Chapter 1 Hotel Room

Chang'an City, a standard room in the hotel designated for competition participants.

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

"Brother Li... is being in love really more important than sleeping?" Jiang Xiao, wearing only his underwear, clutched a white comforter, sound asleep.

Ever since he checked into the hotel and took a refreshing shower, he had collapsed on the bed and hadn't gotten up since.

A day and a night had passed, and Jiang Xiao, who was sleeping soundly, probably due to his restored physical condition, was finally awakened by the vibration of his phone, hence the scene just now.

Li Weiyi had also woken up not long ago. He held his phone, his expression extremely interesting, and said, "It's not just your childhood sweetheart, uh, of course, there's also information from your childhood sweetheart."

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

The series of sounds irritated Jiang Xiao. He finally opened his eyes and looked at Li Weiyi on the other bed, saying, "Why are you talking so incoherently?"

Li Weiyi turned to look at Jiang Xiao and said, "Turn on your phone, you probably have even more messages than I do."

Jiang Xiao was slightly stunned, then his eyes lit up, and a sense of unrealistic fantasy arose in his heart!

Jiang Xiao's Adam's apple bobbed, and he said foolishly, "It's not... it couldn't be that we made it to the rematch, right? The results are out?"

Li Weiyi muted the vibration, rubbed his curly hair, lay on the bed, and closed his eyes, looking like he was going back to sleep.

Jiang Xiao: ???

Brother Li,

You look like a handsome prince when you sleep, but you're so cheap when you keep me in suspense~

Jiang Xiao jumped out of bed in his underwear and searched for a long time before finally finding his phone.

Turned it on, waited...

Half a minute later, as expected, there was a barrage of messages.

Jiang Xiao took his phone, walked over to Li Weiyi, turned up the volume, and placed it next to Li Weiyi's pillow.

Li Weiyi: "......"

Ha!

I knew it,

What awakens the prince is not the princess's kiss, but scam text messages from all over the world!

If necessary, bank loan reminders and utility bills can have the same effect.

In the overlapping mass of text messages and WeChat messages, Jiang Xiao seemed to see his second brother, Zhu Wu's WeChat: "Jiang Xiaopi, I love you."

Uh... did I see that wrong?

Sensing Li Weiyi's resentful gaze, Jiang Xiao picked up his phone and also muted it. The messages were popping up one after another, and he couldn't even read them, so he just threw it aside.

Jiang Xiao thought for a moment, looked up at the clock on the wall, and saw that it was 9 o'clock. It should be 9 o'clock in the morning, right?

Jiang Xiao pulled open the curtains and looked outside. Yes, it was daytime, 9 o'clock in the morning.

Did I sleep for almost a day?

Tsk tsk...

Jiang Xiao closed the curtains again, turned on the TV, turned down the volume, climbed back into bed, and kept changing channels.

Frequent appearances of other-dimensional spaces in the White Mountain Range of the Northwest?

Frequent battles in the Northwest, with large numbers of troops heading to support?

The snow has cleared the northern sky, and the horses are returning! Triumphant return of the army! Triumph!

"The National High School League preliminary round came to a successful conclusion yesterday..." Jiang Xiao, wrapped in the blanket, paused slightly. On this news channel, a male host was reporting the news, and next to his head was a picture of an ancient imperial tomb, with even an ancient military army.

Seeing the curvy zombie lady, Jiang Xiao also remembered the Xingzhu (star bead) of the ancient martial arts archer that he had exchanged for from the Cai Nan team yesterday.

Before the end of yesterday's competition, Jiang Xiao asked Xiong Chumo for help, hoping to exchange the Xingzhu of the ancient martial arts general for the other party's Xingzhu of the ancient martial arts archer. Xiong Chumo very kindly agreed to Jiang Xiao's request.

After exchanging for the Xingzhu of the ancient martial arts archer, Jiang Xiao now had 11 Xingzhu of the ancient martial arts archer. If he really wanted to learn archery, he would have some room to maneuver.

No, it still seemed to be lacking a bit.

First, absorb 1 and embed the Xingji (star technique) in the star chart.

The Xingzhu of the ancient martial arts archer was of gold quality, but the Xingji contained within were of silver quality, so another 1 would be able to upgrade all four Xingji to gold quality.

Then... the remaining 9 Xingzhu could upgrade the four archery Xingji to gold 9, just 1 point short of platinum.

Speaking of which, all of this was on the premise that Jiang Xiao monopolized these 11 Xingzhu of the ancient martial arts archer.

Li Weiyi didn't even need to take the exam, and he accompanied everyone into the ancient imperial tomb to risk their lives. How could he not share the rewards with him?

This Xingzhu of the ancient martial arts archer was considered one star with four skills, with four attributes: ice, fire, poison, and mental attacks. It sounded very good and tempting.

Not enough star slots, use basic skills to make up for it?

Jiang Xiao believed that he could easily unlock "Archery Mastery." For someone like him with an introspective star chart, talent wasn't particularly important for learning any human skill.

Of course, it would be best to have talent. Jiang Xiao could train and improve on his own.

If he really didn't have the talent, then he would use skill points to brute force it!

Without saying more, gold-quality "Archery Mastery" would be enough for Jiang Xiao to reach the level of hitting the bullseye from a hundred paces, right?

But since he wanted to output, could these four types of arrows have a decisive impact on the battle, or even change his fate against the heavens?

Jiang Xiao was a little troubled, but after all, he was still reluctant to part with his star slots.

Oh well, whatever, I've already exchanged for it, so I'll keep it for now.

There are only three other-dimensional spaces like the ancient imperial tomb in the world, and they are all in Chang'an City. They are not open to the public on weekdays, so getting one now is a win.

As for the Xingzhu of the ancient martial arts soul, Jiang Xiao wasn't too interested in it.

After all, this Xingji had very high requirements for the surrounding environment and was very restrictive.

The bones could only grow on the bodies of ancient martial soldiers, and the bone shield, bone wall, and bone prison could only be used with corpses all over the ground.

"Hundreds of participating teams showed their unique abilities, providing us with a gluttonous feast!" Jiang Xiao opened his eyes wide, and a picture appeared on the TV.

Jiang Xiao's face darkened. Top three!?

There were only eight teams in the rematch in total, and one picture could fit them all, but you still had to divide it into several pictures to broadcast the news?

"You can turn up the volume," Li Weiyi's voice suddenly came over.

Jiang Xiao turned his head: "Didn't you already know the results?"

Li Weiyi: "I'll watch it with you again."

Jiang Xiao: "......"

Li Weiyi praised, "The first place is still Nan Yue Da Wan High School. As expected of the team led by this year's number one."

2320 points?

Jiang Xiao looked at the data below the team's score. These guys actually found 5 special weapons?

These 5 weapons are worth 1000 points! In other words, the ancient martial arts legions they killed should not have been as many as Jiang Xiao's team. It seemed that it was due to their style.

Second place: Emperor Capital No. 32 High School.

The team led by Ying Xi, the number one law student in the Emperor Capital, also achieved a score of 2280 points. Special weapons: 4.

Damn it, there are 18 floors in total, and only 18 special weapons in total, and the top two teams took half of them...

Jiang Xiao also realized a very serious problem. 5 weapons, 4 weapons, no matter what, it represented that these teams went down to the fifth underground floor, past the "threshold" of the fifth floor.

So, how did these teams go down safely?

Could it be that we paved the way for them?

We made things big, the black hand didn't dare to act, or the black hand was solved, so other teams went down unimpeded?

Then my shares should be included in your weapon points.

......

Third place: Hai Su Normal University Affiliated High School.

Star student, the team led by Wenren Mu, scored 2150. Special weapons: 1.

Jiang Xiao was dumbfounded when he saw the composition of this score. He couldn't criticize them, and he really had to admire them.

This team only took 1 special weapon, which means that the remaining 1950 points were earned by killing!

Are these guys from Hai Su Province so violent!? How explosive must their output be!?

Jiang Xiao suddenly realized that he had encountered this Wenren Mu on the third floor. He was the short-haired guy with glasses who calmly put the steel gun into his storage space, so... that was the only special weapon they captured?

Jiang Xiao turned his head and looked at Li Weiyi face to face. No one wanted to meet this year's third place, right?

Anyway, Jiang Xiao would rather fight Little Yin Flower than fight the Thunder Mages.

As the picture on the TV screen changed, Jiang Xiao saw a familiar team name.

Fourth place: Jinmen Nankai High School!

Total score of 2080, 2 special weapons, but in the score composition behind, 400 points were gray. It was not classified as Xingzhu such as ancient martial arts archers, generals, or war spirits, nor was it classified as Xingzhu of ancient martial soldiers.

What does this mean?

Gray? Why is the source not specified?

Fifth place: Emperor Capital Dun Guang High School

Total score of 2070. Special weapons: None.

In the score composition, Jiang Xiao saw 760 points of gray scores.

Jiang Xiao suddenly realized that fighting was not prohibited in the competition, and Xingzhu and weapons could be snatched!

Sixth place: Zhe Dong Tu Shan No. 1 High School.

Total score of 1980. Special weapons: None. Gray score...

Jiang Xiao had already stopped looking at the gray scores, because these students were ranked sixth. According to the rematch rules, they would face a group of Thunder Mages led by Wenren Mu...

Wait, from Zhe Dong Province?

Wow!

Jiang Xiao suddenly realized that he might see two groups of Thunder Mages fighting each other!

Oh my gosh,

Just thinking about it is exciting!

The news picture changed again, seventh and eighth place.

"Holy crap!?" Jiang Xiao suddenly sat up from the bed, his eyes no longer on the seventh place!

Because in the eighth place, Jiang Xiao saw: Bei Jiang Jiangbin No. 1 High School!

Bei Jiang Province! Jiangbin No. 1 High School!

Total score of 1830. Special weapons: 1.

Eighth place!?

Made it to the rematch!?

It's exploding!!

The province that was jokingly called "participating only for a publicly funded trip"!

The province that has been eliminated in the first round for a full thirty-five years!

Today, these four children finally rectified their name! We are not participating for a publicly funded trip! We are simply here to eat mutton paomo (a Xi'an specialty)... cough cough.

Jiang Xiao knew why he was being bombarded with messages. He turned to look at the nightstand. The phone was on silent mode, but it was still constantly lighting up, as if many people were sending him messages and calling him.

From now on, I can also be called a "pioneer"!

You don't want me to go down to the fifth floor? You don't want me to find weapons?

Disrupt our rhythm and disturb our minds?

Forcibly increase the number of rescues for me!? Want to black me out?

Even if I only stay on the first three floors, I can still kill my way to the top eight!