Chapter 1 Starman

As the sky darkened, Yunxiang finished her last gym class as usual, already drenched in sweat. After hugging her children goodbye, she left the classroom, preparing to change and go home... Then the dream abruptly ended.

Yun Xiang looked exhausted. He rubbed his brows, glanced at the history of interstellar development on the table, and decided to get up, make a cup of bitter tea, and fight for another hour.

Compared to identifying the characteristics of mutant beasts, their growth patterns, habitats, how to hunt, etc., the history of interstellar development is not a difficult subject, it is just a bit long and complicated.

Yunxiang planned to consolidate her knowledge and put it aside for now to focus on other subjects. The theoretical knowledge wasn't particularly difficult for Yunxiang; the challenge lay in the practical application. She was currently in her third year of high school and would be taking the Gaokao (National College Entrance Examination) this summer.

That’s right, it’s the college entrance examination, the interstellar college entrance examination!

Yun Xiang is a person who travels through time and space, and can be considered an interstellar person. The difference is that he is an interstellar person who has memories of his past life.

In her previous life, she was just an ordinary early childhood education teacher, living an ordinary life. Going to work, going home, watching TV series, reading novels... There was nothing special about her life, which was unchanging and conventional.

Sometimes I feel very bored, but my parents have all gone through this, so I should just work hard and live my life.

She hadn't had that dream for a long time, and her memories of her past life were becoming increasingly vague. Someone once said that dreaming about people or things you haven't seen for a long time means you are actually forgetting them.

It’s nothing. It’s not a brilliant life, so it’s hard to leave a deep impression on people.

Yun Xiang organized her thoughts and continued to review the knowledge points of interstellar history. There were less than three months left before the college entrance examination. She wanted to work harder and strive to get a theoretical score of more than 30, so that she would have a better chance of being admitted to Mercury Academy.

The interstellar college entrance examination is based on a 100-point system, with 30 points for theory and 70 points for practice, of which 30 points are for physical fitness and mental strength, and 40 points are for field practice activities.

Field practice activities are Yun Xiang's biggest headache. From the time she was born to now when she is 18 years old, she has only left the safe zone twice, and those two experiences made her feel very uneasy.

Yun Xiang lives on the second-level planet Chaihe Star, which is a farming planet. It is not very rich, but it is much better than the first-level marginal planets.

Chaihe Star is a satellite planet of a third-level water planet. It supplies vegetables and fruits to the main planet every year, which is its main source of income. However, due to the general downturn in the interstellar planting industry, the output of vegetables and fruits is low and the quality is poor, and the income is not ideal.

Even though Yun wants to live on Chaihe Star, in fact, she only sees vegetables and fruits on the table every few days, and usually lives on nutrient solution.

Even low-quality vegetables and fruits are very expensive. In comparison, nutrient solution is more cost-effective.

After all, the interstellar coins earned from selling fruits and vegetables are used to pay for living expenses, as well as to purchase energy liquids and energy stones for daily training and hunting.

Yun Xiang was sent to live with his grandfather since he was born. His grandfather's ancestors were carvers, using wood as raw material. His wood carving was well-known far and wide, and during its heyday, it served the royal family.

Unfortunately, with the changes in the environment and the rise of species such as mutant beasts, magical beasts, and mutant plants, humans have been constantly evolving, developing, and fighting for living space until force has become the mainstream in the interstellar era.

Some civilizations that were no longer useful in war, such as woodcarving, were naturally lost in the changing times. Survival of the fittest, Yun Xiang's grandfather's family fell into decline.

Interstellar people continue to evolve, gradually forming three types of people: awakened ones, people with special abilities, and ordinary people. Awakened ones are 200 to 300 years old, and those who have stimulated their spiritual potential are called awakened ones.

The mental potential identification value (mental potential value) is divided into SSS, SS-F and other levels. D-F levels are low-level awakeners, A-C levels are mid-level awakeners, and SSS-S levels are high-level awakeners. Awakeners can advance, and the higher the level, the more difficult it is to advance.

After becoming awakened, the potential of a person with superpowers is stimulated. The reasons for this are numerous and difficult to verify. Superpowers are divided according to the natural elements, namely gold, wood, water, fire, earth, thunder, lightning, ice, etc.

The levels of psychics are all SSS-F. Most of them are low-level awakeners, and it is extremely difficult to awaken them. Those with higher levels are basically isolated.

The growth rate of psychics is relatively slow and their attack power is weak, but they are extremely critical auxiliary teachers. For example, treatment, energy refining, material collection, gathering, planting, breeding, etc. are all done by psychics. Therefore, every psychic is very precious, respected, and very popular.

The age of people with special abilities is 200~300 years old, and the age of ordinary people is 100~150 years old.

Yun Xiang's grandparents are ordinary people, and Yun Xiang's mother is naturally an ordinary person as well. Without the genes of an awakened person, it is impossible to give birth to an awakened person, let alone a person with special abilities.

Therefore, if ordinary people want to change the fate of their offspring, they must combine with awakened people. This way, there is at least a small 50% chance of giving birth to awakened children, even if the children have low abilities.

Ordinary people have a very low status in the interstellar age. They can only receive primary (elementary) education and do the lowest level of work.

Interstellar technology is advanced, and most of the daily life matters are handled by civilian robots. There are awakened people and people with special abilities who go out to collect supplies, and ordinary people are rarely used, so life is very difficult for ordinary people.

However, ordinary people living at the bottom of society have ordinary ways of survival, living a mediocre and ordinary life. Of course, they occasionally fantasize about being awakened and so on, but deep down, they still accept their fate.

Yunxiang's mother is an outlier among ordinary people. She has been strong-willed and stubborn since childhood. She is obsessed with escaping her fate and works hard and struggles for this purpose.

Perhaps those who work hard will eventually be lucky. With her ancestral wood carving skills, she successfully captured the heart of an awakened person and became a superior person.

That person was Yun Xiang's father, an A-level mid-level awakener. The Yun family was considered a medium-sized family on Mercury, but Yun Xiang's cousin from his uncle's family successfully advanced to an S-level high-level awakener last year.

With two Ss (Uncle Yun) and a very promising psychic, they immediately became one of the big families on the water planet.

Mercury is only a third-class planet, one of the twelve planets in the imperial capital. It is still some distance away from the imperial capital's central planet and the golden three-star planet.

Therefore, there are not many high-level psychics settling on the Mercury Planet, and most of them work at the Mercury Academy.

Yun Xiang's father is the second child in the Yun family. He has no pressure to inherit the family line. His family does not have high expectations of him and aims to continue the family line. So when Yun Xiang's father insisted on marrying Yun Xiang's mother, they chose to compromise.

After Yun Xiang's mother married Yun Xiang's father, she became very pregnant and soon gave birth to her eldest daughter Yun Ting. Coincidentally, Yun Xiang's aunt also gave birth to her eldest cousin Yun Yunze, the legitimate heir.

With this comparison, the gap becomes apparent. Boys and girls are treated differently, and as the heir, Yun Yunze receives the most resources in the family.

(End of this chapter)