Chapter 123

Chapter 123: Surge in Strength, I am Now the Complete Fu! [5k]

The newly released faction-exclusive challenge instance [Bagalos] has captured the attention of a large number of players since it entered their view.

After all, this is a new feature launched with version 1.2, and many players want to see what the challenge instance looks like and how its rewards compare to various commission quests.

At this moment, news suddenly came that the Iron Rain Guild and Zhongyi Hall Guild had already organized challenge teams and entered the instance one after another, aiming to secure the first clear record.

Although Iron Rain and Zhongyi Hall do not count as top-tier guilds, they are at least well-known within the Eastern Empire, and this news immediately drew a large crowd of entertainment seekers.

[Entertaining, if I’m not mistaken, these two have always disliked each other, so there’s going to be some good drama.]

[Who do you think will secure the first clear record?]

[Zhongyi Hall, several high-level players from the Iron Rain Guild did not join Silent Courtyard but stayed with Gene Progenitor; in terms of team formation, they are at a disadvantage.]

[Hard to say, what if a big player suddenly solo clears the instance and secures the first clear?]

[Bro, are you thinking of those game-overlord rebirth stories where everything gets destroyed at the start of the server?]

Amidst the heated discussions, Jiujiao also stepped forward. She personally entered the Bagalos instance to attempt an immersive explanation of the situation at Bagalos Base for every player interested in the event.

[Hello everyone, happy new version!]

[I once personally fought alongside Fu Fu in Bagalos, contributing to the conquest of Bagalos. Back then, Silent Courtyard only had Fu Fu and Anya. Thinking about it now, it’s truly nostalgic.]

[Today, I’ll take everyone on a tour of the interior of Bagalos Base. First thing we see upon entering is…]

[Ah, hey, calm down, I mean no harm, don’t hit me, ah, I’m dead.]

Jiujiao, excitedly taking photos inside Bagalos Base, was killed instantly by the soldiers rushing out from the base and was quickly ejected from the instance.

Players in the live stream were nearly laughing themselves to death.

Seeing the barrage of comments, Jiujiao decisively activated her skill [Stubborn].

[You guys wouldn’t understand, right? I was actually doing it on purpose for the show effect, just to let everyone know how difficult this instance is. Don’t go challenging it alone if you have nothing better to do, or you’ll end up like me earlier. Hmm, that’s right. Now, let’s still look at the key points of the four bosses in Bagalos Base. As someone who experienced it firsthand, I do have some understanding of the bosses’ moves.]

It must be said that Jiujiao’s quick defeat and stubbornness indeed created a program effect.

Because of this, even more players joined in the carnival of fun.

Many professional players, major guilds, and professional commentators jumped in to introduce the situations of the two guilds to the uninformed onlookers, as well as the past performances of the players sent by the two guilds to clear the instance.

Since the late stages of version 1.1, the game hasn’t seen any events that sparked discussions among all players.

The competition between the Iron Rain Guild and Zhongyi Hall Guild made a good start for version 1.2.

Twenty minutes later, both guilds’ challenge teams suffered defeats and left the instance.

Jiujiao immediately rushed over: “Let’s interview Sword Aura Sky Piercing, the first person to exit the instance. Sword Master, everyone is paying attention to you and Zhongyi Hall Guild. Could you share your thoughts on challenging the Bagalos instance?”

Sword Aura Sky Piercing coughed into the camera: “Although we didn’t complete the challenge this time, we successfully defeated the first boss. It won’t be long before we find the secret to clearing it. Everyone, please stay tuned.”

Jiujiao asked: “Could you share the rewards from the instance, Sword Master?”

Sword Aura Sky Piercing replied: “Rather than talking about the rewards, I’d rather emphasize pre-battle preparation. Did you notice that the pre-battle preparation shop offers many high-end items that aren’t available in Anya’s Mystery Shop.”

“Like?”

Sword Aura Sky Piercing straightforwardly showed the photos he took.

After viewing the goods displayed in the photos, both the on-site players and the audience in the live stream were shocked.

[Holy crap, there are skill books and class knowledge books sold in the instance!]

[You can directly spend experience points to learn them, without harsh prerequisites or the need to increase NPC affinity. This is awesome!]

[Let me check if other challenge instances have similar rewards.]

[Forget it, none of them do. This is probably an exclusive benefit of the faction instance. Damn it, why wasn’t I born on Source Star? These skills are all early-game gods!]

This display by Sword Aura Sky Piercing completely established the reputation of the Bagalos instance.

In no time, many Silent Courtyard players with sufficient experience and appropriate classes flooded into the Bagalos instance, learning those basic skills.

Bai Fu was somewhat relieved she had turned off the notification sounds for store item sales in time, otherwise, the continuous dings and vibrations would have knocked her out.

But even without being knocked out, she was almost overwhelmed by joy.

Yes!

Players kept pouring their experience points into her experience pool, and in just half an hour, she had earned one million experience points, leaving her fully satisfied.

“Not enough, I need more experience!”

Bai Fu excitedly licked her lips.

Whether she could seize the high ground of version 1.2 and lay a solid foundation for future entry into the Star Ocean depended entirely on this move.

Silent Courtyard had nearly five thousand players, but only a small portion of them had purchased the skills so far.

By analyzing the comments from the remaining players, Bai Fu found two main reasons why they hadn’t acted yet.

One, some players started playing in version 1.1 and didn’t have much accumulated experience. They thought leveling up would bring them greater improvement.

Two, another group of players weren’t following the physical cultivation or spiritual energy flow paths. If they didn’t learn the corresponding classes, even if they learned the skills in the store, they couldn’t use them.

For these two groups of players, Bai Fu had already come up with countermeasures –

Just charm them!

She planned to send out a major player to demonstrate how powerful the skills she placed in the store were.

You don’t want to fall behind other players because you didn’t buy the skills from the store, do you?

If you don’t, hurry up and spend your experience points to buy the skills!

If this trick didn’t work, Bai Fu had another plan. Once this plan was executed, she believed even the stingiest iron rooster would be squeezed dry.

Thinking of this, she immediately contacted Elder Nissen through the terminal. This strategy required Elder Nissen’s cooperation.

“Do you want to promote the legacy of Moonlit Dancer?”

“Hmm?” Elder Nissen hesitated for a moment, “What do you mean?”

So and so, such and such, Bai Fu explained her idea to Elder Nissen.

…

An hour after the server opened.

Outside Anya’s Mystery Shop.

Pai Da Xing bought two prayer cards with his money. He was currently following the battle mage route, and the buffs from the prayer cards were much higher than for regular players. Just as he was about to leave, an NPC suddenly walked up to him.

“Is this Mr. Pai Da Xing?”

Pai Da Xing paused, recognizing the NPC as Sean, the assistant of Deputy Chief Elder Nissen of Silent Courtyard, who had issued the task for the expansion of Shelter No. 11.

“Yes, is there anything you need from me?”

This conversation immediately caught the attention of nearby players.

An NPC initiating contact and using the respectful title “Mr.” clearly meant a hidden plotline had been triggered.

Sean nodded and deliberately raised his voice: “In the previous competition, you…”

Before Pai Da Xing could respond, surrounding players shouted in excitement.

“Holy crap! It’s a hidden plotline!”

If it’s a hidden plotline, why hesitate?

Pai Da Xing decisively agreed and followed Sean away from the shop.

News of what happened here spread quickly, attracting a large crowd of players, including Sword Aura Sky Piercing and Black Warrior, all wanting to see what task Pai Da Xing received and what prerequisites triggered this hidden plotline.

Half an hour later, Pai Da Xing emerged from the room, his face glowing with barely contained excitement.

“Pai Da, Pai Da, did you trigger a hidden quest?”

Pai Da Xing shook his head: “Not a hidden quest, but a hidden class. Elder Nissen said he sees potential in me, so he taught me a new class called [Moonlit Dancer].”

What?

Hidden class?

This statement was like a storm, stunning all the players present.

To be honest, Pai Da Xing himself was stunned.

He originally thought that the martial artist medal was merely a symbol of honor, but never expected it to bear fruit after the launch of the new version.

Not only are the skills of the hidden class Moonlit Dancer powerful, but the attribute points added per level are also higher than those of common classes.





Using his new class more, after a successful job change, his power surged significantly. He was now eager to test how much the new class would boost him.

“Pai Da Xing, are you interested in joining our raid group?”

At this moment, Sword Aura Sky Piercing stepped forward and extended an invitation to Pai Da Xing.

Pai Da Xing wasn’t usually interested in raids, but he wanted to test his damage output, so he agreed.

“Damn it, Sword Aura Sky Piercing, you’re cheating!” Black Warrior fumed upon seeing this.

Sword Aura Sky Piercing laughed smugly. All they were doing was setting a first clear record; no one said they couldn’t hire external help. In the world of gaming, strategy always mattered.

Once again, the two guilds headed towards Bagalos Base. Since Pai Da Xing had unlocked the hidden class and joined Sword Aura Sky Piercing’s raid group, this challenge drew even more players’ attention. Everyone wanted to see just how powerful the hidden class Moonlight Dancer was.

The results were astonishing.

Although Iron Rain Guild still failed to clear the raid, they successfully defeated the second boss before being wiped out, which was a significant improvement. When the video of the raid was released, all players, especially those from Silent Courtyard, were captivated by Pai Da Xing.

Pai Da Xing’s technique was already top-notch. With the agility bonus from Moonlight Dancer and assistance from newly unlocked skills, he moved gracefully among the mobs as if using light steps.

A true dancing dragon!

Even against powerful bosses, his graceful movements allowed him to last longer and even confused the boss at times.

It was thanks to this amazing operation that Iron Rain Guild’s players could cooperate with him to defeat Carlos, the base supervisor and the second boss of the Bagalos raid.

After the video ended, the chat exploded.

[My goodness, the Moonlight Dancer has become a martial arts expert!]

[Too cool! Isn’t this better than my current Wangba Fist class?]

[Coach, I want to learn this!]

[Why isn’t the person unlocking the hidden class me??]

Everyone looked enviously at Pai Da Xing. Some keen-eyed players noticed that the skills Pai Da Xing used most frequently were exactly the ones sold in the raid shop.

Flowing Light, Yi Cai, Moon Concealment!

Even though players couldn’t switch to the Moonlight Dancer class, they could still learn its skills and experience a youthful version of its grace. Perhaps learning these skills might give them a chance to be noticed by Elder Nissen, like Pai Da Xing.

Do you want to dance too?

Yes, I do!

Meanwhile, Calamity Dragon broke another big news story.

[Bai Fu also learned this class!]

Silver Moon Bai Fu is a Moonlight Dancer—no issues here, old buddy!

Inspired by Pai Da Xing’s job change and Bai Fu obtaining the Moonlight Dancer class, many hesitant players decided to jump on board.

Buy, buy, buy—get these three skills first.

What? Not following the physical cultivation path, lacking Qi, thus unable to use these three skills?

Then simply buy a knowledge book for a physical cultivation class as well.

After spending all their experience points, they would have to work hard over the next few days building a new refuge.

Bai Fu’s supermarket saw a surge in sales. Within a day, she earned over 5 million experience points. This efficiency far exceeded what she could gain from quests. Of course, quests could be done continuously, while exploiting players like this had intervals. Moreover, high-level quest rewards usually focused on things other than experience, such as skills, blueprints, items, etc., but what she needed right now was experience, nothing else.

“It’s the players who are the best crops, fresh and crispy!”

Tasting the sweet fruit, Bai Fu’s eyes began to glow red.

It must be said that the number of players in Silent Courtyard was still too small, not enough to satisfy her appetite. She had to attract more players to join Silent Courtyard and fill her crop field.

Merely promoting Silent Courtyard’s advantages clearly wasn’t enough. She needed to create a task chain that players could continue indefinitely. If this task chain could be recognized by the planners as a new main storyline for Source Star, that would be even better.

By then, she wouldn’t need to do anything else; players would obediently come to worship her.

Shearing official resources to subsidize players, then cutting down on the newly grown players—perfect!

…

After giving the craftsman a raise to hurry up with carving the stone tablet, Bai Fu returned home.

Now wealthy, she no longer needed to conserve her experience points. She clicked continuously, maxing out all the skills she currently possessed in one go.

Frenzy, Hardening…

After upgrading Spiritual Perception to max level Lv7, the detection range expanded from 30 meters to 100 meters, and the sensitivity increased.

After upgrading Dispel to max level Lv5, it could simultaneously dispel two buffs or debuffs, and the cooldown time dropped from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.

After maxing out Basic Prayer Enhancement to Lv10, the effect increase on prayer cards rose from 10% to 25%, directly increasing her damage output by 15%. This enhancement was quite significant.

Maxing out Basic Prayer Enhancement also unlocked a new specialization skill for her.

[Basic Prayer Specialization]: Inspiration +7, Prayer Effect +5%

This specialization’s enhancement didn’t differentiate between active skills and prayer cards; it was a general overall enhancement.

Besides these basic improvements, what Bai Fu found most satisfying was the upgrade to Dark Burn.

After maxing it out, the spirit energy consumption increased from 10% to 15%, but in return, the damage output changed from (Inspiration * 1) * 3 to (Inspiration * 1.3) * 3. The maximum reduction in target stats also rose from 10% to 15%, and the duration increased from 10 minutes to 15 minutes.

“A full 30% damage increase, now I can kill faster!”

Upgrading all these skills cost Bai Fu over 2 million experience points. Adding the experience points she previously saved, she still had over 4 million left.

Nothing more to say, keep leveling up!

Bai Fu invested all her remaining experience into the relatively less expensive Moonlight Dancer class, instantly upgrading Advanced Moonlight Dancer from Lv5 to Lv19, leaving her completely empty.

But this upgrade granted her 28 points of agility, 14 points of constitution, 14 points of spirit, and 28 attribute points.

She added all 28 attribute points to inspiration. After a series of upgrades, her attributes underwent a complete transformation.

[Health Points]: 3440/3440

[Spirit Energy]: 2625/2625

[Qi]: 275/275

[Attributes]: Strength 31, Agility 75, Constitution 124, Intelligence 39, Spirit 55, Inspiration 173

These were just her base attributes; in real combat, she would also need to account for the inspiration bonuses brought by He Fu and various summoned True Spirits.

Thanks to this round of contributions from the players, Bai Fu’s power surged dramatically.

However, the reason for such a large increase was mainly because she almost never upgraded her skills earlier. Once she maxed out her skills, she instantly transformed into the Complete Fu, naturally boosting her power significantly.

There was no way around it; upgrading skills required a lot of experience. Earlier, she was struggling to survive, and compared to upgrading skills, it was obviously more beneficial to level up first, raising her base attributes and skill count.

Now that she had laid a solid foundation, building on it was quick and efficient.

Bai Fu felt very satisfied.

Before the upgrade, her strength among the high-level NPCs and monsters on Source Star was probably only slightly above the beginners. But now, she was definitely mid-tier, perhaps even touching the upper levels.

“Even if I still can’t beat the President of the Truth Society, I won’t be utterly helpless. As for Sand Iron, the agent of the Former Republic I encountered before…”

If they met again, Bai Fu was confident she could crush him.

This was just the beginning.

Her current experience acquisition speed was much higher than in Version 1.1. She had fragments of memories, Small Black Fu, and with new players joining Silent Courtyard, she could exploit them again.

“When the time comes, I’ll first upgrade Advanced Moonlight Dancer to Lv20, then focus entirely on improving the level of the Spiritual Painter class!”

Unlock limited skills, synthesize new prayer cards, reinforce the prayer cards she already mastered, evolving from the Complete Fu once more.

What about mutated beings, super-powered advanced classes, high-level monsters, the Truth Society, gene progenitors? I’m going to crush you all!

Bai Fu had made up her mind. Once the five outposts were built and the stone tablets erected, she could send players out to gather intelligence on the Truth Society and gene progenitors, preparing to eliminate them.

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