Chapter 226: Race Evolution, Void Seer [5k]
[You begin reading “Advanced Techniques for the Application of Qi”…]
[You begin reading “A New Method for Refining Qi”…]
After spending over ten minutes, Bai Fu finished studying the two A-grade physical cultivation advancement knowledge sent by Andreas.
The moment the progress reached 100%, a prompt sounded, indicating that her class advancement quest for the “Moon Chaser Dancer” profession was also completed.
[You have completed the class advancement quest [Martial Arts Expert], and received rewards: 3 million experience points, 1 random talent or passive skill, and qualification for class change.]
[Drawing a random talent or passive skill…]
[Draw complete.]
[You have obtained the talent [Abundant Qi].]
The talent Abundant Qi is quite practical for physical cultivators, increasing the Qi limit by 10%. However, for Bai Fu, who primarily focuses on Spiritual Energy-based classes, this talent has little practical significance.
The reason she worked hard to level up her secondary class was because of the attribute points gained during the leveling process.
Bai Fu skipped past the notification and directly opened the stats panel, clicking the plus sign behind her class.
A pleasant chime rang out.
[Class change successful.]
[You have unlocked the new class [Servant of Shadows], current level Lv1, Strength +1, Agility +4, Constitution +1, Spirit +3, Attribute Points +5.]
An A-grade class can reach up to level 25, requiring 300 million experience points.
Since this is her second class, additional experience is required for leveling, approximately 70 million.
In total, it would cost 370 million experience. Is that a lot?
With her vast resources, Bai Fu didn’t care. She currently had 1.03 billion experience points.
Just spend it!
She quickly leveled the [Servant of Shadows] to Lv25, then continued learning S-grade advanced knowledge, changing classes after each completion, until she stopped at level 22 of the newly unlocked class [Master of Shadows].
At this point, she had only 30 million experience points left, not enough for another level-up.
Although the consumption was enormous, Bai Fu’s gains were equally significant. The various passive and basic skills unlocked through leveling need not be mentioned. When she changed to the [Master of Shadows], her Constitution: HP conversion rate increased by an additional 5 points, making her tougher.
Moreover, due to a substantial increase in base spirit attributes, she discovered that her [Seer] race gene compatibility had risen to 100%.
Race evolution!
Bai Fu became excited.
[As your current race is [Shadow Phantom (Prayer of Stars)], after race evolution, your race will change to [Seer (Bai Fu)].]
Void races are a very special type. Under the broad category of void beings, there are countless sub-races, each with vastly different talents.
This is mainly because most void life forms are mutations caused by infection with void blood, while true primordial void beings are rare.
The advantage of such a unique race is that even after evolution, the characteristics of the previous race won’t be completely erased.
Of course, one cannot talk about advantages without mentioning disadvantages.
Firstly, voidification can easily turn oneself into a mindless monster. Secondly, some regions are extremely hostile towards void beings, to the extent of attacking them on sight. Lastly, void beings’ adaptability to certain professions is far inferior to carbon-based humanoids, preventing them from mastering some special professions.
But these issues were no problem for Bai Fu.
Firstly, she could actively control the direction of her evolution. Secondly, her chosen professions, while not mainstream, weren’t so rare that void beings couldn’t learn them.
Evolve now! Why wait? After all, evolution also grants attribute point compensation!
[Race evolution in progress…]
Bai Fu tapped her finger.
Whoosh—
Suddenly, she felt as if she had fallen into the scorching heat of summer.
Intense waves of heat surged from all directions, even from within her body, making her instinctively want to stuff herself with ice to cool down.
Fortunately, this abnormal burning sensation didn’t last long. Just as she was about to roll around from the heat, the surging heatwaves receded like a tide, leaving behind a refreshing sense of release and continuous game prompts.
[You have completed the race evolution, your race has changed to [Seer (Bai Fu)].]
[Race change complete, you have received stat corrections:
Strength +13, Agility +33, Constitution +17, Intelligence +95, Spirit +31, Inspiration +82.]
[Exclusive talent [Void Infector] removed.]
[Racial trait [Phantom] removed.]
[You have gained new racial trait bonuses:
1. You have gained the exclusive skill [Seer Mark];
2. You have gained the exclusive talent [Void Seer];
3. You have gained the exclusive talent [Void Nest];
4. You have gained the exclusive talent [Void Walk].]
“This is a complete transformation of the entire life form.”
Bai Fu took off her combat suit and carefully examined her body from the outside in.
Good news: despite having become a void being and despite some changes in her body structure, the sensations she valued remained intact, as did the defined abdominal lines. Her stamina had also increased significantly compared to before.
“This body is better suited for combat in every way.”
Bai Fu smiled broadly as she began inspecting the new skills and talents brought about by the race evolution.
[Seer Mark] is an active displacement skill. She can use this skill to leave a marker in space and instantly teleport to the marked location. At its current stage, this displacement distance can span several astronomical units.
Nice, nice. Whether used for escape or ambush, this is a divine skill. Moreover, this skill has no cooldown time, though it consumes a large amount of stamina, limiting how many times it can be used in a short period.
The description of the [Void Seer] talent is rather complex. Simply put, after transforming into a void being, her power carries void properties. These properties convert 20% of the damage she deals into void damage, which is unaffected by normal resistance and, in most cases, equates to converting 20% of the damage into true damage.
[Void Nest] allows her to build a nest in the void, essentially an advanced version of the removed [Portable Space] talent. The opened space is much larger. The effect of [Void Walk] enables her to transform into a void form and walk in the void, similar to the removed [Phantom] characteristic but harder to detect.
“The more survival skills, the better!”
Bai Fu couldn’t help but marvel.
With these new traits, even if surrounded by a group of people, she wouldn’t be afraid anymore; she could always run away.
Unfortunately, this race evolution did not unlock any active damage-dealing skills. Otherwise, with dark attribute spiritual energy in one hand and void power in the other, enemies would find her impossible to defend against.
However, the attribute bonus from this evolution was very impressive, doubling what she gained when she evolved into a Shadow Phantom.
After allocating all her attribute points into inspiration, Bai Fu’s data panel experienced a leapfrog growth—
[Health Points]: 59089/59089
[Spiritual Energy]: 106345/106345
[Qi]: 11470/11470
[Attributes]: Strength 282, Agility 670, Constitution 767, Intelligence 570, Spirit 758, Inspiration 1933
Even her strength increased by nearly 100 points, while attributes like inspiration soared by nearly 400 points.
Bai Fu believed that with adequate preparation, she could now fight at least two and a half versions of her pre-evolution self. Once she reaches the Tiān-Zāi Tier, she could take on three Sinturions of the same tier.
And she was only 67 points of inspiration away from reaching the Tiān-Zāi Tier.
That gap wasn’t much; she just needed to stack the Apostle Heart one more layer to the fifth level to meet the conditions.
Was it difficult?
Not at all.
Before this operation, Bai Fu had already thought it through.
After angering the Tower of Secrets, it would be difficult for her commission business to proceed normally for a while. The base on Ulysses Star definitely couldn’t continue construction either. Apart from occasionally exploiting players for experience, she basically had nothing else to do.
Since she had nothing to do, why not conduct experiments with Youlia?
It would both pass the time and allow her to stack Apostle Heart layers to boost her attributes—a win-win situation!
“Hurry up and stop studying Tessia’s cells, come help me replenish my mana.”
A hand suddenly reached out from behind and landed on her hand, accompanied by a faint camellia fragrance and warm breath near her ear.
My goodness!
Inside the starship’s laboratory, Youlia jumped in surprise, almost falling over.
Without needing to look, she knew who…
Following behind was Bai Fu, as only she and Bai Fu knew the password to the laboratory.
“Are you sure you want to do this now? We’re on a spaceship. Although it has excellent soundproofing, Scarlet Leaf and Tessia are nearby.”
Bai Fu moved in front of Youlia, glaring at her: “What are you thinking? I’m talking about legitimate energy replenishment.”
Youlia feigned ignorance: “Replenishing energy is just replenishing energy. Is there even a distinction between proper or improper?”
Bai Fu said, “Don’t think I don’t know that even without physical contact with me, your body can help me replenish my energy. Stop fooling around; we have work to do. Let’s start by upgrading the Apostle’s Heart level. Once I successfully reach the Tian-Zai Tier, I’ll accompany you for three days and nights of replenishment. Whoever gives up or runs away is a dog!”
Youlia: “…”
Are you deliberately doing this? When you reach the Tian-Zai Tier and spend three days and nights replenishing, are you trying to kill me? You’re made of iron, but I’m not made for ironwork.
While silently complaining, Youlia calmly nodded her head.
“Let’s begin.”
…
Four days later.
The spaceship arrived smoothly at the Initial Gateway Star Cluster Subcommittee of the Star Treaty.
As soon as they disembarked, Tessia approached Youlia after much contemplation.
“I have something to discuss with… uh?”
Seeing Youlia leaning against the wall, pale-faced, and seemingly trembling in her legs, Tessia’s face showed astonishment.
“What happened to you?”
“Nothing, I’ve been overusing spiritual energy these past few days, which has left my body somewhat weak.”
Youlia wasn’t lying.
She was well aware that Bai Fu was currently being targeted by the Tower of Secrets, and the situation wasn’t good. Thus, she had almost exhausted all her strength to help Bai Fu recover spiritual energy and stack layers of the Apostle’s Heart.
Though she was a bit tired, the results were gratifying. It was estimated that Bai Fu would smoothly reach the Tian-Zai Tier within another ten to fifteen days.
Now, they were on the same boat; if Bai Fu did well, so would she.
Tessia seemed thoughtful, suspecting Youlia was deceiving her. But this wasn’t the time to dwell on Youlia’s condition. Her primary adversary was Scarlet Leaf, who had ascended to the Tian-Zai Tier. Before reversing the disadvantage, other matters were trivial. She could always deal with Youlia later.
With this thought, Tessia stepped forward to support Youlia, showing concern.
This unusual action puzzled Youlia.
What are you doing?
It wasn’t until Tessia mentioned wanting to collaborate with her to research their abilities in hopes of taming the spider inside her that Youlia understood.
Ah, Tessia was clearly motivated by Scarlet Leaf!
Youlia calmly nodded.
She wasn’t interested in the conflict between Tessia and Scarlet Leaf, but Tessia’s willingness to cooperate actively was undoubtedly a good thing.
Through studying Tessia’s cells, she had developed a healing agent.
This research allowed the Silent Courtyard to no longer have to purchase healing agents from outside, saving a significant amount of money.
However, Youlia felt this wasn’t enough. The current healing agents’ recovery capabilities were still too weak; while effective for undead people, they were practically useless for Bai Fu.
Tessia’s active cooperation would increase the likelihood of her developing a highly effective healing agent useful for Bai Fu.
Thus, she readily accepted Tessia’s goodwill.
…
On the day Bai Fu returned to the subcommittee, she received a message from the Star Treaty headquarters.
Fuye, having successfully reached the Tian-Zai Tier, had been internally designated as the next minister of the subcommittee. The formal appointment would come after Minister Lemang’s promotion.
This was good news.
The scale of the Initial Gateway Subcommittee wasn’t large, but it was still a considerable force.
Once Fuye took over as minister, conducting various businesses in the Initial Gateway Star Cluster would become much easier for her faction.
Bai Fu sincerely congratulated Fuye and then rejected numerous interview requests sent from the Star Network, holding an online meeting with Andreas.
Andreas had invested so wholeheartedly in her; he certainly wouldn’t seek nothing in return.
In reality, Andreas’s current position within the Origin Consortium wasn’t particularly favorable. Large consortia like the Origin Consortium always had many factions vying for power. Though Andreas was the leader, he constantly faced challenges from all sides.
Some of these challenges had no impact on him, while others could easily remove him from his leadership position.
The biggest threat at this stage came from an alliance formed by three internal factions.
This alliance had close ties with the Tam Civilization, famous in the Edge Worlds. They advocated for the Origin Consortium to fully align with the Tam Civilization and thus climb aboard the massive Super Nova Task Force.
This stance completely contradicted the neutral position that Andreas and his family had consistently upheld, leading to their fierce opposition.
In the past, Andreas and his family had always held the upper hand, but with the changing external situation and the declining investment returns of the Origin Consortium in recent years, this situation had changed.
In the most recent consortium meetings, the Tam faction had gradually gained the upper hand, with more people wanting to gamble with the Tam faction.
Andreas couldn’t possibly not be anxious.
He had no interest in participating in the struggles among the three major cosmic civilizations.
The risks involved in such high-level struggles were simply too great. Even if the Origin Consortium won the bet, it would merely obtain an entry ticket to the ultimate stage.
But his personal will was insignificant in the face of the larger trend.
If everything went according to plan, once the war between the Tam Civilization and the surrounding civilizations broke out, his position as the leader might become unstable.
However, an unexpected event occurred.
Andreas never dreamed that Bai Fu, whom he had invested in, would grow so quickly.
If Bai Fu could truly ascend to the Tian-Zai Tier within a short period as she claimed, he would have something substantial to say at the next internal meeting.
Even if these achievements couldn’t completely bridge the support gap with the Tam faction, they would be enough to make some fence-sitters continue to observe rather than entirely side with the Tam faction.
“Tam Civilization? War? Super Nova Task Force?”
Bai Fu pondered, suspecting this might be part of the main storyline in a future version. However, since the 2.0 version hadn’t officially launched yet, any speculation was meaningless.
After explaining the internal situation of the Origin Consortium, Andreas shifted the topic, reminding Bai Fu to be cautious.
Recently, her outstanding performance had spread beyond the Initial Gateway Star Cluster, drawing attention from many people, including those from the Tam faction within the Origin Consortium.
Andreas worried that the Tam faction might have ill intentions and secretly try to poach her when the Dark Moon Tide’s commission business was progressing poorly.
Hearing this, Bai Fu couldn’t help but laugh.
Eh, it’s true; she had been worried about this recently.
But what she was concerned about wasn’t someone coming to poach her but rather no one coming. If that happened, her plan to send some players to other factions as spies to collect intelligence for her would encounter setbacks. Andreas’s words were indeed a piece of great news.
“I’ll be careful.”
Bai Fu readily agreed.
After ending her conversation with Andreas, she immediately instructed Jiujiao to notify the players associated with the Tower of Secrets to gather more intelligence soon.
The players from the Tower of Secrets were quite cooperative.
As soon as Bai Fu sent the message, they reported several locations of Tower of Secrets bases and indicated that the Tower had been training them intensively recently, seemingly preparing for a major operation.
Bai Fu didn’t rush to inform the Star Network of the base locations.
Since the exact location of the Tower of Secrets headquarters was unknown, she feared alarming them and making them hide, which would cost her a lot of quest rewards.
“All preparations are in place; I just need to ascend to the Tian-Zai Tier!”
Bai Fu dealt with the accumulated company chores and then proactively contacted Su Xi from the Blessed Sect.
Before setting off to rendezvous with Fuye and the others, she had accepted a commission from Su Xi to “seize the True Essence Pillar held by the Tower of Secrets.”
Half a month had passed, and it was time to contact Su Xi and check the situation.
“I saw that you were tied up on the Red Ring Star, so I haven’t contacted you yet. Since you’re free now, come to the Blessed Sect, and let’s discuss the specific action plan.”
“No problem.”
Bai Fu immediately gathered two shiploads of players and flew towards the headquarters of the Blessed Sect.
Due to the harassment from the Tower of Secrets, fewer commissions were available for the players now, and most had gone to complete Wei Ke’s main quests. This was a good opportunity for her to give some idle players something to do and see if she could dig up more tasks from Su Xi, the NPC with a strong fortune talent, for the players to undertake.
Only when players were busy could they gain experience. When players earned experience, she could exploit their experience, allowing her to continue leveling up.
Each step was interconnected and couldn’t afford any mistakes.
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