Star Officer

As the armored man's voice fell,

"Bzzz~!"

The passageways around the Refining Pool opened one after another, welcoming everyone inside.

"Everyone from Ancheng Third Middle School, enter the Refining Pool!"

Cao Feng stood at the head of the school's group and called out in a ringing voice.

At his words, everyone made their way toward the entrances.

As a member of Class One, Zeng Xueqing had naturally come along this time.

She glanced in Jiang Ye's direction, her gaze flickering slightly.

"After this refinement, I'll surpass you."

"I hope you don't fall out of the top hundred in our grade."

Zeng Xueqing said silently to herself.

This was also her first time undergoing Starry Sky Refinement.

There was no doubt that Nascent Talent received an enormous boost in strength after refinement.

Once they had refined the Starry Sky Energy, they would no longer be ordinary people.

They would have truly set foot on the path of Starry Sky Martial Arts!

By contrast, Primitive Talent was called Inferior Aptitude because it was extremely difficult to absorb Star Energy.

Starry Sky Refinement had little effect on those with Primitive Talent.

What was more, as far as she knew, after Jiang Ye had reached perfection in his Cultivation Method, the refinement method he chose was the Advancement Method—the most difficult method of all.

"What was he thinking?"

Zeng Xueqing was rather baffled. "Primitive Talent already has such poor absorption efficiency, and he still chose the Advancement Method. There's no way he can absorb Star Energy, right?"

Although the Advancement Method could accommodate the most Star Energy,

there was no point wondering whether Jiang Ye could absorb that much. Even if he could, he still had to be able to refine it.

If he couldn't refine it, it would be nothing but a waste.

After all, Star Energy that couldn't be refined would continue to dissipate.

Only when it had been completely refined and truly absorbed by the body did it belong to you; otherwise, it would slip away.

And someone with Primitive Talent had very low absorption efficiency. Nine out of ten parts would go to waste.

"He wants to take a gamble."

Zeng Xueqing had already imagined all sorts of scenarios. She closed her eyes and sighed inwardly. "For someone from a poor family, Jiang Ye has already done incredibly well to get this far."

What a pity.

Primitive Talent was ultimately Inferior Aptitude. Defying fate and changing one's lot? That had never existed.

At that moment, all five hundred or so students present had entered the Refining Pool.

Circles had been drawn all over the ground.

Each circle marked a position for refinement.

Jiang Ye found a spot and sat down, waiting for the refinement to begin.

"Whoosh!"

The man in silver-black armor from earlier appeared above the Refining Pool once again.

"Starry Sky Refinement has no time limit."

The armored man spoke in a deep voice. "Endure for as long as you can, but know your limits."

"The energy source for this Starry Sky Refinement comes from Mercury."

As he spoke,

he tossed several crystal-like energy spheres into the energy base.

Bzzz~!

The energy channels around the Refining Pool lit up in quick succession.

"Star Officer."

Wang Ziang gazed at the armored man, his eyes burning with longing.

"Star Officer?" Jiang Ye asked, puzzled, glancing at him.

Wang Ziang sighed. "Being a Star Officer is one of the most lucrative professions. It's my goal for the future."

"One of the most lucrative?" Jiang Ye was surprised. He had never heard of that before.

"It's only natural that you wouldn't know." Wang Ziang shook his head. "There are things the common folk don't know about."

"Do you know why our class monitor is so rich? It's not because her father is a business tycoon. It's because her mother is a Star Officer."

Wang Ziang lowered his voice. "Star Officers can travel between planets, transporting Starry Sky Energy."

"Countless Starry Sky Martial Artists on Blue Star need an unimaginable amount of Starry Sky Energy every day."

"Where does all that Starry Sky Energy come from? Star Officers bring it here."

"The profits involved are beyond imagination." Wang Ziang's eyes gleamed.

Jiang Ye couldn't help holding his breath. This was all the first time he had ever heard of it.

That made sense, after all. This was his first time even coming into contact with Starry Sky Energy.

Naturally, he knew nothing about these things.

Wang Ziang continued, "Star Energy is incredibly expensive. Even this Star Energy, diluted several hundred times, costs tens of thousands of yuan for a single refinement."

"When Star Officers explore the stars, what they find is all primordial energy. Scoop a little into your own pocket, and it's worth tens of millions."

"Tens of millions?" Jiang Ye gasped.

Ordinary people couldn't earn that much in a lifetime.

And that wasn't just ordinary people. Even a wealthy person who made a hundred thousand a month and a million a year would need ten years to earn ten million.

Tens of millions? He wouldn't even dare dream of it.

And for Star Officers, it was apparently as easy as lifting a finger.

"The gap between rich and poor is truly unimaginable," Jiang Ye couldn't help remarking.

"Bzzz!"

Just then, starlight appeared across the glass dome overhead.

Immediately afterward, the ground split open with countless fine cracks.

A sea of starlight spread out like dense fog, intertwining with the stars on the dome.

For a moment, it looked as if they really were standing amid a sea of stars.

"Starry Sky Refinement is only a simulation of the real starry sky."

The silver-black-armored man spoke. "In the future, if any of you become Star Officers, you can head into the cosmos and undergo refinement beneath the dazzling stars."

"You're welcome to apply to become Star Officers through the Federal Examination Bureau."

Jiang Ye stirred slightly inside.

He hadn't expected this Star Officer to recruit them on the spot.

"Being a Star Officer seems to come with all kinds of benefits, but there must be enormous dangers lurking too," Jiang Ye muttered to himself.

Take the Shadow Calamity, for example.

As far as he knew, the Shadow Calamity didn't only appear on Blue Star.

It had appeared at cosmic bases on planets across the entire solar system.

Blue Star had many Martial Arts Experts who could contain a Shadow Calamity in time, but on other planets, there was no telling what might happen.

While he was thinking,

this Starry Sky Refinement officially began.

The five hundred or so students present gradually closed their eyes and began circulating their respective refinement methods, absorbing the starlight.

"This Starry Sky Energy?" Jiang Ye looked at the starlight around him.

It looked beautiful and romantic, but was in fact extremely dangerous.

The students around him made that clear. Some were already showing signs of pain.

"Let's begin."

Jiang Ye sat cross-legged, feeling rather expectant.

Wasn't a month of painful training all for this moment?

He closed his eyes and began circulating the Star Martial Advancement Method.

In an instant,

"Whoosh!"

Every pore on Jiang Ye's body opened, like countless miniature whirlpools, and began absorbing the silver starlight around him.

The starlight followed Jiang Ye's pores and burrowed into his body.

The next moment,

it felt as if someone were scraping open every pore on Jiang Ye's body with a small knife, sending waves of sharp pain through him.

"That's it?"

To Jiang Ye, this pain barely counted as anything.

He didn't even furrow his brow.

"Turn it up!"

Jiang Ye took a deep breath and went for a truly epic lungful.

Breathing could absorb Star Energy too.

At the same time, he increased the power. Every pore on his body opened wide, drawing all the silver starlight around him into his body.

"Whoosh!"

A silver glow rose across Jiang Ye's skin.