Cheng Shi knew everything.
As everyone knew, Silence was soundless yet loved stealing secrets. Most of His followers stayed close to His Will, so they were extremely interested in other people's secrets.
If a Silent believer overheard your secret, don't panic. At least they wouldn't broadcast your secret like certain loudmouthed Deceptions.
Even Cheng Shi, at most a little noisy, would never casually make your secret public.
So the good news was that your secret was still a secret.
The bad news was that one person's secret had now become two people's secret.
Cheng Shi had heard Cheng Shi's secret, and the means of "eavesdropping" was naturally that so-called S-rank holy artifact, Silence Incarnate Puppet.
It was indeed a holy artifact granted by Silence. However, its function was not limited to replicating the momentary "all things ultimately return to silence." It also had a function Cheng Shi had kept hidden: as long as someone picked it up, Cheng Shi could hear whatever Silence Incarnate Puppet heard.
Neither the void nor any method in the real world could block those sounds. In other words, even if Cheng Shi threw it into his personal space, Cheng Shi could still hear everything clearly.
But Cheng Shi had not initially harbored such intentions. He was an upright person who took no pleasure in eavesdropping on other people's privacy, especially that of friends he had acknowledged.
He had given away the item because he felt it was the most valuable thing he possessed. After giving it away, he had never once eavesdropped on Cheng Shi.
That was until he and Ji Yue began searching for Cheng Shi again. He chose what he believed was the correct path once more, yet he could not even see a trace of him...
At that moment, competitive spirit taking