Chapter 1 The Return

Jiang Xiao lay on the grass by the Forest Lake, a blade of green grass dangling from his mouth, watching the white clouds drift across the sky.

His eyes were a little dazed, and he softly hummed, "Clearly you love me too, there's no reason why our love can't have a result..."

As he hummed, within the star map blooming on Jiang Xiao's chest, dim star slots gradually lit up.

"As long as you dare to be brave, why should we miss each other..."

Jiang Xiao sang, and he was moved to tears.

My youth, my joy... it's back!

In that instant, Jiang Xiao felt the grass beneath him was a little "prickly"!

Zhu Yue·Endurance!

It's back!

Jiang Xiao's body was terrifyingly sensitive. He sat up, rubbed the back of his neck. This feeling of reality made him ecstatic!

Eight Stars·Nineteen Skills, all back...

Jiang Xiao casually raised his hand, and a huge pillar of blessing light fell. His palm fell again, and a bell chime rushed towards the Sea Soul Lamp at the bottom of the lake...

His eyes were red. In an instant, dark clouds gathered in the blue sky, as if foreshadowing a storm.

In the distance, Ao Ao Long, perched on the roof of the three-story stone villa, couldn't help but raise its head, open its huge dragon eyes, and look at the turbulent scene in the sky.

"Ao~ Ao~" Ao Ao Long roared and flew towards the sky.

Jiang Xiao was really crying this time. He wiped his red eyes and stopped summoning the Tearful Rain Star Technique.

The wind-calling, rain-summoning little Jiu Xing Du Nai is finally back!

He stopped, but the dark clouds could not quickly dissipate. Ao Ao Long seemed to like this kind of weather very much, flying straight into the sky, its huge body shuttling back and forth through the dark clouds, sometimes visible, sometimes hidden.

"Buzz..." A whale's song. The Buzzing Whale at the bottom of the lake rushed out, also swimming towards the cloudy sky.

A dragon and a whale, originally resting, but the special weather conditions seemed to have given them a custom-made playground...

Jiang Xiao's body flickered, and he entered the basement of the stone villa.

He hadn't been here for a long time. He had stored a large number of star beads he had accumulated while fighting north and south on the Alien Ball Continent.

Boxes piled up like mountains, almost filling the basement...

A burst of star power gathered on Jiang Xiao's chest. Little Candle appeared in his arms, also lighting up the dark basement.

"Mmm~" Seeing the boxes all over the floor, Little Candle opened its small mouth wide. Strands of star power flowed from its mouth, like saliva.

The individual open boxes were filled with glittering star beads, and Little Candle's candle eyes couldn't help but burst into flames...

Jiang Xiao rubbed Little Fatty's jelly-like body. He directly activated Star Power Abundance. Large amounts of star power gathered, determined to fill Little Candle up.

"Mmm..." Little Candle shivered subconsciously. Its q-bouncy, soft body trembled, extremely funny.

At that moment, it remembered the fear of being dominated by suffocation.

Indeed, following its master, it did not lack star power.

But... is there any comparison between eating star beads and absorbing star power on its own, and having someone force-feed it star power?

Would you rather eat on your own, or have your grandma pinch your cheeks and stuff food into your mouth with a spoon?

Regardless of whether Little Candle liked it or not, its interest in the mountain of star beads in front of it inevitably decreased little by little.

If it stayed in its master's arms for a while longer, it would soon be full...

After all, the star power on the Alien Ball was so abundant, and it usually just played around, and had no chance to expend star power.

Jiang Xiao placed Little Fatty on his head and pulled it down.

Little Candle obediently turned into a candle hat, limp, its body drooping down, covering Jiang Xiao's head.

Jiang Xiao wore the candle hat and looked around... let's start with the first star slot, Blessing Lure!

As Jiang Xiao rummaged through the basement, his heart quickly turned cold.

The star beads of the White Ghost Witch should not be enough.

The White Ghost Witches on the Alien Ball Continent are all gold-level. Although Jiang Xiao would deliberately pour star power into the White Ghost Witch when acquiring its star beads, so that the star beads would become platinum quality,

But... at this time, Jiang Xiao's Blessing and Lure were both Zhu Yue quality.

1 Zhu Yue = 10 Star Chen = 100 Diamond = 1000 Platinum.

And 10 Zhu Yue-quality star beads were needed to push a star technique to the Jiao Yang quality...

In other words, Jiang Xiao needed 10,000 platinum-quality White Ghost Witch star beads.

Jiang Xiao's inventory was obviously not enough, so he could only go to Bei Jiang to hunt for star beads again.

And when hunting, he had to be careful to kill them slowly. If he got carried away, he might exterminate the White Ghost Witches...

"Then, let's start with the second star slot, Qing Mang Endurance!"

Compared to the White Ghost Witch, the star beads of the White Ghost were obviously enough!

Not only enough, but there was more than enough...

Jiang Xiao vomited like he was漾奶, frantically absorbing star beads. He had already closed Star Power Abundance. At this time, he shouldn't add to the chaos. The star power storage capacity of platinum star beads was very amazing...

"Qing Mang upgrades! Jiao Yang quality!"

"Endurance upgrades! Jiao Yang quality!"

"Ugh~" Jiang Xiao sat down in the pile of star beads, already beginning to doubt his life...

And life... is also worth doubting!

Let's upgrade the ones with enough star bead storage first~

......

"Earth Light upgrades! Jiao Yang quality!"

"Star Stealth upgrades! Jiao Yang quality!"

"Second Form upgrades! Jiao Yang quality!"

......

"Domain Tear upgrades! Jiao Yang quality!"

"Purifying Tear upgrades! Jiao Yang quality!"

"Wounding Tear upgrades! Jiao Yang quality!"

......

When Jiang Xiao flickered back to the lakeside, he found that it was already dark...

Jiang Xiao always thought that training and fighting were physical labor, but now he realized that absorbing star beads was also a physical job!

In his star map, four star slots were already of the highest quality!

It was a bit of a pity that there was only a skill point reward for the first advancement to Jiao Yang quality. There were no rewards for subsequent advancements to the highest quality star techniques...

They were: First Star Slot: Qing Mang, Endurance. Sixth Star Slot: Space-Time Gap, Calamity Shadow Ruins.

Seventh Star Slot: Earth Light, Star Stealth, Second Form. Eighth Star Slot: Domain Tear, Purifying Tear, Wounding Tear.

Jiang Xiao was dizzy, and his body was about to explode. Even the Little Candle on his head was also dizzy. The original decent candle hat was now limp, really like a melted candle...

The remaining four star slots that had not reached the highest quality all required Jiang Xiao to hunt in the related areas of the Calamity Shadow World.

Jiang Xiao summoned the Ying Ying Bear, and threw a Reverse Current Light on the Ying Ying Bear's body.

Well... he could only bully the Ying Ying Bear. Only the Ying Ying Bear was diamond-level lv.1. Jiang Xiao's other star beasts were all higher than Jiang Xiao's star power realm...

"Ying~" The Ying Ying Bear's round body trembled, comfortably squinting its eyes, raising its head, with a delicate and enjoyable look, feeling a large amount of star power rushing into its body.

Try out Jiao Yang·Qing Mang?

Jiang Xiao stepped forward, knelt on the ground, dragged the Ying Ying Bear's butt, and picked it up.

"Ying?" The Ying Ying Bear was a little confused, looking down at Jiang Xiao, and Jiang Xiao...

A burst of Qing Mang flowed in his hand, dragging the Ying Ying Bear's butt, and gently lifted it up.

"Ying..." The Ying Ying Bear "whooshed" and flew into the sky!

It appeared! Soaring Bear!

The Ying Ying Bear flew as high as 200 meters before the momentum gradually subsided!

"Buzz..." As the gentle whale song sounded, the Buzzing Whale flew down from the night sky, its huge back dragging the Ying Ying Bear, who was flustered in the air, and steadily caught it.

"Ying~" The Ying Ying Bear sat on the soft back of the Buzzing Whale, rubbing its face with its bear paws, its dark eyes blinking, seemingly unable to react to what happened.

I'm in heaven!?

"Mm." Jiang Xiao nodded in satisfaction. He hadn't used any force just now, but he had "lifted" the Ying Ying Bear to a height of 200 meters. This should be the effect of the highest quality Qing Mang.

If Jiang Xiao used more force, it would not only be a matter of "knocking back." How strong would the powerful strike effect be?

Jiang Xiao sighed secretly and looked at the Earth Light, Star Stealth, and Second Form star techniques in the inner vision star map.

As his body changed, a 3.5-meter-tall Silver Companion, wearing a bamboo hat and a raincoat, stood on the edge of the lake.

"Hehe..." A sinister smile appeared on the dark ghost face. The long fingers pinched the edge of the bamboo hat and pressed it down.

On the edge of the lake, a mysterious wandering knight from ancient China seemed to have appeared, but the candle flame burning on the bamboo hat made the picture a little weird.

Once, the Zhu Yue-quality Second Form could only allow Jiang Xiao to reach 2.82 meters, with a maximum increase of 1 meter in height, but at this time, he could completely transform into a normal-sized ghost-faced monk!

Simply perfect!

Where is the limit? Where is the limit?

Jiang Xiao tried to transform into the Buzzing Whale, but...

A mini-shaped Buzzing Whale, 4.82 meters long, fell on the grass.

Well, although 4.82 meters is "giant" for any creature, it is really a mini version for the Buzzing Whale...

The mini-Buzzing Whale's belly was pressed against the grass, shaking its head, and its heart-shaped whale tail slapped and slapped, trying to crawl forward.

So... a fluctuation of 3 meters is the limit?

The Buzzing Whale that was wandering in the sky was dumbfounded!

What is this thing!?

However, the problem appeared again. Jiang Xiao could indeed change form and become a mini-version of the Buzzing Whale, but it was only an external form constructed by star power. He... couldn't fly!

He could only crawl on the ground...

The Buzzing Whale looked at the mini-Buzzing Whale wriggling on the ground. Although it knew it was its master, there was a moment when the Buzzing Whale wanted to slap it to death with its tail!

We are big fish!

Big fish that swim in the deep sea, soar in the sky, and are elegant and beautiful!

We are not caterpillars! Not earthworms! Let alone maggots!!!

Jiang Xiao immediately transformed back into human form, pressed Little Candle into his star map, and told it not to suffer with him...

In fact, the most terrifying star technique is not Second Form, but Earth Light.

The inner vision star map clearly stated: "When the star map vibrates violently, it is always accompanied by a strong light.

Gather star power, vibrate and change the original appearance of the star map, and continuously consume star power when activated.

You can have a new star map, and the number of star slots and the star beads and star techniques that have been inlaid cannot be changed. (4/9)"

"Gudu." Jiang Xiao's Adam's apple squirmed. 9...9 star maps?

Jiang Xiao's own nine-star map was not included. The newly created star maps included Hua Ren, Withered Bow, Soul of Devouring Sea, and *Star Martial Era*.

There were still 5 places to create new star maps?

Give me Yi Qingchen's Peace Buckle!

Give me He Yun's Orange Bell Cover too!

And I have to get Elizabeth's Holy Cross!

What else?

I, Jiang Xiao, want it all!!!

Wait... according to this advancement method, Jiao Yang·Earth Light has 9 star maps, so does Jiao Yang·Lure have 9 lures!?

A Light Chasing Team only has 12 people at most!

And I, plus 9 me's with all kinds of terrifying star maps...

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiao couldn't help but grin.

Alright, don't talk about breaking mountains, pioneering wasteland, guarding the night, or star arrival. I, Jiang Xiao, will go out independently and become an army by myself...