Just having hung up the phone, Jiang Xiao received another call.

"Hmm?" Jiang Xiao looked at the phone number, a smile appearing on his face as he answered, "Good day, Principal Yang!"

"Good! Good! Little Pi, are you busy?" The concerned and courteous voice of Vice Principal Yang Chensan came through the phone.

Oh, that's right, the "Vice" should be dropped; he's the real principal now.

"Yes, yes, Principal, please speak," Jiang Xiao responded, equally polite. Over these years at the Imperial Capital Star Warrior University, Jiang Xiao could do pretty much whatever he wanted, and Principal Yang had taken care of him far too much.

On the other end of the line, Principal Yang said with a smile, "I won't take up too much of your time. I wanted to let you know that the school's graduation ceremony is on July 11th. If you can find the time, try to come back and take a look; consider it a conclusion to your university career."

"Uh..." Jiang Xiao scratched his head and said, "Principal, I haven't taken the exams yet, but my graduation thesis is already written..."

Principal Yang said, "Haha! Good, good! You don't need to take the exams; you've already handed in a perfect paper. I'm very satisfied, and not just me, but the people of the whole world are very satisfied."

Actually... it's a mutual issue.

Given Jiang Xiao's actions during his Star Warrior University career, and his current status, how could he possibly not get a diploma from the Imperial Capital Star Warrior University?

What is the Imperial Capital Star Warrior University for? To cultivate high-quality Star Warrior students!

What's the purpose?

To ensure that after graduation, students don't go astray, don't commit crimes, and contribute to society as Star Warriors!

And what is Jiang Xiao doing?

To put it bluntly, if "contribution" could be quantified, then in the dozens of years since the founding of the Imperial Capital Star Warrior University, no student could compare to Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao's graduation exam wasn't answered on paper, but in action!

Principal Yang: "By the way, the school is planning to have you, as the outstanding graduate representative of the Class of 2017, give a speech at the graduation ceremony. See if that's convenient for you?"

Jiang Xiao: "Uh..."

Principal Yang seemed to remember something, and added a word of caution: "You can say whatever you want, just be mindful of the style; don't be too unconventional."

Jiang Xiao: "Okay, Principal Yang, see you then..."

Hanging up the phone, Jiang Xiao hurriedly opened his contacts, found the ghostwriter's number, and dialed.

"Beep... beep..."

"Hello? Little Pi?" A slightly ethereal voice, very pleasant to hear, came from the other end of the phone. It was Xin Ai'an.

Jiang Xiao hurriedly said, "Little Xin, how's my thesis coming along? What's the progress?"

"Hehe." Xin Ai'an chuckled softly and said, "I've already finished writing it for you, and I'm still revising it. Are you really... that worried about me?"

Jiang Xiao had many classmates, but most of them were very busy. The only academic who was free was Xin Ai'an, who had gone home to open a flower shop.

A few days ago, after receiving Jiang Xiao's request for help, Xin Ai'an had readily agreed to be his ghostwriter.

Jiang Xiao chuckled, "Relax, relax! Of course I'm relaxed! By the way, what's our thesis about?"

Xin Ai'an asked, puzzled, "What? Are you really going to defend it?"

Jiang Xiao said, "Spoil them rotten; how would I have time to defend it? I'll just hand it in and be done with it."

"Oh..." Xin Ai'an began, "I looked at the questions and directions for the Imperial Capital Star Warrior University's graduation thesis.

The main title I chose is 'The Illnesses Caused by the Fusion of Alien Planets and Earth,' and the self-proposed subtitle is 'On the Mode of Interaction Between Star Warriors and Protected Civilians.'"

Jiang Xiao was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of the scene of Xin Ai'an protecting more than six hundred civilians on the alien planet.

"Yes, that's great! She has the right to speak on that!"

Jiang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Just be conventional, okay? Don't strive for merit, just avoid mistakes. Send it to me when it's finished."

"Mm... mm." Xin Ai'an thought for a moment, responded, and then hung up the phone.

On the laptop in front of her, a line of large characters caught her eye.

"Stupid kindness is worse than evil."

Xin Ai'an hesitated for a moment, repeatedly pressed the backspace key, and deleted the line.

"It's better to be conventional; after all, it's a thesis written for him; after all... his identity is different from hers."

Jiang Xiao simply didn't know what had happened in the tree fort back then!

At that time, Jiang Xiao himself had gone to the Central Plains to save Xie Yan, and Jiang Gong, who had remained in the tree fort, was also helping the tree fort soldiers to clear out the Ironwood Elves.

If Jiang Xiao knew what had happened, he would probably let Xin Ai'an go all out!

Damn it! The blind girl's whip didn't hit them enough!

She should have written about "What's the Most Comfortable Way to Whip People Who Don't Know How to be Grateful?"

......

At the same time, in the Calamity Shadow World, by the lake near the stone villa.

"Yes... oof~"

Jiang Xiao clenched his fist, a flash of excitement flitting across his face, replaced by an extremely uncomfortable expression of dry heaving.

On the lake not far away, the starmap on the chest of the aging Star emitted a dazzling light.

As the starmap on his chest infinitely aligned with his body shape, in the blink of an eye, a wizened, decrepit old man transformed into a tall, handsome, and elegant young talent.

The rejuvenated Star smoothed his jet-black short hair and looked at his slender fingers.

Tsk tsk, so delicate and tender...

Logically speaking, a melee fighter of this level should have several layers of calluses on their hands without special care from a medical Star Warrior, but after "rejuvenation," this guy's body was truly perfect!

As a surge of pure blue star power flowed, a semi-illusory butterfly knife pieced itself together by his hand, twirling lightly on his fingertips.

Unsurprisingly, the rejuvenated Star had risen in Europe, and his star techniques mostly came from Europe as well.

This seemingly illusory and somewhat dark shadow weapon should be from the Phantom Theater of Lancy.

Star Technique: Phantom Weapon!

With a thought from the rejuvenated Star, the shadow weapon turned into pure star-power blue.

Before he became a mecha, when he had a final battle with Jiang Xiao, he was holding a fencing sword of this very texture.

The Phantom Weapon had two forms that it could switch between.

It could be intermittent, unexpectedly delivering fatal blows to people, or it could be in physical form, which would increase the weapon's attack power.

During the final battle, the rejuvenated Star had swaggered around with a fencing sword in his hand, without making the sword transparent, presumably because he didn't take Jiang Xiao's team seriously.

Jiang Xiao obviously didn't like being looked down upon, so he killed the Star.

Yes, very reasonable~

As the rejuvenated Star played more and more elaborately, dots of star power gathered beside the butterfly knife dancing on the back of his hand, and two blue star-power butterflies actually appeared, twining around his wrist and flying...

Behind the rejuvenated Star, two illusory and dark wings faintly emerged, carrying him slowly into the sky.

Star Technique: Phantom Wings!

To this, Jiang Xiao had only four words of evaluation: Showy and useless!

Isn't it just a flying star technique? Why did he have to grow a pair of wings, looking like a dark angel... The key was that the rejuvenated Star was really handsome, and he looked good with those wings...

Under the deliberate control of the rejuvenated Star, the shadow wings that had unfolded gradually disappeared.

Although the wings were gone, the rejuvenated Star still stood high in the sky, but he had simply made the Phantom Wings transparent.

Watching the rejuvenated Star constantly experiment with his star techniques, Jiang Xiao, sitting by the lake, was also quite excited.

Another great mecha had come to the village!

He could be put into use!

The Star Extermination Stage Great Battle! The absolute leader of the Star Transformation Organization! Weren't they afraid?

It was just a pity...

Jiang Xiao also turned to look at the Star's wife, Elizabeth. Jiang Xiao had not yet successfully reverse-engineered her Star Transformation Weapon: the Cross.

Once this couple was ready, they could go out and cause trouble!

Jiang Xiao thought happily, comfortably lying on the rocking chair, looking at the thick book in his hand.

In fact, he had been studying this page for several days!

And in Jiang Xiao's eyes, this page was not all mysterious text symbols. He had already unveiled half of the mysterious veil.

Knowing the leopard from a glimpse of one spot, from the revealed pattern, Jiang Xiao knew that he was still looking at a human anatomy diagram.

Jiang Xiao clearly remembered what kind of text symbols Hopkins used to seal him.

And Jiang Xiao also remembered that the sealed text symbols were exactly the same.

There weren't many functional book pages in the third section of *The Chronicles of the Star Warrior*, only a mere 10 pages.

Maybe even fewer. In Jiang Xiao's known third-section human modification diagram, and the second-section star beast illustrated book in the middle, there were still three pages filled with mysterious text.

Jiang Xiao couldn't read those three pages; they might still belong to the second section, perhaps star beasts that Jiang Xiao had not yet unlocked.

Or they might belong to the third section, functional book pages; this was something Jiang Xiao couldn't currently determine.

And in these 10 pages, Jiang Xiao hadn't found the page with the unified text symbols, what made him even more confused was that the symbol appeared on many pages.

After carefully comparing them, Jiang Xiao simply found the two pages where the symbol appeared the most.

Yes, two pages.

These two pages both had 7 text symbols that sealed Jiang Xiao's star techniques. Coincidentally, Hopkins had thrown out 7 of these symbols when he sealed Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao chose one of the pages to study, and after careful reading, Jiang Xiao felt that there was a chance!

Before, Jiang Xiao couldn't see any pictures at all, but since he understood the jumbled text symbols from the perspective of sealing human star techniques, he had forcibly seen half a picture!

But... why only the lower body? What about the upper body?

How did he need to understand it to see the whole picture?

"Oof~" Jiang Xiao sat up from the rocking chair, subconsciously tilting his head to the side and vomiting a little. Layers of star power gathered into his body, but Jiang Xiao didn't pay attention to it at all, continuing to look at the page.

"First of all, I have to make one thing clear: I believe. I am a new convert to *The Chronicles of the Star Warrior*, and a very devout one at that," Jiang Xiao frowned, thinking and mumbling softly.

After clarifying the main idea, Jiang Xiao crossed his legs, propped his elbows on his knees, and held his chin in his palms: "Why can't I read this half-page? According to the understanding of sealing star techniques, I understood half a page; what's missing? Sealing star power?"

As Jiang Xiao thought, suddenly, two lines of text on the book in front of him transformed again, from "chicken scratch" into faint pictures!

But they didn't finalize, but rather the text and pictures intermingled, sometimes appearing, sometimes disappearing.

Jiang Xiao's eyes lit up. Correct direction?

Was it really about sealing the star power of Star Warriors?

As soon as Jiang Xiao thought of this, the two lines of text that had just transformed into a picture turned back into "chicken scratch" again.

Not only did this small section turn back into text, but the remaining half of the picture also had a faint tendency to turn back into text...

Jiang Xiao: ???

What does this mean?

Was I wrong again?

This damn...

"Can't seal star power! I was wrong! God! Virgin Mary! Immeasurable Heavenly Lord! Amitabha... it's not sealing star power, turn those two lines of symbols back for me..." Jiang Xiao hurriedly said, his mind racing.

The path of sealing might be correct in the general direction, but not accurate, which caused this awkward situation.

So what was it?

"Easy to learn, hard to master!"

One wrong idea, and the picture immediately disappeared...

But in fact, this was also a good thing; it was a timely correction of Jiang Xiao's wrong ideas and thoughts.

"So what exactly is it? What is consistent with the general direction of sealing?

Restricting a Star Warrior's star power? Completely destroying a Star Warrior? Turning a Star Warrior back into an ordinary person?

Restricting a Star Warrior's potential? Weakening a Star Warrior's strength?"

Just as ten thousand grass mud horses galloped in Jiang Xiao's heart, and thoughts flashed frantically in his mind, the book page in his hand suddenly burst out with amazing light!

Jiang Xiao: !!!

Piles of text symbols quickly scattered to both sides, and a human anatomy diagram was once again displayed in front of Jiang Xiao.

"Gulp." Jiang Xiao's Adam's apple bobbed.

This is... reducing a Star Warrior's potential, weakening a Star Warrior's strength?

That's too wicked, isn't it?

Yes, there are book pages that can improve a Star Warrior's strength and realm, so there should also be pages that weaken a Star Warrior's strength...

"Holy crap!!!" Jiang Xiao leaned back and lay on the rocking chair. Then, he hurriedly got up again and retched twice to the side...

Although nothing came out, Jiang Xiao still habitually wiped his mouth and looked at the book page in his hand.

And in this human modification diagram, the flow of star power lines was completely opposite to the path of improving a Star Warrior's strength and realm!

What the hell...

Am I poisonous again?

Before, I could kick people from the Star Sea into the Starry Sky Stage.

Now, I can drag people from the Starry Sky Stage back to the Star Sea Stage?

This wasn't simply weakening the total amount of a Star Warrior's star power, but a genuine physical weakening!

It was simply cutting off the fuel supply!

Reducing a Star Warrior's potential, weakening a Star Warrior's physical quality!

Xia Shan'hai had cultivated hard all his life to reach the peak of the Star Sea, and I could give him a reverse human modification diagram and directly drag Xia Shan'hai back to the Star River Stage?

Then he would have to charge from the Star River to the Star Sea again?

But... given Xia Shan'hai's age, could he still make it?

Xia Shan'hai knew what his Star Transformation Weapon was and had mastered the secret to entering the Star Sea Stage.

But physical quality and potential were a big problem. After entering the Star Sea again, those terrifying little thresholds of the early, middle, late, and peak stages of the Star Sea... Uncle Xia might not be able to cross them, right?

Well,

But it's not a big problem.

Isn't there a song that goes like this: "Whether you succeed or fail, life is heroic; if you fail, just start over..."

In the future, if anyone dares to act like a hero and talk about heroism in front of me, I'll just make them start over!

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiao couldn't help but shudder.

How vicious...

But I like it so much...