Recaps

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 led his team through the Dread Demon assault by using Birth’s healing to spawn newborns inside the attackers, then Song Yawen’s Death skill erased them.
• The group escaped the meteor storm by repeatedly rewinding time, and the trial ended early after Cheng Shi altered Cao Sansui’s Pocket Watch.
• Cheng Shi gave Xie Yang an A-grade Past Prosperity potion for Xu Lu, who was preparing for a dangerous trial.
• Cheng Shi entered the Memories of the Endless Night trial and joined Fang Shiqing, A'ming, Huang Bo, Bailing, and Xu Lu in exploring a tavern memory.
• The team found a disabled server whose memory opened a passage, then investigated a circus where Cheng Shi identified Yorke as connected to the memory’s subject.
• Bailing discovered that Yorke was a Desire Puppet controlled by a believer of Filth and Decay, and the team entered his memory through a Memory Gate.
• Fang Shiqing pulled Cheng Shi into a utility room to escape Clip Girl and explained the Fire Keepers’ mission, but Cheng Shi struck her unconscious and carried her out.

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 and Bailing found Duke Brooks dead, but a guard exposed them and killed them before A'ming arrived and avenged Cheng Shi.
• Fang Shiqing revived Cheng Shi, who brought Bailing back to life and exposed Huang Bo impersonating A'ming before killing him.
• Cheng Shi found the surviving guard, turned him into the Final Gate, and led the others to a second gate after uncovering dwarves disguised as town leaders.
• Xu Lu accused Cheng Shi of betrayal, but Fang Shiqing sided with him and entered the gate, and Cheng Shi drugged Xu Lu and threw her in before clearing the trial.
• Deception revived Cheng Shi and revealed that the gods sought godhood through the Faith Game, while Cheng Shi learned he could become a god and returned to the rest area.
• Cheng Shi entered What Path Leads to Death and joined Fang Jue, Du Xiguang, Yun Ni, Wei Guan, and a silent monk in investigating unexplained deaths in Everbloom.
• After Wei Guan died without a visible wound, Cheng Shi and the others discovered that the artifact When Fear Arrives stole hearts from marked victims when they felt fear.
• Yun Ni sent travelers to another plane and was captured and apparently killed by the Grand Inquisition, and Morkius then summoned the inn’s passengers and announced the culprit had been found.
• Cheng Shi recognized the fleeing bard as a suspect and found the silent monk restraining the glowing dagger When Fear Arrives.

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.

• Morkius killed the ascetic monk, and Cheng Shi discovered that Fear Arrives had killed him with fear before the lightning struck.
• Cheng Shi uncovered Chenosli’s plot to use the dagger against Morkius, killed Chenosli, then staged apparent deaths and lured Morkius into the dagger’s reach.
• Cheng Shi questioned Fang Jue, who escaped through a spatial rift, while Katarro disappeared and the five fake corpses woke, and Cheng Shi cleared the trial with a C rating.
• Cheng Shi realized the trial’s answer was for each player to face death, and Death approved his solution after he claimed the Law Enforcement Bureau’s nominal death.
• Death revealed Fear Arrives was Garuda’s Dagger and transformed Moment of Execution into the Ring of Bone Servant Lele'er, adding a branch of the Fear Mother Tree’s divinity.
• Cheng Shi joined a six-person team for The Annihilation of the Vanished World, identified Su Yida as a Deception Mage, and learned Gao Yu’s account of Zainjil and the legendary Ultraman.
• A gigantic wave swept over the mountains and wrecked the team’s raft, and Cheng Shi helped the group breathe underwater before a powerful current drove 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 teammates escaped the Void-Snout Devouring Pig, revived Cui Ding Tian with a pill, and learned that Cui had betrayed Prosperity to search for his son.
• As the sea vanished and the players fell toward the seafloor, Cheng Shi helped them cross the black-and-white boundary inside a dead Void-Snout Devouring Pig.
• Cheng Shi and Su Yida entered the void, where Su Yida revealed his changed identity, killed Cheng Shi, and later killed Zhao Qian after Zhao learned about the future God Creation Plan.
• Tao Yi and Cui Ding Tian brought Cheng Shi back through the Void Rifts, and Su Yida revived him with a saved Fleeting Radiance pill.
• Cheng Shi deduced that Su Yida had come from the future and had sent his past self there, then forced Su Yida to give Prosperity Divinity to Cui Ding Tian.
• The trial ended with Cheng Shi earning an S rating, while Cui Ding Tian returned the divinity and left, and afterward, Lord of Grace explained that Death had stolen authority from both Him and Memory.
• Cheng Shi used a corpse to summon Li Zhi, received the Brooch of the Departed Hand Bone, and then entered a three-day trial in Yuanmu Town.
• Cheng Shi met his new teammates Li Boli, Ji Ran, Qin Chaoge, and Hu Xuan, who introduced their roles and beliefs as they discussed the town’s faith in Eternal Day.