Chapter 15 July 15, 2017

On July 15, 2017, Jiang Xiao arrived at the Huaxia Emperor Capital International Airport with the national team.

As expected, Jiang Xiao and others were greeted by a large number of people, fans, and reporters.

Unlike most of the participating students, Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue were freshmen, and after this summer vacation, they would be sophomores.

The other students were either juniors, with plenty of time, or seniors, who basically had no classes and spent the year interning, training, and looking for jobs. This World Cup trip added a brilliant stroke to their resumes, and it was believed that they would have a smooth road no matter what future path they chose.

Most of the students were seniors, and strictly speaking, they had already graduated at this time, so they had even more time.

On July 18, Jiang Xiao and others were received by the National Star Warrior Association and important national leaders. Jiang Xiao had never imagined that he would meet such important figures, but Jiang Xiao's record was there, and the team also won the championship in the team competition. With the rising tide, this World Cup in 2017 could be said to have reached the peak of the world.

Jiang Xiao not only received verbal encouragement and a very honorable meeting, but he also received substantial rewards.

On the first day after the World Cup, under the inquiry of relevant personnel from the National Star Warrior Association, Jiang Xiao reported the Star Bead he desired: the Void Calamity Shadow Star Bead.

The National Star Association was really "daddy," giving him whatever he wanted!

You should know that Jiang Xiao encountered some unfairness in the National League. With the organizers and the co-organizing military having a compensatory mentality, Jiang Xiao only obtained one Void Calamity Shadow Star Bead.

And the National Star Association's reward for Jiang Xiao, the World Cup champion, was a terrifying five Void Calamity Shadow Star Beads!

A full five!

In comparison, the 1 million cash reward was no longer attractive...

This money was really more symbolic than practical. If you really wanted to use this money to buy Void Calamity Shadow Star Beads, assuming you could really find a seller, this little money? It wouldn't even be enough for a fraction of the price.

How precious were Void Calamity Shadow Star Beads? There was no need to elaborate on this. The National Star Association gave out five at once. Jiang Xiao almost wanted to enter the National Star Association to work on the spot...

Although Jiang Xiao was a member of the Star Association, his main job was still a student, and he did not work in its institution. If Jiang Xiao directly entered it, and if he did well in this kind of institution, wouldn't he be able to get plenty of resources?

A more realistic point was that, in addition to Jiang Xiao, the other individual competition participants only received one reward Star Bead, and the quality was determined according to the ranking of the results.

Speaking from the heart, Jiang Xiao felt that he should have eaten up the resources of other teammates... But there was no way around it, after all, the best result besides him was Hou Mingming, who ranked 12th.

Han Jiangxue and her team ranked sixth, a proper World Cup quarterfinalist, and she herself received three Void Calamity Shadow Star Beads as a reward, as well as a symbolic 200,000 monetary reward.

As for the real highlight, no one knew what Star Beads or how much money the four soldier kings of Xiangnan Military Academy received.

The happy trouble descended on Jiang Xiao's head again.

Jiang Xiao's Time-Space Rift and Calamity Shadow Ruins Star Techniques were now Platinum quality Lv.1, which was the initial state after absorbing a Void Calamity Shadow Star Bead.

If you shamelessly included Han Jiangxue's reward, Jiang Xiao now had a full eight Void Calamity Shadow Star Beads!

But if he wanted to upgrade these two Star Techniques to Diamond quality, he was still one short...

A small level increase in a Platinum-level Star Technique meant 1000 skill points.

This made Jiang Xiao's teeth ache. Of course, although the skill point demand was extremely high, if it was for upgrading this kind of space-related Star Technique, Jiang Xiao would definitely not be stingy with skill points.

Jiang Xiao obtained a total of 1900 skill points on this World Cup trip, even less than a Crescent Moon Medal reward from the Night Watch.

From this perspective alone, although the Inner Vision Star Chart could not speak, the meaning it expressed was obvious: military missions were more valuable than the World Cup.

Jiang Xiao did not agree with this. He believed that his World Cup trip had broadened the world's values, would affect millions of awakened children, and would also make some mature Star Warriors realize the value of combat skills.

In terms of influence, Jiang Xiao believed that the World Cup trip had a wider and deeper range of impact.

In any case, both types of missions were very meaningful and could not be compared together.

It was just that the Inner Vision Star Chart was a little bitch, and it actually quantified all of this, which was completely an "inciting war" behavior...

Jiang Xiao was going to take the secret of the Inner Vision Star Chart into the grave, he wouldn't be stupid enough to post on Weibo and start a topic, and let people revel once again.

Based on the principle of reaching out when he could, Jiang Xiao thought that he should ask the Night Watch for the remaining Void Calamity Shadow Star Bead...

Jiang Xiao was too embarrassed to ask for rewards from the wilderness reclamation side, after all, he planned to be an on-the-job but not-at-work member. But on the Night Watch side...

Wake up! Big shots!

Your soldier won the World Cup! Aren't you going to show some appreciation?

If there were really no Star Beads, another Crescent Moon Medal would be great...

From July 18 to July 20, the national team members cooperated with the Star Association to participate in interviews and do some publicity work. Photos, videos, battle records, personal growth resumes, and other materials were jointly included in the Star Association Archives.

Jiang Xiao's golden trophy was also left there, displayed together with the trophies of the previous three World Cup individual competition champions.

Jiang Xiao also specifically asked when the Star Association would exhibit this exquisite World Cup, and when he could take the trophy home.

The Star Association staff's response was very interesting: "You can take it away in six months."

Saying that, the staff pointed to the three trophies and said, "None of the three of them took them away."

Jiang Xiao grinned: "They probably forgot, or just give them all to me! I'll return the trophies to them for you."

Staff: "..."

At this point, the vigorous World Cup trip came to an end.

The students went back to their respective homes, each looking for their own mother.

However, all the students of Emperor Capital Star Martial were detained by Emperor Capital Star Martial University.

Jiang Xiao had a premonition that this summer vacation was completely ruined.

Sure enough, Jiang Xiao, Hou Mingming, Zhao Wenlong, and Song Chunxi's team became the face of Emperor Capital Star Martial, and were required to cooperate in filming promotional videos, and even let these people go to the affiliated middle school of Emperor Capital Star Martial to give speeches?

Jiang Xiao was very helpless, and the high school students who had already started their summer vacation were even more helpless. They were dragged back to listen to speeches and cooperate in filming documentaries...

In comparison, the group of high school students from the affiliated middle school of Emperor Capital Star Martial might have some anticipation and excitement, after all, Jiang Xiao and others' identities were here, with a halo blessing.

The freshly baked World Cup champion was just out!

Little brothers, quickly return to school to learn about it...

In this series of activities, Jiang Xiao also realized his huge commercial value. After the two siblings and Fang Xingyun and Hai Tianqing carefully discussed it, teacher Fang Xingyun came forward to shield the two siblings from the wind and rain, rejecting all commercial cooperation and blocking the disturbances from the outside world.

Just kidding, was Jiang Xiao short of money?

Well... of course he was short of money!

Who in this world wasn't short of money? If you had 1 yuan, you would think about 10 yuan! If you had 100 million, you would think about 1 billion.

But the problem was that Jiang Xiao's dual identity was here, he didn't want to and shouldn't show his face in public.

Emperor Capital Star Martial played even more tricks than the National Star Association. It wasn't until a week later that the two siblings were truly liberated.

However, Emperor Capital Star Martial still held on to the students of Emperor Capital Star Martial, not letting them go home, and the reason given was one that people couldn't refuse.

It was time to talk about the World Cup rewards!

As students of Emperor Capital Star Martial, they had such amazing performances on the World Cup stage, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as a great achievement. The rewards should of course be worthy of the identity of these students who fought.

Jiang Xiao, Hou Mingming, the Zhao Wenlong trio, and the Song Chunxi team returned to Emperor Capital Star Martial to start talking about the rewards.

The one who seemed to have the least say was the old cadre, Zhao Wenlong, who had a thrilling "one-round tour" in the World Cup...

But after all, Zhao Wenlong had entered the national team, which was already a remarkable achievement. During the previous seven-day publicity trip, Zhao Wenlong naturally had a share of this reward.

Jiang Xiao saw Vice Principal Yang Chensan again, whose face was already beaming with joy.

You should know that Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue were both personally selected by Yang Chensan and specially recruited into Emperor Capital Star Martial University!

Such a wise decision greatly increased the influence of Emperor Capital Star Martial, and even Huaxia, in the world. Yang Chensan even thought that he could go further up.

Well... although Jiang Xiao was just a "gift" at the time...

Yang Chensan originally hoped to specially recruit Han Jiangxue, and then cultivate her well, so that Han Jiangxue could lead the team during her junior year and impact a World Cup for Emperor Capital Star Martial and for Huaxia.

He never expected that the two siblings couldn't wait for two years.

After the two were specially recruited, they spent a year preparing for the battle, and then Han Jiangxue cooperated with the Song Chunxi team to directly win the sixth place in the World Cup team competition.

And that "gift" even scared everyone silly!

The little Poisonous Milk's entire process didn't even have any ups and downs, it was all uphill, climbing all the way up, directly climbing to the top!

Debut was the peak!

This peak, I'm afraid it will be the peak until graduation in senior year...

The performance of the two siblings was immeasurable for Emperor Capital Star Martial University.

With this solid achievement, let alone in the country, even in the world, the rankings of Emperor Capital Star Martial in various aspects were afraid to be among the best.

Of course, the leader's vision had to be long-term, and they couldn't just enjoy this moment. Yang Chensan had every reason to believe that when the two siblings were in their junior year, Emperor Capital Star Martial would still be able to maintain this unimaginable influence and dominance.

And these so-called "influence" and "dominance" could be converted into very practical benefits.

The wealthy Emperor Capital Star Martial first gave Jiang Xiao "a spicy strip," keeping it consistent with the amount of monetary reward from the National Star Association.

And Jiang Xiao couldn't care less about these things. You really couldn't buy everything with money in this world. The dimensional space on the Void Calamity side, the ticket was priceless. What kind of status did you need to be allowed to enter a national-level dimensional space?

Money, including face, was external. Star Beads were the real deal!

Where were his Star Beads!?

He would put the Night Watch side aside for now, could he find a few Void Calamity Star Beads here?

At this time, Vice Principal Yang Chensan was sitting in his office, behind his desk, looking at the group of talented young people in front of him, and couldn't help but smile: "Good! Good! Good!"

Jiang Xiao also whispered: "Star Beads, Star Beads, Star Beads."

Yang Chensan's face stiffened, and he looked at Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao continued to mumble: "Void Calamity Shadow, Void Calamity Shadow, Void Calamity Shadow..."

Everyone: "..."