Bai Pu first opened the Two-Faced Man’s Dark Gold Treasure Chest.

[You have opened the Level 7 Lord, Divine Favorer Two-Faced Man’s Dark Gold Treasure Chest. You have received 73,000 Spiritual Points.]

Amidst a dark-golden whirlwind, countless dark gold cards surged out from the treasure chest and neatly arranged in front of Bai Pu, totaling eighty cards.

[Based on the difficulty of this battle, you have obtained 3 chances to draw Spoils Cards, and you may exclude 36 low-valued cards. Would you like to exclude them?]

After Bai Pu chose to exclude, 36 dark gold cards disappeared, leaving 44 dark gold cards behind.

Bai Pu raised his hand to select.

The first card flipped, revealing an oddly-shaped circular crown pattern.

[You have obtained the Holy Artifact: Whispering.]

A simple line of text, with no further explanation.

The card dissipated, and the circular crown turned into a tangible object, landing in Bai Pu’s palm.

This crown was Bai Pu’s spoils, but due to the special nature of Holy Artifacts, it was not an equipment Bai Pu could wield. It must undergo the Spirit Realm Will’s "Enlightenment" process to be transformed into Awakened equipment.

"The first draw and I’ve already gotten the Two-Faced Man’s Holy Artifact... could it be the Spirit Realm Will’s subtle influence?"

Bai Pu squinted his eyes.

After the Divine Envoy auction, Bai Pu already knew the value of Holy Artifacts.

In the eyes of the Divine Envoys, a Holy Artifact is far more valuable than a piece of Dark Gold Equipment.

However, for Bai Pu, the Holy Artifact must be converted into immediate combat power to benefit his growth. For example, the Doomsday Spear he painstakingly obtained has been sitting in Bai Pu’s Storage Space for half a year, collecting dust.

Bai Pu put away the Whispering Crown. He had not yet decided how to handle this Holy Artifact.

The second dark gold card flipped.

A dark shoulder guard adorned with twisted thorn thickets fell into Bai Pu’s palm.

[You have obtained the equipment: Sufferer’s Shoulder Armor.]

[Sufferer’s Shoulder Armor (Sealed)]

[Quality: Lord (Dark Gold)]

[Equipment Position: Shoulder]

[Equipment Requirement: Basic Full Attributes 60] (Gaining Artifact Spirit recognition can halve the equipment requirement)

[Attributes: Spirit +10, Endurance +10; Shoulder Armor +120]

[Additional Skill 1: Sufferer’s Grasp: Passive, wearer gains 10 points of special attributes.]

[Additional Skill 2: Activated Thorns: Innate skill, driven by blood, the activated thorny vines entangle the opponent, causing corresponding intensity of bleeding damage according to the opponent’s movement. In a completely still state, Activated Thorns will not cause damage.]

[Durability: 200/200]

[Explanation: Equipment made from the holy thorns of the Thorn Suffering Sanctuary, dyed with the holy blood of Our Lady of Thorns.]

When Bai Pu touched this equipment, he felt something unusual.

It was as if he was holding a bunch of stinging thorny vines rather than a piece of equipment.

The Spirit Realm Will then prompted:

[You have defeated the holder of the equipment Two-Faced Man head-on, you have obtained the chance to gain Artifact Spirit recognition.]

[Detected that you already have Artifact Spirit recognition for one Dark Gold Equipment, the difficulty of this Artifact Spirit test will be increased.]

[Test method: Sufferer’s Shoulder Armor will absorb your blood until it is satisfied.]

[Would you like to start the test?]

If you choose not to, you can still wear the equipment and activate its basic attributes, but you will be unable to use its additional skills.

He still had to pass the test of the Artifact Spirit.

Since this was Bai Pu’s second piece of Dark Gold Equipment with an Artifact Spirit, the test difficulty would increase!

This somewhat dampened the joy of obtaining Dark Gold Equipment.

Perhaps the Two-Faced Man never passed the test for this equipment, which is why he never used the powerful "Activated Thorns" skill from start to finish...

Bai Pu thought for a moment and forced out a drop of pure blood from his fingertip.

"Let’s see if it’s satisfied with the pure blood. If not... then I’ll try the Source Blood."

The pure blood fell onto the thorny vine, like concentrated sulfuric acid dripping, white mist accompanied by sizzling sounds rose.

The thorny vines on the Sufferer’s Shoulder Armor quickly came alive, each thorn writhing in an orderly fashion, like a group of lively snakes dancing excitedly.

Bai Pu inexplicably felt a joyful emotion, it seemed the Artifact Spirit of the Sufferer’s Shoulder Armor was quite satisfied with this drop of pure blood...

Soon, the sharp thorns on the surface of the vines retracted, and the shoulder armor turned grayish, like a cape made of countless smooth willow strips.

[You have passed the test of the Sufferer’s Shoulder Armor and received Artifact Spirit recognition.]

Bai Pu and this shoulder armor now had a blood-linked sense of closeness, and he wore the shoulder armor, finally allowing the blue armor [Iron Spike Shoulder Guard] to honorably retire.

Immediately, a warm power surged through Bai Pu!

Bai Pu’s attributes improved significantly!

In addition to the equipment itself adding 10 points of Endurance and 10 points of Spirit, the shoulder armor also increases 10 points of "special attributes."

Bai Pu’s special attributes include three items: Power, Endurance, and Spirit.

He carefully looked at his personal attribute panel.

Power 139 (69), Agility 73 (42), Endurance 153 (75), Spirit 94 (59).

Power, Endurance, and Spirit all received an additional 10 points.

In other words, this [Sufferer’s Shoulder Armor] brought Bai Pu a total of 50 attribute points!

The attribute increase alone was worthy of the Dark Gold Equipment grade.

What’s more, there’s the powerful "innate skill"—Activated Thorns!

The so-called innate skill, like the Demon General Ghost Leather’s "Thorn Tongue" skill, activates quickly without preparation, without duration or cooldown time requirements.

However, activating the [Activated Thorns] skill requires Bai Pu’s own blood as the power source; to maintain it for a long time would certainly consume a lot of life value, making unrestricted use impossible.

Bai Pu was already quite satisfied.

The Dark Gold Equipment indeed was powerful, even enhancing Bai Pu’s already formidable base, allowing his strength to noticeably improve. For an ordinary Awakened, it would be a transformative experience, elevating them instantly.

Bai Pu continued the draw.

After two draws yielding top spoils, the Two-Faced Man’s treasure chest seemed to have exhausted Bai Pu’s luck, as the last dark gold card revealed nothing more than a familiar-looking item.

A thin page appearing to be made of gold.

[Book of Destiny Revelation: C-level Golden Artifact. You can designate a target Spoils Treasure Chest and choose one existing spoil to mark. The mark will appear when you draw Spoils Cards.]

[Explanation: Limited to treasure chests of the Awakened rank, the quality must not exceed Lord Level (Dark Gold).]

"Isn’t this the same item that Xisha Divine Envoy lent me at the start?"

Bai Pu quickly recalled. Back then, he used the Book of Destiny Revelation to draw out the Rune Text Clay Tablet, which proved to be well worth it.