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

Little Julia did not speak for a moment, as if she was contemplating whether Bai Fu was lying or not.

"I have no need to deceive you. According to external rumors, you died two years ago. Had I not really seen you and had you not personally told me to come to Shelter 11, how would I possibly come to such a remote place?"

Bai Fu's gaze was pure and innocent.

"It does seem to be the case," Little Julia accepted the explanation, "Thank you, I will honor our agreement."

Bai Fu was overjoyed at the bottom of her heart.

Upon discovering that Little Julia's memories were not shared with Julia's and that she was much more innocent than Julia, Bai Fu had planned to fool Little Julia. She hadn't expected things to go so smoothly.

Little Julia said, "But right now I have no hands or feet, I can't write. I can only dictate the techniques I know to you."

Bai Fu waved her hand dismissively, "I'm grateful that you're willing to tell me at all, how could I dare to ask for more?"

Her heart was filled with anticipation.

She hoped to use this Spiritual Ability Knowledge to complete the "Apprentice Spiritual Artist" profession and the "Spiritual Ability Knowledge Chain (7)," but if she could learn Julia's skills, that would be even better.

Whether it was controlling others, creating fake bodies, force fields, or a devastating Spiritual Ability onslaught, these were all incredibly powerful skills.

Little Julia was touched by Bai Fu's words: "You really are a good person! Let me think, let's start with the perception of Spiritual Energy..."

She began to explain.

As a Spiritual Ability genius, Julia clearly wasn't suited to teaching. When she explained problems, it was just like those top students explaining questions, often fond of using phrases like "it's obvious," "as everyone knows," and "from this, we can conclude" to transition or summarize.

Even with Bai Fu's game-provided learning function, it was still extremely difficult to follow.

Initially, the game prompt was like this—

[Little Julia imparts knowledge to you on xx, you have met the learning criteria, current progress...]

But as time passed, the game prompt changed to—

[Your knowledge reserve is insufficient, you cannot understand what she's saying, learning has stalled.]

Despite Julia's less-than-stellar teaching, Bai Fu reaped substantial rewards after this class that lasted an entire night and a morning.

She unlocked two new skills.

[Spiritual Ability Perception Lv1]: Consumes Spiritual Energy to perceive a range of 10 meters around you, draining 2 points of Spiritual Energy every second.

[Superpower Burst]: Consumes 50% of Spiritual Ability Value and 20% of Life Value to enter a Superpower Burst state, lasting 10 minutes. During this period, Power +7, Agility +7, Spirit +5, cooldown time 24 hours. (Note: This skill cannot be used when Spiritual Ability Value is below 50% or Life Value is below 30%).

One perception skill, one emergency burst skill.

She hadn't learned those overpowered skills, as Bai Fu realized that those skills were Julia's talent skills, and she did not possess the "True Spirit's Child" talent. With her current knowledge reserve, she completely failed to understand the principles behind these skills.

Besides skills, the Knowledge Chain and the new profession she had longed for were finally completed.

[You have unlocked the "Spiritual Ability Knowledge Chain (7)"]

After mastering Knowledge Chains (2), (4), and (7), her Knowledge Chain bonuses became—

[All Spiritual Ability System active skills effectiveness +60%, Spiritual Ability Resistance +50%, Spiritual Ability Recovery Speed +2/minute, Spiritual Ability System attribute bonus activated]

The so-called Spiritual Ability System bonus was a new ability triggered after unlocking three Knowledge Chains.

Just as Body Cultivation Sect players could enhance themselves with "Qi," the Spiritual Energy that Spiritual Ability Sect players possessed could also bring a certain degree of attribute bonus.

Bai Fu currently only had 225 points of Spiritual Ability Value, which did not provide a significant bonus, at most an additional 2 points to Constitution and 1 point to Spirit. However, as her Spiritual Ability Value continued to rise, the number of attribute points provided by the bonus would increase, possibly even resulting in other types of bonus, such as an automatically generated shield.

Bai Fu closed the Knowledge Chain description and focused on the new profession.

[You have unlocked the new profession "Apprentice Spiritual Artist"]

[Prompt: "Apprentice Spiritual Artist" is a higher-tier substitute for "Spiritual Ability Prayer Master." Would you like to overwrite?]

"Yes."

[Updating Profession (0%...2%...)]

A Spiritual Ability Prayer Master gained 1 point in Intelligence, 2 points in Inspiration, and 2 Free Attribute Points with each level up, while an Apprentice Spiritual Artist gained an additional Free Attribute Point with each level up.

After the update, Bai Fu received an additional 9 Free Attribute Points and unlocked a new passive.

[Basic Level Card Crafting Lv1 (0/1000)]: Efficiency and success rate for crafting Prayer Cards +10%

Bai Fu allocated 6 attribute points to Inspiration, raising it to 45 points, and then allocated the remaining 3 attribute points to Constitution.

Her attributes became—

[Life Value]: 1670/1670

[Spiritual Ability Value]: 255/255

[Attributes]: Power 18, Agility 19, Constitution 72, Intelligence 14, Spirit 22, Inspiration 45

Actually, the change in attributes was secondary. The biggest change for Bai Fu after unlocking the Apprentice Spiritual Artist was that she could use her knowledge of the Spiritual Ability System to fabricate Prayer Card Blueprints. This allowed her to craft a broader variety of Prayer Cards, like Flash Cards with effects similar to flash bombs, and Explosion Cards similar to ordinary hand grenades, rather than being limited to her known skills.

"Finally."

Bai Fu was in high spirits.

In this way, her combat style would become more varied and she would no longer have to rely on equipment made by Mechanics.

Now she needed to find a way to accumulate more experience, to increase the Profession Level and Basic Level Card Crafting, and use the remaining experience for card crafting.

Just as Bai Fu was excited, Little Julia's body suddenly started to tremble, this anomaly immediately caught Bai Fu's attention.