Recaps

Bai Zhu’s blood overwhelmed the Black Crystal ritual, healing Illumi, Ella, and the pregnant women while letting Bai Zhu and Milluki fight their way through the Church. Bai Zhu confronted the returning saintess and severed her right arm, with the battle still underway.

• Bai Zhu’s blood healed Illumi and blocked the Black Crystal’s effects, while Ella and the pregnant women’s life-force levels stabilized.
• Milluki told Bai Zhu that the blood’s healing had trapped the ritual in a cycle, and Bai Zhu fought through the Church’s Holy Knights with Milluki following and recording data.
• The white-robed saintess reappeared beneath the statue and attacked Bai Zhu with a Black Crystal spear, but his blood barrier corroded it.
• The saintess split her needle tubes into a swarm that pierced Bai Zhu, but his blood forced them out and healed his wounds.
• Bai Zhu destroyed the needle tubes and severed the saintess’s right arm, which his blood pool swallowed along with the Black Crystal fragments.

Bai Zhu and Milluki broke into the altar hall and rescued Illumi from the collapsing ritual, while Bai Zhu cut down the holy son and confronted Pope. The stone coffin then revealed a new threat as the Father Body began to descend.

• Bai Zhu destroyed the saintess and crushed the Black Crystal Needle Tube as Milluki blasted music through the church.
• Illumi faced Pope and the holy son in the altar hall while the failed ritual caused the Black Crystal conduits and lamps to malfunction.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki burst into the altar hall, and Bai Zhu knocked Pope away and cut the holy son in half.
• Bai Zhu stepped on the holy son and advanced on Pope as Milluki warned him that his trial card had little time left.
• A giant Black Crystal hand emerged from the cracked stone coffin, and a voice announced that recovery had failed and the Father Body descent was beginning.

Bai Zhu fought the Pope and the emerging Father Body while Milluki and Illumi protected Ella and disrupted the Church’s systems. After swallowing the core’s Black Crystal energy, Bai Zhu picked up a strange core that whispered about a door across the sea.

• Illumi identified the Pope, Holy Son, and Holy Maiden as vessels or organs connected to a larger creature, and Bai Zhu hacked the Holy Son apart.
• The Pope began reclaiming the Nen and life force he had given the Church’s children, Holy Knights, attendants, and staff, but Bai Zhu interrupted his transformation and attacked him.
• A Black Crystal hand reached for Ella, and Illumi, Milluki, and Bai Zhu stopped it before the hospital door closed and severed two of its fingers.
• Bai Zhu struck down the Pope and drew the Pope, stone coffin, and part of the Father Body into Minazuki’s blood pool, which swallowed the remaining Black Crystal energy.
• Bai Zhu picked up a red-and-black core, received a system prompt about abnormal post-mortem Nen contamination, and heard a whisper about a door across the sea.

Bai Zhu and the Zoldyck brothers survived the underground battle, and the system revealed that the core was malice from the Dark Continent. After Bai Zhu kept it as leverage in negotiations with Illumi, he gained enough Reiatsu to qualify to draw his Zanpakuto's name.

• Bai Zhu heard a whisper from the core saying the door was on the other side of the sea, then recovered from his wounds as Minazuki healed him and Illumi.
• Bai Zhu argued with Illumi over the core while the system awarded him points for rescuing 23 pregnant women and cleansing the underground site.
• The system identified the core's malice as coming from the Dark Continent and offered Bai Zhu a reward of 30 points and the Zoldyck family's friendship if he gave it to Illumi.
• Bai Zhu kept the core in his card case until he and Illumi could agree on a price, and Illumi accepted his reasoning.
• Bai Zhu's Reiatsu reached 11,760, and the system offered him the chance to draw the name of his Zanpakuto.

Bai Zhu and the others found the last elder dead and uncovered signs of an outside force preparing another batch of vessels. They freed the surviving women and children, but the Bankai Trial ended before they could pursue the threat, leaving them to prepare to evacuate.

• Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Illumi found the cultists dead after the pope reclaimed the power he had bestowed, then discovered the elder had died while trying to send a distress signal.
• Illumi found a burned note referring to a coast, a gate, a failed sacrifice, and another batch of vessels, while Bai Zhu destroyed the remaining Black Crystal residue.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki returned to the core area and confirmed the children had lost their Nen but survived, while the women in the maternity ward began waking.
• Milluki discovered Ella's fetal readings were gone, and Bai Zhu admitted he was not okay but felt better than before.
• Illumi warned that the facility would not hold and ordered an evacuation as Bai Zhu's Bankai Trial ended, stripping away his power and leaving him struggling to stand.
• Illumi held out his hand and asked Bai Zhu for the core.

Bai Zhu traded the Dark Continent core to Illumi for five billion Jenny and three free Zoldyck services, while concealing how his ultimate move worked. Illumi offered to help him contact an exorcist.

• Bai Zhu demanded five billion Jenny and three free services from the Zoldyck family in exchange for the core, and Illumi agreed.
• Illumi caught the core, completing Bai Zhu’s mission and earning him achievement points and the Zoldyck family’s friendship.
• Illumi asked whether Bai Zhu’s ultimate move could only be used once, and Bai Zhu let the brothers believe it had cost him a severe restriction.
• Illumi offered to help Bai Zhu contact an exorcist.

Bai Zhu and the Zoldycks rescued the captives and secured the Creation Society’s core as the underground facility collapsed. A recovered message revealed that the Church had a Meteor City branch, setting up a new threat.

• Bai Zhu told Illumi and Milluki that he had more ultimate moves, leaving the Zoldycks unsure of his true threat level.
• Milluki took control of the Creation Society’s systems and traced its money, while Illumi captured two Church members for interrogation.
• Bai Zhu helped evacuate the pregnant women and children, then left his coat for Ella and Number Nineteen.
• Milluki recovered a message saying the Church had fallen, the Father Core transfer had failed, and the Meteor City branch needed to be notified.
• Bai Zhu learned there was a Church branch in Meteor City as the group prepared to leave the collapsing underground facility.

Bai Zhu arranged new identities and financial support for the rescued women and children, then declined to accompany Illumi to Meteor City and chose to pursue a Hunter License instead. Illumi and Milluki left with the captives and leads, while Bai Zhu kept his plans—and his debt to Milluki—open for what came next.

• Milluki hacked the Church's systems and forged death records and temporary identities for the rescued pregnant women, children, and medical workers.
• Bai Zhu gave Ella five hundred million Jenny, told her and Feng Xia to start over under new names, and said he was going somewhere far away to take a risk.
• Illumi decided to go to Meteor City to investigate the Creation Society branch and the failed core transfer, but Bai Zhu refused to join him.
• Illumi gave Bai Zhu an anonymous account card for the remaining 4.5 billion Jenny and agreed to split the Church's cleaned-up funds with him.
• Milluki gave Bai Zhu an encrypted communicator so he could collect assistant fees, and Illumi and Milluki left with the captives.

After sending the Creation Society’s survivors to a neighboring country, Bai Zhu boarded a train to Kik Port and dreamed of a mysterious door across the sea. A note from Lippo warned him that the Hunter Exam ship had departed early, and the train was about to arrive at Kik Port.

• Bai Zhu watched the Zoldyck family’s airship leave, then sent twenty-three pregnant women and thirty-one children away on buses arranged by Milluki.
• Ella hugged Bai Zhu and told him to survive before she and Feng Xia departed with the others.
• Bai Zhu hesitated to draw his Zanpakuto’s name and took an expensive luxury-compartment ticket to Kik Port.
• Bai Zhu dreamed of the Red-Black Core and enormous shadows in a black sea, then woke and complained about the Dark Continent.
• A train attendant delivered Bai Zhu an unsigned note from Lippo warning that this year’s exam ship had departed early as the train neared Kik Port.

Bai Zhu spent his half-month delay in Kik Port farming achievement points and strengthening his body before the Hunter Exam ferry arrived. At the dock, he heard a familiar voice and found Milluki playing a handheld console.

• Bai Zhu registered for the Hunter Exam and received a list of Kik Port achievements from the system.
• Bai Zhu spent more than ten days completing local activities and food check-ins, while refusing the fermented sea urchin sauce noodles and ocean diving tasks.
• Bai Zhu spent his remaining 680 achievement points to raise his Strength and Stamina to 350 and increase his Agility, accidentally damaging his inn room.
• The day before the ferry arrived, Bai Zhu checked his system panel and went to the crowded waiting hall.
• Bai Zhu recognized Milluki's voice and found him squatting by the roadside, angrily playing a handheld console.

Bai Zhu ran into Milluki at Kik Port and learned that Milluki had come to supervise him paying a disputed debt. Their argument drew the attention of a muscular applicant, who challenged Bai Zhu, and Milluki tried to stop a fight.

• Bai Zhu tried to avoid Milluki, but Milluki spotted him and confronted him at the waiting hall.
• Bai Zhu questioned why Milluki had come to Kik Port, and Milluki claimed he had accepted a mission to supervise Bai Zhu's repayment.
• Milluki presented a handwritten debt contract, but Bai Zhu pointed out that it lacked basic details and refused to sign it.
• A muscular applicant carrying an iron rod sided with Milluki and challenged Bai Zhu.
• Bai Zhu warned the muscular applicant not to make him fight, and Milluki stepped between them to urge him to back down.

Bai Zhu drove off a provocateur at the port, then agreed to travel with Milluki and stay in his luxury hotel suite. Milluki discovered that someone had tampered with examinee records, leaving the pair wary about the Hunter Exam ahead.

• Bai Zhu stopped the big man from attacking Milluki and repelled him without causing serious injury, earning an achievement reward from the system.
• Milluki told Bai Zhu that he had signed up for the Hunter Exam, and Bai Zhu agreed to let him tag along.
• Milluki revealed he had booked a luxury seaside suite, and Bai Zhu persuaded him to share it while agreeing to pay for his own food.
• At the hotel, Bai Zhu checked the suite for security while Milluki set up his equipment and searched exam information.
• Milluki found that the Hunter Exam had unusually many applicants and that someone had tampered with a batch of examinee records.

Bai Zhu suspected the Hunter Exam had begun early and went with Milluki to Sea God Palace casino to use up his bad luck. After Milluki lost all his chips, he pushed Bai Zhu to gamble, and Bai Zhu agreed to help him lose a round.

• Milluki found suspicious Hunter Exam registrations, including examinees with missing travel records, while Bai Zhu wondered whether the exam had already begun.
• Bai Zhu decided to use up his bad luck, and Milluki suggested they visit Sea God Palace, a casino with Nen users on staff.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki changed into formal clothes and entered the casino, where Bai Zhu earned an exploration achievement.
• Milluki lost his chips at blackjack, sic bo, and roulette despite calculating the odds.
• Milluki urged Bai Zhu to gamble, and Bai Zhu reluctantly agreed to help him lose a round.

Bai Zhu tried to lose his luck at a casino but kept winning, drawing the attention of Sea God Palace’s owner. He and Milluki were escorted to a VIP room, where the female manager accused them of breaking the rules.

• Milluki gave Bai Zhu chips, and Bai Zhu won eight consecutive Big/Small bets by betting against Milluki’s predictions.
• Bai Zhu continued winning at roulette, poker, and slot machines, unlocking more achievements and multiplying his money despite trying to lose his luck.
• A female manager invited Bai Zhu and Milluki upstairs on behalf of Sea God Palace’s boss, then threatened that Bai Zhu would not leave Kike City if he refused.
• Bai Zhu agreed to go upstairs, and he and Milluki rode a private elevator to a VIP room with two thugs by the door.
• The female manager dropped her polite act, said Sea God Palace dealt with people breaking the rules, and revealed Nen aura coiling around her arm.

Bai Zhu and Milluki escaped Sea God Palace after the casino accused Bai Zhu of cheating and tried to seize his winnings. They fled with cash in Milluki’s modified car, but a ferry loomed ahead as Bai Zhu struggled to control the vehicle.

• The female manager demanded Bai Zhu’s winnings and one of his hands, so Bai Zhu knocked her unconscious and fought his way out with Milluki.
• Bai Zhu used Hainawa and his Zanpakuto to subdue pursuers while Milluki deployed gadgets and disrupted the casino’s surveillance and alarms.
• Bai Zhu earned a no-kill achievement during the casino brawl, and Milluki hacked the exchange counter so they could take cash.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki fought their way through another group of thugs and escaped through the back door as police sirens sounded.
• Milluki’s modified car sped away with Bai Zhu driving, and Bai Zhu spotted a ferry drawing dangerously close.

Bai Zhu returned to the hotel with Milluki after escaping the casino and decided to give his Zanpakuto its true name. He left Milluki preparing an altar and offerings, with the naming ritual about to begin.

• Bai Zhu spotted an unlisted ferry arriving at the port but decided to return to the hotel and investigate in the morning.
• Milluki erased their trail from Sea God Palace’s systems while he and Bai Zhu argued about the stolen cash and their escape.
• At the penthouse, Bai Zhu checked the system panel and saw he could draw the name of his Zanpakuto.
• Bai Zhu took his Zanpakuto and told Milluki he planned to give it its true name.
• Milluki questioned Bai Zhu about the naming and agreed to prepare an altar, incense, clean water, and fruit so he could watch.

Bai Zhu began drawing the name of his Zanpakuto during a makeshift ritual, but the process detected foreign contamination and unknown residual filth. He chose to continue the forced draw, and the room plunged into darkness as a whisper spoke of a door beyond the sea.

• Milluki prepared an altar table for Bai Zhu and secretly tried to record the ritual.
• Bai Zhu chanted the names of many deities before activating the Zanpakuto name draw.
• Bai Zhu caught Milluki recording and made him turn off the recorder.
• Bai Zhu confirmed the draw, and the Zanpakuto trembled as the system detected foreign contamination residue and unknown residual filth.
• The system warned that blade-name generation had been disrupted and asked whether to continue a forced draw.
• Bai Zhu heard a whisper say, "The door... is beyond the sea," then continued the draw, causing every light in the room to go out.

Bai Zhu awakened the name Ryujin Jakka, causing a citywide power anomaly and earning an achievement, though his attributes were still too low to fully unlock its Shikai. After noticing a ferry flashing a signal from the darkened harbor, Bai Zhu and Milluki decided to investigate.

• Bai Zhu endured the system's forced draw as Kik Port lost power, and the panel first revealed Sode no Shirayuki before the name was overwritten.
• Bai Zhu's sword awakened as Ryujin Jakka, but the system said his attributes were too low to fully unlock its Shikai.
• Bai Zhu celebrated on the balcony and kept the sword's name secret from Milluki, who complained that his terminal had been wrecked.
• Bai Zhu received 50 achievement points for awakening the blade's name and triggering a city-level power anomaly.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki saw a ferry flash its lights three times, and Bai Zhu suggested they go investigate.

Bai Zhu took the newly awakened Zanpakuto Ryujin Jakka to an isolated harbor breakwater to test it, while Milluki followed despite fearing its power. The chapter left Bai Zhu beginning to recite its Shikai release command.

• Bai Zhu dismissed Milluki's questions about the Zanpakuto and said he had drawn the strongest one.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki left the hotel, and Bai Zhu drove away from the port to find a secluded place to test the sword.
• Milluki hid behind a reef and used Ken while Bai Zhu took out Ryujin Jakka and poured Reiatsu into it.
• Bai Zhu raised the sword and began reciting the Shikai release command, “All Things in the Universe, become ashes—”

Bai Zhu discovered that Ryujin Jakka could only produce a tiny flame, then doubted the large ferry at the main pier was the Hunter Exam ship. As Bai Zhu and Milluki headed toward the harbor to find another vessel, a crewman stopped them and claimed that leaving the boarding area would forfeit the exam.

• Bai Zhu tried Ryujin Jakka, but his Reiatsu was too weak to sustain its Shikai, and Milluki teased him about having a powerful lighter.
• Milluki found that the ferry had no public route listed, and Bai Zhu questioned whether it was the Hunter Exam ship because it was too new and had arrived too late.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki saw candidates boarding the ferry, but Bai Zhu left the main pier, reasoning that the dawn signal might have been meant for another ship.
• Milluki checked a harbor map and identified the maintenance passage as the fastest route to the eastern berthing area.
• A crewman blocked Bai Zhu and Milluki, warned them that leaving the boarding area meant forfeiting the exam, and addressed Bai Zhu by name, prompting Bai Zhu to question how he knew he was an examinee.

Bai Zhu and Milluki suspected the Hunter Exam’s ferry at the main dock was a decoy and followed clues to a hidden tugboat in Mooring Harbor. They found the altered-file examinees there, but the man testing candidates rejected Bai Zhu’s answer and ordered both of them away.

• Bai Zhu challenged a uniformed man’s claim that he had an examinee list and refused to board the ferry at the main dock.
• Bai Zhu noticed suspicious workers, a spotless old sailor, and fake examinees trying to steer them away from Mooring Harbor.
• Milluki accessed port records and found an independent power source and a brief signal behind the harbor’s maintenance berths.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki climbed over containers to reach an old tugboat with a brand-new communications antenna, where they found the three candidates whose files had been altered.
• The tall, thin man rejected three candidates’ explanations, then ordered Bai Zhu and Milluki to get lost after Bai Zhu said the ferry looked too real to be genuine.

Bai Zhu learned that the crowded pier’s ship was not the main exam ship and followed the coast with Milluki to find Captain Nishimatsu’s vessel. They boarded the nearly empty ship, and Bai Zhu headed for the captain’s cabin to learn why it had not docked or collected candidates.

• Bai Zhu forced the burly gatekeeper to explain that the real candidates’ ship was anchored offshore and that the exam had already begun.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki followed the coastline for nearly an hour until they spotted an old wooden ship anchored at sea.
• Bai Zhu recognized Captain Nishimatsu at the bow and told Milluki that he was an examiner before they boarded.
• Bai Zhu explained that the crowded ship at the main pier was a fake exam ship, then led Milluki toward the captain’s cabin.
• Bai Zhu brushed past a crewman who tried to stop them and reached the cabin door as voices argued inside.

Bai Zhu and Milluki overheard Captain Nishimatsu and Morel arguing over whether Hunter Exam candidates should join an investigation into a dangerous disturbance at sea. Morel discovered them outside the captain’s quarters and called them in to face his test.

• Bai Zhu and Milluki overheard Morel demand that Nishimatsu stop delaying the investigation to wait for candidates, while Nishimatsu refused to send the candidates away.
• Morel described strange sea life, attacks on fishing boats, and three missing survey ships, and Nishimatsu insisted the disturbance made it important to test whether Bai Zhu would board.
• Morel said he would reject anyone unprepared for the sea, and Nishimatsu offered to let him judge Bai Zhu himself.
• Bai Zhu realized Lippo had guided him toward Morel and the real threshold of the special exam.
• Morel noticed Bai Zhu and Milluki outside the door and told them to come in, so Bai Zhu knocked and entered.

Bai Zhu faced Morel’s test to earn a place aboard the Hunter Exam ship, but a sea anomaly interrupted their confrontation. Morel canceled the test and ordered Bai Zhu to help investigate, leaving him committed to remain aboard and handle the danger.

• Bai Zhu introduced Milluki to Morel, who explained that the ship was taking a dangerous route to investigate a missing vessel and sea-beast activity.
• Morel questioned why Bai Zhu belonged on the ship, and Bai Zhu claimed he could fight and save people despite lacking experience at sea.
• Morel began a temporary test, but a crewman reported that underwater forces had dragged away buoys and that the main-pier ship had sent a distress signal warning of a shadow beneath its hull.
• Morel canceled the test and set the new condition that Bai Zhu help him handle the sea anomaly and remain aboard the ship.

Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Morel sailed toward the missing ferry and found it intact but eerily empty. As the crew prepared to board, Bai Zhu stopped them and had Milluki bring out reconnaissance equipment.

• Captain Nishimatsu ordered the crew to raise the sails, and the ship headed out to sea under Morel's watch.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki waited as the ship sailed through the darkening fog, while Morel warned the crew to watch the water and avoid attacking anything they spotted.
• A crewman sighted the missing ferry, and Captain Nishimatsu's attempts to contact it received no response.
• The ships pulled alongside the ferry, where Morel and the others saw scattered belongings, open doors, and no people or signs of a struggle.
• Bai Zhu stopped the crew from throwing a grappling hook and told Milluki to use his reconnaissance equipment.