Global Evolution: I Transplanted the Supreme Divine Heart-Chapter 295 - 292: True Damage

Miulan City, Thorn Church.

"Wish of Suffering" Chapel.

A hundred Thorn Recruits, including Bai Pu, neatly arranged into ten rows and ten columns, each sitting on the ground, waiting for the Suffering Ceremony.

Bai Pu was among them.

The expressions of the Thorn Recruits varied; some were excited, some were fervent, some nervous, and others afraid.

Next to Bai Pu was a fervent recruit, a frail girl of about fourteen or fifteen, with a missing right arm. She knelt on the ground, her lips trembling, murmuring constantly.

"Praise the Holy Mother, praise the suffering, Bonnie is willing to open her mind to welcome the coming suffering, only hoping the great deity will show mercy and grace, so Bonnie’s right hand could get better soon..."

Bai Pu squinted his eyes.

He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Bai Pu felt the girl was special.

The evidence was... the three priests surrounding the field, including Father Arius, sneaked glances at this girl more times than they did at all the other Thorn Recruits combined!

These three priests were responsible for maintaining order, and out of boredom, they would entertain themselves.

For instance, assessing the potential of the Thorn Recruits, betting on who could pass the ceremony and who could be promoted to Thorn Saint Warrior, and so on.

"Could this disabled girl, Bonnie, have particularly strong potential?"

Bishop Yajino entered the scene.

He first delivered a highly impactful speech, with the old-fashioned theme of praising suffering.

Though the script was poorly crafted, when combined with Bishop Yajino’s high Spiritual Power, it was highly inciting.

Bai Pu, relying on his Spirit Talent, vaguely sensed a certain spiritual link among the three priests and Bishop Yajino!

Through this link, Bishop Yajino temporarily pushed his Spirit Attribute to the limit. Moreover, these divine sticks likely had passive abilities that enhance spiritual suggestion and consciousness bewilderment.

If Bai Pu didn’t know the truth, he might not have withstood this collective spiritual suggestion.

"You all are pious believers who have undergone numerous trials. Now you will personally experience the grace of God... Close your eyes and feel it! Experience pain and torment in your Spiritual World!

"Rest assured to imagine. In reality, you may lack the courage to break common knowledge and embrace suffering. In the Spiritual World, you can imagine freely, no matter how harsh the suffering is, it will not reflect in reality!

"This is the Suffering Ceremony, a ritual to help you rapidly transform and receive divine grace!"

Followers one after another closed their eyes.

Bai Pu also closed his eyes and suddenly felt a wave of Spiritual Power invade his Spiritual World.

This Spiritual Power evidently came from Bishop Yajino!

He did not directly project his consciousness here, otherwise, splitting consciousness into a hundred parts would be unbearable, even for Bishop Yajino, leading to consciousness dispersal.

The purpose of this Spiritual Power was to assist Bai Pu in constructing the Spiritual World.

Normally, the Thorn Recruits’ minds were restless, the Spiritual World unstable, thus external intervention was required to form a stable Spiritual World.

"This... isn’t this the Genetic Heart Image?"

Bai Pu suddenly thought of the first layer of his Talent Tree, Genetic Heart Image, which involved unfolding the Spiritual World where he battles strong opponents through meditation!

In the Spiritual World, the training results of Combat Specialization would reflect in the real world.

So Bai Pu immediately determined that Bishop Yajino was lying!

He claimed the torment endured in the Spiritual World wouldn’t reflect in reality; that was purely nonsense.

It was meant to reassure the Thorn Recruits to endure suffering in the Spiritual World, increasing the promotion efficiency of the Suffering Ceremony!

Regarding how many Thorn Recruits failed to endure and died during this process, it wasn’t within Bishop Yajino’s consideration.

Bai Pu closed his eyes but unfolded the Genetic Heart Image, simultaneously using Bishop Yajino and the three priests’ spiritual connections to secretly observe others’ Spiritual Worlds.

This was a kind of reverse peeping, with Bishop Yajino and the three priests being the "servers," their spiritual connections being the "network cables," and Bai Pu’s consciousness being the invading "hacker."

Bai Pu’s Genetic Heart Image had a very high priority, metaphorically, the "hacker" was extremely skilled, leaving no trace, and the "server administrator," Bishop Yajino, couldn’t detect it at all.

As for Bai Pu himself, he naturally imagined himself enduring the whipping of the Holy Thorns.

Bai Pu unfolded the Attribute Panel; sure enough, the skill proficiency of [Steel Skin] was dramatically increasing.

"Skill proficiency can also reflect in reality, layered on top of the Genetic Heart Image effect. It seems to be more perfected with the aid of Bishop Yajino and others’ Spiritual Power?"

This situation was a rare occurrence; at this moment, Bishop Yajino’s Spirit Attribute was perhaps close to that of a Spiritual Talent type Lord.

Where could Bai Pu find an Advanced Lord with Spiritual Talent, willingly serving as a server for him?

The proficiency increased rapidly; Bai Pu even felt his skin gradually becoming tough, this visible progress in getting stronger was rather enchanting.

Nevertheless, Bai Pu was keeping track of time, calculating the duration of the "Cruel Admonition" of the Holy Thorns (replica). The time of life lost in Bai Pu’s Spiritual World could not exceed 30 seconds!

If Bai Pu were indulged in the pleasure of getting stronger, exceeding the time range his Life Value could bear, resulting in the death of Bai Pu in the Spiritual World, it might reflect in reality, causing the real Bai Pu to bleed out and die!

Every time more than 30 seconds passed, Bai Pu would "reset" his state in the Spiritual World, essentially reopening the Genetic Heart Image for meditation.

This equated to freeloading Bishop Yajino’s Spiritual Power, causing Bishop Yajino to be very puzzled by the rapid depletion of Spiritual Power during this Suffering Ceremony.

But he couldn’t identify the issue, as he was fully maintaining a hundred spiritual connections, giving his all. He could only attribute it to the high potential of the Thorn Recruits this time.

[Your Combat Skill: Steel Skin has been upgraded to Level 3. Based on your Hidden Title: Limit Breaker, the skill is automatically upgraded to Level 4, please select a Special Effect.]

Swoosh, a series of Special Effect options unfolded.

In the beginning, they were quite Ordinary Special Effects; after all, although Bai Pu had experienced battles since learning Steel Skin, the number wasn’t large, nor the intensity too strong; at most, he had only sparred with an Advanced Warrior (=Leader).

But below the options, a Rare Special Effect appeared.

[Option G: Thorn Skin: When the Active Effect of Steel Skin is activated, the physical attack you receive will rebound as true damage, returning to the attacker! The point of true damage rebounded equals your fixed damage reduction points when Steel Skin’s Active Effect is activated.]