Recaps

Cheng Shi reached the Temple of Chaos and discovered that Katarro had served as Chaos’s emissary in his place. Katarro explained how Memory’s power had filled the gap in history, while Cheng Shi began questioning what order meant from a god’s perspective.

• Cheng Shi entered the Temple of Chaos and found Katarro waiting there instead of the god.
• Katarro told Cheng Shi that the emissary position had always belonged to him, and Cheng Shi demanded to know why Katarro had occupied it.
• Katarro explained that he had left Everbloom Town and that Memory’s power had filled the historical gap left by Cheng Shi’s disappearance, making him a substitute emissary.
• Cheng Shi learned that the Isle of Hope had vanished from the mortal dimension, though its inhabitants believed the universe had not changed.
• Cheng Shi questioned why Chaos’s temple seemed orderly, and Katarro explained that human ideas of order might mean nothing to beings on a universal scale.

Cheng Shi met Chaos in its temple and was offered the chance to become its emissary by accepting a new place in its service. He was left weighing the powerful gift against his oath and identity as a wayfarer of Nothingness.

• Katarro told Cheng Shi that Chaos was present throughout the temple, and Chaos revealed itself through shifting symbols, colors, and a gigantic hand.
• Chaos asked whether Cheng Shi was still Ultraman, and Cheng Shi insisted he was both Cheng Shi and Chaos's emissary, Ultraman.
• Chaos rebuked Cheng Shi for making an offering to Sinking in its hall, then said some greed was acceptable but required restraint.
• Chaos offered to bestow the name Cheng Shi and restore what belonged to him if he became its subordinate servant instead of a wayfarer of Nothingness.
• Cheng Shi suspected the offer might be part of a scheme and struggled with the temptation to become a genuine emissary.

Cheng Shi refused Chaos’s offer to become its emissary rather than betray Destiny, and Chaos sent him away after the trial produced new authority for Filth and Decay. Katarro then learned that Order wanted to see Chaos, whose next arrangements still depended on whether Cheng Shi might change his mind.

• Cheng Shi asked whether accepting Chaos’s offer would make him betray Destiny, then refused to become Chaos’s emissary.
• Chaos sent Cheng Shi out of the hall and told Katarro that the trial’s new authority belonged to Filth and Decay.
• Katarro asked why Chaos had tested Cheng Shi, and Chaos said it had hoped Destiny might change but had lost the bet.
• Chaos told Katarro to serve as its emissary and wait to see whether Cheng Shi would change his mind.
• Katarro asked about Chaos’s true will in another dimension, and Chaos said Order was in trouble there.
• Katarro turned the divine throne to reveal the chained tome of laws, and Order demanded that Chaos come see it.

Cheng Shi woke after meeting Chaos and sought answers from Deception about his broken oath and missing Mask. Deception revealed that he had never placed a Mask at the Starting Point of Life Path, leaving Cheng Shi to realize he had been mocked into blaming himself.

• Destiny confronted Chaos over the fate of his protected believer, and the two gods fought in the void.
• Cheng Shi woke on his rooftop, wondered what Chaos meant by saying the glory did not belong to him yet, and decided to ask a god for answers.
• Cheng Shi recited Destiny’s prayer to a golden Mask and was summoned before Deception, who mocked him for using another god’s prayer.
• Cheng Shi asked Deception why he had made him break his oath, and Deception challenged his claim that there had been no Mask at the Starting Point of Life Path.
• Deception revealed that he had never put a Mask there, and Cheng Shi realized he had been blaming himself for a Mask that did not exist.

Cheng Shi questioned Deception about its plans for him and concluded that it had been promoting Faith Fusion, then wondered whether Destiny might also merge with Deception. Destiny summoned him and ordered him to reclaim Deception's divine power and help the god, granting him the power to wield Nothingness as a reward.

• Cheng Shi asked Deception whether it had made him an emissary and test subject to advance Faith Fusion, and Deception replied only that his guesses were not bad.
• Back on his rooftop, Cheng Shi inferred that Deception and Destiny might be considering a fusion, then was summoned into the void again.
• Cheng Shi tried to reassure Destiny of his loyalty, but Destiny noted that Deception had just met with him and praised him for staying on Destiny's path rather than embracing Chaos.
• Destiny revealed that Deception had lost the aid of Destiny's favored child and ordered Cheng Shi to reclaim Deception's divine power and provide measured assistance.
• Destiny granted Cheng Shi the power to wield Nothingness, then sent a surge of soul power into his consciousness, knocking him unconscious.

Deception confronted Destiny over their wager and sought to secure a new arrangement, while Death refused to cooperate with Deception and kept the New Authority Divinity taken from Deception’s believer. The chapter left Death facing Destiny’s demand for an explanation.

• Deception accused Destiny of interfering with the trial and losing their wager, then offered a compromise involving the Agreement of Nothingness.
• Destiny honored the wager but warned Deception that Chaos was a poor choice, insisting that the future destination could not be changed.
• Deception visited Death at Fishbone Hall and demanded the Fear New Authority Divinity taken from Deception’s believer.
• Death explained that Fear had helped split Order apart and warned that such dangerous New Authority was beyond the believer’s ability to handle.
• Death refused Deception’s request to join forces and whipped Deception away from Fishbone Hall.
• Destiny appeared before Death and demanded to know why Death had taken the New Authority Divinity from Destiny’s believer.

Cheng Shi discovered that his new Void's Reflection talent let him switch between Destiny and Deception by touching fingertips with his shadow. He realized he had been an Oathbreaker since the start of the Faith Game, though he still did not know the divine agreement behind his two Lords of Grace.

• Cheng Shi checked his player panel and found the new Void's Reflection talent, which let him exchange identities with his shadow to switch faiths.
• Cheng Shi touched his shadow's fingertip and changed his current faith from Destiny to Deception.
• Cheng Shi saw that his Destiny Oathbreak talent had become Aspects of All Beings, which granted him the special item Mask of All Beings in place of the Special Trial reward.
• Cheng Shi recalled that he had chosen the Mask over the Dice of Destiny at the Starting Point of Life Path, making him the Faith Game's first surviving Oathbreaker.
• Cheng Shi wondered what his relationship was with Deception, Destiny, and Nothingness, then laughed again as Xie Yang called him creepy.

Cheng Shi speculated that Deception and Destiny were pursuing different paths to expand their authorities and become greater gods, possibly involving Chaos and Folly. While experimenting with switching faiths, he discovered that his shadow behaved differently under Deception and Destiny, suggesting it carried traces of each god’s will.

• Cheng Shi reasoned that the gods might steal, exchange, and fuse authorities to expand their power and become omniscient and omnipotent.
• Cheng Shi wondered whether Destiny’s connection to Galiusha pointed toward Folly, and resolved to ask a history-minded teammate about the fall of the Tower of Reason.
• After hours of speculation, Cheng Shi stopped and found that Xie Yang had gone on another date.
• Cheng Shi played with his shadow while switching between Destiny and Deception, and the shadow raised its middle finger when he teased it under Deception.
• Cheng Shi observed that the shadow reacted more slowly when carrying Destiny’s faith and concluded that shadows might bear traces of their gods’ wills.

Cheng Shi checked the leaderboards and gathered information about the Chosen, confirming that the prophecy they had pursued had ended. He learned that Hu Xuan might be the player ranked first in Birth and that the top players still guarded their hard-won knowledge.

• Cheng Shi saw that Li Jingming had reached first place in Deception and that Zhen Xin's score had started rising again.
• Cheng Shi searched the Priest and Mage channels and found that most Chosen who had lost points were climbing back toward their former rankings.
• A Mage compiled data showing that several Chosen had yet to return to their places, including those of Life, Filth and Decay, Time, and Destiny.
• Cheng Shi noticed that the Birth leaderboard's top player was named Eternal Day and suspected she was Hu Xuan, the prospective Birth Emissary he had met.
• Cheng Shi reviewed the information in the Mage channel and confirmed that the prophecy had ended, easing his worry about the Chosen descending during future trials.

After reflecting on the Concentric Dagger and the possible fate of his former teammates, Cheng Shi entered a new Prosperity trial, confident it would be easy enough for him to freeload. The trial matched six teammates and began with a five-day objective to ignite a fire that would set the wilderness ablaze.

• Cheng Shi sorted through his previous trial's spoils, including the Prosperity Leaf Vein, a page recording Decay's S-rank talent Dye Plague, and more than a hundred potions.
• Cheng Shi realized that Slice Therius's dagger could kill a main personality, while the Concentric Dagger could separate personalities, and suspected Li Zhi had wanted the former to kill his own main body.
• Cheng Shi wondered whether the teammates saved by Slice Therius's dagger had survived only as slice personalities, then guiltily decided his earlier deception had balanced out theirs.
• Cheng Shi watched Xie Yang's love life from afar until the Special Trial began several days later.
• Cheng Shi saw that the new trial, Spark Will Die, Prosperity, was a Prosperity game and expected an easy run in which he could freeload.
• The game matched Cheng Shi with five teammates and set the objective of igniting a fire in the silent night that would set the wilderness ablaze within five days.

Cheng Shi and five teammates awoke in Sighing Forest, an underground domain of decay where a prosperity trial would be especially difficult. The group revealed several formidable players, leaving Cheng Shi worried that his mismatched team would bring him trouble.

• Cheng Shi realized the trial had placed the team underground, in the decaying Sighing Forest, and assessed that prosperity's influence there was weak.
• A feather-cloaked man explained that five hours remained before nightfall, when the Twisted Night Pythons would awaken from the rotten trees.
• Hong Lin introduced herself as a druid with a score of 2567 and threatened to pluck the feather-cloaked man's feathers after he called her Baldy.
• The feather-cloaked man introduced himself as Zhen, a Rot Singer with a score of 2538, and Hong Lin was revealed to be prosperity's chosen one.
• Zuo Qiu identified himself as a History School historian with a score of 2343, while Cheng Shi worried that another historian had entered his trial.

Cheng Shi met his teammates in the underground trial, including historian Zuo Qiu, Trap Master Jiang Wu Mei, and a concealed Puppet Master. When Hong Lin recognized Cheng Shi as a Fate Weaver and linked him to the rumor that he was Zhen Yi’s new lover, the group fixated on him and left him regretting his earlier deception.

• Zuo Qiu introduced himself as a History School historian who researched underground changes, but refused to share what he had witnessed.
• Jiang Wu Mei identified himself as a Trap Master, and the group discovered that a silent girl had concealed herself behind a lifelike woman puppet.
• Cheng Shi assessed his teammates as dangerous and resolved to stay unnoticed in the trial.
• Hong Lin recognized Cheng Shi as a Fate Weaver and connected him to the rumor that he was Zhen Yi’s new lover.
• The teammates eagerly scrutinized Cheng Shi, while he suspected Hu Wei had spread the rumor and silently cursed his own bad luck.

At the start of the Prosperity Trial, Hong Lin suspected Cheng Shi was Zhen Yi and attacked to test him, but Lips of Foolish Play accidentally confirmed the suspicion. Cheng Shi improvised a lie to deny being Zhen Yi, and Hong Lin asked whether he had once impersonated her.

• Cheng Shi urged the group to search for the Prosperity Trial's target, but Hong Lin and the historian pressed him to share his story with Zhen Yi.
• Hong Lin grew suspicious of Cheng Shi and threw a probing spear at him, accusing him of possibly being Zhen Yi in disguise.
• Lips of Foolish Play blurted out that Hong Lin had found it, frightening everyone into preparing for a fight.
• Cheng Shi claimed Zhen Yi had badmouthed him and sought revenge, then quickly denied being her.
• Hong Lin asked Cheng Shi whether he had once impersonated Zhen Yi.

Cheng Shi talked his way out of Hong Lin’s suspicions and helped the group refocus on the trial. They split up to search the forest for a fading spark that could ignite the Prairie Fire, leaving Cheng Shi paired with Hong Lin.

• Cheng Shi told Hong Lin how he had impersonated Zhen Yi, then coaxed her into admitting that Zhen Yi had wronged her too.
• Hong Lin questioned whether Cheng Shi was really a Fate Weaver, but he deflected her suspicions and steered the group back to the trial.
• The group planned to search the forest in pairs, using flare guns to signal clues and regrouping if the Sighing Tide appeared.
• The Puppet Master chose to travel with Zuo Qiu, while Trap Master paired with Feathered Brother, who represented Decay.
• Cheng Shi watched Zuo Qiu carry the Puppet Master’s true body and remarked that it must be nice; Hong Lin asked if he wanted to have some fun too.

Cheng Shi and Hong Lin searched the forest for the Twisted Night Python until Hong Lin transformed into a giant Jungle Leopard and raced off to speed up the search. Cheng Shi waited behind, but Hong Lin soon charged back toward him.

• Hong Lin told Cheng Shi not to call her Divine Chosen or Big Sis and warned him not to deceive her about being Zhen Yi.
• Hong Lin gave Cheng Shi her wooden spear and led him through the forest, but the Python's shed leaves made its tracks difficult to follow.
• Hong Lin told Cheng Shi to stay put, then transformed into an enormous Jungle Leopard and raced away at incredible speed.
• Cheng Shi waited with his spear, planning to signal his teammates if Hong Lin did not return.
• Hong Lin came charging back through the forest, and Cheng Shi worried she meant to attack him.

Cheng Shi tried to flee the rapidly advancing Sighing Tide, but Hong Lin revealed that she had been testing him and offered to pull him to safety if he told her who he was. When Hong Lin admitted she had found no clues, Cheng Shi stopped running and let the Tide swallow him.

• Hong Lin's Big Cat charged past Cheng Shi and warned him that the Sighing Tide was coming.
• Cheng Shi used Edict of Passage and the Dice of Destiny to boost his speed, then ran on all fours as the Tide rapidly caught up.
• Cheng Shi prepared to use Past Prosperity, but Hong Lin returned beside him and took the bottle with her tail.
• Hong Lin said she was not afraid of the Sighing Tide and offered to save Cheng Shi if he revealed his identity.
• Cheng Shi asked whether Hong Lin had found clues, and after she said no, he stopped running and let the Sighing Tide engulf him.

Cheng Shi gambled that Hong Lin meant him no harm, and she rescued him from Sighing Tide before punishing him for calling her Big Cat. After he convinced her he was not Zhen Yi, he realized Tao Yi had told her about him, and Hong Lin said Tao Yi was doing well.

• Hong Lin turned back into the fog, bound the aged Cheng Shi with her tail, and carried him away from Sighing Tide.
• Cheng Shi asked Hong Lin whose friend she was, and she angrily dragged him across the forest floor for calling her Big Cat.
• After the fog slowed, Hong Lin threw Cheng Shi against a tree and threatened him with a wooden spear while accusing him of being Zhen Yi.
• Cheng Shi explained that he was a Fate Weaver and joked that he had trained to sprint on all fours, convincing Hong Lin he was not Zhen Yi.
• Hong Lin inspected Cheng Shi's Past Prosperity, and he realized she was Tao Yi's friend.
• Hong Lin confirmed Tao Yi was doing well, though she said Tao Yi kept thinking about wild men.

Hong Lin revealed how Tao Yi had deduced Cheng Shi’s identity and killed Su Yida, while Cheng Shi reasoned that the missing target or its clues lay inside the Sighing Tide. Hong Lin sent him back into the fog with the Past Prosperity potion, where Decay transformed him into Cheng Shi again.

• Hong Lin told Cheng Shi that Tao Yi had suspected he was a liar and a Fate Weaver, though she had not uncovered his true identity.
• Hong Lin explained that Tao Yi used a Death Dagger to kill Su Yida after suspecting he was a Master of Trickery, and had jumped into the Void-Snout Devouring Pig while carrying Cheng Shi because she followed the high school student’s gaze.
• Cheng Shi argued that the Prosperity trial’s challenge was protecting its target, not finding them, and suggested that the target or related clues were inside the Sighing Tide.
• Hong Lin carried Cheng Shi to the fog, put the Past Prosperity bottle in his arms, and tossed him inside.
• The power of Decay transformed Cheng Xiaoshi into Cheng Shi again.

Cheng Shi and Hong Lin explored the mist, found a footprint, and rescued Zuo Qiu and the young puppet master from Decay using Newborn's Baptism. Their reunion turned hostile when Feathered Brother arrived and provoked Hong Lin, who attacked him.

• Hong Lin gave Cheng Shi Newborn's Baptism, and he used his saliva to activate it before continuing into the mist with her.
• Cheng Shi found a faintly glowing footprint and fired the historian's flare gun to summon the Hunter teammate.
• The young puppet master arrived carrying the unconscious Zuo Qiu, whose body had been badly eroded by Decay.
• Cheng Shi used Newborn's Baptism to revive Zuo Qiu and protect the young puppet master's puppet, and Zuo Qiu thanked her for saving him.
• Feathered Brother arrived unaffected by the mist, provoked Hong Lin, and she pounced on him.

Cheng Shi's group left Hong Lin and Zhen Yi fighting in the Sighing Tide and followed the Hunter toward the missing footprints. After the others departed, Hong Lin and Zhen Yi stopped fighting and discussed their deal, which revealed Zhen Yi had allied with Only Carved Rotten Wood to seek an audience with God.

• Zhen Yi sang a Rotten Chant and summoned decaying hands, while Hong Lin fought him with the power of Prosperity.
• Cheng Shi realized the Puppet Master was using her strings to shield the group from Zhen Yi's song.
• The Hunter found the trail of the missing footprints and led the group into the mist, while Zuo Qiu explained that Hong Lin and Zhen Yi had once worked together to kill a rival.
• After the group left, Hong Lin and Zhen Yi stopped fighting and resumed their conversation about a deal.
• Zhen Yi admitted he had allied with Only Carved Rotten Wood, who promised to help him gain an audience with God, and Hong Lin called him the biggest idiot in the world.

Cheng Shi's group found a freshly mauled Fungus-Footed Person in the Sighing Forest and suspected the corpse and its fluorescent lamp concealed something unusual. The Hunter followed the victim's trail to a Mist Gate, where the Decay was dangerously strong.

• The Hunter led Cheng Shi, Zuo Qiu, and the others to a mangled corpse beneath a Twisted Night Python tree, and Hong Lin identified the victim as a Fungus-Footed Person.
• Zuo Qiu identified the corpse's broken lamp as a fluorescent-liquid lamp, while Cheng Shi questioned why its owner had carried it through the fog.
• Cheng Shi noticed that the corpse showed no signs of Decay and suspected that the lamp was connected to the Fungus-Footed Person's survival.
• Hong Lin confronted Zuo Qiu about the lamp, but he interrupted her to announce that they had found a Mist Gate.
• The Hunter warned that the Fungus-Footed Person's fluorescent trail entered the gate and that the Decay beyond it was unusually strong.

Cheng Shi and his companions discovered that the Fungus-Footed Person’s lamp converted prosperity into Decay, allowing him to cross Mist Gate. They decided to enter the unstable passage to search for the Spark, with Zuo Qiu forced to lead the way carrying the lamp.

• Hong Lin found traces of prosperity in the lamp’s fluorescent liquid and demonstrated that it transformed prosperity into Decay.
• Cheng Shi deduced that the Fungus-Footed Person had used the lamp to cross Mist Gate and that the group would need to enter the passage to find the Spark.
• The companions left the decision to Cheng Shi, and Hong Lin said she trusted his judgment.
• Cheng Shi proposed removing Newborn’s Baptism and having Zuo Qiu carry the lamp at the front; the group agreed, and Zuo Qiu reluctantly prepared to lead.

Cheng Shi and his companions crossed Mist Gate, expecting to emerge in another misty forest, but arrived at a Fungus-Footed People village on the surface of the Isle of Hope. The villagers recognized Hong Lin as a follower of prosperity and believed the group had come with Abul, whose whereabouts remained unknown.

• Zuo Qiu led the group through the spatial passage using the lamp, whose converted power of decay shielded them from the space’s corrosion.
• At the next Mist Gate, Cheng Shi realized the others were relying on his supposed Fate Weaver judgment, so he could only tell Hong Lin to stay safe before she entered.
• The group emerged on a sacrificial platform in a sunny woodland village, surrounded by praying Fungus-Footed People.
• Hong Lin answered the villagers’ prayer with the power of prosperity, convincing them that the group were followers of their deity rather than invaders.
• The villagers identified the lamp as the Desolate Lamp Abul had taken and asked where Abul was.

The players learned that the Fungus-Footed People’s isolated settlement was not in the southwestern rainforest but in the Sighing Forest, where they had been exiled for an unknown offense. The clan leader explained that a sliver of mist let the underground Dark Sun reach their refuge, leaving the tribe to survive between Prosperity’s wrath and Decay.

• Zuo Qiu revealed the broken lantern, and the Fungus-Footed People mourned Abul, whom they believed Eupusca had taken.
• The clan leader welcomed the players into his home, where Cheng Shi recognized the building’s wood as Twisted Night Python and Zuo Qiu consulted his history book.
• The clan leader said mist had cut off every road from the tribe and that generations of leaders had only heard stories of the southwestern rainforest.
• Hunter realized the sunlight on the tribe’s land was the underground Dark Sun, and the players recognized they were still beneath the Isle of Hope.
• The clan leader said the Fungus-Footed People had once lived in the rainforest but were exiled to the Sighing Forest for a forgotten crime, where a patch of mist allowed them to survive.

Hong Lin and her companions learned that the Fungus-Footed People had mistaken her for a divine envoy who would free them from their long exile. Cheng Shi exploited their fading hope to convince them that Prosperity had forgiven them, leaving the tribe jubilant and his shocked companions wondering what he would do next.

• The old patriarch pleaded with Hong Lin to confirm that she was Prosperity’s divine envoy, but she stayed silent, and the Fungus-Footed People began to despair.
• Cheng Shi stepped forward, claimed that Prosperity had sent them with a new divine revelation, and told the tribe that their disappointment had been a final trial.
• Cheng Shi revealed the Baptism of New Life, whose sprout convinced the old patriarch that Cheng Shi was divinely blessed.
• The old patriarch gave his name as Aluveni and led the tribe in praising Prosperity.
• Hong Lin confronted Cheng Shi, who explained that he was reigniting the Fungus-Footed People’s hope to fulfill the trial of starting a fire across the wilderness.