Chapter 169 New Year's Day Five

It was the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

While ordinary people were enjoying the festivities at home, visiting relatives, and playing mahjong, Jiang Xiao and Er Wei had already embarked on their journey to the snowy plains.

The Imperial Capital Star Warrior University would begin classes on February 17th. By Jiang Xiao's calculations, he would spend about two weeks in the snowy plains.

Two weeks was neither short nor long for other people.

But for Jiang Xiao, it would be an extremely painful two weeks.

Jiang Xiao had recalled his previous experience of slaughter in the Snowy Plains Holy Ground more than once, and he was quite certain that he would be in the same state this time.

Constantly wielding his blade and slaughtering.

When fresh lives were no longer regarded as lives, when combat actions became mechanical slaughter, when your heart and eyes were filled with numbness, it was difficult to judge whether this was a correct training method.

The Night Watchers outside the Holy Ground didn't express much when Er Wei and Jiang Xiao arrived again, as they were quite familiar with the two.

The Night Watchers here were especially in awe of Jiang Xiao. They remembered the last time, Jiang Xiao was repeatedly dragged back to the tent, rested for a while, and then went out to kill again with his blade.

The Night Watchers would not question the training methods of the Zhu Guang (Chasing the Light) elites, and they had their own judgments about this situation.

Obviously, the White Ghosts and White Ghost Witches did not pose much of a problem for this Night Watch apprentice, but they did not think that Jiang Xiao's behavior was toying with weaklings. They believed that this was a tempering of his mental state and will.

The Night Watchers around the Holy Ground were also very clear that this child was said to be a Night Watch apprentice, but after graduation, he should be a Zhu Guang. After all, their Night Watchers did not have such high and strict standards.

Perhaps, after this child graduated, he would receive a higher level of secret mission.

Jiang Xiao didn't care about others' speculation or thoughts. There was nothing wrong with his identity, and there was nothing wrong with coming here to train.

At this time, he was holding a giant blade, stepping on the Ring of Yearning, and slaughtering one White Ghost after another.

The chaotic battlefield was also a honing of his skills.

As for why Jiang Xiao had the Ring of Yearning under his feet, it was because...

Five streams of Light of Reversal suddenly shot out from Jiang Xiao's body!

The five streams of Light of Reversal were like five tails, connected to the nearest five White Ghosts.

The White Ghost species were all Bronze rank. Maybe it was a little difficult for Jiang Xiao to infuse Silver-ranked creatures to the Gold rank, but with Jiang Xiao's current "half-step Galaxy" Star Power, it was very easy to infuse Bronze-ranked creatures to advance in rank.

The Star Power in Jiang Xiao's body decreased rapidly, but as he slashed with his blade, strands of Star Power rose again! With life shared with the other five White Ghosts, he didn't need to worry.

Platinum Yearning and Platinum Dawn really improved Jiang Xiao too much.

Er Wei became the crowd controller. Under normal circumstances, she would not attack. Once she found that a White Ghost of upgraded rank was trying to run out of the Holy Ground, she would immediately stop it.

And the characteristics of the White Ghosts made this situation rare.

Usually, she just stood behind Jiang Xiao, in the corner protected by Jiang Xiao in the Holy Ground, quietly watching Jiang Xiao fight.

Her eyes were cold and sharp. At the beginning, her gaze made Jiang Xiao feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.

As the battle progressed, Jiang Xiao had gotten used to her gaze.

She was like the Demon King behind the scenes, watching Jiang Xiao become more and more taciturn day by day,

Watching him covered in the blood of sin,

Watching him become more and more cruel and numb.

She was also watching this warrior, step by step, into the abyss.

Jiang Xiao guarded a corner of the Holy Ground, slaughtered five Silver-rank White Ghosts, and searched for the White Ghost Witches that came with the crowded tide.

He found that the White Ghost Witches were temporarily far away from him, so he directly opened the Calamity Shadow Territory. In an instant, a group of White Ghosts poured into the Calamity Shadow Territory, and Jiang Xiao immediately closed the door.

In the Calamity Shadow Territory, the 28 Gold-rank creatures also had a source of food.

No, to be precise, there were 26. While Jiang Xiao and Er Wei didn't know, two Savage Witches had already died in the Calamity Shadow Territory.

The physical quality of the Savage Witches was still a little worse than that of the Lava Ghost Witches. In this crowded space of one hundred square meters, two Savage Witches had met with misfortune.

In the past three days, Xiao Xiao had also experienced a major setback in its "horse life". After all, the Calamity Shadow Territory was still too small. As the god in charge of this place, Xiao Xiao also had situations where it couldn't take care of everything.

Jiang Xiao outside the door was fighting all the time, and Xiao Xiao inside the door was not having an easier time. It could empty the entire Calamity Shadow Territory in an instant.

But it couldn't do that. It had accepted its master's orders and could only be patient and constantly adjust and weigh the three forces.

More than a dozen White Ghosts suddenly poured in, causing the three warring factions in the Calamity Shadow Territory to pause. Then, they very rarely reached a temporary truce, howling and rushing towards these Bronze-rank White Ghosts.

Xiao Xiao hadn't eaten for a few days. It also raised its hooves and shattered the chest of a White Ghost, then carried the White Ghost back to its corner and quietly ate its meal.

Jiang Xiao and Er Wei hadn't entered the Calamity Shadow Territory for three days, and they didn't know the situation inside for the time being, but when Er Wei entered it again, Xiao Xiao probably had a lot to explain to Er Wei.

Well, if it could talk.

In the Snow Plains Holy Ground, Jiang Xiao played a giant blade with the effect of a close-fitting dagger. Every slash, every small wrist turn, a slight sidestep, a small probe, was like a teaching movement.

This silent but extremely perfect picture made Er Wei mesmerized.

Yes, Jiang Xiao misunderstood her.

She may have had the intention of supervision, but more than that, she was enjoying it.

This was a visual feast, especially for a pure soldier like her. Such skills were a means of survival.

Sometimes, she even thought that maybe she should ask Jiang Xiao for advice on the skills of the giant blade.

Er Wei had a high combat IQ, explosive athletic talent, and a good understanding of cold weapons.

But to be honest, judging from the two skills she had learned so far, her attainments in archery were much higher than in spears.

Er Wei was self-aware.

She knew that she was only making up for her poor spear skills with her explosive physical attributes and powerful Star Techniques. Perhaps, she was not suitable for using a spear. Maybe, the giant blade was also a good choice.

That giant blade was long enough, heavy enough, and heavy enough.

Jiang Xiao had now entered another height, but before that, the style of the giant blade was wide open and unparalleled in bravery.

Suitable for infantry, and also suitable for generals on horseback.

Er Wei's eyes flickered slightly, her arms crossed in front of her chest, leaning against the wall of the Holy Ground hill, and made a secret decision in her heart.

Jiang Xiao was not fighting alone. In addition to Er Wei's suppression, there was another him, who was in the upper dimension of the Snowy Plains at this time.

This "him" should be called "it."

In the mysterious upper dimension of the Snow Plains, a tall White Ghost Witch was walking in a silent snow forest.

A White Ghost Witch with a height of 184 could be called tall, but here, it was like an elementary school student.

Let's call it... Jiang Xiaowu for now.

The White Ghost Witch transformed by Jiang Xiao suddenly stopped, and shouted loudly at the broken trees in the distance: "Aaaah!"

Dozens of meters away, a huge White Ghost stared with scarlet eyes, drooling disgustingly, a giant hand holding a broken tree trunk, constantly kneading it, crushing the tree into pieces.

Obviously, the White Ghost's heart was struggling, it was hesitating!

Jiang Xiaowu opened its mouth again, making a fierce look: "Ah!!!"

I,

Jiang Xiaowu,

Super fierce!

The White Ghost shrank its neck slightly. When a giant beast with a height of more than three meters and a body like a hill made such a timid action, it would give people an extremely contradictory feeling.

The White Ghost finally turned its head and ran away.

Jiang Xiaowu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, because it knew that it couldn't outrun this level of White Ghost.

When it first entered here, Jiang Xiaowu had made a mistake. It tried to avoid the White Ghost's sight and avoid its route.

But contrary to its wishes, the more it avoided, the bolder the White Ghost became. Until the end, it was ruthlessly torn apart by the White Ghost, turning into little starlight and disappearing with the wind.

Now, Jiang Xiaowu had found the secret to survival. Even if it was now a Bronze-quality White Ghost Witch, as long as it had this skin, it could still scare away Gold-rank White Ghosts!

But what it had to be careful of was not to run into other White Ghost Witches in the upper dimension.

If a fake really met the real deal, then it would be waiting to be torn apart.

With this skin to protect it, Jiang Xiaowu could barely start its investigation.

Unfortunately, Jiang Xiaowu had been wading through mountains and rivers in the upper dimension, heading west for so long, and still hadn't found any traces of its predecessors' survival.

The Snow Plains environment here was better than that of the lower dimension. Heavy snow and strong winds were rare, and compared to the dark lower Snow Plains, the Snow Plains here were in the twilight hours.

Jiang Xiaowu could see the faint orange color on the horizon.

It simply regarded that as the direction of the setting sun. Well... although, there seemed to be no day and night here.

Like this,

Jiang Xiaowu followed the orange light on the horizon,

Walking step by step, stumbling in the Snow Plains, leaving footprints of varying depths.

Slowly, it walked out of this continuous snow forest and stood on the cliff.

Jiang Xiaowu held a large tree with one hand, and it looked up slightly, looking at the beautiful sunset clouds in the sky.

This road to the west,

It didn't know when it would end.

Jiang Xiaowu sighed softly, and carved a "Night" on the tree with its sharp claws.

Jiang Xiaowu left this neat and square character, and buried its head to continue on its way, but found that under the distant cliff, a group of creatures appeared from the snow forest, looking up at it.

Jiang Xiaowu swallowed its saliva. In that small tribe, Jiang Xiao saw a thin and tall creature: a White Ghost Witch!