Sword Gate University, located in the Xiliang Region.

Training ground.

Lan Feng, dressed in hunter's clothing and carrying an icy-blue great bow, calmly packed his backpack.

"Lan Feng darling, you seem to have fought with this newcomer called Steel Heart? Got kicked out, didn't you?" A slightly frivolous voice sounded.

The speaker was a young man with curly hair, his handsome features carrying a touch of roguish charm. His hand rested rather inappropriately on Lan Feng's shoulder, slipping down towards high peaks.

Lan Feng slapped his hand away with a "snap": "This is school, keep it proper!"

"Don't be shy, there's nobody else around," the roguish young man laughed. "How about this? I'll help you out in the national championship, and tonight, you try a new position for me, how's that?"

"Scram."

Lan Feng rolled his eyes at him and finally said helplessly, "He's not easy to deal with; talk when you can manage it."

"Heh, just a newcomer, awakened for how long? Under the sword of 'Border Town Wanderer,' such unstable foundational Enhanced Heroes are treated like pigs to be slaughtered!"

The roguish young man, codenamed "Border Town Wanderer," sneered, "Honestly, in the entire national championship, only two people manage to spark my interest... Fenghuo from Western Capital University and Haotian from Qianyuan University! This little brother Steel Heart isn't qualified!"

Others from the top school teams like Qianyuan University and Northeast University, part of the Eight Great Universities, also learned of Bai Pu's existence.

After all, the term "Mid-level Enhanced Hero" is rare to hear.

When the masterful team members heard this, their feelings were mixed. After all, their persistent goal was to break through again in the Professional Plane and obtain the Enhanced Hero template's promotion!

Now knowing this goal was achieved by a junior who awakened just half a year ago, during a second profession switch was naturally shocking.

Of course, these masters, full of absolute confidence in themselves, believed in being second to none. They didn't think anyone was really much stronger than them—they missed becoming Enhanced Heroes because the related Spirit Realm Wonders weren't strong enough to trigger an SS difficulty task!

In other words, it's not that they were inferior; they just didn't encounter the opportunity!

After the initial shock, curiosity surfaced—they wondered what kind of Spirit Realm Wonders would trigger an SS-level profession switch task.

Naturally, these well-accomplished and powerful talents looked down on someone like Bai Pu, who just awakened a mere six months ago. They only saw the Enhanced Hero as conversation fodder, not a threat.

...

For the next month, Bai Pu stayed in Xicheng.

When mentally invigorated, he activated his Genetic Heart Image, battling past opponents in his Heart Image World and honing his Combat Specialization from every angle.

When feeling fatigued, he entered the Divine Strategy Army's underground training ground, repeatedly exhausting his Blood River Fighting Qi, arduously working on Combat Skills.

During breaks after practice, he'd take a shower and read books on Alchemy and Pharmaceuticals. During this time, he'd start a livestream to avoid breaching contracts.

The audience in the livestream were pleasantly surprised to find that Bai Pu stopped streaming his sword practice.

Instead, he streamed reading books and sleeping (which was actually training in his Genetic Mental Imagery)!

Wow, even more outrageous!

At least streaming sword practice was somewhat watchable, though a bit dull, but it involved movement.

But streaming reading and sleeping…

If not for occasional bullet screens drifting by, viewers would have thought their screens were frozen, staring at a static image!

Yet mysteriously, the popularity of Bai Pu's livestream did not decline but gently rose instead!

The truth was many spectators left but more new viewers came, and those who stayed were basically appearance fans.

As for why new viewers came…

It had to do with Bai Pu's Character Card causing quite a stir in the Virtual Spirit Realm.

After successfully changing professions and returning to reality, Bai Pu publicly sold his low-level Character Card: [Blood Armor Shield Guard·Steel Heart]. He didn't conceal his talents; post-job change, the talents had become a Talent Tree. If anyone tried to evaluate him using past talent data, it'd definitely be inaccurate.

Only the first two of his three major Talent Abilities took effect in the Virtual Spirit Realm. The third, Genetic Fragment, was involved with bonuses to Combat Specialization, which even the Virtual Spirit Realm couldn't simulate, so it wasn't displayed.

On a side note, even with an Awakened's Character Card, players couldn't beat the Awakened themselves due to the huge gap in Combat Specialization—most players only have Basic Level Combat Specialization.

After evaluation, the Virtual Spirit Realm deemed this low-level Character Card to have immense moneymaking potential and queued it urgently into the next card pool!

This was even the first time a low-level Character Card became the primary focus of a card pool. Previously, the highest rating for low-level Character Cards was only SR, merely there to pad the numbers.

The preview video demonstration was posted prominently on the Virtual Spirit Realm's public community homepage.

Various experienced players and game streamers with trial privileges gave their reviews.

Two words: ridiculous!

Adaptive Evolution and Pure Blood Protection, these two major Talent Abilities—each alone could rival Professional Skills of Hero Professions!

Finally, everyone understood why an unprecedented low-level Character Card had an SSR rarity rating—it was clearly a Hero Profession Character Card disguised as an Enhanced Elite!

In some areas, it was even stronger than a Hero Profession.

A streamer using this Character Card cleared the hardest dungeon in the low-level Spirit Realm—the Giant Insect Cave—all the way from the entrance to the final boss.

The problem is, the Giant Insect Cave was meant for three-person team challenges! And they had to be three Enhanced Elite Level Character Cards; otherwise, the chance of failure was quite high.

[Blood Armor Shield Guard·Steel Heart]'s Card preview video had just launched, and players were eagerly anticipating it, calling it "the solo players' gospel." Many players claimed it to be a "human rights card," saying they'd "sell their pots and pans to pull it"…

Of course, the number of players lingering in the low-level Spirit Realm was small, so sales of this card wouldn't compare to high-level Character Cards.

But nearly every male player had a dream to guide newcomers in the game—if she was a girl, even better. In low-level areas only accessible with low-level Character Cards, having a "human rights card" for support would surely increase one's chances of success by thirty percent.

For female players, the reason for drawing the card was simpler.

One word, handsome, end of story.

Thus, the cash flow for Bai Pu's card pool surely exploded.

Due to the Virtual Spirit Realm's frustrating gacha mechanics, the more draws accumulated, the higher the probability of drawing an SSR card. The first draw might have only a 0.1% chance, but by the 90th draw, it rises to 100%.

Every SSR card drawn would have golden light flashing, which players referred to as "going gold." Also, when "going gold," there was a 50% chance of getting the current limited main characters—Bai Pu's Character Card.

Then again, there's a 50% chance of the gold going to other non-main SSR Character Cards. In such cases, players would have to start over from a 0.1% chance, accumulating for another gold draw.

With players' enthusiasm, the first day's cash flow exploded, reaching 14.5 million!

According to the rules, for every dollar spent by players in the card pool, Bai Pu, as the flagship role, would receive 20%!

This seemingly low percentage is due to most money being spent on other N, R, or SR cards, with typically around seven draws needed to "go gold," while half of the time the gold goes to other SSR Character Cards, all of which share the revenue.

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