Recaps

Blind Man returned to the Fire Keeper Hall, where Qin Xin told her about missing players and asked her to check on the Ladder of Audience of Memory. In the void, Destiny questioned Deception about their identities before departing, leaving Deception to wonder whether Destiny had understood something or been frightened.

• Blind Man told Qin Xin that Cheng Shi had already dealt with Old Man, and Qin Xin decided to forget the matter using Remembrance Mourning.
• Blind Man chose to keep her memories of the Fate Weaver, and Qin Xin asked her to remind him about Chen Shi, who had disappeared along with other players after the Special Trial.
• After using three tubes of Remembrance Mourning, Qin Xin asked Blind Man to find out from Zhen Xin what had changed with the Ladder of Audience of Memory.
• In the void, Destiny confronted Deception, who had used their exchanged authority to find Her, and challenged Her about being afraid.
• Destiny asked Deception who She was and said She only wanted to be herself before leaving without pursuing the loss of Her authority.

After returning to the rest-area rooftop, Cheng Shi tried to uncover Lips of Foolish Play’s identity and learned that Lips had no godhood and did not consider Tongue of Lies a sibling. When Cheng Shi mentioned the Ear of Secret Prying at Sandlais, both fell silent, and an unexpected caller reached him.

• Cheng Shi questioned Tongue of Lies about Lips of Foolish Play and learned that Tongue had volunteered to be Lips’s underling.
• Cheng Shi forced Lips to answer questions, but Lips said it had always been called Lips of Foolish Play, had no godhood, and had no brothers or sisters.
• Tongue of Lies said it still considered Lips its big brother, though Lips called it only a tongue.
• Cheng Shi offered to help reunite the scattered facial features, but both Lips and Tongue said they did not want a reunion.
• Cheng Shi mentioned the Ear of Secret Prying at Sandlais, and Lips and Tongue both fell silent.
• Cheng Shi answered a phone call and recognized the unexpected voice as hers.

Cheng Shi exchanged news with Zhen Xin over an unexpected call, learning that Zainjil had escaped and might have become a Wild God. After Cheng Shi shared the Blind Man's final words, Zhen Xin thanked him and hung up, leaving his request for something practical unanswered.

• Cheng Shi tested Zhen Xin with a password before agreeing to share what the Blind Man had left behind.
• Zhen Xin told Cheng Shi that Birth had found Lucia, while Sacred Sound of Procreation had refused Hu Xuan's request to return Them to Birth.
• Zhen Xin revealed that Zainjil had escaped the Dagger of Stars experiment with stolen False God divinity and might have become a Wild God.
• Cheng Shi realized he had the severed finger tied to Zainjil and worried that Hu Xuan could be in danger.
• Cheng Shi told Zhen Xin the Blind Man's final words, and Zhen Xin sincerely thanked him before hanging up without clarifying what practical reward she would give.

Li Jingming told Cheng Shi that 0221, a devoted Truth believer, was linked to the disappearances of players and might be recreating the Dagger of Stars experiment. Cheng Shi connected the experiment to the Door of Falling and feared that Xie Yang had been taken as experimental material, while wondering whether 0221 had prepared the experiment for the escaped Zainjil.

• Li Jingming called Cheng Shi and described memories of a shard that had spoken with 0221, a knowledgeable and devoted Truth believer.
• Li Jingming said he wanted the memories associated with 0221’s experiments, then offered the information to Cheng Shi as a deposit toward a future opportunity.
• Li Jingming revealed that missing players were connected to 0221 and that 0221 had become interested in recreating the Dagger of Stars experiment.
• Cheng Shi realized that Xie Yang might have been captured as experimental material and considered whether 0221 was trying to steal divine authority.
• Cheng Shi connected Yuanmu Town’s history and the Door of Falling to the Dagger of Stars experiment, then wondered whether 0221 had prepared it for the escaped Zainjil.

Cheng Shi told Li Jingming that Zainjil had escaped and discussed how Wang Weijin might help locate 0221. Just as Cheng Shi finished the call, Big Cat reported that Tao Yi was missing.

• Cheng Shi revealed the History School's intelligence about Zainjil to Li Jingming, who asked to meet the Jokers and bring the membership fee.
• Li Jingming identified Wang Weijin as a Truth assassin doctor who had helped him investigate 0221 before becoming a new slice with no memory of their encounter.
• Cheng Shi told Li Jingming to question Wang Weijin if they met again and to mention Cheng Shi if Wang Weijin lied.
• Big Cat called Cheng Shi and told him that Tao Yi was missing.

Cheng Shi told Hong Lin what he knew about Tao Yi’s disappearance and proposed a plan to pressure 0221 and gather information. As players began speculating about the experiment, a new summons from the starry sky brought Cheng Shi to the Chaos Divine Steps, where Katarro asked whether he would receive a visitor.

• Cheng Shi explained his theories about Tao Yi’s disappearance and warned Hong Lin to investigate carefully rather than act in anger.
• Cheng Shi and Hong Lin agreed to spread vague information about 0221 and the experiment to draw out clues while Cheng Shi circulated exaggerated rumors.
• Players across the chat channels debated the mass disappearances, and Mage-channel users discussed the Tower of Reason’s experiments, including the Dagger of Stars.
• A starry phantom descended before Cheng Shi and became a staircase resembling the Chaos Divine Steps.
• Katarro asked Cheng Shi whether he would receive someone who wished to pay their respects, and Cheng Shi eagerly stepped onto the stairs.

Cheng Shi, posing as Ultraman, met Hu Wei, who sought help after Da Yi disappeared and asked for trusted teammates. Cheng Shi offered to connect him with Cheng Shi and hinted that Hu Wei could choose a faith to fuse with, leaving Hu Wei eager to fuse with Deception.

• Hu Wei told Cheng Shi that Da Yi had disappeared and asked for reliable teammates to help with his missions.
• Cheng Shi claimed that his lord had summoned a new player and revealed that the player was Cheng Shi, a Fate Weaver from Nothingness who had fused with Deception.
• Cheng Shi told Hu Wei to approach Cheng Shi and observe Nothingness, then suggested that Hu Wei could choose a faith to fuse with.
• Hu Wei asked whether he could choose any faith and declared that he wanted to fuse with Deception.

Cheng Shi warned Hu Wei against merging with Deception solely to obey divine orders, but Hu Wei explained his motives and accepted a mission to investigate the Truth believers behind Da Yi’s disappearance. After Cheng Shi questioned Katarro about who controlled the temple in Chaos’s absence, Lord of Grace returned and ordered two helpers assigned to Hu Wei.

• Cheng Shi advised Hu Wei to pursue his own understanding of Nothingness, but Hu Wei insisted on merging with Deception to preserve his Grand Marshal identity and conceal Chaos.
• Cheng Shi told Hu Wei that Truth’s experiments had produced a False God and directed him to investigate Truth’s believers and find out what they were doing.
• Hu Wei accepted the assignment, and Cheng Shi reflected that rescuing Da Yi would still leave Chaos with only two hired hands.
• Cheng Shi summoned Katarro and asked why he had been unable to answer; Katarro hinted that Cheng Shi might have authority over the temple before the Chaos Yellow Mist swallowed Cheng Shi and cast him into the void.
• Lord of Grace returned, questioned Katarro’s cleverness, then ordered him to have the Clown find two helpers for Hu Wei and told him to atone through meritorious service.

Cheng Shi suspected the God of Merriment had taken control of the Chaos Temple, then learned that 0221’s Truth experiment used a fragment of divinity as bait. Big Cat revealed that 0221 had discovered a way to fuse divinity fragments, leaving Cheng Shi stunned by the breakthrough and its implications for the coming tide of Faith Fusion.

• Cheng Shi considered Katarro’s words and suspected the God of Merriment had seized authority over the Chaos Temple, which could expand Ultraman’s power.
• Cheng Shi discovered that players had uncovered how 0221 recruited participants for the Truth experiment and shared guides across the chat channels.
• Big Cat called Cheng Shi, saying she had found Tao Yi and needed manpower to deal with a complicated situation.
• Big Cat admitted she had bought the experiment’s admission ticket by trading away her old life-saving methods.
• Big Cat revealed that the ticket was a piece of Truth’s divinity, altered by 0221 with a fragment that enabled directional teleportation.
• Big Cat explained that 0221 had achieved an unprecedented microscopic fusion of divinity fragments, and Cheng Shi realized the breakthrough marked the arrival of a tide of Faith Fusion.

Hong Lin explained that Wei Mu had reconstructed Experiment 0221’s divinity-based method for crossing air walls, and she planned to gather players to confront the experiment and rescue Tao Yi. Cheng Shi agreed to lend her divinity, and he prepared to meet Wei Mu.

• Hong Lin told Cheng Shi that Wei Mu had analyzed Experiment 0221’s breakthrough and replicated its divinity-based teleportation method, which had been used to abduct Tao Yi.
• Cheng Shi realized Hong Lin needed a large supply of divinity to make tickets and bring interested players to Experiment 0221 at once.
• Cheng Shi offered Hong Lin his divinity, including the Order Divinity she had previously entrusted to him, and said she could repay it with interest.
• Hong Lin said Wei Mu would make the tickets because he wanted to witness the grandest act of folly beneath the heavens.
• Cheng Shi asked Hong Lin to make sure he was helping Flazhol rather than the celebrity Tao Yi, then arranged to meet her and Wei Mu.

In a merged district overrun by living tentacles, a group of players held a defensive position under the direction of a blond, golden-eyed man. Tao Yi recovered beside the bald formation core, whose relentless drama criticism left her desperate to escape even as he promised to protect them.

• Players defended their position against tentacles spreading over a skyscraper while treating injuries caused by bizarre growths on their bodies.
• The blond, golden-eyed man organized the players' rotations, healing, and defenses, while Tao Yi remained trapped beside the formation core.
• The bald formation core repeatedly misidentified Tao Yi and criticized her acting, and Tao Yi gave up trying to correct him.
• After seeing Tao Yi's worry, the formation core assured her that nobody would die while he was there.
• The formation core called himself a Legendary Drama Critic and praised Tao Yi's role, leaving her more eager than ever to escape.

Chen Shu’s silence aura and Mo Li’s leadership helped captured players survive in an experiment field tied to 0221, where they were trapped and waiting for rescue. Just as their defenses faltered, a new group arrived with entry tickets.

• Chen Shu recalled how he had sealed a blotted-out divinity inside himself and used Silence’s power to disable the formations when he was dragged into the experiment field.
• Chen Shu and Mo Li gathered the scattered players and led them through the tentacle-filled forest to a high-rise, where they established a defensive position.
• Mo Li realized the experiment field was likely connected to 0221 and feared no one would risk coming to save them.
• A Wood Elf encouraged Mo Li to believe help would come, restoring his confidence.
• As the defenders weakened, players incited by a clown and sponsored by Behind-the-Scenes Puppeteer arrived with entry tickets, bewildered by where they had been brought.

Cheng Shi and Hong Lin used Wei Mu’s divinity tickets to enter Experiment Field 0221, where Hong Lin charged toward Tao Yi and Cheng Shi discovered that the experiment replicated the Dagger of Stars. Wei Mu revealed that his modified tickets had destroyed the field’s formations and scattered the entrants, leaving the rescue and sabotage underway.

• Cheng Shi gave Hong Lin all his divinity except Deception, and Wei Mu turned the divinity into tickets for a mass entry into Experiment Field 0221.
• Wei Mu distributed tickets among experiment enthusiasts, Hong Lin’s allies, and cannon fodder, while reserving one for Li Jingming.
• Hong Lin took the puppet substitute and warned Cheng Shi that either Tao Yi would live or Wei Mu would die.
• The teleportation sent Cheng Shi and the others into the experimental field, where Hong Lin transformed into a bear spirit and tore through the field toward Tao Yi.
• Cheng Shi recognized the tentacle-covered Newborns as products of Birth and realized that 0221 was replicating the Dagger of Stars.
• Wei Mu explained that the tickets had destroyed the field’s formations and traps and sent the entrants to different locations.

Cheng Shi separated from Wei Mu and used his shifting professions to move through the Experiment Field while planning an escape route. He then witnessed a massive fleshly creature erupt from underground and realized that 0221 had created the source of the Newborns to replicate the Eternal Day in the Dagger of Stars.

• Wei Mu proposed checking the teleportation entrance, which he suspected was the experiment’s control center, but Cheng Shi left alone after hearing the puppet could protect itself.
• Cheng Shi changed into a Wind Tamer Ranger and used his speed and Destiny’s blessing to help players evade tentacles while scouting the Experiment Field.
• Cheng Shi avoided heading for the control center and instead searched the area for a fallback escape plan for himself, Big Cat, and the people he wanted to save.
• An explosion tore through part of the Experiment Field, and tentacles withdrew as a gigantic mass of flesh rose from beneath the ruins.
• The fleshly mass burst and fired tentacles across the area, leading Cheng Shi to realize it was the mother of the Newborns and 0221’s means of replicating the Eternal Day in the Dagger of Stars.

Hong Lin rescued Tao Yi, Mo Li, Chen Shu, and the other players, then fought the tumor-like creature that spawned new life with every attack. Meanwhile, Cheng Shi and Hu Wei reached the quiet area believed to contain the Experiment Field’s control center, where Hu Wei immediately questioned Cheng Shi’s identity.

• Cheng Shi recognized the tumor’s resemblance to Hu Xuan and continued tracing the Experiment Field instead of rushing to help Hong Lin.
• Hong Lin defeated the tentacles long enough to rescue Tao Yi, Mo Li, Chen Shu, and the other players, but the tumor’s attacks overwhelmed her with rapidly spawned offspring.
• Chen Shu suggested using Hong Lin’s bear offspring to overwhelm the enemy, and Hong Lin ordered Mo Li to find Wei Mu and help protect Cheng Shi, the Fate Weaver, and Tao Yi.
• Hong Lin confronted the tumor again as Mo Li led the rescued players away to find Wei Mu.
• Hu Wei led a group of players toward the quiet region he believed held the control center, and Cheng Shi arrived there at the same time.
• Hu Wei saw Cheng Shi and demanded to know who he was this time.

Cheng Shi encountered Hu Wei while searching the experiment site, and the two disguised their connection as they joined forces. Their investigation was interrupted when Cheng Shi recognized a helpful stranger as Wang Weijin, a slice of 0221 and the experiment’s master, leaving the group facing the Doctor Assassin.

• Cheng Shi pretended to be a Priest seeking his missing neighbor, and Hu Wei invited him to stay with the team.
• Hu Wei challenged the followers of Truth at the ruins, but no one answered his call.
• A stranger warned Hu Wei that attacking the hidden formation would endanger players fighting the Abnormal Mother Tree elsewhere.
• Cheng Shi identified the stranger as Wang Weijin, a slice of 0221 and the experiment’s master.
• Wang Weijin greeted Cheng Shi as Fate Weaver, and Cheng Shi asked how he planned to trick people this time.

Wang Mou revealed that he was Cheng Shi’s independent slice and claimed he could lead the team to the experimental materials hidden beneath the ruins. Hu Wei agreed to let him guide them, while Cheng Shi chose to observe Wang Mou’s true intentions.

• Hu Wei raised his greatsword against Wang Mou, but Wang Mou admitted he was Cheng Shi’s slice and said he had broken with his original body over their conflicting paths to Truth.
• Wang Mou explained that the control center was elsewhere and that the ruins concealed the experiment’s most important material, including players buried beneath them.
• A player questioned Wang Mou about the Abnormal Mother Tree, and Wang Mou said he was still searching for answers after escaping the deposition entrance where 0221 had sent him.
• Hu Wei decided Wang Mou’s knowledge could help the team and prepared to trust him, while Cheng Shi silently agreed to proceed so he could learn what Wang Mou wanted.
• Hu Wei withdrew his sword and invited Wang Mou to try breaking through the arrays as the battle continued nearby.

Wang Mou dismantled the magic arrays and revealed an underground Experiment Field filled with tanks, where he discovered that the experiment was not about combining divinity but creating a new Birth through faith-splicing. The Mother Tree rushed back as the players scattered into the facility, and the chapter ended with Cheng Shi and Hu Wei realizing the tank occupants were being used as external wombs to produce children for it.

• Wang Mou dismantled the magic arrays, revealing a passage to the underground Experiment Field and its rows of tanks.
• The Mother Tree stopped fighting Hong Lin and rushed toward the Experiment Field, prompting Hu Wei's team to scatter inside.
• Hu Wei took Cheng Shi and Wang Mou deeper underground while seeking the method of combining divinity.
• Cheng Shi noticed the tubes extracted something from the tank occupants when bulges appeared on their bodies, suggesting they were producing children.
• Wang Mou identified the experiment as a prohibited faith-splicing project intended to create a new Birth, and said the tank occupants were the Abnormal Mother Tree's external wombs.

Wang Mou explained how the Tower of Reason’s faith-based life-extension experiment was stopped by the Grand Inquisition, while Cheng Shi and Hu Wei investigated why 0221 had recreated it. Wang Mou concluded that the experiment did not involve piecing together divinity and identified the Abnormal Mother Tree as a dangerous, uncontrolled aggregate of mutated faith.

• Wang Mou told Cheng Shi that Birth believers gradually accepted their oppression, Death believers vanished from the Tower of Reason’s territory, and Prosperity believers escaped southwest to join rainforest tribes.
• Wang Mou explained that the Grand Inquisition invaded the Tower of Reason with support from the Natural Alliance, forcing the Scholarly Council to abandon the experiment and surrender its supervising scholar.
• Cheng Shi and Wang Mou could not determine why 0221 had recreated the experiment, and Hu Wei redirected them toward finding clues about piecing together divinity.
• Wang Mou said the experiment involved amalgamating faith vessels rather than creating divinity, and suggested that 0221 used Birth newborns to make a more cohesive faith aggregate.
• Wang Mou identified the approaching Abnormal Mother Tree as an uncontrolled evil creature formed from mutated faith, not a god.

Cheng Shi connected the Faith Fusion experiment to Zainjil’s escape and suspected 0221 was recreating the Dagger of Stars by using the experiment to create Eternal Day and the Blood Moon. Wang Mou revealed that the Tower of Reason’s Chasm of Desire experiment had sought to open a passage to Filth and Decay, just as the Abnormal Mother Tree arrived and attacked the underground Experiment Field.

• Wang Mou explained that Kewed and Zainjil’s mother, Madam Chloeir, were linked to the Dagger of Stars experiment, and that Chloeir had rejected a plan to rescue Zainjil.
• Cheng Shi reasoned that 0221’s Faith Fusion experiment might be a prelude to recreating the Dagger of Stars and creating a new Eternal Day for Zainjil.
• Cheng Shi suspected that the Experiment Field’s rampant desires could help create the Blood Moon and wondered whether 0221 had lured outsiders into the experiment as part of his plan.
• Wang Mou told Cheng Shi that the Tower of Reason’s Chasm of Desire experiment had used extracted desires to dig an abyssal passage toward Filth and Decay.
• The Abnormal Mother Tree arrived at the underground Experiment Field, spreading its tentacles and striking at everyone.

The Abnormal Mother Tree’s return turned the experimental site into a slaughterhouse, while Hu Wei secretly disguised himself as a tentacle and destroyed the tanks it had been protecting. Hong Lin returned to rescue Mo Li’s faltering formation, but Tao Yi revealed that Cheng Shi was missing, sending Hong Lin into a fresh fury.

• Big Cat’s pursuit delayed the Abnormal Mother Tree, which returned and killed several players with its tentacles as Hu Wei and the Doctor separately saved Cheng Shi.
• Hu Wei suspected 0221 and Wei Mu were using the chaos for an experiment, disguised himself as a tentacle, and shattered the tanks in the underground Experiment Field.
• Mo Li led a group toward Big Cat’s retreat route but found neither Wei Mu nor Cheng Shi, and the Abnormal Mother Tree’s growing fury overwhelmed the area in darkness and slaughter.
• Wei Mu was torn apart, while Mo Li’s Singers, Priests, Assassins, and Warriors struggled to keep their formation from collapsing.
• Hong Lin returned as a gigantic bear and attacked the tentacles, but Tao Yi shouted that Cheng Shi was missing, prompting Hong Lin to roar furiously.

Cheng Shi and Wang Mou fought through the tentacle attacks while arguing over Wang Mou’s deception and negotiating an alliance against 0221. They agreed to cooperate, but Cheng Shi could not heal Wang Mou and resumed calculating their next moves.

• Hong Lin knew Cheng Shi had disappeared but trusted that he would survive until the script’s final chapter.
• Wang Mou argued that his deception had not harmed Cheng Shi and offered to compensate him after escaping 0221’s control.
• Wang Mou proposed that they cooperate to survive and uncover 0221’s purpose, and Cheng Shi accepted after negotiating for compensation.
• Cheng Shi tried to give Wang Mou a bottle of Past Prosperity, but Wang Mou questioned why he needed it instead of Healing Art.
• Cheng Shi realized he could not heal Wang Mou as an Assassin and resumed calculating how to deal with 0221.

Cheng Shi and Wang Mou escaped Abnormal Mother Tree’s rampage, and Wang Mou revealed that he had merged Deception and used its power to hide them. As they continued toward the control center, Cheng Shi questioned how Wang Mou had received the faith and what talent he had used.

• Cheng Shi used temporal deduction with the Doctor to find a route out of the underground Experiment Field as Abnormal Mother Tree attacked everything around it.
• With tentacles closing in, Cheng Shi prepared to enter the shadow plane, but Wang Mou used Deception’s power to erase them from reality and evade the attack.
• Cheng Shi realized Wang Mou had merged Deception and wondered why God of Merriment had granted a second faith to a believer of Truth.
• Wang Mou explained that Deception had blessed him and said he disliked treating people with lies, prompting Cheng Shi to tease him about accepting her offer.
• Cheng Shi asked Wang Mou what Deception talent he had used to conceal them.

During the Abnormal Mother Tree’s attack, Cheng Shi considered recruiting Wang Weijin into the Clowns, but three escaping players interrupted them. Cheng Shi killed the trio to divert the tentacles, revealing that the first player was a traitor and leaving a sword resembling the Hour Hand beside the corpses.

• Cheng Shi and Wang Weijin quietly probed each other’s abilities while hiding under Deception’s protection.
• Cheng Shi considered recruiting Wang Weijin into the Clowns because the God of Merriment had guided him to seek a second believer.
• Three wounded players fled into their hiding place as the Abnormal Mother Tree’s tentacles swept toward them.
• Cheng Shi struck the first player with Thunder Punishment, then killed the other two when they tried to flee, causing the tentacles to change course.
• Wang Weijin identified the first player’s parasitic revival contingency, and Cheng Shi said he disliked traitors before a sword resembling the Hour Hand fell beside the corpses.

Cheng Shi revived Xie Yang and learned that the supposed traitor had not had time to take over either body. After sending Xie Yang toward a nearby survival group, Cheng Shi received an S-rank spatial war item, the Molten Coffin, as thanks.

• Cheng Shi asked Wang Mou whether reviving the two corpses would bring back the traitor, and Wang Mou said the traitor had likely not had time to take over their bodies.
• Cheng Shi removed his Assassin mask and used the Lush Antler Crown to revive the male corpse, revealing him as Xie Yang.
• Xie Yang thanked Cheng Shi but had forgotten Xiao Yuan, then praised Xiao Li until Cheng Shi stopped him.
• Cheng Shi directed Xie Yang toward a nearby survival group and told him to leave while Cheng Shi and Wang Mou handled their own business.
• Xie Yang gave Cheng Shi the S-rank spatial war item Molten Coffin before setting off.