On the other side.
Time had to be rewound for a while, back to the moment when the previous trial had just ended.
Cheng Shi opened his eyes and found that he had not returned to the rest area. Instead, he had appeared in a dimly lit space.
Judging by the surroundings, it seemed...
to be Nothingness?
But why was there light in the pitch-black Nothingness?
Moreover, the dim light seemed to be shining from behind him.
The stranger the scene, the faster the divine audience.
Who would it be this time?
Although he was already thoroughly familiar with the process of meeting the gods, Cheng Shi still felt his heart tighten. He instinctively wanted to turn around and investigate, but just as the muscles on his body tensed, he cautiously stopped and began carefully sensing the anomalies around him.
However, there were no anomalies around him at all. Perhaps the only anomaly was that it was too quiet here—so quiet that it felt as though he had fallen into true Nothingness.
Nothingness?
Glug...
Cheng Shi nervously swallowed, wondering if Lord of Grace, Destiny, who had punished him and then stormed off, could be standing behind him.
If he was standing silently behind him, did that mean he was angry again?
Angry at whom?
I've been behaving myself lately. He can't possibly still be angry at me...
right?
Oh no, why are my legs going weak?
Cheng Shi's mind raced as he went over everything he had done again and again, reviewing his words and scrutinizing his actions, afraid that he had somehow committed another act of blasphemy and angered this quick-tempered Lord of Grace.
But after thinking it over, he could not recall doing anything blasphemous. After pondering for a moment, he decided to take the initiative and adopt