Chapter 1 The Forest Lake

In the Shadow of Calamity World, on the south side of the stone villa, by the forest lake.

Han Jiangxue stood quietly on the shore, watching the beautiful girl in the lake, familiar with manipulating her body.

The hospital gown and her slightly pale face added a touch of strange, morbid beauty to her.

The buoyancy provided by the lake water seemed to allow her to control her body better, and the droplets of water that appeared around her also indicated that she was using a Star Technique.

Sunlight poured down, shining on her wet, brown hair. As Martha slowly rose from the lake, their eyes met.

Martha smiled brightly and said, "You're adapting quickly."

Han Jiangxue's expression was complex, as if she wanted to say something, but hesitated.

The next moment, on either side of Martha, floating water droplets suddenly pieced together to form two water clones.

This Star Technique was called "Shattered Water Body." Although essentially water clones, they were similar to Jiang Xiao's Decoys. Each clone was identical to Martha, without any difference.

These platinum-quality water clones had amazing effects, but they still couldn't compare to Jiang Xiao's Decoys.

The water clones didn't have a Star Map, nor did they have any Star Techniques. Their strength lay in their extreme deception.

The Decoys were a "multi-core processor." Each Decoy was Jiang Xiao himself, capable of empathy and severing connections, forming its own entity.

But these water clones were manipulated by Martha's mind. She had the perspective of the water clones, but these clones were merely soulless puppets that had to be personally controlled by Martha.

Jiang Xiao didn't know what kind of painful training Martha had gone through. Back then, on the World Cup stage, Martha could even control up to three water clones, attacking Jiang Xiao simultaneously, and she did it flawlessly.

If Jiang Xiao were to control them, let alone three water clones, he wouldn't even be able to handle one.

In Han Jiangxue's eyes, two Marthas stood on either side of the main Martha, reaching out to help her wash her thick, curly brown hair.

"What's wrong?" Martha asked.

Han Jiangxue said, "You can control her body and use her Star Techniques."

"Mm..." Martha allowed the two water clones to wash her hair. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "Martha is dead. Her soul has been released. There's no Martha in this world anymore."

Han Jiangxue rolled her eyes at Martha with a smile and said, "That's what I told you back then."

"Eh?" Martha was stunned for a moment, then smiled embarrassedly and said, "I thought you were unhappy with what I was doing. Right, right, I remember now, that's what you said to comfort me back then."

Han Jiangxue nodded and continued, "My question was, you can do this to this soulless body, so can you do it to living people too?"

Martha thought for a moment and said, "To be honest, I'm not sure. When I was experimenting with the Mantle Star Map, I always used extremely weak golden-red candle flames. Then, I directly used this soulless body to experiment.

I can't just grab a random person to experiment on and use the Star Map to control their body. That's too inhumane.

The only thing I'm sure of is that it's harder to control a human body. When I experimented with the small candle flames, my main body was very relaxed and could do anything. But now that I'm controlling Martha... my main body is lying down."

As she spoke, the corners of Martha's mouth lifted slightly, and a hint of cruel light flashed in her bright, beautiful eyes. "Soon, there will be test subjects, I promise. If I can forcefully tear apart someone's soul, that would be very interesting, hehe."

"Mm..." Han Jiangxue breathed a soft sigh. With a different face, the "style" was completely different.

Han Jiangxue knew very well that the expression came from Jiang Xiao, but Martha's external conditions were too outstanding, especially those brown eyes.

The exact same smile that Jiang Xiao showed had a completely different feeling on these two faces.

With the help of the water clones, Martha, having washed her body, swam in the lake again. Already possessing water-based Star Techniques, she was even more at ease and had better control over her body.

It's worth mentioning that Jiang Xiao was controlling Martha's body, and not simply creating another Jiang Xiao, another "brain," like the Decoys.

Everyday actions were fine, but if it was during a battle, Jiang Xiao had basically determined that either he or Martha would act, while the other would be AFK.

But it didn't matter. Jiang Xiao believed that these were things that could be slowly adapted to and trained, and one day, he would be able to do "both at the same time."

Han Jiangxue asked softly, "You said that there will be test subjects soon, what do you mean?"

Martha's head emerged from the water, and she said, "I'm pursuing a criminal. I believe there will be results soon."

As she spoke, Martha stretched out her fair hand, and a Shattered Water Blade slowly pieced together in her cool fingers.

It was a combat knife. Don't be fooled by the fact that it was made of water, it was terrifyingly sharp.

When Jiang Xiao brought back Martha's body, the Inner Vision Star Map hadn't been closed and adjusted yet, so Jiang Xiao had explored the Star Beads and Star Techniques in Martha's brain, knowing what her skills were.

Under Leiana's careful cultivation, this Martha's Star Technique combination was extremely reasonable and frighteningly high in quality.

The only thing Jiang Xiao felt was a pity was that she didn't have a Star Pet.

Swish...

Martha in the lake suddenly turned into a puddle of water and merged into the calm lake surface.

The next moment, next to Han Jiangxue, layers of water droplets pieced together, and a Martha flashed out.

She raised her elbow and propped it on Han Jiangxue's shoulder, and said, "This height is exactly the same as mine, there's no change in perspective, pretty good.

When I was controlling the golden-red candle flames, I was going crazy, no neck, couldn't raise my head, all I could see were other people's calves."

Han Jiangxue was still a little uncomfortable with a foreign girl talking to her in such an intimate way.

She subconsciously tilted her body and took a step to the side and said, "You can only control one body?"

"Yes, that's right." Martha straightened her body. A breeze blew, causing the person who had just come out of the water to shiver.

She waved her hand, and a pale red star slowly rose.

Then, the temperature in the lakeside area rose a little. The pale red star in mid-air was like a small sun, but it wasn't as dazzling as the sun.

Martha said, "This is a rare non-combat Star Technique in Martha's Star Technique list, from the Fairytale Forest."

As she spoke, Martha stretched out her arm and reached for the star in mid-air.

The pale red star seemed to sense the call, and quickly flew over, following Martha's arm, to her body trunk, and then rotated around her body.

Martha immediately felt much warmer.

Han Jiangxue asked curiously, "What else?"

Martha said, "Perception-type Sea Demon's Intent, silver quality.

Purification-type Sea Demon's Cleanse, platinum quality; war cry-type Sea Burning Roar, gold quality; soft control-type Sea Burning Chaos, gold quality.

And the matching Sea Burning Bloodline, agility-type, the main attack direction is underwater flexibility and agility, the effect is worse on land, it's a passive Star Technique, platinum quality."

Han Jiangxue's expression was a little strange as she listened to a bunch of Star Techniques she had never heard of.

As she spoke, Martha stretched out her hand, the Shattered Water Blade piecing together again. She picked up the combat knife, aimed it at the sky, and a water mist blade aura stabbed out, with bursts of Star Power surging, quite rich.

Martha held the water-made combat knife in front of her and said, "Shattered Water Blade, platinum quality, Shattered Water Edge, gold quality."

As she spoke, the blood in her body surged, and droplets of blood seeped out of her pores, gathering little by little and flowing onto the Shattered Water Blade, "Blood Frenzy, platinum quality, using one's own boiling blood to smear on the weapon, giving the weapon a powerful tearing ability.

Just now, in the Fairytale Forest, Little Red Riding Hood's light red star and dark red star, warmth and speed increase, are both gold quality."

Martha continued, "There's also Shattered Water Body and Shattered Water Blink that I just showed. Those are water clone and water teleport Star Techniques, both are platinum quality."

Han Jiangxue: "..."

The next moment, Han Jiangxue felt a layer of mist rising over the quiet forest lakeside. Beside her, Martha's intoxicating voice came again, "Sea Dark Mist, platinum quality, and..."

Martha clenched her fist and waved it forward heavily!

"Buzz..."

A melodious and mysterious sound suddenly sounded. Before the mist was thick, Han Jiangxue only saw a semi-transparent, eerie ghost ship sailing past and rushing into the calm lake water.

"Sea Dark Ship, platinum quality." Martha snorted coldly and said, "As expected of someone cultivated with a Star Transformation cultivation method, just one silver quality perception Star Technique, and a bunch of other gold and platinum ones!

You know what? Martha's 16 Star Techniques are even more reasonable and higher in quality than the Star Technique combination of Leiana, a formal Star Transformation member!"

Han Jiangxue looked at the afterimage of the Sea Dark Ship floating on the lake surface, which refused to dissipate for a long time, and said softly, "Her mother cultivated her, probably just for the possession, of course she would do her best and give her everything."

"What a pity." Martha sighed and said, "She has teleport, but she doesn't have space-wrapping Star Techniques. This shortcoming must be made up for after I control this body and reach the Star Sea."

Han Jiangxue was secretly amazed as she listened to the words "gold" and "platinum," but... the stronger Martha was, the better, right?

At this time, this body already belonged to Jiang Xiao, didn't it?

He not only got a brand new body, but also a Star Warrior with a Star Technique configuration that was world-class!

Poor Leiana, the results of a lifetime of careful cultivation had been intercepted by Jiang Xiao like this...