Cheng Shi survived a brutal Special Deity Trial with a team of unusual believers, then entered a memory maze and helped uncover Yorke as its subject. Inside Yorke’s memory, Cheng Shi encountered Fang Shiqing and knocked her unconscious before carrying her from the utility room.
Cheng Shi survived the Duke Brooks trial, exposed Huang Bo, and learned more about Deception and the Faith Game. In the next trial, he investigated a string of heart-stealing deaths in Everbloom as his teammates fell and the Grand Inquisition closed in.
Cheng Shi solved the Everbloom Town trial by making death its answer, then met Death and received a new ring artifact. He entered a new team trial, where a catastrophic flood stranded the group at sea and carried them into a colossal dead beast.
Cheng Shi and his teammates survived the void, but the trial exposed Su Yida’s return from the future and Zhao Qian’s sacrifice. After the gods addressed the consequences and Cheng Shi received a new artifact, he entered another trial in Yuanmu Town with a new team.
Cheng Shi and his companions investigated Yuanmu Town’s staged suicides, birth rituals, and hidden Destiny node before entering the void and uncovering the history behind the town’s divine conflict. Great Cheng Shi revealed that Zainjil had built a failed experiment around the town’s faith and the powers of Birth, Filth, and Decay.
Cheng Shi exposed Zhen Xin’s deception, saved Hu Xuan through Destiny’s Choice, and learned that Memory considered him a budding believer of Chaos. In a new trial, he joined Hu Wei, Bai Fei, and Yan Chun on a journey through the void to the Tower of Reason, where Hu Wei opened a door in the Wall of True Knowledge.
Cheng Shi entered Gasmella’s collapsing experiment and joined Ji Yue’s group in seeking the Whispering Flower Petals. He gave Kevi his Prosperity Divinity to mature the Conjugate Whisper, but the tree produced no flower or fruit before Kevi died and the invading forces reached the laboratory.
Cheng Shi survived the Void Experiment Ground, faced judgment, and entered a dangerous bargain with Destiny that made him a Fate Weaver. After testing his new powers, he was drawn into a special Chaos trial where he had to prove his identity.
Cheng Shi survived the prison’s deadly trial by exposing Ji Er’s deception, then escaped into an underground laboratory with Li Yi and Gao San. There they discovered cloned versions of people and learned that the Grand Inquisition had used the Death Sentence to obtain subjects for the Divinity Sprouting Experiment.
Cheng Shi uncovered Therius’s Slice Experiment, discovered that the trial’s divided selves were fragments of his own identity, and helped the other subjects recover. After clearing the trial, he was summoned by Chaos and began climbing the steps beyond the shattered Door of Order.
Cheng Shi refused Chaos’s offer, learned more about his ties to Destiny and Deception, and entered a Prosperity trial in the Sighing Forest. He helped Hong Lin and the others reach the Fungus-Footed People, where he rekindled their hope to fulfill the trial’s goal.
Cheng Shi led the Fungus-Footed People through Prosperity’s trials while investigating Eupusca and the tribe’s hidden history. After uncovering the bargain behind their faith, he began to suspect the prophecy remained unfinished and that the Historian had searched for its future through his shadow.
Cheng Shi and Hong Lin redirected the Fungus-Footed People’s faith to Prosperity, triggering a divine conflict in the Sighing Forest. After Death explained the struggle over Prosperity’s authority, Cheng Shi proposed using his Divine Envoy identity and one last chance to change history to claim it.
Cheng Shi and Hong Lin helped bring about Prosperity’s fall, and Hong Lin inherited a path under Destiny while Cheng Shi gained part of Prosperity’s authority. After uncovering more about Zhen Xin and the gods, Cheng Shi entered a Birth trial in Dolgo D, where he and Zhang Jizu found a grisly ritual and the corpse of Gou Feng’s Newborn.
Cheng Shi and his allies uncovered the church’s history of persecuting Wuma Sinners while searching for the Life That Should Not Be Born. After Cheng Shi stole Mo Shu’s Clown Substitute, Tullatin returned pregnant with a child conceived with her future self, Afros, and explained the history behind the Birth Descendant Technique.
Cheng Shi tried to use the church’s crisis and Tullatin’s child to gather fear, but the child survived the disaster and escaped into history. The aftermath revealed Golis’s origin, left the survivors pursuing new paths, and brought Cheng Shi face to face with Afros at the restored Evil Infant Tribunal.
Cheng Shi investigated Afros’s identity and the gods’ secrets while the God of Death helped Zhang Jizu take up Deception’s faith. At the Fool’s Society gathering, President Gong claimed Decay had fallen and urged players to seize the vacant divine throne, while Cheng Shi suspected he was using the meeting to claim spoils for himself.
Cheng Shi survived the Fool’s Society’s traps and schemes, then escaped Golis’s resentment with Hu Xuan’s help. Afros revealed the history of past eras and warned Cheng Shi about the dangers of contemplating certain gods.
Cheng Shi rescued Hu Wei and the others from Golis, then joined Hu Wei’s group for a trial tied to Prosperity’s fall and the Gift of Scars. The trial began in a snowbound square, where Cheng Shi encountered Poison, Gongyang Jiao, Da Yi, and the Silent Hunter as violence erupted around Poison’s offer to reveal the Gift’s location.
Cheng Shi, Poison, Da Yi, and Jiang Chi search Rosna for the Gift of Scars while their shifting alliances collapse into an ambush. Cheng Shi kills Gongyang Jiao, learns more about his Mask and Deception from Afros, then helps the Silent Hunter corner Poison.