Chapter 2016 June 9th, 16:30

Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue sat in the coffee shop outside the Jiangbin No. 7 High School exam venue, patiently waiting for Xia Yan.

The cultural subject exams had been completed on the 8th, and today was the day Xia Yan participated in the Star Warrior exam. All individual exams would be completed by 16:30. Tomorrow morning, the team would set off again for Guanlin City, Zhongcheng County, to accompany Xia Yan for the team assessment.

The exam team chose a very good location. The armory in Zhongcheng County, Guanlin City, had been used as a venue for the provincial high school league. All kinds of equipment were readily available, and the venue had been planned and arranged, ready for use.

At this time, Jiang Xiao was playing with his mobile phone, browsing Weibo.

These few days had been extraordinary. Obviously, the national competition was over, and everyone's fate had been settled, but for some reason, someone stirred things up, and Jiang Xiao's popularity soared again.

What was the fuss about?

The Xia Family Saber Technique.

This topic even made it to the trending searches.

"The tenth move of the Xia Family Saber Technique should be 'Smiling Dagger'! This move shattered the championship dream of Yuan Qinghua, the Galaxy Overlord!"

"Bullshit, @Jiang Xiaopi, I'm from the family. He personally said that the tenth move is Great Compassion, which sent Jiang Xiaopi to the championship throne!"

"It's definitely 'Smiling Dagger.' A flamboyant and cheap style can be crowned king. Great Compassion? Heh, what era is this? Still trying to be a cool Long Aotian? Stop it, kid, step aside."

"In terms of impressiveness, Great Compassion can utterly crush Smiling Dagger, okay?"

Jiang Xiao was speechless. What was all this about? What was there to discuss? How could this send him back to the trending searches?

Jiang Xiao looked at the piles of comments tagging him and a large number of private messages, all wanting to officially name the tenth move. Were these people just bored?

"Dong! Dong! Dong!" Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue were sitting and playing with their phones when they heard a knocking sound on the window next to them.

Turning his head, he saw Xia Yan carrying her bag, a look of joy on her face, excitedly tapping on the glass.

*Click!*

Jiang Xiao raised his hand and took a photo…

Xia Yan was startled, wrinkled her nose at Jiang Xiao, and then ran in happily, plopping down next to Han Jiangxue, feeling rather pleased with herself. It seemed she had done very well on the exam.

Xia Yan grabbed Han Jiangxue's lemonade, tilted her head back, and drank most of it in one go, wiping her mouth and exhaling contentedly.

Han Jiangxue glared at Xia Yan and said, "Finished the exam?"

"Huh?" Xia Yan blinked her eyes. "Ah!"

Jiang Xiao chuckled and said, "Little Jiangxue means, can we stop indulging you from now on?"

"Uh…" Xia Yan awkwardly scratched her hair, smiled apologetically, and gently bumped Han Jiangxue's shoulder. "You don't know how good you look when you're gentle. Keep it up?"

Han Jiangxue glared at Xia Yan again.

Xia Yan had been exercising her privilege as a high school student. Han Jiangxue warmed milk for her every night, brought her dried fruit, helped her with her homework, discussed meals with Aunt Zhou every day, made her some palatable food, and had to call her three times to get her out of bed in the morning, which Xia Yan did reluctantly.

Jiang Xiao was a little envious, but Jiang Xiao believed that Xia Yan's good days were coming to an end. If she dared to sleep in again, Han Jiangxue could fry her with a bolt of lightning.

Han Jiangxue said softly, "Let's go back quickly. We have a train tonight, and we can't delay the team assessment tomorrow."

"Mm-hmm." Xia Yan nodded repeatedly, carefully hooking her arm around Han Jiangxue's arm. Even though her exam wasn't completely over, and she could still exercise her privilege for one more day, Xia Yan was already cowering...

Everyone went home to pack, and called Li Weiyi, who was being lovey-dovey with Li Qingmei. Li Qingmei was a normal social examinee, and had finished all her subjects on the 8th, waiting at home for her college entrance exam results.

Finally, the exam was over. Li Weiyi and Li Qingmei were living carefree and happy lives.

Jiang Xiao didn't know until he asked that the two of them had gone fishing all day yesterday.

But it was said that they didn't catch a single fish. In the end, they went to the market to buy fish and ate dinner with both sets of parents at home.

The situation between the two families was truly enviable. Just after graduating from high school, both sets of parents were sitting at the table, drinking and laughing.

"Little Pi, Little Pi! Long time no see!" Li Qingmei was still that boisterous Beijiang girl. She had come to the train station to see Li Weiyi off, and when she saw Jiang Xiao, she couldn't help but hug him and ask for a blessing.

Was Jiang Xiao the kind of person to be so casual?

So... he dragged Li Qingmei to a quiet, empty corner, and then gave her a blessing.

This was the train station, with a sea of people. So many people were watching. Qingmei-jie, weren't you ashamed?

When Jiang Xiao and the radiant Li Qingmei came out of the corner, Xia Yan gently patted Li Weiyi on the back and sighed.

That sigh was just too knowing!

Li Weiyi didn't want to get on the train to Guanlin to participate in the team assessment at that moment.

Xia Shiqi looked like he had caused trouble, and hurriedly clasped his hands together and begged Li Qingmei repeatedly.

Li Qingmei smiled and glared at Xia Yan, then hugged Li Weiyi and kissed him hard on the cheek before pushing him onto the train.

Jiang Xiao finally understood that the two of them hadn't gone fishing yesterday, but had gone to abuse the fish.

On the morning of June 10th, everyone got off the train.

In the morning, they went directly to the competition venue to register, and the examiners were already waiting at the venue.

Everyone was confident, so they didn't rest too much. Jiang Xiao cast a few blessings, making everyone energetic and radiant.

After equipping the miniature camera equipment, everyone took their weapons and prepared themselves.

In addition to a group of judges and examiners outside the venue, there was also a proctor accompanying the team into the armory. The significance of this proctor was to ensure the safety of the students. However, this team didn't need him to protect them.

What was even more interesting was that this proctor, named Mo Mo, was a loyal fan of the Jiangbin No. 1 High School champion team.

Before entering the armory, when he and the other teachers were inspecting the team's equipment, he whispered a request to take a group photo with everyone.

Xia Yan immediately said there was no problem!

In the subsequent assessment, Teacher Mo also had his eyes opened. This team wasn't here to take the exam, but to earn money.

Especially Han Jiangxue, with her Chain Lightning, whether it was a species of Ape-ghosts or a species of Savages, all of them were paralyzed, fell to the ground, and died violently.

There was a reason why mages were called kings. Some mages' output was truly explosive.

At least until they encountered the Ape-ghost King, Han Jiangxue, such a Galaxy Overlord, could be described as God-slaying Gods and Buddha-slaying Buddhas in the armory.

Perhaps, only the Ape-ghost King, with its extremely high physical strength, could cause trouble for Han Jiangxue.

Jiang Xiao was overjoyed, busily collecting Star Beads, stuffing them into his pockets one handful after another.

Was he collecting Star Beads?

No, he was collecting money!

Even more so, he was collecting Platinum Yearning and Dawn!

He kept the Savage Witch Star Beads for his own use, and exchanged the Savage Warlock Star Beads for money.

A Savage Star Bead was worth 600, and an Ape-ghost Star Bead was worth 3500!

Was there anything more enjoyable in this world than counting money?

Han Jiangxue's Little Firemen played a huge role. Although Han Jiangxue could manage this group of Little Firemen herself, she still summoned a giant Flame Puppet as a helper.

This group of Flame Puppets were sent out by their master to scout the way, and would hop back within a certain period of time. The direction from which fewer Flame Puppets returned was the direction the team would head.

Because these Flame Puppets, who were causing trouble everywhere, were either slapped out by the enemy or shot to nothingness by themselves…

The group farmed the map with extremely high efficiency. In the midst of unrestrained killing, the group really did encounter an Ape-ghost King.

However, the species led by this Ape-ghost King was a small species, and the score wasn't the highest.

The group discussed with the accompanying Teacher Mo, and after consulting the examiner group outside the venue, they allowed the team to continue searching for the next Ape-ghost species.

Everyone was wearing imaging equipment on their heads, and there was evidence left and uploaded in real time, so there was no need to worry.

Since the examiners had allowed it, after a series of cooperation, the team directly killed the Ape-ghost King and the small species it led, leaving nothing behind.

Finally, as the Ape-ghost King was milked dizzy by Jiang Xiao and then blown into the Shattered Space by Han Jiangxue, the group gained another Gold-quality Ape-ghost King Star Bead, and sixteen Ape-ghost Star Beads were obtained.

After the battle, Jiang Xiao hurriedly said to the proctors, "It's settled, this doesn't count. We're going to find a fiercer Ape-ghost King and a larger Ape-ghost species. Our Xia Yan is very ambitious. If we're going to do it, we're going to do it big."

Whether it was the accompanying teacher or the external proctors, looking at Jiang Xiao shamelessly farming money, they all had the urge to slap him to death...