Recaps

Bo Shuo followed Yi Rong out of the Orphanage instance and saw the world behind them vanish, confirming that the place revolved around Yi Rong. As 007’s signal failed, it revealed that it had brought in System 223 to help, leaving Bo Shuo asking how long 007 could hold on.

• Bo Shuo ignored his doubts about the Proctoring System and followed Yi Rong, wary of the serious consequences of going OOC.
• As Yi Rong left the area, Bo Shuo watched the Orphanage and its faceless inhabitants disintegrate into white light and darkness.
• Bo Shuo realized the instance had been built around Yi Rong, then learned that the child suffered an endless run of bizarre accidents rather than school bullying.
• 007 appeared in a flickering, weakened state and complained that the Orphanage had no signal and its code would not run.
• 007 told Bo Shuo that it had persuaded the more advanced System 223 to assist him, and Bo Shuo recognized it as the Learning System whose Training Space 007 had borrowed.

Bo Shuo followed Yi Rong through Ren Ai Orphanage, where the appearance of the faceless child from Yi Rong’s portrait caused Yi Rong to grow into a teenager. Yi Rong told Bo Shuo that he was not human, and Bo Shuo saw that his reflection had no facial features.

• Bo Shuo questioned 223 about its relationship with 007, but 223 refused to reveal what 007 had traded for its help.
• Bo Shuo followed Yi Rong through the orphanage as Yi Rong kept to his routine and no crisis appeared for several hours.
• Bo Shuo spotted the faceless child from Yi Rong’s portrait approaching Yi Rong, but Yi Rong walked past him without looking.
• When the child appeared, Yi Rong stopped and rapidly grew into a half-grown teenager.
• Yi Rong told Bo Shuo that neither the child nor Yi Rong was a person, then firmly said Bo Shuo was not human.
• Bo Shuo looked at their reflections in the pond and saw that his reflected face had no features.

Bo Shuo witnessed Yi Rong’s memory fragment, where the young Yi Rong endured increasingly lethal disasters, and encountered a boy who looked like Bo Shuo as a child. The fragment left Bo Shuo puzzled about his own past and concerned by Yi Rong’s apparent inability to resist.

• A boy resembling a young Bo Shuo appeared and asked Yi Rong why he was there, but Yi Rong ignored him and headed toward the dormitories.
• As time passed in the memory, Yi Rong suffered repeated injuries that healed within seconds while disasters around him grew more dangerous.
• When a building collapsed, Bo Shuo pulled Yi Rong out of the way, then shoved him aside to avoid a truck crashing through a wall.
• Bo Shuo complained to 223 that Yi Rong’s terrible luck made surviving a victory, while 223 answered coldly.
• Bo Shuo noticed Yi Rong felt unnaturally light and offered no resistance when handled, then saw another, more lifelike boy approach.

Bo Shuo watched an earlier version of himself arrive at Ren Ai Orphanage, where the children had become Ghosts. He saw the Ghost children react with murderous hostility to their living counterparts, but they did not attack.

• Bo Shuo followed the Black Haired Youth, who looked exactly like him, and found he could neither touch nor be seen by the people from the past.
• After the bell rang, the Orphanage regained vitality, and Bo Shuo saw Ghost children emerge from the darkness.
• The Middle-aged Woman welcomed Teacher Bo and led him toward the classroom, repeating the conversation Bo Shuo remembered.
• When the classroom door opened, the Ghost children saw their living counterparts and watched them with intense killing intent, but did not attack.

Bo Shuo confronted Yi Rong, who insisted that Bo Shuo was not the person he was drawing. After seeing his own featureless reflection beside Black Haired Youth, Bo Shuo realized that Yi Rong’s portraits and inability to recognize faces might explain why the reflection of Black Haired Youth was also faceless.

• Bo Shuo followed Black Haired Youth into the room and found an older Yi Rong drawing Black Haired Youth.
• Bo Shuo touched Yi Rong’s wrist and accused him of pretending not to see him.
• Yi Rong told Bo Shuo that he was not human and was not Bo Shuo, then said that the real Bo Shuo was someone else.
• Black Haired Youth asked Yi Rong why the portrait had no facial features, and Yi Rong said he could not see clearly enough to draw them.
• Bo Shuo saw his own featureless reflection in the window and then noticed that Black Haired Youth’s reflection also had no facial features.

Bo Shuo discovered that he was one of many versions of himself in the copy, and proctor Z assigned him the mission to kill them all. The chapter ended with Bo Shuo and the Black Haired Youth facing each other after the boundary between them broke.

• Bo Shuo watched Yi Rong repeat his unchanging routine as the cycles continued.
• When the bell rang without bringing another faceless youth, the Black Haired Youth looked directly at Bo Shuo.
• The Proctoring System introduced Z as Bo Shuo’s exclusive proctor, and Z suggested that Bo Shuo could become a proctor himself.
• Z told Bo Shuo that only one version of him could survive and assigned him the Unique Mission to kill all versions of himself.
• Bo Shuo confronted the revelation that he was a counterfeit, then faced the identical Black Haired Youth as the boundary between them shattered.

Bo Shuo fought an identical version of himself to a deadlock until a ringing sound revealed countless faceless and identical figures around them. He realized they were versions of himself from different timelines trapped in a game where killing the others could never leave a sole survivor.

• Bo Shuo and his identical opponent matched each other's attacks and grew equally exhausted.
• A ringing sounded, the world darkened, and mirrors shattered to reveal countless figures identical to Bo Shuo.
• Bo Shuo recognized the figures as versions of himself from different timelines and understood that 223's warning had been true.
• Bo Shuo realized the game was a death trap: the Bo Shuos could not kill one another within twenty-four hours, and none would survive once the game ended.

Bo Shuo revealed that he had arranged the confrontation to make the other Bo Shuos choose whether to let him live, while 223 mocked him for his self-deception. As the gathering faced the question of who was real, Bo Shuo argued that no one could define another’s identity, leaving the crowd silent.

• 223 told Bo Shuo that he had miscalculated by expecting the other Bo Shuos to accept his proposed choice.
• Bo Shuo said he knew the others would be angry and desperate but believed they would let him live rather than choose mutual destruction.
• 223 accused Bo Shuo of being a madman who had divided himself and disguised his actions as goodness.
• A faceless “Bo Shuo” said he had never expected to die by his own hand and asked whether all of them were real.
• Bo Shuo replied that no one could judge whether another was true or false, and suggested that he himself might have died long ago.
• The gathered Bo Shuos fell silent after hearing Bo Shuo’s answer.

Bo Shuo confronted Z, identified him as the God of Truth, and accused him of orchestrating the events around the performance. Yi Rong returned as the chapter ended, leaving Bo Shuo to face the troubling possibility that they had known each other since childhood.

• Z mocked Bo Shuo with the Proctoring System's congratulations before Bo Shuo ordered him to stop.
• Bo Shuo accused Z of manipulating the instance and named him the God of Truth.
• God of Truth admitted to arranging events and claimed Wen Yanqing and others were God's Chosen rather than his clones or emanations.
• God of Truth said Yi Rong's spore in the Real World had fallen in love with Bo Shuo.
• Yi Rong arrived covered in blood, and Bo Shuo questioned whether his missing memories of the Orphanage had been distorted.

The God of Truth tried to recruit Bo Shuo, but 223 appeared and challenged his account of events. Refusing to side with either deity, Bo Shuo turned to Yi Rong and questioned whether a god could truly feel love.

• The God of Truth offered Bo Shuo power, status, and godhood in exchange for joining the City of Truth.
• Bo Shuo called for 223, who emerged and confronted the God of Truth over his attempt to poach Bo Shuo.
• Bo Shuo rejected both sides, saying he would choose neither and accusing them of treating him as a chess piece.
• Bo Shuo beckoned Yi Rong and asked whether a god could experience love.
• Yi Rong walked toward Bo Shuo, beyond the interference of the God of Truth and the World Consciousness.

Bo Shuo stabbed Yi Rong through the heart, and Yi Rong accepted his death without resisting. As Yi Rong died, the world he had constructed began to collapse, and 223 and the God of Truth moved to protect Bo Shuo.

• Bo Shuo pushed his knife into Yi Rong's heart while Yi Rong grasped the blade and urged it deeper.
• Yi Rong called Bo Shuo's name and died in his arms as the God of Truth and 223 watched helplessly.
• The mirrors and Ren Ai Orphanage shattered as golden blood surged through the collapsing world and countless Golden Eyes opened in the sky.
• A warning sounded that Bo Shuo's Corruption Value was rising, and 223 appeared beside him to get him out of danger.

Bo Shuo returned to Yi Rong’s castle by choice, hoping to negotiate rather than submit to the God of Truth or the World Consciousness. He faced Yi Rong at the long table, but as their meeting turned threatening, Black Mist swallowed his sight and Yi Rong’s chains approached.

• Bo Shuo chose to seek cooperation with Yi Rong and entered the castle, where Black Mist surged around him.
• Bo Shuo realized why the demigod- and god-tier derivatives had treated him unusually, then dispersed the mist and went inside.
• Yi Rong waited at a long table and remarked that the spore had let Bo Shuo kill it.
• Bo Shuo sat across from Yi Rong and proposed discussing serious business.
• Yi Rong confronted Bo Shuo about what he had done, then closed the distance between them and engulfed him in Black Mist as chains drew near.

Bo Shuo confronted Yi Rong, the Silver Haired God, and concluded that Yi Rong loved him because the spore was part of him. The chapter ended with Bo Shuo silently vowing to survive and take revenge on everyone who had harmed him.

• Yi Rong recalled Yi Rong’s memories of choosing to remain human and suppressed his urge to kill Bo Shuo.
• Bo Shuo stopped laughing, declared that his guess had been right, and faced Yi Rong without fear.
• Bo Shuo told Yi Rong that the spore was still part of him and claimed that Yi Rong loved him.
• Bo Shuo acknowledged their mutual desire to kill each other and vowed to survive and retaliate against those who had harmed him.

Bo Shuo confronted Yi Rong with their past bargain and demanded a share of Yi Rong’s authority. Yi Rong stayed outwardly calm, but his reaction suggested Bo Shuo’s demand had stirred powerful emotions.

• Yi Rong recalled that youthful Yi Rong had planned to help kill every version of himself and had offered his own life to protect Bo Shuo.
• Bo Shuo reasoned that either youthful Yi Rong’s promise or Yi Rong’s own scheme had kept him safe, leaving him room to negotiate.
• Bo Shuo told Yi Rong that youthful Yi Rong had promised him a portion of authority in exchange for killing him.
• Yi Rong asked what Bo Shuo wanted from him, and Bo Shuo demanded a portion of Yi Rong’s authority.
• Yi Rong calmly questioned whether Bo Shuo wanted his authority as the system registered an enormous surge of emotion from him.

Bo Shuo offered to become Yi Rong’s God’s Chosen in exchange for Yi Rong’s power, but Yi Rong refused and instead offered to sever part of his authority for a task. The chapter ended with Yi Rong revealing that the Real World Spores had consumed most of his divine power, yet someone had survived.

• Bo Shuo offered to become Yi Rong’s God’s Chosen and act on his behalf in exchange for divine power.
• Yi Rong refused to make Bo Shuo his God’s Chosen, leaving Bo Shuo puzzled.
• Yi Rong changed his proposal and offered to grant Bo Shuo part of his authority in return for completing a task.
• Yi Rong said the Real World Spores had consumed most of his divine power, yet their target was still unwilling to die.

Bo Shuo left Yi Rong’s castle and cleared the Flawed Authority Exam Venue, gaining its full authority and rapidly rising to S+ rank. He returned to the Corpse Dissolving Ground, with his new power and the danger of the power on his wrist still unresolved.

• Bo Shuo concealed his wariness of the power on his wrist while maintaining a superficially cordial relationship with Yi Rong.
• Yi Rong let Bo Shuo leave, and the castle gates opened onto a path back.
• Bo Shuo entered the path and received the title The Only One for completing the Unique Mission, Kill All of Oneself.
• The Proctoring System settled Bo Shuo’s rewards, granting him all authority of the Exam Venue and raising his rank from B to S+.
• Bo Shuo returned to the Corpse Dissolving Ground and surveyed the shabby, cold slaughterhouse facilities.

Mr. Bo reunited with Xi Guici and Wen Yanqing after they left the exam venue, while Yi Rong contacted him through the rose on his wrist and ordered him to clear the level quickly. After clearing his corruption with emotion points, Mr. Bo turned his attention to the Yi Rong Shard beneath the corpse dissolving pool.

• Xi Guici greeted Mr. Bo, who inspected him and Wen Yanqing but could not tell whether they were genuine.
• Wen Yanqing noticed the aura of the exam venue fragment on Mr. Bo and remarked that he seemed to have absorbed it.
• Yi Rong contacted Mr. Bo through the rose on his wrist and told him to clear the level as soon as possible.
• Mr. Bo found that his corruption value had turned red and purple, then used emotion points to clear it.
• Mr. Bo focused on the Yi Rong Shard buried beneath the huge corpse dissolving pool.

Bo Shuo waited as a powerful presence approached through the Corpse Dissolving Pool, while Xi Guici revealed that he had come to the Exam Venue to target Bo Shuo and bound the examinees with phantom threads. Bo Shuo freed Meng Ran Nian and Yu Zhou from Xi Guici’s control as they moved closer to him.

• The vortex in the Corpse Dissolving Pool formed an Eye Pattern, and Bo Shuo sensed a powerful presence rushing toward him.
• Xi Guici recognized the aura as belonging to a Demigod-level Deity whose corpse he had searched for, and admitted that Bo Shuo had been his original target.
• Xi Guici wrapped every examinee’s limbs in illusory threads, while Bo Shuo noticed his actions but did not interfere.
• Meng Ran Nian urged Yu Zhou to approach Bo Shuo, and the two moved toward him for protection.
• Bo Shuo severed the threads binding Meng Ran Nian and Yu Zhou with a thought, and Xi Guici noticed the disturbance.

Bo Shuo intercepted Wen Yanqing as they fought over something rising from the Corpse Dissolving Pool, and his power effortlessly shattered Wen Yanqing’s enormous golden sword. Wen Yanqing gave up trying to claim the corpse remains, but Bo Shuo trapped the Corpse Dissolving Ground with Scarlet Threads and did not let him leave.

• Bo Shuo sent Meng Ran Nian and the other person outside, then waited as something began rising from the Corpse Dissolving Pool.
• Wen Yanqing rushed toward the center of the pool, but Bo Shuo blocked him and told him to scram.
• Wen Yanqing attacked with a massive golden Cross Longsword, which shattered against Bo Shuo without harming him.
• Xi Guici stopped himself from intervening and watched as Wen Yanqing realized Bo Shuo’s strength far exceeded what he expected.
• Wen Yanqing abandoned his attempt to claim the corpse remains, but Bo Shuo spread Scarlet Threads across the Corpse Dissolving Ground to prevent his escape.

Bo Shuo confronted Xi Guici after seeing Wen Yanqing dissolve and hearing the Proctoring System call him Xavier. Xi Guici offered to strip away his entire innate talent and give it to Bo Shuo, leaving Bo Shuo shaken by the man's apparent willingness to sacrifice himself.

• Bo Shuo watched Wen Yanqing dissolve as the Proctoring System called him Xavier, then moved toward the center of the Corpse Dissolving Pool.
• Xi Guici recognized the red threads Bo Shuo had taken from him and asked whether they were useful.
• Bo Shuo raised his guard and surrounded Xi Guici with the threads when Xi Guici asked whether he still needed them.
• Xi Guici offered to give Bo Shuo his entire innate talent if Bo Shuo liked it.
• Bo Shuo realized Xi Guici was willing to surrender a power tied to his soul and thought the man was a lunatic.

Bo Shuo became a Demigod through Xi Guici’s sacrifice, but he worried that the authority he gained still belonged to the living Xi Guici. After Xi Guici vanished, Bo Shuo destroyed the rose Yi Rong identified as the Spore’s viscera, and mournful wails filled the Corpse Dissolving Ground.

• Xi Guici sacrificed his Talent Authority, allowing Bo Shuo to ascend to Demigod, though Bo Shuo feared the borrowed authority was a dangerous liability.
• Xi Guici’s body disintegrated after he severed his Talent Power, and he vanished after telling Bo Shuo, “Until we meet again.”
• A pillar of water raised a blood-red rose before Bo Shuo, and Yi Rong urged him to destroy it, identifying it as the Spore’s viscera.
• Bo Shuo reflected on Yi Rong’s innocence and their shared status as tools, then used Puppet Silk to tear the rose apart.
• Blood dripped from the pierced rose petal as stronger winds swept through the Corpse Dissolving Ground and mournful wails echoed around Bo Shuo.

Bo Shuo returned from the struggle as the factory’s corruption subsided, but the examinees remained trapped inside the slaughterhouse. He discovered that he alone could pass through the exit and began investigating why.

• The examinees found that the corruption had stopped rising, and Yu Zhou inferred that Bo Shuo had survived the struggle.
• Bo Shuo returned to the group as the task panel updated with the clue “Escape Slaughterhouse.”
• The examinees discovered that an Air Wall blocked them from leaving the factory.
• Bo Shuo walked through the exit without resistance, while Meng Ran Nian could not pass.
• Bo Shuo considered whether his Demigod strength or zero Corruption Value explained the difference and sent a cool sensation through Meng Ran Nian’s wrist.

Yu Zhou and Bo Shuo figured out that the Faction War pitted examinees against corruption, including the corruption within themselves. As Liu Yao’s severe transformation was revealed, Meng Ran Nian warned that the increasingly corrupted examinees might soon attack those with low Corruption Values.

• Yu Zhou realized that examinees could leave the Exam Venue only after clearing their corruption, alarming those with higher Corruption Values.
• Liu Yu discovered that Liu Yao’s body was covered in feathers and had transformed into a birdlike form.
• Yu Zhou suggested that the Faction War might pit examinees against NPCs, and Bo Shuo proposed that examinees were actually opposing corruption itself.
• Bo Shuo explained that corruption in both NPCs and examinees counted as the opposing faction.
• Meng Ran Nian urged the others to leave before highly corrupted examinees began viewing those with low Corruption Values as targets.

Bo Shuo, Meng Ran Nian, and Yu Zhou left the slaughterhouse after removing their contaminated feathers, while the candidates inside turned to violence. As supervisors watched them go with relief and delight, Bo Shuo concluded that the supervisors had voluntarily become corrupted entities.

• Liu Yu hunted other candidates despite having little corruption, while his severely corrupted sister lay helpless in a corner.
• Bo Shuo led Meng Ran Nian and Yu Zhou out of the slaughterhouse after they cut away their contaminated feathers.
• The candidates watched the three leave but did not dare stop them.
• Yu Zhou and Meng Ran Nian saw pale supervisors smiling from the Glass Cover beside the Bell Tower, and Meng Ran Nian sensed their relief and affection.
• Bo Shuo concluded that the supervisors had voluntarily become corrupted entities.

Bo Shuo cleared the Bloody Slaughterhouse exam, but the examinees trapped inside died when the exam ended. He returned to Blue Star and found 007 waiting for him, then walked through his quiet rental house without answering it.

• Meng Ran Nian accepted that the examinees had to focus on surviving and clearing the exam.
• Bo Shuo and the other survivors saw that many examinees remained trapped inside the Bloody Slaughterhouse, including Liu Yu and the weakened girl he pushed to safety.
• When the countdown ended, the trapped examinees turned to ash, and Bo Shuo saw Zhang Xiong among the serene faces watching from above.
• The system gave Bo Shuo a score of 100 points, reduced his comprehensive score to 60, and returned him to Blue Star.
• Bo Shuo found 007 waiting in his rental house, ignored its questions, and looked at the wilted succulent on the windowsill.