When You Become an NPC That Might Die Any Moment in the Novice Village

After the new Knowledge Chain unlocked, Bai Fu's gains from her Knowledge Chain became——

[All Spiritual Ability System active skill effects +80%, Spiritual Ability Resistance +60%, Spiritual Ability Recovery Speed +4/minute, Inspiration +5, Spiritual Ability System bonuses unlocked]

The boost to Spiritual Ability System active skill effects was not very noticeable for her at this stage, because most of her skills were passive or those damage-free control-type, assistive-type skills, and some skills were so unique that they didn't benefit from the bonuses, such as Combat Etiquette.

But the lack of usefulness now doesn't mean it won't be useful later; once she masters more skills similar to "Summoning True Spirit", this boost would become incredibly terrifying.

The most obvious difference between Advanced Professions and Elite Professions isn't actually in Basic Attributes or the number of skills that can be learned, but in these bonuses.

The increase in Spiritual Ability Resistance was quite meaningful for Bai Fu.

As an Apprentice Spiritual Ability Painter, her base Spiritual Ability Resistance was already high. After a 60% increase, now she could even bathe in those ordinary contamination sources in the wild without being mutated for a good while.

If others tried to assassinate her or she pursued someone, the extra high Spiritual Ability Resistance might produce miraculous effects.

The benefits brought by increased Spiritual Ability Recovery Speed were even more obvious; Bai Fu's base Spiritual Ability Recovery Speed was 9 points/minute, taking into account Spiritual Ability Affinity and the Knowledge Chain boost, it was 15 points/minute.

This recovery rate was enough for her to control three Little Bai Fus without any depletion.

"It would be even better if it becomes a percentage-based recovery later on."

Bai Fu was secretly pleased; she now had 760,000 Experience points, enough for her to level up again.

She didn't delay, investing the Experience to raise her Apprentice Spiritual Ability Painter from Lv16 to Lv17, with the extra 3 attribute points naturally added to Inspiration.

As a result, taking into accounthe 5 points of Inspiration provided by the Knowledge Chain boost, her Inspiration officially reached 100!

The attribute panel then became——

[Life Value]: 1990/1990

[Spiritual Ability Value]: 1030/1030

[Qi]: 140/140

[Attributes]: Power 25, Agility 31, Constitution 88, Intelligence 27, Spirit 28, Inspiration 100

Bai Fu looked around.

Coyote, another S-class Assassin like her, had his highest attribute not even reach 85, and as for the Blood Bar, the longest among them was Su Li, a Martial Artist, who now had merely 1210.

This was truly standing out from the crowd!

Bai Fu satisfiedly closed the attribute panel.

She calculated that after this Task ended, she was still missing one Spiritual Ability Knowledge Chain, 2.81 million Experience points, and a pre-requisite Transferring Professions Task to unlock Advanced Professions.

As the exact details of the Transferring Professions Task were unknown, she decided to set them aside for now; although the total Experience seemed substantial, if she set a deadline from now until the new version update, she still had 2 months to farm Experience. For her, 2.81 million Experience in 2 months was definitely not difficult.

"The key is still in the last Knowledge Chain."

Bai Fu's gaze focused on Su Li.

Me?

Su Li noticed Bai Fu's abnormality.

Bai Fu asked, "Besides you guys, the Genetic Primordials, the Truth Society, do you know where else I can find Advanced Spiritual Ability Knowledge?"

Now she had not yet directly contacted two of the five major forces on Ancestral Origin Star: the Human Alliance and the Old Republic. Among them, dealing with the Human Alliance was more difficult because they practiced "Pure-Blood Human Supremacy," and since she had fused with Evolution Blood, once the Human Alliance realized she wasn't a Pure-Blood Human, they might not attack her directly but would definitely drive her away.

Su Li spread her hands: "You've ruled out those powers, and I really don't know which other force might have the Advanced Spiritual Ability Knowledge you're looking for. The Old Republic doesn't research this kind of stuff, and the Human Alliance, born out of the Old Republic and with extreme vigilance against non-pure-blood humans, would even less likely study it."

Bai Fu rubbed her temples.

Had the worst-case scenario happened? She knew fulfilling the prerequisites to unlock Advanced Professions wouldn't be simple.

It seemed she could only increase the bounty on the Dark Web while pursuing the research institute mentioned in the main storyline of the Goli Desert Region; that institute was most likely one of the earliest to research Spiritual Ability in the history of Ancestral Origin Star, and it might contain Advanced Spiritual Ability Knowledge.

If all else failed, Bai Fu still had one last resort.

[Save Private Julia!]

Julia's original body had definitely unlocked Advanced Professions, though her power wasn't obtained through cultivation; but by applying force, something should be able to be extracted from her, right?

...

Approximately an hour and a half after Bai Fu and the others left the Ocean Life Research Institute by car, two helicopters, resembling ospreys, approached from the north, eventually landing near the institute.

A moment later, escorted by a group of Elite Agents, a middle-aged man disembarked from one of the helicopters.

He wore a pair of square sunglasses and held a black cane in his hand, standing out conspicuously amongst the crowd.

"General Pangbadun..."

With an expressionless face, Pangbadun declared, "There are no survivors inside."

The accompanying Elite Agents changed their expressions; no survivors meant the institute had been compromised, and the critical data inside might have been taken.

They followed Pangbadun, cautiously approaching the research institute.

Pangbadun was a member of the Genetic Primordial's Seven-Person Council, holding an extraordinary position within the Genetic Primordials. He had been the one to command Basque to eliminate Bai Fu during the Bagalos operation.