Recaps

Cheng Shi and Sun Miao compared what they had learned about Little Seven, whose many player doubles and growing combat power came with worsening emotional control. Cheng Shi traded information about the Startled Bow for Sun Miao’s findings, while concealing how he had learned it and leaving her to suspect that a powerful Emissary stood behind him.

• Sun Miao told Cheng Shi that Little Seven had used seventeen player Beast Tamers disguised as himself, along with other followers, to mislead and counterattack her.
• Sun Miao explained that Little Seven’s combat power and judgment improved as his Beast Tamers died, while his anger and loss of composure grew worse.
• Cheng Shi revealed that Lidyaala had been killed by Kainlaur with the blood-red greatbow Startled Bow, which Little Seven was likely seeking.
• Sun Miao shared her theory that Little Seven divided his strength among his Beast Tamers to suppress uncontrollable emotions, then asked Cheng Shi for payment and an account of the consciousness exchange.
• Cheng Shi claimed Lin Xi had told him about the bow before dying, and Sun Miao began to suspect that another Emissary might be backing him.

Cheng Shi learned from Sun Miao that Kainlaur had sought to create a new Order by exploiting the believers’ differing versions of Truth, but his plan had helped Delvo, the first War Monarch. As the Grand Inquisition’s battle line launched an attack on the Borogao Highlands, the chapter left the war—and the Order’s fate—on the verge of irreversible collapse.

• Cheng Shi suspected that Little Seven was the Beast Tamer who had abducted Xie Yang and asked Sun Miao what had happened to Kainlaur.
• Cheng Shi saw through Sun Miao’s attempt to hide that Kainlaur had died, and she revealed that she had searched his corpse’s memories.
• Sun Miao recounted Kainlaur’s conversation with Lidyaala, in which he questioned whether different believers could worship different Truths.
• Sun Miao explained that Kainlaur’s plan to forge a new Order had failed and helped Delvo become the first War Monarch.
• Sun Miao identified Delvo as the leader who destroyed the Grand Inquisition’s and the Tower of Reason’s will to wage war and founded the Nation of War.
• The Grand Inquisition’s battle line sounded its horns and launched an unprecedented attack as Cheng Shi noticed the silent believer holding an electronic beeper.

Cheng Shi and Sun Miao raced to the Grand Inquisition’s command camp and concluded that Little Seven had taken control of its army to engineer a defeat. They suspected Kainlaur had allowed the disaster because he wanted to see the Grand Inquisition fall.

• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao realized that Little Seven, also known as the Beast Tamer, might be impersonating Kainlaur and commanding the Grand Inquisition’s forces.
• Sun Miao revealed that she had killed Master of Mime after their negotiations failed, then urged Cheng Shi to hurry toward the central army.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao traveled through the void and arrived as the Grand Inquisition charged down from the highlands to encircle the War Legion.
• Sun Miao suspected Little Seven had turned the generals into beasts and wondered whether the War Legion had caused the historical defeat through a disguised decapitation attack.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao reasoned that Kainlaur had not intervened because he wanted the Grand Inquisition defeated, and Sun Miao concluded that he had written the defeat into history.

Cheng Shi and Sun Miao searched the battlefield for Little Seven, but Sun Miao’s tools detected a mass of Decay in the river valley and raised questions about Lin Xi’s death. After their hunt failed to find Little Seven, Cheng Shi brought out a container of Filth and Decay, calming the angry Sun Miao.

• Sun Miao examined Chun’s hunting tools and learned that they could not locate Little Seven, while he and Cheng Shi discussed Chun’s fate and Lin Xi’s death.
• Sun Miao’s Corpse-Eating Vine detected a large mass of Decay deep in the river valley, though Cheng Shi insisted Lin Xi had no corpse.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao disguised themselves as Iron Law Knights and searched the charging formation, repeatedly finding decoy beasts instead of Little Seven.
• Sun Miao grew furious after the hunt failed, and Cheng Shi led him away from the formation and revealed a container of Filth and Decay beneath a Mask.

Cheng Shi and Sun Miao discussed the Fear Tree Core and planned to use it as bait to draw Du Qiyu out. Cheng Shi had already devised a plan, beginning with killing himself.

• Sun Miao recognized the container as a powerful artifact connected to Filth and Decay, and Cheng Shi named it the Fear Tree Core.
• Cheng Shi explained that Kainlaur had taken the core from the fallen Fear Mother Tree and that he had secretly switched it into his possession.
• Sun Miao warned Cheng Shi that the core might bind him to the Fear Mother Tree, while he considered her concern a sign that she valued the information he carried.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao reasoned that the core could tempt Du Qiyu into seeking them out and discussed how to reveal it naturally.
• Cheng Shi decided that the first step of his plan was to kill himself.

Cheng Shi and Sun Miao planned to provoke a Meteor Fire Rain strike to lure Du Qiyu and make their interference seem like Kainlaur’s historical action. Before Cheng Shi could act, the real Kainlaur ordered the Elemental Judges to bombard his own central army, leaving Cheng Shi stunned as the forbidden art began.

• Cheng Shi argued that the Grand Inquisition’s defeat could be explained by Kainlaur secretly helping bring it down, and proposed making that speculation true by killing its knights early.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao planned to pose as Kainlaur, use a supposed rear-area traitor to justify Meteor Fire Rain, and draw Du Qiyu toward the Fear Tree Core bait.
• Sun Miao approved the plan, and Cheng Shi disguised himself as Kainlaur near an Elemental Judge formation.
• The real Kainlaur appeared first and ordered the Elemental Judges to cast Meteor Fire Rain indiscriminately on the central army.
• Kainlaur condemned supposed traitors to Order and urged the Judges to unleash the forbidden art, while Cheng Shi blended into their ranks in disbelief.

Cheng Shi and Sun Miao discovered that Kainlaur was directing multiple meteor strikes across the battlefield, so they fled toward the War Legion. The first meteor instead targeted the Tower of Reason’s central army, throwing the encircling battle line into chaos and leaving the War Legion roaring with renewed morale.

• Cheng Shi slipped away from Kainlaur’s chanting ranks and reunited with Sun Miao, who confirmed that Kainlaur had ordered a meteor strike on the right wing.
• Cheng Shi concluded that multiple Kainlaur slices were directing strikes and led Sun Miao toward the War Legion, warning her to flee through the void if things went wrong.
• Sun Miao grabbed Cheng Shi and sprinted with him toward the front line as watching knights wondered whether they were brave or running for their lives.
• A meteor appeared and descended toward the Tower of Reason’s central army instead of the Grand Inquisition’s forces.
• The meteor fire rain spread across the Borogao Highlands, plunging the encircling battle line into chaos while the War Legion cheered and charged with soaring morale.

Cheng Shi and Sun Miao rushed toward the War Legion’s command camp to learn how Delvo won the battle. They witnessed Delvo kill Kainlaur with a fear-infused arrow, revealing the decisive turn in the war.

• As the battlefield descended into chaos, Cheng Shi and Sun Miao disguised themselves in War Legion armor and headed for Delvo’s command camp.
• They encountered Kainlaur leading the Iron Law Knights in a charge to kill Delvo.
• Kainlaur fired three arrows at Delvo, but Cheng Shi noticed his bow lacked the demonic radiance of Startled Bow.
• Delvo picked up a great bow, formed its string from fear, and fired an arrow that shattered Kainlaur’s arrows and killed him.
• Delvo raised the glowing bow and rallied the War Legion with a shout about surviving through blood and fire.

Sun Miao and Cheng Shi realized that Kainlaur had long been a follower of war and had orchestrated the destruction of the Grand Inquisition and the Tower of Reason. As meteors devastated the battlefield, Du Qiyu charged at Cheng Shi and Sun Miao, giving Cheng Shi a chance to confront him.

• Sun Miao deduced that Kainlaur had used the Lawful Compliance Faction and the Tower of Reason to ignite a war and destroy both powers.
• Cheng Shi realized Kainlaur’s past revealed a terrifying secret about the conflict between faiths, but he set aside further investigation as meteors fell.
• Du Qiyu fled the Meteor Fire Rain toward the front line and spotted Kainlaur’s abandoned Startled Bow.
• Cheng Shi blocked Du Qiyu’s path with a short blade, provoking him into charging at Cheng Shi and Sun Miao.
• Cheng Shi recognized that the attacker was a tamed beast resembling Little Seven and prepared to face him.

Cheng Shi and Sun Miao escaped the meteorite bombardment after Cheng Shi used the Fear Tree Core and a staged ambush to draw Du Qiyu toward the scorched battlefield. They left the core and the great bow behind, hoping Du Qiyu’s desire for the bow would lead him to pick up the core.

• Four meteorites fell on the battlefield, forcing Cheng Shi, Sun Miao, Du Qiyu, and the War Legion soldiers to flee as War Machine Soldiers blocked their retreat.
• Du Qiyu sent fleeing soldiers to fire arrows at Cheng Shi and Sun Miao, then arranged for Little Ten to ambush Cheng Shi with a spear.
• Sun Miao broke the spear shaft, but Cheng Shi let the spear knock the Fear Tree Core from his hand before killing the attacker with lightning.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao escaped the meteorite blasts, while Delvo was killed and the four impacts flattened the battlefield.
• Cheng Shi revealed that he had left the Fear Tree Core near the great bow, expecting Du Qiyu to return for the bow and take the core.

Cheng Shi used the Filth and Decay container and Little Seven’s interest in his belongings to lure him into revealing himself, while scavenging the scorched battlefield for a bow. The Tower of Reason had already taken the real Startled Bow, so Cheng Shi headed to retrieve a fake one and test whether Little Seven would pursue it or the Fear Tree Core.

• Cheng Shi planned to make Little Seven seek him out by using the Filth and Decay container as bait.
• After learning that Kainlaur had lost the battle, Sun Miao followed Cheng Shi into the scorched valley to scavenge.
• Sun Miao realized Cheng Shi was heading for the place where Delvo had died to recover the Startled Bow, not toward the Fear Tree Core.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao found fresh footprints and learned that people from the Tower of Reason had taken the real Startled Bow.
• Cheng Shi set off to find the fake bow and compare Little Seven’s interest in it with his interest in the Fear Tree Core.

Du Qiyu seized the Filth and Decay container and fled, abandoning his pursuit of Startled Bow as he hoped the item would restore his lost strength. Meanwhile, Deception confronted War in the void about Order’s splitting, but War denied responsibility and left, saying he was waiting for someone else.

• Du Qiyu’s unstable emotions drove him to retrieve the container Little Ten had dropped, while Cheng Shi found only the charred remains of a fake bow.
• Cheng Shi asked Sun Miao to make Little Seven glimpse a red-glowing bow, confident that Little Seven would come for it.
• After discovering that the container could absorb emotions and desires, Du Qiyu withdrew with his Beast Tamers to study it and seek a way to regain his strength.
• Deception confronted War in the void and accused him of causing Order’s split, while Chaos joined Deception in attacking.
• War briefly counter-controlled Deception and Chaos, then released them and left, saying he posed no threat and was waiting for someone else.
• Deception concluded that War was exceptionally strong and was waiting for a god rather than one of his own kind.

Cheng Shi and Sun Miao investigated a sudden outbreak of Decay near the battlefield while waiting for Little Seven to pursue them. Their investigation ended in an ambush by Yogg, the former Emperor of Rosna who had become a Decay Envoy.

• Cheng Shi refused to prepare for Little Seven, saying she would be the one to kill herself, while Sun Miao questioned his plan.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao changed course to investigate the Decay in the Misty Forest County area of the Borogao Highlands.
• Sun Miao examined a forest of withered trees while Cheng Shi kept watch nearby.
• A hidden attacker ambushed Cheng Shi and trapped Sun Miao in a cage of Decay-infused dust.
• Sun Miao realized the attacker was an Envoy, and Cheng Shi recognized him as Yogg, the former Emperor of Rosna.

Cheng Shi met Yug, the envoy of Decay, who mistook his cautious behavior for deliberate acting and addressed him as Fool’s Game. Yug revealed that he wanted to make a deal, leaving Cheng Shi to wonder what the nervous, evasive envoy was really after.

• Yug approached Cheng Shi through the smoke and said he had come to pay him a visit, repeatedly glancing at Cheng Shi’s left arm.
• Yug recognized Cheng Shi as Fool’s Game, so Cheng Shi used the Chaos Acting Method to transform into that identity.
• Yug said he wanted to make a deal with Fool’s Game and produced a vessel of Decay.
• Cheng Shi showed Yug his vessel of Deception and asked whether he wanted to attend the banquet of Nothingness.
• Yug denied wanting to attend, admitted he feared Nothingness’s finale and lacked the gods’ favor, and defended his Lord of Grace from Cheng Shi’s suggestion that he had been abandoned.

Yuge offered Cheng Shi the Decay Container, hoping to entrust it to Foolish Play through the end of the era in exchange for divinity. After learning that Destiny had guided Yuge and Mouth Brother named both Destiny and Deception, Cheng Shi suspected the containers were gathering to summon the Primordial One, but accepted the container despite fearing the scheme.

• Yuge offered to entrust the Decay Container to Foolish Play until the next era and pay with the divinity it shed.
• Cheng Shi questioned who had guided Yuge and used Mouth Brother and Brother Ear to seek an answer.
• Yuge said Destiny had guided him, and Mouth Brother responded, “Destiny. Deception.”
• Yuge withdrew his hand from the container when he feared Deception might have misled him.
• Cheng Shi reasoned that the containers might be gathering to summon the Primordial One and that God of Merriment could be using Destiny's scheme for a counterplot.
• Cheng Shi accepted the Decay Container, believing he had no choice if the Fear Faction was to avoid defeat.

Cheng Shi persuaded Your Majesty Yug to trust him and handed over the Decay Container, then used the completed deal to press for an additional condition. The story left Yug panicking over Cheng Shi’s new demand.

• Cheng Shi calmed Your Majesty Yug’s suspicions by explaining that Deception had brought him there as a joke, not to harm him.
• Cheng Shi claimed that he also followed Destiny and argued that Deception was the only master of Nothingness willing to guide ordinary people.
• Your Majesty Yug decided that Cheng Shi had no personal interest in him and entrusted him with the Decay Container.
• Cheng Shi accepted the container and considered how to make Yug answer for attacking followers of Prosperity.
• Cheng Shi told Your Majesty Yug that the deal could continue only on one condition, and Yug protested that he had already handed over the container.

Cheng Shi arranged a transaction with Yuge, only for Yuge to escape after losing his power of Decay through an unknown connection to time. Meanwhile, Du Qiyu returned to Misty Forest County with the Filth and Decay vessel, pleased with its effects and reflecting on how he became an Oathbreaker.

• Cheng Shi waited for Yuge to return after asking him to complete a task, and Yuge came back within a few hours.
• Yuge gave Cheng Shi a Rosna Royal Family name seal that could control the prison of Decay.
• Cheng Shi faded Yuge's faith in Decay and prepared to use Sinner's Redemption, but Yuge escaped with divine power connected to time.
• Du Qiyu carried the Filth and Decay vessel north from the Boro battlefield and settled in a small city in Misty Forest County.
• Du Qiyu recalled killing several of his tamed beasts to test the vessel and reflected on becoming an Oathbreaker after being forced into the path of Filth and Decay.

Du Qiyu recalled how he had joined Deception and endured the Oathbreak Curse, then decided to kill Little Ten before the trial ended. While tracking a powerful Decay aura, he saw an Emissary vanish after someone wondered why “she” was there too, revealing that another Emissary had entered the trial.

• Du Qiyu recalled that Deception had recruited him after he broke his oath to Filth and Decay, granting him powerful talents and the Desires Hard to Restrain curse.
• Du Qiyu explained that taming and splitting beasts had helped him control his growing desires, but an item found by Little Ten could now absorb his emotions and free him from that burden.
• Du Qiyu decided to eliminate Little Ten during the trial, fearing that Little Ten might reveal the item’s whereabouts to powerful players after the trial.
• Du Qiyu sensed a powerful Decay aura and followed it, hoping to connect with the Emissary he believed had descended into the trial.
• Du Qiyu saw the Emissary vanish after hearing someone ask, “Why is she here too?”, and realized that another Emissary was present.

Du Qiyu tracked Cheng Shi to a staged scene and attacked, believing Cheng Shi’s usual trump card was unavailable. Cheng Shi escaped the opening strike, but Du Qiyu pressed the assault and remained convinced he had the advantage.

• Du Qiyu found the scorched battlefield and concluded that Cheng Shi had taken Startled Bow and faked its destruction.
• Du Qiyu watched Cheng Shi apparently struggle to free Sun Miao from a decayed-dust cage, unaware that their predicament was staged to lure him in.
• After observing for half a day, Du Qiyu confirmed Cheng Shi seemed vulnerable and fired an arrow at him from the forest.
• Cheng Shi evaded the arrow with a smoke bomb, while Du Qiyu’s Beast Tamer followed with a barrage of thunderfire arrows.
• Cheng Shi escaped the smoke and retaliated with lightning, but Du Qiyu dodged it and continued pursuing him while taunting him.
• Du Qiyu decided Cheng Shi could not summon Golis and believed he was merely waiting for a cooldown as he fled.

Cheng Shi appeared to be killed by Du Qiyu’s relentless arrows, but he suddenly revived as Du Qiyu tried to finish him with the Skinning Bone Knife. He left Du Qiyu and his humanoid beast facing the terrifying truth that Cheng Shi was still alive.

• Sun Miao worried that Cheng Shi had abandoned their plan and faced the Beast Tamer alone.
• Du Qiyu fired a powerful arrow along Cheng Shi’s escape route, then pinned him down with a barrage of arrows.
• Du Qiyu kept shooting from hiding for nearly half an hour before approaching Cheng Shi’s apparently ruined corpse.
• Du Qiyu tried to stab Cheng Shi with the Skinning Bone Knife, but found no skin to pierce and felt Cheng Shi’s heart begin beating again.
• Cheng Shi pulled arrows from his face and mocked Du Qiyu’s technique for saving people, filling both Du Qiyu with dread.

Cheng Shi survived Du Qiyu’s arrow barrage through Vitality and used the Vessel of Prosperity and Vessel of Time to make Du Qiyu believe he was a god testing candidates. Du Qiyu’s confusion left Cheng Shi’s deception successful, though the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Cheng Shi deliberately let Little Seven’s arrow pierce his heart, relying on Vitality and his Never Die backup plan to survive.
• Du Qiyu continued firing arrows at Cheng Shi’s motionless body until his mental strength was depleted.
• Cheng Shi taunted Du Qiyu and pulled arrows from his body while his wounds continued to bleed.
• Cheng Shi displayed the Vessel of Prosperity and then the Vessel of Time, convincing Du Qiyu that he was a supreme god evaluating him.
• Du Qiyu asked what a vessel was, and Cheng Shi realized his deception had succeeded.

Cheng Shi deceived Du Qiyu into believing he was Fool's Game, a herald examining candidates for the Covenant, and used the Containers to make the story seem credible. Du Qiyu returned the Containers and accepted the deception, while keeping his main body hidden until Cheng Shi revealed his true form.

• Cheng Shi explained that Faith Game tested candidates to become heralds and claimed the Containers were keys to that path.
• Du Qiyu suspected the figure wearing Little Ten's skin was a herald, but continued probing and refused to return the Container.
• Cheng Shi tossed a Prosperity Container to Little Seven and used his glance toward his main body to locate Du Qiyu.
• Cheng Shi called himself Fool's Game, claimed to be a Deception believer and Faith Examiner, and displayed the power and Containers that convinced Du Qiyu.
• Little Seven returned the two Containers while Du Qiyu kept his main body concealed, and Cheng Shi transformed into Fool's Game before him.

Cheng Shi manipulated Du Qiyu into surrendering the Filth and Decay vessel, then revealed that his promise of another test was a lie. The Death Amusement Ring had already sealed Little Seven’s fate, and Cheng Shi’s plan to destroy his childhood friend’s heart was only beginning.

• Cheng Shi told Du Qiyu that Cheng Shi had passed his test more purely than humans with ulterior motives.
• Du Qiyu sent his Beast Tamer to deliver the vessel while he stayed hidden, and Cheng Shi warned him against making a move.
• After the vessel left him, Du Qiyu lost its calming influence and angrily demanded another chance to prove himself.
• Du Qiyu urged the Beast Tamer to return the vessel, growing more distressed as it approached Cheng Shi.
• Cheng Shi took back the vessel and told Du Qiyu, “Are you happy? I lied to you.”

Cheng Shi exposed himself as Little Ten and defeated Du Qiyu, whose fear and humiliation led him to kill himself. After Du Qiyu died believing they might meet in another era, Cheng Shi left him behind and continued on.

• Cheng Shi killed Beast Tamer Little Seven, revealed his Little Ten identity, and told Du Qiyu that his container was real but his claims about Lord Foolish Play were lies.
• Du Qiyu fled into the forest, but Cheng Shi struck him with lightning and then suspected the corpse at his feet was a decoy.
• Cheng Shi taunted the apparently dead Little Seven until Du Qiyu opened his eyes, then described their past rivalry and claimed he would become Foolish Play again in a future era.
• Du Qiyu stabbed himself in the heart, vowing to defeat Cheng Shi in the next era before dying without closing his eyes.
• Cheng Shi reflected that he had returned Du Qiyu's original lie with one of his own, stepped over the corpse, and sent more lightning into the forest.

Sun Miao returned after searching the Beast Tamer’s corpse and told Cheng Shi about Du Qiyu’s painful past. He explained how Du Qiyu’s schemes helped ruin Boss Du’s business, left Du Qiyu orphaned again, and made him resent Zhao Xiaogua and Cheng Shi.

• Sun Miao confronted Cheng Shi, guessed he wanted the Beast Tamer’s memories, and was sent to search the corpse.
• Cheng Shi reflected on Delvo’s growing War Legion and the battlefield’s devastation before Sun Miao returned.
• Sun Miao recounted how Du Qiyu’s deception made him a pawn in attacks against Boss Du’s business.
• Boss Du abandoned the ruined business, Du Qiyu’s adoptive mother left him, and he became an orphan again.
• Sun Miao described Du Qiyu’s scavenging and his discovery that Zhao Xiaogua had received the secure life Du Qiyu once expected.
• Sun Miao said Zhao Xiaogua told Du Qiyu that Cheng Shi had a loving father, then asked Cheng Shi whether he had known.