...then instantly pulled his foot back.
Starting from the fourth step, the influence of chaos upon mortals could no longer be ignored. So if he merely repeated the same rhythm as before, Cheng Shi truly had no idea how he could cross the fifth step and reach the sixth.
After all, he didn't know ballet. Twisting his body in place wouldn't help him lie down on the sixth step, either.
Therefore, if he wanted to complete Lord of Grace's "task," he had no choice but to find another way.
Cheng Shi knew his own limitations. After pondering for a moment, he quickly thought of a painless way to climb the stairs:
Switch back to Destiny and cheat with Dice.
Da Yi had actually used this trick before. That reckless Light-Bending Phantom had flashed straight to the tenth step, then instantly transformed into symbols that scattered through the air. It had given Cheng Shi quite a fright at the time.
But Da Yi turning into symbols didn't mean Cheng Shi would turn into symbols as well. His target was only the sixth step, not the tenth. Zhen Xin had already proven with her own body that the most a mortal could do after climbing to the sixth step was die. At least they wouldn't die by turning into symbols.
Besides, setting aside whether God of Merriment in the temple above would allow him to simply die like that, would The Great One in Fishbone Hall really pretend not to know him after they met again?
Impossible. He would definitely save this pious and efficient employee of his.
Thinking about it this way, the path from life to death seemed to have long since been paved for him. Almost all the "rulers" he had encountered were allies, so occasionally courting death probably