Recaps

After dinner with Fu Qingyang and Guan Ya, Zhang Yuanqing learned that Heaven's Punishment was sending a bronze Level One Executor to the Island Nation and received a warning from Zhao Chenghuang that he was caught in a game. When Xiahou Aotian failed to check in for a dungeon, Zhang discovered the Xiahou Family's ancestor had hung him from a drone, then contacted Huang Taiji about buying dual-cultivation items; the chapter ended with Annie calling him.

• At dinner, Zhang Yuanqing told Fu Qingyang that Xiahou Aotian had obtained a mechanical arts manual, and Fu Qingyang proposed supplying mechanical weapons to the official organization.
• In the King's Gang group chat, Asano Ryo reported that a bronze Level One Executor from Heaven's Punishment would soon visit the Island Nation, and Zhao Chenghuang privately relayed Elder Zhao's warning to Zhang Yuanqing.
• Zhang Yuanqing started the faction dungeon without Xiahou Aotian, who was missing and whose phone was switched off.
• A Xiahou Family representative told Zhang Yuanqing that the family's ancestor had hung Xiahou Aotian from a drone for a day and a night after he angered the ancestor.
• Zhang Yuanqing called Huang Taiji to return his Resting Earth and asked to buy two dual-cultivation items, and Huang Taiji agreed to send him details.
• Annie called Zhang Yuanqing after he excitedly rolled around on the bed.

Zhang Yuanqing chose the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Quilt from Huang Taiji’s list of dual-cultivation items and exchanged the Beast King Bracelet and Resting Earth for it. He then accepted Annie’s secret mission to capture the level 6 Abyss Walker Underworld King, but suspected the Goddess of Beauty Association was hiding a reason for keeping the task from the Five Elements Alliance.

• Zhang Yuanqing reviewed Huang Taiji’s four dual-cultivation items, chose the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Quilt, and arranged to trade the Beast King Bracelet and Resting Earth for it.
• Zhang Yuanqing met Annie at her apartment after driving to the residential complex with the Queen and Xie Lingxi.
• Annie told Zhang Yuanqing that the Goddess of Beauty Association wanted him to secretly capture the wanted criminal Underworld King without alerting the Five Elements Alliance.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Underworld King was a level 6 Abyss Walker, a former member of the destroyed overseas organization Dream of the Night who had recently entered China.
• Zhang Yuanqing accepted the mission for six million federal dollars and 160 points, then questioned why the Association required secrecy; Annie hesitated to explain.

Annie told Zhang Yuanqing that the Church, once the world’s dominant Spirit Realm Walker organization, had been destroyed during World War I, and that the Underworld King might hold secrets behind its fall. After arranging a higher reward for capturing him, Zhang Yuanqing discussed the political risks with Fu Qingyang, then visited family and contacted Xiahou Aotian about a business opportunity in Songhai.

• Annie explained that the Church had dominated Spirit Realm Walkers until World War I, when Orderly and Evil organizations joined forces to destroy it.
• Annie revealed that Heaven's Punishment and other major organizations had pursued Dream of the Night's leaders over clues to the Church's destruction, leaving the Underworld King as the sole known survivor at large.
• Zhang Yuanqing negotiated double the points and bonus for the Underworld King mission, then discussed the Church's history and the dangers surrounding the capture with Fu Qingyang.
• Fu Qingyang asked Zhang Yuanqing to bring Xiahou Aotian to Songhai to discuss business and help settle the Yin-Yang Turntable matter.
• Zhang Yuanqing received the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Quilt, visited his grandmother's family, and joined his uncle in entertaining the local square-dancing crowd.
• Zhang Yuanqing called Xiahou Aotian, joked about his ancestor sending him into the sky, and invited him to Songhai for Fu Qingyang's business proposal.

Xiahou Aotian negotiated with Fu Qingyang to manufacture and sell mechanisms from the manual he had obtained, while Zhang Yuanqing helped arrange the deal. Fu Qingyang set up a factory and recruited Li Chunfeng, leaving the team surprised by the Scholar’s reassignment.

• Xiahou Aotian met Fu Qingyang and learned that Zhang Yuanqing had told him about the mechanism manual.
• Xiahou Aotian admitted that he had already given the Xiahou Family a blueprint for a low-grade puppet.
• Fu Qingyang proposed an exclusive manufacturing and sales partnership, and Xiahou Aotian agreed after hearing the guild would receive a major share and he could lead a factory.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing he planned to reduce Xiahou Aotian’s shares later and give Zhang Yuanqing ten percent of the company.
• Li Chunfeng told Xie Lingxi and Queen that Fu Qingyang had transferred him to the new mechanism factory for a higher salary.

Li Chunfeng joined Xiahou Aotian’s Technical Department and inspected its equipment, while Zhang Yuanqing and Fu Qingyang faced a dispute over the supposedly lost Yin-Yang Turntable. After Secretary Li and Elder Detective left, Fu Qingyang warned Zhang Yuanqing that they would likely seek Cai’s help to target him.

• Li Chunfeng questioned Xiahou Aotian’s bizarre employee handbook but agreed to join the Technical Department after receiving Yuanshi Tianzun’s message, then toured the factory and examined Xiahou Aotian’s furnace.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing that he had reported the Yin-Yang Turntable lost and that headquarters might question him, then Elder Detective arrived demanding compensation for the Jianghuai Branch’s item.
• Zhang Yuanqing offered to repay his rewards from the Jianghuai Branch, and Fu Qingyang offered an item, but Elder Detective rejected the offer and clashed with Fu Qingyang over the Heaven-Worship Set.
• Fu Qingyang and Zhang Yuanqing used their accusations and a claim of an 800 million sponsorship to reject Secretary Li’s proposed settlement, so Secretary Li and Elder Detective departed without an agreement.
• Secretary Li privately planned to persuade Elder Cai to detain Zhang Yuanqing and implicate Fu Qingyang, while Fu Qingyang warned Zhang Yuanqing to lie low and predicted that they would seek Cai’s help.

Zhang Yuanqing used stargazing to locate the Underworld King and prepared for the dispute over the Yin-Yang Turntable, then cooperated with the Jianghuai Branch’s investigation. The Detective Elder’s plan to obtain a Tiger Tally collapsed when the Marshal refused to lend it, leaving headquarters without the approval it needed.

• Zhang Yuanqing foresaw a high-ranking Sovereign’s involvement in the Yin-Yang Turntable dispute and deduced that the Underworld King was southwest of him.
• Ling Jun brought Victoria to Zhang Yuanqing, and she agreed to set up an array that would conceal him.
• Prairie-Scorching Heavenly Fire arrived with a detention order, but Zhang Yuanqing trapped the enforcement team in an illusion before agreeing to travel with them to the Jianghuai Branch.
• During questioning, Zhang Yuanqing said the Yin-Yang Turntable had been lost in the S-grade Mohist Mechanism City guild instance and refused to identify the other guild members.
• The Detective Elder and the black-robed old man reviewed Zhang Yuanqing’s transcript and expected Elder Cai’s Tiger Tally to secure headquarters’ case against him.
• Secretary Zhou told the Detective Elder and the black-robed old man that the Marshal had refused to lend the Tiger Tally because she was in a bad mood.

Elder Detective used his Automaton Master ability to force Zhang Yuanqing to confess that he had lied about the Yin-Yang Turntable, while Fu Qingyang reviewed Xiahou Aotian’s new mechanism weapons. The chapter ended as headquarters began a disciplinary meeting about Yuanshi Tianzun embezzling official assets.

• Elder Detective and Secretary Zhou decided they could proceed against Zhang Yuanqing without the Marshal’s Tiger Tally by using his confession as a pretext.
• Elder Detective controlled Zhang Yuanqing during interrogation and recorded him admitting that the Yin-Yang Turntable had not been lost and that he had wanted to embezzle it.
• Fu Qingyang examined four mechanism weapons made by Xiahou Aotian, including the Atlas Gauntlets, Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus, and a combat puppet.
• Elder Cai opened a headquarters meeting to discuss the case of Yuanshi Tianzun embezzling official assets.

Headquarters used Yuanshi Tianzun’s alleged embezzlement of the Yin-Yang Turntable to demand the Heaven-Worship Set, but Fu Qingyang’s warning and a secret offer changed the outcome. Headquarters let Yuanshi Tianzun keep the turntable with a reduced punishment, and Zhang Yuanqing asked Fu Qingyang what he had negotiated.

• Secretary Li presented evidence that Yuanshi Tianzun had lied about losing the Yin-Yang Turntable, while the Songhai and Jianghuai elders argued over the case.
• Secretary Yang proposed settling the matter by having Yuanshi Tianzun surrender the Heaven-Worship Set, but Dog Elder refused on Songhai’s behalf.
• Fu Qingyang reminded headquarters of Fu Qingxuan’s warning to the Ten Elders, prompting Elder Cai to suspend the meeting.
• Elder Cai announced that headquarters would deduct one A-grade merit and one B-grade merit, impose a five-million fine, and require one Saint-quality prop instead of taking the Heaven-Worship Set.
• Secretary Li told Detective Elder that Fu Qingyang had offered headquarters compensation it could not refuse and had leverage over the officials, ending the Jianghuai Branch’s attempt to claim the turntable.
• At Fu Family Bay, Zhang Yuanqing asked Fu Qingyang how he had negotiated with headquarters after learning that the Yin-Yang Turntable was his to keep.

Fu Qingyang arranged funding, staffing, and security for a mechanical-weapon company, while Xiahou Aotian rejected his family’s demands and offered them a limited stake. In the Free Federation, Fu Xue learned that Fu Qingyang’s deal with the Five Elements Alliance had prompted the Fu elders to sell the companies she managed and that he wanted to become family head.

• Fu Qingyang explained that headquarters had accepted a discounted mechanical-weapon deal, and he planned to fund the company through Fu Xue’s investment while keeping her from decision-making power.
• Fu Qingyang outlined safeguards for the company, including White Tiger Guard security, Scholars recruited through Li Chunfeng and Xiahou Aotian, and a contract and debts to keep Xiahou Aotian loyal.
• Xiahou Aotian refused his Sixth Uncle’s demand to share the mechanical arts with the Xiahou Family, but offered the family 5% of the company in exchange for Transcendent Stage Scholars.
• Fu Xue confronted Fu Long about the sale of the three listed companies she managed, and he told her the Fu elders had sold them to raise funds after Fu Qingyang secured a major deal with the Five Elements Alliance.
• Fu Long revealed that Fu Qingyang had rejected the family’s investment because he demanded that his father step aside and that he become family head, prompting Fu Xue to ask what the deal involved.

Fu Xue accepted Zhang Yuanqing’s offer to buy shares in Fu Qingyang’s mechanical arts company and left for the mainland despite Fu Long’s attempt to redirect the deal to the Fu Family. In Tokyo, Asano Ryo met Heaven’s Punishment envoy Demon Hunter, who questioned her about Yuanshi Tianzun and an allegation that he was the Demon Lord’s inheritor.

• Fu Long told Fu Xue that Fu Qingyang planned to mass-produce mechanical weapons, but his demand to become family head had set him against the Council of Elders.
• Fu Xue defended Guan Ya’s relationship with Yuanshi Tianzun, then learned from Zhang Yuanqing that she could buy five percent of the mechanical arts company for one billion Federation dollars if she lent it another billion interest-free.
• Fu Xue decided to travel to the mainland and sought a five-hundred-million-dollar loan from Chen Shu, who refused after hearing that Zhang Yuanqing had called Fu Xue Mom affectionately.
• Fu Long offered Fu Xue other companies and a larger profit share if she transferred the equity to the family, but Fu Xue rejected him and drove away.
• Asano Ryo joined Thousand Crane Group leader Kobe Ichiro in welcoming Heaven’s Punishment envoy Demon Hunter and three other men at Mountain House.
• Demon Hunter told Asano Ryo that an informant claimed Yuanshi Tianzun was the Demon Lord’s inheritor and began questioning her about him.

Asano Ryo learned that Heaven's Punishment was investigating Yuanshi Tianzun as the Demon Lord's heir, and she recognized two of his items in their catalog. Bound by a Knight's oath not to reveal the meeting, she urgently asked Yuanshi for a way to escape the contract, while he was drinking with Fu Xue and had not yet understood her predicament.

• Asano Ryo told Heaven's Punishment what she knew about Yuanshi Tianzun's dungeon marks and equipment, while withholding some details.
• The Demon Hunter showed Asano Ryo a catalog of items, and she denied seeing any of them used by Yuanshi.
• A blond Knight made Asano Ryo swear not to disclose the banquet conversation, and she recognized the appearance-changing ring and Wind Mage gloves in the catalog.
• Asano Ryo realized Yuanshi was the Demon Lord's heir and, unable to break her oath, messaged him to ask how to evade a contract's power.
• Zhang Yuanqing celebrated Fu Xue's investment in his company, listened as she drunkenly complained about the Fu Family, and received Asano Ryo's urgent messages.

Zhang Yuanqing helped Asano Ryo evade her oath’s penalty and learned that Heaven’s Punishment had questioned her about his possible connection to the Demon Lord. He concluded that they had no proof yet, but their investigation could expose him through his frequent use of the Gale Gloves.

• Zhang Yuanqing sent Perfect Skin to the guild warehouse and instructed Asano Ryo to use it with a clone from Kobe Ichiro’s Eight-Span Mirror to bear the oath-breaking penalty.
• At a banquet, Heaven’s Punishment’s Demon Hunter asked Kobe Ichiro to help extradite an A-rank wanted criminal from China, and Kobe agreed.
• After the guests left, Kobe told Asano Ryo to maintain ties with Zhang Yuanqing despite publicly claiming they should abandon him; she then requested Little Red Riding Hood and the corpse puppets.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived through Greedy Divine General, and Asano Ryo used Perfect Skin on a corpse puppet before writing him an account of the meeting; the puppet bore the penalty as she revealed what she knew.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Asano Ryo recognized his Demon Lord items and that Heaven’s Punishment had questioned her, then reasoned that Underworld King was their true target and they lacked conclusive evidence against him.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized that Heaven’s Punishment could investigate his past use of the Gale Gloves and expose his identity, leaving him anxious about what they might discover.

Zhang Yuanqing devised a plan to use Miao Teng'er as a witness to convince Heaven's Punishment that he was the Demon Lord's successor, while Fu Qingyang arranged a banquet in Songhai. The Thousand Crane Group arrived in the Capital City, and Zhang Yuanqing greeted an arriving young man at Fu Qingyang's villa as his godfather.

• Zhang Yuanqing told Asano Ryo to enter Mohist Mechanism City and lie low while Heaven's Punishment investigated.
• Zhang Yuanqing described his predicament to Fu Qingyang through a story about an uncle, and Fu Qingyang suggested using a convincing impersonator to redirect attention.
• Fu Qingyang said he would hold a banquet to raise money for a factory and invite Miao Teng'er.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized Miao Teng'er could identify the Demon Lord's inheritance and planned to stage an abduction so she could later testify that he was the Demon Lord's successor.
• Fu Qingyang learned the Thousand Crane Group would arrive in the Capital City at eight that night and set his banquet for the same time.
• The Thousand Crane Group arrived in the Capital City, while Zhang Yuanqing greeted a young man at Fu Qingyang's villa as his godfather, astonishing the guests and Huang Taiji.

At Fu Qingyang’s banquet, Zhang Yuanqing secured Huang Taiji’s likely support for the funding plan and helped draw Miao Teng’er away from the guests. In Capital City, Heaven’s Punishment met Elder Miao to arrange an arrest and revealed that it had identified the Demon Lord’s successor, leaving Elder Miao demanding the name.

• Zhang Yuanqing persuaded Huang Taiji to help with the banquet’s financing, and Huang Taiji entered as Zhang Yuanqing’s godfather.
• Zhang Yuanqing greeted Miao Teng’er and Ling Jun, and Miao Teng’er apologized for Elder Miao’s refusal to help him at the tribunal.
• At Fu Qingyang’s banquet, Zhang Yuanqing observed the guests while Huang Taiji mingled with him and signaled that he would lend money.
• A Rabbit Girl told Miao Teng’er that Fu Qingyang wanted to speak with her and led her to a guest room.
• Demon Hunter and the Heaven’s Punishment delegation met Elder Miao, who agreed to facilitate their arrest of the Underworld King under specified conditions.
• Demon Hunter told Elder Miao that Heaven’s Punishment had preliminarily identified the Demon Lord’s successor, and Elder Miao asked who it was.

At a banquet, Zhang Yuanqing diverted Xiahou Aotian by introducing him to a group of women, while Heaven’s Punishment accused Yuanshi Tianzun of being the Demon Lord’s successor and pressed the Five Elements Alliance to surrender him for trial. Elder Miao postponed negotiations when he learned that his granddaughter Miao Teng'er had gone missing.

• Xiahou Aotian told Zhang Yuanqing that his factory had produced thirty mechanical weapons and could soon expand its output.
• Zhang Yuanqing introduced Xiahou Aotian to the women gathered around Ling Jun, but Xiahou Aotian bored them by explaining his company’s plans and products.
• The Demon Hunter told Elder Miao that Heaven’s Punishment suspected Yuanshi Tianzun was the Demon Lord’s successor, citing Free Eagle’s testimony about a black full moon.
• Elder Miao countered that the Five Elements Alliance had tested Yuanshi Tianzun with the Tiger Tally and insisted that Heaven’s Punishment provide more evidence before demanding jurisdiction.
• The Demon Hunter sought a contract granting Heaven’s Punishment priority to try Yuanshi Tianzun if he was confirmed as the successor, and Elder Miao agreed to discuss it at a meeting.
• Secretary Yang informed Elder Miao that Miao Teng'er had disappeared, prompting Elder Miao to leave the meeting immediately.

Li Dongze’s team searched for Miao Teng'er while Elder Miao confronted the banquet guests about her disappearance. Zhang Yuanqing challenged Elder Miao before using a tracking item, and Miao Teng'er woke in a hotel to find Demon Lord beside her bed.

• Li Dongze and Little Magic Fairy searched Fu Family Bay Villas but found no sign of Miao Teng'er.
• Elder Miao arrived at the banquet hall, heard Ling Jun's account, and questioned Fu Qingyang about the disappearance.
• Fu Qingyang reasoned that the kidnapper needed a way to evade surveillance and possibly teleport, while Xiahou Aotian revealed that Zhang Yuanqing fit those conditions.
• Zhang Yuanqing denied abducting Miao Teng'er, then rebuked Elder Miao for his earlier refusal to help Elder Fu before offering to track her with a tissue bearing her DNA.
• Miao Teng'er, bound and poisoned in a hotel room, pretended to be asleep until her kidnapper removed her blindfold.
• Miao Teng'er recognized the young man beside her bed as Demon Lord.

Zhang Yuanqing kidnapped Miao Teng'er to obtain the Demon Lord's inheritance, disguising himself as the Demon Lord's successor and pressuring her to reveal a jade fragment and information. When Yuanshi Tianzun arrived, Zhang Yuanqing fled, and Miao Teng'er wept in the arms of her rescuer.

• Zhang Yuanqing used an illusion of the Demon Lord to test Miao Teng'er, but she recognized the deception and identified him as the Demon Lord's successor.
• Zhang Yuanqing threatened Miao Teng'er with the Charm Ring and Endurance Spray until she handed over a Feather Ascension Immortal Jade fragment and named Yin Ji and Betty as holders of two more.
• Miao Teng'er revealed that the Demon Lord had been younger than her, had become Judge of Ghostly Eyes' servant after trusting a police officer, and had gone overseas for another reason she had not yet explained.
• Yuanshi Tianzun appeared at the hotel window and threatened the Demon Lord's successor, who fled the suite in a streak of starlight.
• Yuanshi Tianzun freed and comforted Miao Teng'er as people approached from the corridor.

Zhang Yuanqing used an Eight-Span Mirror clone to make it appear that a mysterious Demon Lord successor had kidnapped Miao Teng'er, weakening Heaven's Punishment's accusation against him. Elder Miao and Heaven's Punishment shifted their attention to finding the apparent successor, while Zhang Yuanqing planned his next moves and considered fleeing if his identity was exposed.

• Miao Teng'er identified her kidnapper as the Demon Lord's successor, and Elder Miao suspected Zhang Yuanqing until she described the successor's abilities and Fu Qingyang challenged the accusation.
• Miao Teng'er explained that the kidnapper wanted a map fragment, and Fu Qingyang proposed that he might be an accomplice of an organized group rather than Zhang Yuanqing.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to Fu Family Bay, recalled his Eight-Span Mirror clone, and planned to lie low before capturing the Underworld King and gathering Evil Profession spirits.
• Elder Miao told Heaven's Punishment that the apparent Demon Lord successor had kidnapped Miao Teng'er, and concluded that Zhang Yuanqing was not the heir because he had an alibi.
• Heaven's Punishment agreed to focus on tracking the apparent successor and postpone releasing its item catalog, while keeping its primary mission of capturing the Underworld King.
• A waiter delivered four bags of laundry detergent to Heaven's Punishment's room as a gift from the concierge department.

Taiyi Sect and Heaven's Punishment investigated the Demon Lord's heir, while the heir, Zhang Yuanqing, traveled southwest with the Queen, Xie Lingxi, and Annie to hunt Evil Professions and find the Underworld King. The chapter ended with Annie warning Zhang Yuanqing that Heaven's Punishment might have brought the Mirror of Prophecy, prompting his suspicion.

• Yuan Ting told Taiyi Sect's group chat that the Demon Lord's heir had kidnapped Miao Teng'er, taken a relic, and likely joined Dark Night Rose.
• Crimson Sun Executioner told the Demon Hunter that Taiyi Sect could not use the Stargazing Art to locate the heir because the heir was protected from divination.
• The Demon Hunter and his subordinates planned an exchange event with Chinese organizations and discussed challenging prominent figures, but learned Zhang Yuanqing had gone traveling.
• Zhang Yuanqing traveled through Hecheng with the Queen, Xie Lingxi, and Annie, intending to find the Underworld King and hunt Evil Professions while raising his Lunar Power.
• Zhang Yuanqing combined intelligence from several sources to plan a route for hunting Evil Professions, then learned from Annie about the Overlooker's abilities and the possible presence of the Mirror of Prophecy.

Zhang Yuanqing reached Nanming City while searching for the Underworld King and learned that the Green Wheat Branch was weakened by local politics and rampant criminal groups. The chapter ended when a Nanming City employee reported that Deacon Drug Chaser had lost contact and needed support.

• Annie explained the Prophecy Mirror's three daily prophetic functions and its costs, and Zhang Yuanqing concluded its limits would help him stay ahead of Heaven's Punishment.
• After hunting more than twenty Evil Profession practitioners on the way, Zhang Yuanqing used the Great Luo Star Chart to locate the Underworld King somewhere in Nanming City.
• Zhang Yuanqing searched official records and discovered that the Nanming City Branch and the wider Green Wheat Branch suffered high casualties and lacked personnel.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his companions visited the Nanming City Branch, where Boundless Learning explained that the Green Grain Tribe took most of the funding while the Spirit Energy Society and other criminals dominated the border region.
• A female employee told Boundless Learning that Deacon Drug Chaser had lost contact after someone blocked his signal and that he needed support.

After learning that Executive Drug Chaser had been ambushed during a raid in Three Slope Village, Zhang Yuanqing set out to rescue him while Xie Lingxi investigated Southern Ming City. At the pig farm, the surviving local officers faced a drug cartel backed by a high-ranking Spirit Medium, and their captain prepared to go help the deacon.

• Boundless Learning told Zhang Yuanqing that Executive Drug Chaser was in danger and gave him the case files and the location of the raid.
• Zhang Yuanqing left with his team, then asked Xie Lingxi to investigate Southern Ming City while he teleported toward the rescue.
• Boundless Learning suspected the informant had lured the local branch into a trap but did not warn Zhang Yuanqing because he feared the team might not go.
• At Wang Defa's pig farm, poison and gunfire left half of the nine Spirit Realm Walkers and twelve security officers dead or incapacitated.
• Xiao Wang told the First Squad captain to follow procedure and retreat once the poison wore off, but the captain looked toward the battle and prepared to help Drug Chaser.

Liangshan Navy and Wang Xiao'er fought to protect Drug Chaser until Zhang Yuanqing arrived, killed the attackers, and rescued them. After the survivors regrouped, a shadowy figure warned Zhang Yuanqing that another Evil Profession nearby seemed to be someone he knew.

• Liangshan Navy tried to draw enemy fire away from the others, but Wang Xiao'er tackled him and argued that the Deacon was worth protecting.
• Liangshan Navy charged into the gunfire, and a hidden Scout sniper shot through his knee; Wang Xiao'er ran into the open to draw the sniper's fire and reveal his position.
• Zhang Yuanqing stopped the sniper's bullet with an invisible barrier, flicked it back to kill him, and then charged into the pig farm, where he killed the drug dealers and left Life Source Fluid for Liangshan Navy.
• Zhang Yuanqing found Drug Chaser fighting a cockroach man and Big Rat, killed Big Rat, and then used Star Illusion Art and Blazing Flame to kill the cockroach man.
• Drug Chaser and the surviving Southern Ming Branch Walkers reunited with Zhang Yuanqing, who explained that he had come to apprehend a wanted criminal and had rushed to help after Captain Boundless Learning told him about the ambush.
• A shadowy figure appeared behind Zhang Yuanqing and whispered that another nearby Evil Profession seemed to be someone he knew.

Zhang Yuanqing helped the Southern Ming Branch defeat a Spirit Energy Society ambush, then grew suspicious of Deacon Drug Chaser after learning that his famous past victories did not match his apparent strength. He sent Yi Chuanmei to watch Drug Chaser and began absorbing the captured Spirit Mediums’ spirit bodies, hoping to uncover the Society’s secrets and locate the Underworld King.

• Yi Chuanmei told Zhang Yuanqing that Wanderer of the Human World had been watching the battlefield but had not discovered Zhang’s identity.
• Drug Chaser reported the victory to Boundless Learning, who confirmed that Three Pure Ones Patriarch’s identity was confidential and tied to a secret mission.
• Boundless Learning informed the Southern Ming Branch that a level-six Saint from Songhai had saved them, and the branch held a memorial for the fallen officers and Walkers.
• Wang Xiao'er recounted Drug Chaser’s celebrated victories, but Zhang Yuanqing noticed that Drug Chaser’s observed strength did not match the rumors.
• Zhang Yuanqing ordered Yi Chuanmei to watch Drug Chaser, then absorbed the two captured Spirit Mediums’ spirit bodies and considered using them to learn about the Spirit Energy Society and the Underworld King.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that the Underworld King had appeared near Xishan and planned to investigate, while his team gathered intelligence in Southern Ming City. Yi Chuanmei then exposed Drug Chaser’s secret meeting with an Evil Profession, leaving their collusion at risk of discovery.

• Zhang Yuanqing absorbed the Spirit Mediums’ memories, learned that the Underworld King had appeared near Xishan three days earlier, and decided to ask Fu Qingyang for help tracking him.
• Zhang Yuanqing called Kou Beiyue to ask about the Wanderer of the Human World, and Kou Beiyue defended his friend by citing Master Wuhen’s teachings.
• Xie Lingxi, Queen, and Annie reported that Southern Ming City had many criminals and independent Spirit Realm Walkers, and they argued over whether to prioritize capturing the fugitive or cleaning up the border.
• Zhang Yuanqing told the women about the Xishan lead, and Annie explained that the Underworld King’s domain could awaken him even while he slept.
• Drug Chaser met a hidden accomplice in a parking garage, learned that a powerful wraith had discovered him, and realized the Songhai Branch might have exposed their collusion.

Zhang Yuanqing confronted Drug Chaser and the Wanderer of the Human World, then joined the Southern Ming Branch as it mourned four fallen members. He offered to quickly eliminate the Spirit Energy Society’s strongholds, and Drug Chaser ordered the branch to assemble.

• Zhang Yuanqing stopped Drug Chaser and the Wanderer of the Human World from leaving, learned they were brothers, and arranged to contact the Wanderer of the Human World privately.
• Zhang Yuanqing woke to find Xie Lingxi, Queen, and Annie in his room, then learned Guan Ya and the others had cleared their Guild Spirit Realm instance and were returning.
• Zhang Yuanqing went to the Southern Ming Branch, where Drug Chaser led him to the families of four fallen Spirit Realm Walkers.
• Drug Chaser explained that the branch lacked the manpower and strength to safely attack the Spirit Energy Society’s strongholds.
• Zhang Yuanqing promised to remove the strongholds before the Spirit Energy Society’s Sovereign could react, and Drug Chaser ordered the branch to assemble.