Recaps

Cheng Shi uncovered more about Faith Fusion, recruited Li Jingming into the Jesters, and returned from a trial that made his rescue of Chenosli part of history. He entered a new Special Trial centered on Time, where he met five wary teammates and began investigating their conflicting prophecies and motives.

• Cheng Shi and Li Jingming discussed their fused faiths, the repeated Civilization Eras, and the First, while Li Jingming recounted his memories of Zhen Yi.
• Cheng Shi recruited Li Jingming into the Jesters, and Deception later summoned Cheng Shi, explained that he had to follow Destiny’s road under Deception’s identity, and sent him back to the trial.
• Cheng Shi freed Chenosli and the other prisoners, and Li Jingming’s Past Life Replay became the new history, recording Cheng Shi as Chenosli’s rescuer.
• Cheng Shi received an S rating and trial rewards, while Laquis died in Chenosli’s arms and an unknown figure sentenced the Wrath of Abomination for impersonating Blazing Sun.
• Cheng Shi told Li Jingming and Big Cat that Order had returned to normal, then investigated reports of missing players by visiting Zhang Jizu’s graveyard and asking about Faith Fusion.
• Cheng Shi learned of his seven-day Special Trial involving Time and entered with five teammates, where he met Qin Xin, An Mingyu, Li Wufang, Wu Cun, and Wang Mou.
• Cheng Shi’s new teammates debated how to investigate, and the Blind Man prophesied that five people would sit around a table on the final day.
• Qin Xin left with Wang Mou while Li Wufang went after Wu Cun, and An Mingyu collapsed in front of Cheng Shi.

Cheng Shi investigated the underground trial with An Mingyu, Qin Xin, Wang Mou, and Li Wufang as they pursued a temporal anomaly and confronted the Ember Annihilator. An Mingyu returned after her death with revelations about her encounters with the gods, while Death and Deception clashed over the power within her skeleton.

• Cheng Shi learned that An Mingyu was a Fire Seeker who had seen Destiny, and heard how the Fire Keepers had killed Old Man after he refused to forget their secrets.
• Cheng Shi and An Mingyu investigated the town prison, where Yadelik’s contradictory story about Aromani led them to suspect a temporal anomaly.
• An Mingyu tried to divine Origin and died, but Cheng Shi sent her skeleton through a portal to The Great One in hopes of reviving her.
• Wu Cun unleashed Annihilation across the town, but Qin Xin used the Dreamless Mirror to restore the erased people and places.
• The group questioned Aromani and revived Yadelik, then concluded that one of them might be Cencha, the trial figure caught in a temporal anomaly.
• An Mingyu returned through a bone door and confirmed the group had made the right choice, then told Cheng Shi about her encounters with Death, War, Folly, Time, and Deception.
• Death confronted Deception over An Mingyu’s skeleton, and Deception accused Death of fearing that a death touched by its power might escape its control.

Cheng Shi and his companions uncovered the Fire Keepers’ plan to extract divinity from Abyssal Crystals and found clues linking the crystals to Silence and the Civilization Era. As conflicting memories pointed to time anomalies around Xilolin, Yadelik, and Gels, Cheng Shi began to suspect that Li Wufang remembered a different timeline.

• Deception persuaded Death to approve a faith fusion for the Prophet of Destiny, then began work on fusing Destiny and Death within An Mingyu.
• Cheng Shi, Qin Xin, and the Blind Man found Xilolin in the shantytown, where Qin Xin defeated her and the group learned the Fire Keepers had turned a silent believer’s sacrifice into a means of protecting others.
• Cheng Shi discovered that Morabik and Allen Doyle followed Folly and were seeking Abyssal Crystals to extract divinity, then helped them join forces with the group.
• Xilolin’s memory of meeting Morabik contradicted everyone else’s, leading the group to suspect she was a time-crossed Cencha, while her bargain offered access to the mine’s crystals in exchange for killing Alard.
• Morabik and Allen Doyle used Zainjil’s finger to open an Abyssal Crystal and extract a fragment of Silence’s divinity, which Cheng Shi recognized as containing Death, Decay, and Order.
• Wang Mou brought eleven Abyssal Crystals and Li Wufang returned with Yadelik and Alard, allowing Morabik and Allen Doyle to begin a larger experiment at the mine.
• Gels claimed he knew Yadelik, but described Yadelik’s deceased father, revealing that their memories connected people across different times and that Yadelik had inherited his father’s name.
• Cheng Shi suspected Li Wufang remembered another timeline after Li called him his boss and proposed searching for Jiang Chi.

Cheng Shi investigated the trial’s time discrepancies and uncovered that Qin Xin and the Blind Man came from different timelines. He helped Qin Xin shatter the trial’s barrier, and the group returned to reality with the mysteries of their origins and the prophecy still unresolved.

• Cheng Shi killed Gels, concealed what he had done, and sent Li Wufang away with Yadelik as bait while investigating whether time had changed the people around them.
• Cheng Shi and the Blind Man suspected that Abyssal Crystals were causing the time shifts, while Qin Xin and the Blind Man acknowledged that they had been displaced from their original timelines.
• Qin Xin fought Wu Cun and the Search Officer, killed Wu Cun, and left to investigate her Seed of Annihilation.
• Cheng Shi confronted Qin Xin, revived Wu Cun, and fought Qin Xin until he discovered that Qin Xin was an Eagle Eye Scout seeking to break through the trial rather than find an Abyssal Crystal.
• Qin Xin’s final arrow shattered reality, and Cheng Shi pulled him from the gaps between timelines as they discussed the fallen gods and the possibility that each timeline held only fragments of them.
• Cheng Shi and Qin Xin escaped through the barrier with the Blind Man’s help, and Cheng Shi asked the Fire Keepers which world they had come from.
• The Blind Man and Cheng Shi concluded that Qin Xin came from another world and resolved to investigate the mine, while the Blind Man explained how Past Life Replay had helped her find Cheng Shi.