Chapter 371: Sovereign of the Stars Bai Fu
【Old-Day Elixir (Bai Fu Special Enhancement Version)】
【Quality】: Radiant
【Item Description】: A gene enhancement potion crafted by Yulia, Head of the Research Division of the Quiet Garden, based on the Ethereal Realm civilization's gene bank and Bai Fu's gene map. It is a priceless treasure on par with a Cosmic Treasure.
【Additional Effect】: After consumption, this elixir fully optimizes genes, greatly enhancing psionic talent and racial potential.
【Note 1】: This elixir can be used by individuals other than Bai Fu, but due to gene incompatibility, there is a risk of mutation, which may result in reduced racial potential or genetic collapse. Do not use lightly.
【Note 2】: Anyone with a racial potential rating below 80 and Ethereal Realm Affinity below 60% will be assimilated by the elixir, losing their sense of self. Strictly prohibited from use.
Bai Fu quickly skimmed through the Old-Day Elixir's item description.
Good. This elixir had no side effects for her.
In that case, there was no need to hesitate—drink it!
Bai Fu tilted her head back, gulu gulu, and downed the entire elixir in one gulp.
The elixir rapidly expanded, sending a bone-chilling cold through her body that made her want to vomit.
Soon, the nausea faded, but it was replaced by full-body weakness, a parched mouth, and a dehydration-like state.
"This feeling... hasn’t happened since I out-leveled Yulia and the others by at least 50 levels. Usually, they were the ones feeling like this..."
Bai Fu lay on her bed, not wanting to move a single finger.
This strange condition persisted until sunset on the third day before finally dissipating.
【You have completed a special sublimation and entered a new realm of life. Please name your new race.】
The moment the game prompt chimed in her ear, Bai Fu's eyes shot open, and she sprang up from the bed.
"Finally over."
She let out a long sigh of relief.
After her last sublimation, her race had changed from 【God of the Ethereal Realm】 to 【Old God】. But clearly, she wasn't satisfied with just being an 【Old God】.
"Let’s go with 【Sovereign of the Stars】."
With a smug look on her face, Bai Fu gave herself an epic-sounding race name.
Ding!
【Your race has changed to ［Sovereign of the Stars (Exclusive Race)］】
【Race change complete. You have received stat bonuses—
Strength +1332, Agility +1212, Constitution +1428, Intelligence +1193, Spirit +1305, Inspiration +1981】
This time, the stat boosts were unprecedented.
But that made sense.
After all, what Bai Fu had fused with was the culmination of millions of years of Ethereal Realm civilization. If the bonuses weren’t massive, wouldn’t that make the Ethereal Realm look dumb?
Besides stat adjustments, Bai Fu also gained a slew of other benefits.
The most immediate one was that her Ethereal Realm Affinity instantly maxed out at 100%, even higher than Élisée, the God of the Ethereal Realm herself.
With maxed affinity, her talent 【Ethereal Realm Affinity】 evolved into 【Ethereal Realm Affinity Max】.
【Ethereal Realm Affinity Max】: From this moment on, you are not only fully attuned to the Ethereal Realm but also receive its full blessing. Your Inspiration-to-Psionic conversion rate increases by 100, base Psionic Power +30%, and you can use Psionic Power to restore HP. For every 5 Psionic Power consumed, you restore 1 HP, with a maximum recovery of 2.5% of max HP per second.
"Holy crap, awesome!"
Bai Fu was stunned by the talent's effect, especially the active HP regeneration.
She actually had a skill for active healing before, but it only worked when she activated the Ethereal Realm Divine Blessing.
Now, with 【Ethereal Realm Affinity Max】 and Yulia’s support, it was like she had a personal healing pump. This drastically boosted her endurance. Though still no match for a Supreme God’s disciple fused with the Double Helix Tree, among all Transcendents, she was now definitely top-tier.
"As expected of the Ethereal Realm's wisdom condensed over millions of years. It completely solved the frailty problem of Psionic Priests at the root. Indeed, on the path of evolution, no matter the class, all roads lead to becoming a flawless hexagonal warrior."
Bai Fu mused, continuing to examine her gains.
In addition to 【Ethereal Realm Affinity Max】, she also obtained several new abilities:
Talent 【Infinite Spiral】: Psionic and Dark Energy automatically fuse within her body. From now on, Bai Fu can use Ethereal Realm Particles without having to synthesize them first.
Talent 【Beyond Apostles】: From now on, Bai Fu has completely surpassed [Apostles]. Even without any connection to the Ethereal Realm, she can assimilate the space around her into a fully controllable Ethereal Realm zone, granting her various buffs.
Talent 【Crown of the Ethereal God】: Bai Fu can designate any equipment (including Cosmic Treasures) as her coronation crown and enhance it using Ethereal Realm Particles.
Talent 【Ethereal Realm: Zenith Sky】: After fusing with the Old-Day Elixir, Bai Fu’s genes reached perfection. Her Constitution-to-HP conversion rate increases by 50, Inspiration-to-Psionic conversion rate increases by another 100, and she gains an additional 15% of her base Inspiration as a bonus—which is vastly more powerful than ordinary bonuses.
Skill 【Creator】: Used in tandem with [Beyond Apostles]. In an Ethereal Realm zone, Bai Fu can freely create various True Spirit summons by consuming Ethereal Realm Particles and can activate Prayer Card skills directly without using the cards. With this, she never again has to worry about running out of cards and suffering a power drop.
Skill 【Ethereal Spirit: God King】: This skill allows Bai Fu to summon a [God King]-level Ethereal Spirit from the Ethereal Realm. The [God King]'s power is comparable to the colossal body summoned by 【Majestic Divine Body】.
"These four talents and two skills are just busted."
Bai Fu couldn't help but exclaim.
She stared at 【Crown of the Ethereal God】 for a while before finally selecting the Ark of Heaven as her coronation crown, instead of the Ritual God’s Scepter which could directly boost her combat power.
The reason was simple: the Ark of Heaven was a life-saving artifact.
Though her power had skyrocketed, whether she could beat the Original Pact remained uncertain, so she needed a backup plan.
Bai Fu tapped on her race tab, and a more detailed interface popped up.
She discovered her racial potential rating had reached exactly 100, up by 0.2 from before.
But 100 was not the end of life evolution—it was merely the peak of the Psionic path.
Beyond that lay a realm no one in this era had ever reached.
"If I can break through that barrier, I might truly become a 【God】. But it’s going to be extremely difficult—not something I can achieve by fusing a few more Void Sovereign cores."
Best not to think too far ahead. First, she needed to deal with the Supreme God’s disciple.
Bai Fu opened her attribute panel.
【HP】: 23140170/23140170 【Psionic Power】: 69168090/69168090 【Stats】: Strength 18635, Agility 19901, Constitution 27304, Intelligence 18554, Spirit 25245, Inspiration 49265
Compared to when she last fought the Supreme God’s disciple, her stats had undergone a complete transformation.
Strong.
Seriously strong.
Even if the Supreme God’s disciple had absorbed the Fourth Apostle and some other apostle in secret, Bai Fu now had enough confidence to overpower her.
Only one issue remained—
"Supreme God’s disciple, where are you hiding? You're not even in the Apostolic Holy City!"
Bai Fu asked Litte and the others.
They in turn questioned those old acquaintances who had fled the Longshot Pit defeat and returned to the Apostolic Holy City.
But not a single one of them knew where the Supreme God’s disciple had gone.
This forced Bai Fu, who was eager to deliver a beating, to put her plans on hold.
Fine, then.
She would wait.
With the disciple's hatred toward her, it was only a matter of time before she resurfaced.
The downside was that if the Supreme God’s disciple took the initiative, she might drag the Original Pact into the fray. Then Bai Fu would have to fight more than just one enemy.
But for now, she had no way of precisely locating the disciple, so she could only reinforce Litte with more manpower, let the Anti-Apostolic Holy City Alliance gather intel, and assist Yulia and the others in getting stronger back in the Quiet Garden.
She had just taken out several Void Sovereigns, and the Supreme God’s disciple had eliminated over a dozen Apostolic Holy City followers.
So there was no need to worry that helping Yulia and the others would break the balance and trigger the Reaper’s Descent.
In fact, what she was doing wasn’t much—mainly assisting Yulia in very legitimate experiments.
Using her genes as a base, she created targeted enhancement elixirs for Anya, Cecia, and Cypris.
Then, she threw Anya and Cypris into the upgraded Ark of Heaven to stimulate their mental stat growth.
For more than ten days straight, Bai Fu remained in the Esper Garden, never setting foot outside.
With such massive upheaval in the Apostolic Holy City, the Three Universal Civilizations could now handle things on their own. There was no need for her to intervene recklessly.
As expected, that was exactly what happened.
While Bai Fu was away, the Three Universal Civilizations only took a few days to rest after cleaning up the battlefield at Longshot Pit. They promptly regrouped their fleets and launched a counteroffensive against the Apostolic Holy City.
The Apostolic Holy City had just suffered a major upheaval and devastating losses. The remaining forces, fearing the sudden reappearance of the Supreme God’s disciple, had no desire to fully resist the Three Universal Civilizations.
In less than half a month, the Three Universal Civilizations had successfully reclaimed all lost territory, contained the dimensional chain collapse, and established numerous outposts near the Holy City’s borders.
Both sides halted hostilities.
But everyone knew the truce wouldn’t last long. A new war would break out soon—as soon as the Three Universal Civilizations completed their preparations.
Naturally, the people of the Holy City understood this as well.
So after much back-and-forth, the remaining Cathedrals and their followers stopped arguing and pooled together their remaining warships to form a new fleet.
They had no choice.
If they didn’t unite, they’d be watching helplessly as the Three Universal Civilizations stormed in and stole everything they’d worked their whole lives to accumulate.
【WTF, what’s going on here?】
This unbelievable turn of events appeared in the 3.1 promotional trailer and left players completely stunned.
They said fate comes in cycles, but this was way too fast, wasn’t it?
Come to think of it, wasn’t this reversal all thanks to Fufu?
【Who else could it be?】
【My Fu, number one in the world!】
Digging-Princess was brimming with pride.
【I told you all long ago that Fufu is amazing. She's a critical NPC in the game, maybe even the main protagonist. You didn’t believe me then, but you do now, don’t you?】
【In version 3.0, Fufu not only single-handedly changed the tide of war between the Three Universal Civilizations and the Apostolic Holy City, but after the version ended, she replaced Stars-chan and officially became the face of Beyond the Stars. That’s endorsement from the devs!】
【Heh, haters can cry all they want. As for me, I’m hyped for the story in 3.1. If Fufu was already this awesome in 3.0, won’t she be godlike in 3.1?】
Digging-Princess's post received overwhelming support from players.
Meanwhile, haters led by Wind-Rising Stars and Astronaut had vanished without a trace from the community.
With the winds blowing against them this hard, there was no way they'd dare show up.
Wind-Rising Stars was now full of regret.
Especially when he saw the official website’s front page featuring a Bai Fu illustration—his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
He’d trashed Bai Fu in-game for years. And what did he get out of it?
Story content?
Barely experienced any major plot.
Fame?
Not a shred of good reputation, only infamy.
Money?
No brand dared touch his negative publicity.
Worse yet, after all his efforts, he even lost his spot as leader of the hater group to his arch-nemesis, Astronaut.
If he had just followed Bai Fu quietly from the start instead of trashing her for clout, he’d probably be doing great right now.
The only silver lining was that even though he got nothing, Astronaut ended up worse.
To one-up him, Astronaut groveled to Sui Xi and the Holy City followers.
In the end, Sui Xi got snatched away by Bai Fu, and as shown in the teaser, those followers were drained dry by the Supreme God’s disciple.
"Tch. I can’t beat Bai Fu or Digging-Princess, but I can sure as hell beat you."
Wind-Rising Stars thought about mocking Astronaut in the group chat but gave up. Hurting the enemy 1,000 to damage yourself 800? Not worth it.
He decided to delete his account.
But before that, he planned to log in one last time and revisit the places filled with memories.
Half a day later, Beyond the Stars reopened, and Wind-Rising Stars logged in immediately.
He didn’t get far before something unexpected happened.
He got ambushed—by none other than the Supreme God’s disciple.
What the hell?
Why the hell are you grabbing me?
"Why? Hahaha."
Aetheron sneered cruelly. “You tell me. You, Bai Fu’s spy. You, everyone connected to Bai Fu, and Bai Fu herself—none of you will escape me!”
Wind-Rising Stars was dumbfounded. "When did I become Bai Fu's spy?!"
Aetheron roared with laughter. "Still trying to deny it? I’ve long since uncovered your ties with Bai Fu. Remember the person who spoke to you during the Holy Land Star incident? Who else could it have been but Bai Fu? I was such a fool, thinking that troublemaker in the Raya Civilization was some unknown Apostle. If Litte hadn’t shown up recently, I’d still be in the dark. That wasn’t some unknown Apostle—that was Bai Fu!"
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Wind-Rising Stars' eyes went wide.
Wait... that was Bai Fu?
He’d thought he triggered a hidden quest back then, but no follow-up ever came.
"I swear, I really have nothing to do with Bai Fu, I..."
He tried to explain, but Aetheron cut him off with a roar.
"Shut up! Still trying to deny it? Hahaha! I know you’re one of the Undying Ones. You can’t be killed by conventional means, so I won’t try to kill you. Instead, I’ll imprison you forever—no hope of life, no relief in death!"
"......"
Wind-Rising Stars stared blankly at Aetheron.
He just didn’t get it.
Why did crap like this always happen to him?
Was he destined to be the clown—forever at odds with the world?
Fine.
Fine, fine, fine.
Supreme God’s disciple, huh? You wanna pick a fight? You think I can’t deal with you? Screw it—I’m all in!
【Digging-Princess, I’m defecting to Bai Fu】
Fuming with rage, Wind-Rising Stars sent Digging-Princess a message—and included Aetheron’s coordinates.
Digging-Princess: "?"
Bai Fu: "?"
Good grief. What the hell is going on?