Recaps

Cheng Shi and the others fought the Void-Snout Devouring Pigs' annihilating pull and escaped through the creature's inner wall. Cui Ding Tian hauled them toward the surface with ropes made from his own skin, and the group prepared to break through the water.

• Cheng Shi healed his teammates as the Void-Snout Devouring Pigs' pull corroded them, while Zhao Qian urged everyone to fight back toward the creature's outer wall.
• Gao Yu fashioned a spiral drill, but the team could barely damage the inner wall, so Cheng Shi used the Ring of Bone Servant Lele'er to blast an opening with lightning.
• Cheng Shi healed the group and restored Cui Ding Tian's spiritual power, and Cui Ding Tian peeled off his skin to make ropes that bound his companions and anchored them outside the opening.
• Cui Ding Tian dragged the group through the breach, and Cheng Shi healed Gao Yu and Tao Yi as they recovered from the void's corrosion.
• Cheng Shi and Tao Yi exchanged awkward remarks while Gao Yu joked that disaster was a catalyst for love, then Cui Ding Tian warned that they were about to break the surface.

After the disaster ended, Cheng Shi tried to save Cui Ding Tian, whose body was failing from the cost of using divine power. With the team’s flesh and blood as ingredients, Cheng Shi gambled on refining Fleeting Radiance and left its success dependent on Su Yida believing in his own power of Memory.

• The players escaped the dead Void-Snout Devouring Pig and surfaced as the storm subsided, while Cui Ding Tian collapsed in critical condition.
• Cheng Shi decided to make a medicine furnace and asked Gao Yu to forge one from the tools he had stored inside his body.
• Cheng Shi explained that Fleeting Radiance could restore Cui Ding Tian to his peak for five days but would sharply worsen his decline afterward.
• Tao Yi contributed flesh containing the power of prosperity, and Cheng Shi urged Su Yida to provide flesh containing the power of Memory.
• Su Yida convinced himself that his deceptive power still counted as Memory and added his flesh, allowing Cheng Shi’s gamble to work.
• Cheng Shi closed the furnace and asked Zhao Qian for fire to begin refining the potion.

Cheng Shi used Zhao Qian’s fire to refine a pill that revived Cui Ding Tian, only to discover it also suppressed the curse caused by Cui’s betrayal of his former Lord of Grace. As the group questioned Cheng Shi about the medicine, he tried to bluff them by claiming his surname was Tang.

• Cheng Shi deduced that Zhao Qian could control fire and persuaded him to heat the medicine furnace until it exploded.
• While the group gathered driftwood to build a sea platform, Zhao Qian heated the furnace and Cheng Shi secretly prepared the real lifesaving pill.
• The furnace exploded, and Cheng Shi fed a pill to Cui Ding Tian, restoring his strength and appearance to a youthful peak.
• Cui Ding Tian revealed that he had betrayed Prosperity for Decay to search for his son, earning a curse that made his body stone and unable to decay.
• Cui Ding Tian asked Cheng Shi for a cure, and Cheng Shi awkwardly claimed that his real surname was Tang.

Cheng Shi revealed that a large amount of Prosperity Divinity was sealed inside him, explaining how it had been implanted during a trial by a former Chosen of Prosperity. After convincing Su Yida with a trace of Prosperity's aura, Cheng Shi agreed to let Cui Ding Tian have the divinity if it could be extracted, leaving the old man deeply grateful.

• Cheng Shi told the group that Prosperity Divinity inside him had been eroding his power of Birth and preventing him from getting anyone pregnant.
• Cheng Shi explained that a player called Baldy Uses Pantene had sealed divinity inside five players during a trial, and Tao Yi recognized the ID as a former Chosen of Prosperity.
• Cheng Shi used Deception to reveal a trace of Lele'er's Prosperity aura, convincing Su Yida that he carried scattered divinity.
• Su Yida told everyone to rest and recover before the first day ended in three hours.
• Cui Ding Tian privately asked Cheng Shi for some of the divinity if it could be extracted, and Cheng Shi generously offered him all of it.

After surviving the first day, Cheng Shi and the others searched for food and recovered while he deflected Su Yida’s questions about the divinity inside him. When the sea began draining away, the group prepared for danger, but the water vanished beneath them and they began falling toward the exposed abyss.

• The group searched separately for food, and Su Yida returned with edible plants, fruit, and eggs while Cheng Shi ate meat from giant-beast corpses.
• Su Yida questioned Cheng Shi about his strange food and what had happened underwater, and Cheng Shi gave him evasive answers.
• Cheng Shi told the group that the underwater device was an instantaneous lightning device given to them as a Prosperity test reward.
• Zhao Qian noticed the water level dropping, and Gao Yu warned the group about possible fissures, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions as they gathered materials for equipment.
• As the water rapidly disappeared, Cheng Shi suggested that Gao Yu make a helicopter, but the raft shuddered and the players began falling toward the seafloor.

After the sea vanished and left the players falling above an abyss, Tao Yi and Gao Yu helped the group build a hot-air balloon to escape the deadly boundary. Cui Ding Tian’s tests confirmed that everything vanished when it crossed into the darkness, leaving the players stranded as Zhao Qian ran low on mental power.

• Tao Yi expanded driftwood into a parachute and slowed the six players’ fall above the abyss.
• Su Yida proposed building a hot-air balloon, and Gao Yu fashioned a metal stove while Zhao Qian supplied its fire.
• Cui Ding Tian descended on a rope made from his own skin and discovered that wood shavings vanished at the black-and-white boundary.
• The players threw several objects across the boundary and confirmed that each one disappeared, suggesting they could not cross it.
• Zhao Qian said he had little mental power left, and Cheng Shi sent him a Mental Technique.

Cheng Shi realized the dividing line might lead into the void and devised a way to cross it using a Void-Snout Devouring Pig’s corpse. As a sudden flood swept everyone upward, the group climbed into the falling beast, and both it and its passengers vanished at the dividing line.

• Cui Ding Tian volunteered to descend past the dividing line, but Zhao Qian’s burst of flame failed to stop his fall.
• Cheng Shi recalled that the trial’s god was investigating Nothingness and suspected the dividing line marked the boundary between reality and the void.
• Cheng Shi provoked Su Yida into noticing that the vanished floodwater was pouring down again, and the group scrambled to escape the rising deluge.
• Su Yida spotted a Void-Snout Devouring Pig’s corpse, and Cheng Shi blasted a hole through its belly with Thunderclap Judgment.
• Cui Ding Tian and the others climbed inside the corpse, which reached the dividing line and vanished along with them.

Cheng Shi and Su Yida survived the boundary crossing by using deception and fabrication, then discovered each other’s identities and tested one another in a confession game. With the trial still ongoing, they split up to search the void separately.

• Cheng Shi woke in the void and realized that Void-Snout Devouring Pig had carried him across the boundary line; Su Yida approached him upside down.
• Cheng Shi explained that he had covertly guided Su Yida to recreate the vanished seawater, helping the group discover how to cross the boundary and escape inside the giant beast.
• Cheng Shi and Su Yida confronted each other about their identities and divinity, and Su Yida guessed that Cheng Shi’s talent was Master of Deception.
• Cheng Shi introduced himself as a clown, while Su Yida claimed to be a Master of Trickery; both gave the score 2401.
• Su Yida headed deeper into the void and invited Cheng Shi along, but Cheng Shi flicked a booger at him and chose to go a separate way.

Cheng Shi and Su Yida searched the void for a way out and realized they had to cross a Void Rift, while their missing teammates were likely dead. Cheng Shi lured Su Yida into testing the rift by suggesting that divinity might be sealed inside him, and Su Yida chose to believe him and set off.

• Cheng Shi and Su Yida explored the spherical void, found that Void Rifts surrounded it, and discovered their teammates were missing.
• Su Yida urged Cheng Shi to find a way through a Void Rift and invited him to join the Rationality Association, while Cheng Shi questioned Su Yida's motives.
• Cheng Shi claimed that a Chosen of Prosperity had forced divinity into his body through a Void Rift, and Su Yida challenged the story's logic.
• Cheng Shi suggested that the Lord of Grace, Deception might be watching them and could seal divinity inside anyone who entered a Void Rift.
• Su Yida recognized Cheng Shi's offer as an open conspiracy but accepted the chance to accommodate divinity and walked toward the nearest Void Rift.

Zhao Qian, Cui Ding Tian, and Tao Yi each faced the Void Rift and made choices about who would cross it, while Cheng Shi watched Su Yida attempt the crossing. Su Yida returned from the rift transformed in demeanor and greeted Cheng Shi as if they had not met in a long time.

• Zhao Qian knocked Gao Yu unconscious, used his Fire Bow to open a ring of flame in the Void Rift, and threw him through it before preparing to cross himself.
• Cui Ding Tian refused Decay's oracle to kill the unconscious Tao Yi, covered her with his cloth, and crossed the rift to confirm that another world lay beyond it.
• Cui Ding Tian returned through the rift, and Tao Yi awakened and thanked him before asking him to cross with her.
• Cheng Shi watched Su Yida charge into the rift, but Su Yida abruptly returned with a changed demeanor and greeted Cheng Shi as if they were old acquaintances.

Su Yida trapped Cheng Shi with Time’s Eternal Prison, took his ring, and killed him. Zhao Qian emerged from the Void Rift to find Su Yida transformed and unable to recognize him, while the trial remained unfinished.

• Su Yida revealed that he knew about Cheng Shi’s ring and stopped him with Eternal Prison.
• Su Yida removed Cheng Shi’s ring, mocked his restraint, and strangled him to death.
• Su Yida dismissed Cheng Shi’s corpse and turned to Zhao Qian, who had just emerged from a reality-and-unreality rift.
• Su Yida failed to recognize Zhao Qian and insulted him after learning he was a believer of the God of Endurance.
• Zhao Qian saw Cheng Shi’s corpse, realized Su Yida had killed the only Priest before the trial was over, and asked who Su Yida really was.
• Su Yida insisted that he was the genuine Su Yida.

Su Yida revealed that he had traveled back from the future and told Zhao Qian what awaited the City Builders. After hearing Su Yida’s secret, Zhao Qian chose to sacrifice himself, and Su Yida took his corpse through the Void Rift.

• Su Yida used his god-tier Past Self in Memory talent to explain that he had returned from the future, then began strangling Zhao Qian.
• Su Yida recognized Zhao Qian as a Fire Keeper and a City Builder, and told him about the future God Creation Plan.
• Su Yida asked Zhao Qian to commit suicide so he could obtain a corpse, then whispered a reason that changed Zhao Qian’s resolve.
• Zhao Qian invoked the City Builders’ cause and burned himself away in a sacrifice of blood and fire.
• Su Yida bowed to Zhao Qian, lifted his corpse, and stepped into the Void Rift.

Cheng Shi woke on a frozen icefield after dying in the Void Rift and learned how his companions had survived. With the group near collapse and their makeshift shelter failing, he prepared to use healing magic.

• Cheng Shi woke after twelve hours and learned that Zhao Qian had died, leaving only ashes.
• Cheng Shi told Tao Yi that he was a believer of Death and asked her to recount what had happened.
• Cheng Shi recalled that he had secretly become a Gravedigger by offering a blade of grass to Death and praying to the Dice of Destiny.
• Tao Yi explained that she and Old Cui had dragged Cheng Shi and Gao Yu through three Void Rifts before finding Su Yida on the icefield.
• Su Yida used a saved Fleeting Radiance pill to revive Cheng Shi after the group warmed themselves with firewood.
• Cheng Shi discovered that Old Cui's skin formed their fragile tent, and Tao Yi urged him to heal the others as the shelter and firewood failed.

Cheng Shi woke and suspected that the Su Yida who had killed him was a future version, then confronted the Su Yida on guard duty and forced him to reveal his power over time. Su Yida reversed the frozen plain, and Cheng Shi admitted he had only bluffed him.

• Cheng Shi woke and healed Tao Yi, then questioned Su Yida about what he had seen in the Void Rift.
• Cheng Shi suspected that a future Su Yida had killed him and wondered why he had survived.
• Cheng Shi went outside to take his guard shift, shared cold resistance with his teammates except Su Yida, and endured the worsening freeze.
• Cheng Shi threatened to die together unless Su Yida ended the cold, then mimed removing a mask to convince him he had a backup plan.
• Su Yida reversed time, thawing the frozen plain and restoring the warmer surroundings.
• Cheng Shi said he had bluffed, and Su Yida recognized him as the same lunatic he had suspected.

Cheng Shi deduced that Su Yida had traveled from the future to kill him, then uncovered the deception behind the mission. He concluded that Su Yida had sent his present self into the future, leaving the story with Su Yida exposed as a seemingly reckless double of himself.

• Su Yida threatened to kill Cheng Shi again, but Cheng Shi recognized that Su Yida did not dare use Deception's power against him.
• Cheng Shi inferred that Su Yida had come from the future and that Memory, rather than time, had sent him back.
• Cheng Shi guessed that Su Yida had killed Zhao Qian to cover up his failure to kill Cheng Shi, and Su Yida's reaction confirmed the suspicion.
• Su Yida said Past Self in Memory would return him, but Cheng Shi argued that he had no way back and that someone else had already returned in his place.
• Cheng Shi concluded that Su Yida had sent his present self into the future because he did not care whether the plotters discovered his deception.

Su Yida revealed how he had deceived his past self and the players to secure his Lord of Grace’s protection in Memory. He told Cheng Shi that Zhao Qian had killed himself after hearing a story, then challenged Cheng Shi to decide whether to kill him.

• Cheng Shi realized future Su Yida had lured his past self into the future by appealing to his desire to become a god.
• Cheng Shi deduced that Su Yida had used the deception to attract the Lord of Grace’s attention and gain protection in Memory, and Su Yida admitted Cheng Shi had nearly uncovered everything.
• Su Yida refused to explain the source of his power over time, but said the offering was complete and he would become himself again when the trial ended.
• Su Yida said his past self had willingly gone to the future despite knowing the truth, while Cheng Shi questioned why Zhao Qian had been chosen as his replacement.
• Su Yida said Zhao Qian killed himself after hearing a story, then asked Cheng Shi whether he had decided to kill him.

Cheng Shi forced Su Yida to give up Prosperity Divinity for Old Cui by threatening to tear open the Lips of Foolish Play and provoke a deadly power. Su Yida handed over the divinity, and Cheng Shi fainted after revealing that he had kept his promise because he never lied.

• Cheng Shi demanded compensation from Su Yida, who mocked him and refused to believe he could be killed.
• Cheng Shi tore at his own face and threatened to rip open his mouth, unleashing a terrifying pressure that began crushing them both.
• Su Yida gave in and promised to provide anything except his life, and Cheng Shi asked for Prosperity Divinity for Old Cui.
• Cheng Shi explained that he had made the request because he never lied, while Su Yida angrily insisted he had no Prosperity Divinity to give.
• Su Yida dug Prosperity Divinity from his chest and threw it toward the Human Skin tent, then staggered away as Cheng Shi fainted.

After the trial, Cheng Shi learned that Cui Ding Tian had restored the divinity of prosperity to him, then noticed a dewdrop’s cycle and understood that annihilation could also be an offering to Him. Cheng Shi left with an S rating, while Tao Yi confronted Su Yida about whether Cheng Shi knew he was the Master of Trickery.

• Gao Yu told Cheng Shi that the trial had ended and that Cui Ding Tian had left after returning the divinity of prosperity to Cheng Shi.
• Tao Yi said she had reorganized the divinity inside Cheng Shi, and Cheng Shi thanked her and Gao Yu for helping him survive.
• Cheng Shi watched a dewdrop freeze into the frost, understood something about the annihilation of a world, and exited the trial with an S rating and four masks as rewards.
• Gao Yu left after Cheng Shi, leaving Tao Yi and Su Yida alone.
• Su Yida dropped his act and told Tao Yi to get lost, and Tao Yi asked whether Cheng Shi knew he was the Master of Trickery.

Cui Ding Tian chose to enter a trial with only three days left to live, while Tao Yi uncovered a secret about divine nature and the Rationality Association. Gao Yu recovered a prophecy linking Cheng Shi, the Fire Keepers, and events across time, then a man brought a charred corpse into an unknown place and was killed.

• Cui Ding Tian cleaned Cui Qiushi's old room, accepted his regret over refusing divine nature, and prayed to open a trial.
• Tao Yi spread divine nature over her fields, questioned a friend about human experiments and the Rationality Association, and hung up after hinting that she had used the friend's gift.
• Gao Yu let a young girl remove a metal button beside his heart and played a recorded prophecy describing Cheng Shi's role in concealing the Fire Keepers and warning that his death would endanger them.
• The prophecy ended with Zhao Qian apparently setting himself on fire, and Gao Yu stored the button among many identical devices.
• A man dragged a charred corpse into an unknown place, where the group recognized its dying flames and one of them killed the man before throwing both bodies from a high-rise.

After returning from the trial, Cheng Shi was summoned by Deception, who revealed that Death had stolen a sliver of His authority and even more from Memory. Deception praised Cheng Shi’s interference for prompting new thoughts among the gods, leaving Cheng Shi relieved that the rival side had suffered worse.

• Cheng Shi reviewed the trial, wondered about Su Yida’s time powers and Zhao Qian’s role, and noticed that the Ladder of Audience had awarded him no points.
• Cheng Shi was abruptly summoned into the void and tried to appease Deception with praise, while his unspoken thoughts were broadcast aloud.
• Cheng Shi admitted he was afraid of dying and questioned Deception’s behavior, but Deception said He would not punish him.
• Deception explained that Death had stolen some of His authority and that Cheng Shi’s interference had helped the gods begin considering other possibilities.
• Deception said Memory had lost even more authority, and Cheng Shi grinned as he realized Death had robbed two gods.

Cheng Shi learned that Memory had empowered Su Yida to target him, while Lord of Grace had protected him and defeated Memory’s chosen believer in the trial. Lord of Grace revealed that both Su Yidas were dead and hinted that a mysterious Nothingness called “Bitch” had also influenced events, then sent Cheng Shi back to his rooftop, still facing his four-days-left curse.

• Cheng Shi thanked Lord of Grace for protecting him, and Lord of Grace explained that the Covenant had stopped Memory from attacking him directly.
• Lord of Grace explained how Time and Memory perceived existence, while Cheng Shi struggled to understand the gods’ view of past and future.
• When Cheng Shi asked about Su Yida, Lord of Grace initially asked who he was, then revealed that both Su Yidas were dead.
• Lord of Grace said the present Su Yida had been punished for coveting Death’s gift and that someone had paid Cheng Shi’s outstanding sacrifice.
• Lord of Grace noticed another Nothingness’s influence, identified it as the one Cheng Shi called “Bitch,” and sent Cheng Shi back to his rooftop.

After the Lord of Grace sealed Cheng Shi’s divinity, Cheng Shi heard how Xie Yang’s brief romance with Fan Tingting ended and obtained another corpse from him. Cheng Shi used the Ring of Bone Servant Lele'er to summon a skull messenger and asked the exalted lord Upon the Throne to delay his next audience; the chapter ended with Cheng Shi hoping the request would work.

• Cheng Shi waited for Xie Yang, who arrived and claimed Fan Tingting had lured him to kill him because she followed an opposing faith.
• Xie Yang said he had purified his love rather than killed Fan Tingting, and refused to lend Cheng Shi her corpse but offered another one instead.
• The following day, Xie Yang gave Cheng Shi an uninjured male corpse, which Cheng Shi used the Ring of Bone Servant Lele'er to turn into a bone gate and a speaking skull.
• The skull identified itself as Li Zhi and hurried Cheng Shi to deliver his message to the Lord Upon the Throne.
• Cheng Shi reported completing another Special Trial and asked the Lord Upon the Throne to postpone his next audience, then watched Li Zhi vanish through the bone gate.

After Cheng Shi’s message led the Great One to settle the problem by turning him into a skeleton and reviving him, Cheng Shi received his month-end Path to Godhood rewards. A talking skull then delivered him a divine brooch tied to Memory, leaving him wondering how to change allegiances without his boss finding out.

• In Fishbone Hall, a second skull confronted the Great One over stolen authority and compensation for Cheng Shi, then proposed that they join forces against Them.
• Cheng Shi’s status changed to Radiant Return, and he died before reviving as a human two days later with the effect gone.
• Cheng Shi spoke with Xie Yang, then received the month-end settlement and chose Glacial Rift Lizard Toe from the rewards.
• A skull dropped a brooch at Cheng Shi’s feet, announced that it had delivered the item, and vanished despite losing its jaw.
• Cheng Shi identified the Brooch of the Departed Hand Bone, which let him question a recently deceased corpse truthfully but required a sacrifice to the Great One each time.

Cheng Shi entered a special trial in Yuanmu Town, where he and five teammates discovered that the town’s welcoming sightseeing assistants were spies and that its people worshipped a god called Eternal Day. The teammates introduced themselves, and Cheng Shi suspected that Ji Ran, who claimed to follow Nothingness, was actually a fellow loafer of Destiny.

• Cheng Shi entered the special trial, whose objective concerned legends about gods and whose time limit was three days.
• Cheng Shi awoke in an inn in Yuanmu Town and learned from his personal sightseeing assistant, Shaman, that she would serve him during the visit.
• Cheng Shi surveyed the inn and met his five teammates, whose personal assistants waited outside their rooms.
• Li Boli introduced herself as an Existence Hunter and told the group that the assistants were spies and Yuanmu Town worshipped the true god Eternal Day.
• Ji Ran introduced himself as a Nothingness Warrior, and Cheng Shi suspected that he was actually a Destiny follower with the same lazy attitude.

Cheng Shi and the other players introduced themselves before their trial, revealing their faiths, classes, and scores. Hu Xuan identified herself as a Life Sage and openly defended the Nature Sect, leaving Cheng Shi wary of what their beliefs might mean for the team.

• Cheng Shi teased Ji Ran about his Destiny roll, and Ji Ran revealed that he had rolled 13.
• Qin Chaoge introduced herself as a Storm's Voice and challenged Ji Ran, who agreed to take the beating if a Priest was on the team.
• Cheng Shi revealed that he was a Sinking Priest and explained that Prosperity, Truth, and War had rejected him when he tried to switch faiths.
• Hu Xuan introduced herself as a Life Sage, and Qin Chaoge questioned her about the Sea of Desire.
• Li Boli identified Hu Xuan as a member of the Nature Sect, and Hu Xuan defended its belief in returning to human nature.