Recaps

Bai Zhu joined Illumi and Milluki to uncover the Creation Society’s plan to use pregnant women and their fetuses in a ritual, while helping Ella seek revenge and survive. The Society began the ritual early, and Bai Zhu destroyed the Black Crystal Fragment with Sōkatsui, leaving himself nearly exhausted.

• Bai Zhu met Milluki at Sankara Town’s fountain, joined the Zoldyck brothers’ investigation, and later learned from Aunt Hannah that Ella attended the Creation Society’s church.
• Bai Zhu, Illumi, and Milluki tracked Ella and her husband Pige Aaron to a farmhouse, where Bai Zhu subdued Pige and learned the Society sought living children as vessels for its god.
• Bai Zhu healed Ella and urged her to live and pursue vengeance, while Illumi forced Pige to reveal that the Society had used and discarded Ella’s predecessors.
• Illumi disguised himself as Ella and entered the Society’s underground hospital, where Milluki discovered hundreds of pregnant vessels and records showing that many women had been recycled as nutrients.
• The Society selected Illumi as its first vessel and moved the ritual forward, while Bai Zhu infiltrated the church, planted explosives, and caused a distraction to help Illumi escape.
• Ella revealed herself as bait and drew the Society’s attention, while Illumi escaped his ward and infiltrated the underground altar as Bai Zhu fought the bishop and protected her.
• The Elder began the Pre-Sanctification Descent, and the Black Crystal Fragment was carried toward Ella as Milluki worked to keep it away from her.
• Bai Zhu blocked the bishop’s attack and fired Sōkatsui at the Black Crystal stretcher, destroying the fragment and deacons before collapsing from exhaustion.

Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Illumi worked to disrupt the Church’s ritual and save Ella and the pregnant women, but the woman in white killed the captives and the Sanctification Descent began. Bai Zhu entered the Church in Temporary Bankai as the Pope confronted Illumi underground.

• Bai Zhu escaped the Church’s search teams while Illumi and Milluki disrupted the altar’s supplies, but Ella was taken to the core and the ritual systems began failing.
• Bai Zhu drew the Holy Knights into the forest, where Milluki’s Mechanical Bees and Worms helped him break their formation and defeat them.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki tracked a convoy of pregnant women to North Warehouse, where a mysterious woman in white confronted them and disabled their surveillance bugs.
• Bai Zhu freed Number Nineteen and tried to rescue the other women, but the woman in white killed them before Milluki helped Bai Zhu and Number Nineteen escape.
• Number Nineteen told Bai Zhu and Milluki that she and Ella had been Holy Infant Incubators, while Illumi stole ritual records and learned that the Sanctification Descent had begun.
• Bai Zhu refused to retreat, used decoys and a sabotaged bridge to delay the woman in white, then activated Temporary Bankai when Holy Knights blocked the road to the Church.
• Bai Zhu used Minazuki to corrode the Church’s Black Crystal formations, protected Number Nineteen, restrained the praying children, and headed underground with Milluki.
• Illumi faced the holy son underground as the Pope rose from a Black Crystal-covered coffin and pinned him down with Post-Mortem Nen.

Bai Zhu defeated the Church’s Father Body, rescued its captives, and traded the core to Illumi before heading to Kik Port for the Hunter Exam. After awakening Ryujin Jakka and finding the real exam ship, Bai Zhu joined Morel’s investigation of a sea anomaly, where the crew discovered an empty ferry.

• Bai Zhu destroyed the saintess and the Pope, and Minazuki’s blood pool swallowed the Father Body and its Black Crystal energy.
• Bai Zhu kept the core until Illumi agreed to pay five billion Jenny and provide three Zoldyck family services, then completed his mission and evacuated the survivors with Illumi and Milluki.
• Bai Zhu left Ella and the other survivors with money and new identities, traveled to Kik Port, and reunited with Milluki before the Hunter Exam.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki investigated a false exam ship and reached the real vessel, where Morel agreed to let Bai Zhu aboard if he helped investigate the sea anomaly.
• Bai Zhu forced the Zanpakuto name draw despite the core’s contamination and awakened Ryujin Jakka, though his Reiatsu could not sustain its Shikai.
• Morel canceled Bai Zhu’s test after the crew reported underwater activity and a distress signal, then sent the ship out to investigate.
• Bai Zhu’s ship found the missing ferry with open doors and scattered belongings but no people, and Bai Zhu stopped the crew from grappling onto it while Milluki prepared reconnaissance equipment.

Bai Zhu and Milluki passed the Hunter Exam after surviving a parasite-driven attack and encountering the Black Gold presence in the Old Trench. They returned with Morel to investigate again, where a passage opened and an unknown voice came through a scout’s speakers.

• Milluki’s scouts found an abandoned ferry and a slime sample, leading Morel to turn back and investigate the missing ships around an erased no-sail zone.
• Captain Nishimatsu and Pushi revealed the history of a door beneath the sea, while Gisa’s files warned of Door Resonance, strong light, and underwater knocks.
• Gray-Finned Dolphins and infected fish attacked the Xisong, and Bai Zhu used Zetsu and Ryujin Jakka to burn parasite slime from the ship.
• Bai Zhu and Morel lured the fish away and escaped the Old Trench, but three echoes preceded the rise of a Black Gold spike from the sea.
• Pushi revealed that the 1879 captain had knocked a third time and left a message asking that a living person be brought back when the door opened again.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki passed the Hunter Exam, hid a Black Gold Fragment, and prepared to return to the Old Trench with Morel’s reinforcements.
• Morel’s team reached the trench, where Milluki’s Black Gold-coated machines resisted parasites and a soundwave opened a passage above the fissure.
• A Mechanical Fish was swept toward a Black Gold surface with two green eyes, received an unknown signal, and transmitted a voice after its response countdown expired.