Recaps

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.

• Zhen Xin searched the void for Cheng Shi’s future self, then warned An Jing about the Worship God Society and sent her toward Blood Rot Tomb with Zuo Qiu’s history book.
• Cheng Shi inferred that his future self had left clues about a coming tragedy, then persuaded Hong Lin to join the Fated and gamble against the gods with him.
• Cheng Shi and Hong Lin altered Eupusca’s contract, disguising Hong Lin as an emissary of Decay and redirecting the Twisted Night Pythons’ decay through her.
• Cheng Shi persuaded the Fungus-Footed People to accept decay while secretly giving them his Death power, then returned to Hong Lin and feigned defeat as Prosperity’s offering took effect.
• Prosperity descended, healed Hong Lin, transformed the forest, and drew the gods’ attention, and Cheng Shi then encountered Prosperity and Destiny before waking beside Hong Lin.
• Decay summoned Cheng Shi, gave him a fingernail, and unleashed a Sighing Tide that devastated the forest as the gods began a new war.
• Death explained the conflict over Prosperity’s authority, including Truth’s plan to use Dizer, and Cheng Shi proposed returning to the trial as Prosperity’s Divine Envoy to claim her authority.

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 rejected Life’s offer, then asked Hong Lin to become Prosperity’s Divine Envoy and promised they would survive the plan.
• Truth seized Prosperity’s body and authority, but Deception brought Cheng Shi and Hong Lin before the Gods’ Covenant Assembly, where Prosperity’s Final Edict followed a tremendous explosion.
• Death offered Cheng Shi Purity’s authority, while Hong Lin signed Destiny’s contract and received a Dice of Destiny as Prosperity’s followers lost access to trial rewards.
• Destiny and Deception revealed that Hong Lin had been bound to a vow of fate and given Prosperity’s gift, while Cheng Shi returned to the Sighing Forest and found the Fungus-Footed People safe.
• Hong Lin bestowed part of Prosperity’s Vitality Authority on Cheng Shi, and he received the Lush Antler Crown before learning from Hong Lin that Zhen Xin was the original personality behind Zhen Yi.
• Cheng Shi investigated Birth’s summons and Blind Man’s sixteen Dice of Destiny, then discovered an invitation to the Fool’s Society and entered a Birth trial in Dolgo D.
• Cheng Shi’s team investigated Dolgo D’s Divine Nurturing Church and Evil Infant Tribunal, where Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu uncovered signs of a hidden pursuit and a room of infant corpses.
• Cheng Shi questioned Gou Feng’s corpse with Death’s finger-bone brooch and learned that the Chieftain had awakened the Newborn and the Cleaner had killed it, before a crash sounded downstairs.

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, Zhang Jizu, and Scorpio captured Gao Ya, learned about the Tribunal’s role in persecuting Wuma Sinners, and recruited Tullatin to help protect the Holy Infant of Filth and Decay.
• Cheng Shi and Tullatin searched for a way to bring about the birth, but the church’s records contained no upcoming births, while Zhang Jizu revealed that The Great One had sent him to protect Cheng Shi.
• Mo Shu attacked Cheng Shi’s group, but Cheng Shi used the Death Substitute Doll to steal Mo Shu’s identity and obtain the Clown Substitute.
• Mo Shu lost his memories and was beaten to death by Tullatin, while Zhang Jizu burned the Tribunal and Berios summoned Divine Descent against the church’s supposed heretics.
• Scorpio brought Afros from the future, and Cheng Shi’s group found Tullatin returning from the church library with the Birth Descendant Technique and a pregnancy.
• Tullatin explained the Wuma people’s use of the technique and the history of the Three Crow Tribe, while Cheng Shi realized Afros was Tullatin’s future self and learned that Tullatin had agreed to bear his child.

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 and Scorpio allied with Berios and Lisfir, then Cheng Shi learned that Tullatin was their child and helped treat Golis with Zhang Jizu’s divinity.
• Cheng Shi’s group spread rumors about the Brotherhood of Child Thieves, while Zhang Jizu arranged for the Brotherhood to take the pregnant Tullatin to safety.
• Zhang Jizu died as Tullatin’s fetus drained her and him, but he returned in Gao Ya’s body and joined Cheng Shi in trying to deliver the child.
• Cheng Shi linked himself to the fetus with a Symbiotic Cord and shared his life force, but Berios’s Divine Descent destroyed the district and tore the child from Tullatin’s corpse.
• Scorpio exiled the surviving child into a fragment of history, and Cheng Shi completed the Prayer Trial with an S rating.
• Gorba’s tribe raised the infant Gorba, who later became Golis, and Golis then manipulated Berios and Lisfir and set the Desire Puppet’s flesh on a path that would lead to her release.
• Gou Feng prepared to use Birth’s power, Gao Ya planned to create a servant combining Silence and Birth, and Zhang Jizu chose Deception after an audience with Death and Deception.
• Cheng Shi returned to the restored Evil Infant Tribunal, where he met Tullatin, now called Afros, who accused him of guiding him to his god.