Ultimately, both parties reached an agreement on a trade, exchanging goods without any additional conditions.

This transaction would take place within an official Boundary Land, the "Snowfield Ancient City."

Because Enamored was far away in Luoyang Base City and Bai Pu was in Xicheng, the distance was too great.

Some Boundary Lands are specifically established to solve the trading issues of Awakened individuals, such as the official Mid-level Boundary Land "Snowfield Ancient City," which has spatial passages in major base cities across each major region of the country.

Bai Pu only needs to go to Jiangnan Base City, enter the "Snowfield Ancient City" via the spatial passage, and meet Enamored, who would also enter through the spatial passage, to complete the transaction within the Boundary Land.

Entering the Snowfield Ancient City requires a charge of 30 Spiritual Points. And having collected a "toll," the officials naturally maintain order in the Boundary Land.

Bai Pu made a trip to Jiangnan Base City.

This time, he didn't seek an expert to accompany him; on one hand, Superstar Alliance was currently too preoccupied, with several of its Boundary Lands facing official inspections and closures. On the other hand, Bai Pu was live-streaming the entire time.

Amidst a barrage of messages in the livestream chat saying "the missing person has returned," the audience immediately noticed the changes in Bai Pu's physique and aura.

Aside from a very few people with unique tastes who prefer delicate pretty boys, the majority of the audience quite liked Bai Pu's transformation into a taller, stronger, and more robust figure with a cold and hard demeanor.

During the Common Era, the persona of delicate pretty boys was once popular, but in the Spiritual Era, great power belongs to individuals, and society's mainstream aesthetic for men leans more towards rugged, powerful figures.

Even for women, aesthetics lean towards a valiant, agile style like a leopardess; the persona of someone so fragile they can't even open a bottle of mineral water has almost no market.

Bai Pu continued to act as he pleased, eyes closed throughout, feigning sleep in the passenger seat—but in reality, he was honing his Combat Specialization through genetic heart image meditation and combat.

Starting meditation training is quite mentally taxing, even more so than actual physical training. After all, it's about experiencing the enhancement of the combat skills of five or six individuals at once, which is more exhausting than solo training.

Every time Bai Pu initiates meditation training, he can sustain it for at most an hour before needing to rest for two hours—of course, during this rest, Bai Pu can attend to matters and practice Combat Skills.

Since meditation training drains mental energy, Bai Pu's own Blood River Fighting Qi and physical strength remain unaffected.

Bai Pu can deplete his Blood River Fighting Qi to about half of its capacity, then proceed to meditation training. After an hour of meditation, his Blood River Fighting Qi returns to full value, allowing him to continue practicing Combat Skills...

He can essentially achieve seamless integration.

Without any incidents or dangerous encounters, he arrived at Jiangnan Base City.

Bai Pu paid the fee to enter the Snowfield Ancient City Boundary Land and completed the trade with Fengzi Auction House.

Enamored did not come in person but sent someone to connect with Bai Pu.

Judging by Enamored's conduct, she appears to be a shrewd and pragmatic woman. From the start, using a seductive video call while in the bath with Bai Pu might have been intended to tempt him into agreeing to the Youth Cream collaboration.

Of course, it's not meant to imply she leaped into the bath upon receiving the video call; it just so happened that Bai Pu's video call request came while she was bathing. Most people would choose to decline, but Enamored had no qualms about answering, revealing her intentions quite clearly.

Bai Pu clearly refused, and Enamored realized that Bai Pu was a resolute young man, so she naturally wouldn't waste any more effort in trying to allure him.

After obtaining the skill book "Lasso Strike," Bai Pu immediately chose to comprehend it.

The success rate prompt for comprehending "Lasso Strike" was 98%.

This indicates that the "Lasso Strike" skill book closely aligns with Bai Pu's own professional characteristics and utilizing Blood River Fighting Qi to activate this skill poses no problems.

Of course, this is also because Bai Pu, a grand Level 5 Enhanced Hero, surprisingly has only equipped three Combat Skills, leaving ample room.

To make an analogy, Awakened individuals are akin to computers with varying configurations, with the skills they master being like programs of different sizes running on those computers.

The higher the configuration, the more and more complex programs it can run simultaneously!

Right now, Bai Pu is akin to a high-configuration computer but is only running three low-end programs. He still has more than half of his memory capacity available to accommodate more programs running simultaneously.

Of course, some skills that don't match with the Professional Energy can't be executed even if they're learned, such as Bai Pu learning the "Blood Extraction" magic, which cannot be cast without the compatible Blood Magic Power.

It is said that a hundred years ago in the era of Spiritual Elements, the Awakened did not have a concept of Professional Energy and relied solely on Spiritual Power to cast skills.

That was a time of free combinations, where warriors could learn a big fireball, and mages could learn a Tornado Slash.

But back then, close combat professions were also quite pitiful, mainly focusing on the three Physique Attributes, typically having low Spirit Attributes, and after using two skills, they usually exhausted their blue (Spiritual Power).

After mastering "Lasso Strike," a detailed explanation of the skill appeared.

The length of Lasso Strike is 44 meters (Skill Level 2), with a cooldown of 2 minutes. The target's flying speed when pulled is based on the strength difference between Bai Pu and the opponent *2 (assuming both sides generate resistance).

If the opponent doesn't resist, then with Bai Pu's current 78 points of Power, the flying speed of a pulled target with Lasso Strike becomes 156 points, which to a Mid-level Awakened is almost indistinguishable from Instant Teleportation.

Bai Pu tested this skill in the Boundary Land and was quite satisfied. This skill can be developed into many useful methods.

"I still need at least one more skill book... but I can't use the Fengzi Auction House channel again."

Enamored preferred bartering; all Bai Pu currently had left was a Three-star "Blood Extraction," which he definitely wouldn't trade with her. As for other items on his person, who knows when they might be needed, and he wasn't willing to exchange them.

Bai Pu preferred acquiring the second skill book through the purchase with Spiritual Points.

He still had many options, the Special Service Bureau and the Divine Strategy Army could help find a way, and there was no need to overly rely on the Fengzi Auction House.

Bai Pu first made a trip to the Jiangnan Special Service Bureau Office to claim a reward of 50,000 Spiritual Points.

He also needed to solve issues regarding the repair of the Dark Gold Equipment "Commanding Crown" and address the difficulty of deciphering the charging method for the "Dull Divine Rune."

Upon arriving at the Special Service Bureau Office, his other teammates, Leader Yuan Hall, along with Anvil and You Bai, had gone on a field mission, leaving only "Lazy Dog" Sister Yuan Yue whom Bai Pu knew in the office building.

Sister Yuan Yue remained her plump and robust self; upon seeing Bai Pu, she was initially surprised by his physical transformation and then inquired about the details of his defeat of the Hidden Snake.

The strength of the Hidden Snake was close to that of Deputy Leader Yuan Hall. But Yuan Hall, at most, could defeat Hidden Snake, finding it extremely difficult to kill him.

This was also the reason why Yuan Hall was stuck at the B+ Level Special Service Officer without promotion—unexpectedly, the formerly weakest member of Gangxin had risen to become an A-level Special Service Officer.

After Bai Pu explained his reason for coming, Sister Yuan Yue was enthusiastic and helped Bai Pu get in touch with the General Affairs to connect with an Advanced Blacksmith and Engraver.

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