Chapter 422 Mid-Month Frenzy for Monthly Tickets

"Wow! Crap! Hiss... Awesome!" Jiang Xiao was covered in sweat, with tears welling up in his eyes.

He held long wooden chopsticks, clamping a piece of tripe glistening with red oil, blowing on it incessantly.

Jiang Xiao cried. Yes, this wasn't a figure of speech, but a real occurrence.

Jiang Xiao was crying from the spiciness.

The first bite was both numbing and spicy, the second made his forehead sweat, and by the third, Jiang Xiao couldn't hold back the tears...

In fact, when ordering, Jiang Xiao had specifically asked for a medium-spicy broth. However, the waiter, clearly battle-hardened, heard their out-of-town accents and solemnly advised them: "Please, you must order mild."

Listen to people's advice and you'll eat your fill, right?

Besides, the waiter was a professional...

So Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue ordered mild. Afterward, Jiang Xiao expressed extreme doubt about the definition of "mild" in Sichuan and Chongqing.

Han Jiangxue also picked up a slice of fatty beef. Seeing Jiang Xiao's mouth practically breathing fire, she couldn't help but smile. She took the beef slice from the red oil broth and placed it in the small circle in the center of the large pot, where there was a clear broth...

Han Jiangxue swished the meat in the clear broth, ate it, and couldn't help but nod secretly. Delicious?

Then, she saw Jiang Xiao wiping away tears as he ate and couldn't resist taking out her phone. Leaning against Jiang Xiao, she stretched out her arm and took a selfie.

Click!

The beautiful moment was recorded.

Hearing the sound, Jiang Xiao turned his head and quickly put down his chopsticks to snatch the phone. He absolutely couldn't let her post such an embarrassing picture!

Han Jiangxue dodged his arm, laughing. The frost on her face finally melted away, revealing the joyful expression a 19-year-old girl should have.

Jiang Xiao still couldn't grab the phone, which made him so angry that he ate another piece of tripe.

Hah!

So satisfying!

Han Jiangxue, also feeling a little guilty, handed Jiang Xiao the brown sugar rice cake Bingfen (ice jelly).

Jiang Xiao hurriedly took a sip, and regional cultural differences plunged him into confusion once again.

What happened to the ice jelly? Why was it warm...?

Jiang Xiao didn't dare say anything, didn't dare ask anything, but simply beckoned the waiter and ordered two bottles of ice-cold beer.

Jiang Xiao finally saw a familiar brand. It seemed that his hometown beer could be found all over the country.

Jiang Xiao swished tripe while browsing his phone.

Han Jiangxue's nose also began to show beads of sweat as she asked, "What are you doing?"

Jiang Xiao gasped and said, "It's too embarrassing. I'm going to learn a few local dialect phrases to use when we pay the bill later."

Han Jiangxue: "Huh?"

Jiang Xiao said, "How about the Xiangnan accent? I have a foundation in it. I can imitate Zhao Wenlong speaking Mandarin."

Han Jiangxue: "There are so many provinces in China, and you just happened to pick one that can handle spice."

Jiang Xiao grinned and snapped his fingers. "You've grasped the key point."

Han Jiangxue was slightly taken aback, then smiled and glared at Jiang Xiao. "Can't you be a little kinder?"

...

Meanwhile, in the upper dimension.

Bait Jiang Xiao looked at Zhang Songfu in astonishment and asked foolishly, "You were at the peak of the Star River Realm when you were fighting just now? You just advanced to the Star Sea Realm?"

Zhang Songfu said as he walked, "Yes, this is my third breakthrough. I almost failed again."

Bait Jiang Xiao asked, puzzled, "But I saw that you could already Transform Stars into Weapons before?"

Zhang Songfu shrugged. He seemed much more relaxed. "Personally, I think as long as your understanding of the Star Chart reaches a certain level, you can Transform Stars into Weapons. Ordinary people can't reach such a deep understanding during the Star River Realm."

Bait Jiang Xiao nodded secretly. Anyway, he didn't know anything about the Big Dipper Star Chart, you could even say he was completely ignorant.

Zhang Songfu said, "When you enter the Star Sea Realm, you'll have a deeper understanding of your body, whether it's your physical body or the Star Chart. I didn't understand these things before, but now... this feeling is wonderful. There's a Chinese saying: enlightenment."

Bait Jiang Xiao raised his eyebrows. The circle lines on his mask also rose slightly, which Zhang Songfu found very awkward.

Zhang Songfu turned his head and continued to lead the way, looking like an enlightened monk: "It can be understood, but not explained."

So Transforming Stars into Weapons doesn't require hard standards like the Star Sea Realm, nor does it require all the star slots to be filled.

It's just that after ordinary people break through to the Star Sea Realm, the upper limit of a certain attribute is forcibly raised, so most Star Sea Realm experts can Transform Stars into Weapons.

If a person's understanding of their Star Chart is deep enough, can they do it even in the Star Dust Realm?

At least according to Zhang Songfu's theory, that should be the case?

However, Jiang Xiao reserved his opinion on this. He still felt that Transforming Stars into Weapons required certain hard indicators, just like breaking through from the peak of the Star Cloud Realm to the Star River Realm.

So... in the two years from September 2015 to September 2017, Zhang Songfu went all the way from the early stage of the Star River Realm to the peak?

But that speed wasn't slow at all!

How was Han Jiangxue's aptitude? Exceptionally talented, 30 star slots. Compared to Han Jiangxue, all the star warriors in the world were trash.

And she broke through to the Star River Realm on May 9, 2016.

Today was already October 19, 2017, one year and five months later, and she was still in the middle stage of the Star River Realm.

Of course, Han Jiangxue had also been stuck for a long time. A few months ago, during the summer vacation, she absorbed the "Black Void's End" Star Bead given by Jiang Xiao before breaking through the shackles and advancing to the middle stage of the Star River Realm.

Zhang Songfu had 27 star slots, which couldn't compare to Han Jiangxue's talent at all, and Han Jiangxue had never slacked off in her training.

Under such circumstances, the speed of cultivation was immediately apparent.

The upper dimension was indeed a place of no return, but it was also a paradise for star warriors to cultivate.

For a moment, Jiang Xiao suddenly knew why Sanwei had left the team and gone to the upper dimension.

Jiang Xiao had always been very curious about the mysterious Sanwei in the Tail Feathers team. After becoming more and more familiar with Erwei, he had seized every opportunity to repeatedly inquire about Sanwei's whereabouts.

Regarding this question, Hai Tianqing hesitated in the high school campus corridor. When Jiang Xiao brought Fang Xingyun and Hai Tianqing together, he also asked Erwei, who was boarding the plane. Before getting on the plane, Erwei casually revealed a few words, and then solemnly stated that the topic was over.

It wasn't until Erwei explained to Jiang Xiao again that Han Jiangxue reminded her of an old friend that Jiang Xiao seized the opportunity to inquire in private.

Erwei finally revealed a crucial piece of information: Sanwei had gone to the upper dimension!

At that time, Hai Tianqing, who didn't stop Sanwei from entering the upper dimension during the mission, was also expelled from the military.

Looking at it this way, if Sanwei was really a person who pursued power, then her choice was understandable.

The problem was... without information transmitted from the upper dimension, how did Sanwei know that the upper dimension was suitable for cultivation?

A big question mark should be drawn here.

Another question mark was Sanwei's destination. Neither Siwei Hai Tianqing nor Erwei Luan Hongying had ever said which other-dimensional space's upper dimension Sanwei had gone to.

However, according to the Tail Feathers team's previous jurisdiction and range of activities in the north, it should be the other-dimensional Holy Ruins in the three northeastern provinces and the eastern five leagues of the Great Meng Province.

Zhang Songfu opened the wooden door, stepped in, sat down on a wooden stump, and said, "So you don't want to reveal your name, wearing a mask, because you don't want to show your true face."

Jiang Xiao said, "I'm a Night Watcher, a Light Chaser. It's enough for you to know that we're brothers in the same army."

Zhang Songfu casually leaned the giant blade against the wall, looked up at Jiang Xiao, his eyes extremely aggressive, and said, "My brothers don't hide things from me."

Oh?

This young man was very upright?

Jiang Xiao smiled and said, "But your brothers will help you break through to the Star Sea Realm."

Zhang Songfu looked at the weirdly curved circle lines and felt even more depressed.

Jiang Xiao looked around. There was a wooden bed, a wooden table, a small wooden stool, and a fireplace burning with fire in the wall.

This house was obviously much better than the houses Jiang Xiao had scouted before. This house had a chimney and a window.

It's just that the window wasn't transparent. It was made of white ghost skin. Although he couldn't see the outside environment clearly, it allowed light to shine in.

How delicate of a technique was needed to peel the white ghost skin to the extent of "window paper"?

Too thick wouldn't work, and too thin wouldn't work either. Jiang Xiao stepped over, curiously looking at it. It seemed to be several thin layers of white ghost skin stacked together?

Zhang Songfu suddenly said, "You have your own secrets. You want to save us, but you don't want to reveal your identity."

Jiang Xiao: !!!

With his back to Zhang Songfu, Jiang Xiao was able to hide the change in the curvature of the circle mask lines.

Jiang Xiao calmed himself down and turned around: "Why do you say that?"

Zhang Songfu pointed to the giant blade leaning against the wall and then to the giant blade behind Jiang Xiao: "This is obviously a two-handed weapon."

Jiang Xiao: "Continue."

Zhang Songfu: "You lost one, and in this snowy field, you have no way to make another one."

Jiang Xiao: "So?"

Zhang Songfu: "I don't think you would carry two two-handed weapons in battle. It's called a two-handed weapon for a reason."

Jiang Xiao shrugged and said, "I prepared an extra one. As it turns out, my judgment was correct."

"Heh." Zhang Songfu's eyes were bright, staring intently at the eyes behind the circle mask. "You've been here once, and you lost this weapon. I'm not sure how you left the upper dimension...

But I'm sure that you entered here again from Earth, from the lower dimension Holy Ruins, so you have the weapon behind you."

Jiang Xiao didn't commit himself, tapping the white ghost skin window paper with his finger.

Zhang Songfu continued, "Your Night Watcher uniform is too new."

Jiang Xiao's heart tightened. This was the key issue!

Zhang Songfu said, "You haven't survived here for several years. If it's really as you said, you entered here carrying two giant blades and accidentally lost one... then after surviving here for several years, your clothes should be the same as mine. You should be wearing a white ghost coat, not a brand new Night Watcher uniform!"

This Zhang Songfu had something to him.

Jiang Xiao took a deep breath, turned to look at Zhang Songfu, and said, "Let's talk business. Have you seen any other compatriots here?"

Zhang Songfu sat on the wooden stump, leaned forward, resting his hands on his knees, bright eyes shining with the light of wisdom: "Substitute-type star technique? Summoning-type star technique? And it's an extremely high-quality star technique, allowing you to be re-summoned after death and enter here again! And... this substitute summon can absorb star techniques!"

Jiang Xiao: "..."

Zhang Songfu said in a deep voice, "You're not the real person!"

Good heavens, these guys were all awesome?

Zhang Songfu's words went straight to the point. That mother Canglan probably also had her own set of speculations and theories!

Zhang Songfu: "This star technique should be a quality that doesn't exist on Earth, so you have to keep it a secret.

What are you afraid of? Are you worried that the Night Watchers will punish you for trespassing in the upper dimension? Or are you protecting the 'treasure' other-dimensional space that you discovered, and you don't want this kind of star bead star technique to be discovered and spread to the world?"

Jiang Xiao directly interrupted Zhang Songfu's words and said, "You're good at analyzing. Based on a blade and a uniform, you've analyzed a lot. And all your theories are based on the assumption that I can't return to the lower dimension."

Zhang Songfu's expression changed in shock and he asked, "You've found the exit?"

Jiang Xiao: "No."

Zhang Songfu: "..."

Jiang Xiao said, "Actually, I'm here to find my brother. My brother and I both use this giant blade."

Zhang Songfu: "..."

Was he trying to fool a ghost?

If you were really looking for your brother, how could you react that way when you saw this giant blade when you first met?

Zhang Songfu raised his head and looked at Jiang Xiao. After advancing to the Star Sea Realm, Zhang Songfu was standing in a higher position. With the help of his strength, he could cope with the situation more freely.

Looking at Zhang Songfu's expression, Jiang Xiao stopped beating around the bush and continued, "Your analysis is very good. Whether it's correct or not, what you said is very interesting. So now, analyze my purpose."

Zhang Songfu casually said, "To explore the operational method of the upper dimension."

Jiang Xiao didn't respond, not committing himself.

Zhang Songfu continued, "Take back gold-quality white ghosts and white ghost witch star beads to exchange for high-quality star techniques."

"Heh." Jiang Xiao smiled disdainfully.

Zhang Songfu saw the look in Jiang Xiao's eyes, which didn't seem fake.

Zhang Songfu was silent for a while, then suddenly said, "When you first saw me, you said my specific information. I'm sure you and I don't know each other, so you did your homework.

That magical Raven Transformation star technique allows you to fly in the air, faster and more suitable for exploring targets. Obviously, you came here with thorough preparations..."

Oh?

Finally getting on the right track?

Zhang Songfu raised his eyelids and quietly looked at Jiang Xiao: "You're looking for people lost in the upper dimension, you're looking for the entrance to the lower dimension, you're trying to bring us home."

Snap.

Jiang Xiao snapped his fingers and said, "Now, tell me all the information you've collected."

Jiang Xiao continued, "In exchange, I'll tell you the location of two other comrades. It's lonely being here alone, isn't it?"

Zhang Songfu: !!!