"Cough cough, we currently lack the conditions to advance on the headquarters."

Bozo coughed and explained, "Lord Gangxin previously suggested attacking the Thorn Church Headquarters, taking advantage of the element of surprise, moving covertly and striking suddenly! Now, the Thorn Church is aware of our marching goal and will surely gather forces to block us."

Black-robed Neil nodded and said, "With our strength, the gap with the Thorn Church that rules the entire continent is too huge."

Bai Pu alone recruited four Thorn Bishops, becoming a key force in changing the course of the battle.

Looking across the entire Original Sin Continent, how many cities and Thorn Church branches are there? And how many Thorn Bishops?

Though the enemy’s Divine Favorer Lord is reduced to one Bound, a large number of Thorn Bishops and Holy War Legion Commanders gathered together are much more terrible than one or two Lords.

"I think we should return to the Southwest Jungle."

Wind Speaker Gadra said, "Previously the Southwest Jungle had a legion led by the Two-Faced Man, leaving no space for us to survive... But now the Two-Faced Man and his direct army are completely wiped out, leaving only remnants of the Thorn Church in the Southwest Jungle. We can return there, absorb talent, and redevelop the power of the Thorn Cutters."

"Yeah, as long as Lord Gangxin can control a batch of Thorn Bishop’s Servants, we can rapidly grow in strength and fight back!" The first speaking Thorn Cutter leader slapped his thigh and said.

Then he found everyone once again looking at him with the eyes of looking at a fool...

"Lord Gangxin’s way of manipulating enemies is obviously not limitless, is it?"

"If it were limitless, that would be a real god."

"Lord Gangxin, what do you say?"

Bai Pu smiled and nodded, "I have already reached the limit. However, I do agree with the Wind Speaker’s view that we should return to the Southwest Jungle, rebuild the Thorn Cutter’s territory, and restore the lost temples of the various sects."

Several leaders exchanged glances, feeling somewhat downcast.

Bonnie said softly, "Master, since the legend of Our Lady of Thorns’ suffering has spread, various sects have lost contact with the divine they worship, and no matter how much they offer to the idols, they cannot receive any response from the gods..."

"It’s the deity behind Our Lady of Thorns that’s doing the trick," Bai Pu kept a heart’s eye, not mentioning the name ’Master of Suffering’ directly, "He wants to rule this continent and has isolated your faith. But haven’t you noticed that since the appearance of the Lost City, the possibility of restoring contact with the gods has emerged?"

"Right, Wind Speaker Gadra must have received a blessing from the deity!" Bozo said.

From the perspective of these followers, perhaps the heavenly intent is inscrutable, and divine grace is hard to find.

But Bai Pu, as an Awakened, with a broad view, could naturally understand the logic behind it all.

The divine envoy is the spokesperson of the Divine.

The divine envoy roams the Spirit Realm planes, mainly to collect things like Holy Artifacts that contain "Source Material."

The Original Sin World was initially a substrate plane shared by various divine envoys, a mid-level Spirit Realm.

By chance, the Master of Suffering discovered the uniqueness of the Original Sin World — it possibly contains a large amount of Source Material, serving as a Source Material Treasure Mine!

So, the Master of Suffering seized this mid-level Spirit Realm forcibly before other deities could discover it, and sent his divine envoy — Our Lady of Thorns to be stationed here, establishing the Thorn Church.

From that moment on, various sects lost their channels of communication with the Divine.

Bai Pu estimated that isolating faith was something that adherents at the lower levels couldn’t break through, but for higher-level gods and divine envoys, the restriction wasn’t as severe.

Divine envoys, if they focus on the Original Sin World, should be able to communicate with followers at a certain cost, it’s just that previously no divine envoy realized the richness of the Original Sin World, not paying attention to it among the numerous planes of the Spirit Realm.

The Master of Suffering, through Our Lady of Thorns, remotely controlled the Thorn Church to destroy other sects, twisting the Original Sin World step by step into His Earthly Divine Kingdom.

Furthermore, the Master of Suffering should have spent considerable costs to elevate the Original Sin World to a distorted advanced plane!

This distorted advanced plane only allows mid-level Awakened to enter, thus reducing the variables brought by the Awakened to the lowest.

However, the simultaneous emergence of multiple Holy Artifacts from the Lost City has caused the Original Sin World to be re-focused by various divine envoys!

Temples were destroyed, altars abandoned, and various divine envoys couldn’t communicate with native faithful.

They could only place their hopes on the Awakened, also known as Voters.

Then, various divine envoys united to send over a group of strong Preparatory Voters to snatch Holy Artifacts. Wind Speaker Gadra should have been granted a blessing by some divine envoy upon sight, equivalent to "placing an eye," to pay attention to the follow-up development of the Original Sin World.

In the eyes of various divine envoys, the priority of the current Original Sin World has surely risen sharply, and divine envoys will pay more attention to faith and prayers from the Original Sin World.

That’s why Bai Pu was confident that as long as temples are rebuilt, altars restored, and persistent prayers made, there’s a high probability of re-establishing connection with the Divine.

Seeing Bai Pu this certain, everyone felt a bit invigorated and unanimously agreed.

This was because Bai Pu’s reputation was high enough, having reached the level of Adoration, which resulted in extraordinary goodwill among these people, making his words carry significant weight.

Bai Pu took the opportunity to say, "I remember, the last time the Lost City was in a Divine Gifted Heavenly Pit in the Southwest Jungle. After returning to the Southwest Jungle, we continue to search for clues about the Lost City. Collecting more Holy Artifacts will be the key to our victory over the Thorn Church." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

This point, no one could deny.

In fact, Bai Pu had his own selfish motive.

His rank-promotion task, at this point, had completed the "Bronze Branch" — kill an Advanced Lord of the Thorn Church!

If Bai Pu wished, he could already be promoted to Bronze Major.

However, Bai Pu also wanted to try for the higher-level "Silver Branch."

[Branch 2: The Secret of the Lost City]

[Task Objective: Investigate clues of the Lost City, obtain at least one Source Material Fragment from the Lost City.]

There is still time now, Bai Pu felt he could give it a try.

As for the difficulty of the Golden Branch [Destiny of Original Sin], to obtain the "Matrix" of the Original Sin World is too exaggerated; Bai Pu never thought he could complete it.

After resting, everyone set out on the journey, returning to the Southwest Jungle.

On the road, Bai Pu opened a wave of treasure chests.

In this peak battle, Bai Pu gained much, not to mention two Lord Level Dark Gold Treasure Chests, just the four Large Golden Treasure Chests from Advanced Enhanced Warriors were quite something!

Of course, three of these four Large Golden Treasure Chests were from the Bishop’s Servants’ spoils, and one from Legion Commander Salomon — Bonnie’s loot.

But the Spirit Realm Will obviously regarded the servants as Bai Pu’s Summoned Creatures, including them in Bai Pu’s total strength, so it wasn’t about not giving treasure chests.