Chapter Summaries

After spending the night with Catherine, Zhang Yuanqing learned about the Free Covenant’s forces and discovered that Ju Mang was marked to die in the coming battle. As Zhang Yuanqing prepared to fight cautiously, Vinnie Berent, Channing Lu, and Sean Mead opened Heaven’s Punishment’s sealed room to use the Eye of the Sky.

• Zhang Yuanqing slept with Catherine and sensed that her Demand Payment skill had branded his soul.
• Catherine described the Free Covenant’s major forces and said Ju Mang would definitely die in the battle the following night.
• Zhang Yuanqing suspected the enemy planned to use a Sovereign-grade item and decided he would rely on deception and sneak attacks.
• Zhang Yuanqing remembered that a contract barred the operation team from discussing the meeting or battle plans before the final battle.
• Vinnie Berent, Channing Lu, and Sean Mead opened the sealed room on the Heaven’s Punishment building’s top floor to access the Eye of the Sky.

Vinnie used the Eye of the Sky to locate the smuggling ship carrying the Lord of Weapons Cult’s Envy Divine General, and Sean Mead led Heaven’s Punishment’s forces to intercept it at New Covenant Harbor. The battle escalated as multiple Sovereigns joined in, and Zhang Yuanqing’s allies prepared to hunt the Saints who had escaped the yacht.

• Vinnie used the Eye of the Sky to locate the ship six nautical miles from Port No. 3, then suffered severe pain and temporary blindness.
• Zhang Yuanqing watched a black-scaled sea beast pursue a two-deck yacht toward New Covenant Harbor and recognized that a Water Ghost was aboard.
• Sean Mead attacked the yacht, but a Sovereign-level Drunkard deflected his wind blades and distorted his other attacks.
• A Sea God Church Sovereign raised a giant made of seawater, while Catherine used her charm to halt the battle and a Deadly Poison Master arrived with a vast flock of monster birds.
• Lightning struck the yacht, and the Drunkard transported its Saints to the harbor dock; Knight Xia Zuo ordered the orderly faction to prepare to hunt them.

The lawful Saints and District Two's Evil Profession members clashed at the harbor while Zhang Yuanqing watched for the enemy's true target. The battle paused when the Demon Ancestor Typhoeus arrived and demanded that Ju Mang face him.

• New Covenant County police attacked the black-robed figures, but an Illusionist deceived them until Norse and the Wind Mages launched a counterattack.
• Dream Tapir struck the battlefield with a piercing shriek, while a Star Official's wraiths possessed the Wind Mages and the Envy Divine General prepared to shoot them.
• Xia Zuo prohibited bows and arrows with a Knight's rule, but a Disorderly One exploited a loophole, allowing the Envy Divine General to fire and wound Wind Mages.
• Deep Sea Terror charged the Envy Divine General, who was swallowed by a sea beast, while a Water Ghost sickened Deep Sea Terror and Rayleigh Eugene teleported him to safety and sold him a cure.
• The Envy Divine General returned badly injured but strengthened after killing the sea beast, and the Saints paused to assess one another while Zhang Yuanqing suspected Ju Mang was the enemy's target.
• Typhoeus appeared, dismissed the lawful Saints as trash, and demanded that Ju Mang come out so he could kill him.

Zhang Yuanqing concealed himself as Ju Mang while the orderly and evil Saints fought at the harbor, and the battle turned against the orderly camp. When Deep Sea Terror charged into danger, Ju Mang appeared, but a gunshot spread a curtain of night that put both him and Deep Sea Terror to sleep.

• Rayleigh Eugene realized Ju Mang had not appeared and feared Typhoeus would use his trump card against the orderly Saints.
• Zhang Yuanqing, disguised as Ju Mang, hid under the protection of Secrecy while the evil camp’s Star Official declared the Saints would face no surprises unless the Sovereign intervened.
• Typhoeus transformed and attacked with petrifying rays, starting a fierce battle between the orderly and evil Saints at the harbor.
• Dream Tapir amplified Deep Sea Terror’s arrogance, prompting him to charge into the enemy camp despite Xia Zuo’s attempt to forbid close combat.
• Typhoeus and the other evil Saints overwhelmed Deep Sea Terror, and Ju Mang appeared as Typhoeus withdrew.
• A distant gunshot unleashed a curtain of night that engulfed Ju Mang and Deep Sea Terror, and both fell asleep.

Cocktail used a Sleeping Magic Bullet to kill Ju Mang, while Channing Lu revealed himself as the Free Covenant spy and attacked the blind Vinnie Berent. The orderly Saints faltered after Ju Mang’s death, but Vinnie’s ally arrived to confront Channing, and a tiger appeared at the lighthouse as the harbor battle continued.

• Cocktail used a Sleeping Magic Bullet to put Ju Mang to sleep, then shot him dead before the Saints could react.
• Channing Lu attacked Vinnie Berent in Heaven’s Punishment headquarters, revealing that the Free Covenant’s true targets were Vinnie and Ju Mang.
• Channing explained that killing Vinnie would leave her grandfather vulnerable, while Vinnie revealed she had suspected Channing and had stayed to test him.
• Channing attacked Vinnie with lightning and wind, but Vinnie defended herself with special items until an ally entered and declared that lightning was forbidden indoors.
• The lawful Saints’ fighting spirit collapsed after Ju Mang’s death, and several fled as Xia Zuo and the others debated whether to retreat or call for reinforcements.
• A tiger appeared atop the lighthouse and looked down over the harbor as the battle continued.

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.