Chapter Summaries

Xie Antong teased Lu Ce about her feelings for him and explained that antagonizing him in games helped her draw on Joy’s power. She then told him that Dragon Group’s Grand Elder, Nie Jiutian, had asked her to pass along a reminder, leaving Lu Ce waiting to hear what it was.

• Black Knight rushed toward the curtains, but Lu Ce transformed him into a wristband and stopped him.
• Xie Antong teased Lu Ce about the mask’s overload and asked him to help her digest Joy by letting her antagonize him in games and flirt with him in ordinary life.
• Lu Ce asked how much Joy she had digested, and Xie Antong withdrew the power surrounding her.
• Xie Antong told Lu Ce that she had met Nie Jiutian, the Dragon Group’s Grand Elder, whose strength she could not gauge.
• Xie Antong said Nie Jiutian knew she would meet Lu Ce privately and had asked her to deliver a reminder.

Xie Antong relayed Nie Jiutian’s unusual insights about Desire, the gods, and Lu Ce’s role in the next game. Lu Ce asked to meet Nie Jiutian, but learned the elder was resting and ended by revealing that he had anticipated Nie Jiutian’s test of his credibility.

• Lu Ce asked Xie Antong what warning Nie Jiutian had sent, and she explained that he had been unexpectedly friendly toward Lu Ce and believed he was the only one with some hope.
• Xie Antong told Lu Ce that Nie Jiutian suspected Desire had chosen him through a personal act and had latched onto him, while the gods had grown quiet and were likely planning against him.
• Xie Antong repeated Nie Jiutian’s suggestion that Lu Ce make an unconventional choice in the next game to foil the gods’ plans.
• Lu Ce asked to meet Nie Jiutian, but Xie Antong said the elder had predicted this and would turn him away because he needed to sleep.
• Xie Antong said Nie Jiutian had to rest because there were too many people inside his body, and Lu Ce guessed that the old man might be talking in his sleep.
• As Xie Antong prepared to leave, Lu Ce asked whether Nie Jiutian had also predicted that he would reject the elder’s suggestion and use that rejection to judge the truth of the other claims.

After Xie Antong left, Lu Ce reflected on why he avoided getting closer to her, then watched the world descend into chaos as the game delayed its next announcement. When the game offered Normal and Special Modes, Lu Ce suspected Special Mode had been designed to lure him in and moved to choose Normal Mode.

• Xie Antong told Lu Ce that Nie Jiutian no longer expected the next game to trip him up, then left after calling him the strongest player.
• The Black Knight questioned why Lu Ce avoided pursuing Xie Antong, and Lu Ce said the dangers of his life were precisely why he should not consider such things.
• Over two days, the world fell into chaos as people gained powers and became gods' spokespersons, while China remained politically stable under the Dragon Group's efforts.
• The game announced that new players could choose Normal Mode and veteran players could choose the more dangerous Special Mode, with only eight hours left to decide.
• Lu Ce suspected Special Mode was bait prepared for him and reached toward the Normal Mode option.

Lu Ce chose Special Mode and equipped Sloth for the new game, arriving among seven other players at a round table. The Arbiter introduced the game as the Special Mode hell game, Seven-Day Finale.

• Lu Ce rejected Normal Mode and selected Special Mode, hoping the game would push Sloth to overload.
• New players debated the difficulty choices in the forums while Sun, Blank, and other top-ranked players announced they would enter Special Mode; Sin stayed silent.
• Before the game began, Lu Ce equipped Soul of the Seven Deadly Sins and chose Sloth as his mask.
• Lu Ce entered Chosen Paradise and found himself seated with seven other players around a massive round table.
• The Arbiter welcomed the players to Seven-Day Finale and singled out Sin as the strongest player.

The Arbiter introduced the rules of the Seven-Day Finale to the eight players, including Sloth, Perfect Life, Xie Antong, and Sun. Sun questioned the strange limits on nighttime actions, and the Arbiter insisted that the unseen companions were powerful.

• The Arbiter appeared as a pink speck in the sky and recognized Sloth, but Sloth failed to remember it and fell asleep mid-conversation.
• Perfect Life asked about the game rules, while Xie Antong challenged the Arbiter's claim to impartiality and Sun asked why the game lasted seven days.
• The Arbiter explained that the game would run for seven days, with daytime challenges and votes marking players, while nighttime companions carried out limited actions.
• The Arbiter said the players would win by killing all troublemakers or clearing more than five daytime games; otherwise, the troublemakers would win.
• Sun objected that players could not act at night and questioned whether the eight companions could defeat their targets, drawing hostile glares from the group.
• The Arbiter defended the rules and began assuring the players that each companion was the strongest in a world.

The Arbiter clarified that the players needed to win at least six daytime games, introduced the eight contestants, and had them check their identities before the heroes chose companions. When some heroes refused to choose, the Arbiter assigned every player a Hero Companion, leaving the contestants paired with newly appeared companions.

• Jiang Yuan wondered whether the other contestants came from worlds destroyed by the gods, then calmed himself by looking at the sleeping Lord.
• Xie Antong questioned the victory conditions and whether the Troublemaker's overwhelming strength made the game unfair, but the Arbiter insisted the rules were balanced.
• The Arbiter introduced Jiang Yuan, Perfect Life, Blank, Sun, Dark Clown, Chiyo Eon, Tu Shan, and Sloth to the heroes.
• Xie Antong checked her interface and watched the contestants' expressions for signs of the Troublemaker, but no one showed a reaction.
• The heroes chose companions, but some refused to select anyone, so the Arbiter assigned a companion to each player.
• A female hero appeared beside Sloth, frowned when she saw him, and said, “Tsk...”

The eight successful teams confirmed their pairings, and Feng Wang struggled to deal with her seemingly clueless teammate, Sloth. When the Investigative Werewolf Hunt began, they were sent to a room in the void, where Feng Wang tried to explain the game rules while Sloth asked if she could accept him falling asleep.

• The players confirmed their partners, and Feng Wang nearly attacked Sloth when he remained asleep beside her.
• Sloth woke, admitted he did not understand the rules, and told Feng Wang to play for him.
• The Arbiter announced the Investigative Werewolf Hunt and teleported the sixteen players into separate rooms.
• Feng Wang asked Sloth whether he was a troublemaker, but he claimed not to know what one was.
• Feng Wang warned Sloth that she might not be strong enough to protect him and offered to explain the rules.
• Sloth asked Feng Wang whether she could accept him falling asleep during her explanation.

Feng Wang asked Sloth about his abilities, but his answer left her relieved and exasperated as he fell asleep again. After the players and their partners spent the night in separate rooms, everyone returned to the round table for the first daytime discussion.

• Feng Wang questioned Sloth, who described his weaknesses and named Wake-up Rage as his ability before falling asleep.
• Feng Wang vanished to guard their space while Xie Antong and her heroine partner exchanged wary introductions.
• The Sun told his hero partner that he was the boss of the Heaven and Earth Society and invited him to join.
• The night ended, and the eight players and their black-gauze-shrouded partners reappeared around the round table.
• The game announced that the first round was guaranteed to be cleared and instructed the players to speak in turn.

During the first Werewolf game, nearly every player claimed to be a Prophet and reported investigating Sin, with conflicting results about whether he was a player or the Prankster. Sloth woke to Feng Wang's summary and began responding, leaving his explanation unfinished.

• Dark Clown claimed to be a Prophet and said his investigation identified Sin as a Prankster.
• Jiang Yuan claimed Prophet and said Sin was a player, accusing Dark Clown of being the Prankster.
• Perfect Life, Sun, Xie Antong, Chiyo Eon, and Tu Shan also claimed Prophet and described investigating Sin, while Chiyo Eon said someone had invaded her room and fought her.
• Feng Wang was stunned that everyone had focused on the sleeping Sin, then laughed at the absurd situation.
• Sloth woke up, asked Feng Wang what had happened, and listened as she summarized the claims against him.

Sin was voted out as the first marked person after he urged the group to trust everyone and voted for himself. As night fell, Feng Wang confronted Sloth, who insisted she would protect him before falling asleep again.

• Lu Ce dismissed the conflicting Seer claims and said everyone seemed like a good person.
• Lu Ce voted for himself, and the others' votes ultimately marked Sin for elimination.
• Xie Antong asked how long the mark lasted, and the Arbiter said it would remain for two nights.
• The Arbiter ended the round and sent the players back to their wooden-board spaces as night fell.
• Feng Wang warned Sloth that the players would target him, but he said he believed she would protect him and fell asleep.

Feng Wang defended the sleeping Sin against six powerful intruders, despite being badly outmatched. When one tried to remove Sin’s mask, Sin woke with a sword lodged in his neck and wondered whether he should be angry.

• Feng Wang noticed three powerful masked intruders arrive and resolved to protect Sin as her teammate.
• The intruders mocked Sin as he slept, while Feng Wang fought to keep them away from him.
• More attackers joined, bringing their number to six, and Feng Wang was struck by a powerful shockwave.
• A swordsman slashed Sin’s neck, but the blade could not cut through him and became lodged in his collarbone.
• Sin woke, grabbed an intruder’s hand, and asked whether he should get angry.

Sloth woke during the siege and drove off the attackers with overwhelming speed and strength, leaving Feng Wang stunned by how powerful and resilient he was. After thanking Feng Wang for protecting him, he revealed that he would not fight back if someone killed him in his sleep.

• Sloth crushed the hand of the hero who had grabbed him and warned the gathered attackers that he was weakened.
• A woman told Sloth that Blank sent her regards, and he returned the message before striking at Xie Antong's companion and forcing her to retreat.
• Sloth shattered the sword embedded in his body and used its fragments and his speed to overwhelm the remaining attackers, who fled.
• Sloth's wound healed completely, and he thanked Feng Wang for protecting him.
• Feng Wang asked whether Sloth would fight back against a fatal attack while asleep, and he said he would not.

Feng Wang learned that Sloth’s overwhelming strength came with severe drowsiness that left him vulnerable while asleep. As the players began the second daytime mini-game, Xie Antong tried to compare what everyone had done the previous night, but Sun’s claim that his companion disobeyed him complicated the discussion.

• Sloth told Feng Wang that his drowsiness was the price of his strength and said he trusted her to protect him.
• Xue Zou reported her encounter with Sloth to Xie Antong, who noted that only six people had gone to attack him and questioned whether he was truly the Prankster.
• The Arbiter began the Who's the Undercover? mini-game, and Xie Antong proposed discussing the previous night's attacks before voting.
• Xie Antong said she had sent her companion to attack Sin and that only seven Heroes had gone, then gave her three descriptive words.
• Tu Shan confirmed that he had sent his companion to attack Sin and described his information as “referee, one sentence, subjective.”
• Sun said his companion had refused to follow his order to attack Tu Shan and appeared not to have gone out.

During the roundtable meeting, Sun confused the players by ignoring the rules and insulting his companion, while Dark Clown and Jiang Yuan gave their descriptions. Perfect Life then contradicted Sun’s account of the previous night and suspected he was pretending to be foolish, leaving the players with their first clue and an unresolved question about Sun’s role.

• Sun’s companion explained that he could not attack Tu Shan because Tu Shan was unmarked, but Sun dismissed the rules and berated him.
• The Arbiter reminded Sun to give three descriptive words, and Sun called his companion a “pig teammate,” “retard,” and “useless trash.”
• Dark Clown said he had sent his companion to kill Sin the previous night and admitted his earlier claim about Sin being the Trickster was a joke.
• Jiang Yuan offered no useful description and kept watching Sin.
• Perfect Life said his companion had stayed beside him all night and accused Sun of pretending not to understand the rules, then questioned whether Sun was the Trickster.
• Xue Zou noticed that Xie Antong remained calm and smiling, while Xie Antong thought the meeting had revealed only the first clue.

Perfect Life questioned Sun’s account, while Xie Antong and Xue Zou tried to read the players’ motives. Chiyo Eon exposed a contradiction in the claims about Sin’s room and asked the Arbiter how to clear the game, learning that completing the identification was enough.

• Perfect Life argued that Sun’s account made little sense and then described himself with the words “1, 2, 3.”
• Xue Zou asked Xie Antong about Sun and Perfect Life, and the All-Knowing Eye warned her not to underestimate them.
• Xie Antong told Xue Zou to keep watching as the game’s motives remained unclear.
• Chiyo Eon revealed that she had been attacked for two consecutive nights and pointed out that the players’ accounts left one companion unaccounted for.
• Chiyo Eon asked the Arbiter how players could clear “Who Is the Undercover,” and the Arbiter said completing the identification counted as success.

Chiyo Eon judged that the game was easy to clear and refused to describe her identity, while Sin slept through his speaking turn. During voting, Sun targeted Tu Shan, and Perfect Life unexpectedly asked everyone to vote for her.

• Chiyo Eon reasoned that the Dark Clown was acting to reduce the players’ numbers, then spent her speaking time healing instead of giving a description.
• Xie Antong questioned Xue Zou’s assumption that the Dark Clown had received extra mission information before the game began.
• Sin failed to wake up and declined to give a description, so the Arbiter started the vote.
• Sun voted for Tu Shan and nearly attacked him before the Arbiter restrained him.
• Chiyo Eon said she expected to be attacked regardless of the vote, while Perfect Life asked everyone to vote for her.

Perfect Life volunteered to be voted out to protect the others, prompting Sun to attack his own teammate. Perfect Life intervened, and Xie Antong realized Sun had used the staged clash to test his strength; Laziness then suggested voting for Sun.

• Perfect Life asked everyone to vote for him, saying he was strong enough to withstand the attacks the voted-out player might face.
• Sun objected to Perfect Life calling himself stronger, launched a fire dragon that the Arbiter nullified, and ordered his teammate to attack.
• When Sun's teammate refused, Sun punched him beyond the round table and followed with a massive fireball as his teammate countered with a lightning sword.
• Perfect Life stepped between the attacks, blocked the lightning sword with a Bagua shield, and emerged unscathed.
• Xie Antong's All-Knowing Eye revealed that the game's power had erased Sun's fireball before it hit Perfect Life, and she inferred that Sun had been testing him.
• Laziness woke up and suggested that he and Feng Wang vote for Sun because he had attacked his teammate.

The players voted Sun in as a marked target after Xie Antong argued that his actions proved he was the troublemaker. When night fell, Lu Ce told Feng Wang that she alone knew his weakness before abruptly falling asleep again, leaving her to guard him.

• Feng Wang questioned Laziness’s unserious attitude, while Lu Ce dismissed the game’s rules and called for players to create their own.
• Xie Antong urged everyone to vote for Sun, and Chiyo Eon and Dark Clown joined her; Jiang Yuan’s vote was invalidated while Laziness declined to vote.
• The Arbiter announced that Sun had been marked alongside Sin, and the players returned to their rooms for the night.
• Feng Wang told Lu Ce that Sun was likely the troublemaker and asked whether she should attack him.
• Lu Ce said he needed to sleep and reminded Feng Wang that she knew his weakness, then abruptly fell asleep as she tried to wake him.

Feng Wang and several others considered the danger of Sin and Sun, while their companions received conflicting orders to stay behind or protect them. Sun was confronted by six Heroes and eagerly unleashed a powerful form of Judgment.

• Feng Wang decided not to remove the mask from the sleeping person before her.
• Xie Antong kept Xue Zou in her room, warning that she herself might be an easy target, while Chiyo Eon summoned Xu Sheng to stay beside her.
• Perfect Life held his teammate back and spread yin-yang energy across the room as if locking it down.
• Dark Clown told his companions to choose between targeting Sun and Sin, while Jiang Yuan ordered his teammate to protect Sin instead of fighting him.
• Six Heroes emerged in Sun's room, and Sun welcomed the fight before releasing flame armor wrapped in blue-violet lightning and the power of Judgment.

Sun revealed that he had devoured Judgment and become the first person across countless worlds to ascend to godhood, then charged into battle against the heroes. The night ended peacefully for everyone except Sun, and the players returned to the round table where a bloody arm fell onto it.

• Sun told the heroes he had eaten Judgment after refusing to become its spokesperson, surviving the ordeal and gaining godhood.
• Sun asked Dragon Bone to choose a side, then warned that he would attack without regard for his teammate’s position.
• Sun charged the heroes, and they surrounded him before deciding to stake their lives on the fight.
• Sun battled the heroes through the night while everyone else had a peaceful night.
• Arbiter announced dawn, and the players reappeared beside the round table as a bloody arm fell into its center.