Recaps

Cheng Shi used Order and Mouth Brother’s help to expose Wei Zhi’s lie about knowing where Truth Limit was. He then claimed that he knew its location himself, leaving the Grand Scholars alarmed.

• Square and Round used Order to forbid teleportation and group attacks, letting them and Wei Zhi escape the Grand Scholars’ assault through staged one-on-one fights.
• Cheng Shi confronted Wei Zhi and demanded to know where Truth Limit was before letting him go.
• Wei Zhi claimed he knew the location, but Mouth Brother revealed that he was lying and only sought to escape.
• Cheng Shi blasted Wei Zhi away and told the Grand Scholars that he knew where Truth Limit was.
• Cheng Shi saw Wollent’s alarm and confirmed that he had truly discovered Truth Limit’s location.

Cheng Shi deduced that Truth Limit had been split apart and disguised as Grand Scholar corpses, and suspected Wei Zhi had become its key after consuming two pieces. As Cheng Shi and Galiusha rushed to the western district to retrieve him, Galadley seized control of Wei Zhi’s body and fled, beginning a deadly pursuit.

• Cheng Shi bluffed the Grand Scholars, read their reactions, and narrowed Truth Limit’s hiding place to Tomorrow’s Truth’s tower or Pelaya’s laboratory.
• Cheng Shi returned to Tomorrow’s Truth’s tower, where Galiusha helped him uncover that Truth Limit’s fragments had been disguised as Grand Scholar corpses.
• Cheng Shi realized Wei Zhi might have fused with Truth Limit after devouring two corpses, and ordered the Twilight Church to surround the western district and bring Wei Zhi back.
• Galadley took control of Wei Zhi’s body, shattered Wei Zhi’s consciousness, and escaped from the ruins in the opposite direction as Cheng Shi and Galiusha approached.

Cheng Shi realized Wei Zhi might have left him a contingency for restoring the Truth Limit, hidden in two brains from the devoured Grand Scholars. Galiusha identified one brain as Wei Zhi’s and took Cheng Shi to find Pelaya, who could help restore it.

• Wei Zhi escaped the Grand Scholars, and Cheng Shi sent his teammates to search for him while warning them not to act until they had surrounded him.
• Galiusha saw that Cheng Shi was holding back a plan and pressed him to explain what he needed her to do.
• Cheng Shi suspected Wei Zhi had prepared a contingency and showed Galiusha the two brains Wei Zhi had given him.
• Galiusha said the brains might be used to restore the Truth Limit and guessed that one belonged to Wei Zhi.
• Galiusha took the brain and led Cheng Shi to find Pelaya, whom she believed could restore it.

Cheng Shi and Galiusha helped Pelaya complete her backup experiment, restoring Wei Zhi and recovering the final piece of the Truth Limit. As the Grand Scholars learned the experiment was close to succeeding and rushed to stop it, Cheng Shi worried about what Galiusha might demand after the trial.

• Galiusha told Cheng Shi that the Pelaya in the destroyed Experiment Field had been only a slice and brought him to the real Pelaya's secret laboratory.
• Cheng Shi greeted Pelaya as Punishment Knight Grindel and persuaded her to begin the life-form restoration experiment with Galiusha's help.
• Pelaya restored Wei Zhi, but Cheng Shi immediately killed him with lightning before he could finish speaking.
• Pelaya began assembling the corpses and verifying the Truth Limit while Galiusha assisted her.
• The Grand Scholars realized the final piece of the Truth Limit had been recovered, broke through the Bellringer Knight's encirclement, and raced toward Pelaya's laboratory.

Cheng Shi watched Pelaya and Galiusha reveal that they wanted to survive as independent versions of themselves within the experiment, complicating his plan to destroy it. The Grand Scholars arrived at the laboratory door while Cheng Shi remained torn between helping them and ending the experiment.

• Pelaya took the completed Truth Limit and refused to trust Cheng Shi, saying she wanted to meet Galiusha in the past and did not want to die in the experiment.
• Cheng Shi realized Pelaya regarded herself as separate from her true body and considered taking Truth Limit by force, but hesitated because he still needed her and Galiusha's help.
• Galiusha explained that their misunderstanding came from poor communication and offered to help Cheng Shi destroy the experiment if he helped her secure the identity of his traitor.
• Cheng Shi understood that Galiusha also wanted to survive as a separate experimental variable, but could not reconcile acquiring a Wanderer's identity with making the experiment fail.
• The Grand Scholars arrived at the laboratory door as Cheng Shi, Pelaya, and Galiusha stood in silence.

Cheng Shi discovered that the power of Time could activate the Truth Limit, giving him control over the experiment. Instead of ending it, he decided to reshape Tusnat and conduct an experiment of his own.

• With Pelaya exiled to the past, Cheng Shi received the Truth Limit from Galiusha and learned how it could let him control or erase the experiment.
• Cheng Shi realized he lacked the power of Truth, while Galiusha revealed that Wei Zhi’s body was ready for her to merge with.
• After considering reviving Wei Zhi, Cheng Shi tried using the power of Time on the Truth Limit, and it activated.
• Cheng Shi entered the Creator’s perspective, reconsidered destroying the experiment, and began reshaping Tusnat into a familiar town.

After the experiment abruptly shifted everyone to the Door of Falling, Cheng Shi revealed that he had deliberately recreated the trial to meet another version of himself. He entered the experiment as Qin Xin, leaving the outcome of his risky cross-universe reunion uncertain.

• The players found themselves at the Door of Falling, where Tusnat, the Twilight Church, the Grand Scholars, and Galiusha had vanished, leaving five players and Wei Zhi behind.
• Hu Xuan searched for Cheng Shi, then concluded he was likely deceiving people again and wondered how Wei Zhi had resurrected himself.
• Cheng Shi reflected that he had used the Truth Limit and Truth's power to recreate the experiment and pull time back to the Door of Falling.
• Cheng Shi entered the experiment as Qin Xin, hoping to use the Time Deduction Method to meet another version of himself from a different Slice Universe.
• When Cheng Shi asked whether the experimental Cheng Shi wanted to fight him, the other Cheng Shi attacked by throwing a headless corpse at him.

Cheng Shi used the Time Deduction Method and met a scarred version of himself, who explained that their contact had cost them both a chance to seek guidance. Their conversation ended with Scarred Cheng Shi revealing that everyone he cared about had died.

• Cheng Shi activated the Time Deduction Method and found himself facing a scarred version of himself in an existence rift.
• Scarred Cheng Shi mocked Cheng Shi for seeking answers, prompting Cheng Shi to realize their meeting was a two-way attempt to contact another self and apologize for wasting the other man's chance.
• Scarred Cheng Shi revealed that his apparent madness was an act, released the Gaze of Mockery, and shared cola with Cheng Shi.
• Scarred Cheng Shi said he had also gone through confusion and was grateful for Old Jia and the friends who believed in him.
• Cheng Shi recognized the Blind Man's mourning cloth and asked who had died, and Scarred Cheng Shi said they had all died and called them deserters.

Cheng Shi met a scarred version of himself, who explained how prosperity had destroyed his world and shared clues for resisting the same fate. Scarred Cheng Shi learned that Lele'er had already died in Cheng Shi’s world and took heart that his other self still had a chance.

• Scarred Cheng Shi explained that prosperity had become extreme, consumed the world, and led the gods and mortals to fight it, leaving him as the sole survivor of his friends.
• Cheng Shi told Scarred Cheng Shi that outside forces had helped his world progress, prompting Scarred Cheng Shi to renew his hope of passing it to other versions of himself.
• Scarred Cheng Shi urged Cheng Shi to investigate Kraun's Mask, search for Gaze of Mockery in Redicor, and learn what happened to Nose of Falsehood Discrimination.
• Scarred Cheng Shi warned that prosperity's fall was connected to Sinking, Filth, and Decay, and said Lele'er needed to die to restore the world's fear.
• Cheng Shi confirmed that Lele'er had already died after prosperity fell, and Scarred Cheng Shi rejoiced that his other self's world still had hope.

Scarred Cheng Shi told Cheng Shi to trust time and search for Folly’s hidden authority as a possible way to expose the experiment’s loopholes and save their friends. As the meeting ended, he urged Cheng Shi to accept friendship, then vanished to face the experiment alone, leaving Cheng Shi back in reality with Variable Cheng Shi.

• Scarred Cheng Shi said the God of Merriment had identified time as the key to keeping the Slice Universe synchronized and stable.
• Scarred Cheng Shi suggested Folly’s authority might still exist, hidden, and urged Cheng Shi to find it as a route to survival.
• Scarred Cheng Shi told Cheng Shi to open himself to friendship and explained that saving their friends mattered more to him than the world’s fate.
• Scarred Cheng Shi declared that he would die mocking the Observer and the experiment, then vanished.
• Cheng Shi returned to the experiment and told the bewildered Variable Cheng Shi that he was his future self.

Cheng Shi realized Truth had used his experiment and repeated time resets to steal time and reach toward the Universe Truth, then tried to call on the Lords of Grace as his experiment collapsed. His attempt to rewind events with Time Has Its Own Path failed, leaving him and his teammates in imminent danger.

• Cheng Shi watched the experiment and its players disintegrate as Truth Ritual interfered from outside.
• Cheng Shi deduced that Truth had anticipated his experiment and used him to steal time while seeking the Universe Truth.
• Cheng Shi concluded that the Lords of Grace of Nothingness were occupied by Truth and decided to attract their attention himself.
• Cheng Shi used the Filth and Decay container to calm himself, then activated Time Has Its Own Path to try to rewind the collapsing experiment.
• Cheng Shi's snap left everything unchanged.

Cheng Shi's Pregnancy Law briefly revived him as Truth's erosion continued, and he joined the others struggling to survive while Hu Xuan went into labor. As Cheng Shi's improvised delivery produced an unexpected male figure, the gods stopped Destiny from destroying the cosmos, and Truth announced that His own experiment was beginning.

• Birth's power revived Cheng Shi once, but Truth's erosion soon resumed, so he switched to Hu Xuan's side in search of help.
• Cheng Shi found Meng Youfang sustaining three Square and Rounds with Order while Hu Xuan endured labor and the others struggled to hold out.
• Cheng Shi tried to deliver Hu Xuan's baby, but Wei Zhi handed the scalpel to Chen Yi, who exiled Hu Xuan into the past and left a robust male figure behind.
• While the gods supported the cosmos against Destiny, Deception attacked Folly, and their absence caused the cosmos to crack toward Nothingness.
• Cheng Shi activated Time Has Its Own Path, prompting Destiny to abandon His destructive course and restore the cosmos's path.
• Birth urged Cheng Shi to live, and Truth declared that the trial's preliminary experiment had succeeded and that He would take over the experiment.

Truth began a vast experiment that appeared capable of encompassing the cosmos, and Destiny struck to stop it before it could bring the world to an end. Deception pulled the players out of Truth’s trial, leaving Cheng Shi and his teammates in the midst of the gods’ confrontation.

• Truth activated the Starry Tome of Knowledge, scattering its pages across the void to form an immense network of stars and divine seals.
• Destiny sensed world-ending destruction around Truth and attacked the Starry Tome, hoping to injure Truth and halt the experiment.
• Deception blinked and removed Cheng Shi and four other players from Truth’s trial.
• Cheng Shi realized the trial had been interrupted and found himself before a crowd of gods, with Truth surrounded by the stellar experiment.
• Square and Round panicked at the sight of so many gods, while Wei Zhi also struggled to cope.

Galiusha and the other players appeared before the gods as Destiny attacked Truth, while Meng Youfang stepped forward to protect Cheng Shi. Truth revealed that it had chosen to destroy itself in pursuit of the unknown, and its declaration sent the universe into upheaval as the sky began to collapse.

• Galiusha appeared among the players, while Chen Yi tried to reach Memory and Deception knocked him unconscious.
• Meng Youfang greeted the gods and stood before Cheng Shi, claiming Truth was trying to steal his divine throne and asking it not to hurt his friend.
• Destiny's strike made Truth appear to be dying, alarming Annihilation and revealing to Destiny that Truth had set a trap by choosing its own destruction.
• Truth declared that its endless pursuit of the unknown defined it, and the universe roared as a beam of light pierced the sky and the firmament began to collapse.

Truth sacrificed herself to launch an experiment that would reconstruct the Universe and seek contact with another world, having used Cheng Shi and his trial to steal the power of Time. The gods realized too late that her true experiment was already underway, while Deception hinted that someone with authority could still interfere.

• Truth self-destructed, revealing that she had planned to reshape the Universe and use its resonance with another world to seek answers beyond it.
• Truth had manipulated Cheng Shi's trial and ordered the Grand Scholars of the Scholarly Council to siphon the power of Time whenever he reset it.
• Destiny realized the experiment was underway and tried to escape, but Deception's Twin Gods warned that Truth's death had triggered a Final Oracle that would delay the gods.
• Destiny accused Deception of driving Folly away and secretly relying on her to stop Truth's experiment.
• Deception replied that Folly lacked authority, but someone else had it.

Folly watched as Truth’s experiment destroyed and reconstructed the world, while Hong Lin endured Tao Yi’s repeated disappearances and returns. The chapter ended with Hong Lin lying exhausted as Tao Yi continued flickering in and out of existence.

• Folly observed Truth’s experiment collapse the world, while Hong Lin survived under the Covenant’s protection and watched Tao Yi turn to ash.
• Hong Lin confronted Folly, who called her and Truth equally foolish, then charged at Folly before Folly left.
• Truth reconstructed the world, briefly restoring Tao Yi and reuniting her with Hong Lin before the reconstruction failed and Tao Yi vanished again.
• Tao Yi repeatedly reappeared and disappeared during Truth’s continuing experiments, and Hong Lin realized she was being reconstructed.
• Hong Lin wondered what Truth was testing and whether the other gods had approved, then lay down as Tao Yi’s flickering appearances made her drowsy.

The gods convened to decide who would receive Truth's authority while the universe collapsed outside their assembly. After Death proposed that Prosperity's proxy, Flazhol, be allowed to attend, Order brought the sleeping bear into Prosperity's seat.

• Order convened the Gods' Covenant Assembly and explained Truth's final oracle that one god could claim the authority with more than half the votes.
• Birth voted immediately, while Destiny worried about the world and Deception taunted the Twin Gods about their believer.
• Deception asked Order how Truth's two ownerless voting rights should be distributed and argued that Prosperity's proxy should receive one.
• Annihilation objected that giving the vote to a mortal would effectively give it to Deception, but Deception said they would accept Truth's authority if offered.
• Death proposed that Flazhol be allowed to attend the assembly, and the gods tacitly approved.
• Order brought Flazhol into the meeting, where the gods saw a sleeping bear in Prosperity's seat.

At The Gods' Covenant Assembly, the gods debated who could vote on Truth's authority, and Deception proposed splitting the voting rights with Destiny. Destiny agreed, then cast her vote for the sleeping Big Cat, and asked Order whether she could leave.

• Deception urged the gods to vote quickly and argued that the assembly should clarify voting rights first.
• Memory suggested that the Void Era ending early might not be bad, and Deception mocked her.
• Deception offered to give up Truth's authority in exchange for two voting rights, but Annihilation proposed dividing them between Deception and Destiny.
• Destiny accepted Annihilation's proposal, and Deception agreed before casting his vote for Chaos.
• Destiny cast her vote for the sleeping Big Cat, then asked Order if she could leave.

The gods voted to end Truth’s decree by giving the Truth Authority to Birth, who immediately vanished to protect her child. The Iron Rule of Order stayed behind with Order, questioning what her existence meant if order extended beyond the Universe.

• Destiny declared that Truth had gone astray and left the assembly to protect her believer.
• Annihilation and the Iron Rule of Order voted for Memory, giving her the lead before the other gods waited on Deception’s move.
• The gods resolved their stalemate by voting for Birth, and their votes ended Truth’s final decree.
• Birth obtained the Truth Authority and vanished, while Annihilation, Memory, Deception, and the other gods departed.
• Order asked the Iron Rule of Order why she had not gone to uphold order, and the Iron Rule said she was waiting to understand a new order.

War protected Truth’s experiment and shattered the universe’s barriers, exposing the gods to the Universe Truth and calling countless versions of War into battle. The gods saw the Slice Universes laid bare as War’s flames filled the crimson sky.

• Destiny accused War of betraying the gods by defending Truth’s experiment, while Death warned that the experiment threatened the universe and the gods’ faith.
• Deception confronted War for breaking their pact, but War declared their intent to challenge the primordial creator and summon countless versions of themself.
• The universe began resonating with an unfamiliar Chasm of Existence, and Destiny, Birth, Death, and other gods tried to hold the collapsing world together.
• Deception warned that War’s intervention would make the universe’s destruction unavoidable, and War sent a world-burning inferno into Truth’s light.
• War’s strike shattered the spacetime barriers and revealed countless identical Slice Universes to the gods.
• Countless streaks of fire answered War’s call, filling the crimson sky with blood and flames.

After Truth destroyed itself and the world began to reconstruct, Galiusha connected its experiment to a study of consciousness shared among slices. She concluded that Truth may have been trying to contact its counterpart in another world, just as the void’s dome shattered.

• Galiusha sensed that the world was undergoing a reconstruction more violent than the Truth Ritual’s.
• Cheng Shi told Galiusha that another world might exist beyond this one and that Truth may have used the power of time to verify it.
• Cheng Shi claimed Meng Youfang had once been a True God and was responsible for their survival, while Square and Round silently decided to stay close to Cheng Shi.
• Meng Youfang concluded that Truth had died from guilt after making a mistake, and Cheng Shi rejected his explanation.
• Galiusha described the Faith Synchronization Experiment and proposed that Truth had reconstructed the world to contact its counterpart elsewhere.
• A blaze of fire lit the Universe, shattered the void’s dome, and caused the sky to collapse.

As the universe shattered during the gods’ war, Hong Lin rescued Cheng Shi, who pieced together Deception’s clues and realized he needed to find the Truth Ritual. He believed Deception had a plan to keep the world from collapsing, though he suspected someone else would save it.

• The world’s spacetime barriers shattered, forcing Cheng Shi, Galiusha, Square, Round, and Meng Youfang to flee as the spreading Nothingness consumed them.
• Hong Lin turned back from Tao Yi to find Cheng Shi and rescued him from the collapsing void.
• Cheng Shi asked Hong Lin about Deception, and she recounted the Gods’ Covenant Assembly and the God of Merriment’s warning about the Lord of Grace’s believers losing their protection.
• Hong Lin’s question about Truth’s destruction helped Cheng Shi interpret the warning: Truth’s believers had lost their protection, so he needed to find the Truth Ritual and claim its demigod-level creation.
• Hong Lin carried Cheng Shi toward the trial’s void entrance while he reasoned that Deception must have a way to prevent the world’s collapse.

War led countless versions of herself in an assault on the Source, inspiring gods and mortals across the universe to believe they could defeat her. The Source erased War and her attack with a single sound, leaving every world overcome by fear and Deception to confront how insignificant the gods were to their Creator.

• Deception mocked Destiny for insisting that her fate remained predetermined, but Destiny reaffirmed her belief in destiny.
• Countless Wars joined their flames and blood together to cross the void and charge toward the Source.
• War’s unified battle cry inspired gods and mortals to cheer as her forces neared the Source’s throne.
• A strange sound rang out, and the Source instantly extinguished War, the flames, and the battle.
• The Source’s fear overwhelmed gods and mortals; Cheng Shi used the vessel of Filth and Decay to protect himself and Hong Lin, while Deception realized the gods were merely variables the Creator could erase.

As the True Universe collapsed and the gods froze in terror, humans across countless worlds charged Primordial Origin, and a blood-red mocking face appeared in the darkness. Cheng Shi recognized the act as a sacrifice made together with his counterpart, then stopped time as he fell toward the shattered Nothingness.

• Cheng Shi and Big Cat fled the collapsing Universe while Hong Lin struggled to keep up, and Big Cat demanded to know whether God of Merriment's promised salvation was real.
• Humans from countless worlds gathered their radiance and charged toward Primordial Origin, but their light faded before reaching the divine throne.
• Thunder revealed a blood-colored smiling face, and Cheng Shi recognized it as a mockery his counterpart had promised to draw with their own blood.
• Cheng Shi laughed and cheered for his counterpart, then assured Big Cat he would live until Primordial Origin announced the experiment had failed.
• As Cheng Shi fell toward the shattered Nothingness, he snapped his fingers and froze spacetime.

Deception recognized that the gods and their worlds faced destruction, then arranged for Time to use the Creator’s power to rewind the shattered world and conceal it from Origin. Cheng Shi woke back in Truth’s trial, but remembered the Bloody Mockery and the Prisoner of Time’s self-awakening.

• Deception realized that the Slice Universes progressed at different rates and feared that the war and its destruction were repeating across time.
• Deception decided to intervene when his clown believer neared death, but relied on Time because he could not save anyone himself.
• Time used the Creator’s power to roll the world back, restoring the shattered cosmos and reversing Truth’s reconstructions.
• Cheng Shi woke in the ruins of Tusnat and realized Time had returned him to the beginning of Truth’s experiment.
• Cheng Shi remained haunted by the Bloody Mockery and remembered the Prisoner of Time’s self-awakening.