Recaps

The Silver-White Owls awakened inside the root pillar and drove the White Whale and its followers into the Old Trench. The giant owl then focused on Bai Zhu, and the tree opened a silver-white fissure that appeared to lead upward.

• The White Whale absorbed Black Gold Energy and fired a blue shockwave at the root pillar, but its silver-white patterns blocked the attack.
• Silver-white Owls emerged throughout the tree and flew at the lake, weakening Black Gold creatures and forming into a giant owl.
• The giant owl pressed the White Whale, which fled through a waterway to the Old Trench with the Merfolk and monster remains.
• After the giant owl looked toward Bai Zhu, the root pillar opened a fissure above the group and illuminated a possible exit.

Bai Zhu, Milluki, Morel, and Gela Jiang escaped the island’s abnormalities through a passage opened by the Landlord and found the island temporarily restored, though their warship was wrecked. The One-Eyed Owl rewarded Bai Zhu with a feather that doubled his Reiatsu limit, while the system revealed a connection to Soul King Palace and sealed the related door achievement for now.

• Bai Zhu carried Milluki through the silver passage, and Morel and Gela Jiang followed as the lake’s strange singing tried to draw Milluki’s attention.
• The four emerged in a tree hollow and found that the island’s abnormalities had subsided, while their warship lay wrecked on the shore.
• Morel sent Purple Smoke scouts toward the warship, and the One-Eyed Owl appeared and gave Bai Zhu a silvery feather.
• Bai Zhu received the Friend of the Earth Spirit achievement and discovered that the feather was Soul King Palace’s Pen, which doubled his Reiatsu limit while held.
• The system announced that the Door series achievement was temporarily sealed, leaving Bai Zhu unsettled by the system’s connection to Soul King Palace.

Bai Zhu and the others prepared to leave the island after surviving the Lighthouse and discovering the Silver-Roost Ancient Tree, while Milluki rebuilt the ship’s communicator. Illumi then told Bai Zhu that the Creation Society branch in Meteor City was connected to the transferred coastal cargo, and Bai Zhu chose to investigate it, leaving Morel and Gela Jiang to report the island’s findings.

• Gela Jiang confirmed the currents were normal, and the group left seafood as a gift for One-Eyed Owl before inspecting the wrecked warship.
• Milluki salvaged equipment and assembled a short-range communicator while Morel and Gela Jiang spent two days checking the island; Morel sent an encrypted report to the Hunter Association.
• Morel recovered a Rose he had promised Milluki, and the group departed the island on a smoke boat after Bai Zhu left dried shellfish beneath the tree.
• Milluki received a call from Illumi, who told Bai Zhu that the Creation Society branch in Meteor City was linked to cargo transferred from the coast.
• Bai Zhu agreed to meet Illumi at the Meteor City Outskirts garbage belt, while Morel and Gela Jiang headed back to the Association to report their findings.

Bai Zhu, Milluki, Illumi, and Hisoka traveled into Meteor City's garbage belt to investigate the Creation Society's hidden branch and its shipments. They found Ella at the branch's door, leaving Bai Zhu demanding an explanation from Illumi as his anger heated the surrounding metal.

• Bai Zhu and Milluki argued over Milluki's stripped-down armored vehicle before Bai Zhu drove it recklessly through the garbage belt.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki encountered Illumi and Hisoka, and Bai Zhu teased Hisoka about his missing face decorations until Hisoka restored them with a star and teardrop.
• Bai Zhu stored Milluki's vehicle in his Spirit Garage, and the group followed Illumi deeper into Meteor City as he explained that the Creation Society moved people, corpses, organs, and coastal pollutants through the area.
• The group reached a hidden metal-sheet house, where Illumi's three knocks unsettled Bai Zhu and Milluki.
• Ella opened the door, and Bai Zhu demanded that Illumi explain why she was in Meteor City while the nearby metal began to heat up.

Ella reached Bai Zhu in Meteor City after the Creation Society searched for the women and children she had helped relocate, and she revealed her new ability to identify people connected to the group. Illumi brought Bai Zhu and the others to meet the Spider, where Bai Zhu demonstrated the growing danger of his power and forced the tense gathering to hear him out.

• Ella told Bai Zhu that the Creation Society had sent people to question the relocated women and children and compare their faces with photographs, so she scattered them and sought help in Meteor City.
• Ella explained that she had developed a weak Nen ability to sense tampering and identify suspicious people, and Illumi said she could distinguish fakes at Creation Society transfer points.
• Illumi led Bai Zhu, Ella, Milluki, and Hisoka into a hidden basement to meet the Spider, and Bai Zhu recognized the group as soon as he saw them.
• Uvogin and Nobunaga challenged Bai Zhu after he dismissed the Spider, so Bai Zhu drew his Zanpakuto halfway and filled the basement with scorching heat.
• Bai Zhu sheathed the blade and asked to talk, while the Spider fell silent after witnessing his power.

Bai Zhu and the others uncovered a suspected underground operation in Meteor City linked to missing women and children, coastline contaminants, and the Creation Society. The Phantom Troupe, Illumi, and Bai Zhu agreed to investigate, beginning with the Church and a transport-route entrance that night.

• Bai Zhu’s footage showed the group his devastating sword strike and the strange passage he and Milluki had crossed.
• Chrollo and Shalnark connected a new bishop at a Church to a rise in disappearances, while Milluki’s analysis linked the sites to an underground transport route.
• Ella said several locations felt like the Creation Society’s operating rooms and described their inhabitants as drained Husks.
• Illumi revealed that a coastline shipment labeled as medical waste had arrived in Meteor City and that all its escorts had died by suicide.
• Chrollo committed the Phantom Troupe to retrieving the missing children, Illumi agreed to investigate the shipment, and Bai Zhu vowed to destroy the Creation Society.
• Illumi proposed scouting the entrance that night, Chrollo chose to start at the Church, and Ella suddenly turned pale.

Bai Zhu and the others linked the Church to the disappearances and split up to investigate the underground network. Bai Zhu headed to the Church alone after his system highlighted a target that required him to act alone.

• Ella sensed hollow, altered people beneath the Church, and Milluki found that her three locations matched key nodes in the suspected transport route.
• Chrollo assigned the Phantom Troupe to investigate three entrances and rescue missing people, while Illumi took charge of tracing the transport chain.
• Bai Zhu chose to scout the Church alone, took Ella’s worn candle-flame badge, and told Ella and Milluki to go with Illumi.
• Bai Zhu’s Silver-White Tail Feather pointed toward the Church, and Ella urged him not to let the bishop escape if he was connected to the Creation Society.
• As Bai Zhu set out, his system highlighted five targets and marked one with the special condition to act alone.

Bai Zhu drew Hadō #63: Raikōhō and unlocked Hozukimaru as his second blade name, gaining the ability to transform his sword into a three-section staff or spear while retaining Ryujin Jakka’s power. He headed toward the Ghost of Meteor City marker and learned that outsiders were being bought through the Church, but he chose to search for the ghost first.

• Bai Zhu used an Intermediate Kidō Draw and obtained Hadō #63: Raikōhō.
• Bai Zhu drew Hozukimaru as his second blade name and discovered he could release it as a three-section staff or spear.
• Bai Zhu gave compressed biscuits to children in Meteor City and warned them to avoid trouble.
• Bai Zhu confronted two knife-wielding men who followed him and learned that a buyer collected live outsiders through the Church’s back door, with a man in White Cloth keeping accounts.
• Bai Zhu paid the men for the information, warned them to stay away from the Church, and continued toward the Ghost of Meteor City marker.

Bai Zhu followed the system’s [Ghost of Meteor City] marker and uncovered a buried Church beneath a Junk Mountain. After entering its vast Sanctuary, he heard a child laughing nearby.

• Bai Zhu ignored the Creation Society’s Church and followed the system marker toward the outer junk belt, where he found a hidden area beneath the garbage.
• Bai Zhu struck a buried cross, then used Hozukimaru to clear scrap and expose the spire and dome of an abandoned Church.
• Bai Zhu noticed the Silver-White Tail Feather pointing beneath the spire and broke through the tiles to enter the Sanctuary.
• Bai Zhu descended into the dark worship hall, saw its pulpit and carved black stone wall, and heard a child laughing from below and all around him.

Bai Zhu encountered the spirits of children gathered in a Meteor City church and watched Sarasa perform an old cartoon for them. Sarasa showed him footage linking the church, the Phantom Troupe’s childhood, a White Cloth man, and the missing children, but she began to disappear before he could question her.

• Bai Zhu used Spirit Sight to reveal children’s spirits playing peacefully inside the church.
• Bai Zhu recognized Sarasa as she voiced the Cleanup Squad cartoon for the children and completed the hidden achievement, earning 50 Achievement Points.
• After the screening, Bai Zhu asked Sarasa about the church, its bishop, the underground route, and the missing children.
• Sarasa pointed to the screen, which showed young Chrollo, Uvogin, Nobunaga, Shalnark, Machi, and Sarasa recording a cartoon together.
• The footage shifted to a White Cloth man handing someone a candle-flame-emblem badge and saying the bishop would return the children to their mother’s embrace.
• Sarasa began fading away, and Bai Zhu rushed toward her, trying to stop her before he could ask more questions.

Bai Zhu escaped the collapsing Old Church in Junk Mountain, then watched it restore itself and realized the church held clues about Chrollo and the children. The system suggested entering through the front entrance, and Bai Zhu headed toward the active church despite suspecting the Spider would need to be involved.

• Bai Zhu escaped the collapsing chapel as garbage poured through its broken roof, glimpsing Chrollo and the children in a memory before the Old Church was buried again.
• Bai Zhu watched Junk Mountain and the church reset themselves, then found a roof tile restored without any trace of damage.
• Bai Zhu connected Sarasa's visions of Chrollo and the children with the White Cloth, the Candle Flame Badge, and the Creation Society's promise that the children would return to their mother's embrace.
• Bai Zhu saw the system's new suggestion to enter through the front entrance and debated whether to involve the Spider.
• Bai Zhu cursed the system and headed toward the church lights.

Bai Zhu infiltrated the Meteor City Church by posing as a senior member of the Candle Flame cult and learned that the branch was hiding a facility called Mother's Embrace. After his badge identified him as a Golden Candle Envoy, the Church's attendants summoned him to follow them downstairs.

• Bai Zhu watched worshippers and badge holders enter the Church, then used Ella's badge to approach the side entrance.
• Bai Zhu tricked a middle-aged cultist into believing he was a senior member assigned abroad and learned that the Pope's destroyed presence in Sankara had only been an avatar.
• The cultist revealed that Meteor City's Church concealed Mother's Embrace, where documents, test subjects, and Holy Knight Cores had been sent from Sankara.
• Bai Zhu saw a list of children aged six to fourteen marked for cleansing and husk stability, but hid his anger and continued into the Church.
• Bai Zhu's badge passed the Church's seal check, and its gold ring brightened as he reached the stairs to the underground facility.
• The middle-aged cultist identified Bai Zhu as a Golden Candle Envoy, and a gray-robed attendant ordered him to come along.

Bai Zhu infiltrated the Church’s inner complex by posing as a Golden Candle Envoy and learned that its followers were sacrificing possessions and that evolved Holy Knights had been stripped of their identities. At the central lift, a Holy Knight detected that Bai Zhu lacked Mother’s scent and drew its sword against him.

• Bai Zhu posed as a Golden Candle Envoy and questioned a gray-robed guide about the Return to the Nest, learning that the bishop was below with White Lord and the Mother Womb.
• Bai Zhu saw impoverished followers surrender possessions in exchange for porridge and protection, and learned that Holy Knights from Sankara had been evolved to obey the bishop and Mother.
• Bai Zhu memorized the Gray Crow Squad’s name and learned that the central lift led to the lower level, then dismissed his guide and continued alone.
• Bai Zhu reached the central shaft marked Mother’s Embrace, but his Church objective remained incomplete because the true Church had not been confirmed.
• Bai Zhu tried to bluff his way onto the lift, but a Holy Knight demanded Mother’s name, rejected his answer, and drew its sword after sensing that he lacked Mother’s scent.

Bai Zhu fought two Holy Knights in the underground Church, where the chanting and Black Gold cores let the armor regenerate. After the Church opened a vast chamber filled with children in containers, White Lord identified Bai Zhu as the night’s most precious cargo and marked him as “Returning to the Nest.”

• Bai Zhu refused to pierce his palm for verification, then killed a Holy Knight with Hozukimaru and Raikōhō.
• The Holy Knight began regenerating through the believers’ prayers, while the deacon rang a bell and opened the floor beneath the hall.
• Bai Zhu saw children held in transparent containers and labels describing them as awaiting cleansing, stabilized husks, and returning to the nest.
• White Lord appeared below, recognized Bai Zhu as the outsider who had cut down Sankara Sanctuary, and showed that Mother had already identified him.
• White Lord revealed Bai Zhu’s status as “Returning to the Nest” and declared him the Church’s most precious cargo.

Bai Zhu destroyed the Holy Knights and crippled the Church’s machinery before freeing the captive children. After learning the Pope had used the children and Spider’s past to lure him, Bai Zhu began evacuating the chapel, then heard that Uvogin and Chrollo were coming and that the Phantom Troupe was asking whether Sarasa was with him.

• Bai Zhu let the Holy Knights absorb his Reiatsu, then used Bakudō Ninety-Six: Ittō Kasō to destroy them from within.
• Bai Zhu used Ryujin Jakka to burn the Black Gold pipelines without harming the children and stopped the containers from sinking.
• The featureless man in white cloth revealed that the Pope had predicted Bai Zhu would come for the children, then crumbled after telling him the Pope was deeper within Mother's Embrace.
• Bai Zhu freed the children, ordered the gray-robed followers to evacuate the chapel and return the believers’ belongings, and collected a Holy Knight Core and a fragment of videotape.
• Milluki told Bai Zhu that Uvogin had charged ahead, Chrollo was heading toward him, and the Phantom Troupe wanted to know whether Sarasa was with him.

Bai Zhu rescued children from the Creation Society’s chapel and confronted Uvogin when he burst in demanding to know where Sarasa was. Bai Zhu revealed he had found a fragment of a recording that showed Sarasa, but Chrollo’s question about her whereabouts remained unanswered.

• Bai Zhu freed the children, ordered gray-robed attendants to care for them, and wondered whether Ella’s badge had been deliberately placed in her hands.
• Uvogin smashed his way into the chapel and attacked Bai Zhu, who dodged the punch and kicked him away from the children.
• Nobunaga and Franklin restrained Uvogin, while Chrollo and the other Phantom Troupe members entered and saw the rescued children and the chapel’s wreckage.
• Bai Zhu showed the Phantom Troupe a fragment of a videotape he had taken from the Church and said he had seen Sarasa elsewhere, not at the chapel.
• Bai Zhu warned Uvogin to stay quiet around the children, then told Chrollo that Sarasa was not there; Chrollo asked where she was.

Bai Zhu rescued children from the underground Church and faced the Phantom Troupe, who believed he might know what happened to Sarasa. He agreed to explain after they left the dangerous site, but Pakunoda watched him closely as the group reached the chaotic streets of Meteor City.

• Bai Zhu warned the Phantom Troupe not to endanger the children, and Chrollo ordered the group to evacuate them first.
• Franklin, Pakunoda, and the others carried the children out while Bai Zhu described the living Black Gold pipes and the armor he had destroyed.
• Shalnark explained that the group had followed traces connected to Bai Zhu and Sarasa, and Pakunoda found fragmented remnants of the past on the burned videotape.
• Bai Zhu said he had seen Sarasa and led the Phantom Troupe out of the Church, warning that dangers might remain below.
• Bai Zhu made a gray-robed believer return hidden coins as the group crossed the outer hall and entered the disorderly streets of Meteor City.
• Pakunoda watched Bai Zhu, and he told her not to try reading his memories.

Bai Zhu led the Phantom Troupe to the Old Church hidden beneath Junk Mountain and revealed that it had restored itself after collapsing. He told them he had seen a girl who resembled Sarasa in a recording, and Chrollo decided to have Pakunoda examine the videotape fragments before they entered the Church that night.

• Bai Zhu brought the Phantom Troupe to Junk Mountain and uncovered the self-restored Old Church beneath it.
• Machi detected traces of thread on the Church, while Pakunoda sensed lingering emotions there.
• Bai Zhu told the group he had seen a twin-tailed girl with children, including a recording of Chrollo and a message about the child returning to her mother's arms.
• Uvogin tried to enter the Church immediately, but Bai Zhu and the others stopped him and agreed to go in that night.
• Chrollo handed the videotape fragments to Pakunoda and asked her to examine them.

Bai Zhu fought Chrollo and the Phantom Troupe to prevent Pakunoda from reading his memories, then spent his achievement points to boost his attributes. Hozukimaru awakened a partially crippled Bankai, but before Bai Zhu could use it, a child's voice from the Old Church told Chrollo to stop fighting.

• Pakunoda tried to touch Bai Zhu and read his memories, so he refused and fought Chrollo with Hozukimaru.
• Chrollo coordinated attacks with Pakunoda while Bai Zhu kept her at a distance and countered the Phantom Troupe's pressure.
• Bai Zhu spent 360 achievement points to raise his strength, agility, and stamina, then gained the upper hand against Chrollo.
• Hozukimaru met its strength requirement and revealed that Bai Zhu could release its partially crippled Bankai.
• The Old Church rumbled as Hozukimaru's dragon patterns lit up, and a child's voice told Chrollo to stop fighting.

Bai Zhu's fight with the Phantom Troupe stopped when Sarasa's voice came from the Old Church, leaving the Spiders shaken and unable to find her. They agreed to return that night, while Bai Zhu secured an apology and their help for his next plan before heading off to find Milluki and Illumi and test Hozukimaru.

• Sarasa told Chrollo to stop fighting, and the Phantom Troupe fell silent while Bai Zhu's planned Bankai went unused.
• Bai Zhu searched the Old Church with Spirit Sight, but Chrollo found only empty space beneath its tiles and confirmed Sarasa was not there.
• Machi and Pakunoda agreed to return that night, and Chrollo decided the group would relocate the children before trying again.
• Bai Zhu demanded an apology, the Phantom Troupe's help at the Creation Society, and compensation from Uvogin; Chrollo and Nobunaga agreed to his terms.
• The Phantom Troupe left Junk Mountain, and Bai Zhu noticed three red dots remaining on the system interface before setting out to find Milluki and Illumi and test his blade.

Bai Zhu reached Meteor City's Derelict Port District to investigate a vague red-dot coordinate and test his new strength, but Milluki directed him to No. 3 Abandoned Shipyard. There, Hisoka escorted him to Milluki's surveillance-filled hideout, where Illumi confirmed Bai Zhu had arrived.

• Bai Zhu charged down Junk Mountain toward the port, startling scavengers with his newly enhanced speed.
• Bai Zhu called Milluki, who warned him the port was tense and directed him to No. 3 Abandoned Shipyard.
• Bai Zhu burned three armed men to ashes and found Hisoka waiting at the abandoned shipyard.
• Hisoka teased Bai Zhu and followed him, while Milluki denied asking Hisoka to pick Bai Zhu up.
• Hisoka led Bai Zhu into Milluki's hidden surveillance room, where Milluki reported his arrival to Illumi.

Milluki and Bai Zhu traced the Creation Society’s black boxes and the Church’s Holy Knight Core to materials from the Old Trench, uncovering a hidden supply network beneath Meteor City. As a vast presence stirred beneath the harbor, Ella reported seeing many boxes underwater.

• Milluki showed Bai Zhu and Hisoka footage of mysterious black boxes whose presence affected people’s minds, and revealed their signal matched the Merfolk’s ritual voice spectrum.
• Bai Zhu brought out the Holy Knight Core, and Milluki found that its material matched residue from the boxes and resembled mineralized fragments of the Unicorn Giant Whale’s horn.
• Milluki traced the boxes’ transport through underground passages and learned that porters had disappeared, died, or been left repeating, “Go back to Mother’s Embrace.”
• Milluki said Illumi had found an underground route sealed with the same material as the boxes, while Bai Zhu received the Lost Truth achievement and the Mother’s Embrace series achievement began.
• A line on Milluki’s map stretched beneath the harbor toward Ring Island as surveillance feeds failed and a huge shadow stirred in the water.
• Illumi’s communicator connected, and Ella told Bai Zhu that there were many boxes under the water.

Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Hisoka uncovered a hidden submarine complex beneath Meteor City’s harbor as black boxes rose from its torpedo bays. A stranger addressed Bai Zhu as the Golden Candle Envoy and asked him not to stop the return home.

• A strange signal disrupted the harbor, drew people toward the water, and led Illumi to order Milluki, Ella, and Bai Zhu to evacuate.
• Milluki discovered that Ella’s communicator carried a false version of Illumi’s voice, while Bai Zhu stayed in the tent to investigate the interference.
• Milluki used modified sonar balls to map a vast underground shipyard beneath the harbor, including fifteen submerged submarines.
• The submarines opened their torpedo bays and launched black boxes that began rising toward the surface.
• An unfamiliar man contacted Bai Zhu as the Golden Candle Envoy and asked him not to stop the return home.

Bai Zhu suspected that Ella was an impostor and persuaded Milluki to cut all external communications and investigate her. After the badge proved tied to the Kakin Royal Family, Milluki learned that Ella and the people near her had vanished from their safe point.

• Bai Zhu warned Milluki that Ella might be fake, citing her unusual way of addressing Illumi, her knowledge of the underwater boxes, and the suspicious badge she had given him.
• Milluki used a Zoldyck one-time key to ask a manager to verify Ella’s location and condition without notifying Illumi or local contacts.
• Milluki’s scan revealed hidden markings on Ella’s badge that matched a Kakin Empire Royal Family emblem variant, and he concluded the Creation Society had used the royal crest as camouflage.
• As Milluki prepared to send the findings to Illumi, the manager called back and reported that Ella and everyone near her safe point had disappeared.

After discovering that Kakin used King-Returning Incense to lure Ella and other survivors away, Bai Zhu connected the badge, Holy Knight Core, and Black Boxes to a hidden Mother Chamber beneath the underwater port. He headed toward the port as its beacons welcomed the awakening Mother, and a massive golden eye opened beneath the water.

• The steward reported that Ella and eleven other survivors had vanished, leaving golden powder and a message saying, “Return to Mother.”
• Milluki identified the powder as King-Returning Incense, which could use a voiceprint to lure vulnerable people into believing they were going home.
• Bai Zhu found that the badge, Holy Knight Core, and Black Box shared a frequency; pressing the badge to the core released a Black Gold plate bearing directions to King's Port and the Mother Chamber.
• Illumi confirmed that Kakin had supplied the Creation Society with resources for an underwater port that processed Old Trench materials and transferred children, test subjects, and survivors.
• As the submarines retreated and the navigation beacons displayed “Mother awakens,” Bai Zhu went toward the dock, where a massive golden eye opened beneath the water.