Recaps

Bai Zhu triggered a hidden achievement by taking a mechanical cockroach from Milluki Zoldyck, then decided to use the brothers’ investigation of the Creation Society as an opportunity to get involved. After Milluki reacted to Bai Zhu’s probing with murderous Nen, an unseen figure appeared behind him and stopped him.

• Bai Zhu’s system offered a hidden achievement to pick up a sparkling object at Sankara Town’s fountain, where he collided with Milluki Zoldyck as Milluki retrieved a mechanical cockroach.
• Bai Zhu took the cockroach, completing the achievement and unlocking a hidden series achievement called Ella’s Suffering Holy Infant.
• Bai Zhu realized Milluki was likely surveilling the Creation Society for the Zoldyck family and chose to accompany the brothers’ investigation.
• Bai Zhu introduced himself and coaxed Milluki into revealing his identity and confirming that the Zoldycks were investigating the Creation Society.
• Milluki sensed Bai Zhu’s questions were probing for information and threatened him with murderous Nen, but Bai Zhu’s Reiatsu stopped it.
• An unseen pale hand appeared behind Milluki and dispelled his Nen as it called his name.

Bai Zhu tried to draw Illumi into investigating the Church, but Illumi left with Milluki after warning him not to trust strangers. As Bai Zhu prepared to leave town for the Hunter Exam, he learned from Aunt Hannah that Ella might be an outsider who attends the Creation Society Church.

• Bai Zhu told Illumi that pregnant women traveled to the Church for services and offered to work together, but Illumi ignored him and left with Milluki.
• Illumi warned Milluki not to respond to random strangers, and Bai Zhu decided to find Ella rather than investigate the Church blindly.
• Bai Zhu shared a meal with Aunt Hannah and Gelo, offered them two hundred thousand Jenny, and told them he planned to take the Hunter Exam and see the world.
• Gelo encouraged Bai Zhu to pursue being a Hunter but refused to accept his money.
• Bai Zhu asked Aunt Hannah about Ella, and she said the woman might be an outsider who attended services at the Creation Society Church.

Bai Zhu went to the Creation Society’s service to investigate Ella and discovered Milluki and Illumi there. After showing Illumi the children with identical, chaotic Nen, Bai Zhu secured Illumi’s agreement to work with him and arranged to talk after the service.

• Bai Zhu changed into inconspicuous clothes and went to Church during the Creation Society’s service, hoping the system would help identify Ella.
• Bai Zhu sat beside Milluki, noticed Milluki’s metal bugs spreading through the Church, and proposed working together.
• Illumi appeared disguised as a young woman, rejected Bai Zhu’s offer, and threatened him after Bai Zhu asked an outrageous question about his ability.
• Bai Zhu pointed out the robed children, and Illumi used Gyo to see that they all had Nen with nearly identical, chaotic flows.
• Bai Zhu made Illumi agree to work with him before promising to share what he knew, then invited him to talk after the service.

Bai Zhu and Illumi discovered that the pregnant women at a chapel carried Nen, then followed a suspicious baptized couple into an alley. To disguise their pursuit, Bai Zhu grabbed Illumi’s waist and pretended they were lovers, despite Illumi’s killing aura.

• Illumi used Gyo and saw Nen inside the fetuses of several pregnant women, including a woman with a cross tattoo whose unborn child had unusually strong Nen.
• Bai Zhu led Illumi and Milluki outside to wait for the woman and explained that the Nen-bearing fetuses might be outsiders.
• After waiting, Bai Zhu, Illumi, and Milluki followed the woman and her fanatical husband into a narrow alley.
• Bai Zhu wrapped an arm around Illumi’s waist and whispered that they should pose as a couple to avoid standing out while tailing them.

Bai Zhu pursued the couple with Illumi and Milluki, only to discover Milluki had already planted a tracker. After Milluki drove them to the farm in his figure-filled, game-controlled car, surveillance feeds revealed the surrounding property.

• Bai Zhu chased the couple across the rooftops, while Illumi realized Bai Zhu had taken advantage of him and Milluki revealed he had placed a tracker on their target.
• Bai Zhu stopped running and waited until Illumi and Milluki caught up, then angrily pinched Milluki's cheeks for letting him run around needlessly.
• Milluki showed Bai Zhu the tracker location at a farm in the next town, and the group climbed into his elaborate collectible-filled car.
• Milluki drove the car using a game controller, thrilling and terrifying Bai Zhu as they raced toward the farm.
• The car stopped at the farm, and Milluki's mechanical flies spread out to display surveillance footage of the fields and barns.

Bai Zhu approached a farmhouse in a blizzard under the guise of a harmless traveler, while Milluki and Illumi supported his plan from the car. He gained entry to Pige Aaron’s house, where Ella recognized him and reacted with alarm.

• Milluki detected two people inside the farmhouse and lost his first Mechanical Spider to a Nen interference field.
• Bai Zhu stopped Illumi from forcing entry and assigned Milluki to send an upgraded spider inside while Illumi kept watch.
• Bai Zhu disguised himself as a freezing traveler and knocked on the farmhouse door as the upgraded Mechanical Spider followed him into position.
• Pige Aaron let Bai Zhu inside, locked the door, and threatened to snap his neck if he tried anything.
• Ella came out from the inner room, recognized Bai Zhu, and quickly lowered her gaze.

Bai Zhu gained entry to Pige Aaron and Ella’s home during a snowstorm and used a conversation about the Creation Society to probe their beliefs. The chapter left Illumi and Milluki watching his act from outside, with Milluki embarrassed after mistaking Bai Zhu’s invented Tiga story for real mythology.

• Bai Zhu pretended to be a stranded traveler, and Pige Aaron let him into the inner room at Ella’s request.
• Bai Zhu told Pige Aaron he had come from Sankara Town and attended service at the Church, easing Pige Aaron’s suspicion.
• Bai Zhu claimed he believed in Tiga, the embodiment of light, while Pige Aaron wondered whether he might convert to the Creation Society.
• Milluki asked Illumi which mythology Tiga belonged to, and Illumi told him Bai Zhu was making it up.

Bai Zhu provoked Pige Aaron by preaching about the Land of Light and criticizing the Creation Society’s treatment of Ella, a pregnant woman. As Pige Aaron erupted in rage, Bai Zhu stood between him and Ella and challenged him to fight.

• Bai Zhu described the Land of Light and Tiga to Pige Aaron, who denounced his claims as heresy.
• Bai Zhu asked whether the Creation God could make him rich, leaving Pige Aaron momentarily speechless.
• Milluki and Illumi watched through a mechanical spider, and Illumi concluded that Bai Zhu was acting while waiting to see his abilities.
• Pige Aaron unleashed his Nen after Bai Zhu questioned how he treated Ella, and Ella pleaded for him to stop.
• Bai Zhu shielded Ella, provoked Pige Aaron, and challenged him to fight as Milluki’s listening device went dark.

Bai Zhu stopped Pige Aaron’s attack with an invisible force and subdued him using Bakudo #4: Hainawa. With Pige bound and silenced, Bai Zhu turned to Ella and asked to discuss the child in her belly.

• Pige Aaron attacked Bai Zhu with a punch fueled by all his Nen, while Ella screamed behind him.
• Outside the farmhouse, Illumi and Milluki watched the fight, and Illumi said Pige deserved to die if he could not handle Bai Zhu.
• Bai Zhu stopped Pige’s fist with an invisible force, leaving Pige unable to move or break through his defenses.
• Bai Zhu used Bakudo #4: Hainawa to bind Pige and seal his Nen, then stuffed Pige’s socks into his mouth to silence him.
• Bai Zhu approached the stunned Ella and asked to talk about the little treasure in her belly.

Bai Zhu demonstrated Kidō to Illumi and explained it as a power gained by sacrificing the potential of his Nen. Illumi accepted the explanation and took control of Pige Aaron, who revealed that the god needed children as living containers.

• Illumi and Milluki entered the room and examined Bai Zhu’s Light Rope, while Illumi focused on Bai Zhu’s ability.
• Bai Zhu bound Ella with another Light Rope, and Illumi touched the first one and recoiled from its electrical shock.
• Bai Zhu described Reiatsu and Kidō as powers gained through a supreme being by giving up his Nen’s potential.
• Illumi decided to use Bai Zhu to investigate the Creation Society and began interrogating Pige Aaron with a Nen Nail.
• Pige Aaron revealed under Illumi’s control that the god needed sacrifices and living children as containers.

Bai Zhu healed Ella and helped expose Pige Aaron’s plan to use women as disposable vessels for a resurrected god, earning an achievement reward. As Ella sank into despair, Bai Zhu began forming a plan to continue the mission.

• Bai Zhu healed Ella with Kaidō No. 33, and she mistook the miracle for proof that God had not abandoned her.
• Milluki admired Bai Zhu’s hand seals and chanting, while Illumi grew fascinated by his unfamiliar power.
• Illumi and Bai Zhu questioned Pige Aaron, who revealed that he hunted women to bear a Holy Infant for the Creation God.
• Pige Aaron admitted that he had used and discarded his previous wives, and that he had never loved Ella.
• Bai Zhu received 50 Achievement Points for completing part of Ella’s Suffering Holy Infant achievement and approached the despairing Ella with a new plan in mind.

Ella learned that Pige Aaron had used her as the tenth woman in a scheme to drain her life and inherit her wealth, and chose to fight back. Bai Zhu's group prepared to send Illumi, disguised as Ella, and the controlled Pige Aaron into the Creation Society to investigate its resurrection ritual.

• Illumi forced Pige Aaron to confirm that Ella was the tenth woman, and Bai Zhu explained that she would likely die within four months if the pregnancy continued.
• Bai Zhu urged Ella to live and seek vengeance, and she asked where the other women were buried before declaring she wanted the conspirators to pay.
• Bai Zhu proposed sending Pige Aaron back to the Creation Society with Illumi disguised as Ella, while Milluki monitored them with mechanical spiders.
• Illumi copied Ella's appearance and controlled Pige Aaron as they prepared to enter the society, while Ella burned her silver cross and resolved to take charge of her own life.
• Bai Zhu received an achievement reward and a new Kidō draw after completing a mission phase focused on protecting Ella and uncovering the Creation Society's ritual.

Bai Zhu and Milluki infiltrated the Creation Society’s underground hospital with Illumi disguised as Ella, discovering hundreds of pregnant women held as numbered vessels and records of those processed as nutrients. Ella resolved to kill the people responsible, while Bai Zhu planned to expose the cult’s supposed miracle during its ritual; an elder noticed Ella’s resilience and ordered her brought to him.

• Illumi disguised himself as pregnant Ella and entered the Church with Pige Aaron while Bai Zhu and Milluki monitored them from a motel.
• A priest led Pige Aaron and Ella through a hidden elevator into the Creation Society’s underground hospital, where a bishop ordered Ella sent to the purification room for baptism.
• Milluki hacked the hospital records and found hundreds of pregnant vessels, including women whose processing results were listed as “Recycled as nutrients.”
• Ella told Bai Zhu she wanted to kill the people responsible, and Bai Zhu agreed before proposing to challenge the cult during the Holy Advent Ritual in three days.
• An elder saw Ella on a surveillance feed, declared her soul resilient, and ordered attendants to bring her to him.

Illumi was taken toward the Church’s core while Milluki and Bai Zhu debated how to respond to a powerful Nen user. Ella agreed to serve as bait to save the imprisoned women, and Bai Zhu set out for the Church as the Stone Gate opened for Illumi.

• Illumi secretly sent Milluki a danger signal after sensing a powerful Nen user in the purification room.
• Milluki nearly detonated the Mechanical Spiders, but Bai Zhu stopped him and argued that an explosion would endanger Illumi.
• The bishop ordered Illumi to be taken to the elder, and the hidden Spider signals began to be jammed near the core area.
• Bai Zhu proposed using Ella as bait, and Ella agreed after learning the imprisoned women and she would otherwise die.
• Milluki gave Bai Zhu six miniature explosive reconnaissance devices, then reported that Illumi had entered through the opening Stone Gate.
• Bai Zhu left for the Church to help knock on the door as Illumi faced the darkness beyond the gate.

Bai Zhu infiltrated the Creation Society’s church in disguise and planted six of Milluki’s explosive reconnaissance devices. As he prepared to leave, Milluki’s signal began breaking up and he told Bai Zhu to stay put while he switched to Big Brother’s view.

• Bai Zhu followed Milluki’s directions around the church, knocked out a lone believer, and took his robe and prayer book as a disguise.
• Bai Zhu joined the prayer procession and bluffed a suspicious believer into believing he belonged to a secret district.
• Bai Zhu planted five devices around the church, then used a young acolyte and a ladder to place the sixth in the main hall chandelier.
• Milluki reported worsening signal interference underground and told Bai Zhu to stay still while he switched to Big Brother’s view.

Illumi discovered the Creation Society planned to use him as the first vessel in a Holy Advent Ritual three days later, while Bai Zhu prepared to rescue him by disrupting the church. Bai Zhu rang the bell and drew the guards toward the bell tower.

• Milluki and Ella watched footage showing that the Society's holy water contained residual Nen used to affect pregnant women and their fetuses.
• Illumi entered the core area disguised as Ella, endured a Nen test, and tricked the elder into believing he could withstand and absorb the Nen.
• The elder replaced Number Seven with Illumi as the first vessel and ordered that Illumi and the fetus be placed on the altar in three days.
• Milluki told Bai Zhu about the planned ritual, and Bai Zhu decided there was time to rescue Illumi before it began.
• Bai Zhu rang the church bell to disrupt the prayers, and someone hurried up the bell tower stairs to confront him.

Bai Zhu and Milluki planned to use Illumi as a false vessel and Ella as bait to draw guards away, while Illumi maintained his disguise with Nen. The elder accelerated the ritual to that night, forcing Bai Zhu to attack the Church’s bell tower as the plan unraveled.

• Bai Zhu subdued two guards at the bell tower while Milluki warned him that Illumi was still in the core area.
• Illumi was moved to a private ward, where he discovered that the elder’s black crystal carried repulsive, chaotic Nen.
• Ella realized the Church intended to use her child as the Holy Infant and agreed to reveal herself as bait; Bai Zhu and Milluki planned to switch Illumi out during the distraction.
• The elder mistook Illumi’s Nen-induced abdominal movements for the Holy Infant protecting its mother and ordered the Pre-Sanctification Descent to take place that night.
• Milluki warned Bai Zhu that Illumi would be sent to the altar ahead of schedule, and Bai Zhu dropped the bell onto the Church’s main hall as the tower exploded.

Bai Zhu attacked the Creation Society’s Church, using his Zanpakuto to scatter the guards and destroy a statue while Milluki monitored the underground. He drew the silver-robed bishop into a fight, and the chapter ended as Bai Zhu tried to restrain him with Hainawa.

• Bai Zhu leapt from the bell tower, received the completed mission reward, and channeled Reiatsu into his Zanpakuto before striking the guards with Nozarashi.
• Bai Zhu knocked the falling bronze bell into a Creation Society statue, earning a hidden achievement after Milluki watched the attack.
• Bai Zhu claimed to be an inspector from District Thirty-Seven as Milluki reported that the Church had sent six men upstairs and reduced the underground perimeter guards.
• The silver-robed bishop attacked Bai Zhu, who cast Hainawa but missed him and bound a guard instead.

Bai Zhu fought the silver-robed bishop and disrupted the surface church while Milluki relayed Illumi’s escape plan from the hotel. As the underground ritual began moving forward, Ella’s stomach moved in sync with the black crystal, suggesting the core had sensed her.

• Bai Zhu used Kidō and improvised tactics to fight the silver-robed bishop and repel the church guards.
• Milluki sent Illumi a touch-code message that the Holy Advent Ritual had been moved up and that he should escape when the core area deployed its personnel.
• Illumi learned that Bai Zhu was causing a disturbance and replied that Milluki would explain the matter after the mission.
• Bai Zhu detonated the choir stand, worsening the church chaos as the underground core area began to move.
• Milluki reported that Ella’s stomach had moved in sync with the black crystal, which might have sensed her.

Milluki and Bai Zhu used Ella as bait to draw the Church’s forces aboveground, but her blood triggered a powerful response from the Black Crystal. The Church identified Ella as the true Cradle and sent a Black Crystal Fragment toward her as Bai Zhu urged Milluki to hurry Illumi.

• Milluki equipped Ella with a tracking device and guided her through the back alleys while Bai Zhu fought the Church’s guards and drew them toward the side entrance.
• Bai Zhu’s explosion exposed Ella to the believers, who recognized her as the Fifteenth Vessel and alerted the Church’s leaders.
• The Elder ordered the Church to capture both Ella and the other vessel, while additional deacons emerged from the underground elevators.
• Pige Aaron was brought before Ella and ordered to persuade her to return, but she resisted his words and cut her palm to draw the Church’s attention.
• Ella smeared her blood on a pillar, causing the Black Crystal to react; the Elder declared that the true Cradle was aboveground.
• Bai Zhu saw four white-robed figures carry a pulsing Black Crystal Fragment toward Ella and told Milluki to make Illumi hurry.

Bai Zhu fought to protect Ella from the cultists and their Black Crystal while Milluki sent Illumi a warning to escape the underground ward. Illumi received the message, broke free of his restraints, and prepared to take control of the ward.

• Bai Zhu detonated the Exploding Mosquito beneath the choir platform, dropping the chandelier and creating a fireline that gave Ella room to breathe.
• Milluki used a Mechanical Spider to shield Ella and inject her with a stabilizer as the Black Crystal’s Nen waves made her condition worsen.
• Bai Zhu fought off the silver-robed bishop and the deacons while Milluki reported that the underground core area had been left with few guards and staff.
• Milluki sent Illumi a tap-code message telling him that the surface was in chaos and urging him to escape immediately.
• Illumi received the message in the private ward, snapped his restraints, incapacitated a nurse with a Nen Needle, and prepared to face the guards.

Illumi disguised himself as a nurse after making Number Fifteen appear to vanish, then stayed underground to investigate the Church’s altar and Sanctification Descent ritual. He coordinated with Milluki while Bai Zhu continued holding off the Church aboveground and keeping the Black Crystal away from Ella.

• Illumi hid a nurse in a ventilation duct, disguised himself as her, and convinced the silver-robed bishop that Number Fifteen had vanished.
• The silver-robed bishop took Illumi toward the core area, but Illumi feigned breathlessness and was sent to wait in an outer room.
• Illumi contacted Milluki, learned that the Black Crystal was moving toward Ella, and requested an underground map to locate the altar and supplies.
• Illumi used controlled attendants and priests to open the medicine storeroom, alter a guard-post sign, and mark the altar’s location.
• Milluki told Bai Zhu that Illumi would coordinate from underground, while Bai Zhu continued fighting the silver-robed bishop and protecting Ella from the Black Crystal.

Bai Zhu fought to keep Ella away from the Black Crystal as the ritual threatened to trigger her labor, while Illumi infiltrated the underground altar and discovered that the cult was using captive mothers and their fetuses as fuel. The elder ordered the ritual activated immediately, and Illumi secretly sent the news to Milluki.

• Bai Zhu received a mission to protect Ella and stop the Holy Advent Ritual, then renewed his fight against the silver-robed bishop.
• The believers carried the Black Crystal toward Ella as Milluki reported that her condition was worsening and the thing inside her seemed close to being born.
• Milluki injected Ella with a Mechanical Spider and positioned her to collapse where directed while he rerouted the remaining spiders to keep the Black Crystal away.
• Illumi disguised himself as a deacon, entered the underground altar, and saw that the numbered women and their fetuses were connected to the Black Crystal Mother Stone as ritual fuel.
• The elder ordered the Pre-Sanctification Descent to begin immediately and demanded that Number Fifteen be brought back from the surface.
• Illumi tapped coded signals to alert Milluki that the ritual was being activated, and Milluki relayed the intelligence to Bai Zhu.

Bai Zhu struggled to keep Ella away from the church’s ritual forces and learned that the Black Crystal stretcher could be fatal to her. As the bishop prepared another attack and the barricade failed, Bai Zhu drew Hado #33: Sōkatsui and began chanting toward the stretcher.

• Milluki told Bai Zhu that the elder was rushing the underground ritual and warned that the Black Crystal Fragment must not touch Ella.
• Bai Zhu used Kidō and nearby wreckage to build a barricade, giving Ella room to move away from the deacons and stretcher.
• The silver-robed bishop activated a self-draining Nen ability and fired at Ella, but Bai Zhu blocked the strike with his blade and was badly hurt.
• With the bishop preparing another attack and the deacons dismantling the barricade, Bai Zhu used his free draw and obtained Hado #33: Sōkatsui.
• Bai Zhu aimed his palm at the Black Crystal stretcher as blue flames gathered, then began chanting.

Bai Zhu completed his first Sōkatsui while the silver-robed bishop attacked, then used the blast to destroy the Black Crystal Fragment and exhaust his Reiatsu. He nearly collapsed afterward, while Milluki replayed the footage in stunned excitement.

• Bai Zhu chanted and formed Sōkatsui as believers rushed him and the silver-robed bishop prepared a Nen attack.
• Milluki warned Bai Zhu that the bishop had locked onto him, while Ella moved away from the Black Crystal stretcher and it reached toward her.
• Bai Zhu fired Sōkatsui at the stretcher, overwhelming the bishop's attack and vaporizing the four white-robed deacons.
• Sōkatsui burned the Black Crystal Fragment until it cracked apart and stopped pulsing, while the blast tore through the Church's side wall.
• Bai Zhu exhausted his Reiatsu and nearly fell, while Milluki reacted in disbelief and replayed the attack footage.