Southwest Continent, Twisted Jungle.

Abandoned Storm Church, hall.

"Lord Two-Faced Man, the battlefield has been accounted for. All blasphemers are dead without exception!" a Holy War Legion Commander reported respectfully.

Two-Faced Man’s body was slender, but his head was surprisingly large. Where ears should have been, each side bore a face, one smiling and the other crying.

The face with the smile spoke, "Nur, go and identify them."

Redeemer Nur was a lean young man, and he bowed respectfully before scanning the rows of severed heads before him.

Borras’ head still maintained a look of terror and anger.

Nur sighed inwardly, then stood up and said, "Lord Two-Faced Man, here we only found the leader of the Thorn Cutters, Borras, and his immediate subordinates, the Rose Guard. The Thorn Cutters have another leader named Bozo, originally the head of the Storm Church, who does not appear here."

"Bozo, I’ve heard of him; he is Borras’ deputy. Last time, when the Lost City appeared, Bozo raided Miulan City, killing several priests."

The crying face of the Two-Faced Man emitted a chilling voice, "This person must be severely punished! Where is he now?"

Nur said, "I can lead the way to the Thorn Cutters’ secret base. However, by now, the Wind Speaker has likely already passed the news of Borras’ defeat to Bozo. If we go to that base, Bozo has probably already fled."

"He won’t be able to escape."

A woman holding a Crystal Ball spoke. Her eye sockets were deep, and most of her body was bare, except for some jewels and shells covering essential parts. A fish fin stood erect at the back of her neck, gently swaying with the wind.

Nur cautiously glanced at this woman. In his eyes, her power wasn’t strong, but her methods were peculiarly effective, and she belonged to a very potent faction, with very well-informed intelligence.

Nur recalled how it was precisely this woman who approached him back then.

"Redeemer Nur, your act of establishing the Light of Redemption organization has been unacceptable to the Thorn Cutters. As evidence, Bozo’s daughter, Bonnie, has secretly sold out your organization to the Thorn Church. You can watch this ’retrospective image’."

The woman had said at that time.

After watching the retrospective image, Nur felt deeply despondent, and he finally decided to abandon resistance against the Thorn Church.

Then, Nur invited Borras under the guise of "gifting a Holy Artifact," cooperating with the Two-Faced Man and the Melt Gold Giant to capture Borras and his Rose Guard entirely.

Originally, Nur also sent an invitation to Bozo, but Bozo thought that accepting the Holy Artifact required only Borras to appear. He stayed behind to guard the base and didn’t come.

Because of this, Bozo managed to escape death.

"Rui Xin’s Heart Energy Tracking Technique can collect the ’Heart Energy’ and other spiritual powers left behind by the enemy."

The smiling face of Two-Faced Man smiled even wider, "As long as we find a place where Bozo stayed for a long period within the past 24 hours, we can collect his Heart Energy and track him!"

...

Hosman City, Thorn Church Branch.

The battle was over, and the people had beaten the bishop of Hosman City half to death, then let Bai Pu take control.

"Over the past few days, we’ve run through six cities. Although two attempts failed, four cities were successful."

Bai Pu calculated silently, then looked up at the four hooded figures in black robes standing beside him with their hands hanging.

"We have controlled four Bishop-level combatants..."

Black-robed Neil exclaimed in shock, "How did you manage this?"

The four bishops, once transformed into their Twisted True Forms, would unleash Holy Wave Power beams of unprecedented strength.

In fact, that was exactly how the recent battle went. Hardly anyone made a move, as Black-robed Neil set up a Silence Barrier, Bai Pu broke the shield, then manipulated three controlled bishops to reveal their true forms and simultaneously fire three Annihilation Beams.

The bishop of Hosman City barely had time to transition to his Twisted True Form. Even after doing so, he barely lasted ten seconds before being mortally wounded.

Now Bai Pu controls four bishops.

Simultaneously firing the most powerful Annihilation Beams, each second delivering four thousand power, even a Lord wouldn’t dare to stand against it.

"The Wind Speaker has relayed a message, the group led by Two-Faced Man, for some reason, has continuously investigated several cities, all of them cities we’ve raided," Bozo said.

The Wind Speaker, named Gadria, is a small-statured native with abilities to relay messages over long distances using plants.

Upon raiding each church branch, the Wind Speaker would plant a "Gossip Grass Seed."

When preset conditions were met, the Gossip Grass would grow rapidly, silently inscribing the intelligence the Wind Speaker focused on. Once the intelligence was written, the Gossip Grass would wither and die within a short period.

On the other end, the Wind Speaker, holding the leaf of the Gossip Grass, receives the intelligence inscribed by the Gossip Grass synchronously.

When Bai Pu first learned of the Wind Speaker’s ability, he was very curious. He inquired about the origin of this ability, and it seemed to have awoken just a few months ago, precisely when the Lost City appeared.

The Wind Speaker was originally just an ordinary warrior within the Thorn Cutter Organization, and once, in the Twisted Jungle, she vaguely saw a large white deer, and then inexplicably awakened a series of strange abilities related to plants.

Putting aside the background of the Spirit Realm Celestial Beings, this girl named Gadria bears some semblance to the protagonist favored by destiny.

However, Bai Pu could roughly guess the reason—this is likely a stray move left by some Divine Envoy.

Thankfully, these natural and plant-related abilities are not akin to the style of the Master of Suffering, Lord of Death, and Musulu factions’ Divine Envoys. Otherwise, Bai Pu would suspect that this Wind Speaker might be a dark agent of the Thorn Church.

Bai Pu had the Wind Speaker set the activation condition of the "Gossip Grass" as "when someone intrudes."

Because after Bai Pu controls the bishop, before leaving the city, he would command the bishop to issue "Ascetic Meditation" orders, entering a dedicated chamber for asceticism, barring anyone from interrupting.

In such situations, the loyal Holy Warriors, Fanatics, and priests wouldn’t dare to intrude upon the bishop’s meditation chamber.

Those daring enough to intrude are those of higher status than the bishop. In the Southwest Jungle, this specifically refers to the Two-Faced Man, this Divine Favorer!

However, within the last two days, Gossip Grass has been triggered in five cities consecutively! The order of investigation even mirrors exactly the sequence Bai Pu and others raided the church branches!

"This indicates that Two-Faced Man has a clear goal. He must have a way to track our traces!"