Chapter 322 - 319: Guess Who Our First-Round Opponent Is?

Bai Pu was able to recover quickly from the injury where his stomach was pierced, thanks not only to the alchemical potions provided by Qin but also the crucial role played by the Honor Life Potion.

Bai Pu endured the negative effects of the doubled consumption from the Melt Gold Domain, activated the Blood River Territory for resistance, and never ran out of Fighting Qi till the end. The Honor Energy Potion also played a significant role.

And now, these two types of potions have already been upgraded to the "Lieutenant" level, so naturally, their effects have significantly improved!

The immediate recovery of Life Value in the [Honor Life Potion (Lieutenant)] has increased to 800 points, and the immediate recovery of Professional Energy in the [Honor Energy Potion (Lieutenant)] has risen to 400 points!

They still ignore Medication Resistance, fully effective.

Of course, they’ve become more expensive as well.

Each bottle of Lieutenant-level Honor Potion has a price increased to 300 Honor Points, doubling the original cost.

Bai Pu, of course, bought them without hesitation.

His Honor Points at this moment are 1140/1940.

Now, the counter also displays items that can only be purchased with school officer privileges, such as the Golden Enhancement Crystal, Three-star Skill Book, and Silver Artifact...

Bai Pu sighed inwardly, realizing this is the Spirit Realm Will’s method of encouragement, aiming to make the Awakened under its command fully participate in the Spirit Realm War to earn Honor Points.

However, Bai Pu did not reject it. Such a clearly priced incentive aligns with his principle of Equivalent Exchange.

Next, it’s time to enhance equipment.

What Bai Pu currently lacks the most are substitutes for Blue Armor to assist in enhancement and increase the success rate—namely the Blue Enhancement Crystal. He does have two A-level Enhancement Cards and around 250,000 Spiritual Points.

The military rank counter has them on sale for 100 Honor Points per Blue Enhancement Crystal.

But using precious Honor to buy Blue Crystals is still too wasteful.

Bai Pu has already commissioned Li Ling to purchase battle loot Blue Armor in the real world. Even if bought at a premium, it’s more cost-effective than using Honor.

"Unfortunately, in the Original Sin World this time, too few treasure chests were dropped by the elite, no Blue Armor appeared."

"My Pure Blood Servant, ’Evolution Blade’ Bonnie, did lead her father Bozo to slaughter the Thorn Church in Miulan City, but in the Original Sin World, she is considered a Native, so killing monsters does not drop treasure chests. I couldn’t take the equipment plundered from corpses away with me!"

If Bai Pu and Bonnie fought together, the monsters killed would drop treasure chests.

After the Heart of Evolution transformed into a Talent Tree, the Pure Blood Servant would not die due to Bai Pu leaving the current world.

Bonnie counts as a spare piece left by Bai Pu in the Original Sin World, which may prove useful in the future.

Currently, Bai Pu only needs to enhance one piece of equipment, which is the [The Demon Spider Empress’s Warning]. This Demon Ghost Equipment, before advancing to Dark Gold, was already enhanced to +4, but after the quality upgrade, the previous enhancement level was reset.

Bai Pu placed the Dark Gold Tower Shield into the Enhancement Orb and received a prompt.

Dark Gold Equipment requires paying 10,000 Spiritual Points multiplied by the enhancement level for each enhancement!

Simply put, +1 requires 10,000 points, +2 requires 20,000 points... and so on.

It’s practically burning money; without family support, a Mid-level Awakened couldn’t possibly afford such enhancement costs.

Of course, it’s also rare for a Mid-level Awakened to possess Dark Gold Equipment.

Not that family influence is lacking, but the demand for Dark Gold Equipment is extremely high. Generally, a Mid-level Awakened doesn’t have enough Basic Attributes to meet the equipment demand.

For the first three levels of enhancement, Bai Pu spent 60,000 Spiritual Points.

For the crucial +4 enhancement, Bai Pu did not hesitate to use two Golden Enhancement Crystals.

One Golden Enhancement Crystal, if used on Gold Equipment enhancement, can increase the success rate by 40%.

But when used on Dark Gold Equipment enhancement, it can only increase it by 20%!

Fortunately, the base enhancement success rate for Dark Gold Equipment from +4 to +6 remains 50%, and with two Golden Crystals, Bai Pu barely pushed the success rate to 90%.

"I wonder if the Spirit Realm Will is still actively watching me... After all, I’ve completed the Cleaner task twice, it shouldn’t be so unfortunate to hit a 10% failure rate."

Bai Pu chose to enhance.

The light flickered, and the Enhancement Orb "spat out" the Dark Gold Tower Shield.

Enhancement successful!

The surface of the Dark Gold Tower Shield radiated a dark golden glow, exuding understated noble elegance.

The enhanced +4 Dark Gold Tower Shield naturally lives up to its enhancement cost, featuring a damage reduction ratio as high as 16%, and a +4 special effect: Enhancement Decree!

[Enhancement Decree: The Spider Demons summoned by Empress Decree evolve into Spider Demon Warriors.]

Worth it, totally worth it.

Bai Pu let out a breath, grateful he hadn’t wasted his 100,000 Spiritual Points.

Spider Demon Warriors have the Leader Level template. They’re atypically monstrous with few skills but high stats, surpassing same-level leaders in terms of Attributes and Life Value.

On the other side, Blood Spider didn’t have any equipment needing enhancement either. She activated her military rank, bought two bottles of Private’s Honor Potion, and chose to return alongside Bai Pu.

...

Western Capital University, dormitory area.

"Pair of 7s."

"Pair of 8s."

"Pair of Js."

"I bomb."

"King bomb."

"Impressive."

"Pass."

The Xili Institute of Technology team members, two plain-faced men, were playing cards with Xuan Pin.

"Why aren’t Blood Spider and Gangxin back yet? I hope nothing happened to them," said Plain-faced Man No. 1.

"Not likely, Gangxin is very strong," replied Plain-faced Man No.2.

"But it’s been seven days; most of the elite summoned from other school teams have already returned."

"This summons wasn’t simple; the danger level was high. Border Town Wanderer from Sword Gate University was sent back on the first day."

"That’s nothing. Fenghuo, the captain of Western Capital University and the top contender in this University Competition, was unconscious for two days after returning."

"And worse still, the captain of Qianyuan University, Haotian, returned as a cripple! Without the Spirit Realm Wonders to heal him, his path as an Awakened would have ended there."

The two plain-faced men continued discussing with concern.

It’s not that they had significant feelings towards Bai Pu and Blood Spider, but they were the two main forces of Xili Institute of Technology. If anything happened to them during this summons, Xili Institute of Technology would end their journey prematurely.

"Shunzi, I’m down to my last card," Xuan Pin suddenly said, being the landlord.

"Ah! Luckily, I still have a bomb," Plain-faced Man No. 1 revealed a triumphant smile.

Suddenly, the dormitory door slammed open, and Teacher Cai Cai entered excitedly, "They’re back, Gangxin and the others are back!"

Xuan Pin jumped up, discreetly tossing the single 4 he was holding into the card pile, "That’s great, that’s great! Let’s go, hurry and take a look!"

...

"That’s the gist of it, I’ve told you everything necessary. Some things need to be kept confidential and aren’t suitable to share with everyone."

Bai Pu focused on discussing the conflict with Border Town Wanderer, Chen Ge, and others to prevent their own team from becoming targets without understanding the situation.

"Did you say you drove out Border Town Wanderer?" Xuan Pin was incredulous, "He’s one of the top five in this competition’s leaderboard."

"No wonder Border Town Wanderer and Lan Feng haven’t come to mock us; that’s the reason!"

Teacher Cai Cai was beaming, "While you were away, the organizers arranged the elimination round draw. Guess who our first-round opponent is?"