Recaps

Zhang Yuanqing revealed that Ju Mang had survived by disguising a yin corpse, then killed Typhoeus after the enemy transformed into a powerful demon. Elsewhere, Zhai Cai appeared in the sealed chamber to help Vinnie Berent confront Channing Lu.

• The Dark Night Rose Star Official saw the yin corpse beneath Ju Mang’s discarded skin and realized that the striped tiger was the living Ju Mang.
• Cocktail identified Ju Mang’s Body and Soul Annihilation Blade and rallied the evil faction to help Typhoeus while Typhoeus drank a potion and transformed into a Chromie Demon.
• The Saints fought to stall Ju Mang as Typhoeus’s transformation neared Sovereign power, then watched the two enemies face off.
• Typhoeus’s attacks failed to stop the striped tiger, which was revealed as a decoy when Ju Mang stabbed Typhoeus with a dagger and drained his essence blood and soul.
• Zhang Yuanqing declared that the evil Saints would not leave, while Zhai Cai appeared in the sealed chamber and Vinnie Berent ordered him to kill Channing Lu in exchange for the labyrinth routes.

Channing Lu's assassination attempt failed when Zhai Cai trapped him with Spirit Refining Talismans, and a woman in red arrived claiming to be a friend of the Unfettered Sword Immortal. At New Covenant Harbor, Zhang Yuanqing killed Typhoeus and several evil-faction saints, then ordered the orderly faction to leave no one alive.

• Zhai Cai blocked Channing Lu's attacks, and Channing fled the secret chamber rather than risk fighting him at close range.
• Zhai Cai's sword struck Channing's shield, and Channing's teleportation jade failed against a barrier formed by six Spirit Refining Talismans.
• Channing's lightning and Berserk Hurricane failed to damage the talismans, while the illusory chains tortured him; a woman in red appeared and said she was a friend of the Unfettered Sword Immortal.
• At New Covenant Harbor, the saints realized Typhoeus had died, and Zhang Yuanqing used the Chaotic Oil Painting to kill Dream Tapir and the Envy Divine General while other saints escaped or fled.
• Zhang Yuanqing ordered the orderly faction's Saints to leave none of the enemy alive.

The Stop-Killing Palace Lord hypnotized Channing Lu and learned that the Free Covenant targeted Berent for a Holy Disk fragment hidden in Maze Villa. Vinnie discovered Zhai Cai’s plan, negotiated five days to claim the fragment, and questioned Channing about the Free Covenant’s spies and gatherings before the Palace Lord asked how they evaded Heaven’s Punishment.

• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord used her sound waves and hypnosis to subdue Channing Lu, then removed the Spirit Refining Talismans so Zhai Cai could question him.
• Channing Lu revealed that the Free Covenant targeted Berent because he possessed a Holy Disk fragment, and explained how the organization traced the relics connected to Huo Zhengkui.
• Vinnie overheard the interrogation and learned that Zhai Cai had concealed his knowledge of the fragment while seeking her help to navigate Maze Villa.
• Vinnie agreed to provide routes through the maze’s first two levels but gave Zhai Cai five days to find the fragment before she claimed it herself.
• Under hypnosis, Channing Lu named five spies in the Enforcement Department and described the Free Covenant’s monthly gathering for sovereign-level Spirit Realm Walkers.
• Vinnie concluded that the spies’ superiors could be traced through the evil faction’s sovereigns, and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord asked Channing how the spies avoided detection by Heaven’s Punishment.

Zhang Yuanqing helped expose and capture Channing Lu, then pursued and killed Dark Night Rose's Star Official. After learning that the Grand Protector had foreseen a possible Sun Lord arising in New Covenant County, Zhang Yuanqing decided to divine the risks of continuing to use his Ju Mang identity.

• Channing Lu revealed that Lunar Moon's protection had concealed the spies and drew the summoning ritual before the Stop-Killing Palace Lord erased it.
• Vinnie ordered Zhai Cai to drive a black wooden nail into Channing Lu's heart and sever his limbs, then arranged for headquarters to take him into custody.
• Dark Night Rose's Star Official fled toward the city but was caught by Zhang Yuanqing, who revealed himself and killed him with Thunder Burst.
• Zhang Yuanqing absorbed the Star Official's spirit body and learned that the Grand Protector had sent him to New Covenant County after foreseeing a possible Sun Lord there.
• Zhang Yuanqing connected the evil faction's plans to Ling Tuo, warned the Five Elements Alliance support team to withdraw, and went to divine whether he should keep using the Ju Mang identity.

Zhang Yuanqing read omens warning that Ju Mang would gain great wealth and fame but face deadly danger in the faction war, then went to meet Vinnie and the Sole-Heir Knight after the harbor battle. The chapter ended with him privately asking the Sole-Heir Knight whether he possessed a map to the Holy See's treasure.

• Zhang Yuanqing used the Great Luo Star Chart to divine Ju Mang's prospects, foreseeing major gains and romantic encounters alongside deadly threats from Sovereigns.
• Guan Ya told Zhang Yuanqing that the lawful faction had nearly wiped out the evil Saints, while the Stop-Killing Palace Lord reported the Free Covenant's failed attempt to assassinate Vinnie.
• Zhang Yuanqing went to the New Covenant County Bank and told Vinnie that Typhoeus had died and the lawful faction had suffered few Saint-level casualties.
• Vinnie explained that she planned to hand Channing Lu over to Sean Mead, then hide at her grandfather's home while the blindness penalty passed; the Palace Lord and the Sole-Heir Knight revealed that the arriving agent, Chris Gustav, was Vinnie's romantic rival.
• Zhang Yuanqing, posing as Ju Mang, privately approached the Sole-Heir Knight about Fu Qingyang's proposed deal and asked whether he had a treasure map to the Holy See's vault.

Zhang Yuanqing negotiated deals involving the Holy See’s treasure and the Demon Lord’s treasure, then received public acclaim for the harbor battle and pushed Heaven’s Punishment to offer him a top-grade reward. The chapter ended with Sean Mead presenting him with six items to choose from, including a piece of Thunder God armor.

• Zhang Yuanqing persuaded Zhai Cai to cooperate in gathering the Holy See’s treasure fragments, promising him the demigod-level Knight item in the treasure.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord proposed that the Free Covenant may have orchestrated the Light Compass’s path to Ling Tuo, while Vinnie agreed to share the Demon Lord’s treasure for one-sixth of its contents if she could obtain the Cat King Speaker.
• Sean Mead returned, and Vinnie handed Channing Lu over to him before leaving with Zhai Cai for Berent’s villa.
• Heaven’s Punishment announced the harbor battle and praised Ju Mang for defeating Typhoeus, Dream Tapir, and other peak Saints, making him a hero across the organization.
• Zhang Yuanqing rejected Heaven’s Punishment’s initial reward and asked for a top-grade Saint item or a Master-level item.
• Sean Mead told Zhang Yuanqing that headquarters had approved his request, and Zhang Yuanqing examined a list of six items, including Thunder Armor.

Zhang Yuanqing chose the Thunder Armor, discovered that it combined with his Thunder Bracer to form a devastating electromagnetic cannon, and learned that the faction war could escalate to Sovereign combat. He then met Catherine, who drew him into an intimate encounter before revealing that pleasure was not why she had summoned him.

• Zhang Yuanqing exchanged his cash and material rewards for the Thunder Armor, despite Sean Mead warning him that completing its set would be difficult.
• Guan Ya invited Zhang Yuanqing to meet her mother and a business partner, but he declined so he could help Sean Mead receive Chris Gustav.
• Zhang Yuanqing bound and equipped the Thunder Armor, enduring its painful electrical effects as Sean Mead tested its electromagnetic defense.
• Zhang Yuanqing combined the armor with his Thunder Bracer and fired an electromagnetic cannon into the ocean, then saw that both items had rapidly used up their power.
• Catherine told Zhang Yuanqing that the free faction was considering sending more Saints to New Covenant County or escalating the war with Sovereigns after Ju Mang's victory.
• Catherine pulled Zhang Yuanqing into her bath, and after their encounter she told him she had summoned him for a reason other than pleasure.

Chris Gustav interrogated the fallen Channing Lu, who revealed that a Siren led the operation surrounding the Marchi Mountain Summit disaster. Meanwhile, Catherine told Zhang Yuanqing that the Hunter Guild president had assigned him to seduce Donna of the Goddess of Beauty Association.

• Chris Gustav arrived at the New Covenant County Heaven's Punishment branch with headquarters personnel and brought Ruth to question Channing Lu.
• Ruth offered Channing a chance to survive through purification with Solar Power, and he revealed that he had joined the Free Covenant under Catherine's guidance and met its chairman, Stephen Simpson.
• Channing disclosed that a Siren of at least his own level had led the Marchi Mountain Summit operation, and Chris left after learning the clue.
• In the corridor, Zhang Yuanqing tried to get Osido to charge three items and agreed to pay one hundred thousand federal dollars per charge in installments.
• Catherine told Zhang Yuanqing that the Hunter Guild president had assigned him to seduce Donna of the Goddess of Beauty Association.

Zhang Yuanqing agreed to impersonate Ju Mang and seduce Donna, hoping the mission would expose the Free Covenant’s lair and help the lawful faction seize the Holy See treasure. The chapter ended as Guan Ya arrived for dinner with Fu Xue and a formidable woman who was already sizing her up.

• Catherine explained the Hunter Guild’s plan to use Zhang Yuanqing, disguised as Ju Mang, to win Donna’s trust and draw her into the free faction; Zhang Yuanqing agreed in exchange for a secret weapon.
• Catherine told Zhang Yuanqing that Donna favored younger men and might respond to domineering behavior because of her past with Demon Lord.
• At the Heaven’s Punishment branch, Ruth, Chris’s talking fish, offered Ju Mang sponsorship from the Gustav family, while Sean Mead told him to attend dinner and Osido summoned him to the rooftop.
• Zhang Yuanqing reasoned that seducing Donna could give the lawful faction a chance to raid the Free Covenant’s base, and he resolved to gather the Holy Disk fragments as well.
• Guan Ya arrived at a French restaurant to meet Fu Xue and Fu Xue’s imposing friend, who examined Guan Ya with an unusually personal interest.

Zhang Yuanqing and Guan Ya attended separate dinners in New Covenant County, where family tensions and Heaven’s Punishment’s investigation into an evil faction’s plot came to light. That night, Chen Shu met a masked man and revealed that Abe Marshall had gone missing.

• Guan Ya learned that the Fu elders and Miller Family had planned a marriage deal involving her and Yuanshi Tianzun’s relics, but Fu Qingyang had blocked it.
• Chris asked Sean Mead, Ocedo William, and Zhang Yuanqing to explain the conflict in New Covenant County and investigate the evil faction’s alleged plan against the Sea God Church.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Chris about a treasure-vault key fragment linked to the Demon Lord, and Chris knocked him unconscious before he could get an answer.
• Zhang Yuanqing met Guan Ya, agreed to help Fu Xue arrange a weapons-supply deal with Heaven’s Punishment, and then left to report to the president.
• Chen Shu met a masked man, learned that Zhang Yuanqing already knew about her identity and Celestial Master Zhang’s resurrection contingency, and told him Abe Marshall had gone missing.

Zhang Yuanqing reported his discoveries about the Free Covenant to Mr. President and chose to help destroy the Golden Bed rather than remain undercover. He then joined Zhai Cai and his team to enter Berent’s Pan’s Labyrinth in search of a Holy Disk fragment.

• Chen Shu told the World Salvation Society’s president that Abe Marshall had disappeared, and he ordered the organization to lie low while he investigated.
• Zhang Yuanqing briefed Mr. President on the Free Covenant’s god, the Marchi Mountain collapse, and his recent discoveries, then argued that destroying the Golden Bed was more important than preserving his undercover role.
• Mr. President backed Zhang Yuanqing’s decision, and the next day Zhang Yuanqing agreed to serve as bait in a lawful cleanup operation targeting evil-faction Sovereigns.
• Zhai Cai summoned Zhang Yuanqing and his teammates to Flat Island, warned them that Pan’s Labyrinth was a dangerous Sovereign-grade item, and offered them a share of Berent’s unused treasures and a subsidy.
• Zhang Yuanqing’s group entered Berent’s villa to steal a Holy Disk fragment, agreeing to leave valuable Sovereign-grade items untouched.

Zhai Cai led Zhang Yuanqing and the group into Pan’s Labyrinth to reach Berent’s storage room, but they became trapped in a mirror-filled room that sealed their skills and items. After the mirrors flashed, Zhang Yuanqing saw a duplicate of himself and duplicates of the others.

• Zhai Cai explained Pan’s Labyrinth’s voluntary entrance rule and guided the group through the villa’s hidden route into the labyrinth.
• Zhai Cai led everyone through safe rooms on the first two floors and warned them not to open doors without him.
• Zhao Chenghuang and Sun Miaomiao’s Astral Physiognomy revealed that everyone faced a bloody calamity, while Sun Miaomiao lost contact with the Spirit Servant she sent ahead.
• Zhai Cai chose Room 306, where the group found a chamber covered in mirrors and discovered their skills, Inventories, and item abilities were sealed.
• The mirrors flashed brightly, and Zhang Yuanqing opened his eyes to find duplicate versions of himself and the others beside them.

In the mirror room of Pan's Labyrinth, Zhang Yuanqing and his companions faced duplicates with identical appearances, powers, personalities, and memories, and had to identify their real companions before the fifteen-minute countdown ended. Their experiments failed to reveal a way to distinguish the copies, leaving the group under severe time pressure.

• Zhang Yuanqing and the others discovered that the mirror room had made duplicates, while a countdown and prompt told them to find their companions before the door opened in fifteen minutes.
• Zhang Yuanqing's duplicate used private memories to convince the group he was real, but Zhang Yuanqing showed that the copies shared memories too.
• Zhai Cai used a secret physical technique to overpower and kill his duplicate, then explained that the method depended on exploiting a limit on the mirror's power.
• Zhang Yuanqing tried sensing emotions but found that the copies genuinely believed they were the originals.
• Zhai Cai tested whether a duplicate's flesh would vanish by crushing a Red Chicken Bro's hand, but the wound remained; further tests also failed to identify the originals, and seven minutes remained.

With seconds left in the mirror maze, Zhang Yuanqing used the Phantom God's Heart to identify which teammates were originals by sensing their Role Cards. The group killed the duplicates just as the countdown ended, and an exit appeared in the mirror wall.

• Zhao Chenghuang proposed testing the originals through combat, while All Under Heaven Returns to Fire argued that only overwhelming strength could distinguish them.
• Zhai Cai tried to break the mirror wall with his knight power, but shattered his arm without damaging it.
• Guan Ya suggested using Role Cards to identify duplicates, but Zhang Yuanqing could not open the faction panel or enter the Spirit Realm.
• With the countdown nearly over, Zhang Yuanqing realized he could use the Phantom God's Heart to sense Role Cards and asked Zhai Cai to turn away.
• Zhang Yuanqing identified the fake Guan Ya and then the other duplicates, and Zhai Cai and the team killed them as the countdown ended.
• A door emerged from the mirror wall, giving the team a way out.

Zhang Yuanqing and his team entered Room 406, an examination room where wrong answers triggered deadly punishments. After they failed to answer the first question about pi and survived a machine-gun barrage with injuries, the second question began.

• Zhang Yuanqing and his teammates recovered in the corridor, and Zhai Cai led them toward Room 406 despite Sun Miaomiao foreseeing a bloody calamity.
• Zhai Cai and the others entered an examination room whose rules banned items and threatened anyone who failed to take a seat with execution.
• The exam asked for the first twenty digits of pi, but Zhang Yuanqing and his companions could not answer before time ran out.
• Zhai Cai shielded the group from the ensuing machine-gun punishment, while the others dodged or defended themselves; Zhang Yuanqing took bullets protecting Guan Ya.
• After the firing stopped, the injured group saw the second question asking which professions medieval witches, werewolves, and vampires belonged to.

Zhang Yuanqing and the others survived the exam room by answering questions about Spirit Realm professions, then entered the next stage of Wise Man's Amusement Park. They had to choose one of four painting trials and complete it as a team of at least six within three hours.

• Zhai Cai correctly identified witches as Mages, werewolves as Icefire Demon Wolves, and vampires as Deadly Poison Masters, earning the group ten points.
• The group correctly answered a question about profession traits and then answered three more questions, bringing their score to fifty points.
• Zhang Yuanqing identified Musicians and Scholars, as well as Water Ghosts, Scouts, Wood Demons, Earth Monsters, and Fire Masters, as professions that could coexist, earning twenty points and finishing the exam with seventy.
• The group treated their injuries after the exam and learned that Zhang Yuanqing knew about the Five Elements professions' ability to coexist.
• The classroom exit led into a room displaying four paintings, and the posted rules required the group to pick one trial and complete it within three hours.

Zhang Yuanqing’s team entered Castle Mystery to solve Ya Lance’s murder, only to find Guan Ya’s role apparently dead in the castle. They began investigating the suspicious scene, but had not yet identified the killer when Zhang Yuanqing urged them to search for more clues.

• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire recommended Castle Mystery, and Zhang Yuanqing and the others chose it to avoid the likely casualties of a combat painting.
• Zhai Cai entered the painting first, and the rest of the team followed; the painting assigned them roles and gave them three hours to solve Ya Lance’s murder.
• The team realized Guan Ya was missing, rushed into the castle, and found Ya Lance’s bloodied corpse in a second-floor room.
• Sun Miaomiao found no spirit body in the corpse, while Zhai Cai and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire concluded that the chest wound likely came after death and that the organs had been removed while Ya Lance was alive.
• The team suspected Red Chicken Bro because his role, Monroe, had Bigfoot blood, but Zhang Yuanqing warned that the evidence was insufficient and proposed searching the castle for clues.

Zhang Yuanqing and the others uncovered the Lance Family’s sealed secret beneath the castle, triggering a deadly countdown that would bring night and kill a member every half hour. They realized points could unlock restricted clues, but night fell as they opened Mage Dong’s room.

• Zhang Yuanqing found Ya Lance’s journal, which revealed that Mage Dong had been her lover and that she feared the family’s weakening magic could no longer hold back the entity beneath the castle.
• The group entered the cellar and found a sacrificed, skinned cat inside an opened stone coffin, along with a black-magic formation and a blood-written ritual spell.
• A notification warned that the entity would plunge the castle into night every half hour and randomly kill someone, while the team had three hours to identify the murderer.
• Zhang Yuanqing reasoned that the countdown had begun when they entered the instance and that points were key to the investigation, so the group searched the rooms upstairs.
• Zhang Yuanqing spent ten points to unlock Mage Dong’s restricted room, and a cat’s cry sounded as darkness rapidly swallowed the castle.

Zhang Yuanqing and the others investigated the castle master’s murder, finding evidence that implicated Mage Dong and Daniel the tutor while suggesting a Werewolf had eaten the victim’s organs. The search stalled when the group discovered that only one room could be opened per day, leaving the Werewolf’s identity and the killer unresolved.

• Night sealed everyone’s skills, and Red Chicken Bro died before the darkness lifted.
• Zhang Yuanqing searched Mage Dong’s room and found a Spirit Servant formation, a letter from Ya Lance, and one of two ice pens that could have caused one of the castle master’s wounds.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the others identified Mage Dong as a suspect, then found a cruciform greatsword and a letter in Daniel the tutor’s room that revealed he was a bounty hunter hired to hunt a Werewolf.
• Zhai Cai reasoned that Mage Dong may have stabbed the castle master before a Werewolf ate her internal organs, but the greatsword and the victim’s wounds left the sequence of events unclear.
• Zhang Yuanqing narrowed the Werewolf suspects to Zhao Chenghuang and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire, but All Under Heaven Returns to Fire’s room could not be opened because only one room door could be opened per day.

Zhang Yuanqing used spirit writing to confirm that the killer was among Mage Dong, Daniel, and David, then survived the night in which Sun Miaomiao vanished. In David’s room, the team found poison and letters about Cindy Lance, but no clear evidence against David, leaving Zhang Yuanqing and Zhai Cai confused about what the others understood.

• Sun Miaomiao explained that the team had to wait until night to open David’s door, while Zhai Cai argued that their remaining suspects were Mage Dong, Daniel, and the Werewolf.
• Zhang Yuanqing secretly used spirit writing, which produced the letter “d” and confirmed that Mage Dong, Daniel, or David was the killer.
• Night fell, but Zhang Yuanqing survived; Sun Miaomiao disappeared, leaving only a charred human-shaped outline.
• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire opened David’s room, where Zhang Yuanqing found a jar of poisonous blood and Zhai Cai discovered Cindy Lance’s love letter to David and the history of the Lance witches.
• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire concluded that David was not the killer and suspected Zhao Chenghuang’s character, Ren, but Zhang Yuanqing insisted the killer had to be Mage Dong, Daniel, or David.
• Zhang Yuanqing hinted that he had his own way of knowing, but All Under Heaven Returns to Fire said he did not understand, leaving Zhang Yuanqing and Zhai Cai puzzled.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions found clues in Ren's room that suggested Ya Lance had been poisoned before the Werewolf ate her, and they concluded David was the killer. Their unanimous accusation was wrong, leaving them trapped with the true culprit still unidentified.

• Zhang Yuanqing rejected Zhai Cai's suggestion to name the murderer immediately and chose to inspect Ren's room after nightfall.
• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire died during the night, and Zhang Yuanqing, Zhai Cai, and Zhao Chenghuang went to search Ren's room.
• The three found rotten flesh, wolf fur, and a blessed silver cross, confirming that Ren was the Werewolf and had eaten Ya Lance's remains.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Zhao Chenghuang reasoned that Ren had vomited because Ya Lance had been poisoned, while Zhai Cai connected the poisoning to David's love letter and motives.
• Zhang Yuanqing, Zhai Cai, and Zhao Chenghuang accused David together, but the Spirit Realm announced that their answer was incorrect.

After Zhai Cai sacrificed himself to invalidate the failed deduction, Zhang Yuanqing and Zhao Chenghuang tried to identify Ya Lance’s killer before nightfall. They ruled out several suspects and found that Ya Lance had indeed been poisoned, leaving them with a new contradiction when Zhao Chenghuang revealed that All Under Heaven Returns to Fire was a vampire.

• Zhai Cai used Judgment to invalidate the failed deduction, then died from the skill’s cost after urging Zhang Yuanqing to try again.
• Zhang Yuanqing transformed into White Face and reviewed the suspects with Zhao Chenghuang, ruling out Lenn and Daniel before focusing on Master Dong and Cindy Lance.
• Zhang Yuanqing reconstructed a possible killing by Master Dong with the ice pen, but Zhao Chenghuang questioned how that explained the Werewolf’s vomiting.
• Zhao Chenghuang sniffed Ya Lance’s corpse and the clay jar in All Under Heaven Returns to Fire’s room, then concluded Ya Lance had been poisoned to death.
• Zhao Chenghuang told Zhang Yuanqing that All Under Heaven Returns to Fire was a vampire.

Zhang Yuanqing reviewed the Castle Mystery, realized Cindy Lance had poisoned Ya Lance, and discovered Sun Miaomiao had survived her apparent death. He and Sun Miaomiao named Cindy Lance as the culprit and escaped the painting, reuniting with their companions.

• Zhang Yuanqing and Zhao Chenghuang investigated Mage Dong's room, found no trace of David's poison, and concluded Cindy Lance was the likeliest murderer.
• Zhao Chenghuang died during the night, leaving Zhang Yuanqing alone to review the investigation and notice the planchette had written “c” and “l.”
• Zhang Yuanqing realized the letters pointed to Cindy Lance and found Sun Miaomiao alive in a coffin beneath the castle.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Sun Miaomiao searched Cindy Lance's room and read David's letters, uncovering his plan to use Ya Lance as a vessel for the witch.
• Zhang Yuanqing deduced that Sun Miaomiao had faked her death and that All Under Heaven Returns to Fire had survived a night attack through a hidden ability.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Sun Miaomiao identified Cindy Lance as the culprit, received confirmation, and returned from the painting to reunite with their companions.

After surviving Castle Mystery, Zhang Yuanqing’s group entered Room 503, which turned out to be a vast manor rather than the storage room they expected. They found no immediate threats, but as Zhai Cai opened the manor’s doors, All Under Heaven Returns to Fire shouted that someone was beside him.

• Zhao Chenghuang identified Cindy Lance as the killer, and Zhang Yuanqing admitted he had misread the planchette’s clues before the group left Room 406.
• Sun Miaomiao and Zhao Chenghuang saw that Zhai Cai still faced a bloody disaster, but he entered Room 503 with the others.
• The group found a manor with Moonlit Frost Blossom; Red Chicken Bro ate some and suffered diarrhea, while Sun Miaomiao harvested flowers for the team.
• Guan Ya and Zhao Chenghuang detected no living creatures or vengeful spirits in the front yard, and Red Chicken Bro returned after dealing with his stomach.
• Zhai Cai opened the manor’s double doors, and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire shouted that someone was beside him.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions entered Berent’s storage room, where they fought the Wood Demons and rescued Zhai Cai from their deadly poison. A talking tabby cat named JOJO then revealed that the woman in the portrait had been Huo Zhengkui’s lover, not Berent’s, and asked how the intruders knew about the Holy Disk fragments.

• Guan Ya identified the returning Red Chicken Bro and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire as fakes, and Red Chicken Bro burned the impostors to charred wood.
• Two Wood Demons attacked the group, and Zhai Cai killed them with his Knight abilities, triggering a powerful poison that left him near death.
• Zhang Yuanqing shielded the group from the Wood Demons’ roots and led everyone into the house, where the roots refused to follow.
• Guan Ya and the others stabilized Zhai Cai, and Zhang Yuanqing used the Azure Emperor Jade Belt to neutralize the poison enough to save his life.
• The group examined the portrait of a Wood Demon woman and inferred that the hall was Berent’s storage room, then a tabby cat emerged and introduced herself as Madam JOJO.
• JOJO challenged the group’s claim that they were Berent’s friends and said the woman in the portrait had been Huo Zhengkui’s lover.