Chapter 282: Bai Fu’s Soul-Sealing Method, Transcendent’s Fall
Although her desire for slaughter was surging, Bai Fu did not rush out to clash head-on with the Beast God.
It was better to wait until the Vow Master arrived.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, she planned to raise the linkage degree with the Ark of Paradise a little higher.
After the linkage degree reached 10, it stopped increasing. To continue raising it, only time could slowly grind it upward.
The level of linkage determined how much power she could borrow from the Ark of Paradise.
The good news was, even with just 10 linkage, she could still use all the functions of the Ark of Paradise, though their effects were slightly weaker.
“Although a few days won’t raise the linkage much, every bit counts, and I can also take this chance to get familiar with how to use the Ark of Paradise.”
Speaking of linkage, Bai Fu thought of the series of quests for the Psionic Evolution Tree Atlas.
Every time she completed one of these quests, it increased her linkage with the Psionic Garden. She now strongly suspected that the Psionic Garden was also a Cosmic Treasure.
If that were true, then counting the complete Sacrificial God Scepter, she would have three Cosmic Treasures in her hands. With that kind of power—invincible!
Bai Fu hummed lightly, happily opening the quest settlement interface.
【You completed the quest [Civilization Museum], gaining 500 million XP, +0.1% exploration progress in Beyond the Stars storyline, and the special title [Relic Collector]】
【Relic Collector】: Base Spirit Stat +300, Base Intelligence Stat +300, for every additional 【Relic】 collected, base Spirit and base Intelligence increase by an additional +200, unlocks special passive skill 【Extraordinary Vision】.
【Extraordinary Vision】: When using Apostle Psionic Vision on high-grade items (equipment), there was a high chance to view the complete description panel of the item (equipment), and an extremely high chance to view part of the panel.
The effect of the new title made Bai Fu’s eyes light up.
That was a full 600 stat points, and for each extra Relic (Cosmic Treasure) another 400 stat points. Simply delightful!
Although, as a Psionic Prayer-user, she did not benefit directly from Spirit and Intelligence stats, once she advanced to Transcendent, those Divine Metamorphosis quests would certainly have such requirements.
It was best to raise them now rather than get stuck by those quests later.
Besides the stat bonuses, the passive 【Extraordinary Vision】 was also a very useful thing.
In battle, if an opponent suddenly pulled out some item or equipment she had never seen before, and she failed to figure out its function in time, she might easily fall into their trap.
The effect of 【Extraordinary Vision】 could effectively prevent that situation.
If she discovered her opponent pulling out something like the Extra-dimensional Cube or the Ark of Paradise, she wouldn’t hesitate—just run first!
“Come, all of you. I’ll bind your souls to the Ark of Paradise. That way, unless the soul copies inside the Ark are destroyed along with it, you won’t truly die.”
Bai Fu called Yulia, Hiye (Jinlu), and Anya over.
After some operations, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as she did not lose the Ark of Paradise, the safety of her side would increase greatly.
“Let’s see if there’s anything else of value in this tower.”
After putting away the Ark of Paradise, Bai Fu led the group around the tower again.
Although time had not erased the traces of this special civilization’s existence, many items once filled with power had long turned to dust.
After searching several times carefully, Bai Fu only found some data preserved through psychic means.
This data was of little direct use to her, but for Cypriss, Anya, Vic, and those Players who followed the psychic path, it was worth a fortune.
“It can directly boost skill output, increase casting speed, reduce casting costs—if I put this out, Players will go crazy for it. Time to reap another wave of leeks!”
Now that dark tides were surging outside, Bai Fu urgently needed more XP to improve her strength.
Even one Ark of Paradise was not enough to make her feel secure.
With the Mental Sanctuary nearly fully explored, and the Vow Master not yet on the scene, Bai Fu built a small hut at the tower’s entrance to live in temporarily.
She researched the Ark of Paradise, and when tired of studying, she played cards with Anya and the others.
《Cosmic Web》 was suitable for all ages, an excellent way to pass the time.
One game of cards lasted nine days.
Nine days later.
In the star system where the Dark Zone Insect Swarm’s Mother Nest was located.
The Vow Master patted the shoulder of the Tiny Bai Fu who came with him: “I’ve arrived. Where are you now?”
Huh?
Bai Fu replied: “Don’t rush. Wait for me to draw out the Beast God. Then you and I will flank it from both sides and send it off. If it escapes, it will definitely become a major problem.”
The Beast God had the ability to help others increase their strength.
If it defected to the Ten Saints Council or the Supernova Legion, the Garden of Silence would no longer know peace.
Those forcibly empowered psionicists might not deal much real damage, but showing up from time to time would be irritating enough to make one vomit.
“What’s your plan?” asked the Vow Master curiously.
Bai Fu explained: “I have a special item that can seal souls. As long as you can beat the Beast God into a state of imbalance between body and soul—or simply destroy its body—I can imprison its soul so it has nowhere to run!”
The Vow Master said: “I’ve never fought it, so I don’t know its true strength. I can only do my best.”
Bai Fu smiled and nodded.
“Wait for my signal.”
Ending her conversation with the Vow Master, Bai Fu turned her head and saw Cypriss directly throw her virtual cards aside.
“Let’s hurry up and set off!”
“Too much! The game was about to end, and I was about to win, but you threw the cards away!”
“At a time like this, you’re still playing cards? Come on, let’s go.”
Cypriss flew to Bai Fu’s side, pushing her shoulder with force, her face showing a mischievous grin.
Bai Fu: “……”
Fine, I won’t stoop to your level!
Bai Fu led the group out from beneath the planet’s surface.
Once in space, she immediately released a large number of miniature probes in all directions.
Half a day later, one probe sent back a report.
It had discovered more than a dozen gigantic Stellar Beasts drifting among the stars.
On their backs were many smaller Stellar Beasts.
They roamed from asteroid to asteroid, as if searching for something.
“It’s you then!”
Bai Fu let Anya, Hiye (Jinlu), and Cypriss leave first aboard her Mobile Palace, then she drove Hei Fu straight toward those Stellar Beasts.
……
“It’s been almost ten days, and still no sign of Bai Fu or Cypriss.
Could it be they’ve already left?”
On a planet full of molten lava, the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen frowned in distress, her heart full of agitation.
She couldn’t help but glance again and again at the Beast God.
Could it do it or not?
If even the Beast God couldn’t find Bai Fu and Cypriss, then her choice to submit to it would have been for nothing.
She would have endured humiliation for no gain at all.
Damn it, had she known this earlier, she would have defected to the Ten Saints Council instead.
If it were the Ten Saints Council here, with three Transcendent II’s striking together, even ten Bai Fus would have perished on the spot!
The Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen regretted it deeply, but regret was meaningless now.
Just as she was inwardly grumbling, a startled cry suddenly rang out nearby.
“What?”
She turned quickly, only to see the Beast God’s eyes glowing a bright blue.
The Beast God’s eyes only changed like that when its emotions surged violently.
As for its face—since the Beast God looked like countless strips of white translucent gauze woven together—it was hard to say exactly where its face even was.
What had happened?
The Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen was puzzled, but she soon understood.
The Beast God shouted in excitement: “Delay them as much as possible, don’t let Bai Fu and Cypriss escape, I’ll be there immediately!”
What, they had found Bai Fu and Cypriss?
The Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen grew thrilled at once.
Good, good, good.
Bai Fu! Cypriss!
If you had kept hiding it would’ve been fine, but now that you’ve shown yourselves, today you are doomed to die!
The insect and the beast swiftly mounted a Stellar Beast skilled in space-shuttling, rushing toward the place where Bai Fu had appeared.
On the way, they kept urging the Stellar Beast beneath them faster, afraid that if they arrived too late, Bai Fu and Cypriss would disappear again.
When they finally arrived, Bai Fu was already gone.
But the good news was that this time Bai Fu had left behind a “trace” in her flight.
Following this trace, the Beast God spent nearly half an hour before finally cutting off the “frantically fleeing” “Bai Fu.”
“Cypriss isn’t here?”
The Beast God and the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen both froze.
They quickly “understood.”
Got it!
Most likely, during their escape, Bai Fu and Cypriss had realized they couldn’t outrun pursuit, so they split up.
Bai Fu acted as bait, while Cypriss took the things gained from the Mental Sanctuary and fled another way.
Heh.
The Beast God sneered coldly.
“Nice plan, but useless.
Do you think a mere Sovereign can stop me?
Ridiculous!
Once I catch you, I can still find Cypriss.
You went through all the trouble to raid the Mental Sanctuary, but in the end, you’ve only prepared a wedding dress for me!”
The Beast God’s words were arrogant beyond compare, and his actions were equally ruthless.
He gave “Bai Fu” not the slightest chance to react, launching straight into a killing blow.
As the saying went: despise your enemy strategically, but value them tactically—and in this, he did it flawlessly.
Unfortunately, because he knew too little about Bai Fu, his “value” of her was still not enough.
But that wasn’t entirely his fault.
Never having left the Dark Zone, his understanding of Bai Fu came entirely from the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen.
And although the Mother Queen had her minions constantly monitoring the movements of the Edge Worlds, even those who had fought Bai Fu just recently couldn’t say clearly how strong she was now—let alone someone like the Mother Queen, who hadn’t been near Bai Fu in a very long time.
Just as the Beast God’s full attention was locked on the “Bai Fu” wrapped tightly in white mist, a light suddenly blazed in the starry sky.
It was several times more dazzling than high-beams shining straight at one’s eyes.
With a thunderous boom bursting forth as if from the depths of the soul, the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen watched in horror as a figure rushed out from within a spatial vortex.
Too fast.
She realized she could not dodge it at all.
Fortunately, the figure was not aimed at her.
Its true target was the Beast God beside her.
Even so, the terrifying qi-force ripples the figure produced as it closed in struck her violently, knocking her sprawling, tearing open her shell and splitting her flesh, blood spraying everywhere.
Boom!
Finally, the figure slammed brutally into the Beast God.
The violent explosion dyed the entire starry sky blood-red.
A Transcendent!
And one of extremely great strength!
The Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen struggled in panic to right her body.
She forced her eyes wide and watched for a long time before she could see, through the endless red light, the two Transcendents locked in battle.
One was the Beast God, badly wounded, several of its “gauze strips” torn apart.
The other was a familiar figure: the Vow Master, Transcendent of the well-known Edge World power Star Pact.
At this moment her qi-force surged like a volcanic eruption, pressing the Beast God down in fierce combat.
“This must be Bai Fu who called her here.
If that’s the case, then the Bai Fu the Beast God caught just now was most likely a fake.
No, I must escape immediately…”
The Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen turned around, but before she could take even a single step, Bai Fu slowly appeared before her.
“Only now thinking of running?
It’s already too late.”
Damn it!
The Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen’s face twisted in terror.
She was just about to strike back when Bai Fu’s Dark Burn had already marked her body.
And right after the Dark Burn came the mighty torrent of Annihilation.
Bai Fu had prepared for this moment a long time.
She had rehearsed it countless times in her mind.
She would give the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen no chance to flee.
If this bug escaped, it would surely bring endless trouble.
Thus, after stunning the Mother Queen with two strikes, she immediately threw down all her summoning-type Prayer Cards.
In an instant, over a dozen massive Psionic Legions appeared, encircling the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen layer upon layer, sealing off every possible escape path.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it!”
The Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen cursed furiously with psychic power.
But no matter how long she raged, her situation did not improve.
Instead, she was pummeled senseless by the Psionic Legions and by Kabaye, who was squeezed in among them.
At last, with no other choice, she could only change her tone to begging for mercy.
“Bai Fu, whatever Cypriss promised you, I’ll give you double.
No—so long as you let me go, I’m even willing to be your slave!”
Bai Fu was unmoved, as if she hadn’t heard.
She had no interest in bug-players.
Besides, though the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen shouted loudly, what she could actually give Bai Fu wasn’t even worth a strand of what Cypriss had given.
What, could the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen hand her two Cosmic Treasures?
Seeing that begging was useless, the Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen switched to cursing again.
The more she cursed, the fiercer she grew, and finally she even tried to use the Beast God to threaten Bai Fu.
“You just wait, the Beast God will avenge me!
Don’t think you can kill the Beast God just because you called in the Vow Master.
The Beast God isn’t so easy to kill!”
Bai Fu smiled and nodded: “Of course I know it won’t die that easily.
That’s why I prepared two gifts for it.”
“？”
The Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen froze, and in that instant Bai Fu pulled out the Sacrificial God Scepter.
She had already been charging energy into it while waiting for the Beast God’s arrival, so now it was on the verge of eruption.
The surging psionic energy distorted the space around it, constantly warping the curvature of space, occasionally even boring tiny holes into it.
And this was before activation.
Once triggered, it would be even more terrifying.
The Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen was startled, but quickly regained her composure.
“Useless.
That cannot truly kill the Beast God!”
She laughed coldly, like a prophet who had seen through everything, overlooking Bai Fu from above.
Bai Fu lightly shook the Sacrificial God Scepter.
“Don’t worry.
That’s only the first gift.”
Boom!
A terrifying beam of psionic light erupted, crossing the starry river, and in the blink of an eye struck before the Beast God.
Sensing danger, the Beast God frantically cast one rune after another to block the beam.
But against this long-prepared psionic blast, the runes shattered like paper.
Moments later, the beam and the Vow Master’s fist-force pierced through the Beast God’s body, one after the other.
Hiss——
The Beast God gasped sharply, murderous light blazing in its eyes.
“Bai Fu, you!”
It had underestimated Bai Fu.
But this was the last time.
Next time—next time it would kill Bai Fu!
“Ahhhh, you cannot kill me!
If my body were so easily destroyed, I never would have survived to this day!”
The Beast God roared in fury.
Bai Fu calmly drew out the Ark of Paradise and gave it a gentle shake.
“This is the second gift I prepared.”
A burst of white light instantly spread, covering the Beast God as it was just restoring its injured body.
At first, the Beast God didn’t care.
But when it realized its soul was being forcibly stripped from its body, it finally felt true danger.
Something was wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
It had to escape, escape, escape…
Whoosh!
But now, caught off balance between Bai Fu and the Vow Master’s joint assault, it had no way to respond effectively.
“Stop! Stop at once!”
The Beast God screamed, but it was useless.
It could only watch helplessly as its soul was dragged into the Ark of Paradise.
Beast God: “……”
Dark Zone Insect Swarm Mother Queen: “……”
Vow Master: “……”
In that moment, everyone present except Bai Fu was struck dumb.
What did you just do?
Heehee.
Bai Fu smiled, lifting the Ark of Paradise before her eyes.
“So arrogant, weren’t you?
Why so quiet now?
Now—it’s my turn.
Lord Beast God, you wouldn’t want me to toy with that fine body of yours however I please, would you?”
The Beast God snapped out of its shock, and what replaced it was boundless rage.
“Bai Fu!”