Chapter 1212 Life's Apex

The entire latter half of July was spent in repeated conflicts between land and sea.

This situation affected the operation of all aspects of the world.

It wasn't just the national or Star Warrior levels that were affected; even ordinary people couldn't escape. A typical example was fishermen, who no longer dared to venture too far into the ocean to fish.

Deep-sea fishing projects had been shelved. No one dared to tempt fate because those who did never returned...

And this was only one aspect. Many more important aspects were affected, and the resulting losses were incalculable. This had, of course, infringed upon the interests of a considerable group of people.

Finally, large corporations, organizations, and even some countries that relied on the sea for their livelihood, led by their governments, ordered Star Warriors to escort the exploitation of marine resources.

A great battle finally broke out on August 2nd!

Off the coast of North America, an offshore drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico was attacked. Even more frightening, because the Yi Clan had no prior experience, they simply barbarically destroyed human constructions that shouldn't have been in the ocean.

So, during the destruction, due to the Yi Clan's improper "operation," the oil well at the bottom began to leak, which undoubtedly caused massive pollution to the ocean.

The Yi Clan... were completely enraged.

Equally annoyed were the large companies and entrepreneurs of the United States. That was all cold, hard cash!

They didn't care about dead people, but they couldn't stand losing money!

The battle was officially launched, and North America established the "Joint Escort Fleet" to patrol the deep sea and hunt down the Yi Clan.

But on August 5th, several Star Warrior teams flew back to the United States in a sorry state, recounting in detail how their members were brutally dismembered and eaten by a group of orcas, and how their fleets were detonated by sonic Star Techniques...

The "enforcement" fleet consisted of streamlined Star Warrior teams, numbering only about a hundred people, but only a mere twelve returned...

This was just one incident. If the battles that took place in the four oceans in early August were tallied up, it would be a situation of "multiple points blooming."

The war had entered a phase of full-scale outbreak, but the current battlefield was still the ocean.

The Star Defence Army had been under a lot of pressure recently. In fact, every military branch in Hua Xia was feeling the strain!

On the one hand, Hua Xia was not a landlocked country and had a long coastline to defend.

On the other hand, its inland neighbors were not very reliable, so a large number of troops had to be stationed to guard the inland border...

Under these circumstances, Jiang Xiao had an inescapable duty, and he established three new Star Beast Regiments!

The Dance Soul City forces of the Calamity Shadow World, Ludong Land, the Yin-Yang Soul Masters and White-Faced Dancers, along with a small number of obedient Paper-Ink Book Souls, walked out of Jiang Xiao's Calamity Shadow World and arrived on Earth.

The Ice Prayer Forest tribe of Liaodong Land, led by the Ice Prayer Forest Chieftain himself, brought the Ice Soul Clan, the Ice Demon Clan, and the Ice Seal Clan out of the Calamity Shadow World.

In the past six months, the Ice Prayer Forest had almost unified the entire Liaodong region of the Calamity Shadow World and was worried about not having a new goal. The Creator God, Jiang Xiao, had sent them a new target!

Coincidentally, the White Birch Forest tribe had the same situation as the Ice Prayer Forest tribe. At the behest of Chief Blue, the Wild Men tribe sent out a thousand-man legion!

A full thousand people!

And the internal job appointments of the Star Defence Army had undergone another adjustment.

Wu Wei·Yi Qingchen, Liu Wei·Gu Shian, and Qi Wei·Xia Yan, who had just become deputy regiment commanders not long ago, had now achieved rapid promotions in their military careers with the establishment of the new Star Beast Regiments.

Several people who had just been withdrawn from the South American Ba Federation and the North African Sahara received orders to lead the Star Beast Regiments.

The Star Defence Fifth Regiment, the Ghost Monk Legion, commanded by Yi Qingchen, was stationed in Da Meng.

There were many accompanying personnel, including the hidden boss bait, Jiang Xiao, Liu Yang, Cai Yao, and Wu Yao, who was determined to return home.

The Star Defence Sixth Regiment, the Ice Clan Legion, commanded by Gu Shian, was stationed on the southwest coastline of Liaodong, and the accompanying dignitaries included a hidden boss bait, Jiang Xiao... as well as Yu Jin, Wu Xiaojing, and others.

The Star Defence Seventh Regiment, the Dance Soul Legion, commanded by Xia Yan, with Han Jiangxue as the deputy, and... another bait, Jiang Xiao...

They rushed to Ludong Land, leading the Dance Soul City soldiers to help the human Star Warrior soldiers defend the coastline.

In fact, under the Seventh Regiment, the Dance Soul Legion, there was also a special Chessboard Army elite team, led by Han Jiangxue, but their numbers were small and, due to biological characteristics, not yet enough to form a regiment.

The Star Defence Eighth Regiment, the Wild Men Legion, commanded by Hu Wei, who was officially promoted and stationed on the border of the North River Land.

At the same time, Si Wei Hai Tianqing replaced Hu Wei in the Apprentice Army, assisting Zhang Songfu. Cang Lan's position remained unchanged, still in Di Du City, raising Yuan Yuan in a safe place.

The Star Defence Army Corps operated quickly, and Jiang Xiao was not idle either. In the past nearly 20 days, he had finally slammed all the Star Techniques in his Inner Vision Star Chart, except for "Blessing" and "Bait," to the Scorching Sun quality.

It wasn't that he didn't want to farm Blessing and Bait, but... Jiang Xiao didn't dare to hunt White Ghost Witches anymore. He understood the principle of draining the pond to catch the fish.

Even in the end, Jiang Xiao started doing the "matchmaker" business again.

Whenever he found that there was only one White Ghost Witch in a certain White Ghost group...

Then Jiang Xiao would immediately take off its pants to see if it was male or female, and then... search around to catch a heterosexual partner for it.

It felt like assigning partners...

As for Jiang Xiao's other Star Techniques, Bell, Seal, Yearning, and Dawn had long passed their qualitative change period, and there were no major changes. It was worth mentioning that the radius of the Yearning Halo, from 100 meters at Starry Sky, to 150 meters at Lunar Candle, to the current 200 meters at Scorching Sun, was an unimaginable increase.

On the surface, it only looked like a quantitative change, but how much of the battlefield could an extra 50 meters encompass!?

At this point, of the Eight Stars and Nineteen Star Techniques, only the lagging Blessing and Bait remained. And Jiang Xiao had made great progress in the use of his Star Chart!

As early as mid-July, during Jiang Xiao and Er Wei's mission to the West-Ma Kingdom, he had figured out Elizabeth's Cross Star Chart. Before that, Jiang Xiao had also figured out the portrait Star Chart of the Aging Star.

So, after the mission failed and they returned from the West-Ma Kingdom, Jiang Xiao went directly to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, found the Star Transformation couple waiting in Hope City, and spent a day stripping off the couple's Star Charts bit by bit!

Cross Star Chart!

Portrait Star Chart!

And the number of new Star Charts that Jiang Xiao could manufacture in the back of his Ground Light Star Technique had also changed to

7/9.

Among them, the "Portrait" of the Aging Star turning into Star Power Weaponry brought Jiang Xiao no small "surprise"!

When he used his main body to experiment with this Star Power Weaponry, an unexpected scene appeared!

"Star Power Weaponry: Life's Apex!"

When Jiang Xiao cast Star Power Weaponry, the information given in the Inner Vision Star Chart caught Jiang Xiao off guard.

The name of this portrait Star Chart was actually "Life's Apex"?

This name... was a bit powerful!

What confused Jiang Xiao even more was...

This "Life's Apex" Star Power Weaponry turned the Aging Star from an old man over sixty years old back into a young man.

And Jiang Xiao's Star Power Weaponry turned him from a 20-year-old young man into a... young man in his late twenties!

It wasn't easy to distinguish the age, and Jiang Xiao could only give an approximate range, which should be 25-29 years old.

Others become younger and younger, why am I getting older and older?

So, 25-29 years old is the default best state for human Star Warriors in the Inner Vision Star Chart?

If that's the case, I still have to grow for at least another 5 years to be considered in my prime?

As for Elizabeth's Holy Cross Star Chart, it made Jiang Xiao feel good for a while.

Even in the days that followed, when bad news such as sea-land conflicts and world unrest came one after another, whenever Jiang Xiao thought of having the "Holy Cross" Star Chart, he felt confident!

This was true magic immunity!

Not the kind that was a joke! Only the purest Star Power could harm Jiang Xiao!

Complete immunity to Star Techniques!

Even the "second-hand Star Power" released in the form of Star Techniques couldn't bring Jiang Xiao even the slightest harm!

Too powerful, unbelievably powerful!

The Holy Cross, like San Wei's Oil-Ink Flower Star Technique, was a Star Chart that shouldn't exist in this world...

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Let's turn the clock back to late July.

In Han Jiangxue's Sea Ridge Refuge, an uninvited guest arrived again!

San Wei, who was teaching Jiang Mo Hua, looked warily at the arrival of the main body Jiang Xiao.

"Star Power Weaponry: Holy Cross!"

When Jiang Xiao was experimenting with this Star Chart, he also discovered Elizabeth's evil taste.

Back then, during the final battle with Star Transformation, Elizabeth used this Star Power Weaponry to make people carry huge crosses on their backs, like a picture of Jesus suffering.

But when Jiang Xiao himself possessed this Star Chart, he realized that the Holy Cross was similar to Yi Qingchen's Peace Buckle. It didn't have to be so huge, held on the head or carried on the back.

He could completely turn the Holy Cross into a necklace, a small pendant, hanging on his chest.

Jiang Xiao tightened the Soul of the Sea Eater he was wearing, hiding the small Holy Cross, and said to San Wei, "Come on, try to control me."

Hearing this, San Wei said lightly, "Are you sure?"

"Heh." Jiang Xiao sneered disdainfully, and glanced at San Wei with a rather annoying expression, "I'm not the trash I used to be anymore."

Would San Wei indulge Jiang Xiao?

The answer was... no!

Swish...

In front of Jiang Xiao's chest, on the clothes of the Soul of the Sea Eater, a dark oil-ink flower bloomed.

However, under San Wei's astonished eyes, Jiang Xiao actually reached out and picked off the blooming flower in front of his chest.

"Tss..."

The black oil-ink flower was pinched by Jiang Xiao into a puddle of oil-ink, flowing out from between his fingers and dripping on the ground.

Jiang Xiao looked at San Wei with a smile, and a hint of the aura of a great demon king gradually appeared on his body.

San Wei stared blankly at Jiang Xiao, seemingly thinking that the Soul of the Sea Eater had blocked the effect of Star Power Weaponry for Jiang Xiao. She waved her hand again...

She saw an oil-ink flower actually growing out of Jiang Xiao's head.

In the next moment, San Wei's dark eyes widened slightly, and her expression gradually changed from astonishment to amazement!

She saw that Jiang Xiao was still not restricted in his movements. Under San Wei's gaze, Jiang Xiao slowly took steps, and the flower on his head made him walk faster and faster...

"La la la la la la I am a freely walking flower"

Jiang Xiao swayed his head slightly, letting the oil-ink flower sway on his head. He hummed in his heart, and his mood was incomparably comfortable!

In the past, San Wei, who could bring him a life-or-death threat, the Star Warrior mountain that pressed on Jiang Xiao's heart, was finally crossed by him!

Jiang Xiao walked to San Wei, who was looking dazed, and reached out, picking off the oil-ink flower from his head.

Jiang Xiao smiled, holding the dark flower in his hand, and returned it to San Wei affectionately: "Here you go."

This reversal was truly a super double...

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