Recaps

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 used the Time Deduction Method to guide Long Jing, who fused Deception with time and became a pointer actor.
• Cheng Shi assessed the gods and factions, then began a trial of Filth and Decay that placed him among a convoy bound for the Borogao Highlands.
• Cheng Shi reunited with Du Qiyu and allied with Sun Miao, who explained how Chun and Lin Xi’s separation had become tangled with the History School’s account of events.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao reached the Highlands as the Grand Inquisition and Tower of Reason prepared for battle, then infiltrated the Grand Inquisition camp.
• After the camp was exposed to an attack, Cheng Shi confronted Chun, who had disguised herself as Lin Xi and was dying from wielding Annihilation’s power.
• Cheng Shi removed Chun’s Oathbreak Curse with Decay’s authority, restoring her Prosperity power, and Chun left to pursue Lin Xi.
• Sun Miao revealed the History School had found a secret organization hostile to the gods, while a hooded figure warned someone across the river to choose friend or enemy.
• Lin Xi identified Cheng Shi to Du Qiyu and said the Lord of Grace had named Cheng Shi as an offering, and Du Qiyu agreed to help expose Cheng Shi’s deception after learning he 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 searched the Chief Judge’s residence, uncovered evidence linking the Lawful Compliance Faction to the Tower of Reason, and learned that Sun Miao led the Worship God Society.
• Sun Miao used Memory's Time's Notebook to trace the Fine Iron Arrowhead’s past, where Cheng Shi and Sun Miao witnessed Lidyaala confront Kainlaur and learned that she was Essares’s child.
• Cheng Shi entered Order’s dream, witnessed Kainlaur kill Lidyaala beneath the Fear Mother Tree, and spoke with the dying Lele'er before the Sea of Desire nearly drew him in.
• Cheng Shi took containers of Filth and Decay and Prosperity from beneath the Fear Mother Tree, then returned from the dream and told Sun Miao what he had learned about Order.
• As the War Legion attacked, Cheng Shi and Sun Miao found Kainlaur at the left-wing camp, while Lin Xi and Du Qiyu’s deception complicated the battle.
• Cheng Shi and Chun tracked Lin Xi to the Borogao Highlands, where Chun stabbed him with a rusted dagger and Cheng Shi stripped away his faith in Decay.
• Herobas appeared and took back the command banner, but Cheng Shi disguised himself as Afros and drove Herobas away before killing Lin Xi with lightning.
• Destiny confronted Herobas and let him escape, while Chun returned to Cheng Shi, gave him her belongings, and died after asking him not to resurrect her.

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.

• Sun Miao told Cheng Shi that Little Seven’s Beast Tamers grew stronger as they died, while Cheng Shi revealed that Kainlaur had killed Lidyaala with Startled Bow.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao discovered that Kainlaur had helped bring down the Grand Inquisition, then used the Fear Tree Core as bait while meteors and the War Legion’s charge devastated the battlefield.
• After learning that the Tower of Reason had taken the real Startled Bow, Cheng Shi and Sun Miao investigated Decay and encountered Yug, who entrusted Cheng Shi with a Decay Container and a name seal.
• Du Qiyu took the Fear and Decay vessel to Misty Forest County, believing it could free him from the emotions and desires he had controlled by splitting and taming beasts.
• Cheng Shi and Sun Miao staged a trap, and Du Qiyu attacked Cheng Shi with arrows before Cheng Shi survived and convinced him that the Containers were keys in a test to become a herald.
• Cheng Shi revealed that his claims about Lord Foolish Play were lies, killed Little Seven, and taunted Du Qiyu, who stabbed himself and died vowing to defeat Cheng Shi in another era.
• Sun Miao searched Du Qiyu’s corpse and recounted how his deception ruined Boss Du’s business, cost him his adoptive mother, and left him confronting Zhao Xiaogua’s safer life and Cheng Shi’s loving father.

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.

• Sun Miao told Cheng Shi that Zhao Xiaogua had been a Fire Keeper killed by Du Qiyu, and gave him the Skinning Bone Knife as compensation.
• Delvo founded the Nation of War and planted a branch of the Fear Mother Tree at the center of its royal court, while Cheng Shi earned an S rating and received the Mask of Inquiry.
• War heard Cheng Shi’s account of countless Slice Universes and fought Deception after learning that both gods were pursuing Yuanchu.
• Cheng Shi learned that a hooded figure had sent a version of Yog into his trial, while Fire Keepers discussed a God Slaying Plan targeting Prosperity.
• Cheng Shi obtained the bone bell The Bell Ringer’s Funeral from Zhang Jizu and organized the Jester’s Gathering, inviting Zhen Xin, Long Jing, and the others.
• The jesters assembled among gravestones, where Cheng Shi revealed that gods were mass-produced by a supreme being and that countless worlds were variables in a Slice Experiment.
• Long Jing described another version of himself’s belief that success in the experiment meant being taken by its host, and Cheng Shi warned that Destiny was shaping their world into a perfect sample.
• The jesters agreed to pursue godhood, contact other worlds, and investigate the gods and the God of Merriment, while Zhen Xin revealed her fusion with Deception and the Dragon King identified a mirror as Your Nightmare, My Dream.