Chapter Summaries

Sun returned from a fierce battle after defeating six opponents, leaving a burned hand as evidence. The Arbiter began the third-day game, Wrathful Sea Voyage, and Xie Antong warned Feng Wang that Sun would keep the game from reaching the seventh day.

• Sun appeared badly injured but alive, announced that he had fought and won, and left a burned hand on the table.
• Xie Antong used her All-Knowing Eye to identify the hand, while the others wondered how Sun had gained such strength.
• The Arbiter started Wrathful Sea Voyage, transforming the table into a miniature sea where the players had to steer a boat to its destination without hitting a reef.
• The Arbiter selected the sleeping Sin to take the first turn, leaving Feng Wang unsure whether to wake him.
• Xie Antong asked Feng Wang her name and said Sun was a strange person whose presence meant the game would not last until the seventh day.

Feng Wang explained the board-game rules to Lu Ce, but he ignored her advice, moved away, and fell asleep again. Feng Wang took his turn by moving the boat one square right, and Jiang Yuan’s teammate moved it one square left before the Sun’s turn began.

• Xie Antong questioned Feng Wang about her condition and suggested that players might all die before the seventh day, but Lu Ce woke and warned Feng Wang not to answer her probing questions.
• Feng Wang explained the rules and advised Lu Ce to move cautiously, but Lu Ce admitted he had not listened and went back to sleep.
• Feng Wang moved Sin’s boat one square to the right, and Xie Antong noticed that Feng Wang had used two hands.
• Dark Clown called Lu Ce’s sleeping suspicious, and Jiang Yuan had his teammate take his turn instead of acting himself.
• Jiang Yuan’s teammate moved the boat one square to the left, prompting Chiyo Eon to criticize the players for canceling out the boat’s movement.
• The Arbiter called the next turn, and the light around the Sun blazed.

Sun accelerated the sailing game by spending 10 movement points, bringing the boats closer to the finish and the nearest reef. Perfect Life falsely claimed that one reef had a different energy, prompting Arbiter to reveal a hidden golden reef and its unique reward.

• Sun accused Lu Ce of acting weak, declared he would bet everything, and spent 10 movement points to send his boat ten spaces forward.
• Arbiter noticed Sun with interest before selecting Tu Shan, who moved his boat four spaces left and one space forward.
• Perfect Life considered the game’s hidden complications and asked Arbiter about a reef with a different energy fluctuation.
• Arbiter revealed that the reef was golden and that crashing into it meant failure but counted as voluntarily abandoning ship for a unique reward.
• Perfect Life realized the reef he had pointed at was ordinary and that his claim had been nonsense.

Perfect Life decided to risk losing the round for the Arbiter’s newly announced, unspecified reward and used all ten of his steps to move the ship toward the golden reef. The ship stopped two steps short, and the turn passed to Chiyo Eon, who remained motionless.

• The Arbiter revealed that colliding with the golden reef would fail the game but grant a special reward, prompting Xie Antong to question the late rule.
• Xie Antong’s questioning led the Arbiter to realize it had been baited into revealing the rule, but it refused to explain the reward.
• Perfect Life argued that they should make use of the opportunity and lose the round, despite Tu Shan and Dark Clown questioning the plan.
• Perfect Life wagered all ten steps and sent the ship toward the reef, where it stopped two steps short.
• The Arbiter moved the turn to Chiyo Eon, who sat without making a move.

Chiyo Eon exposed Xu Sheng’s possible role in the attack on Sun, then moved the boat to one step from shore. When her turn came, Xie Antong secured a yes-or-no answer from the Arbiter as her reward and chose to jump ship, leaving the game’s outcome in her hands.

• Chiyo Eon asked Xu Sheng whether his ability could create a clone and suggested he had been absent during the attack on Sun, drawing the heroes’ attention to his denial.
• Chiyo Eon challenged the heroes to reveal their true forms and moved the boat ten spaces, leaving it one space from shore.
• Xie Antong asked whether the Arbiter possessed powers from multiple gods, then negotiated one yes-or-no answer about the game as her reward.
• Dark Clown protested that the boat had already passed the reef, but Xie Antong pointed out that it could turn around.
• Xie Antong moved the boat nine spaces and announced that she chose to jump ship.

Xie Antong deliberately crashed the boat into the golden reef, ending the daytime game in a player loss, then used her reward privilege to ask whether the Arbiter was a Prankster. After the Arbiter denied it, Xie Antong concluded the Prankster was not among the players, but the Arbiter cut her off and began the night phase.

• Xie Antong turned the boat around and crashed it into the golden reef, ending the game and raising the Pranksters' win-loss ratio to 2:1.
• Xie Antong asked Xue Zou whether she had made the right choice, but Xue Zou stayed silent.
• Xie Antong used her reward privilege to ask the Arbiter whether he was a Prankster.
• The Arbiter denied being a Prankster, and Xie Antong took his answer as confirmation that the Prankster was not among the players.
• The Arbiter interrupted Xie Antong before she could finish explaining her conclusion and declared that night had begun.

Xie Antong exposed Xue Zou as a prankster and explained how she had uncovered the truth about the game. She offered to become a hidden, voluntary prankster and help Xue Zou win the next game so they could make the sleeping player lose.

• Xie Antong’s unfinished sentence ended the game early, skipping the daytime vote and sending everyone straight into the night.
• Xie Antong confronted Xue Zou and revealed that she suspected the pranksters were among them, possibly including all eight players.
• Xie Antong explained that she had suspected Xue Zou from the beginning and had used Chiyo Eon’s staged attack to test whether the pranksters could coordinate.
• Xue Zou’s energy became unstable as she considered killing Xie Antong, but Xie Antong offered to help her win the next game.
• Xie Antong said she wanted the sleeping player to lose and proposed becoming a hidden, voluntary prankster alongside Xue Zou.

Xie Antong deduced that Xue Zou and the other heroes were troublemakers assigned to kill the players, while Feng Wang struggled with her own mission to kill the sleeping Sloth. Xue Zou attacked Xie Antong, but Xie Antong froze her and revealed that she was stronger than she appeared.

• Xie Antong inferred from Xue Zou’s reactions that the eight heroes had a special mission and did not care whether they won the game.
• Xie Antong concluded that the troublemakers had been told to kill the players and questioned whether their promised reward was a lie.
• Xue Zou, overwhelmed by Xie Antong’s deductions, apologized and charged at her with a longsword.
• Feng Wang recalled Blank’s warning about Sloth’s vulnerability while asleep and confronted him with her intention to kill him.
• Feng Wang aimed her spear at Sloth’s throat, but Sloth remained asleep.
• Xie Antong froze Xue Zou and her sword, then stood above her and said she was not actually weak.

Xie Antong fought off Xue Zou and explained how Lu Ce’s actions had made their world special. She then revealed that she was gambling on Feng Wang making a move that night, which could decide the fate of the eight outsiders.

• Xue Zou attacked Xie Antong, but Xie Antong’s power of Joy shattered her sword and suppressed her with divine power.
• Xie Antong realized that Xue Zou had never encountered divine power because Lu Ce’s challenges had introduced new rules and elevated people in their world.
• Xie Antong told Xue Zou that the game was designed to cleanse and had no winners, and that killing the eight outsiders would serve the game’s purpose.
• Xie Antong revealed that she was betting on Feng Wang to act that night and decide the eight outsiders’ fate.

Xie Antong challenged Xue Zou to consider the choices the players had made, then the fourth day began with the paired participants’ conflicts exposed. Feng Wang had held a spear to the sleeping Sloth’s neck all night without striking, leaving everyone to question her choice.

• Xue Zou asked why Xie Antong had placed the bet on Feng Wang, and Xie Antong said she would not interfere with the players’ fates.
• Xue Zou admitted she had failed to hold fast to her true heart and urged Xie Antong to hold on to hers.
• On the fourth day, Sun slammed Dragon Bone onto the round table and joked that they had sparred, while the other participants realized their teammates might be enemies.
• The group saw Feng Wang holding a spear to the sleeping Sloth’s neck, though she had not attacked him.
• A participant asked Feng Wang why she had not put up any defenses, and she began explaining that they had become weapons aimed at other worlds.

Feng Wang admitted that the Pranksters had been tasked with killing their matched companions in exchange for a chance to save their destroyed worlds. After Jiang Yuan called to the sleeping Sloth and woke him, Sloth picked up the spear and turned his attention to the Arbiter.

• Feng Wang lowered her spear and gave up on attacking Sloth, then asked Xie Antong whether she had figured out the truth.
• Xie Antong revealed that the eight heroes were Pranksters who had been ordered by the game to kill their matched companions.
• Feng Wang confessed that the game had promised the Pranksters a chance to return to their destroyed worlds and save the past.
• Jiang Yuan warned the Pranksters that the game’s promise was false hope and called out to Sloth.
• Sloth woke, picked up the spear, and declared that he would start with the Arbiter.

Laziness confronted the Arbiter about the game and explained that he had been testing how to overload his mask, but then abruptly fell asleep. A nightmare-like whisper revealed that he would use the game to overload himself and make a move against the others.

• Laziness taunted the Arbiter and asked why it had not attacked him while he was asleep and supposedly weak.
• Laziness explained that he had been testing ways to overload his mask and had wanted Feng Wang to stab him while he was half asleep.
• Feng Wang asked whether Laziness could survive even if she tried to kill him, but he fell asleep without answering.
• The Arbiter turned to the others to announce the new game rules after Laziness stopped responding.
• Laziness whispered that he would rely on the game to overload himself and make a move against the others.

Lu Ce blurred the line between sleep and wakefulness while speaking with the Arbiter, who revealed that the game had been arranged to make Lu Ce help kill the heroes. Lu Ce gave each hero an Exit Coin, then told the Arbiter that it was one of them and asked it to help him.

• Lu Ce continued conversing while asleep, and Xie Antong realized he was trying to blur the boundary between sleep and wakefulness and between his mask and his real self.
• The Arbiter said the game had not been meant to target Lu Ce, and Lu Ce replied that it was meant to have him help kill the heroes.
• Jiang Yuan urged the Lord to let the heroes' power become useful, but Lu Ce fell out of his chair before Jiang Yuan helped him back up.
• Lu Ce produced eight Exit Coins and sent one into each hero's hands, leaving them confused about what the coins were.
• The Arbiter taunted Lu Ce about how he would make his mask overload, and Lu Ce said the answer depended on the Arbiter, called it one of them, and asked it to help him.

Lu Ce claimed that the Arbiter would help him, then provoked it by firing Hell Roar at it. The Arbiter revealed its divine power and its connection to the gods, while Lu Ce continued speaking as though it were his ally and turned to ask Jiang Yuan about a glass bead.

• Lu Ce fired Hell Roar at the Arbiter, but the sphere emerged unharmed and asked whether he was awake.
• The Arbiter introduced itself as an impartial existence born to balance the gods and transformed into a humanlike figure.
• The Arbiter forcibly restrained the Sun and blasted him back into his chair when he tried to attack it.
• The Arbiter called Tu Shan “New Judgment” and told the Sun he was too lacking.
• Lu Ce laughed at the Arbiter and said he would rely on it for the game, the people, and his overload.
• Lu Ce turned to Jiang Yuan and asked whether he still had the glass bead Lu Ce had given him.

Jiang Yuan revealed the World Relic, which connected to the other players’ Exit Coins, and Lu Ce used the connection to claim the Arbiter had been helping him. Lu Ce offered the players a way to escape the game, but Tu Shan challenged him and Sun attacked Tu Shan, exposing that the usual rule against players attacking one another did not apply to Judgment and Slaughter.

• Jiang Yuan took out the World Relic, and the other players sensed a connection between it and their Exit Coins.
• Lu Ce claimed that the Arbiter had given him the World Relic to help him and demanded help with his mask overload.
• Lu Ce declared the game over and offered the players a way out if they trusted his rules.
• Tu Shan questioned whether Lu Ce’s interference was allowed and urged the others to finish the games as planned.
• Sun struck Tu Shan with a flaming fist, and Tu Shan realized that Judgment and Slaughter could attack players.

Sun learned that Tu Shan was Slaughter's agent and attacked him, while Dark Clown's teammate also turned against him amid the agents' gathering. The fights threatened to trigger an all-out melee as the Arbiter watched Sin, whom it regarded as the source of chaos.

• Sun revealed that he had gained Judgment's power and learned that War had created four gods from its power, including Slaughter.
• Sun charged Tu Shan and overwhelmed him, while his attack on Dark Clown dissipated harmlessly because players could not attack each other.
• Dark Clown's teammate stepped between him and Sun, then locked onto Dark Clown's aura as the two sides faced a choice between the game's rules and Sin's proposal.
• Tu Shan unleashed a bloody aura and dark red armor, but Sun laughed and charged him again.
• Perfect Life stood up as Dark Clown and his teammate began fighting, while Chiyo Eon watched her own teammate and the Arbiter turned toward Sin.

Sin provoked the Arbiter after exposing its agent of slaughter, arguing that the game could still continue but daring it to execute him. The Arbiter raised the Nail of the Fallen God against Sin as Lu Ce returned to another personality and said he had expected the Arbiter to help him.

• Sin pretended to be confused while the sun attacked Tu Shan and Perfect Life tried to prevent casualties.
• The Arbiter accused Sin of exploiting a loophole, but Sin insisted the game could continue and the players could clear it within seven days.
• Sin taunted the Arbiter, saying it could ignore the newcomers but could not accept letting them leave unharmed.
• Lu Ce knocked away an All-Knowing Eye while the sun nearly defeated Tu Shan despite Perfect Life's interference.
• The Arbiter declared Sin would be executed for provoking the game's rules and formed a Nail of the Fallen God.
• Lu Ce sat down as his personality changed, said the Arbiter would help him, and the Nail of the Fallen God came down toward Sin.

The Arbiter pinned Lu Ce with the Nail of the Fallen God, suppressing his powers as Lu Ce acted as though he had forgotten himself. Xie Antong sensed that he was genuinely disoriented and trying to provoke an overload, while the Arbiter continued the execution without understanding his state.

• Lu Ce dodged backward but was pierced through the chest by the Nail of the Fallen God, which suppressed his abilities.
• Feng Wang was shocked by Lu Ce’s apparent defeat, and Xue Zou warned her as the nail’s suppression weighed down their bodies.
• Lu Ce laughed and spoke incoherently, while Xie Antong’s strained All-Knowing Eye suggested he had forgotten his identity and purpose.
• The Arbiter twisted the nail in Lu Ce’s chest and questioned him as Lu Ce wondered aloud who the Arbiter was.
• The Arbiter admitted there was no fitting reason to kill Lu Ce but raised a hand because the others strongly desired it.

Seven gods descended around Lu Ce, whose livestream cut out as the Arbiter urged them to act within the rules. Perfect Life challenged the gods while Xie Antong prepared to rescue Lu Ce, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The Arbiter froze Perfect Life and summoned seven gods, including Despair, whose arrival filled the space around the round table.
• The gods forced everyone away from the table and surrounded Lu Ce, who greeted them while impaled by the Nail of the Fallen God.
• The livestream went black, and Nie Jiutian wounded himself and pierced his ears with two beads in the Dragon Group's basement.
• The Arbiter told the gods that the rules allowed them to act, and the seven produced their own Nails of the Fallen God.
• Perfect Life challenged the gods over which game rule they were following as Xie Antong prepared to rescue Lu Ce.

Nie Jiutian recognized the seven Nails of the Fallen God as a deadly divine mechanism and realized the gods had gathered too many. In the arena, the Sun pressed his attack on Tu Shan, provoking War to hurl a nail at him.

• Nie Jiutian recalled that the Seven Killings had once slain six of the world's strongest fighters, with him as the lone survivor.
• The Arbiter removed one of the eight Nails of the Fallen God, enforcing the rule that no more than seven could appear at once.
• The Sun attacked Tu Shan despite his warning that War had arrived, and his defiant words strengthened his God Desecrator Medal.
• War threw his Nail of the Fallen God at the Sun.