"Bang!" The explosion made the floor beneath their feet tremble violently.

Clearly, a fierce battle was taking place inside the New York County Bank building.

Zhang Yuanqing carefully sensed that the spiritual energy inside the bank building was in turmoil, with lightning, wind, and poisonous fog creating a chaotic battlefield.

Besides the lower floors, other areas also had fluctuations and loud noises generated by the battle. The biggest disturbance was on the top floor, where the rule-based item, the Eye of the Sky, was sealed.

Obviously, the evil faction's invasion of the Punishment Division wasn't just to slaughter official Players for revenge, but also to seize this rule-based item.

He turned his gaze to the window, only to see a thick purple mist enveloping the bank building, isolating it from the outside world. He walked to the window and reached out to touch the purple smoke, and a "hissing" sound rang out. Dense blisters grew on his fingertips, but disappeared after a few seconds, and his palm returned to normal.

With his power of the sun and "Indomitable Will," blisters still formed. The one releasing the poisonous smoke was definitely a Great Demon at the Lord stage.

The Lord-stage poisonous fog sealed off the entire building.

"Bang!"

He snapped his fingers and arrived in Guan Ya's room next door. What came into view was a scene of complete mess. Sword marks covered the walls, floor, and bed. Parts of Guan Ya's constellation doll were torn, and parts were stained with a pale stony substance.

Zhang Yuanqing found several patches of blood on the floor. Guan Ya had been attacked in her room and, after a fierce battle, had fled injured.

Lord-level battles were taking place on the top floor. Guan Ya and the others were probably Saints. Meddling in battles at that level would be suicide. They shouldn't be on the top floor...

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuanqing immediately snapped his fingers, transformed into starlight, and arrived downstairs.

What came into view was an office area that looked like a tornado had passed through. Desks and chairs were overturned, documents, stationery, and paper were scattered all over the floor. The ceiling was damaged, with several wires hanging down, sparking and crackling.

Scorched marks from lightning strikes were everywhere. The air was filled with a faint purple mist. The bodies of clerical staff lay on the ground, either dead from poisoning or brutally murdered. Two beautiful female clerks were naked, seemingly having been violated before their deaths.

The two sides fighting consisted of three people: a fish-headed, fish-tailed Aberrant covered in scales, and a strong, sturdy Siren covered in illusory fish scales. Opposing them was a young man in a suit, with a penetrating wound in his left shoulder. He leaned wearily against the wall, clutching a dazzling lightning ball in his right hand, his expression fierce, ready to fight to the death.

It's worth mentioning that black blood flowed from the penetrating wound in his left shoulder, clearly indicating poisoning.

"Wait two more minutes, and this kid will die from the poison!"

"No time to wait. The Moral Value has recovered. Kill him quickly, and then clear out the other living people," the Siren and the Aberrant said.

The former was wary of the Lightning Mage's final counterattack and wanted to wait for the poison to take effect, while the latter didn't want to waste time.

In the Free Federation, the number of fallen Lawful professionals wasn't small. The already desperate young man saw the starlight rising, was initially delighted, but then froze when he saw Zhang Yuanqing's appearance. He seemed to have seen that face before...

The next second, his eyes suddenly widened, revealing a look of astonishment and shock.

After leaving the Killing Instance, Zhang Yuanqing hadn't changed his appearance again and had returned to his original look.

"Trying to trick us again?" The Aberrant sneered when he saw the enemy's expression.

He snorted, and the scales on the back of his head cracked open, and an eye filled with blood vessels grew out. Looking behind him, he saw a strange young man condensing a golden bow and arrow, aiming at himself.

The Aberrant's heart trembled, and he subconsciously wanted to dodge, but he quickly became calm, losing his sense of urgency and crisis. He watched helplessly as the golden arrow shot towards him, piercing his heart.

The golden arrow transformed into raging flames, instantly burning him into a skeleton.

Zhang Yuanqing then shot and killed the Siren in its horrified gaze.

"Yuan, Yuan Shi Tian Zun!"

The suited Lightning Mage finally blurted out, looking like he'd seen a ghost. Then he asked, "Who exactly are you? Why are you disguising yourself as Yuan Shi Tian Zun?"

Zhang Yuanqing ignored him, walked to the two corpses, and viscous black energy floated in his eye sockets.

There were no remnants of souls in the two corpses. The targets killed by the power of the sun were directly purified in their souls.

Tsk, this is too domineering. In that case, it can be used to prevent targets from escaping, directly destroying both body and soul. The disadvantage is that there's no way to obtain information through soul eating...

Zhang Yuanqing had just become the Lord of the Sun, and he hadn't yet adapted to many of the characteristics of the power of the sun!

He had no choice but to turn his gaze to the Lightning Mage, quietly giving him an "Emotional Soothing" and grabbing the Mountain God Scepter to heal his injuries and detoxify him.

"What's the current situation at the division?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.

"The division building has been invaded by the evil faction. There are two enemy Lords. The number of Saints hasn't been counted, but there are many strong ones..." The suited Lightning Mage's emotions stabilized, and he reported the situation quickly.

After the Moral Value disappeared, terrorist attacks occurred in New York County police stations, government buildings, banks, wealthy residential areas, and so on.

Evil professionals burned, killed, and looted, and some rogue practitioners took advantage of the chaos. Chief Prosecutor Vinnie led the executives out to eliminate the evil professionals. Unexpectedly, the bank building was attacked by evil professionals as soon as they left.

The prosecutors staying in the building immediately activated the defense and requested support from the external execution team. Vinnie had no choice but to lead the team back to support and engaged in guerrilla warfare with the enemy in the bank building.

"Most of the ordinary people in the building are already dead, and there aren't many clerical staff left in the division," the suited young man said with hatred.

"Those damned evil professionals!"

"What about the members of the Five Elements Alliance?" Zhang Yuanqing asked in a deep voice.

The suited young man shook his head. "I haven't encountered them. It was about ten minutes between the evil professionals invading the bank building and the Chief Prosecutor returning to support. The members of the Five Elements Alliance are all high-level, so they shouldn't be dead yet."

Zhang Yuanqing only gave him a calming spell, and then a blazing golden sun appeared behind his head.

"Hiss!"

The thin poisonous fog floating in the office area dissolved in the sunlight. Then, he snapped his fingers and left the office area.

Zhang Yuanqing appeared and disappeared on this floor, searching for the traces of Guan Ya and the others.

Poisonous smoke permeated the building. For Abberants, the bank building was an excellent battlefield, but for Lawful Players, it was undoubtedly a deadly environment.

As he looked along the way, it was indeed as the prosecutor had said. The white-collar workers in the bank building had become sacrifices to the evil professionals' revelry.

Some had mutated into monsters, wandering in the corridors, office areas, and toilets, hunting for surviving ordinary people.

Others had been brutally murdered, with blood and severed limbs staining the walls and floors. And the beautiful women had all been violated, dying naked with their eyes wide open. Among them, the female staff members of the Punishment Division were the most frequently violated.

Zhang Yuanqing saw many acquaintances, even employees of the Punishment Division with whom he had a good relationship, who had died tragically. Their corpses were being eaten by the mutated monsters.

After dealing with some of the mutated monsters and rescuing several members of the Punishment Division who were fighting against evil professionals, Zhang Yuanqing finally found Guan Ya and the others on the 106th floor.

In an office area that was a complete mess, with corpses lying everywhere, Yuan Ting and Hongjige stood blankly in a corner, turned into statues.

Zhao Chenghuang had mutated into a large lizard, with only his head retaining a human appearance. He lay motionless on the ground, having lost his soul fluctuations.

Sun Miaomiao, Tianxiaguihuo, and Guan Ya were covered in blood, leaning against the wall, panting.

Around them was a mess, with more than a dozen corpses of evil professionals and mutated monsters lying on the ground.

Hongjige and Yuan Ting are petrified. If it's been more than two hours, even immortals can't do anything... Zhao Chenghuang's soul dissipated... Zhang Yuanqing quickly calmed his emotions and suppressed his restlessness, casting Star Teleportation to Guan Ya's side.

The three, who were exhausted, were initially instinctively alert, but when they saw that it was Yuan Shi Tian Zun appearing in the starlight,

Guan Ya's tired face instantly lit up with joy.

Sun Miaomiao and Tianxiaguihuo's eyes lit up, filled with joy and excitement at finding hope in a desperate situation.

"You cleared the Killing Instance?" The mixed-race girlfriend with a torn Achilles tendon struggled to get up.

Zhang Yuanqing supported Guan Ya. "Why aren't you healing?"

He took out the Mountain God Scepter, activated the healing function, and asked quickly, "What happened to Yuan Ting and Hongjige? Chenghuang... sacrificed himself?"

Sun Miaomiao said hurriedly, "Yuan Ting and Hongjige were petrified by a Great Demon. We risked our lives to grab their bodies. Zhao Chenghuang was called by name and mutated into a monster, but he's not really dead. I used the Ghost Mirror to extract his spiritual body."

As she spoke, she took out a round mirror. Frozen in the mirror was Zhao Chenghuang's sluggish spirit.

This Ghost Mirror was the treasure she had received in the First Emperor's Underground Palace. Zhang Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief.

"How long have they been petrified?"

"Almost an hour."

"Almost an hour!" Zhang Yuanqing frowned. Although killing the caster could undo the petrification, there was a time limit. If the petrification lasted too long, even killing the caster might not save them, depending on the petrified person's physique.

Yuan Ting was a Night Wanderer with innate vitality, and Hongjige was a Fire Master, also with strong physiques. Hopefully, it wasn't too late.

Zhang Yuanqing squatted down, his palm pressed against Zhao Chenghuang's scaly chest, and a bright, clear golden light shone.

The scales under Zhao Chenghuang began to peel off visibly, the broken tail fractured, and the thick hind limbs and forelimbs returned to human hands and feet.

In an instant, he returned to his human form, naked and without a thread of clothing.

"Yuan Shi has advanced to Lord..." Sun Miaomiao and Tianxiaguihuo's eyes flashed with sighs and envy.

From Extraordinary to Saint, all the way, they were finally distanced, becoming different worlds from each other.

Saint to Lord was a leap in level.

Tianxiaguihuo took a deep breath and suppressed the envy in his heart, saying, "The bank building is sealed. No one can get out. The evil faction has brought two Lord stage masters. Prosecutor Vinnie is struggling to hold on on the top floor. The situation is very critical."

"I heard she was injured when she returned to rescue the division."

"I know!" Zhang Yuanqing stopped wasting words, transforming into starlight and arriving on the 108th floor.

As soon as he arrived on the 108th floor, the oncoming lightning and poisonous smoke overwhelmed him. Through the dense purple poisonous fog, Zhang Yuanqing saw a Corrupted Demon and a Three-Headed Hellhound besieging Vinnie Bernt.

Vinnie Bernt held a lightning saber, unfolded electromagnetic protection, sometimes fighting the Great Demons at close quarters, and sometimes escaping from the encirclement of flames, poisonous smoke, and petrifying light.

At first glance, it seemed like she was handling it with ease, but in reality, every escape was "thrilling," relying on lightning paralysis and electromagnetic protection to barely hold on.

As soon as her spiritual power was exhausted, she would be defeated.

Zhang Yuanqing noticed that Vinnie Bernt's body was showing slight signs of aberration. Her light brown eyes turned into golden vertical pupils, and fine scales grew from the corners of her eyes. Between her damaged clothes, what was exposed was not snow-white, delicate skin, but dark cyan muscles.

"Vinnie Bernt, how about we make a deal? Hand over the key, and we'll open the barrier and let you out." The Corrupted Demon vibrated its wings, holding a long saber condensed from blue flames, attacking like rain. Each saber strike cut out crisscrossing flames that landed on the floor and walls, causing the walls to shake violently.

The destructive power of a Lord could easily destroy the entire building, but it could also precisely control the power within a fixed area.

Of course, the current situation was that the building was shrouded in a barrier, and guardian runes were also activated, allowing the bank building to stand firm in the battle of the three Lords.

The Three-Headed Hellhound, not far away, shot out petrifying beams and sneered, "If you don't agree, we'll mutate you into a monster and take you as our pet."

"Although the Moral Value has recovered, the Sea God Church, the Merchant Guild, and the Beauty God Association are all preoccupied. No one will come to save you." Vinnie Bernt remained silent, focusing on dealing with the enemy's attacks, her expression cold and resolute.

The division had lost a Lord in the faction war. Later, a sudden change occurred in headquarters, and Chris was transferred back. The entire division was left with only her as a Lord.

The new Chief Executive hadn't arrived yet, and then a major change occurred with the bizarre disappearance of the Moral Value. Vinnie Bernt was alone and unsupported. Even with her strong will, she now had the will to die.

At this time, sensing the arrival of a strong aura, the three of them simultaneously saw the starlight lighting up.

They saw a young man who was both familiar and strange.