Chapter 251: The Moment I Arrived, I Saw Bai Fu Beating the Enemy Senseless
When the location signal on the radar rapidly closed in, Bai Fu received a new quest notification.
【You have triggered the hidden objective of the Hidden Quest［Secret Meeting］】
“Well, well, so this thing was lying in wait for me here!”
Up until she left Arcane Star, Bai Fu still hadn’t triggered the hidden objective of 【Secret Meeting】, nor had she received a quest completion prompt. She had thought she’d missed some important plotline. Turns out, the so-called hidden objective meant someone would ambush her halfway.
She hurriedly opened the quest details and found that the quest description had indeed changed, now clearly specifying the exact content of the hidden objective and the rewards upon completion.
Objective: Survive the ambush.
Quest Rewards:
Successfully escape the pursuit: 100 million XP, and randomly draw one skill from the ambusher;
Achieve a battle score above 500 points and successfully escape the pursuit: 200 million XP, Special Passive 【Against All Odds】.
“Special Passive 【Against All Odds】… No idea what it does, but since it’s classified as a high-difficulty reward, it should be pretty powerful.”
Bai Fu closed the quest panel.
At this moment, even without the radar reminder, she could already see through the transparent porthole the ambushers’ ships rapidly approaching from afar.
There were three in total, each coming from a different direction.
The three ships moved extremely fast, heading straight toward Bai Fu’s ship without the slightest intention of stopping.
Bai Fu instantly understood.
The other side intended to smash her ship to pieces at first contact, so she would have no way to escape.
A solid plan.
Even though she could assume Wraith Form, and even teleport across several astronomical units using Prophet Mark, compared to a spaceship, her speed was still nothing impressive.
The only problem was…
“Who said I was planning to run?”
Bai Fu couldn’t help but smile.
After Oathmaster went into seclusion, her hands had been itching—she wanted to find someone to spar with to test her own strength.
How coincidental. After mastering the 《Path of the Apostle》, which greatly boosted her power, she also wanted to find a few sandbags to pound on, to test her current limits.
Just earlier she’d been worrying about this, because she couldn’t exactly go to Cersia or Hiye for a test match.
Cersia and Hiye looked sturdy enough, but in a real, full-force fight, they wouldn’t be able to withstand her intensity.
Now, perfect—someone was confidently coming to ambush her.
“200 million XP plus a passive skill… Judging by the quest rewards, this mission’s difficulty is higher than the commissions Nilis issued, but not by too much. At the very least, it’s still within the range a Calamity-class can handle.”
Bai Fu swiftly pulled out two 【Legion】 cards.
As long as it was still within Calamity-class, she had nothing to fear now!
Come on!
Let’s see whether your storm-style offensive is fiercer, or my True Spirit Tide is more overwhelming!
“Milady, be careful!”
As the three ships were about to collide, Ying Fu immediately rushed in front of Bai Fu, trying to shield her with her own fragile body.
Bai Fu gently pressed a hand on her shoulder, confident and calm: “Don’t worry. It’s just a mere ship explosion—it might not even break through my Psionic Shield. When the fight starts, you just focus on commanding the legion. Leave everything else to me.”
Ying Fu nodded firmly.
The next second, the twin prongs on the bow of the incoming ship heavily rammed into the side armor of Bai Fu’s vessel.
After a violent jolt, the blast’s flames instantly engulfed all four ships, blossoming into a blinding firework in the starry sky.
……
Boom! Boom!—
Beyond the outer edges of the explosion, a group of attackers wearing special protective masks stared intently at the roiling flames.
“She wouldn’t have been blown to death, right?”
“If you got blown up, maybe—but her? No chance. Don’t think of her as an ordinary Psionic Prayer-user. She’s an extremely rare all-rounder, someone even Saints take seriously. Stay sharp. If we can take her alive, do it. If it looks like we can’t, kill her on the spot without hesitation. Your life is your own—if you lose it because you hesitated, it’ll be too late to regret it!”
The tall attacker who seemed to be the leader barked the order.
Two seconds later, he added, “And keep your mouths shut later. Don’t slip up and let Bai Fu realize we’re not List’s people. It’s not time for us to be exposed yet.”
“Yes.”
The others all nodded.
As the flames gradually dissipated, their excitement grew.
Doing dirty work in secret and pinning the blame on someone else—one word for it:
Satisfying!
“She’s coming!”
Suddenly, a massive beam of deep-purple energy shot out from the heart of the explosion.
The strike carried immense force—any ordinary weak Calamity would never dare take it head-on.
But these attackers were all extraordinarily powerful and well-trained. The moment the beam shot out, they reacted instantly.
Hum!
The three in front unleashed their strength together, forming an invisible force field before them.
Under the impact of the deep-purple beam, the force field trembled violently, but held.
The leader clicked his tongue at the sight.
“As expected of Bai Fu—blocking a single strike from her takes at least two or three upper Calamities.”
He was impressed by Bai Fu’s strength, but not at all afraid. After all, his own power was extraordinary, and to make sure they could kill Bai Fu this time, they had deployed ten Calamity-class fighters—five of them upper Calamities—aside from himself. That level of respect for Bai Fu was just short of calling in a Domination-level to personally send her to the afterlife.
“Who are you?”
When the beam and force field both faded, Bai Fu’s voice came over the general broadcast channel.
The leader sneered coldly. “That’s not something you need to know, Bai Fu. You shouldn’t have interfered in the Taim Civilization’s civil war. The Taim Civilization belongs to the Taim people!”
He didn’t outright say he was one of List’s subordinates, but his words were enough to lead people to that assumption.
After all, so far, the only person among the Taim Civilization factions who had openly said something like that to the news media was List.
If it had been someone else being misled like this, in a moment of urgency, they might have connected it to what happened on Arcane Star recently and really taken him for Calvin.
Unfortunately for him, this time he ran into Bai Fu.
They were wearing protective masks, so Bai Fu couldn’t see their faces or names.
But when it came to identifying someone, faces and names weren’t always reliable—what was truly reliable was the data panel!
Bai Fu swiftly activated her Spiritual Vision skill, and upon seeing the data feedback, she couldn’t help but curse inwardly.
— You’re no damn Calvin!
None of the leader attacker’s data matched Calvin’s in the slightest.
As for his class, that was even more intriguing. His main class was 【Self-Disciplined Martial Saint】—nothing to comment on there—but his sub class was 【Exiled Star Pirate】. Bai Fu did not recall any of List’s subordinates being former star pirates.
List was a military noble of the Taim Civilization, trained in a formal military academy. With his arrogant personality, there was no way he would accept a star pirate as one of his men. If he had that kind of flexibility, he wouldn’t reject cooperating with outside forces.
“Deliberately pretending to be Calvin? Wait, this data panel—”
In the data panel of one of the upper Calamity-class, Bai Fu spotted a skill name that was extremely familiar—
【Ghost Hand!】
Damn it, wasn’t that the nickname of Frank, who, together with the Holy Blessing Cult at the Secret Tower headquarters, had stolen the Fake True Spirit Pillar she had just acquired?
Bai Fu quickly searched online for Frank’s commonly used skills. There wasn’t much information, but what she found matched perfectly with the data she saw on the panel.
So it’s you, bastard!
Bai Fu laughed in anger.
After becoming an upper Calamity, she had been wanting to take revenge, but she could never find Frank’s hiding place. She hadn’t expected him to deliver himself to her door today.
Frank had so many Calamity-class with him, and he didn’t even seem to be the leader. This force he belonged to was no ordinary group.
Bai Fu did not immediately expose the identities of Frank and the others.
She wanted not only to kill Frank, but also to uncover his true identity—and, if possible, take out the people behind him too, to prevent future trouble.
Therefore, she played along with Frank and the others.
“These words…” Her brows suddenly furrowed, sharp light flashing in her eyes. “Calvin, it’s you!”
When Bai Fu shouted this, the fake Calvin’s body trembled very subtly. Ordinary people might not notice, but with Calamity-class perception, it was easy to detect.
He said, “I don’t know why you’ve mistaken me for Calvin, but if that’s what you really believe, then that’s not a bad thing.”
Bai Fu said, “You can’t fool me, Calvin. To be honest, I wanted to beat you up back on Arcane Star. Now that you’ve come in person, I see no reason to hold back!”
With a cold shout, Ying Fu stepped out from behind her, swiftly playing two 【Legion】 cards.
In an instant, tens of thousands of summoned creatures surged out from the Legion’s holy light, fanning out to guard Bai Fu and Ying Fu in the exact center.
Under the mask, “Calvin” gave a sinister smile.
Perfect—Bai Fu had taken the bait!
This way, even if their operation failed this time and they didn’t manage to kill Bai Fu, they wouldn’t expose their true identities. Instead, they would worsen the conflict between Bai Fu and List, giving them more opportunities to exploit.
Of course, that was only a fallback plan.
He was actually very confident in their own strength.
If Cersia, Hiye, Steel Curtain, or Malen had been guarding Bai Fu at this moment, things might have been different. But now, with only Bai Fu here, if he couldn’t kill her, he might as well put on a clown show!
“Go!”
“Calvin” growled low, rallying all his companions to attack Bai Fu.
Ten Calamity-class charging together was like Mars colliding with Earth, sending up a storm of a million waves.
Facing such an offensive, Bai Fu was completely unfazed.
From the start, she went all out, instantly raising her Inspiration to over 5,400 points, then stuffing a large handful of psionic recovery items into her mouth.
Then, with Dark Force Field active, stacked with the effects of the talents Calamity Crown and the passive Holy Spirit’s Blessing, her physical damage reduction rate was pushed up to 70% for a short time.
In this state, her consumption was enormous. But when outnumbered, the most effective methods were either to seize favorable terrain to turn it into a rotation battle, or to focus all strength on quickly taking out a few enemies to reduce their numbers.
In the open void of space, the first option wasn’t possible, so Bai Fu chose the second—and her target was the fake Calvin who kept hinting at being the real one.
Once this fake went down, she didn’t even care about the attributes of the other Calamities.
“Come fight!”
Facing the surging tide of Qi power, Bai Fu was fearless. She summoned the Eye of Sorrow and then directly cut through the waves to clash head-on with “Calvin.”
At the moment they engaged, Ying Fu commanded the two 【Legion】 units to pin down the other Calamities, continuously playing new Prayer Cards to fill gaps in the legions and to apply debuffs and crowd control on the enemies.
The Psionic Legion’s combat strength today was far greater than before, and with Ying Fu as a full-time commander, its explosive power was even more formidable.
With a single charge, the Psionic Legion split the attackers into two groups.
One was the four weaker Calamities, trapped in the center. No matter how they charged, they couldn’t break out, as if they were stuck in a mire.
The other was the remaining upper Calamities. These, aiming for a quick victory, ignored their trapped companions and instead rushed toward Bai Fu, intending to join “Calvin” in taking her down quickly.
Bai Fu had anticipated this situation.
She didn’t dodge at all.
Why dodge? Her HP of over 100,000 and a second HP bar worth 20% were not for show—not to mention her current 70% physical damage reduction.
Oh, and to withstand this wave, she had already switched her Psionic Evolution Tree skill to Life Drain during the ship explosion. Once this skill was active, it was like lighting a furnace inside her body—her whole being was ablaze.
This strike carried the accumulated strength of nearly seven years of “cheat time.” Could they block it?
Even before they collided, the surging psionic energy had already stacked multiple debuffs on “Calvin”—
Stat reduction, resistance reduction, increased damage taken…
When they finally clashed, the shockwave was like a planet suddenly exploding in the starry sky.
The violent impact knocked down swathes of summoned creatures and sent the weaker Calamities staggering, unable to keep their balance.
“The power of this blow is probably close to a Domination-level strike!”
Frank’s face changed drastically.
In recent times, seeing Bai Fu’s strength skyrocket, he had certainly felt some apprehension—and now, that apprehension had grown even stronger.
No, they absolutely couldn’t let Bai Fu leave here alive.
Capture her alive?
If Bai Fu really had been brainwashed and defected to the Saints, then with her overwhelming strength in his face, the Saint would probably turn a blind eye.
Kill Bai Fu!
Frank plunged headlong into the center of the shockwave, Qi surging all over his body. Out of the void, an enormous energy-formed hand reached out from the space behind him, aimed straight at where Bai Fu had been standing before.
Ghost Hand, grasp!
Snap.
Frank’s eyes lit up with joy.
He had caught something solid with Ghost Hand.
It was… why was it “Calvin”?
Frank suddenly froze, and the other upper Calamities who had been preparing to unleash a fierce volley to teach Bai Fu a lesson also noticed something was wrong. They hurriedly stopped and looked toward the “Calvin” Frank had grabbed.
What they saw shocked them all.
The “Calvin” who had been full of life just moments ago had lost his entire lower body. A mass of blood beads floated near the mangled mess of intestines—a sight as gory as it was terrifying.
Yes, terrifying!
Even killers like Frank and his crew were shaken.
It was the first time they had seen “Calvin” injured so badly.
If “Calvin” was wounded like this, then Bai Fu must have…
“Were you looking for me?”
Bai Fu suddenly exited Wraith Form, appearing in Frank and the others’ line of sight. She wore a gentle smile, but to Frank and his men, she looked like a demon.
“Unharmed? How… how is that possible?”
“How did she do that?”
Bai Fu smiled without answering.
Of course she wasn’t unharmed—but as a Fictional Lifeform, her injuries wouldn’t show on her body.
In fact, that earlier clash had completely depleted her Psionic Shield and her second HP bar.
But the cost had been worth it—her all-out strike had blasted “Calvin” with a whopping 133,636 damage right over his head.
As a martial artist, “Calvin” was indeed tanky, with over 180,000 HP and high resistances under the boost of Qi Surge.
However, it was meaningless here—Bai Fu’s strike dealt true damage, plus an extra 10% damage taken from Apocalypse.
True damage was all about being real!
After that detonation, the follow-up damage from Extra-dimensional Erosion, Spinning Demon Blade, and Dark Force Field came bursting out.
With “Calvin” heavily wounded, his Qi dispersed, stats dropped, and damage taken increased, the triple burst carved another huge chunk off his HP.
By the time Frank grabbed him, he had barely over 10,000 HP left—not even one-tenth of his total—and it was still slowly dropping.
“Calvin” felt his heart sink to death’s edge.
Of all the calculations he had made, he had never accounted for Bai Fu’s explosive power being this high. Before he could even unleash his martial skills, he was already reduced to a cripple.
Too pitiful.
So pitiful that, if not for his companions nearby, he would have wanted to kill himself on the spot.
Seeing him like this, Frank and the others felt their own hearts go cold.
Th-this… could they really fight Bai Fu?
But not fighting wasn’t an option—there was no way Bai Fu would let them go.
Frank quickly gave “Calvin” some healing potion, then joined forces with the others to attack Bai Fu.
The four weaker Calamities also wanted to help, but under the Psionic Legion’s defense commanded by Ying Fu, they still couldn’t break through, and could only pray the others could take Bai Fu down.
“The fake Calvin is done for, and you lot think you can kill me?”
Bai Fu gave a cold laugh. With her sheer tankiness, she didn’t bother to dodge or evade—she traded blows with Frank and the others head-on.
The longer they fought, the more alarmed Frank and his team became, because Bai Fu didn’t seem to be taking damage at all. Worse, her damage was actually getting higher over time. What kind of monster was this?
Silly—you’re looking at the effect of Dark Desperation, where losing HP increases stats!
Bai Fu’s fists came crashing down on Frank’s face twice in quick succession.
In that moment, everyone present had a shift in mindset.
……
Beep beep beep!
At the Lockheed Observatory, alarms blared.
“Damn, Bai Fu is under ambush. From the energy readings, the enemy has ten Calamities, six of them upper Calamities!”
The news spread quickly, and everyone in the observatory grew tense.
Cersia, Yulia, Steel Curtain, and Malen immediately boarded a ship to rush to the rescue.
Far away, Nilis also received the news, and he was just as tense as the Lockheed defenders. If Bai Fu died, it would be a huge blow to his side.
“What’s the situation now? Tell me immediately if anything changes!”
“Have you reached the battlefield? Hurry and save Bai Fu, I’ll add an extra rewa—”
At that moment, Steel Curtain cut him off.
“There’s no need to save her anymore.”
Nilis’s heart sank instantly. “Bai Fu… she’s already…?”
“Yes,” Steel Curtain nodded with feeling, “the problem’s already been solved. When I got here, I saw Bai Fu chasing all ten of them.”
Nilis: “……”
He had actually thought Bai Fu needed his rescue. He was so stupid. Truly!
“Thanks for making the trip anyway.”
The Lockheed ambush battle neared its end, and word of the result gradually spread. It reached the ears of Oathmaster, and also Yuan Yi—setting off a tidal wave.