Recaps

Zhang Yuanqing successfully fused with the Illusionist's heart, gaining Illusionist skills and the ability to modify his Spirit Realm ID, but he had to become a Day Wanderer within 180 days or risk being corrupted. He opened the Return of the Dead guild dungeon, and the chapter ended as its members began appearing in Mohist Mechanism City.

• Zhang Yuanqing fused with the Illusionist's heart, resisting its invasion when Master Wuhen's chant restored his reason.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned he had gained Illusionist abilities and needed to become a Day Wanderer within 180 days to avoid becoming an Illusionist.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Fu Qingyang about the fusion and received thirty million Federation dollars for his trip overseas, which he planned to begin in three days.
• Zhang Yuanqing opened the Mohist Mechanism City guild dungeon, prompting Sun Miaomiao, Zhao Chenghuang, Xiahou Aotian, Red Chicken Bro, Little Round, and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire to receive notifications.
• Zhang Yuanqing waited in Mohist Mechanism City as the members of Return of the Dead began appearing.

Zhang Yuanqing reunited with Return of the Dead, explained his resurrection, reclaimed his belongings, and revealed he was leaving the country to pursue Sovereign. A week after believing Yuanshi Tianzun was gone, Annie met him again in the Free Federation, where the chapter ended with her recognizing his disguised face.

• Zhang Yuanqing surprised Return of the Dead by appearing alive and described his resurrection and plans to leave the country.
• The guild members swore to keep Zhang Yuanqing's return secret and returned his belongings, which he placed in the gang warehouse for shared use.
• Sun Miaomiao revealed Zhang Yuanqing was the Demon Lord's heir, and he asked the guild to keep that secret as well.
• Zhang Yuanqing met with Little Green Tea, Queen, and Little Round over the next three days to retrieve his remaining items.
• Annie refused an assignment to serve an important male guest, but the guest arrived and revealed himself as Yuanshi Tianzun.

Zhang Yuanqing arrived in New Covenant County with Annie, where he planned to establish a new identity and register as a Bounty Hunter. The chapter also revealed that Chen Shu wanted him to lead the World Salvation Society, while Asano Ryo was sent to intern with Heaven’s Punishment in New Covenant County; the story ended as Zhang Yuanqing sensed a hostile man approaching two suspicious Spirit Realm Walkers.

• Zhang Yuanqing and Annie discussed Heaven’s Punishment’s slander of him and noticed two tense passengers who appeared to be Spirit Realm Walkers.
• Chen Shu urged the Stop-Killing Palace Lord to bring Zhang Yuanqing to the First District so he could lead the stalled World Salvation Society, but the Palace Lord argued he should wait until he became a Sovereign.
• Thousand Crane Group’s executives told Asano Ryo that she would intern with Heaven’s Punishment in New Covenant County, and she agreed to leave the next morning.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Annie landed in New Covenant County, where Annie explained their housing plans and his backers’ goal for him to become a Silver Bounty Hunter within a month.
• Zhang Yuanqing saw the two suspicious passengers leave the airport and sensed hostility from a burly, beer-bellied man approaching them.

Zhang Yuanqing and Annie arrived in New Covenant County, where he stopped a Drunkard from stealing a Heaven’s Punishment agent’s briefcase and gained a new official contact. They reached their Chinatown rental, but the landlady greeted Zhang Yuanqing with suspicion and asked whether he was from the mainland.

• A Drunkard subdued two Orderly Profession agents at the airport, and Zhang Yuanqing tripped him with an illusion before knocking him unconscious and having Annie take his bracelet.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned the briefcase to Kamaitachi, healed his abdominal injury, and exchanged contact details through Annie.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Annie took a taxi to Chinatown and reached the apartment Annie had rented.
• A young boy let Zhang Yuanqing and Annie into the apartment while his mother scolded his sister.
• The landlady inspected Zhang Yuanqing and Annie, frowned at Annie, and coldly asked Zhang Yuanqing whether he was from the mainland.

Zhang Yuanqing and Annie settled into a rental apartment in New Covenant County and registered Zhang Yuanqing with the Bounty Hunter Guild. After viewing the guild’s absurdly lucrative Gold-level contracts, they returned to their apartment, where someone rang the doorbell.

• Zhang Yuanqing persuaded the landlady to rent them Room 403, signed the contract, and paid six months’ rent plus a three-month deposit.
• Zhang Yuanqing updated his contacts about arriving in New Covenant County and explained why Guan Ya and the others had stayed behind.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Annie visited the Bounty Hunter Guild branch, where Hal Joseph tested Zhang Yuanqing’s strength and registered him as a member.
• Zhang Yuanqing paid the membership fee and learned that new members had to complete a trial mission before becoming Bronze hunters.
• Zhang Yuanqing browsed the guild app and found a Gold-level bounty offering 99.9 billion Federation dollars for hunting Heaven’s Punishment CEO Boreas.
• After Zhang Yuanqing finished showering and checked the app, the doorbell rang.

Zhang Yuanqing discovered that the landlord’s family were Spirit Realm Walkers, failed to find his mother Chen Shu at her supposed company, and posted a bounty seeking information about the Demon Lord’s lovers. The chapter ended with Zhang Yuanqing rescuing Cao Chao from a speeding car after motorcycle riders deliberately knocked him into the street.

• Cao Chao brought afternoon tea to Zhang Yuanqing and revealed that his sister Cao Qianxiu could shoot electricity and that his parents were often away from home.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Annie that the landlord’s family were Spirit Realm Walkers and decided they would watch them while earning their goodwill.
• Zhang Yuanqing visited United Chinese Trading with Annie, but the receptionist said Chen Shu did not work there or hold shares in the company.
• Zhang Yuanqing deposited five hundred thousand Federation dollars and posted a bounty for information about the Demon Lord’s lovers.
• Motorcycle riders knocked Cao Chao into the road, and Zhang Yuanqing rushed in and carried him clear of an oncoming car.

Zhang Yuanqing saved Cao Chao from being hit by a car, met the boy’s family, and accepted Cao Qianxiu’s invitation to join the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance. The chapter ended with Cao Qianxiu asking what Yuanshi Tianzun was really like and whether he had been driven to death.

• Zhang Yuanqing rescued Cao Chao from motorcycles targeting him, and Cao Qianxiu brought her brother home and explained the attack to their parents.
• Cao Qing invited Zhang Yuanqing and Annie to dinner, where he questioned Zhang Yuanqing about his background.
• Cao Qianxiu privately identified Zhang Yuanqing as a Spirit Realm Walker, revealed that she was a Lightning Mage, and invited him to join the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance.
• Zhang Yuanqing agreed to join the organization as a Level 2 Scout, while Cao Qianxiu said she was also Level 2 and nearing Level 3.
• Cao Qianxiu rejected the Five Elements Alliance and asked Zhang Yuanqing whether Yuanshi Tianzun had truly been as formidable as the rumors claimed.

Cao Qianxiu recruited Zhang Qingyang into the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance while its members weighed his reliability amid growing tensions between major organizations. Zhang Yuanqing learned more about the Demon Lord’s suspected lovers and received his bounty hunter trial mission, while Asano Ryo reported to Heaven’s Punishment and was sent to meet Vinnie Berent.

• Cao Qianxiu agreed to let her parents hire Zhang Qingyang as her tutor, then told her alliance team that she had recruited him as a Level 2 Scout.
• Self-Improvement warned Cao Qianxiu to investigate Zhang Qingyang and obtain proof of his loyalty, while the team discussed the looming conflict between the Merchant Guild and the Dionysus Club.
• Annie told Zhang Yuanqing that New Covenant County could become chaotic as major organizations prepared for conflict, and offered to compile information on their leaders and territories.
• Zhang Yuanqing reviewed bounty-hunter intelligence on sixteen rumored lovers of the Demon Lord and identified Winifred Elena, Chris Gustav, and Vinnie Berent as promising leads connected to treasure-map fragments.
• Zhang Yuanqing received his bounty hunter trial mission and considered gathering information on Vinnie Berent, a powerful Heaven’s Punishment inspector in New Covenant County.
• Asano Ryo began work as a Level Two Bronze Inspector at Heaven’s Punishment and was escorted to meet Tax Inspection Department director Vinnie Berent.

Asano Ryo reported to Director Vini, who questioned her about Yuanshi Tianzun and asked for his guild members’ names. Meanwhile, Zhang Yuanqing accepted a tutoring job and met a client who hired him to kill a man, leaving the mission’s details still unknown.

• Asano Ryo arrived at Heaven's Punishment and was escorted by Emma to meet Director Vini.
• Vini asked Asano Ryo whether Yuanshi Tianzun had left anything behind and requested a list of his guild members; Asano Ryo said she would ask them first.
• Zhang Yuanqing tried to bargain with the Cat King Speaker while Princess Yinyao asked to stay out of Little Red Riding Hood.
• The landlady hired Zhang Yuanqing to tutor Cao Qianxiu, and Cao Qianxiu revealed her Spirit Realm ID was Judge Cao.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Annie met a wealthy client in Queens, where the man asked Zhang Yuanqing to kill someone and showed him a photograph.

Kevin hired Zhang Yuanqing to assassinate Lee Austin, the gang boss who had extorted him and arranged his family’s destruction. Zhang Yuanqing tracked Lee Austin to a Biological Alchemy Society stronghold, where he confronted him.

• Kevin told Zhang Yuanqing that Lee Austin had extorted him, kidnapped his daughter, and murdered his wife, and that his daughter later died in captivity.
• Zhang Yuanqing accepted Kevin’s assassination commission and promised to bring photographs as proof the next day.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Asano Ryo was working under Vinnie Berent at Heaven’s Punishment in New Covenant County and asked her to pass along information about his allies and belongings.
• Asano Ryo provided details showing Lee Austin was a Level 3 Deadly Poison Master in the Biological Alchemy Society and remained in New Covenant County during the war.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Great Luo Star Chart to locate Lee Austin at a bar run by Demon Dog Henry in Kings County.
• Zhang Yuanqing placed Lee Austin’s photograph on the bar and asked him to turn around.

Zhang Yuanqing killed Lee Austin and Henry, collected his bounty, and became a Bronze Hunter while Heaven’s Punishment began investigating the killings. Meanwhile, Asano Ryo reported to Zhang Yuanqing and searched the organization’s database for Chen Shu, leaving him with new information to review.

• Disguised as a blond man, Zhang Yuanqing killed Lee Austin, shot the bartender, and defeated the Mutant Henry after clearing the bar of patrons.
• Zhang Yuanqing met Kevin, showed him proof that Lee Austin was dead, and collected two suitcases of cash; Kevin broke down in grief after he left.
• Asano Ryo told Minister Vinnie that Yuanshi Tianzun’s belongings had gone to Fu Qingyang and Guan Ya, then joined Heaven’s Punishment’s investigation into Lee Austin and Henry’s deaths.
• Zhang Yuanqing instructed Asano Ryo to build Vinnie’s trust and find Chen Shu in Heaven’s Punishment’s database; she later sent him a document with the information she found.
• Zhang Yuanqing officially became a Bronze Hunter and accepted a low-level debt-collection mission after reviewing the escalating bounties between the Dionysus Club, Merchant Guild, and Heaven’s Punishment.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that his mother, Chen Shu, managed the World Salvation Society with backing from the Merchant Guild’s president, then spent several days taking bounty missions and catching up with his partners. The chapter ended with Cao Qianxiu inviting him to a trial mission for the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance.

• Zhang Yuanqing read Asano Ryo’s file and discovered Chen Shu led the World Salvation Society, an A-rank faction, before deducing that the Merchant Guild’s president backed her.
• Zhang Yuanqing took two bounty missions, lost two hundred Moral Value points for killing gang members, and noticed a corpse showing signs of transformation in Chinatown.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Annie to donate one million Federation dollars to charity, then video-called Guan Ya and Little Round to share news and hear about their lives.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked the Stop-Killing Palace Lord about Chen Shu and learned that the Merchant Guild’s president had helped her and was an old acquaintance of his family.
• Three days later, Cao Qianxiu messaged Zhang Yuanqing that she would take him to a trial mission that evening for membership in the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance.

Zhang Yuanqing settled into life in Chinatown and learned that a Night Wanderer was suspected of committing a string of murders there. Cao Qianxiu gave him the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance’s case materials as his first assessment, asking him to predict where the killer would strike next.

• Zhang Yuanqing watched Cao Qianxiu and Cao Chao leave, then threw Cao Chao a bag of snacks and reflected on his progress as a bounty hunter.
• Zhang Yuanqing set aside searching for Chen Shu and planned to advance as a hunter, pursue his other goals, and join the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance.
• Zhang Yuanqing brought Cao Qing an expensive bottle of wine and heard about the serial murders and rumors of a zombie linked to the victims.
• Cao Qianxiu told Zhang Yuanqing that the Alliance suspected a Night Wanderer was killing Chinese residents because Heaven's Punishment would not investigate the case.
• Cao Qianxiu gave Zhang Yuanqing the Alliance's collected case materials and asked him to deduce the killer's next target area.

Zhang Yuanqing exposed that the Chinatown serial killer was a powerful Night Wanderer staging murders to hide a search for a specific target, prompting the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance to alert its superiors. That night, the chairman revealed that Zhang Yuanqing’s main quest was to investigate the Bounty Hunter Guild’s connection to the Free Covenant.

• Zhang Yuanqing deduced that the Chinatown killer was stronger than the Alliance believed and was using the murders to conceal his search for an unknown target.
• Cao Qianxiu reported Zhang Yuanqing’s analysis to the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance, whose higher-ups held an overnight meeting and considered allowing him to join.
• At midnight, the chairman visited Zhang Yuanqing and criticized his slow progress as a bounty hunter.
• The chairman revealed that he had sent Zhang Yuanqing into the Bounty Hunter Guild to contact its upper ranks because the Free Covenant secretly backed the guild.

Mr. President explained that the Free Covenant was preparing for a second faction war and recruited Zhang Yuanqing to infiltrate it through the Bounty Hunter Guild. Zhang Yuanqing agreed to become a Golden Hunter, while learning that the approaching return of the Lord of the Sun would trigger the conflict.

• Zhang Yuanqing realized Mr. President wanted him to infiltrate the Bounty Hunter Guild and reach the Free Covenant, then learned that the Dionysus Club–Merchant Guild conflict was the opening of a war between the Orderly and Evil factions.
• Mr. President explained that the Evil faction had won the first confrontation a century earlier and was waiting for the sun, moon, and stars to return before the next war began.
• Mr. President revealed that the Free Covenant suspected he possessed the Light Compass's core fragment and that he distrusted the Merchant Guild because Covenant agents had infiltrated it.
• Mr. President said he had formed the World Salvation Society, promised Chen Shu he would help resurrect Zhang Zizhen, and planned for Zhang Yuanqing to become a Golden Hunter and attract the Free Covenant's attention.
• Mr. President explained that Zhang Yuanqing could infiltrate the Free Covenant using The Past Leaves No Trace's relic and Perfect Skin, and Zhang Yuanqing agreed to advance as quickly as possible.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked whether the Hunter Guild might order him to kill senior members of Heaven's Punishment or the Merchant Guild, and then asked whether Mr. Landlord was one of Mr. President's people.

Zhang Yuanqing planned his undercover identities, joined the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance, and prepared to help capture the Chinatown serial killer. The chapter ended with him and Cao Qianxiu watching Nut Street as the operation waited for the culprit to appear.

• The president confirmed that Cao Qing belonged to the Merchant Guild and that Zhang Yuanqing’s landlady was a trusted Heaven’s Punishment informant, then told him to pursue a Golden Hunter rank.
• Zhang Yuanqing accepted a bounty mission to kill the suspected Night Wanderer serial killer and planned how to separate his Zhang Qingyang identity from the Heaven-Connecting Cult Leader hunter identity.
• Cao Qianxiu told Zhang Yuanqing that he had passed the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance assessment and asked him to join Group 6; he used hypnosis to make her remember his Spirit Realm ID as Unfettered Sword Immortal.
• Cao Qianxiu told Zhang Yuanqing that the Alliance would conduct an operation that night and that he would accompany her.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Cao Qianxiu took up their assigned post on Nut Street, where they waited as part of a seven-team operation to capture the killer.

Zhang Yuanqing joined Group Six and learned that the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance had launched an operation against the serial killer, while the team discussed the feared Star Official and Yuanshi Tianzun. On Curry Street, Jia Feizhang anticipated the killer’s arrival and sprang a trap, sealing the bedroom as a powerful Windrunner attacked.

• Zhang Yuanqing introduced himself to Group Six and learned about its members and their confidence in the level-six Wings of the Wind God Executor.
• Never Forget Homeland raised concerns that a Star Official could predict the operation, and Zhang Yuanqing explained that Star Officials used stellar observation and deduction.
• Cao Qianxiu corrected Snow White’s claims about Yuanshi Tianzun, explaining that he had killed four Sovereigns at the Tribunal and could fight a Sovereign.
• Zhang Yuanqing watched Curry Street as his stargazing omen indicated the killer was about to act.
• Jia Feizhang bought a plane ticket and prepared to leave, but a masked man appeared and immobilized him while questioning him about his mother.
• Jia Feizhang revealed that he had been waiting for the killer, activated a Void item to seal the bedroom, and an elegant young man unleashed wind blades at the intruder.

Zhang Yuanqing watched a Star Official outwit and critically wound Wings of the Wind God, then joined the response team outside the sealed apartment. After Yellow Wind Monster failed to break the barrier, Zhang Yuanqing prepared to act as the Swordsman while his disguised avatar waited to make its move.

• Wings of the Wind God destroyed a Yin Corpse with his wind blades, but Jia Feizhang revealed himself as a second Star Official and stabbed him.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized Wings of the Wind God was in danger, and he and Cao Qianxiu rushed to Curry Street after Self-Improvement summoned the team.
• Snow White told Cao Qianxiu that Wings of the Wind God was trapped behind a barrier and that the organization's higher-ups had ordered the team to wait.
• Zhang Yuanqing explained that the Star Official had likely anticipated the plan, while the team waited for Executive Yellow Wind Monster to arrive.
• Yellow Wind Monster's giant wind blade failed to break the barrier, leaving Wings of the Wind God in grave danger.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned his disguised avatar was ready, told it to wait for his signal, and walked toward the apartment with a bronze sword.

Zhang Yuanqing broke into the apartment and rescued Wings of the Wind God, then pursued and devoured the two Star Officials who had attacked him. Their memories revealed that they were searching for a Pope’s relic in Chinatown, and Zhang Yuanqing decided to investigate its connection to a local family.

• Zhang Yuanqing climbed the apartment building and cut through the barrier with a sword aura, astonishing the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance members below.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered the bedroom, gave Wings of the Wind God Life Essence, and killed the bald attacker with a sword aura.
• Wings of the Wind God tried to chase the fleeing Star Officials, but Zhang Yuanqing persuaded him to stay and recover.
• Zhang Yuanqing intercepted the two Star Officials outside Chinatown, stunned them with Mental Strike, and devoured their spirits.
• Zhang Yuanqing saw memories showing the Star Officials were Dark Night Rose informants searching for a Pope’s relic tied to a family and a safe deposit box.
• Zhang Yuanqing decided to tell his main body and ask the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance about the relic.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that Jia Feizhang’s safe-deposit box contained a relic left by the Pope, and Mr. President urged him to use it to identify the force behind the plot. Meanwhile, Lu Jing revealed to the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance leaders that the relic had passed through Deng Jingguo’s grandfather and father, both of whom were illegitimate sons.

• Medical Forest Sacred Hand treated Wings of the Wind God, while Zhang Yuanqing warned him not to ambush the Star Official and then left.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Mr. President what had happened, and Mr. President reasoned that Free Covenant was the likeliest source of Ling Tuo’s knowledge of the Pope’s relic.
• Mr. President proposed that Zhang Yuanqing retrieve Jia Feizhang’s item from Meisheng Bank and use the response from Heaven’s Punishment or the Hunter Guild to identify who planned the operation.
• Deng Jingguo and Tao Siming questioned Lu Jing about why Jia Feizhang had been targeted, and Lu Jing revealed that Jia Feizhang had held the Pope’s relic.
• Lu Jing explained that the relic had been inherited by Deng Jingguo’s father from Deng Jingguo’s grandfather, who had also been an illegitimate son.

Lu Jing revealed the history of the Pope’s relic and urged Deng Jingguo to recover it, but the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance learned their Hunter Guild mission had already been completed. The next morning, Zhang Yuanqing joined the Alliance’s Sixth Group and used his disguise and powers to enter Meisheng Bank and access Jia Feizhang’s safe-deposit box.

• Lu Jing told Deng Jingguo and Tao Siming that Huo Zhengkui had founded the Brotherhood, carried the Pope’s relic to New Covenant County, and passed it to Deng Jingguo’s father, who later gave it to Jia Feizhang.
• Lu Jing proposed asking Heaven’s Punishment to retrieve the relic, but Tao Siming received notice that the Hunter Guild mission they had posted was complete.
• Zhang Yuanqing accepted Cao Qianxiu’s invitation to join the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance’s Sixth Group and agreed to attend gatherings when he was free.
• Zhang Yuanqing disguised himself as Jia Feizhang and went to Meisheng Bank to open safe-deposit box 0042.
• Zhang Yuanqing used his power to make the receptionist accept his identification, and she led him to the manager’s office.

Zhang Yuanqing retrieved a fragment of the Pope’s relic and drew the Free Covenant’s attention, while the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance separately asked him to find the hunter known as Heaven-Connecting Cult Leader. The chapter left his clone facing a Master-level Love and Desire professional at the Hunter Guild.

• Zhang Yuanqing opened safe deposit box 0042 and found a fragment of an ancient bronze disc that gave him no item information.
• Zhang Yuanqing went to Kings County to avoid being tracked, then received a Hunter Guild message summoning Heaven-Connecting Cult Leader to its New Covenant County branch.
• Cao Qianxiu brought Zhang Yuanqing to alliance leader Deng Jingguo and Elder Tao Siming, who asked him to track down Heaven-Connecting Cult Leader.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent an Eight-Span Mirror clone to the Hunter Guild branch while his original went to meet the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance.
• A gray-haired Master-level Love and Desire professional entered the Hunter Guild conference room and stirred overwhelming desire in Zhang Yuanqing’s clone.

Zhang Yuanqing negotiated with Catherine Lu to join the Hunter Guild’s evaluation and agreed to find a second Pope’s relic bronze piece. He also accepted the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance’s request to locate Heaven-Connecting Cult Leader, then sought information about Huo Zhengkui.

• Catherine Lu confronted Zhang Yuanqing with surveillance footage and offered him Guild benefits, but required him to find a second bronze piece within ten days or sell the first one.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that the Anti-Black-and-White Alliance wanted him to locate Heaven-Connecting Cult Leader and persuaded Deng Jingguo to explain the stolen item’s connection to his ancestor Huo Zhengkui and the Pope’s relic.
• Zhang Yuanqing accepted the Alliance’s investigation job on the condition that it provide assistance, then negotiated with Catherine Lu to extend the Guild’s deadline to half a month and provide intelligence about the bronze pieces.
• After signing the Hunter Guild contract, Zhang Yuanqing used Dream Leap to leave and decided to have Asano Ryo research Huo Zhengkui.
• Asano Ryo sent Zhang Yuanqing Huo Zhengkui’s biography.

Zhang Yuanqing asked Fu Qingyang for help finding the hidden pieces of the Pope’s relic, and Fu Qingyang traced them to the Zhou Ji Phoenix Bird Vessel. After traveling to the Capital City Museum to inspect it, Fu Qingyang realized where Huo Zhengkui had hidden the trick.

• Zhang Yuanqing told Fu Qingyang about his mission to infiltrate the Bounty Hunter Guild and search lawful organizations for Free Covenant members.
• Fu Qingyang reasoned that Huo Zhengkui likely hid the remaining bronze pieces in a cultural relic he donated to the country, and identified the Zhou Ji Phoenix Bird Vessel as the likely hiding place.
• Fu Qingyang contacted the Merchant Guild president, arranged for teams from the Return of the Dead gang to support Zhang Yuanqing, and prepared to travel to the capital.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Annie to investigate Catherine by going to the New Covenant County branch of the Goddess of Beauty Association.
• Fu Qingyang examined the Zhou Ji Phoenix Bird Vessel at the Capital City Museum, found no obvious signs of a hidden object, and realized where the concealment trick lay.

Fu Qingyang unsealed two fragments of the Holy Disk, revealing that the pieces were keys to the Holy See’s treasure vault, while Zhang Yuanqing weighed how to handle them without alerting the Hunter Guild. The next day, Zhang Yuanqing visited Deng Jingguo and met Zhai Cai, who claimed to be a sixth-generation inheritor of the Holy See’s Knight lineage.

• Fu Qingyang retrieved a bronze fragment from Princess Yinyao and used the Jade Dragon Sword to remove its Evernight seal, identifying it as a piece of the Holy Disk.
• Fu Qingyang used precise swordsmanship to extract a second Holy Disk fragment from the Zhou Ji Phoenix-Bird Zun without damaging the artifact.
• Zhang Yuanqing considered collecting more fragments before giving one to the Hunter Guild so he could keep investigating its members and infiltrators.
• Zhang Yuanqing declined Cao Qianxiu’s invitation to join an operation against the Starry Sky Pact.
• Zhang Yuanqing visited Deng Jingguo and met Zhai Cai, who introduced himself as the sole sixth-generation inheritor of the Holy See’s Knight lineage.