Cheng Shi manipulated Da Yi, Qu Yan, and Rosna’s people while pursuing the Gift of Scars and navigating a time-resetting trial. The arc ended with the Gift’s pursuers arriving in Rosna as a player altered history once more.
Cheng Shi captured the Gift of Scars, freed Nangong from Decay, and cleared the Rosna trial as the World Destroyers annihilated the city. After Memory cast him into lost history, Cheng Shi impersonated Ultraman on the Chaos Divine Steps and learned more about the gods’ conflicts before Death sentenced Dizer to death.
Cheng Shi learned more about the gods’ schemes and the Covenant, while Hong Lin secured Afros’s cooperation and claimed Yu Mu. The pair then broke into Kato Court’s prison, where Cheng Shi found his trial teammates and demonstrated his power over Decay.
Cheng Shi investigated the imprisoned Grand Inquisitors and entered Chenosli’s memories, where he discovered Chaos had corrupted the Iron Rule of Order. After surviving an encounter with Chaos and escaping Order’s judgment, Cheng Shi was caught between the gods’ interventions and reunited with Li Jingming.
Cheng Shi uncovered more about Faith Fusion, recruited Li Jingming into the Jesters, and returned from a trial that made his rescue of Chenosli part of history. He entered a new Special Trial centered on Time, where he met five wary teammates and began investigating their conflicting prophecies and motives.
Cheng Shi investigated the underground trial with An Mingyu, Qin Xin, Wang Mou, and Li Wufang as they pursued a temporal anomaly and confronted the Ember Annihilator. An Mingyu returned after her death with revelations about her encounters with the gods, while Death and Deception clashed over the power within her skeleton.
Cheng Shi and his companions uncovered the Fire Keepers’ plan to extract divinity from Abyssal Crystals and found clues linking the crystals to Silence and the Civilization Era. As conflicting memories pointed to time anomalies around Xilolin, Yadelik, and Gels, Cheng Shi began to suspect that Li Wufang remembered a different timeline.
Cheng Shi investigated the trial’s time discrepancies and uncovered that Qin Xin and the Blind Man came from different timelines. He helped Qin Xin shatter the trial’s barrier, and the group returned to reality with the mysteries of their origins and the prophecy still unresolved.
Cheng Shi uncovered how the trial shifted between ages and timelines, completed it, and returned to his original world after reviving his companions. The aftermath drew An Mingyu, Li Wufang, Wang Weijin, and the gods into new conflicts over identity, Destiny, and the other shore.
Cheng Shi endured Deception’s elaborate illusions, was fused with Time through Destiny, and discovered how shifting timelines had altered the trial and its players. The arc ended with An Mingyu choosing her own path and Qin Xin entering a new trial to seek a weapon for his armored double.
Cheng Shi investigated 0221’s faith-fusion experiment, which reproduced elements of the Dagger of Stars and unleashed the Abnormal Mother Tree. Separated from the others underground, he teamed up with Wang Mou, escaped the creature’s attack, and revived Xie Yang.
Cheng Shi stopped 0221’s experiment and helped bring Zainjil down, then learned more about divine containers, Wei Mu, and the gods’ plans. He left with Hu Xuan to meet Birth and investigate the Source Beginning and the Lords of Grace of Nothingness.
Cheng Shi explored Birth’s authority and passed it to Big Cat before entering Silence’s trial in Sandlais with Zhang Jizu and Ai Si. The group uncovered Wells’s plan involving the Faith Theater and a War Machine Soldier, while impostors and a hidden Memory listener left their investigation unresolved.
Cheng Shi and his companions entered the Faith Theater and witnessed Sandlais’s past, where Kraun’s efforts to give the town faith ended in tragedy. Cheng Shi revived Kraun, claimed the Ear of Secret Prying, and returned to the past to take Kraun’s place in his death, leaving Zhen Xin to answer whether she had deceived herself while impersonating him.
Cheng Shi used the trial to recruit Zhen Xin into the Clowns, conceal his gains, and guide others toward new faiths. As Cheng Shi returned to Sandlais, the gods’ conflict escalated, leaving Death trapped and uncertain about Deception, Fool’s Game, and Destiny.
Cheng Shi survived the gods’ conflicts and uncovered the fragments of Order imprisoned in the Chaos Divine Hall. He negotiated with Pride (Order) for a role spreading Order, then left the temple with an adjudicator’s ring bestowed by Deception.
Cheng Shi guided Long Jing through a time deduction, then entered a trial investigating Order’s conflict with War while confronting Chun and uncovering Lin Xi’s plans. The arc ended with Du Qiyu joining Lin Xi after learning Cheng Shi had fused Destiny and Deception.
Cheng Shi and Sun Miao investigated Lidyaala’s death and followed Kainlaur’s memories into Order’s past, where Cheng Shi gained two divine containers. During the war against Lin Xi, Chun died after asking Cheng Shi not to resurrect her, and Cheng Shi left determined to live for the memories of those who had existed.
Cheng Shi and Sun Miao manipulated the battlefield and used the Decay Container to draw out Du Qiyu, whom Cheng Shi defeated after deceiving him into believing he was being tested by a god. Sun Miao then uncovered how Du Qiyu’s lies and losses had shaped his life, leaving Cheng Shi to reckon with what he had known about Du Qiyu’s past.
Cheng Shi gathered the jesters to reveal that their world was part of a vast experiment and that Destiny was shaping it into a perfect sample. The group agreed to seek godhood, investigate the gods and the world’s history, and find ways to survive.