Recaps

President Gong claimed that fragments of Decay’s divine vessel had fallen from Blood Rot Tomb and invited the Fool’s Society to search for them. Cheng Shi decided to leave, then grew wary that President Gong might not let him and Cui Qiushi go safely.

• President Gong said a witness had seen something fall from Blood Rot Tomb during the God War.
• President Gong identified the fallen object as fragments of Decay’s divine vessel, an ancient decayed giant, rather than Decay’s actual body.
• Mo Li confirmed that Decay had such a vessel, while President Gong urged the Fool’s Society to seek its scattered fragments.
• President Gong opened doors for attendees to leave and offered those who stayed a chance to join the search for the divine remains.
• Cheng Shi and Cui Qiushi stood to leave, but Cheng Shi halted and watched the golden-jade door suspiciously.

Cheng Shi suspected President Gong had set a trap behind the venue’s exit doors and stopped Cui Qiushi and another Fire Keeper from entering. After the doors shattered and exposed the danger, the furious players attacked the stage, but Cheng Shi doubted the assault would stop the organizer.

• Cheng Shi realized the identical exit doors might be fake and waited to see whether anyone would use them.
• When Cui Qiushi and Zhang Hao prepared to leave, Cheng Shi threw scalpels at Cui Qiushi and hurled the Tongue of Lies at Zhang Hao, driving him away from the exit.
• The Tongue of Lies struck the door and shattered it, triggering the other doors to break and ejecting players who had entered them.
• Cui Qiushi and Zhang Hao recognized that Cheng Shi had saved them, but Cheng Shi grabbed the tongue and teleported away with a Dice.
• The remaining players blamed the organizer and attacked the stage, causing it to collapse as Cheng Shi doubted the assault would succeed.

As the stage collapsed, Cheng Shi found himself facing Mo Li and Hu Wei, while Chen Shi loudly claimed him as his brother-in-law. The masked President Gong emerged from the wreckage as Long Jing, and Chen Shi kept urging Cheng Shi to abandon Destiny for Silence to improve his supposed marriage to Zhen Yi.

• Mo Li froze the smoke in midair and dropped it to the ground as Hu Wei recognized someone might be behind the shattered door.
• Chen Shi spotted Cheng Shi, called him brother-in-law, and drew Mo Li's and Hu Wei's attention to him.
• Mo Li greeted Cheng Shi as a Fate Weaver, while the masked President Gong crawled from the wreckage and was identified by Hu Wei as Long Jing.
• Chen Shi explained that Zhen Yi was Zhen Xin's younger sister and claimed Cheng Shi was her suitable husband by age and supposed divination.
• Chen Shi advised Cheng Shi to abandon Destiny for Silence so he could become a night watchman for Zhen Yi, while Cheng Shi stayed silent and guarded himself.

Cheng Shi questioned Chen Shu about Silence and learned that Long Jing was a mysterious Deception acrobat known for using the name Old Gong. The chapter left Cheng Shi recognizing Long Jing as True Heart, the perennial second-place holder on Deception's audience ladder.

• Cheng Shi asked Chen Shu what Silence's essence was, and Chen Shu said he suspected Silence was a chatterbox.
• Cheng Shi claimed he shared Chen Shu's theory and spun an explanation that made Chen Shu fall silent.
• Chen Shu told Cheng Shi that Long Jing was his little brother, a mysterious Nothingness acrobat who often introduced himself as Old Gong.
• Chen Shu said Long Jing had been Deception's perennial second-place holder before Li Jingming abandoned his oath.
• Cheng Shi secretly checked the Ladder of Audience and recognized True Heart as the second-place Deception account he had seen mocking Li Jingming.

President Gong exposed his cooperation with Zhen Yi, and Cheng Shi realized that most of the venue’s players and attacks had been illusions staged by the two deception experts. A mistaken accusation turned the chaos against Cheng Shi, who was trapped under Hu Wei’s blood-and-fire strike as Mo Li’s laws blocked his escape and resistance.

• President Gong cursed Zhen Yi for sabotaging their cooperation, and the front-row figures recognized her name as Cheng Shi reconsidered who she was.
• Cheng Shi stabbed another Cheng Shi, whose cry caused two-thirds of the supposed players to vanish and revealed that Zhen Yi had staged much of the venue’s chaos as an illusion.
• A second Cheng Shi warned Brother Hu that Zhen Yi was present, prompting Hu Wei to attack Cheng Shi with his giant sword of blood and fire.
• Long Jing directed the spotlights onto Cheng Shi while Mo Li forbade illusions, teleportation, resistance, and extinguishing fire, preventing Cheng Shi from escaping or defending himself.
• Cheng Shi accepted the incoming attack and resolved to make a major move as the venue fell silent.

Cheng Shi survived Hu Wei’s attack by taking Zhen Yi’s identity, forcing the gathered Chosen Ones to reconsider which of the two was real. Zhen Yi played along as Cheng Shi and asked for the Nightfall Spring Whistle, leaving Cheng Shi to wonder whether she wanted to reach Hu Xuan or something connected to Birth.

• Hu Wei struck Cheng Shi with his flaming sword, and Cheng Shi survived because of his Life Force authority.
• Cheng Shi decided to become Zhen Yi so the Chosen Ones would stop demanding that he prove his identity.
• Cheng Shi announced that he had been caught again but that the accusation did not count because someone had cheated.
• Zhen Yi appeared as Cheng Shi, explained that she had escaped a Void Memory Pocket, and denied any connection to the Master of Trickery.
• Zhen Yi asked Cheng Shi to return the whistle Hu Xuan had given him, and Cheng Shi wondered whether she sought Hu Xuan or Birth.

Zhen Yi and Cheng Shi continued impersonating each other as Hu Wei questioned them about their past and demanded his brother’s whistle back. After reclaiming the whistle, Hu Wei turned to Long Jing and asked him to explain the chaos.

• Hu Wei asked Cheng Shi about Hu Xuan, and Zhen Yi, posing as Cheng Shi, described their past connection and hinted that Hu Xuan had left a souvenir.
• Zhen Yi, posing as herself, teased Hu Wei about the Nightfall Spring Whistle, which Cheng Shi had in his possession.
• Long Jing accused Zhen Yi of being the real Zhen Yi because she held his Tongue of Lies and warned that its rental period was nearly over.
• Hu Wei invited Cheng Shi to join his planned operation as a Priest, while Zhen Yi and Cheng Shi silently negotiated over whether she could take part.
• Hu Wei demanded the whistle, and Zhen Yi returned it; after checking it, Hu Wei gave it to Cheng Shi and asked Long Jing to explain the night’s events.

Long Jing and Zhen Yi’s attempt to use Fool’s Society to learn about the Gods’ Cataclysm unraveled when he discovered that Zhen Yi had captured and impersonated Cheng Shi. Zhen Yi revealed that she had taken Cheng Shi’s memories, leaving the others to seek the truth from her.

• Long Jing explained that he had teamed up with Zhen Yi to get Cheng Shi’s memories of the trial when the gods descended and learn what happened to Decay and Prosperity.
• When no convenor appeared at Fool’s Society, Long Jing put on a Mask and pretended to be the convenor, while he and Zhen Yi waited for Cheng Shi.
• Long Jing realized that the Cheng Shi he had been watching was Zhen Yi in disguise and accused her of hiding their capture of the real Cheng Shi from him.
• Zhen Yi let Cheng Shi escape, and the others questioned Long Jing about his claims concerning Decay’s fall and pressed the disguised Cheng Shi for information about the trial.
• Zhen Yi announced that she knew what happened during the trial because she had taken Cheng Shi’s memories, leaving him with no knowledge of it.

Cheng Shi outmaneuvered Zhen Yi into continuing to impersonate him, then used the gathering to force a negotiation. “Zhen Yi” revealed that Prosperity had perished in the trial, only to laugh and ask whether anyone had believed her.

• Cheng Shi trapped Zhen Yi in a choice between exposing her identity and remaining in character, and she chose to keep playing “Cheng Shi.”
• Mo Li offered to negotiate with “Zhen Yi,” while Long Jing tried to attack her and Chen Shu held him back.
• Chen Shu pleaded with “Zhen Yi” to show pity for him, Long Jing, and her amnesiac ex-boyfriend.
• “Zhen Yi” agreed to speak and claimed that Prosperity, not Decay, had perished in the trial.
• “Zhen Yi” laughed and asked whether everyone had actually believed her claim.

The Chosen Ones pieced together clues that Prosperity might have fallen, then Chen Shi accidentally revealed the Covenant while the players traded lies. When “Cheng Shi” claimed not to remember the previous trial, Long Jing realized he was lying, drawing Cheng Shi into a more complicated deception.

• Hu Wei questioned Long Jing about who had found whom first, and Long Jing explained that Zhen Xin had taken some of her memories and come to him for help against the Fate Weaver.
• Mo Li and the others noticed that Baldy and Only Carved Rotten Wood had been missing, leading them to suspect that Prosperity had fallen and Zhen Xin was concealing it to help Baldy.
• Chen Shi publicly identified the secret Mo Li had mouthed as the Covenant, and “Zhen Yi” falsely claimed it was compensating Prosperity’s believers for a vacant divine seat.
• Hu Wei asked “Cheng Shi” about the previous trial, and “Cheng Shi” claimed he remembered nothing.
• The Master of Deception exposed “Cheng Shi” as lying, so Long Jing realized he still remembered the previous trial and began scrutinizing him.

Zhen Xin took control of Zhen Yi’s body and used Cheng Shi’s claim that he knew about the covenant to mislead the gathered players. The supposed Cheng Shi revealed that Destiny had summoned him, leaving everyone shocked when Mo Li said Destiny had never summoned anyone before.

• Zhen Xin took over Zhen Yi’s body before Zhen Yi could carry out her plan against Cheng Shi.
• Long Jing questioned the supposed Cheng Shi about his knowledge of the covenant, prompting him to admit he had learned of it.
• The supposed Cheng Shi claimed that Destiny had summoned him, and Long Jing pretended to confirm his story as truth.
• The supposed Cheng Shi said the summons had happened after a trial in which he was Destiny’s only believer.
• Mo Li revealed that Destiny had apparently never summoned anyone, not even the Blind Man.

Zhen Xin tried to recruit Long Jing for Hu Wei’s expedition by posing as “Cheng Shi,” while the real Cheng Shi used a Zhen Yi persona to escape the gathering. Hu Wei set the expedition in motion with Mo Li, but Long Jing refused to join, leaving Zhen Xin’s scheme in the hands of the Grand Marshal.

• Zhen Xin’s reveal that Destiny had summoned “Cheng Shi” stunned the real Cheng Shi, who suspected she wanted to draw attention and add more false stories to his identity.
• Cheng Shi interrupted the gathering as “Zhen Yi,” and “Cheng Shi” refused to answer his questions about Destiny, prompting Chen Shu and Hu Wei to comment on their apparent bickering.
• Hu Wei shielded “Cheng Shi” from the others and proposed a business expedition, naming two items he intended to obtain and asking Mo Li and Long Jing to join.
• Mo Li agreed to Hu Wei’s proposal, while Long Jing declined and deliberately distanced himself from the liars.
• Cheng Shi switched his faith and teleported to the edge of the venue as Hu Wei’s second attack struck where “Zhen Yi” had stood.

Cheng Shi watched Hu Wei recruit Yu Mu, Decay’s second-ranked player, while Chen Shu and Zhen Yi traded barbs with him. Chen Shu’s explosive opened a hidden passage beneath the arena, and Yu Mu’s attack decayed Chen Shu’s clothes as he retreated.

• Long Jing left after sarcastically cursing Zhen Yi, and Cheng Shi declined Hu Wei’s invitation before finally joining his team.
• Hu Wei called out a hooded player in the stands, and Yu Mu revealed himself and agreed to join the group.
• Yu Mu and Zhen Yi traded insults, and Yu Mu fired a Withered Vine Thorn Arrow at Chen Shu, who caught it and mocked him.
• Chen Shu handed Cheng Shi a sealed stick of chewing gum as a communication device, but Hu Wei caught it instead.
• The arena shook when Chen Shu’s explosive opened a hidden passage beneath the spectator stands, and he feigned innocence while trying to reclaim the gum.
• Yu Mu used an invisible force to decay Chen Shu’s clothing as he retreated, and Chen Shu mocked him as “Old Bow.”

Cheng Shi used a pink dye trap and Sinner’s Redemption to ensnare the gathering’s peak players, then escaped amid suspicion that the venue’s ordinary attendees were dream people or part of a hidden scheme. The venue was left empty, while Cheng Shi’s identity swap with Zhen Yi remained poised to cause further trouble.

• Chen Shu tricked Yu Mu into an explosion that dyed him pink, then fled and left Cheng Shi facing Yu Mu’s anger.
• Cheng Shi activated Sinner’s Redemption, dragging everyone at the gathering—including himself—into Golis’s resentment.
• Cheng Shi used the chaos to plan to reclaim his identity from Zhen Yi and keep Hu Wei’s promised benefits to himself.
• Cheng Shi suspected that some of the venue’s ordinary attendees were indistinct dream people gathering information for a hidden mastermind.
• Cheng Shi escaped the gathering, leaving Long Jing’s escape as a possible future complication.

After the venue fell silent, Qin Xin and An Mingyu discussed Cheng Shi’s role in saving Qiushi and Fire Keeper’s past mistakes, while debating whether Qin Xin should learn Cheng Shi’s identity. An Mingyu then tested Destiny’s guidance with her die and revealed that this was only the second time she had rolled a one.

• Qin Xin and An Mingyu entered the empty venue and recognized that Cheng Shi had saved Qiushi, a projection of Qin Xin’s memory.
• Qin Xin said Fire Keeper had wronged Cheng Shi and vowed to express regret, but refused to learn his identity because his Fire Seeker had chosen to forget him.
• An Mingyu argued that Qin Xin needed to know the whole board, while Qin Xin insisted that Fire Keeper had to protect each member’s happiness and respect her choices.
• An Mingyu said Zhen Yi had chosen the same Mask as her sister instead of taking the Dice of Destiny, and Qin Xin inferred that Deception had welcomed her choice.
• Qin Xin asked whether Cheng Shi had truly visited Destiny, so An Mingyu rolled the Dice of Destiny and got a one.
• An Mingyu revealed that she had rolled a one only once before, causing Qin Xin to react with alarm.

An Mingyu and Qin Xin discussed conflicting prophecies about Cheng Shi and Prosperity’s fall, then revealed how the Fire Keepers, Zhen Xin, and the Blind Man had arranged the Fool’s Society scheme to confirm the news. Qin Xin prepared to erase memories and dodged An Mingyu’s question about his connection to the top-ranked Memory player, Still Like in a Dream.

• An Mingyu told Qin Xin that her prophecy about Cheng Shi produced seventeen full Dice, while her audience prophecy produced a single point and pitch-black nothingness.
• Qin Xin said the Fire Keepers would search for Prosperity’s relics and warned An Mingyu not to let Zhen Yi learn too much.
• The chapter revealed that the Fire Keepers, Zhen Xin, and the Blind Man had orchestrated the Fool’s Society scheme to confirm Prosperity’s fall, while Zhen Yi and Long Jing had added their own smaller scheme targeting Cheng Shi.
• An Mingyu agreed to have the relevant memories erased, and Qin Xin gave her two tubes of Remembrance Mourning.
• An Mingyu questioned Qin Xin about his memory items and whether he was Still Like in a Dream, and Qin Xin replied that he was not on the ranking.

An Mingyu and Qin Xin discussed the Fool’s Society invitation cards and who might be screening its members before leaving the empty venue. A hidden figure with the No. 14 card appeared, fled when Chen Shu emerged from the rubble, and Chen Shu then called for another concealed presence to show itself.

• Qin Xin explained that invitation cards remained after players died, and he and An Mingyu considered who might have created the Fool’s Society.
• An Mingyu declined to use her Destiny gift on Qin Xin, and the Fire Keepers left the venue without learning Blind Man’s identity.
• A short figure appeared from a shadow, reflected on the night’s events, and revealed a Fool’s Society invitation card numbered No. 14.
• The short figure recognized Chen Shu emerging from beneath the passage rubble and fled through time rather than help him.
• Chen Shu freed himself, searched the shadow for the figure, and waited before demanding that another hidden person reveal themselves.

Chen Shu secretly returned to the Fool's Society venue, overheard its secrets, and confronted Old Man before leaving with a guess about the hidden mastermind. After the attendees departed, the venue vanished, and a mysterious performer placed a No. 11 Fool's Society card on his stage.

• Chen Shu used Silence to fake his departure, hid near the venue, and overheard Qin Xin and the Blind Man discussing the organization protecting beauty, his brother-in-law, and Prosperity's fall.
• Chen Shu discovered Old Man secretly in the venue and recorded his speech, but an unknown force exposed Chen Shu's presence, prompting Old Man to retreat.
• Chen Shu called out to the venue's unseen mastermind, received no answer, and left after deciding he had guessed the mastermind's identity.
• The abandoned Fool's Society venue decayed, was wrapped in a scarlet curtain, and vanished into the void.
• A formally dressed man placed a glass sphere on a shelf, declared the show over, and disappeared behind a red curtain as a No. 11 Fool's Society card fell onto the stage.

Trapped alone inside Golis's Resentment, Cheng Shi lost access to his powers but realized he could escape by using Deception to restore his faith in Birth. He succeeded in becoming a devout Progeny Priest, and Golis's Resentment began to collapse.

• Cheng Shi found himself bound in viscous darkness, unable to use his powers, and realized the other players had been trapped separately.
• Cheng Shi planned to escape before Zhen Xin so he could reclaim his identity ahead of the other peak players.
• Cheng Shi realized he had given the real Nightfall Spring Whistle to Zhen Yi, leaving his escape dependent on whether she used it.
• Cheng Shi switched his faith to Deception and used a prayer to deceive Birth into treating him as a follower.
• Cheng Shi became a devout Progeny Priest, causing Golis's Resentment to collapse.

Cheng Shi’s plan depended on the real Nightfall Spring Whistle summoning Hu Xuan, and Zhen Yi unknowingly blew it while trapped in Golis’s resentment. Hu Xuan descended as Eternal Day, leaving Zhen Yi to realize the clown had outplayed her.

• Zhen Yi woke when Zhen Xin was caught in Golis’s resentment and took control of her sister’s body.
• Zhen Yi mistook the real Nightfall Spring Whistle for a fake and blew it, hoping to provoke Cheng Shi.
• Cheng Shi heard the whistle and realized his plan had succeeded, though Zhen Xin—not Zhen Yi—had sounded it.
• Hu Xuan descended into Golis’s resentment as a blazing sun, illuminating the trapped players.
• Zhen Yi realized Cheng Shi had outplayed her, then smiled and welcomed the challenge.

Cheng Shi escaped The Sinner’s Regret and found himself inside Afros’s cage, where he and Hu Xuan confronted Afros. Their exchange revealed a clash of faith and left Cheng Shi eager to learn what Afros meant by the era.

• Cheng Shi fell to the ground after escaping The Sinner’s Regret and recognized the phantom assembly hall as belonging to the Dolgo Church.
• Hu Xuan appeared from the giant sun, but Afros emerged from the assembly hall and mistook her for Cheng Shi’s beloved Miss Sun.
• Hu Xuan accepted the title Miss Sun and stood between Afros and Cheng Shi as their opposing faiths collided.
• Hu Xuan identified Afros as Golis, and Cheng Shi argued that her refusal to speak Afros’s other name showed her restraint and piety.
• Afros praised Cheng Shi as the favored child of the era and said he envied the chance to have been born in it.

Cheng Shi questioned Afros about the gods, god chasers, and the age he had mentioned, while Afros brought him and Hu Xuan to a reconstructed Dolgo D. The three sat together at a long table as Hu Xuan suggested her master had arranged their meeting to learn what had happened to Afros.

• Cheng Shi noticed five dead infants hanging above the hall, though he could account for only four of the trapped players.
• Afros said the god chasers had fallen asleep and Hu Xuan explained the difference between god chasers and God Worshippers.
• Afros called Cheng Shi a pure God Worshipper, and Cheng Shi asked what he would have to pay to learn about the age.
• Afros replaced the church hall with a town resembling Dolgo D and explained that his cage encompassed the time in which he had existed.
• Hu Xuan said the gods had entrusted Afros's relic to her before his awakening and suggested her master had wanted her to meet him.
• Afros summoned puppet servants with food, and the three sat at a long table on the terrace.

Cheng Shi and Hu Xuan questioned Afros about the eras and the gods behind them. After learning that Afros had lived through multiple eras and that their endings were tied to a forbidden name, Cheng Shi chose to hear it: Primordial.

• Cheng Shi placed Afros's Sinner's Regret on the table, and Hu Xuan asked Afros whether they were willing to return.
• Afros explained that the gods had taken their power to protect Cheng Shi and that their own willingness did not matter while the one who existed remained silent.
• Cheng Shi used Calming Technique to escape the influence of Filth and Decay, and Afros asked about his grafted Birth authority.
• Cheng Shi offered to explain the new god's authority in exchange for Afros explaining the eras.
• Afros said they had experienced six eras, including the current Era of Nothingness, and described being born in the First Era of Life and again in the Second Era of Sinking.
• After Cheng Shi decided to hear the forbidden secret, Afros revealed that the end of every era was connected to Primordial.

Afros recounted his lives across the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Eras and his imprisonment in the Era of Existence, while Cheng Shi and Hu Xuan tried to piece together what the eras meant. Afros revealed that Destiny had warned him not to assimilate Cheng Shi again, then pressed Cheng Shi to explain what he truly thought of Destiny.

• Afros said Birth was the god he had referred to as “He,” then described serving Birth in the First Era and Filth and Decay in the Second.
• Afros recalled that Truth protected the godslayers in the Third Era, that he died before Truth arrived, and that he was reborn and died prematurely in the Fourth Era.
• Afros explained that he became the joint emissary of Birth and Filth and Decay in the Era of Existence, where he was sentenced to eternal imprisonment.
• Cheng Shi speculated that Hu Xuan’s predecessor had been born during the Third Era and that the era might have been called the Era of Civilization; Afros reacted with interest to Hu Xuan’s origins.
• Afros told Cheng Shi that Destiny had visited to warn him against using Filth and Decay’s methods to assimilate Cheng Shi again.
• Cheng Shi praised Destiny’s authority over fate, and Afros challenged him to say what he had left unsaid; Cheng Shi replied that Destiny needed no further words.

Cheng Shi asked Afros about Origin and learned that the Void Era might end in the universe’s nothingness before another era began. After Cheng Shi nearly lost himself by contemplating the gods, Hu Xuan brought him back, and Afros warned him not to speak casually of gods before revealing two familiar faces among his puppet servants.

• Cheng Shi asked Afros who Origin was, and Afros said lower gods could not approach Him and suggested the Lord of Grace might know more.
• Afros predicted that the Void Era would likely end in the universe’s nothingness and said beings might preserve memories through an era’s collapse by becoming powerful enough.
• Cheng Shi connected the gods’ pursuit of Faith Fusion and omnipotence to surviving the cycles of eras, then became overwhelmed while trying to deduce Origin’s nature.
• Hu Xuan took Cheng Shi’s hand and said, “Come,” jolting him out of his hazy, dangerous state.
• Afros explained that contemplating certain gods could be perilous and warned Cheng Shi not to speak of them casually.
• Afros introduced two familiar puppet servants to Cheng Shi as a surprise, leaving Cheng Shi inwardly unhappy.