Recaps

Cheng Shi uncovered how the trial shifted between ages and timelines, completed it, and returned to his original world after reviving his companions. The aftermath drew An Mingyu, Li Wufang, Wang Weijin, and the gods into new conflicts over identity, Destiny, and the other shore.

• Cheng Shi connected the players’ changes to the hour and their separation, then used Dice amid a smoke grenade to reunite the group in one timeline.
• Cheng Shi and the others realized the Abyssal Rainbow Orchids marked changes in the world, while Cheng Shi recruited Li Wufang into the Fated and watched him die by suicide.
• Cheng Shi learned that Xilolin had concealed Alad’s renewed affection and killed Alad to complete his commission, then returned to find Qin Xin dead and the Blind Man transformed into An the Chosen.
• Allen Doyle extracted Folly’s divinity from the Abyssal Crystal, and Cheng Shi later revived Li Wufang, triggering the return of the scorching original world.
• Cheng Shi revived Qin Xin, identified Xilolin, Yadelik, and Gels as figures from different ages, and completed the trial with an S rating.
• Xilolin returned to the Brotherhood of Extreme Desire and considered Galiusha’s proposal to destroy the Tower of Reason, while Qin Xin strengthened the Fire Keepers with Hope’s Flame’s aid.
• An Mingyu realized Zhen Yi had been posing as Zhen Xin and suspected that she and the Doctor had undergone Cencha, while Li Wufang awoke with three Dice and feared Destiny had rejected him.
• Wang Weijin concealed a Mask of Deception after Deception claimed it could bring him closer to Truth, and Destiny and Time confronted Deception before Destiny shattered the void they had transformed.

Cheng Shi endured Deception’s elaborate illusions, was fused with Time through Destiny, and discovered how shifting timelines had altered the trial and its players. The arc ended with An Mingyu choosing her own path and Qin Xin entering a new trial to seek a weapon for his armored double.

• Chaos intervened in Destiny and Deception’s battle, while Cheng Shi awoke before Folly and challenged Them through Lips of Foolish Play.
• After Folly vanished, Cheng Shi fell through the void, crossed a sea of desire and a blood-soaked battlefield, and was carried onward by Nothingness.
• Destiny directed Cheng Shi to fuse with Time, and he gained temporal abilities on the Cosmic Clock before a young man named Deng Sui arrived.
• Cheng Shi posed as Time’s first creation, Hour Hand, and guided Deng Sui, but the Fate Weaver killed Deng Sui before Deception revealed that the encounter had been an illusion.
• Deception explained that it had used Cheng Shi to create traces of convergence between Destiny and Time so it could seek an oracle about its own future.
• Death made Blind Man a Bell Ringer, but Destiny confronted her before Cheng Shi revived her and learned she was not the An Mingyu from his world.
• Blind Man revealed that players had been replaced by versions from different timelines, and Cheng Shi worked out how their numbers shifted the world’s timeline.
• Cheng Shi urged An Mingyu to make a new home instead of using the Remembrance and Mourning tube, while she declared that her past and future were Fated.
• An Mingyu went to speak with Qin Xin, who added two photographs to his wall and met his frail double before entering a trial to seek a giant war bow.

Cheng Shi investigated 0221’s faith-fusion experiment, which reproduced elements of the Dagger of Stars and unleashed the Abnormal Mother Tree. Separated from the others underground, he teamed up with Wang Mou, escaped the creature’s attack, and revived Xie Yang.

• Cheng Shi learned that 0221’s experiment had drawn in missing players and involved a breakthrough in fusing divinity fragments, then helped Hong Lin and Wei Mu send ticket holders into the Experiment Field.
• Cheng Shi entered the field, discovered that 0221 was replicating the Dagger of Stars, and witnessed the Abnormal Mother Tree emerge and attack the players.
• Hong Lin rescued Tao Yi, Mo Li, Chen Shu, and other players, while Cheng Shi reached the control-center ruins with Hu Wei and met Wang Mou, a slice of 0221.
• Wang Mou revealed the underground tanks and explained that the experiment spliced faith vessels to create a new Birth, with the tank occupants serving as the Mother Tree’s external wombs.
• Cheng Shi and Wang Mou connected the experiment to the Dagger of Stars and the Chasm of Desire as the Abnormal Mother Tree attacked the underground facility.
• Hu Wei shattered the tanks, but the Mother Tree’s rampage scattered the survivors, left Cheng Shi missing, and killed Wei Mu, and Hong Lin returned to attack the creature.
• Cheng Shi agreed to cooperate with Wang Mou, who used Deception to hide them from the Mother Tree, and Cheng Shi killed three fleeing players when he suspected betrayal.
• Cheng Shi revived Xie Yang with the Lush Antler Crown, sent him toward a nearby survival group, and received the S-rank spatial war item Molten Coffin from him.

Cheng Shi stopped 0221’s experiment and helped bring Zainjil down, then learned more about divine containers, Wei Mu, and the gods’ plans. He left with Hu Xuan to meet Birth and investigate the Source Beginning and the Lords of Grace of Nothingness.

• Xie Yang revived Xiao Li as a war puppet and followed Cheng Shi and Wang Mou to the control center, where 0221 offered Cheng Shi a manuscript explaining how to piece together divinity.
• Cheng Shi and Wang Mou learned that 0221 had used Zainjil’s finger and the slices of his original self to prepare an experiment, while Zainjil sought Cheng Shi’s body.
• Cheng Shi fought 0221 with Hu Wei, the Doctor, and Hong Lin, then opened the ground beneath the Experiment Field and summoned the true Eternal Day and Sinful Progenitor Mother as Zainjil descended.
• Zainjil merged with 0221, but 0221’s hidden personalities attacked him with the Concentric Dagger, and Zainjil detonated himself, and Golis’s tentacles carried 0221 away as the Experiment Field collapsed.
• Cheng Shi spoke with Hu Xuan about her transformation and the Godhood Generator, then met Afros and discovered Wei Mu hiding inside Zainjil.
• Wei Mu explained how he had gathered faith and aided 0221’s research, while Cheng Shi revealed that Folly had spent his authority and proposed that Afros lead a group researching the fusion of opposing faiths.
• Afros accepted Cheng Shi’s proposal, and Cheng Shi left with Hu Xuan to visit Birth and investigate the Source Beginning and the Lords of Grace of Nothingness.