Chapter 280: Instant Kill Domination-level, the Power of the Sacrificial God Scepter
If the game’s storyline developed without any accidents, Bai Fu estimated that the Apostle Holy City would not be able to find the Mental Sanctuary until after Version 3.0.
However, under her influence, the game’s plot had long since deviated drastically from the direction originally envisioned in the official promotional video.
The civil war of the Taim Civilization could end early.
The Ten Saints Council could be beaten into fleeing with their tails between their legs before they had the chance to grow arrogant.
In that case, the Apostle Holy City might also, by a twist of fate, find the Mental Sanctuary ahead of time.
To prevent such a thing from happening, once she had some free time, Bai Fu quickly went to find Cypriss and earnestly explained her intention.
“The starry sea is vast.
To rely on short-range detection methods to find the location of the Mental Sanctuary in this boundless starry sea is no different from searching for a needle in a haystack.
But I’m afraid that the Dark Zone Insect Queen who stabbed you in the back might, out of fear of your revenge, take the initiative to contact the people of the Apostle Holy City and reveal the secret of the Mental Sanctuary!”
Bai Fu’s expression was extremely serious.
Seeing her this serious, Cypriss gradually felt a trace of unease.
If that traitor truly defected to the Apostle Holy City, or to the other two among the Three Major Interstellar Civilizations, then her revenge would be difficult.
She had to take down that traitor in advance.
But if she told Bai Fu the location of the Mental Sanctuary right now, wouldn’t she then have no trump cards left at all?
Wouldn’t Bai Fu be able to handle her however she pleased?
Fine.
With Bai Fu’s current strength, she could actually already handle her however she pleased.
Cypriss had not yet regained her former strength, but she could feel that the aura Bai Fu radiated was far stronger than her own at her peak.
Although Bai Fu was rather shady, she had never schemed against those close to her.
So she would trust her this once.
“I can tell you the location of the Mental Sanctuary, but you must promise me that you will help me get rid of that traitor!”
“No problem.”
Cypriss nodded and pulled up a star chart.
“To find the Mental Sanctuary, you must first locate the Dark Zone Insect Swarm’s hive.
From the hive, you can then reach the periphery of the Mental Sanctuary through the Dark Zone Godseat.
The current map is still incomplete, so I cannot directly point out the exact location of the hive.
But as long as you keep exploring in this direction, with me helping to correct the exploration route, you will definitely find the hive’s specific location.”
A red arrow appeared on the star chart.
At the same time, Bai Fu triggered a new exploration quest.
【Lost Sanctuary】
The requirement of this quest was to find the Mental Sanctuary.
The quest reward was astonishing—1 billion XP.
And this was only for charting the way!
Bai Fu felt this quest would not be so simple.
Sure enough.
“But I must remind you, the place where the Mental Sanctuary lies is not safe.
There is an abnormal gravity source nearby, and multiple supernova explosions have occurred there.
Around it also roam many ferocious Stellar Beasts.
Although I haven’t been back there in over five hundred years, five hundred years should not be enough for it to change too much.”
Cypriss said with a solemn expression.
Bai Fu asked, “How strong are those Stellar Beasts?”
Cypriss replied, “How weak could they be if they can freely soar in such a harsh environment?
There are quite a few Domination-level ones.
You also know what kind of creatures Stellar Beasts are.
Each one is extremely fierce.
When they see something alive and moving, their first thought is to eat it.
Back then, our Dark Zone Insect Swarm ancestors only found the Mental Sanctuary in that cursed place because of sheer luck.”
She thought these words would make Bai Fu panic a little.
But Bai Fu’s reaction was completely beyond her expectations.
Holy crap, several Domination-level Stellar Beasts?
Bai Fu’s eyes lit up instantly.
Family, it’s dinner time, dinner time!
Stellar Beasts wanted to eat her, but she wanted to eat Stellar Beasts even more.
If she killed all of these Stellar Beasts, could it make her Domination Slayer title upgrade?
When defeating these Stellar Beasts, could she obtain some skills or talents from them?
Could the genomes extracted from these Stellar Beasts bring about another evolution for her race?
Just thinking about it made Bai Fu so excited she felt like she had just done an experiment with Yulia.
“Say no more, I’ll arrange it right away!”
She bolted out of the room.
Under her arrangements, dozens of spaceships flew toward the direction indicated by the arrow on the map.
For secrecy, Bai Fu did not arrange for Players to board this time.
The crew consisted of Xia Shi’s mechanical forces, along with her controlled Little Hei Fu, Tiny Bai Fu, Big Hei Fu, and Extreme·Shuying—the Fu-fu family legion.
The exploration fleet would not rush directly to the destination.
Instead, they would establish several small relay stations along the way to ensure the route’s safety.
By the time the exploration fleet truly found the Dark Zone Insect Hive, it would probably be a few months later.
This was time Bai Fu could afford to wait.
She could use it to squeeze XP out of the Players for a wave of level-ups.
And at the same time, raise the level of the Sacrificial God Scepter, as well as the levels of the “enlightened” Ying Fu, Black King, Eye of Sorrow, and White King (Tiny Bai Fu).
The Empire’s efficiency was very high.
While they were transferring the Rust Corps to the Dark Zone to be responsible for the exploration plan, they also sent over the batch of supplies previously promised to Bai Fu.
Once the supplies were in hand, Bai Fu immediately picked out all the parts useful for the Sacrificial God Scepter and fed them to it.
The attributes of the Sacrificial God Scepter underwent a leap in growth.
After fully digesting this batch of resources, its stats became——
Inspiration +350, Psionic Skill Effect +150%, Skill Release Speed +20%, Psionic Consumption -20% (on top of normal skill calculation), Base Psionic Recovery Speed +200%, Psionic Legion under the Radiance of the Sacrificial God Scepter +20% Attack and Defense, Additional Skill·Sacrifice God, Additional Skill·Divine Domain.
Sacrifice God was a charged offensive skill with astonishing destructive power.
At this stage, a fully charged blast was enough to severely injure a Domination-level being and deal some damage even to a Transcendent.
Divine Domain was a defensive skill, with an effect similar to Psionic Shield, but covering a far larger area.
However, releasing a large Divine Domain also required charging.
The Sacrificial God Scepter’s current effects already completely crushed Zenith Sovereign, which Bai Fu had cultivated for a long time.
But this was still not the Scepter’s limit.
The fully complete Sacrificial God Scepter’s power was no weaker than the cosmic treasure Eckhard Cannon of the Supernova Battle Group.
“Once I advance to Transcendent and pluck another wave of wool from the Empire, that should be enough to raise the Sacrificial God Scepter to cosmic treasure-level power.”
Bai Fu was extremely satisfied with this wave of upgrades.
In the days that followed, she stayed on Origin Star.
She occasionally gave guidance to the Domination-level and Transcendent individuals sent by the Empire, and in her free time browsed the Community or news sites in the game.
During this time, as the Rust Corps built a temporary base near Origin Star, Yuan Yi bid farewell and left.
He still had his own matters to deal with.
However, the Oathmaster did not leave.
Anyway, the Star Pact did not really need her to manage it.
She got addicted to playing on Origin Star.
To be precise, she got addicted to “playing” Bai Fu.
Recently, whenever she had nothing to do, she would go looking for Bai Fu to fight.
Of course, she deliberately restrained her own strength.
If she went all out, Bai Fu would be knocked unconscious after just two blows.
The reason she was so enthusiastic about this was because she discovered that Bai Fu, this Psionic Priest, was also a genius in combat and human body research.
When the two fought, Bai Fu only needed to say a few words for her to find the flaw in her exertion.
With a small pinch of her hand, she could help her gain a deeper understanding of every part of her body.
That was much more powerful than those Undying Ones.
She really did not know where Bai Fu had learned such things.
From Yulia, that doctor?
No, Yulia had said she did not understand these things, and she had never seen Bai Fu study them.
Could it be that Bai Fu had comprehended all this during her close interactions with Yulia and Fei Ye?
Truly puzzling.
The Oathmaster felt embarrassed to directly ask Bai Fu for little tricks.
So she could only spar with Bai Fu every day, hoping to naturally comprehend them through physical collision.
Considering that she could not let Bai Fu work for nothing, she especially passed down her treasured Qi training method to Bai Fu.
Although Bai Fu was not a martial artist, with her basic qualities, she should still be able to pick it up easily.
Once Bai Fu trained her body to be sturdier, she could fight with Bai Fu for longer.
This wave was called Bai Fu’s Physical Transformation Project!
As for her behavior, Fei Ye was very happy to see it succeed, and even actively pushed it from behind.
Go, go, occupy more of Bai Fu’s time.
After all, even if Bai Fu was idle, she was still idle.
The two of you building a closer relationship was great.
Build a good relationship now, so that you could work together even more seamlessly in the future.
Fei Ye’s thinking was actually very simple.
If she could not have it, then she could not let Cersia secretly have it either.
Everyone would just have to endure together!
The Golden Dew inside Fei Ye’s body was speechless.
Clearly, she was thinking about very adult matters.
But why did she act so childishly when doing them?
……
Time slowly passed.
During the days of waiting for new news from the exploration fleet, Bai Fu successfully raised all four True Spirits that she had baptized with bestowed True Names up to Calamity-level.
Relying on the vast resources sent by the Empire, Vic also finally advanced to Calamity.
As for Xia Shi, she was temporarily sent to the Empire for further study.
Unlike Bai Fu, Xia Shi did not have a Player Interface.
As a Mechanic, this special class required not only improving Stats but also expanding knowledge reserves and accumulating mechanical hands-on experience to advance.
Thus, three months later, Bai Fu finally received news back from the exploration fleet—
They had already found the Dark Zone Insect Swarm’s mother nest!
“The time has come!”
Bai Fu glanced at her XP pool.
Over these three months, she had squeezed the two million new Players twice each.
Counting the XP contributed by other faction Players who visited the transfer stations she had built, along with the XP from exploration quests, she now had 14.5 billion XP in total.
She dumped all of this XP into the Apostle of Truth class, instantly raising it from Lv18 to Lv35.
Her total level across main classes reached 185, not particularly far from 200.
The improvement brought by these level-ups was enormous.
Of course, besides the Stats gained from leveling up, the training method passed down to her by the Oathmaster—one without any class requirement—had also raised her Strength, Agility, and Constitution quite a lot.
Bai Fu’s stat panel became——
【HP】：1087042/1087042
【Psionic Value】：1148937/1148937
【Qi】：33580/33580
【Stats】：Strength 2078, Agility 2027, Constitution 3535, Intelligence 1335, Spirit 2232, Inspiration 7685
Seeing these stats, Bai Fu’s eyes curved into crescents as she smiled.
This time she had to thank the Oathmaster.
Without his training method, for her base HP to break a million, she would have had to level up once or twice more.
“Transcendents really are full of treasures.
Even when they casually leak a little, I get stuffed full.
If I were to swallow it whole in one bite……”
It would be ecstasy.
Bai Fu rubbed her cheeks hard.
It seemed she had to visit more Transcendents in the Empire camp who had good favorability toward her.
Whether or not there were dates on the tree, she should knock it anyway.
Who knew—she might even gain skills that did not belong to the Psionic stream but could still boost her strength.
Others might fear biting off more than they could chew.
But with her Player Interface, she had no such fear.
If she lacked XP, she could just not level up yet.
Skills sat there and did not take up any slots anyway.
“With my current strength, as long as it is not against a Transcendent, even if I cannot win, I can still retreat with ease.
Even if I do encounter a Transcendent, if it is one of the weaker ones, or one lacking in tracking methods, I should still be able to escape.”
Bai Fu closed her stat panel.
She did not want to delay even a moment.
She immediately began gathering her people.
This time, she brought along Yulia, Fei Ye, Cypriss, and Anya, leaving only Cersia, Vic, and the other veterans to guard Origin Star.
Yulia could provide her with stat bonuses and psionic recovery boosts.
The Golden Dew within Fei Ye could provide additional spatial ability support.
Cypriss and Anya, who had contracted the Needle of Sin and Punishment, were the keys to entering the Mental Sanctuary.
None of them could be absent.
Once everything was ready, Bai Fu piloted the moving palace and sped toward the marked location on the map.
The exploration fleet had taken three months to find the Dark Zone Insect Swarm’s mother nest, while her journey there this time took only 14 days.
The reason for such a shorter time was mainly because the exploration fleet had already scouted safe routes, and they had also spent a lot of time building transfer stations along the way.
In deep space.
Cypriss gazed out the window at the enormous planet wrapped in countless black crystal-like vines, her face full of emotions.
That was the Dark Zone Insect Swarm’s mother nest.
That was where she was born and raised.
When she had inherited the throne of the Insect Swarm Queen, she thought she would live an unremarkable life as a homebody bug girl.
But who could have guessed, while she was at home eating hotpot and watching TV dramas, traitors would rise in rebellion.
By the time she realized something was wrong, there was already no way out.
Blades were pressed against her body, cutting it into countless pieces.
Fortunately, back when her ancestors had discovered the Mental Sanctuary, they had already given her bloodline’s soul a special treatment.
Simple blades and axes could no longer kill her completely.
However, considering the situation back then, she did not think she would ever see the day of her revival.
She thought she would remain in a half-dead state forever.
Yet, Bai Fu appeared!
For reasons unknown, Bai Fu had collected the fragments of her body that had been born after her death and successfully resurrected her.
This gave her a chance at revenge at last.
But back then, she thought that even in the best case, it would take at least several decades, or even hundreds of years, before she could succeed in revenge.
There was nothing she could do.
Just after her resurrection, she had been weak as hell.
At that time, Bai Fu, who revived her, was still far from Calamity-level.
Who could have thought that in less than ten years, Bai Fu had already become a Domination-level, and even brought her back to the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Nest.
The unpredictability of fate was truly sigh-inducing.
“Traitors, I, Cypriss, have returned!”
Cypriss proudly puffed out her chest.
She had actually wanted to personally take revenge.
But Bai Fu was right.
If they dragged things out too long and that traitor ended up making connections with the Holy City of the Apostles, then it would become troublesome.
It was better to deal with it quickly.
“Recommended strategy level: 160–180.
Looks like there’s no need for stealth play.
Let’s just go full Musou.”
Bai Fu silently closed the map, then turned to look at Cypriss beside her.
“I’ll leave that traitor with one breath for you.”
With that, she commanded the moving palace to directly “crash” toward the planet ahead.
Azure light streaked across the pitch-black sky.
The high-ranked Brainworms moving about on the planet instantly became alert.
“Quickly stop it from landing!”
Dozens of giant beetles with wings on their backs soared into the sky.
But before they could even get close to that blue light, they were blown apart mid-air one after another.
It all happened so suddenly that the Brainworms on the ground had no idea what was going on.
“Calamity-level?”
One Brainworm of extremely high status twitched its tendrils a few times.
Then, it personally flew up toward the blue light.
Halfway there, it suddenly opened its mouth wide.
Boom!
A red-black mist burst forth, striking the blue light in the blink of an eye.
It hit.
But this Brainworm could not laugh at all.
Its sight was blocked by the red-black fog, but its perception was not.
It clearly sensed that a transparent barrier had popped up around the blue light.
The corrosive life-burning fog it spewed had been blocked entirely, not seeping through at all.
Moments later, two figures walked out of the blue light.
No.
One person.
And…
“Cypriss! Bai Fu!”
The Brainworm cried out in shock, its already twisted face becoming even more distorted.
As the Dark Zone Insect Queen’s most trusted aide, of course it recognized Bai Fu and Cypriss.
It had simply never dreamed that Bai Fu and Cypriss could find this place.
From birth until death, Cypriss had never left the Mother Nest.
By logic, she should never have been able to find the way back from the Edge Worlds.
“Surprised, aren’t you?”
Cypriss flapped the thin wings on her back and let out a cold laugh.
With her soul linked to the Mental Sanctuary, no matter where she was thrown, she could always find her way home.
This ability was something traitors who knew nothing of the true function of the Mental Sanctuary could never comprehend!
“But I must admit, you do surprise me, Glen.
When you betrayed me, you were only at S+ rank.
Yet now you’ve advanced to Domination-level.”
Domination-level?
That was me!
Right now, I was a Domination-level!
After his initial panic, Glen finally calmed down.
He was Domination-level — what was there to be afraid of?
Not only was he Domination-level, the Queen was also Domination-level.
And he and the Queen still had one super trump card!
“Cypriss, I’m afraid you don’t know.
Just in the past two years, the Queen has become a follower of the Beast God.
And the Beast God is a Transcendent-rank Stellar Beast!
You want revenge?
I say you’ve only come to deliver yourselves on a platter.
Once the Queen returns with the Beast God, you and Bai Fu will both die!”
Glen laughed with delight.
As long as he held out until the Queen came back with the Beast God, he was certain of victory.
Could he hold out?
Glen thought there was no problem.
After all, he…
Suddenly, a terrifying beam of light shot from Bai Fu’s palm.
Glen’s face changed drastically.
He sensed danger.
This beam was not normal — he had to dodge!
But when he tried to evade, he discovered to his horror that it was like he had fallen into a swamp.
He could only twist his body slightly to the side, but that was not enough to avoid the beam rushing straight at him.
Boom!
The instant his body met the beam, Glen let out a heart-rending scream.
“Chiuuuu!!”
Burning, twisting, tearing…
His body began breaking apart uncontrollably.
He struggled, he pushed his inner power, he mobilized his spirit.
But all of it was in vain.
He could only watch as he was blasted into scraps.
In the end, one small piece of his body remained un-dissolved.
He tried to flee.
But just as that thought was born, Hei Fu appeared beside him with a Void Shuttle, kindly delivering him a strike of Dark Burn.
Snap!
Glen’s HP bar was instantly emptied.
Dead beyond dead.
“Don’t you understand what it means when they say villains die from talking too much?”
Bai Fu curled her lips.
While Glen had been rambling, she had secretly been charging up the Sacrificial God Scepter.
Even though this one cast of 【Sacrifice God】 had not been charged for long, it was more than enough to easily deal with a level-160 Domination-level like Glen.
After all, the Sacrificial God Scepter in her hands was the embryo of a supreme cosmic treasure.
“Come on, let’s go check out that so-called Dark Zone Divine Seat you mentioned.”
Bai Fu put away the Sacrificial God Scepter.
Cypriss suddenly turned her head, staring at Bai Fu with ghost-struck eyes.
A Domination-level…
And you just one-shot him?