... heh..."

It was at this moment that Earth·Xiao gradually widened his eyes.

Layers upon layers of star power surged into Earth·Xiao's body, and his body, covered in natural landscapes, slowly grew larger and larger...

Jiang Xiao suddenly felt that he was being conservative, and he stepped back again, treading on the soft sand.

"No need." Gaia said beside him, "You see me as a mountain, but in reality, a considerable part of it is a naturally existing mountain. My main body is only a part of that mountain peak, just as tall as the mountain peak."

Jiang Xiao: "Huh?"

In his astonishment, Earth·Xiao in front of him was growing as if there was no end.

What is called standing tall and touching the sky?

What is called towering into the clouds!?

Jiang Xiao finally understood the meaning of these two words...

Earth·Xiao, standing on the relatively flat desert, grew from 1.8 meters to 18 meters, and then to 180 meters...

Finally, when Earth·Xiao truly advanced successfully and understood the secondary Star Awakening into Martial.

He had become a huge and terrifying existence.

On that huge body of over three thousand meters, the previously miniature versions of the landscape had now become natural landscapes of normal size.

"Gulp." Jiang Xiao's Adam's apple bobbed as he tilted his head back and looked at himself towering into the clouds, his heart filled with shock.

This is... me?

Is this really me?

I... am so strong?

And at this moment, in Earth·Xiao's sight, everything became so small.

The once boundless desert, the sand dunes that he needed to cross, had become unimportant. He no longer needed to pay attention to these existences.

In his sight, far to the east, there seemed to be a small oasis.

The terrifying distance of the past had now become only a few steps away.

Earth·Xiao raised his arm, trying to touch the low-hanging white clouds in the sky, but his palm penetrated the layers of clouds, gently scattering them.

His form had completely changed. He used to have human flesh and skin on his face and palms, but now, there was no longer a distinction between face and palms. As for his overall body, he had 30% of his flesh and blood remaining.

Earth·Xiao looked at the palm of his hand, seemingly recalling the battle scene between Jiang Xiao and Poseidon before.

So... this was Gaia's perspective back then?

It seems... she really has a gentle heart. To be honest, if it were Jiang Xiao, seeing two weak beings fighting in his palm... or even in the lines of his palm, Jiang Xiao would really find it hard to look at these two people with a straight face.

Gaia: "Do you feel the power of the earth?"

"Yes, I feel it." After the senses were connected, Jiang Xiao said, "The feeling of being one with the earth, not to mention others asking me to leave the ground, even I myself find it hard to sever such a close connection."

Gaia's voice became more and more gentle as she tilted her head up and looked at the flipped version of herself, softly saying, "You can try to use your abilities."

Beside her, Jiang Xiao said, "Do what?"

A hint of recollection appeared in Gaia's eyes, as if she remembered herself back then, and she softly said, "Anything, anything you want to do."

"Hmm..." Jiang Xiao hesitated for a moment.

In the distance, the towering Earth·Xiao lowered his hands naturally, and around his body, in the desolate desert, a patch of green grass gradually emerged from the desert.

The sand gradually dissipated, and mud slowly emerged, with occasional depressions in the ground, and water constantly seeping out.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds...

In the blink of an eye, the land around Earth·Xiao had turned into grassland, and from grassland, into a forest.

"As expected, you are different from me." Gaia softly said.

Jiang Xiao: "How so?"

Gaia shook her head and smiled, saying, "When I entered this form, the first thing I did... I flattened a mountain."

Jiang Xiao: "......"

Gaia said with a smile, "Later, I repaired that mountain and merged with it."

"Yeah... indeed, it's easy to lose your balance." Jiang Xiao said, "The energy coming from the earth is too terrifying. From a world-class Star Warrior, suddenly becoming an omnipotent God of the Earth, the feeling is very magical."

"You haven't changed, that's good." Gaia looked at the green forest in the distance and sighed softly, "When you realize that you can do whatever you want and dominate everything, your first reaction is to create an oasis in this desolate desert.

It's creation, not destruction. It's life, not death."

"Rumble!!!"

As soon as Gaia finished speaking, the towering Earth·Xiao in the distance suddenly raised his foot and stomped down heavily!

In an instant, the earth shook, the forest was crushed, dust flew everywhere, and there was a mess...

"Like this?" Jiang Xiao's body swayed from side to side with the shaking earth, saying, "It seems... not as... interesting... as I... imagined ahhh..."

Gaia: "......"

After a while, Jiang Xiao stabilized his body and said, "Let's try other baits, other Star Charts."

As he spoke, Jiang Xiao re-substituted the Star Epoch·Xiao who had already fainted.

After the senses were connected and he obtained all the information, Jiang Xiao also re-substituted the Nine Star·Xiao that had been transformed before.

Speaking of which, what is the secondary Star Awakening into Martial of *Star Warrior Era*?

Using *Star Warrior Era* to help *Star Warrior Era*? No one else does this.

Jiang Xiao was just about to switch the *Star Warrior Era* Star Chart, but his movements froze slightly.

Gaia keenly noticed that something was wrong with Jiang Xiao and said, "What's wrong?"

"Gulp." Jiang Xiao's face was stiff, his throat bobbed, "Is it... a bug?"

Gaia: "What bug?"

Right in front of Gaia's eyes, Jiang Xiao's main body lit up with a Nine Star Chart!

In an instant, everything turned gray and red, causing Gaia to step back several steps!

Such a scorched Star Chart even made Gaia fear it!

Or rather, she should hate it.

As the Mother of the Earth, she particularly disliked the aura coming from Jiang Xiao's Star Chart.

In fact, as early as when Jiang Xiao and Poseidon were fighting in Gaia's palm, the Scorched Sun Blade that Jiang Xiao summoned made Gaia very uncomfortable.

Every time the Scorched Sun Blade touched the lines of her palm, the normal grasslands and forest landforms would all be burned and turned into a scorched earth covered with cracks.

Jiang Xiao turned his head to look at Gaia blankly, saying, "My main body hasn't advanced to the Star Technique stage, but... my bait has succeeded, and has fully comprehended the secondary Star Awakening into Martial of the Nine Star Chart.

And the bait... is another me!

In other words, although I'm not at the Star Completion stage, I've already fully mastered the secondary Star Awakening into Martial."

Gaia nodded thoughtfully, saying, "It's like some talented Star Warriors can master most of the Star Chart effects at the peak of the Star River stage, but Star Awakening into Martial is an ability of the Star Sea stage."

"Yes, that's pretty much what it means!" Jiang Xiao nodded repeatedly. It seemed that Gaia could completely keep up with Jiang Xiao's train of thought.

Gaia nodded, and after confirming the views in her heart, she asked in confusion, "So? Your bait can secondary Star Awakening into Martial, what's the difference between that and your main body can secondary Star Awakening into Martial?"

Jiang Xiao pursed his lips and said, "You know... my Star Chart is a space-type, which can cause mutations in space-time Star Techniques."

Gaia's eyes lit up: "Oh?"

Jiang Xiao said, "Any Star Technique that is compatible with the Star Chart will have a certain degree of bonus after the Star Chart's secondary Star Awakening into Martial, don't you know?"

Gaia silently shook her head, saying, "I have become the mother who dominates all things on earth. I can no longer distinguish which are my Star Techniques and which are my abilities."

"Uh..." Jiang Xiao scratched his head, thinking that made sense. The Earth Star Chart allowed all mud, stones, sand, and even plant-type Star Techniques to return to their roots, abandoning the external forms of the Star Techniques, allowing Gaia to become an omnipotent god.

Maybe... she might have some misunderstanding about the strength of her Star Techniques.

Jiang Xiao said, "I have a friend whose Star Chart is a flower. After her secondary Star Awakening into Martial, all the flower-type Star Techniques in her Star Slots have undergone terrible changes."

You should know that Jiang Ke Li's Sakura Sky Domain is a normal pink cherry blossom petal falling, and the sensing radius is 500 meters.

And the same quality Sakura Sky Star Technique, placed in the Star Chart of Three Tails, has turned into a black cherry blossom petal falling, and the sensing radius has increased to 1000 meters!

Completely mutated form!

Just now, the bait Jiang Xiao's Space-Time Rift Star Technique was only of the Diamond quality of the alien ball.

And now, the Space-Time Rift in Jiang Xiao's Star Chart is the top-level Scorched Sun quality!

On this basis, you still want to strengthen me...

Space-Time Rift has finally become its final version, becoming a true "outlaw"! ?

It turns out that if you want to reach the ultimate quality of a certain type of Star Technique, you must not only have the Scorched Sun level, but also have the relevant Star Chart to match! ?

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiao's heart trembled fiercely.

Had Hopkins foreseen this!?

That's why he regarded Jiang Xiao as his only hope! ?

Because Jiang Xiao can have the highest quality space-type Star Technique, and after he secondary Star Awakening into Martial, the space-type Star Chart can provide a bonus to Jiang Xiao's space-type Star Technique...

Gaia raised her eyebrows slightly, looking at Jiang Xiao beside her, and said, "What do you mean?"

Jiang Xiao released Star Power threads, taking Gaia, and directly teleporting!

The next moment, the two stood in a mountain range, standing at the foot of a mountain.

Gaia's face was puzzled, saying, "Where is this..."

Jiang Xiao pointed to the high mountain of over three thousand meters, saying, "Don't you think it looks familiar?"

She couldn't not recognize herself, she simply didn't dare to think about it!

She suddenly reached out and grabbed Jiang Xiao's arm, saying, "Just now, you didn't open a space door."

Jiang Xiao: "Yeah."

Gaia's palm was exerting force, grabbing Jiang Xiao painfully: "You... you... crossed spatial dimensions!"

Jiang Xiao: "Yeah."

"Heh..." Gaia took a deep breath, looking at her own body in disbelief, and trembling said, "Am I... am I... free?"

Jiang Xiao: "Yeah!"

Gaia: !!!