Recaps

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 saw through Afros’s illusion and rejected her offer to join her in the Sea of Desire, then learned from Hu Xuan that Afros and Golis were the same person and received the Sinner’s Regret.
• Cheng Shi questioned Destiny about Filth and Decay, then persuaded Lord of Grace to summon Afros and warn her against bewitching him.
• Deception accepted Zhang Jizu as a believer and gave him a Mask, while Death trapped Deception in a cage of bone hands before vanishing into Nothingness.
• Cheng Shi learned from God of Merriment that Destiny was concealing the era because it wanted predetermined outcomes to remain fixed, and he found a bone key modified by Death.
• Gao Ya encountered Tullatin in the Dolgo D trial, where he bound her and welcomed her to the Prison of Time as Afros.
• Cheng Shi attended the Fool’s Society gathering, where President Gong promoted cooperation among low-scoring players and defended his leadership with a staged test about whether he was a Follower of Deception.
• President Gong announced that Decay had fallen and claimed a God War had ended with Prosperity victorious, citing Prosperity followers’ points and Decay believers’ lack of worship.
• Cheng Shi concluded that Gong had mistaken Big Cat’s rewards for evidence of victory and suspected Gong wanted the Society to claim a share of the spoils from the gods’ fall.

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.

• President Gong revealed that fragments of Decay’s divine vessel had fallen from Blood Rot Tomb, and Cheng Shi stopped Cui Qiushi and Zhang Hao from using the fake exit doors before teleporting away with a Dice.
• Cheng Shi was drawn into the Fool’s Society’s plots, where Zhen Yi and Zhen Xin impersonated him and claimed to know what had happened to Decay and Prosperity, while Hu Wei assembled a team for an expedition.
• Cheng Shi triggered Golis’s resentment at the gathering and escaped, while Qin Xin and An Mingyu later discussed the scheme to confirm Prosperity’s fall and the strange results of An Mingyu’s prophecy.
• Cheng Shi escaped his restraints by switching his faith to Deception and deceiving Birth, and Zhen Yi’s use of the Nightfall Spring Whistle brought Hu Xuan into Golis’s resentment.
• Hu Xuan stood between Cheng Shi and Afros, who revealed that the trapped place was a cage spanning the time in which he had existed and agreed to explain the eras.
• Afros recounted his service to Birth, Filth and Decay, and the other gods across several eras, then warned Cheng Shi that every era’s end was connected to Primordial.
• Afros said the Void Era might end in the universe’s nothingness and cautioned Cheng Shi against contemplating certain gods, while Hu Xuan pulled him out of a dangerous haze.

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 struck a deal with Afros to stage a hunt in Golis’s nest, then worked with Hu Xuan to rescue Hu Wei, Mo Li, Long Jing, and Yu Mu from the cages.
• Hu Wei led the group through Giggle and Mock to Da Yi, where Long Jing transferred his contract with Zhen Yi to Cheng Shi and Hu Wei invited them to a blasphemous trial.
• As the group prepared for the trial, Cheng Shi secretly activated the Tongue of Lies with Long Jing and convinced him that Cheng Shi was the Lord of Grace’s emissary, Foolish Play.
• Cheng Shi and Hu Xuan suspected Hu Wei intended to use Yu Mu to bear the trial’s human cost, while Hu Wei gathered everyone to pray for the trial concerning the cosmos’s decay.
• Cheng Shi woke in a snowstorm with unfamiliar teammates and recognized Da Yi, then watched Gongyang Jiao and another fighter battle Poison.
• Cheng Shi agreed to heal Poison in exchange for the location of the Gift of Scars while Da Yi blocked Gongyang Jiao, and Poison secured a three-day delay before their confrontation resumed.
• When Gongyang Jiao attacked after Da Yi accidentally provoked him, Da Yi charged forward and the silent Chameleon bypassed him to shoot Cheng Shi with a short arrow, leaving Cheng Shi to conserve his strength.

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.

• Poison was wounded while protecting Cheng Shi, and Jiang Chi intervened before Poison led Cheng Shi to Rosna, where she revealed that the Gift of Scars lay somewhere in the trial.
• Poison explained Rosna’s history and the scarred mummy’s vision, then the group learned that the depicted gathering at Rosna Conscription Plaza would occur in the near future.
• The group entered the abandoned Imperial Court, where Galen explained that the emperor and his court had fled the World Destroyers, and Da Yi went to search for the First Prince.
• The Chameleon captured Cheng Shi during an ambush, but Cheng Shi escaped with planted Dice, killed Gongyang Jiao with Thunder Punishments, and opened a gate to Afros’s home.
• Cheng Shi spoke with Afros about his Mask, Deception, and the Envoys, then discovered that Gongyang Jiao’s remnant soul had hidden inside his ring.
• Da Yi, Poison, and Jiang Chi searched for the First Prince, but the Chameleon attacked them with Cheng Shi secretly helping him by mending Destiny.
• Cheng Shi and Gongyang Jiao split the group in a smoke-filled ambush, while Da Yi entered the First Prince’s hiding place and Jiang Chi stayed behind.
• Poison fought Gongyang Jiao but was cornered by him, the Silent Hunter, and Cheng Shi, who bound her with a bloodstained shackle.