Chapter Summaries

Two-Faced Man learned that Bozo had escaped the slaughter of the Thorn Cutters and planned to track him using Rui Xin’s Heart Energy Tracking Technique. Meanwhile, Bai Pu’s group had taken control of a fourth bishop, but reports that Two-Faced Man was investigating their raided cities revealed that their trail was being tracked.

• Nur identified the severed heads and told Two-Faced Man that Bozo had stayed behind at the Thorn Cutters’ stronghold.
• Rui Xin explained that her Heart Energy Tracking Technique could trace Bozo by collecting his lingering heart energy.
• Bai Pu’s group subdued the bishop of Hossman City, bringing the number of bishops under his control to four.
• Bozo relayed the Wind Speaker’s reports that Two-Faced Man had investigated the cities in the same order Bai Pu’s group had raided them.
• Bai Pu realized that Two-Faced Man had a way to track their trail.

Bai Pu chose to ambush the Two-Faced Man’s pursuing army in the Ibex Corridor, using the route its tracking method forced it to take. The ambush began with a rockslide, and a lightning-wreathed female warrior led the Thorn Cutters’ attack as Holy Warriors fell.

• Bai Pu explained that the Two-Faced Man’s tracking fixed his route and persuaded Bozo’s group to choose the battlefield for an ambush.
• One day later, Rui Xin guided the Two-Faced Man’s army through the Ibex Corridor using a Crystal Ball to follow the collected heart energy.
• The Two-Faced Man halted the army at a suspicious noise, but trusted Rui Xin’s guidance and ordered them onward.
• Bai Pu’s forces triggered rockslides from both sides of the corridor, throwing the Thorn Legion into chaos.
• The Two-Faced Man realized the rockslides were an enemy scheme and prepared to withstand them with Corps Commander Salomon and the Molten Gold Giant.
• The Thorn Cutters charged from the cliffs, and a lightning-wreathed female warrior cut down Holy Warriors before they could transform.

Bozo and Bai Pu joined the Thorn Cutters’ ambush against the Thorn Church, and Bai Pu identified three Stellan Star Awakened fighting alongside the Church. He targeted Rui Xin and her companions, but the goldfish-eyed man linked his vitality to Rui Xin as Bai Pu attacked.

• Bozo summoned a storm that battered the Thorn Legion while the ambush and falling rocks divided the Thorn Church’s forces.
• The Two-Faced Man used the Molten Gold Giant’s domain to strengthen his Holy Warriors against the scattered Thorn Cutters.
• Bai Pu descended into the battle and used his Sand Waterfall Domain to weaken the Molten Gold Domain and hinder movement.
• Bai Pu recognized Rui Xin and two companions as Awakened from Stellan Star and charged at them.
• Bai Pu endured attacks from the three Awakened and a Holy Warrior, then used Storm Eye to draw the group toward him.
• The goldfish-eyed man linked his vitality to Rui Xin just as Bai Pu struck at her neck.

Bai Pu killed Rui Xin and the two other Otherworld Travelers with overwhelming attacks, then charged at Two-Faced Man while Bonnie and Bozo engaged Salomon and Nur. Two-Faced Man activated a blue domain around himself as Bai Pu approached.

• Bai Pu killed Rui Xin with a critical strike that also severely wounded the goldfish-eyed man, then killed the goldfish-eyed man and the swordfish-mouthed man.
• Bai Pu gained more than 1,900 Honor Points and sensed three blue crystal beads entering his Storage Space.
• Salomon attacked Bai Pu, but Bai Pu evaded him and charged toward Two-Faced Man as Bonnie intercepted Salomon.
• Salomon knocked Bonnie back with a charged punch, and Nur stepped in to confront her.
• Bozo blocked Salomon and declared that he would cleanse him for betraying the Storm Church.
• Two-Faced Man spread a blue halo around himself as Bai Pu approached.

The Two-Faced Man used the Sea of Azure Illusion Domain and mental spells to slow and mentally corrupt Bai Pu and the Thorn Cutters. Just as he expected Bai Pu to succumb to Frenzied Mind, a sand spear pierced the Two-Faced Man’s chest.

• The Two-Faced Man’s Sea of Azure Illusion Domain slowed the Thorn Cutters and began building their Mental Schism progress, while Bai Pu’s Sand Waterfall Domain reduced its effects.
• A Thorn Cutter’s jumping attack missed the Two-Faced Man because of visual displacement, and the Molten Gold Giant killed the attacker with a thrown spear.
• Bai Pu tried to locate the Two-Faced Man with Demon Refining Sand, but his magic sand arrow missed; the Two-Faced Man then recognized him as Steel Heart and attacked with Azure Illusion Bomb.
• Bai Pu dodged most of the Azure Illusion Bomb with Gale Step, but the Two-Faced Man’s Frenzied Mind drove him to attack his surroundings and rapidly increased his Mental Schism progress.
• The Two-Faced Man moved to clear the battlefield and prepared to wait for Bai Pu’s defeat, but a sand-transformed spear suddenly pierced his chest.

Bai Pu revealed that he had resisted Two-Faced Man’s Frenzied Mind spell and used the apparent loss of control to ambush and cripple him. He slowed the approaching Molten Gold Giant with Muddy Art, but Two-Faced Man believed he could survive until its arrival while the Thorn Cutters struggled elsewhere.

• Bai Pu detonated ten portions of Magic Sand inside Two-Faced Man’s chest, inflicting massive damage and crippling him.
• Bai Pu closed his eyes to navigate the Sea of Azure Illusion Domain, evaded a Holy Warrior, and pursued Two-Faced Man with further sword strikes.
• Two-Faced Man realized Bai Pu had used his other senses to locate him, while Bai Pu’s Steadfast Heart had prevented Frenzied Mind from controlling him.
• Bai Pu explained through his actions that he had feigned madness to distract Two-Faced Man and concealed the Magic Sand in the dust before striking.
• Bai Pu used Muddy Art to hinder the Molten Gold Giant’s approach, while Two-Faced Man raised shields and relied on surviving until the giant arrived.
• Bonnie struggled against Nur, and Bozo was forced to evade Salomon as the Thorn Cutters faced trouble in the other battle groups.

Bai Pu’s four bishop servants killed the Two-Faced Man and then destroyed the Molten Gold Giant, turning the battle against the Thorn Church. With Bai Pu exhausted but still directing the bishops to support the remaining fights, Bonnie confronted Redeemer Nur with renewed confidence.

• Bonnie held off Redeemer Nur while he taunted her and relied on the Shield of Piety to block her attacks.
• Bai Pu’s four bishop servants fired Annihilation Rays at the Two-Faced Man, killing him as Bai Pu seized his Dark Gold Treasure Chest.
• The Molten Gold Giant followed its final command to attack Bai Pu, leaving it exposed to the bishops’ rays while Bai Pu shattered its Molten Gold Armor and defeated it.
• Bai Pu collected the Molten Gold Giant’s Dark Gold Treasure Chest, then directed his depleted bishop servants to fire support rays across the battlefield.
• Bonnie told Nur that his Shield of Piety could not protect him from lightning.

Bonnie and Bozo reversed the battle against Nur and Salomon, helping Bai Pu’s forces defeat the Two-Faced Man Legion. After celebrating their victory and discussing Bai Pu’s growing strength and reputation, the Thorn Cutter leaders debated whether to advance on the Valley of Suffering.

• Bonnie and Bozo used Shift Position Exchange to switch opponents, allowing Bozo to overwhelm Nur with lightning and Bonnie to attack Salomon at close range.
• A Holy War Legion Commander killed one of Bai Pu’s bishop servants with a life-burning attack before Black Robe Neil killed him from behind.
• Nur fled, and Bozo abandoned the pursuit to help Bonnie kill Salomon as the remaining Two-Faced Man Legion fighters resisted until they were wiped out.
• The Thorn Cutters cleared the battlefield, and Bonnie apologized to Bai Pu for having doubted his strength.
• Bai Pu assessed his standing in the Original Sin World, gathered the Thorn Cutter leaders, and heard one leader propose advancing to destroy the Thorn Church’s nest in the Valley of Suffering.

Bai Pu persuaded the Thorn Cutters to return to the Southwest Jungle, rebuild their territory and temples, and seek clues about the Lost City. He planned to pursue the Silver Branch of his Military Rank Advancement Mission while the group traveled and he opened their battle spoils.

• Bozo, Black Robe Neil, and Wind Speaker Gadera argued that the Thorn Cutters could not attack the Thorn Church headquarters and should instead return to the Southwest Jungle to rebuild.
• Bai Pu agreed to return but said he had reached his limit controlling Thorn bishops as servants.
• Bai Pu explained that the Lost City’s appearance had drawn the Divine Envoys’ attention back to the Original Sin World, and that rebuilding temples and restoring Altars could reconnect believers with their Deities.
• Bai Pu urged the group to search for more sacred artifacts and clues about the Lost City, hoping to complete the Silver Branch mission.
• The group set out for the Southwest Jungle, and Bai Pu opened treasure chests gained from the battle.

Bai Pu opened Two-Faced Man’s treasure chest and obtained the Sacred Artifact Whisper, the Sufferer’s Pauldrons, and a Fate Revelation Book. He won the pauldrons’ approval and equipped them, greatly increasing his attributes and gaining the Living Thorns skill.

• Bai Pu drew the Sacred Artifact Whisper from Two-Faced Man’s treasure chest and put it away for later.
• Bai Pu drew the Sufferer’s Pauldrons and learned that he had to pass their equipment spirit’s blood-draining trial to use their additional skills.
• Bai Pu offered the pauldrons a drop of pure blood, passed the trial, and equipped them.
• Bai Pu’s Strength, Endurance, and Spirit each rose by 10, and he gained access to the Living Thorns instinct skill.
• Bai Pu drew a Fate Revelation Book and recognized it as the item Shasha Divine Envoy had previously lent him.

Bai Pu drew the Meteor throwing spear and Molten Gold Armor from the Molten Gold Giant's chest, then helped the Thorn Cutters identify a material that could lead him toward the Profound Truth of Fire. When Bozo's prayer revealed that the Meteor was a contaminated offering, Bai Pu proposed investigating the Lost City for uncontaminated Holy Artifacts and the missing component they might contain.

• Bai Pu drew the Meteor throwing spear and the four-star Molten Gold Armor skill from the Molten Gold Giant's chest, then collected materials and a Jewel of Scarlet from the other treasure chests.
• Bai Pu and the Thorn Cutters swept through Southwest Jungle cities, killed twisted Thorn Church followers, and converted their churches into temples.
• A Thorn Cutter identified Bai Pu's Flame Soul-Nurturing Stone as a Spirit Realm Oddity that could help him comprehend the Profound Truth of Fire, while no one identified the Demon Bloodstone.
• Bai Pu suggested that Bozo offer the Meteor throwing spear to his Deity, but Bozo learned that the offering was contaminated and would not be accepted.
• Bai Pu proposed investigating the Lost City for new Holy Artifacts, suspecting they contained the missing Source Material Fragment or Divinity Crystal.

Bai Pu entered a Spirit Realm created by four bishop servants to cultivate a fire Profound Truth with the Flame Soul-Nurturing Stone, hoping to strengthen his eventual Molten Gold Armor skill. When the coldest natural environment failed to awaken the stone, he ordered the servants to expose him to increasingly powerful artificial frost, leaving him buried beneath a growing mountain of ice.

• After receiving divine responses, Bozo and other sect members began searching God-Given Lands for new holy artifacts while Bai Pu stayed in Mulan City to cultivate.
• Four bishop servants performed an incomplete Suffering Ritual, creating a Spirit Realm where Bai Pu could practice without drawing the Lord of Suffering's attention.
• Bai Pu simulated the Original Sin World's coldest ice plains and held the Flame Soul-Nurturing Stone, but the natural cold did not make it react.
• At Bai Pu's request, the bishop servants created a White Storm, but even its extreme cold failed to awaken the stone.
• Bai Pu directed the servants to create an environment filled with Freezing Rays, and their frost energy froze him inside a massive block of ice as they continued building it up.

Bai Pu endured the bishop servants’ freezing energy until he comprehended the Beginner-level Crimson Flame Profound Truth, which improved his chances of learning Molten Gold Armor. Meanwhile, Bozo and the Thorn Cutters uncovered a secret document about the Lost City, and Bai Pu began witnessing the ritual behind the Gilded One’s armor.

• Bai Pu changed the frozen environment to escape the bishop servants’ frigid energy and realized the Flame Soul-Nurturing Stone responded when his soul craved warmth.
• Bozo, Gadera, Neil, and the other Thorn Cutters found and opened a sealed document bearing the Lord of Suffering’s emblem, which revealed the likeliest location of the Lost City.
• Bai Pu broke free from the ice after a crimson flame appeared and comprehended the Beginner-level Crimson Flame Profound Truth.
• Bai Pu used the Molten Gold Armor Skill Book and watched a vision of a man receiving divine grace as molten gold and Golden Runes formed his armor.

After learning Molten Gold Armor, Bai Pu trained it alongside Skin of Steel and reasoned that he could eventually fuse them into a unique skill. He used records of the Lost City to calculate its underground path and led the Thorn Cutters to a suspected entrance, where he prepared to search for it beneath the Original Sin Continent.

• Bai Pu comprehended the Four-Star Profound Truth Skill Molten Gold Armor and learned that its fixed damage reduction did not stack with Skin of Steel's.
• Bai Pu trained both defensive skills and refined two portions of Demon Refining Sand to replace some of the Magic Sand he had used.
• Neil and Bozo brought Bai Pu records about the Lost City, including its past appearances and the omens that accompanied them.
• Bai Pu used the Lost City's appearance times and locations to calculate its trajectory and identify a suspected current location underground.
• Bai Pu led Bonnie and the Thorn Cutters to a spring near Ibex Corridor and said Earth Vein Corridors must exist beneath the continent for the Lost City to move through them.

Bai Pu refused Bonnie’s request to join his exploration and led four bishop servants underground to search for a route into the vast world beneath the Hengduan Mountains. After breaking through a thin point in the rock, he entered the Earth Vein Corridor, leaving the Thorn Cutters above to carry out his orders.

• Bai Pu told Bonnie to remain in the Southwest Jungle and help turn the people of Original Sin World away from the doctrine of suffering, while he explored with four bishop servants.
• Bozo gave Bai Pu a blood-sacrifice ritual that could awaken holy artifacts enough to use some of their basic abilities.
• Bai Pu and the four bishop servants searched beneath the Hengduan Mountains, then used their linked Mental Power and Bai Pu’s Mountain Shattering Mystery to locate and break through a weak point in the rock.
• The breakthrough caused an earthquake and drained the pool above, and Bonnie explained to the waiting Thorn Cutters that Bai Pu had opened a path to the Earth Vein Corridor.
• Bai Pu and the four bishop servants followed the water through the opening and entered the vast underground world, where their breach formed a waterfall.

Bai Pu infiltrated a Thorn Church excavation team in the Earth Vein Corridor to investigate the Lost City and discovered that the church was placing Rune Stones at key Earth Vein Nodes. He suspected the church intended to capture the Lost City, and the Spirit Realm Will answered that the city was not entirely the Substrate wonder of the Original Sin World.

• Bai Pu followed his mapped route through the Earth Vein Corridor and used his bishop servants' Spirit Energy to detect Thorn Church followers ahead.
• Bai Pu decided to infiltrate the Thorn Church team and abducted a low-ranking follower, disguising himself in the man's robe.
• Bai Pu blended into the team, endured orders to dig pits, and learned that the Thorn Church had buried Rune Stones at key Earth Vein Nodes.
• Bai Pu suspected the Thorn Church was trying to capture the Lost City and secretly asked the Spirit Realm Will whether the city was the Substrate wonder of the Original Sin World.
• The Spirit Realm Will replied that the Lost City was not entirely the Substrate wonder.

Bai Pu infiltrated the Thorn Church’s gathering around the Underground Lake and learned that the church was preparing to recover the Spirit of Creation. The Bound One exposed Bai Pu as Steel Heart, and Blade Tip Dancer Isra and Lord Rosen prepared to attack him.

• Bai Pu’s team placed three Rune Stones and joined three other teams beside the Underground Lake.
• The Bound One arrived carrying a black coffin and ordered the teams to take positions while they waited for the Spirit of Creation.
• Bai Pu realized the Thorn Church’s forces had entered through a dangerous God-Given Sinkhole trial and planned to claim the continent for their god.
• The Bound One sensed an intruder, identified Bai Pu as Steel Heart, and ordered the surrounding believers to encircle him.
• Bai Pu removed his disguise and asked whether the Thorn Holy Mother was inside the coffin.
• Blade Tip Dancer Isra volunteered to fight Bai Pu, and the Bound One ordered Lord Rosen to join him.

Rosen and Isra cornered Bai Pu, using Wither and Decay, Touch of Death, and Isra’s attacks to keep him from reaching Rosen. As Rosen continued wearing down Bai Pu, an early-activated Rune Stone shook the ground and alarmed the Bound One.

• Rosen appeared beside Isra and trapped Bai Pu in Wither and Decay, restricting his movement and dash skills.
• Rosen struck Bai Pu with Touch of Death, inflicting dark and soul damage while its stacks began to build.
• Bai Pu used Lasso Strike against Rosen, but Rosen resisted its effects and Bai Pu’s attacks remained hampered by the curse.
• Isra transformed into his Twisted True Form, attacked Bai Pu, and hooked his ankles to stop him advancing toward Rosen.
• The Bound One mocked Bai Pu as Rosen continued casting, then the ground shook and the Bound One realized someone had activated the Rune Stone ahead of time.

The Spirit of Creation emerged in the Underground Lake, and the Thorn Church began attacking it with the Rune Array. With the Bound One’s forces distracted, Bai Pu survived Rosen’s Death Ripple and prepared to fight Isra and Rosen without holding back.

• The Bound One ordered Isra and Rosen to defeat Steel Heart while the Thorn Church took positions around the lake.
• The Rune Array intercepted the Spirit of Creation, which appeared as a gigantic turtle-shaped spirit and began striking the energy pillars.
• Rosen used Death Ripple on Bai Pu, but Bai Pu survived by activating Self-Adaptive Evolution—Soul Membrane.
• Bai Pu used Pure blood and Gene Fusion to raise his speed, then cast Muddy Art to slow Isra and Rosen.

Bai Pu killed Isra and pressed Rosen, who escaped the Sand Waterfall Domain with Death Gate but was caught again when Bai Pu reshaped it. The Bound One revealed that Rosen belonged to the Subspace God Race, and Rosen said he had abandoned that heritage when he became the Lord of Death’s Formal Chosen.

• Bai Pu used Molten Gold Armor and a charged Mountain Shattering Mystery strike to kill Isra.
• Rosen removed the web immobilizing him and escaped with Death Gate, but Bai Pu reshaped the Sand Waterfall Domain and caught him again.
• The Bound One reacted to Isra’s death by calling Rosen a member of the Subspace God Race and demanding that he defeat Bai Pu.
• Rosen said he had abandoned Noah Will, severed his connection with the Mother Sea, and forsaken the God Race’s glory when he became the Lord of Death’s Formal Chosen.