There’s no need to search, Bai Pu saw the Bound at work beside the giant obelisk at a glance.

The front of the giant obelisk was already matched with mysterious divine runes. The Bound stood at the foot of the obelisk, with both hands stretched out, injecting Holy Wave Power into the obelisk.

The divine runes were illuminated inch by inch, already climbing to the top of the obelisk.

"Damn, you still came! Just a little more, just a little more!"

The Bound’s emotions were close to madness, "I never expected you could pass through the original passage safely and arrive at the Land of Creation!"

"Gaia, time to work," Bai Pu said.

A nebulous blue light appeared, and the voice of Gaia’s Will sounded emotionlessly:

[Forbidden object detected: Mind-Attracting Vine left by the Thorn Divine Envoy. According to the supplementary terms of Article 10, Section 2 of the Origin Oath, it is now banned.]

The Bound’s Holy Wave Power was banned along with it.

"No!"

He watched helplessly as the divine runes about to reach the peak quickly dimmed and went out.

Bai Pu carried the great sword and walked toward the Bound with large strides.

The Bound turned suddenly, staring fiercely at Bai Pu: "Foolish mortal, you have no idea the huge trouble you’ve stirred! My god will never let you go, never!"

"Is this your last words? Not very original. Goodbye."

In the next moment, a mighty golden sandfall unfolded, engulfing the Bound’s figure.

...

A distant star domain.

An ancient, magnificent divine hall quietly suspended in the starry sky.

This divine hall is larger than most stars.

The surrounding stars orbit around this hall.

Above the hall, three phenomena faced each other across the space.

The phenomenon on the left is coiled thorns.

The central phenomenon is countless twisted tentacles.

The phenomenon on the right is withering black mist.

Thought senses converged between the three phenomena.

"The plan to seize the Source of the Original Sin World failed."

"Who thwarted us?"

"Gaia’s Will."

A tense silence ensued.

"Look at the bright side, taken by Gaia’s Will, at least it’s better than being taken by Purity."

"You’re right, at least Spirit Realm Will won’t deliberately target us."

"I won’t dwell on it; it’s just the source of a small world. The next operation is the main show."

"My followers in the Silver Heart Great World have already obtained the cosmic coordinates of a True Small World. Prepare sufficient resources and open the Teleportation Gate! This True Small World will be the bridgehead for advancing into the Silver Heart Great World."

...

Original Sin World, Land of Creation.

Bai Pu pressed the divine runes he collected onto the front of the Creation Obelisk.

The phantom of the divine runes climbed up automatically.

Following closely, Bai Pu injected fighting qi energy. The runes absorbed the energy, lighting up inch by inch, slowly extending upwards.

It took over an hour for Bai Pu to successfully extend the brilliance of the rune language to the top.

In an instant, the surface of the Creation Obelisk’s column emitted dazzling light, a beam of light piercing the sky!

If Bai Pu had infinite vision, he would see this beam from the spire of the Lost City’s dome shell of the Creator Spirit, piercing through the earth’s crust, rushing up to the surface, slicing through the endless fog of the Original Sin World.

Connecting heaven and earth, unfathomable.

Information prompts appeared on Bai Pu’s retina.

[You have captured the matrix of the Original Sin World.]

[You have completed the Military Rank Ascension Task (Golden Branch), submit it?]

Bai Pu hesitated for a moment and queried:

"Can I pack the matrix of the Original Sin World into Storage Space and carry it away?"

[No.]

Bai Pu shook his head, matrix and source material are different, the latter appearing in the external form of a holy artifact, and packable. Matrix—the enormous Creator Spirit, Bai Pu certainly can’t carry it away.

Bai Pu originally wanted to trade with other divines and see if he could sell the matrix for a good price.

However, after seriously offending the Master of Suffering this time, he must now take sides—which is to choose a faction to receive protection and avoid directly facing the wrath of the divines.

After thinking it over, no divine faction was more appealing to Bai Pu than Gaia’s Will.

"Submit it. Don’t forget what we agreed upon when entering the Lost City."

Bai Pu exhaled and said.

[Your military rank ascends to Golden Major. According to the previous agreement, you have received an extra reward: Gaia Seal.]

[The following are inherent rewards of the Golden Branch Task:]

[You have received Golden Medal *3.]

[You have received Oil of the Lamp God *3.]

The Golden Medal and Oil of the Lamp God were reward contents already explained when the task was published.

The medal is a necessary item for officers when ascending military ranks, and for school-level officers, each minor rank requires a medal.

For example, Major ascending to Major.

Bronze Major requires Bronze Medal, Silver Major requires Silver Medal, Golden Major requires Golden Medal.

Bai Pu ascended to Golden Major, Gaia’s Will rewarded him with three Golden Medals, indicating a clear path to Golden Colonel, Golden Colonel, and Quasi-General, just need to accumulate Honor.

Only those with Gold Level military rank are eligible for promotion to General.

This was extra information given by Gaia’s Will, which Bai Pu learned upon becoming a Golden Major.

Bai Pu looked at the Oil of the Lamp God.

[Oil of the Lamp God: Spirit Realm Wonders. Use in Equipment Enhancement Interface, the next equipment enhancement is guaranteed successful. Cannot be reused on the same piece of equipment.]

[Note: Using Oil of the Lamp God with ’Aladdin’s Magic Lamp’ produces unique effects.]

Three drops of the Oil of the Lamp God can ensure the equipment enhancement succeeds!

Bai Pu knows well that equipment enhanced to +9 no longer has enhancement card support. Subsequent enhancements may fail.

For top-tier Awakened teams, they’re not afraid of the loss of spiritual points from enhancement failure, nor of the enhancement level resetting, but worry about enhancement failure causing the unique equipment to be completely destroyed!

A piece of top-level +9 equipment can stably ascend to +10 using Oil of the Lamp God and gain a +10 special effect enhancement!

Of course, this was just the guaranteed effect of the Oil of the Lamp God. If one gets the noted ’Aladdin’s Magic Lamp’, its value will soar again.

[Your level rises to Level 8. Your Basic Power +5, Basic Endurance +5, Basic Spirit +5, Basic Agility +3.]

A warm current flowed through Bai Pu’s body, becoming stronger with each breath.

"Directly ascending to Level 8? The rewards for the Golden Branch Task are indeed ample, especially the experience point rewards."

As Bai Pu speculated if Gaia’s Will, upon synchronizing completion of the Silver Branch, Bronze Branch, and other military rank tasks, had distributed the experience point rewards of other branches to himself, information appeared on his retina again.

[You have greatly altered the destiny of the Original Sin World and revealed its deepest secrets.] 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

[You have gained (6) Legend Points.]