Recaps

Cheng Shi investigates Tria’s death, exposes Afros’s experiment in Dolgo D, and enters My Nightmare, Your Dream, where he encounters Hope’s Flame. He learns more about the gods’ game and his path as Deception’s envoy, then returns to the divine temple as Hope’s Flame defies Deception and Hu Wei seeks a new faith.

• Cheng Shi questioned Afros about Tria and Drachirko, then agreed to investigate Tria’s death and learned how Afros’s intervention had led the Mirror Walkers to summon Memory and shatter the sacred mirror.
• At the Honest Tribunal, Cheng Shi saw Afros’s experiment with Zainjil’s Mask turn Wang Weijin into a believer of Foolish Play, then resurrected Zainjil and recovered My Nightmare, Your Dream from Memory’s grave.
• Cheng Shi entered the mirror’s maze, followed the memories of the clowns, and reached Memory’s discarded memories, where he crossed a chasm and woke in Qin Xin’s unfinished room beside Hope’s Flame.
• Cheng Shi and Hope’s Flame discussed the Universe Experiment, Destiny’s plans, and the gods’ game, and Cheng Shi learned how spreading Foolish Play’s name could make him Deception’s envoy.
• Hope’s Flame suspected Cheng Shi might be part of the Creator’s experiment, while Cheng Shi resolved to enter the gods’ game and seek divine authorities in the real universe.
• Cheng Shi was pulled from the mirror and returned to the divine temple, where Katarro told him Lord of Grace had summoned someone else and Chaos’s believers awaited him.
• Hope’s Flame demanded that Deception let it meet the Source Beginning, but Deception extinguished its light and refused.
• Cheng Shi advised Hu Wei to seek the envoy of Nothingness, and Hu Wei recognized Fool’s Deception as that envoy.

Cheng Shi investigated the murder of Koshner and the secrets of Redicor’s Hunter of Fools idol while crossing paths with Ji Yue, Chen Shu, and the Cleaners. After saving Ji Yue from fatal injuries, he accepted Chen Shu’s Silence Incarnate Puppet and prepared to explain the Foolish Play.

• Cheng Shi entered Folly’s trial in Redicor, found Wei Mu and other prisoners, and began investigating the town’s suspicious statue and Koshner’s death.
• Cheng Shi uncovered that the Candelt inspecting the fire was an impostor, then used the Finger Bone to learn that the idol had granted Koshner divine grace.
• Cheng Shi’s shadow killed Zhao Xishi’s historical substitute, while Ji Yue and Chen Shu joined forces and revealed Chen Shu’s connection to Qin Xin and the God Creation Plan.
• Cheng Shi questioned Max, who confessed to killing the real Candelt and revealed that the Hunter of Fools idol stood over Skalt’s grave.
• Ji Yue fought Zhao Xishi and Mo Shu, but Cheng Shi froze the battle and carried her away after she was gravely injured.
• Cheng Shi used Order and Endless Life to heal Ji Yue and put her to sleep, then accepted Chen Shu’s Silence Incarnate Puppet in exchange for treatment.
• Chen Shu asked Cheng Shi about the Foolish Play, and Cheng Shi prepared to explain it.

Cheng Shi uncovered Skalt’s true history and persuaded several gods and Herobas to support a plan to replace Annihilation. As the trial neared its end, he also faced Wei Mu’s questions about Fool’s Play, while the gods convened to vote on Herobas’s claim to Annihilation’s throne.

• Cheng Shi freed Skalt from the coffin beneath the idol and learned how Skalt’s survival had been mistaken for divine gifts and statue mutterings.
• Cheng Shi offered to help the Death Boss drive Annihilation from the throne, then sought support from Decay and Memory without receiving clear commitments.
• Zhao Xishi used Ji Yue’s recovered memories to make her attack Cheng Shi, but Cheng Shi survived the battle and killed Zhao Xishi.
• Cheng Shi persuaded Herobas to seek Annihilation’s throne, promising that usurpation could give Annihilation a chance to pursue rebirth.
• Herobas accepted Cheng Shi’s terms and later ordered Mo Shu not to pursue Cheng Shi or the suspended divine oracle.
• Cheng Shi realized that Folly was his brother-in-law and a god, then faced Wei Mu’s demand to explain whether Lord Foolish Play had existed or would awaken.
• Herobas formally asked the Covenant to vote on his claim, and Justice (Order) convened the gods as Annihilation confronted Herobas and Cheng Shi.

Cheng Shi helped block Herobas’s succession by exposing Annihilation’s destruction and forcing a postponement, then emerged from the trial with new questions about the gods and their hidden allies. He gathered The Fated to share what he knew, but An Mingyu’s prophecy that the world would soon collapse left the group facing a looming crisis.

• Herobas sought Annihilation’s divine seat, but Cheng Shi challenged the succession vote and Drachirko cast a deciding vote on Filth and Decay’s behalf.
• Annihilation began destroying the cosmos, then annihilated itself after revealing the three aspects of Sinking and their connection to the Primordial Origin.
• Justice (Order) upheld the Covenant and indefinitely postponed Herobas’s succession, leaving him without Annihilation’s seat or Lord of Grace.
• Cheng Shi’s trial ended with a B rating, and he later discovered that the Gaze of Mockery was hidden in his own eyes.
• Cheng Shi gathered The Fated, while Tao Yi used illusions to make the group appear larger than it was.
• An Mingyu warned the gathering that the world was nearing an irreversible abyss and turned all seventeen dice to their maximum faces.
• Cheng Shi told the group that Annihilation had tried to destroy the cosmos and revealed that Hong Lin was now the Proxy of Prosperity.
• An Mingyu said the world would collapse soon, and Cheng Shi feared the Creator might still bring disaster.