Nine Star Burden

Chapter 225: Fast Hands?

In the early morning.

“Mm.” Xia Yan yawned and walked out of Han Jiangxue’s room. Seeing that there was no one in the living room, she couldn’t help but follow the sounds that she heard to the kitchen, and through the frosted glass on the door, she saw the figure getting busy inside.

She approached the door quietly, almost sticking her face to the frosted glass. However, she couldn’t see the true appearance of the person inside and could only see and imagine its vague silhouette.

Ka-cha.

The door of the kitchen was suddenly opened and Han Jiangxue walked out while wearing an apron and holding a spatula in her hand. Some bubbling sounds came from the pot in on the kitchen top.

“Hehe, hehe.” Xia Yan rubbed her head and laughed foolishly. “I didn’t kick the duvet last night, did I? Did I kick you? I think I didn’t stay still when I was sleeping…”

Han Jiangxue looked down at Xia Yan peeping at her and said in disdain, “Go wash up, then call Xiaopi.”

“Oh, what are you cooking? It smells heavenly!” Xia Yan exclaimed, giving her a timely compliment. As a woman, she knew exactly what Han Jiangxue needed.

In this world, women only need three things—oxygen, food, and compliments.

Hmm…

When necessary, the first two could be omitted.

“Go away.” Han Jiangxue looked a little embarrassed as she pressed Xia Yan’s head and pushed her out before closing the kitchen door.

“Um…” Xia Yan looked around and finally arrived in front of Jiang Xiao’s door. She opened the door with a loud thud and yelled, “Jiang Xiaopi! Your sister called you… eh? You’re awake?”

Xia Yan wanted to wake Jiang Xiao up because she initially thought that he was still lazing in bed. However, as soon as she opened the door, she found that he was sitting in front of the computer and seemed distracted.

“Your sister wants you to go eat,” Xia Yan said as she peeked in, curious. Shifting her gaze onto the computer screen, she questioned, “Why are you staring at the desktop of your computer?”

Jiang Xiao was speechless.

“Hurry up.” Xia Yan urged and closed the door as she left.

Jiang Xiao scratched his head and thought to himself, Ugh, my train of thought was disrupted.

A few minutes later, just as Jiang Xiao was deep in thought.

Ka-cha!

The door was suddenly pushed open by Xia Yan again.

“What’s the matter now?” Jiang Xiao turned to look at Xia Yan with a look of displeasure. He continued, “Don’t you know how to knock on the door?”

Xia Yan looked at the computer screen and walked straight towards him. She pressed a hand on his head and rubbed it forcefully because his buzz-cut hair felt good to the touch. “Why are you always staring at the desktop of your computer whenever I come in?”

Jiang Xiao was speechless.

Xia Yan suddenly bent forward and moved her cherry lips towards his ear, bit his earlobe gently, and said in a sultry and alluring manner, “Xiaopi, it’s time for your meal. If you still refuse to get up, I’ll call your sister.”

Jiang Xiao was dumbfounded.

Two devil horns seemed to appear on Xia Yan’s head as she turned around to leave with a devilish smile on her face. She even deliberately chose not to close the door.

Damn it, is there something wrong with you!?!

Jiang Xiao looked at Xia Yan’s back innocently and thought, What’s wrong with staring at the desktop on the screen of my computer?

I did that because I’m done finding the information I wanted and closed the web page.

Jiang Xiao saw the “Light of Lightning” and “Chain Lightning” Star Techniques when he was checking Mrs. Gao’s Star Bead earlier on.

Thanks to the fact that the names given by the internal Star Map were exactly the same as the official names that the Star Techniques were known as, Jiang Xiao managed to save plenty of hassle.

It was no wonder that he was unfamiliar with those two Star Techniques.

The two Star Techniques were from a Star Bead of a creature of another dimension, known as the Lightning Soul, that belonged to the Dimensional Spaces in Haisu Province, Zhejiang Province, and Shanghai City.

Of course, those Star Techniques were not Basic Techniques and were rather difficult to purchase in commercial firms.

Jiang Xiao shook his head helplessly. It was no wonder that the rankings of those provinces had always been among the best in the National High School League over the years.

Those big provinces and cities were already wealthy, to begin with, and they had high standards of education, with highly competent educators. They even had such overpowering Star Techniques…

The great resources were all accessible to the high school students of those places and their Rules Awakened had even become the kings of lightning and thunder. Who could rival that?

The Light of Lightning should be a Star Technique that’s at the peak of Silver Quality, eh? It’s instantaneous and the damage done is explosive too.

Look at the Silver Quality Star Techniques of the Beijiang Province.

Flame Arc, Scorch, Bursting Flames, Burning Flame… Brutality?

However, the Silver Quality Medical Star Techniques of Beijiang Province are probably the best in the entire nation.

At this point, Jiang Xiao was still contemplating if he should pull some connections with the Xia Family and find a few “Lightning Soul” Star Beads.

Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue still had some money in their hands. At the same time, they also had plenty of reserves.

During the preliminary round of the competition in the Arsenal, the team of four seized yellow weapons and medals while killing many savages and Ape Ghouls.

Xia Yan had absorbed the Star Beads of the Ape Ghoul King, but no one absorbed the Star Beads from the Ape Ghouls. Hence, after they left the Arsenal, they sold the Star Beads.

36 Savage (Swordsman, Spearman, Female Archer) Star Beads and 23 Ape Ghoul Star Beads were sold for a total of 79,100 yuan. The business firm decided to round up the number and gave them 80,000 yuan.

However, Xia Yan did not have a share of the 80,000 yuan because she had absorbed the two Gold Quality Ape Ghoul King Star Beads, leaving the Han siblings and Li Weiyi with 26,600 yuan each. No one bothered much about the remaining loose change and the slight differences didn’t matter to them.

That was regarding capital income.

In terms of “reserves”, Han Jiangxue had a few Star Beads that were not too bad.

The first was the one from the person whom Han Jiangxue placed in the Sky Smasher when the bald man’s team tried to use them as a shield.

That person was a Melee Awakened in the mid to late Nebula Stage. According to Han Jiangxue, she wanted Jiang Xiao to absorb that Star Bead when she broke through that level.

At the same time, the siblings still had a Fallen Shadow Witch Star Bead.

There were a total of three Fallen Shadow Witch Star Beads, two of which Jiang Xiao had absorbed. Under the help of Skill Points, he managed to upgrade “Enmity”, “Counter-current Light” and “Sound of Silence” to Gold Quality. (Sound of Silence was initially already of Gold Quality)

Later on, Jiang Xiao did not absorb the remaining Star Bead of the Fallen Shadow Witch.

Of course, he hoped that Han Jiangxue would be able to acquire a Star Technique like Sound of Silence, but she seemed to want to try her luck only when she was in the Galaxy Stage.

Han Jiangxue still had a “Blue Crown Star Bead” which was given to them by Xia Yan’s father. It contained the Dark Blue Scepter and Light Blue Scepter, both Gold Quality Star Techniques.

With the precious Fallen Shadow Witch Star Bead, Han Jiangxue seemed to be more open to the Blue Crown Star Beads. According to her, she would increase her level soon and absorb the Star Bead during the Wasteland Reclamation competition, regardless of whether she had reached the Galaxy Stage or not. She wanted to increase her output abilities so as to increase the team’s attacking abilities.

The second reclamation, as the name implied, was to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and conduct the wasteland reclamation again.

Beijiang Province would give the students a moderately dangerous Dimensional Space that had just been opened and allow them to explore it within a specified duration and time.

The more comprehensive one was about the maps, topography, landforms, monster types, population distribution, and a series of other information, the higher their score would be.

There were detailed points for the competition which would be mentioned later.

According to Han Jiangxue, in most cases during the Wasteland Reclamation competition, her team would be facing monsters. Hence, she needed a Star Technique that was more explosive.

Thus, Jiang Xiao got the idea of letting her absorb the Lightning Soul Star Bead.

Jiang Xiao was not satisfied with the “Light Blue Scepter” Star Technique in the Blue Crown Star Bead because it was a defensive Star Technique that was not suitable for breakthroughs. Although it was a strong Star Technique of Gold Quality, Jiang Xiao was really afraid that Han Jiangxue would acquire it.

In contrast, the two Star Techniques of the Lightning Soul were all perfect Star Techniques for the battlefield. Besides, the Light of Lightning was Silver Quality and there would be a high probability of Han Jiangxue, who was currently in the Nebula Stage, acquiring it.

Back to the main topic.

The two of them had the Star Beads from Gao Junwei and his mother, Wu Di, who were in the late Nebula Stage and the peak of the Galaxy Stage, respectively.

If the vicious pair of mother and son could help Han Jiangxue to upgrade her Star Power level and break through the peak of Nebula Stage, they would have died with a purpose.

Just as Jiang Xiao was deep in thought about it…

Xia Yan crept towards Jiang Xiao’s door which was left ajar and suddenly kicked it open. “Jiang Xiaopi, are you going to eat or not? Your sister is angry!”

Horrendous!

The sneak attack failed again.

Xia Yan was still greeted with the sight of Jiang Xiao staring at the desktop of his computer in a daze.

In Xia Yan’s opinion, he was definitely pretending.

Xia Yan pursed her lips and muttered, “Little imp, you’re really quick at switching windows.”

Jiang Xiao was dumbfounded.