Since Xia Yan broke through the mid-Nebula stage and reached the late-Nebula stage, she had been in a particularly good mood.

Although she didn't say it, both siblings could tell that Xia Yan was extremely grateful to them.

This feeling made her incredibly earnest and strict when she taught Jiang Xiao the art of the blade.

For the past two days, the siblings had been staying at Xia Yan's house. Han Jiangxue was her sparring partner, but the real focus was Xia Yan and Jiang Xiao.

At this moment, Jiang Xiao held the wooden giant blade, tirelessly swinging it according to the basic movements taught by Xia Yan: stepping forward, chopping, flipping the wrist, stepping forward, thrusting upwards...

Ever since Xia Yan began teaching Jiang Xiao the giant blade three days ago, his basic skills had gained another addition:

The Xia Family Blade Technique.

Good heavens, what a big deal.

It was actually named after a family name.

Xia Yan had joked that Xia Shanhai had acquired it by chance. Could it be a family heirloom? Or was it created by a Xia family elder?

Could it be that Xia Yan created it herself?

Does she have that much intelligence and aptitude?

However, Xia Yan's Star Map is for a two-handed sword, and not the European kind with a cross-guard, but the Huaxia (China) kind.

If she practices with a blade like this, will she have to change her routine when she truly converts stars into weapons?

In that case...

Jiang Xiao's eyes lit up. No matter which Xia family ancestor created this blade technique, that person's Star Map must be for this kind of giant blade.

Perhaps Xia Shanhai's Star Map is this!

In the beginning, Jiang Xiao tried to pick up the steel giant blade, but later...

Later, he gave up because his small arms and legs really had a hard time swinging the steel giant blade.

That steel giant blade weighed at least 60 jin (30kg), and Jiang Xiao's movements began to deform after swinging it for a while.

Xia Yan seemed to have anticipated this, and immediately took out a wooden giant blade. According to her, she also started with a wooden blade when she first started practicing.

Now that he thought about it, awakeners were indeed clearly ranked, and their physical fitness was extremely terrifying. Before practicing the blade, Jiang Xiao didn't think there was much difference, but after practicing the blade, Jiang Xiao realized how explosive the power contained in Xia Yan's slender arms was.

Xia Yan was extremely strict in her instruction of Jiang Xiao, teaching him from the basic blade-holding posture, basic footwork, and blade-drawing posture. It had already been two full days, and he would be returning to school for classes tomorrow, but Xia Yan was still tirelessly correcting every detail of Jiang Xiao's body.

Jiang Xiao didn't think she was such a warm-hearted person. It was probably because of that Galaxy Stage Star Bead, so Xia Yan felt grateful and was putting in a lot of effort.

That night, before the three parted ways, Xia Yan finally revealed the truth.

During the final exams of the first semester of senior year, there was a college entrance examination bonus event – the Bei Jiang Province High School League.

Unlike regular students, awakened students not only needed to take academic classes, but could also sign up to participate in the Bei Jiang Province High School League.

Of course, if you don't sign up, you can also go through the normal procedure and take the school's practical combat class final exam, but no matter how high your score, it won't add points to your college entrance examination.

If you achieve good results in this event, you will not only receive college entrance examination bonus points, but also get a ticket to the National High School League.

In other words, this event held before the New Year was not an "option" for this team, but a "must"!

They had to get the top two places in this event to be able to participate in the National High School League before the college entrance examination.

Although the names of these two events sound like military confrontations, in reality, these events are composed of two stages.

The first stage takes place in different-dimensional spaces and can be considered the preliminary round. The top eight teams with the highest scores will enter the semi-finals.

Only the eight teams that enter the semi-finals will enter a military confrontation, ultimately determining the first-place team, which will be awarded a Star Bead reward by the provincial awakened education department, and will receive college entrance examination bonus points.

Although the preliminary and semi-final rounds are supervised by teachers, students will have many interesting things happen in order to complete tasks, obtain points, and compete for rankings.

The danger level of these events can be imagined.

Since you choose to strive to become a superior person, you must bear the corresponding risks and consequences.

During this period, Xia Yan and Han Jiangxue both broke through the mid-Nebula stage and entered the late-Nebula stage, which was great news.

It should be noted that Star Power level is also one of the evaluation criteria during the college entrance examination.

Even if she had been stuck in the mid-Nebula stage, Xia Yan wouldn't have taken the Bei Jiang Province High School League seriously, but if she wanted to compete for a good ranking in the National League, the mid-Nebula stage wasn't a guarantee.

The Huaxia land has a large population, and with such a large base, awakened ones are also emerging in endlessly.

On this magical land, there is never a shortage of geniuses.

The senior students of Jiangbin No. 1 High School broke through in Bei Jiang Province in the previous session, successfully passed the preliminary round, and achieved a good second-place result in the final semi-finals, directly entering the National League, but the final result of the competition was a complete failure.

Although there are wins and losses in competitions, last year's competition did make Jiangbin No. 1 High School lose face.

Sometimes the truth is so cruel.

The development level of Bei Jiang Province in all aspects is indeed not high.

Whether it's from the perspective of economic level, education, medical care, or personal development space, opportunities, etc., it is difficult to compare with other provinces.

Various reasons have led to very serious consequences: the brain drain in Bei Jiang is severe, and it is increasing every year, while some major economic and educational provinces have a continuous influx and concentration of awakened talents.

Awakened ones with some family wealth are sent to better schools by their parents, regardless of the hardships of the journey.

This has led to the fact that the top few places in the National High School League in previous years have basically been monopolized by large provinces and cities.

Now that Xia Yan has crossed this hurdle, leaving aside the provincial selection competition, there are still seven months before the start of the National High School League. If, in these six months, she can break through the late-Nebula stage and enter the peak-Nebula stage, Xia Yan will have reached perfection.

There is no doubt that in previous years, at the highest stage for high school students in the National League, representing the highest level of Huaxia middle school students, few participants have entered the Galaxy Stage.

In previous years, the strongest individual awakeners have basically been at the peak Nebula Stage.

There are four stages in each Star Power level, and the final stage of breaking through the level is the most important.

Except for the extreme geniuses who appear in a few years, in ordinary times, no matter how talented a high school student is, the level of strength that they can present to all Huaxia compatriots in this supreme stage is the peak Nebula Stage.

Does this represent the limit that the strength level and physical fitness of normal 18-19 year olds can reach?

This view remains to be demonstrated, but the facts are here.

Xia Yan has a full seven months. She feels that she has a good chance to approach the limit of middle school students' physical fitness and meet the final exam in the best condition.

Not to mention bringing glory to her ancestors or winning glory for the school, just for herself, she must strive to do this.

Now, Jiang Xiao's Star Bead has dispelled the obstacles on her path forward, giving her several more months to break through to the late Nebula Stage. How could she not be grateful?

Perhaps, without this Star Bead, she would have been stuck in the mid-Nebula Stage until the final exam.

Human Star Beads, especially the Star Bead of a Galaxy Stage Awakener, are really not easily obtained by students like Xia Yan.

Whether Jiang Xiao accepted it or not, he knew that his hard days had come again.

This time, Xia Yan was really determined to train a powerful warrior.

Jiang Xiao had been ordered to sleep, eat, and go to school with the wooden giant blade. According to Xia Yan, it could cultivate their relationship...

If it were the former Jiang Xiaopi, he might have thought it would be cool to carry that almost ground-dragging broadsword.

But Jiang Xiao felt that he looked silly. Being the "No. 1 Poisonous Milk of Jiangbin No. 1 High School" was already eye-catching enough, and now he was swaggering around with a broadsword?

Jiang Xiao pleaded and used all his skills to finally get Xia Yan to relent. However, as a condition of exchange, Jiang Xiao would not only have to schedule time to practice the blade during the practical combat class every afternoon, but also go home with Xia Yan to practice the blade after evening self-study.

To Jiang Xiao's surprise, Han Jiangxue actually agreed. Not only did she agree, but she also planned to move over to accompany Jiang Xiao, choosing a room to live in at Xia Yan's big villa.

Hearing these words, Jiang Xiao looked at the serious-looking Han Jiangxue, and then looked at the gloating Xia Yan.

Jiang Xiao slapped his forehead: He had fallen for it!

A sheep entering a tiger's mouth!

He had been tricked by the Xia family enchantress!

Isn't this the same as sending Han Jiangxue, this white and tender sheep, into Xia Yan's mouth?