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The sun blazed overhead, scorching the earth. Although it was already the end of August, the sweltering summer was still releasing wave after wave of residual heat.

A gentle breeze blew, but it could not bring people much coolness. It swept through the noisy Jiangbin City and blew into a residence in the DC District.

"Ugh." The young man sprawled before the computer desk rubbed his head, opened his bleary eyes, and looked around in confusion.

At that moment, the standard philosophical triple question surfaced in the young man's mind:

Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing? Oh, right. My name is Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao rubbed his head, grimacing again. Eh? Why does my head hurt so much? Looking around, whose room is this? Is this a pigsty? Clothes are scattered everywhere... and what are those? Wads of paper?

Good grief, this is something else.

Wherever the young man looked, he saw a mountain of wads of paper piled up in the wastebasket beside him.

What a slob.

However, the teasing thoughts in Jiang Xiao's heart vanished the next moment, because he inadvertently saw a slightly swaying figure reflected on the computer screen in front of him.

The figure reflected by the pitch-black screensaver was, of course, Jiang Xiao himself.

Jiang Xiao knew that the figure shown in the black screen was him, but... but how could this image, which was not even blurry, be that of a child?

Unwilling to believe it, Jiang Xiao leaned his face forward, and the figure in the black screensaver made the same movement.

"Glug." Jiang Xiao's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed, then cautiously nudged the mouse.

The screensaver vanished. On the computer screen, a young man stared blankly at the screen with a look as if he had seen a ghost. That was exactly how Jiang Xiao looked at that moment.

What kind of video software is this? Jiang Xiao blinked. This doesn't seem to be a video chat. Is it recording? He looked up and discovered a camera. What had the original owner of this body been doing just now? Recording a short video?

Clearly, the video was still recording, which made Jiang Xiao somewhat eager.

If the owner of this body had been recording the entire time, then had the whole process of my transmigration been recorded too?

I get a bonus like this?

Jiang Xiao hurriedly pressed the stop-recording button and selected the file to play.

After waiting a few seconds, a somewhat youthful face appeared before Jiang Xiao on the computer screen.

A checkered shirt, a crew cut, and an age of roughly fifteen or sixteen. He was fairly handsome.

With such a clean-cut appearance, he didn't look like the guy who had thrown paper everywhere. "Hello, everyone. My name is Jiang Xiaopi." The boy in the video finally spoke. "Unfortunately, I've caught a bit of a cold recently, so you won't get to hear my magnetic, male-god voice."

Jiang Xiao: ???

In the video, Jiang Xiaopi casually pulled out a tissue, blew his nose, crumpled it into a ball, and tossed it onto the floor.

So that's where all these paper balls came from.

Jiang Xiao reached into the tissue box on the desk and pulled out a tissue as well, because he had finally realized that "he" had a cold.

The young man calling himself Jiang Xiaopi continued, "Let me say it again. My name is Jiang Xiaopi! Remember this name that will one day make you look up to me for the rest of your lives!"

"This is my first time posting on Weibo, because I've discovered that my formidable strength no longer allows me to keep a low profile."

Jiang Xiao hurriedly pressed the pause button. Looking at the "himself" on the screen, Jiang Xiao suddenly felt an urge to beat himself to death.

How had this kid grown up? How had he managed to live this long? Jiang Xiao steadied his emotions and calmed down for quite some time before pressing play again.

In the video, Jiang Xiaopi did not continue bragging. Instead, he changed the subject. "Let me give you a simple introduction to myself."

"Well, children always ask their parents where they came from. The parents' answers vary widely. Some say they were picked up from a trash can, some say they came as a free gift with a phone recharge, and some say they were received as a holiday present."

Jiang Xiaopi suddenly looked at the camera with utmost seriousness and said, "But I'm even more impressive. I really was picked up from a trash can."

"My mom is a great beauty. She's gentle and gorgeous, and her name is Jiang Hongye. Just listen to that name—how beautiful! That's what a person's name should sound like! Now look at mine. Sigh..."

In the video, Jiang Xiaopi pursed his lips and grumbled unhappily, "The day Mom found me, the dog she raised died. That dog's name was Xiaopi, so I was named... well."

Jiang Xiaopi looked thoroughly unhappy, but his eyes suddenly lit up as he looked at the camera. "Fortunately, that dog was quite cute. It was a golden retriever that loved to smile."

Jiang Xiao: "..."

In the video, Jiang Xiaopi propped up his chin and fell silent for a while before saying, "Fine. I think you've already remembered my name. Now it's time to state my position. I'm about to enroll at Bincheng High School, and now I have something to tell all the first-year students!"

Jiang Xiao watched the screen with some anticipation, wondering what Jiang Xiaopi was going to say.

In the video, Jiang Xiaopi said, "Starting today, I'm the big brother of the first years! Anyone who disagrees can meet me in the woods after school! I, Jiang Xiaopi, am the biggest deal in the first year!"

"And another thing!" Jiang Xiaopi pointed at the camera and continued. "Those second- and third-year students, don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're older and awakened one or two years earlier. I've already reserved that beautiful girl surnamed Xia. Nobody better try to steal her from me! Anyone who disagrees can meet me on the sports field or in the woods after school. I, Jiang Xiaopi, have never been afraid of anyone!"

Jiang Xiaopi glared fiercely at the camera, looking ferocious in an adorable way. "I'll show you that beauties are meant to be possessed only by the strong!"

Jiang Xiao looked at the "himself" on the screen, who was suffering from a terminal case of adolescent delusion, and was completely dumbfounded.

Click!

In the video, the door behind Jiang Xiaopi suddenly opened, and a graceful figure walked in.

Jiang Xiao raised his eyebrows. Tsk, this girl was really beautiful.

She was dressed in a pure-white nightdress, clearly loungewear. She must have lived in this residence as well.

She looked around seventeen or eighteen. She was tall and slender, with exquisite features, but at that moment, her beautiful face was covered in frost. Her long, jet-black hair fluttered with her angry strides.

In the video, the cold-faced girl kicked aside the paper balls scattered across the floor and quickly walked behind Jiang Xiaopi. He had not noticed her and was still boasting and talking trash.

The girl raised one hand and slapped Jiang Xiaopi on the back of the head!

Serves him right!

Jiang Xiaopi was nearly crying. He covered the back of his head with one hand and turned to look at the girl.

The cold-faced girl had not vented all her anger. She glared fiercely at Jiang Xiaopi and said, "Do something useful! Cultivate Star Power or clean the room! Stop filming these disgusting videos."

Jiang Xiaopi shouted, "You don't need to worry about me! Get lost! Go as far away as possible!"

"Then don't eat!" The girl held herself back again and again before speaking coldly. She turned around, her white nightdress fluttering lightly, kicked aside the paper balls scattered across the floor in disgust, walked out of the room, and slammed the door shut.

In the video, Jiang Xiaopi angrily turned around and slammed his fist onto the computer desk. He then sprawled across it, his body trembling slightly, and faint sobs seemed to drift over?

So emotional? He cried just from being scolded? His mental fortitude was a little weak, wasn't it?

Jiang Xiao sat before the computer desk, watching Jiang Xiaopi lying across the screen. Slowly, those trembling shoulders actually became still. Had he fallen asleep while crying?

A full twenty minutes later, Jiang Xiao saw "Jiang Xiaopi" rubbing his head and looking around in confusion.

Was that when Jiang Xiao had transmigrated? Wow, impressive! Jiang Xiaopi had cried himself to sleep, and then I arrived? Did he encounter a divine dragon in his dream and wish to go to another world?

Jiang Xiao rubbed his head. After inheriting Jiang Xiaopi's body, he struggled to recall the memories in his mind.

That girl seemed to be Jiang Xiaopi's older sister? Han Jiangxue? Their father's surname was Han, so of course the daughter took her father's surname.

Jiang Xiaopi had been picked up by his mother, and at his mother Jiang Hongye's insistence, he had taken her surname.

According to Jiang Xiaopi's memories, his parents seemed to have disappeared during a mission three years ago.

Hmm? The siblings depended on each other for survival? The young lady was as beautiful as a celestial being? They were unrelated by blood? Hmm, it was time to highlight the key points.

Highlight my ass. Jiang Xiao was completely dumbfounded by now. He had no mind to highlight anything of the sort.

The key point was that Jiang Xiao had changed from a twenty-five-year-old young man into a sixteen-year-old boy, from a rookie who had entered society into a high school student?

Moreover, this world... Jiang Xiao moved the mouse pointer to the lower-left corner of the computer screen and looked at the date.

The time itself was not different. It was the same as in the world Jiang Xiao had come from.

But what did the "Awakened" and "Star Power" mentioned by the siblings just now mean? Jiang Xiao frowned and carefully recalled Jiang Xiaopi's memories. Only then did he discover, to his astonishment, that this world was not his Earth at all. It was a world filled with wondrous abilities, miraculous Awakened, and Other Dimension Spaces.

Because of the existence of Other Dimension Space Gates, this world was vastly different from the Earth Jiang Xiao had originally lived on.

Beyond the countless Other Dimension Space Gates were all kinds of bizarre and fantastical worlds, along with creatures of every strange variety.

Sadly, the creatures inside the vast majority of Space Teleportation Gates were not friendly.

Throughout humanity's arduous history, humans had faced not only civil wars within their own ranks, but also invasions and harassment from creatures of external, alternate dimensions.

Star Power was a wondrous energy. It had appeared alongside the emergence of the Other Dimension Space Gates. This miraculous energy changed people's physical constitutions, and it also changed their way of life.

With the appearance of the first batch of Star Power Awakened, humanity, which had once been able to fight the Different Dimension Creatures only with "ironclad ships and powerful cannons," finally had a new option.

Of course, although the new energy had poured into Earth and changed humanity's fate, it had not changed everyone's destiny.

In fact, the vast majority of people were still ordinary. Their bodies could not bear this miraculous power. Recklessly cultivating it would not strengthen their bodies; instead, it would cause physical damage.

As time passed, humanity's understanding of Star Power deepened. After countless verifications, "sixteen years old" became the internationally recognized stage for awakening.

Sixteen was a threshold. At that age, humans had the highest chance of awakening, making it the best time for artificially induced awakening. Awakening too early or too late could cause physical damage to the experimental subject.

Of course, there were always some bastards! They would do things that outraged both gods and men, and such people were called "geniuses."

They did not need to do anything. One day, they would suddenly sense the ubiquitous Star Power on Earth. This was called natural awakening, and their futures were limitless.

They might even begin their awakening journey at ten, eight, or even six years old, cultivating several years earlier than ordinary Awakened.

Of course, where was there any so-called fairness in this world? Aside from the tiny minority of heaven-blessed prodigies, most people awakened through external intervention. They made up the overwhelming majority of the Awakened, and Jiang Xiaopi clearly belonged to this category.

After turning sixteen, with the help of an Awakened, one guided Star Power into one's body and thus began one's career as an Awakened.

However, this had to be done through a strict and proper process. Knowing how to maintain the proper limits was an essential quality of a qualified guide.

Far too many people were unable to awaken. They were unwilling to accept the result and tried every possible means to achieve their goal, but the final outcomes were rarely good.

Those who forced the process would be injured or killed along the way. More often, they would not awaken at all and would instead suffer severe damage to their bodies, becoming discouraged and turning into fragile invalids for the rest of their lives.

Two months earlier, at the final graduation ceremony for the third year of middle school, more than a dozen Awakened had stood in formation and helped this group of children complete their final graduation assessment.

The principal had long been accustomed to enjoying waves of cheers during his speeches. Of course, even an idiot knew that those cheers were not for the principal's lengthy speech, but for the children who awakened one after another.

That graduation ceremony had finally begun Jiang Xiaopi's career.

Jiang Xiaopi's body was suited to cultivating Star Power.

He had successfully opened his Star Map!

Hello, everyone! Yu is back! (￣▽￣)／