Chapter 179 The Big School Recruitment

Principal Yan arrived at the perfect time. With leaders from all sides gathering in Chang'an City, Jiang Xiao's team didn't offend anyone under Principal Yan's hospitality and coordination, and were even treated quite well.

The leaders from the Bei Jiang Province Star Association were the most practical, preparing three star beads for each of the four team members.

Jiang Xiao now realized that he wasn't here for the competition, but to stock up on goods. Or rather... to help Han Jiangxue stock up.

Perhaps because of the number of star slots, people naturally assumed, based on Jiang Xiao's combat performance, that all eight of his star slots were already filled with star techniques.

Regardless of how reasonable Jiang Xiao's current combination of star techniques was, it was basically impossible for him to advance to the Star River stage with such low aptitude, so...

The star beads given to Jiang Xiao by the Bei Jiang Province Star Association were actually a disguised gift to Han Jiangxue.

Another three star beads of the Fallen Shadow Witch. This time, Jiang Xiao's heart was very calm.

Because whether it was Resentment, Light of the Tides, or Voice of Silence, upgrading their quality required a large number of star beads. These few star beads weren't even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

Last time, after Jiang Xiao upgraded Resentment and Light of the Tides, he didn't absorb the remaining two Fallen Shadow Witch star beads. Added together, Jiang Xiao now had a total of five Fallen Shadow Witch star beads.

Maybe... he should let Han Jiangxue try?

What if she really absorbed Voice of Silence?

...

The leaders of the National Star Association invited everyone to join the National Star Warriors Association. Of course, Jiang Xiao and the others had no reason to refuse, after all, it was good to enjoy the shade under a big tree.

People from the admissions offices of some schools such as the Imperial Capital, Magic Capital, and Northwest Star Warrior also expressed their intentions and, on behalf of their respective schools, extended "trial training" invitations to Han Jiangxue.

The so-called trial training was equivalent to "guaranteed admission."

Like Li Weiyi, Han Jiangxue only needed to go to these schools for an internal examination, which was basically a formality, and then she could directly enroll.

She didn't need to take the unified college entrance examination; her admission quota was directly decided internally.

Facing the invitations from the schools she liked, Han Jiangxue didn't show too much excitement. She only thanked the teachers and politely responded that she wanted to concentrate on preparing for the National Competition for the time being, and would consider going to college after the competition.

The teachers immediately expressed their understanding and, after drinking happily with Principal Yan, it could be said that both hosts and guests were satisfied.

But Han Jiangxue wasn't happy.

Why?

Because... most of the trial training invitations only invited her.

For example, the Imperial Capital Star Warrior, one of the top schools in the country, was only willing to send an invitation to Han Jiangxue alone.

Jiang Xiao, Xia Yan, including Li Weiyi, who had already successfully "landed," were all ignored.

The children still had good manners and didn't show it at the dinner table, but after returning, Xia Yan's face was not very good.

Hai Tianqing led the team back to the two girls' room, preparing to give them a few words of advice before letting the students rest quickly, but he didn't expect...

"Bang!"

Xia Yan slammed the door shut. This carefree, crazy Xia Shiqi was indeed a little hurt in her pride.

Jiang Xiao and the others looked at each other, but didn't know how to comfort Xia Yan.

In general, no one from the super-first-class and first-class schools was willing to send Xia Yan an invitation.

She thought she performed very well. Although she was eliminated early in both matches, people who had actually watched the matches clearly knew that Xia Yan seized the opportunity and made the other side lose members every time. Her grasp of the battle situation was quite good.

What's more, Xia Yan's aptitude was here. 28 star slots could be described as a gift, were these schools really so awesome? Did they look down on people with even 28 star slots?

This was Xia Yan's tunnel vision. Any school would be scrambling to recruit 28 star slots, there was no doubt about that, but there were only so many guaranteed admission spots each year, and these schools were here to send invitations, not to recruit students uniformly.

In the category of "invitation to trial training," there were at least 800 young talents in this year's class, and in the Agile Warrior profession, Xia Yan didn't seem to be ranked at the top.

To give a simple example, although Liu Yang was defeated, compared to Xia Yan, people would mostly prefer Liu Yang and leave the few places to Liu Yang.

And this was just looking at the contestants in the competition, what about those students who didn't participate?

Han Jiangxue sat down next to Xia Yan and gently stroked Xia Yan's back.

Li Weiyi had originally felt a little complicated in his heart when he saw so many people from the school admissions offices, but now he felt much better, after all, most of the super-first-class schools didn't like him.

"Why are you even worse than Xiao Pi? He's two years younger than you, look at him, is he angry?" Han Jiangxue looked at Xia Yan, who was like a cat with its fur standing on end, and softly persuaded.

Jiang Xiao spoke up for Xia Yan, saying, "I can understand her feelings. We are bound together as a team to participate in competitions and exams. High school uses three years to let us accept the team, integrate into the collective, and tell us that the team is paramount, but when we leave high school and go to college, these people suddenly say that they don't look at the team, only at the individual."

Xia Yan raised her eyes to look at Jiang Xiao. These words really hit her heart.

Xia Yan didn't consider herself to be a slacker. She made great contributions to the team. Why couldn't those people see that?

At least Northwest Star Warrior University intended to let Jiang Xiao go to their school to participate in trial training. At least Jiang Xiao had a fig leaf, but Xia Yan...

"Alright," Jiang Xiao said cheerfully, "Look at the star beads that the Provincial Star Association gave you, and you'll be happy. Han Jiangxue, you go to school first, and we'll take the regular exams together. Isn't your score a sure thing?"

Xia Yan frowned and pondered for a while, finally suppressing the anger in her heart, and then looked at Jiang Xiao, concerned, "Then what about your grades?"

Jiang Xiao: ???

What do you mean what about my grades?

Who are you looking down on?

Han Jiangxue bit her lip, seemingly struggling in her heart, and said, "Why don't we go to Northwest Star Warrior together? They intend to let you go to trial training. The internal exam is much simpler than the unified college entrance examination, and the requirements for written test scores are not high. Xiao Pi, you should seize this opportunity."

For the first time, Han Jiangxue, who was so determined to go to Imperial Capital Star Warrior, let go and said that she would go to Northwest Star Warrior...

And Jiang Xiao just felt like someone was stabbing a knife into his heart.

Hai Tianqing looked at Jiang Xiao's uncomfortable appearance, but smiled helplessly.

Hai Tianqing was really helpless. From the distribution of star bead rewards to the recruitment of various schools, it was really one hurdle after another, and each hurdle was testing the students' unity.

The finals were about to begin, and at this time, he absolutely couldn't divert his attention.

These contestants were all half-grown children, which one wasn't young and vigorous? If Xia Yan was the kind of petty person, then how could this competition be fought?

Was this also a disguised test?

Regardless of whether they won or lost the competition, Hai Tianqing was prepared to make a suggestion to the competition organizers after the competition to avoid similar incidents from happening again. At least before the finals, the various schools shouldn't be allowed to contact the participating students privately.

Or... did the competition organizers originally have this rule, but these schools operated it? Taking advantage of the relationship of this group of people from the National Star Association and exploited loopholes?

Seeing that Xia Yan had temporarily let go of her knot, Jiang Xiao hurriedly changed the subject and looked at Han Jiangxue, saying, "What star bead rewards did the Provincial Star Association give you?"

"It is said to be the star bead of the Flame Puppeteer," Han Jiangxue took out three scarlet star beads, "Like the Flame Soul star bead, they are all from the Fire Source Mountains dimensional space in the Imperial Capital."

Li Weiyi was on the side, checking information with his mobile phone, and said, "This is a very powerful star bead, which can summon flame puppets."

In fact, Li Weiyi hadn't even checked the information yet, but he had already said it, which showed that his star science knowledge was quite solid.

Jiang Xiao saved a lot of trouble. He directly picked up a scarlet star bead, pretended to be amazed, and looked at it in front of his eyes. There were layers of fine particles constantly flowing within the scarlet star bead, which was very beautiful.

In fact, Jiang Xiao was already looking at his inner star map.

"Flame Puppeteer Star Bead (Gold Quality)

Has star techniques:

1. Flame Sprite Puppet: Summons 2 burning Flame Sprite Puppets, they can emit flames to damage enemies, or they can self-destruct, causing a painful blow to enemies.

The duration of the Flame Sprite Puppet is affected by the summoner's star power. Continuous emission of flames will also drain their bodies and accelerate their demise. (Silver Quality, Upgradable)

2. Flame Puppet: Summons 1 burning giant Flame Puppet, it has the characteristics of the Flame Sprite Puppet, and can help you summon Flame Sprite Puppets. (Gold Quality, Upgradable)

Whether to merge and absorb?"

Jiang Xiao blinked. Two star techniques?

This Flame Puppet is okay, but what the hell is this Flame Sprite Puppet?

Is the name so cute?

Jiang Xiao's mind flashed back to the scene in the ancient imperial mausoleum during the preliminary round. The first time everyone saw the Imperial Capital Alliance acquire special weapons, the ground was full of bouncing little firemen...

This group of happy little fools only had limbs and a head, no facial features, and couldn't distinguish between front and back.

They often drained themselves because of emitting flames to attack their opponents, and they often bounced around, played well, but suddenly exploded and died.

Well, it does seem quite cute.