The Bishop’s servants, lacking independent consciousness, are like segments of a computer program, running only according to the pre-entered commands from the programmer. Even if Bai Pu is frozen to death, they won’t blink an eye.

"No... stop... change the environment..."

Bai Pu’s mind was nearly stalled, but with his last remaining clarity, he issued new commands to the Bishop’s servants.

The icy landscape switched to a warm beach within a second, a gentle breeze blowing, as the massive ice block, under the caress of sunlight and seawater, slowly melted.

Bai Pu escaped from the ice, opening his eyes.

"The four Bishop’s servants, using an incomplete suffering ceremony, emit a cold energy stream that exceeds the output of a Magic Lord. At least they’ve reached the level of ’Enhanced Lord’! Even though they haven’t compressed this cold energy into a freezing beam, I cannot sustain much longer."

Bai Pu spread open his palm, revealing the Flame God Stone.

"Just at the moment before freezing to death, my mind ardently yearned for warmth, as if the Flame God Stone was subtly affected. This indicates I’m on the right path."

Bai Pu planned to try a few more times.

Honestly, at this attempt level, failing to comprehend the Fire Element Mystical Arts seems somewhat undeserving of Bai Pu’s extraordinary hidden attribute—Comprehension.

However, Bai Pu was psychologically prepared for this. He had long known that the difficulty of comprehending multiple Mystical Arts doubles as the number increases.

If the difficulty of comprehending the first Mystical Art is 1, then for the second Mystical Art it is 2, and for the third it would likely reach 4.

"Though the difficulty is higher, I am confident of success. I am no worse than anyone; if someone can accomplish it, I can too!"

At this moment, Bai Pu thought of the last encounter in the Original Sin World with that "Lord of Death’s" Official Voter—Rosen!

When subduing Bishop Yajino in Miulan City, Bai Pu accidentally gleaned some scattered memories from the memory fragments of Bishop Yajino.

The Gilder once said, Rosen, at the level of Mid-level Awakened, had already comprehended three Top Grade Mystical Arts, among which Death Mystical Arts had reached Master Level!

This event strongly shocked Bishop Yajino’s mind, leaving deep imprints that Bai Pu could discover.

...

Miulan City, Thorn Church Archive.

Several Thorn Cutters were busily perusing records of the Thorn Church.

"Find all records regarding the Divine Gift Land! Be mindful about any records concerning the Lost City."

Bozo gestured, saying, "According to Lord Gangxin’s statement, the Thorn Church is extremely eager about the Lost City, and they will surely study all its patterns to track down this mysterious city!"

"Found it!"

Suddenly, Thorn Cutter Gadra joyfully exclaimed.

She found a document pouch from a secret cabinet, surprisingly marked with a distorted human-faced emblem.

"This is the Thorn Church’s emblem of the Master of Suffering, the distorted human face! It’s the mark for top-secret information, indicating the contents of this pouch relate to an oracle issued by the Master of Suffering himself."

Black-robed Neil exclaimed in surprise.

The data the Thorn Cutters searched for these days mostly bore the emblem of a twisted thorn on the cover.

Few documents had an emblem of two intertwined twisted thorns, denoting higher confidentiality, representing intelligence collected under orders from Lord Level experts.

Several document pouches bore a triple-thorn emblem, indicating directives related to "Our Lady of Thorns."

If it were ordinary information, it wouldn’t excite Wind Speaker Gadra this much.

Yet, this extraordinary information, the cover also bore the words "Lost City Track Investigation!"

Everyone gathered around immediately.

The document pouch was sealed with magic. However, those present were elite members of various churches, who quickly broke the magic seal, drew out the thin pages inside, and read them carefully.

"So... the most likely hiding place for the Lost City is actually there..."

Bozo, after reading, remarked with some emotion, "No wonder the Thorn Church searched the entire Original Sin Continent without finding it, only to wait for the Lost City to reveal itself."

"It’s time to report to the master," Bonnie said.

...

In the secret chamber, Bai Pu remained seated cross-legged.

In the Spiritual World, Bai Pu was sealed within ice condensed from cold energy streams.

The Bishop’s servants no longer emitted cold energy to thicken the ice, but neither did they switch to warmer environments. The ice still stood in the cold depths of the ice field, not naturally melting.

Suddenly, a crisp sound of cracking was heard.

Inside the ice, a bright crimson flame suddenly ignited! 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

The next second, a red flaming phantom surged.

The ice blasted from within, quickly spreading cracks across the surface, and finally with a crashing sound, shattered entirely.

[You have comprehended the Mystical Arts: Red Flame, current mastery level: Beginner.]

[When you use Red Flame Mystical Arts in ordinary attacks, it will increase the damage of the attack by 45% (Beginner), also possessing a special effect: Embers, causing continuous burning damage and persistent destruction of target armor.]

Bai Pu saw the Beginner level of Red Flame Mystical Arts could cause a 45% damage increase, realizing it was of the "Rare" level Mystical Arts.

Though after much effort, the comprehension was not of Top Grade Mystical Arts; it brought a slight feeling of inadequacy.

However, it was successfully comprehended after all!

Bai Pu took out the four-star Secret Technique Skill Book: Melt Gold Armor and began comprehension.

[Melt Gold Armor Skill Book: Guides you to comprehend the four-star Secret Technique: Melt Gold Armor. Current comprehension success rate: 85%]

Bai Pu recalled, before comprehending Red Flame Mystical Arts, the skill comprehension success rate for Melt Gold Armor was only 70%.

Although Red Flame Mystical Arts was only at the Beginner level, it raised the skill comprehension success rate by 15%, affirming Bai Pu’s speculation that the efforts of these two days were worthwhile.

Bai Pu chose to comprehend.

Suddenly, a scene he had never seen unfolded before his eyes.

A tall man enthusiastically recited embracing suffering, pouring a ladle of molten golden liquid over himself!

The temperature of the molten gold was extremely high, almost instantly cooking the person upon contact; skin and flesh were destroyed, blood evaporated, even bones were unable to withstand, drying and breaking.

In the next moment, a blessing descended; twisted fog suddenly rose from the tall man’s surface.

The scorching hot airwave, burning Fire Force, strong enough to melt gold and iron, yet possessing formidable defensive capability; the molten gold step by step etched into his body, forming golden patterns, embedding into him.

Then, the drizzled molten gold followed these golden patterns, turning into a set of Melt Gold Armor.

"So this is how the Gilder receives the so-called divine grace..."