Chapter 277: The Truth of the Void, One Million HP!
Lufas controlled his doppelgänger and rushed out of the base, greatly weakening the base’s defensive power.
At this time, aside from the meticulously built defense system, the only ones stationed inside were one Domination-level Dayhide, and two Calamity-class guards responsible for regional defense.
Placed in the Edge Worlds, this lineup could already fight quite well.
Unfortunately, this time Dayhide and the others encountered Bai Fu, who had come fully prepared and launched a surprise attack!
Kabaye slapped Dayhide out of the base with one palm.
By the time Dayhide realized the situation and tried to return for reinforcements, he was already caught in a pincer attack between Kabaye and the Prayer Angel, who had arrived right after.
Dayhide’s main class level was 161.
Weaker than Zephyr, and even inferior to Kaide.
Thus, the outcome of this battle was self-evident.
Dayhide was spun around like a top—more accurately, Kabaye and the Prayer Angel were batting him back and forth like a ping pong ball.
On one side was a strength-type behemoth, whose fists and palms could shatter stars.
On the other side was the soul of a mage, the Prayer Angel, who had mastered countless psionic summoning card skills—each casual flick of the hand released a dazzling barrage of skills.
The most frustrating thing was that every single one of these skills carried insidious effects.
Dayhide charged left and right.
No matter where he ran, he was beaten black and blue.
In just over ten seconds, he felt sick, as if he had swallowed flies.
He recognized them—the attacker was Bai Fu!
Why was Bai Fu here?
No.
This wasn’t the time to dwell on such things.
Dayhide kept trying to call Lufas, but the blockade of the Virtual Heart rendered all his efforts useless.
It was over!
Dayhide felt overwhelming despair.
The same despair filled the hearts of those still left behind in the base.
“You, you, you…”
A Calamity-class psionicist trembled as he kept retreating.
In front of him, layer after layer of special gates fell, but it was useless.
Those heavy gates were as fragile as paper before the Dark Force Field radiating from Bai Fu.
Crack! Crack!
Gates, walls, floors—even that Calamity-class himself—under the distortion of the Dark Force Field, all shattered inch by inch.
In the end, they were compressed into a metal ball and fell to the ground with a thud.
This scene terrified everyone around.
But Bai Fu gave them no time to react.
The Dark Force Field spread rapidly.
By the time she walked to the end of the corridor, only neatly arranged corpses kneeling on the ground remained behind the broken walls on both sides.
Eerie, yet carrying a strange solemnity.
Solemn, yet all the more eerie.
“Identity recognition?”
Bai Fu glanced at the door blocking her path.
Behind it lay the most central area of the research base.
She raised her right hand and stabbed straight through the door, tearing it down in one motion.
A shrill alarm immediately wailed throughout the room.
Tiny gun barrels, high-mobility robots, and specially bred miniature Void Lifeforms all rushed at her at once.
Da-da-da! Boom-boom-boom!
An endless storm of attacks slammed down on Bai Fu, but they couldn’t even tear her clothes.
“Check the surroundings, see if there are any other hidden areas. I’ll sweep through here first.”
Bai Fu spoke to Yulia and Fei Ye through the comm channel.
Then, she lightly clenched her right hand.
“Silence!”
In an instant, all the mechanical devices and Void Lifeforms attacking her froze, as if time itself had stopped, unable to move a fraction.
The world finally became quiet.
Bai Fu began her looting journey.
Worried that Lufas might suddenly return, she didn’t take the time to carefully check each item’s description.
First, she stripped the data storage units and written documents.
Once those were taken, she moved on to the important equipment marked in red, then the finished products on display cases and laboratory benches.
As for the trivial materials, she discarded those she didn’t need, and fed the useful ones directly to the Sacrificial God Scepter to digest.
Cultivating the Sacrificial God Scepter into a true cosmic treasure wasn’t easy.
The value of materials it required was astronomical.
Now that she had caught a rare chance for the scepter to enjoy a “buffet,” how could she let it go?
“Delicious, love it, still want to feed it more Saints, Korona, or Lufas later!”
1%... 2%... 5%...
Just like that, the investigation progress of the laboratory soared rapidly.
Adding in the gains from Hei Fu, Yulia, and Fei Ye, in a very short time the progress had reached over 52%.
Then, it stopped.
“?”
This wasn’t right.
The lab had been almost completely scavenged, yet the investigation progress was only just over half.
Was it because she hadn’t had time to read much of the data?
Bai Fu thought it over and felt something was wrong.
The quest 【Hidden Void Lord】 had a note, which mentioned that the investigation progress had to reach over 70% to trigger the next stage.
If simply collecting and reading documents could achieve that, then why would the note emphasize it so specifically?
“There must be something I missed!”
Bai Fu’s eyes gradually turned purple.
She activated higher-dimensional oversight, examining the surroundings from another perspective.
Gradually, she discovered something unusual—there was a spot where the spatial flatness didn’t seem right.
She quickly called Fei Ye over, and asked her to let the Jinlu inside her investigate.
【You have discovered Folded Space】
In Bai Fu’s vision, a red exclamation mark suddenly popped up at a certain spot in the laboratory.
“What a hiding place. If someone insensitive to space intruded here, they’d never notice.”
Bai Fu sighed as she stepped forward.
With Jinlu’s help, she opened the folded space and retrieved the encrypted data storage unit hidden inside.
The moment she obtained it, her investigation progress instantly rose to over 82%.
No wonder the note said progress had to exceed 70% to trigger the next stage.
This single item accounted for 30%.
If it couldn’t be found, then no matter how much effort was spent, the entire questline would have been cut off.
“Let’s go.”
Bai Fu looked around.
The base had already been swept clean.
Now, as long as Dayhide was eliminated, this operation would be complete.
Under the siege of Kabaye and the Prayer Angel, Dayhide had already been beaten black and blue.
With Bai Fu and Hei Fu joining the battlefield one after another, the battle completely turned into a one-sided massacre.
Bai Fu and Hei Fu didn’t even need to use Blessing of the Mind.
“Ahhh!”
Dayhide fought with all his might.
Even while heavily injured, he still managed to burst out twice in succession.
But against Bai Fu’s despicable tactic of many versus one, he was finally hammered into a bloody pancake by Kabaye’s heavy fist.
【You have slain Domain Supervisor·Dayhide, contribution 100%. Corrected for level difference, you gain 180 million XP.】
【First kill of a Domination-level psionicist. You have unlocked the special title［Domination Slayer］.】
Oh?
A surprise?
Bai Fu opened the description of the new title.
【Domination Slayer】: Only one title of this type may be equipped. While equipped, base damage +5%, and highest base attribute +2%.
These two bonuses weren’t much, but better than nothing.
And judging from the description, this title could still evolve.
The condition was most likely to kill more Dominations.
In the past, killing a Domination was difficult, as it easily triggered large-scale conflicts between factions.
But now, with all major factions already embroiled in conflict or teetering on the edge, she could wield her butcher’s blade without hesitation.
“Let’s leave first.”
Bai Fu led everyone back to the Mobile Palace to begin the retreat.
After returning, she didn’t rush to settle the quest.
Instead, she gathered everyone to sort the newly looted documents and special items.
This work lasted more than two hours, but the harvest was immense.
An item that reduced the draconic activity of the Void Dragon Potion—【Void Lord’s Blessing】.
A pile of small items related to Space Shuttle, Space Folding, and Void Banishment, which could be used by players or by Yulia and the others.
A gentle Void Gene Purification Potion.
The secret of the Void, sealed by Lufas with the double safeguard of folded space and data encryption.
The most valuable secret among them:
According to the document, the Void was extremely special.
It was different from the Ethereal Realm.
It was not naturally formed, but carried very clear traces of artificial creation.
For tens of thousands of years, civilizations had researched the Void, trying to uncover its origin.
Yet, no complete or self-consistent system had ever been formed.
In pursuit of transcending his limits, Lufas had also secretly studied the Void.
During this process, he accidentally touched upon the taboo of the Void, and suffered the invasion of a Void Lord.
That Void Lord attempted to completely devour him and turn him into its Void Servant.
But first, the Void Lord was injured at the time.
Second, it severely underestimated him.
His power system was unique.
He was a dual-type esper of mind + body control, able to perceive and manipulate the spirit of all things.
He also possessed a special ability—so long as his spirit did not perish, he could undergo rebirth within a cocoon.
With this ability, he successfully deceived the Void Lord.
When the Void Lord believed him dead, he suddenly reappeared and counter-killed it.
Since the Void Lord had constantly been invading his body, afterward he reversed the invasion and seized its core.
By fusing with the core, he gained knowledge that only higher-intelligence Void Lifeforms knew.
The most important secret was this: the Void Dimension was forcibly stripped away from the three-dimensional space where ordinary people lived.
【The Void Dimension is the “previous era” of this world.】
【Long before the rise of the Three Universal Civilizations, there had existed civilizations in the starry skies not inferior to them.】
【But due to some unknown invasion, all those civilizations were destroyed and exiled, becoming the Void Dimension.】
【The power of the Void is the twisted form of the power those civilizations once wielded.】
【This power may appear insane, but if purified, it may become the key to further evolution.】
After this monologue, Lufas recorded the blueprint of the purification device he envisioned.
But the blueprint had problems.
After Apostle’s Spiritual Vision appraisal, the feedback returned as 【Incomplete Void Converter (Completion 92.1%)】.
After reading all this, Bai Fu triggered a new quest.
【You have triggered Hidden Quest［Bridge to the Old Days］】
【Quest Introduction: ……】
【Quest Objective: Complete the Void Converter Blueprint】
【Reward: 2 billion XP, Seeker of the Way Fragment*1, Rare Prayer Card Blueprint［Old Dominator］(Rainbow)】
“This reward.”
Bai Fu sucked in a sharp breath.
Clearly this quest would not be easy to complete.
But no matter how difficult, she had to try.
She casually settled the previous quest ring.
With an investigation progress of 97.5%, she received an【Excellent】rating.
The corresponding reward was 1 billion XP, Seeker of the Way Fragment*1, special skill【Void Bubble】, and Lufas’s skill card【Soul Freeze Beam】*1.
The effect of Void Bubble was to create a bubble that encompassed everything inside.
This meant Bai Fu could now carry others while Void Shuttling.
“Another title fragment. With this, as long as I complete Bridge to the Old Days, I’ll obtain this special title.”
Bai Fu was full of energy.
She closed the quest panel, then took out the two Void Dragon Potions she had received.
She gave one to herself, and handed the other to Fei Ye.
Once both of them finished the injection, she took out the Void Lord’s Blessing, a range-type buff item.
Milky white light fell from above.
Wrapped in warmth, Bai Fu watched the progress bar climb slowly before her eyes.
The process was not painful.
It wasn’t race evolution or life ascension, but more like “gene enhancement.”
Yet, the improvement it brought was extremely evident.
Void Dragons were known for their toughness, strength, and mastery of space shuttling.
Bai Fu’s improvements were exactly in these areas.
First, Constitution: her HP conversion ratio rose by 30, and her maximum HP increased by 15%.
Then, the extra HP bar from Void Shelter rose from 10% to 20%.
After that, base Strength +250, base Agility +100.
Finally, her Void Adaptation and Void Energy absorption efficiency greatly improved.
The benefit was that when she entered the Void, her HP recovery speed nearly doubled.
Bai Fu checked her HP.
It was now close to 920,000.
An increase of 210,000.
If she included the 20% extra HP from Void Shelter, her total exceeded the one-million mark!
“At this rate, when I advance to Transcendent, I should have over two million HP!”
Though still far from the eight million HP of the Oathmaster, one—he had only just advanced to Transcendent, and two—he was a Martial Artist.
Being far tankier than her was normal.
Compared to Psionic Priests, she was already a walking fortress.
Awesome!
Bai Fu smiled at Fei Ye.
“How does it feel?”
Fei Ye nodded with a smile.
“Very good. My strength has increased a lot.”
If not for her elder sister being present, she would have pounced on Bai Fu already to celebrate properly.
Bai Fu stood up and stretched lazily.
Now that this matter was settled, the next steps were to squeeze players for leveling and to seek the Mental Sanctuary.
She must not allow the Ten Saints Council or the Holy City of the Apostles to find the Mental Sanctuary first.
Thinking of the Ten Saints Council, Bai Fu recalled Yuan Yi and the Oathmaster.
Black King and Ying Fu hadn’t called her urgently.
That meant Origin Star shouldn’t be in crisis.
“How’s the situation?”
“Elder Sister, the Saint and Korona have already been repelled.
The battle was uploaded by reporters, you can watch it yourself.”
Repelled?
Bai Fu quickly descended remotely into a summoned True Spirit to check the news.
All she could say was that Yuan Yi was more monstrous than expected.
In these few months on Origin Star, he had successfully undergone a divine metamorphosis, his strength skyrocketing.
Saint and Korona, two Transcendent II powerhouses, attacked him together two-on-one, yet he suppressed them.
Then, the Oathmaster, whose strength had also greatly increased, unleashed his power.
Korona’s mechanical legion was bombarded into fragments—so shattered they could never regenerate.
Facing such a situation, after cursing furiously, Saint and Korona had no choice but to retreat.
They feared that if they delayed longer, Imperial reinforcements would arrive, leaving them no escape.
The video in the news was not very clear.
It barely captured the Oathmaster and the others.
But it still stirred a great uproar.
Ordinary people cheered for Yuan Yi and the Oathmaster’s victory.
Meanwhile, those who knew them well turned extremely grim.
If only one of them had grown stronger, it would be manageable.
But now both had advanced dramatically.
They had to take it seriously.
“The one thing they both did recently was go to Origin Star.
Could it be that Origin Star hides a secret that allows Transcendents to greatly increase their power in such a short time?”
As this thought arose in people’s minds, all major factions grew restless.
They had to send people to Origin Star at once!