Recaps

Cheng Shi sought the God of Deception’s approval for a plan to let Hong Lin inherit Prosperity’s authority, while weighing the risks and his own ambitions. The God of Deception agreed that the plan could work, and Cheng Shi returned to the rainforest and asked Hong Lin if she wanted to become Prosperity’s emissary.

• Cheng Shi refused the enormous skull’s offer to become an apostle of Life, and the God of Deception arrived and whisked him away from Fishbone Hall.
• Cheng Shi praised the God of Deception and asked whether his plan for Hong Lin to inherit Prosperity’s authority could work; the God agreed, while warning him about the risks and his ambitions.
• Cheng Shi admitted he wanted Hong Lin to become an emissary so he could learn more about the gods, but decided he would give up the opportunity rather than choose for her.
• The God of Deception sent Cheng Shi back to the Sighing Forest, where he woke beside Hong Lin and asked whether she wanted to become Prosperity’s emissary.

Cheng Shi asked Hong Lin to become a Divine Envoy and replace Prosperity, and she agreed after hearing his plan. Hong Lin explained how a series of unlikely rescues shaped her faith in fate, and the chapter ended with Cheng Shi promising they would survive their dangerous gamble.

• Cheng Shi asked Hong Lin to become a Divine Envoy with the support of Death, Deception, and possibly Destiny, and she agreed.
• Hong Lin explained that she wanted greater power to protect herself and her friends, then asked Cheng Shi to tell her the full plan.
• Hong Lin recounted how Professor Chen’s experiments, Tao Yi’s lottery winnings, and the Faith Game repeatedly saved her life.
• Hong Lin said she believed her good luck should become a weapon and that wielding Prosperity’s authority could protect her friends.
• Cheng Shi recorded the story of the Fungus-Footed People and the Divine Envoy in the history of the Isle of Hope.
• Hong Lin asked whether they would die, and Cheng Shi firmly promised they would not.

After Truth imprisoned Prosperity and took Dizer’s body and authority, Deception summoned Order to rule on who could inherit Prosperity’s remaining power. She brought Flazhol—revealed as Cheng Shi’s Lord of Grace—before the gods, where the dispute over altered history and grafted faith remained unresolved.

• Truth sealed Prosperity in the Tower of Essence, took Eupusca’s bloodline, and claimed Dizer’s body and identity.
• Deception challenged Truth’s attempt to inherit Prosperity’s authority and summoned Order to convene the Gods’ Covenant Assembly.
• Order ruled that Deception had no right of inheritance, so Deception brought Cheng Shi and Hong Lin before the gods and identified Cheng Shi as Prosperity’s eldest daughter, Flazhol.
• Memory recognized Cheng Shi’s history as altered, and Truth questioned when Deception and Memory had begun cooperating.
• Cheng Shi objected to Folly’s argument, but Order said humans could not participate in the assembly.
• Two gods spoke in response: one objected and the other agreed.

After Truth proposed inheriting Prosperity’s assimilation authority, a catastrophic explosion wiped out every trace of Prosperity. Death revealed that the Covenant had issued Prosperity’s Final Edict upon her fall, and Cheng Shi realized that Prosperity had destroyed herself.

• Folly left after dismissing the debate, and Truth said she had no objection to Memory exercising her authority.
• Truth proposed inheriting Prosperity’s assimilation authority and giving her other authorities to Flazhol.
• A tremendous explosion swept through the void, knocked Cheng Shi and Hong Lin unconscious, and left them as skulls beneath Death’s Bone Throne.
• Death explained that the Covenant had issued Prosperity’s Final Edict because a True God had fallen, and said only Life and Death remained.
• Cheng Shi recalled that the Covenant prevented gods from killing one another and concluded that Prosperity had killed herself.

Cheng Shi realized that Prosperity’s death had fulfilled her will by spreading her authority among the gods, while Hong Lin learned that she could inherit Prosperity’s remaining rights under Destiny. The chapter ended with Hong Lin accepting the contract and being sent away with a Dice of Destiny.

• Death explained that Prosperity’s final edict had divided her authority among the gods and offered Cheng Shi the authority of Purity.
• Cheng Shi argued that the gods’ acceptance of Prosperity’s gifts would bring Prosperity into every powerful being in the universe.
• Death explained to Hong Lin that Prosperity’s followers could still receive trials and blessings through the Covenant, though no one could now grant Prosperity’s trial rewards.
• Destiny offered Hong Lin a contract to become its dependent while continuing along Prosperity’s path, with the right to reward her followers but no authority or Covenant voting rights.
• Hong Lin signed the contract, received a twenty-four-sided Dice of Destiny, and was sent out of the void.

Cheng Shi encountered Deception and Destiny in the void and learned that his future self, Cheng Dashi, had returned to create an opportunity within Destiny’s trial. After the gods departed, Cheng Shi was left wondering whether Cheng Dashi had changed fate or played a part in its predetermined course.

• Cheng Shi praised the eyes in the void, mistook Deception for Destiny, and tried to recover with an improvised blessing.
• Destiny arrived, said it had returned to her the authority granted under the covenant, and declared Prosperity’s fall ended.
• Deception teased Destiny about seeking authority from the one in the Sea of Desire, while Cheng Shi listened for clues about Cheng Dashi’s return.
• Destiny explained that Cheng Dashi had slipped back through a flaw caused by a god of Nothingness and had asked to take part in a predetermined play filled with change.
• Deception said Cheng Dashi had only created an opportunity and that the events afterward unfolded through Destiny’s changes.
• Deception left, and Cheng Shi wondered whether Cheng Dashi had changed fate or whether his return had served a different purpose.

Cheng Shi returned from Nothingness with a gift of Prosperity’s vitality authority for Hong Lin and learned that Destiny had been manipulating events and concealing the truth. Back in the Sighing Forest, he found Hong Lin hailed as a Divine Envoy by the liberated Fungus-Footed People, whose faith and hope endured despite Prosperity’s fall.

• Deception summoned Cheng Shi again and gave him a flourishing branch that manifested Prosperity’s vitality authority, telling him to deliver it to his cat friend.
• Deception explained that Destiny had secretly arranged for Hong Lin to receive Prosperity’s gift and had bound her to a vow of fate, making her Destiny’s worker.
• Deception warned Cheng Shi that Destiny was better at lying than she was and suggested Cheng Shi’s future self had used reverse psychology to change events.
• Cheng Shi reasoned that his future self had returned to alter the present, though he remained unsure whether Destiny or Deception had lied about the future.
• Cheng Shi returned to the Sighing Forest and found it stripped of vitality, while the Fungus-Footed People remained unharmed and praised Hong Lin as their Divine Envoy.

Cheng Shi reunited with Hong Lin after the trial, gave her prosperity’s authority, and learned how Zhen Yi had tricked her. He left the trial and received his settlement rewards, including partial Vitality authority and an S performance rating.

• Hong Lin showed Cheng Shi her Dice of Destiny, and they reaffirmed their belief in fate.
• Cheng Shi gave Hong Lin Newborn’s Baptism and prosperity’s authority, then challenged her to answer a truth question with the Tongue of Lies.
• Hong Lin revealed that Zhen Yi had tricked her by becoming a Jungle Leopard.
• Hong Lin asked about the Fated, and Cheng Shi claimed Destiny would bring its members together when they needed to meet.
• Cheng Shi ended the trial by touching his shadow and received an S-rated settlement with a Lush Antler Crown, a Jungle Tribe Hero Medal, and partial Vitality authority.

After the Trial, the survivors returned to reality with consequences and clues that pointed toward hidden divine powers. Zhen Xin decoded a symbol as the name Origin and decided to seek her elder sister, leaving the story poised for the next volume.

• Zuo Qiu secretly embellished his historical records with a tale about the Blood Puppets and hoped that future readers would keep his existence alive.
• An Jing cleaned Little Caiwei and resolved to investigate Memory after recalling a possible sighting of several divine beings during the Trial.
• Zhen returned alive after Decay accepted him again, but he bore Oathbreak Curses from both Decay and Prosperity and lost twenty points.
• Hong Lin told Tao Yi that Cheng Shi was a Fate Weaver and that she had added Tao Yi’s three reward points, then destroyed her phone in frustration.
• Zhen Xin found a distorted symbol in her shadow, traced it to ancient writing, and decoded it as the divine name Origin.
• Zhen Xin’s shadow returned to normal as she resolved to find her elder sister, and the author announced the end of Volume One and the start of Volume Two.

Cheng Shi received a partial portion of Prosperity’s Vitality Authority and the Lush Antler Crown as rewards from Hong Lin, giving him powerful survival and revival abilities. The chapter left him delighted with his gains and wondering whether he had also accidentally kept some divine nature.

• Cheng Shi examined his trial score and received part of Prosperity’s Vitality Authority as a reward.
• Hong Lin became the master of Prosperity’s vault and tried to give Cheng Shi the complete Authority, but the Covenant forced her to split it.
• Hong Lin bestowed the partial Vitality Authority on Cheng Shi, granting him boundless vitality until it was completely exhausted.
• Cheng Shi tried on the Lush Antler Crown and discovered that it could revive a lifeform once through healing.
• Cheng Shi celebrated his new artifacts and friendship with Flazhol, then wondered whether he had forgotten to return some divine nature.

Cheng Shi examined his trial rewards and argued with Lips of Foolish Play and Tongue of Lies, eventually learning that the puppet master might be Zhen Xin. After Tongue of Lies embarrassed him in front of Xie Yang, Cheng Shi tried to laugh off the misunderstanding.

• Cheng Shi hung the Jungle Tribe Hero Medal in his warehouse and decided it was useless.
• Lips of Foolish Play recited a bizarre fabricated secret from the Fungus-Footed People’s thank-you letter, and Tongue of Lies slapped Cheng Shi whenever he claimed Mouth Brother was lying.
• Cheng Shi repeatedly used Tongue of Lies’ power on himself until the tongue gave up the name Zhen Xin as its former master.
• Lips of Foolish Play said Tongue of Lies was lying, then admitted it had a relationship with the tongue and explained that without it, the tongue would get cold.
• Cheng Shi sat on the rooftop, but Lips of Foolish Play twisted his words about the clogged toilet and eating too much, making Xie Yang flee after misunderstanding him.

After receiving a walkie-talkie, Cheng Shi spoke with Hong Lin about her audience with Birth and tried to identify who was calling him. The calls revealed that Zhen Yi had borrowed Zhen Xin's device—and Hong Lin claimed the sisters were the same person.

• Cheng Shi stored the walkie-talkie Hong Lin had given him, then answered when it began ringing.
• Hong Lin described paying respects to Birth and said the divine pillar was more extraordinary than Death.
• Cheng Shi suspected the caller might be Zhen Yi, tested her with the name, and confirmed it was her when she reacted angrily.
• Zhen Yi said she had called using her big sister's walkie-talkie, and Cheng Shi guessed that Zhen Xin was a magician before hanging up.
• Hong Lin called back, recognized Zhen Yi's involvement, and told Cheng Shi that she and her sister were the same person.

Cheng Shi spoke with Hong Lin over the walkie-talkie and learned that she had inherited Prosperity’s authority, while confirming that Zhen Xin and Zhen Yi were personalities of the same person. Hong Lin revealed that Birth had summoned her without speaking, and Cheng Shi ended the conversation suspecting that Hong Lin and Zhen Yi shared a secret from Birth’s trial.

• Cheng Shi realized Zhen Yi had used her knowledge of Hong Lin and the trial to deceive him, then tossed the walkie-talkie out of the warehouse.
• Hong Lin called Cheng Shi back, proved her identity by saying that Zhen Yi had died and her authority was now with Hong Lin, and explained that the walkie-talkie had been meant for Zhen Xin.
• Hong Lin told Cheng Shi that Zhen Xin was the original personality and Zhen Yi was the younger sister personality she had imagined.
• Hong Lin described how inheriting Prosperity’s authority let her examine and settle countless trials at once, and Cheng Shi warned her not to seek a higher role.
• Hong Lin told Cheng Shi that Birth had summoned her without speaking or revealing Her form, and both recognized that Zhen Yi had used the same opening line with Cheng Shi.
• Cheng Shi reconsidered Hong Lin’s secret with Zhen Yi and began to suspect it involved their encounter in Birth’s trial and Hong Lin’s transformation into a Jungle Leopard.

Cheng Shi questioned Hong Lin about Birth’s summons and gathered information about the Fated Ones, especially Blind Man. The chapter ended with Hong Lin revealing that Blind Man possessed sixteen Dice of Destiny.

• Cheng Shi and Hong Lin could not determine why Birth had summoned Hong Lin into Nothingness, and Cheng Shi wondered whether Birth was trying to find him.
• Cheng Shi indirectly gathered intelligence from Hong Lin while she repeatedly tried to learn his leaderboard score, eventually suspecting he was suppressing it.
• Cheng Shi asked about Blind Man, and Hong Lin identified her as An Mingyu, a Prophet close to Zhen Xin and hostile toward Zhen Yi.
• Hong Lin said Blind Man had lost her sight after Faith Game descended but could perceive the flow of Destiny, and she had never apparently met Destiny.
• Hong Lin revealed that Blind Man possessed sixteen Dice of Destiny, leaving Cheng Shi stunned.

Cheng Shi learned that the Blind Man owned sixteen Dice of Destiny and persuaded Hong Lin to provide him with spiritual-power-enhancing items during a future Prosperity trial. He used Hong Lin’s phone to contact the Blind Man and hint that Prosperity had fallen, setting her curiosity in motion while drawing the attention of another mysterious contact.

• Cheng Shi learned that the Blind Man had sixteen distinct Dice of Destiny, ranging from six to twenty-one sides.
• Hong Lin offered to find Cheng Shi items that could enhance spiritual power and let him continue borrowing the divinity he had temporarily stored.
• Cheng Shi called the Blind Man, disguised his voice, and asked whether a believer should pursue the vacant throne of a fallen deity; he claimed to believe in Prosperity before hanging up.
• The Blind Man tried to divine the caller, contacted Hong Lin, and decided to investigate the caller and Prosperity’s fall.
• Cheng Shi called another contact, who recognized him, while the man in hemp clothes wondered what kind of Memory Hong Lin’s new friend would become.

Cheng Shi tried to restock his food and plan a steady climb up the Ladder of Audience while pondering the meaning of the Faith Game after Prosperity's death. He accepted the chance to attend the mysterious Fool's Society and awaited the invitation's countdown.

• Cheng Shi ordered solo instances to replenish his warehouses and planned how to close the score gap with the Chosen before the year's end.
• Cheng Shi saw that the game had returned to normal, but worried that the calm hid the consequences of Prosperity's death.
• Cheng Shi reflected on whether the gods at the ends of the faith paths truly existed and what the Faith Game meant to its players.
• Cheng Shi discovered an invitation to the Fool's Society on the golden card he had taken from the Ranger.
• Cheng Shi recalled that Hong Lin knew little about the Society and held the card as its countdown neared its end.

Cheng Shi gathered intelligence on the chosen ones and prepared to enter a quick Prosperity trial, but his prayer instead activated a Birth trial. He was matched with five teammates and vanished as the seven-day trial began.

• Cheng Shi reviewed the chosen ones of various faiths and wondered how long it would take him to join their ranks.
• Cheng Shi noticed that Xie Yang and Xiao Yuan had disappeared, and he speculated darkly about what had happened to them.
• Cheng Shi prayed for an easy Prosperity trial so he could obtain supplies with help from his backer.
• Cheng Shi's prayer activated a Birth trial with the objective that every life had the right to be born equally, even if it should not be born.
• Cheng Shi was matched with five teammates and entered the trial.

Cheng Shi and five other players woke in a church in Dolgo D, where they discovered they had been matched into a trial bestowed by Birth. After introducing himself and learning more about his teammates, Cheng Shi noticed one of them had been watching him closely.

• Cheng Shi recognized the church and confirmed that the group was in Dolgo D.
• Gou Feng introduced himself as a Chief and admitted that he had unexpectedly entered a trial bestowed by his own Lord of Grace.
• Cheng Shi introduced himself as a Life Mage and tried to build rapport with the other players.
• A young player recognized Cheng Shi's name from gossip about a Fate Weaver, and Cheng Shi awkwardly denied being that person.
• Cheng Shi noticed that the narrowed-eyed man in work clothes had been staring at him since they woke up.

Cheng Shi met his trial teammates and used a clever bluff to reveal that Scorpio was an Another Day Assassin. The introductions ended with Mo Shu identifying himself as a Ladder-ranked cleaner, while the group remained wary of one another.

• Zhang Jizu introduced himself as a 2490-point Life Priest, and his precise explanations of his smile and healing ability angered a Folly believer and amused Cheng Shi.
• Scorpio introduced himself as a 2179-point Existence Assassin and claimed to be honest and cooperative.
• Cheng Shi mentioned an Old Day Hunter called Earth Scorpion, and Scorpio's reaction revealed that he was a believer of Time and an Another Day Assassin.
• Cheng Shi asked Scorpio about his wish, and Scorpio said it would not affect anyone in the trial.
• Mo Shu introduced himself as a pastry chef, then admitted he was a 2116-point Ladder-ranked cleaner.

Cheng Shi’s team met in the Divine Nurturing Church’s lounge, where Cleanser Mo Shu offered cakes made with his annihilation powers and revealed his prayer for his Lord’s attention. Cheng Shi explained Dolgo D’s Birth-centered customs and led the team out to gather intelligence, while Zhang Jizu wondered whether Cheng Shi himself might be the danger in the trial.

• Mo Shu introduced himself as a Cleanser and offered the team Xuenila Mutton Tallow Cake, which Cheng Shi eagerly ate despite the others’ suspicion.
• Cheng Shi recognized that Mo Shu’s cakes were meant to spread annihilation through his teammates, and Mo Shu admitted he hoped that would attract his Lord’s attention.
• The Folly believer left after Cheng Shi teased him, while Cheng Shi ate more cake and asked the team about their prayers; Mo Shu had prayed for his Lord’s attention, and Zhang Jizu had prayed because of a friend he had never met.
• Cheng Shi explained that Dolgo D was ruled by the Divine Nurturing Church, whose prayer ministers could grant people the right to bear life or help someone else bear life by changing their sex.
• Cheng Shi led the team out of the church to gather intelligence, and Zhang Jizu followed while suspecting that the danger in the trial might come from Cheng Shi.

Cheng Shi led his teammates through a Trial of Birth, explaining the Divine Nurturing Church’s beliefs and taking them to the Evil Infant Tribunal to investigate how it judged unborn children. The team questioned Cheng Shi’s identity, and he claimed he was a Wood Elf.

• Gou Feng reasoned that the trial required them to ensure a life that should not be born was born, and asked Cheng Shi about the Divine Nurturing Church.
• Cheng Shi explained that the church worshipped pregnancy and sent supposedly impious unborn children to the Evil Infant Tribunal.
• Cheng Shi led the group to the tribunal and explained that its high walls protected staff from citizens angered by judgments against their unborn children.
• The squinty-eyed man asked whether the tribunal relied on manual evaluations rather than an artifact, and Cheng Shi proposed investigating its history.
• The little Assassin questioned whether Cheng Shi was really a necromancer, and Cheng Shi admitted he was a Wood Elf.

Cheng Shi entered a trial with Zhang Jizu and several other players, disguising his connection to Deception by pretending to be a Wood Elf blessed by Prosperity. After the group reached the wall around the apparently empty Divine Nurturing Church courtyard, Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu climbed over together, and Cheng Shi began to suspect that Narrow-Eyes was hiding something.

• Zhang Jizu recalled that the Lord of Grace had ordered him to protect Cheng Shi during a trial, while Deception had not answered his prayers until that morning.
• Gou Feng questioned Cheng Shi about his allegiance, so Cheng Shi revealed a trace of Lele'er's ancient prosperity aura and convinced the group he was a Wood Elf.
• Scorpion heard no one inside the Divine Nurturing Church courtyard, and the others entered by leaping over, breaking through, or preparing to climb the wall.
• Narrow-Eyes asked Cheng Shi to make a tree ladder, but Cheng Shi handed him a rope ladder and claimed its product label proved Prosperity's ties to the prosperous past.
• Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu climbed over the wall together; Zhang Jizu jumped down and landed hard, prompting Cheng Shi to suspect that Narrow-Eyes was not what he seemed.

Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu searched the apparently abandoned Evil Infant Tribunal for clues about the missing evil infants. After Cheng Shi bluffed his way through the archives, the pair recognized each other’s suspicious identities and retreated when Gou Feng screamed upstairs.

• Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu found signs that people still visited the neglected tribunal, then searched its hall and archives for information.
• Cheng Shi pretended to read an archive about the tribunal’s brutal treatment of evil infants, while Zhang Jizu questioned him about its contents.
• The pair followed Gou Feng’s hurried footprints up a spiral staircase and discovered that both carried scalpels.
• Zhang Jizu identified himself as Graveyard Management and suspected Cheng Shi was the Master of Trickery, while Cheng Shi admitted to the title and then claimed he never lied.
• After Gou Feng screamed upstairs, Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu retreated to wait for him to calm down before investigating.

Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu searched the tribunal after a scream and found the second floor filled with hanging infant corpses. They discovered Gou Feng dead in a pool of blood, leaving the cause of his death unresolved.

• Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu returned to the tribunal's second floor after finding no answer to Cheng Shi's call for Gou Feng.
• Cheng Shi reasoned that a time assassin or someone who erased sound had hidden the pursuit that drove Gou Feng away.
• Cheng Shi threw a magic lamp past the bookshelves and revealed infant corpses hanging upside down from the ceiling.
• Zhang Jizu questioned why the tribunal would keep the evil infants as part of what looked like a sacrificial ritual.
• Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu found Gou Feng's corpse beside a pool of blood, with one hand severed.

Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu investigated the apparent death of Gou Feng and discovered the corpse was a Newborn killed by the Cleaner. They were still trying to understand the conflict when a crash sounded downstairs, and they prepared to investigate.

• Zhang Jizu examined the corpse and concluded that it was likely a Newborn made by Gou Feng, killed by a backstab after its hand had been eroded by annihilation power.
• Cheng Shi learned that Zhang Jizu relied entirely on healing and survival abilities and claimed that no one could kill him in the trials.
• Cheng Shi used Death's finger-bone brooch to question the corpse, which revealed that the Chieftain had awakened it and the Cleaner had killed it.
• The corpse's remaining answers became nonsensical, leaving Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu unsure why the Cleaner had attacked the Chieftain's Newborn.
• A loud crash came from downstairs, and Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu readied scalpels.