Recaps

Bo Shuo woke as Xiao Hu among women held captive in a village and learned that Huang Youzhu expected an escape attempt that night. After finding Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo among the captives, he was sent to the Village Chief’s basement, where a terrifying version of Huang Youzhu appeared.

• Bo Shuo woke in a rice field and realized he was playing Xiao Hu, a captive girl watched by villagers.
• Huang Youzhu reminded Bo Shuo of their planned escape that night and pointed out a building marked with an arrow.
• Bo Shuo spotted Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo among the women returning from labor, confirming they were trapped in the same escape exam.
• The villagers sent Bo Shuo and the other women to the Village Chief’s basement, where the people who had entered with him disappeared.
• A menacing Huang Youzhu appeared in the basement, and a sinister presence pressed against Bo Shuo from behind.

Bo Shuo reunited with Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo in a strange, springlike space beyond the Scarlet Door, then killed them both. He left their reasons for appearing there unexplained as he stood over the bodies.

• Bo Shuo escaped the Ghost Face Horde through the Scarlet Door and found Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo waiting in a safe-looking space.
• Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo explained that they had explored the space and found three paths, with only the right-hand path untested.
• Bo Shuo told them to go ahead, then stabbed Xu Ji Mo in the heart as he started forward.
• Sang Yu asked Bo Shuo why he had killed Xu Ji Mo, and he said Xu Ji Mo had been disobedient.
• Bo Shuo stabbed Sang Yu in the heart as she agreed that anyone who defied him deserved to die.

Bo Shuo defeated a fake Sang Yu whose mental attacks could not affect him, then encountered the real Xu Ji Mo and Sang Yu. The chapter left Xu Ji Mo and Sang Yu frozen as they entered the blood-soaked room and saw Bo Shuo standing over the dismembered corpse.

• Bo Shuo recognized the attackers as NPC fakes and stabbed fake Sang Yu repeatedly, then chopped apart its limbs.
• Fake Sang Yu asked why it could not invade Bo Shuo’s mind, and 007 explained that the World Consciousness protected him.
• The defeated fake Sang Yu stopped moving as Xu Ji Mo and Sang Yu opened the door and entered.
• Two minutes earlier, Xu Ji Mo and Sang Yu ran into each other while fleeing the Chase Battle and hid together behind a scarlet door.
• Xu Ji Mo and Sang Yu entered a blood-soaked area and saw Bo Shuo holding a bloodied scalpel over a dismembered corpse.

Bo Shuo led Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo through the collapsing region inside the monster, but they became trapped between the advancing Meat Threads and the Ghost Face Group. He ordered them to drop their hostility and blend into the Ghost Face Group, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Bo Shuo spotted markings that could anchor the shattered space and ordered Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo to run along them.
• The region tore apart, revealing flesh walls and corrosive Meat Threads spreading across the ground.
• Bo Shuo, Sang Yu, and Xu Ji Mo encountered the Ghost Face Group ahead while the Meat Threads closed in behind them.
• Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo prepared to fight their way through, but Bo Shuo ordered them to lower their weapons and blend into the Ghost Face Group.

Bo Shuo, Sang Yu, and Xu Ji Mo ran with the Ghost Face Group and realized the assessment required them to role-play as the fleeing women. Bo Shuo concluded that the women’s escape plan had failed and that they had died in the isolated village.

• Bo Shuo ordered the three of them to run alongside the Ghost Face Group as the village changed around them and the Ghost Faces regained human appearances.
• Sang Yu recognized the Ghost Faces as the women who had worked in the fields, while Xu Ji Mo inferred that the assessment’s role-playing escape scenario required the examinees to flee with the women.
• Sang Yu understood that the examinees had to identify the Ghost Faces’ role and join their escape, despite having been hunted by them.
• Xu Ji Mo and Sang Yu gained Emotion Points, and 007 told Bo Shuo they were still two hundred thousand points short of B-rank.
• Bo Shuo decided the women’s carefully planned escape had failed and that they had died in the village, where their resentment remained suppressed.

Bo Shuo and Sang Yu found Chen Feng Xia in a hidden cave and uncovered that she had betrayed the fleeing group by changing the escape markers. Chen Feng Xia insisted she had acted only to survive and blamed Bo Shuo for the group’s escape.

• Bo Shuo realized the real Xiao Hu had been missing from the trial and found a half-red, half-green marker on 007’s map.
• Bo Shuo recognized the woman tied to a tree as Chen Feng Xia, whom everyone knew as Xiao Hu.
• Bo Shuo accused Chen Feng Xia of changing the escape markers and helping the villagers trap the fleeing group.
• Chen Feng Xia broke down, claiming she had been forced to betray the group because she wanted to live.
• Chen Feng Xia glared at Bo Shuo and demanded to know why he had survived and called out to her.

Xu Ji Mo and Bo Shuo deduced that the villagers controlled the space and pressed Chen Feng Xia for a way out. Xu Ji Mo threatened her daughter, leaving Chen Feng Xia demanding to know why the villagers had broken their promise.

• Xu Ji Mo concluded that the villagers controlled the space, and Chen Feng Xia explained that killing her would not free them.
• Bo Shuo accused Chen Feng Xia of knowing another way out, while Sang Yu restrained her and demanded that she reveal it.
• Chen Feng Xia insisted she had not killed the villagers, and Xu Ji Mo described a malnourished girl with a purplish-blue birthmark.
• Chen Feng Xia recognized the girl as her daughter and struggled to learn what had happened to her.
• Xu Ji Mo threatened that Chen Feng Xia's daughter could die unless she told them how to leave, and Chen Feng Xia protested that the villagers had promised to spare her daughter.

Bo Shuo stripped away the illusion and revealed a vast black eye in the sky, which noticed him and nearly overwhelmed him. His system’s automatic defense kept him alive, but the other two were left close to death as the unknown being continued to awaken.

• Bo Shuo used Emotion Points to strip away the illusion, revealing a gigantic black hole that unleashed a violent gravitational force.
• Bo Shuo sensed an unknown presence watching him and received one million Emotion Points when it noticed him.
• The black eye drew Bo Shuo’s gaze and began mutating his body as his rationality vanished.
• 007 warned Bo Shuo not to look at the eye, while his system activated automatic defense and drained his Emotion Points.
• Bo Shuo’s defenses reached equilibrium and his condition stabilized, but the other two suffered dangerous mutations.

Bo Shuo met the Silver Haired God, whose beauty and presence threatened to overwhelm him. The Deity told Bo Shuo He wanted to eat him, and Bo Shuo answered with wary mockery rather than submission.

• Bo Shuo approached the Deity while fearing that losing His interest would leave him to die from mutation.
• The Deity invited Bo Shuo to sit across from Him at the table.
• The Silver Haired God asked Bo Shuo whether He could eat him.
• Bo Shuo hid his fear and mocked the idea that a supreme Deity would consume someone as insignificant as him.

Bo Shuo pretended he had waited tens of thousands of years for the amnesiac Silver Haired God and claimed they were partners to keep the dangerous being at bay. The Silver Haired God detected Bo Shuo’s malice and rejected the lie.

• Bo Shuo realized the Silver Haired God’s hunger and threat, then decided to exploit His lack of knowledge about humans.
• Bo Shuo asked whether the Silver Haired God remembered him, and the God admitted He had lost all His memories.
• Bo Shuo claimed he had waited tens of thousands of years for the God to awaken.
• When the God asked about their relationship, Bo Shuo searched for an intimate term and settled on “partners.”
• Bo Shuo told the God they were partners, but the God sensed no love from him and called him a liar.

Bo Shuo provoked the amnesiac Silver Haired God and used Emotion Points to make Him feel heartache, claiming His body still remembered him. The chapter ended with Bo Shuo slapping the Deity, leaving the two in sudden silence.

• Bo Shuo declared that the Silver Haired God should call him master, provoking a surge of Emotion Points.
• The Silver Haired God wrapped His tail around Bo Shuo and pinned him against the wall by the throat.
• Bo Shuo called the Silver Haired God “Good Doggy” and used Emotion Points to materialize heartache.
• Bo Shuo told the Silver Haired God that His body still remembered him, and the Deity felt unfamiliar pain in His chest.
• Bo Shuo slapped the Silver Haired God, plunging the air into silence.

Bo Shuo subdued the Silver Haired God and asked where the creature that had inhabited the domain was. The God’s Black Mist presented a jar of trapped villagers’ ghosts, including the Illusion Ghost who had deceived Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo.

• Bo Shuo ordered the Silver Haired God to get off him, and the God reluctantly obeyed after feeling pain in His heart.
• Bo Shuo refused to spend his remaining Emotion Points on the God, then learned from the Proctoring System that only ten minutes remained in the assessment.
• Bo Shuo asked where the domain’s former creature was, and the Black Mist brought him a jar containing miniature villagers’ ghosts.
• Bo Shuo recognized that the ghosts included elderly villagers, able-bodied men, and young people in wedding robes, evidence that the Ghost Marriage had happened repeatedly.
• Bo Shuo recognized one of the ghosts as the Illusion Ghost who had deceived Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo.

Bo Shuo used Emotion Points to restore the Silver Haired God’s memories, hoping his rage would collapse the Spatial Domain and let him escape. As the space shattered and the God suffered through the returning memories, Bo Shuo remained under crushing pressure and kept himself able to feel danger.

• 007 returned and found Bo Shuo trapped with the Silver Haired God, whose tail held Bo Shuo in place.
• 007 explained that the Silver Haired God controlled the Spatial Domain and that provoking him could create a chance to escape.
• Bo Shuo decided to use Emotion Points to accelerate the Silver Haired God’s recovery of his memories.
• The Silver Haired God’s memories surged back as the Black Mist twisted and the Spatial Domain began to collapse.
• Bo Shuo felt the Silver Haired God trembling through the tail while an immense pressure gathered around him.

Yi Rong vowed to find the person who had angered her, while Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo returned from the Illusion Realm to find Ghost Face Men invading the real world. Bo Shuo soon reappeared, and elsewhere a mysterious man held the White Faction candidates captive with villagers under his control.

• Yi Rong unleashed destructive power in her fury, but the God of Truth stopped her from threatening the Exam Venue; she vowed to make her target regret what he had done.
• Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo returned to the Village Chief's courtyard as Ghost Face Men began entering the real world through cracks in space.
• Sang Yu concealed the group's auras and prepared to return for Bo Shuo, but he appeared before she used the Spatial Restoration Scroll.
• Bo Shuo rebuked Xu Ji Mo for mocking Sang Yu and said they needed to hurry because little time remained.
• A mysterious man controlled the villagers and kept the White Faction candidates bound on an altar.

Bo Shuo confronted Xi Guici in a blood-soaked cave, where Xi Guici revealed that he was experimenting with turning people into puppets. The conversation ended with Xi Guici identifying a Deity as the ideal puppet material and claiming that Bo Shuo was the same kind of person as him.

• Bo Shuo entered the cave and found evidence of numerous deaths as Xi Guici greeted him with unusual warmth.
• Xi Guici used threads from the Unknown Dimension to make a White Faction examinee walk toward Bo Shuo as a demonstration of his puppet.
• Bo Shuo dismissed the puppet as inferior, prompting Xi Guici to explain his process and his pursuit of a Perfect Puppet.
• Bo Shuo guessed that a Deity would make the best puppet material, and Xi Guici praised him as someone like himself.
• Bo Shuo privately rejected the comparison and wondered why he kept encountering abnormal people.

Bo Shuo confronted Xi Guici over the blood-soaked spectacle and demanded that he release the bound examinees. The chapter ended with the two men locked in a tense standoff as the White Faction examinees watched from the altar.

• Xi Guici taunted Bo Shuo by offering to release the examinees if Bo Shuo wanted them saved.
• Bo Shuo called Xi Guici’s actions and works childish, dirty, and disgusting.
• Xi Guici asked Bo Shuo what he thought art should be, while pressing him with a threatening presence.
• Bo Shuo ordered Xi Guici to let the examinees go, giving him no room to negotiate.
• The White Faction examinees watched the confrontation in silence, fearing Xi Guici would notice them.

Bo Shuo faced Xi Guici in the cave while his injuries healed, and Xi Guici’s attempt to control him failed because Bo Shuo’s soul was protected by the World Consciousness. Xi Guici abandoned their transaction and attacked another examinee, but Bo Shuo cut the Puppet Silk before it could do more harm.

• Bo Shuo stalled and watched Xi Guici while his injuries slowly healed.
• Xi Guici’s control strings failed to enter Bo Shuo, and he accused Bo Shuo of belonging to a Deity.
• Xi Guici declared their transaction void and sent Puppet Silk toward an examinee near the cave entrance.
• The Puppet Silk slashed the examinee’s wrist, but Bo Shuo cut the strings with his Blade Edge.
• Xi Guici questioned why Bo Shuo had saved the examinees, and Bo Shuo began to answer that he had misunderstood something.

Bo Shuo disrupted Xi Guici’s attempt to control him and discovered that his Soul Talent could wield Puppet Silk. Xi Guici recognized his own ability in Bo Shuo’s hands as the White Faction examinees watched in shock.

• Xi Guici sent Scarlet Threads into Bo Shuo, but Bo Shuo’s body dissolved into mist and reappeared nearby, revealing a rare Soul Talent.
• Xi Guici noticed Sang Yu and another person attacking the unconscious villagers by the altar, then used Puppet Silk to make the villagers fight back.
• Bo Shuo blocked Xi Guici’s threads with a scalpel and declared that Xi Guici’s opponent was him.
• Bo Shuo split into figures linked by Puppet Silk, and Xi Guici realized that Bo Shuo was controlling his Soul Talent.
• The White Faction examinees reacted with disbelief as Xi Guici faced the apparent theft of his ability.

Bo Shou began a forced sacrifice on the altar while Xi Guici lost control of his puppet vessel. As the ceremony reached its end, the Proctoring System began to malfunction.

• Xi Guici realized he might refine himself into a puppet and seized control of the village’s ghosts and villagers, ignoring the Proctoring System’s warnings.
• The Proctoring System stripped Xi Guici of control over his vessel, and a strand of Puppet Silk pierced its heart, leaving him unable to act.
• Bo Shou climbed onto the altar as the candidates restrained the villagers and cut their wrists to supply blood for the sacrifice.
• Bo Shou recited the prayer while the villagers regained consciousness but remained bound, and the red light intensified as the sacrifice proceeded.
• The sacrifice reached its end, and the Proctoring System’s voice became choppy.

After the sacrifice, Chen Fan Li warned that it had awakened something more terrifying than the village’s resentment. As the exam venue collapsed and the Proctoring System failed to contain a Demigod-class aura, a fruit with an eye emerged from the ruins, fixed on Bo Shuo, and attacked him as the examinees were forcibly extracted.

• Xu Ji Mo said Chen Feng Xia had not been sacrificed and that her resentment had dissipated.
• Chen Fan Li warned that the successful sacrifice had awakened something more terrifying.
• The cavern and altar collapsed as a Demigod-class aura appeared, and the Proctoring System’s Protective Shield surrounded the examinees.
• The Proctoring System’s containment failed and began forcibly extracting the examinees through an emergency passage.
• Bo Shuo saw an eye-bearing fruit emerge from the ruins, and it broke free and charged at him.

Bo Shuo tried to figure out how to remove the ghostly blade attached to him, but 007 warned that it was bound to his soul. Meanwhile, Bai Ziheng and Dark Blade sealed off the exam venue to find Bo Shuo, leaving him concealed in the crowd as the exits were searched.

• Bo Shuo considered cutting out the blade, but 007 said it was attached to his soul and could not be removed that way.
• Bai Ziheng led Dark Blade members in sealing the exits and detaining examinees, targeting Bo Shuo over their past conflict.
• Bo Shuo hid among the crowd and considered using Points to disguise himself, while 007 reminded him that he had killed one of Bai Ziheng’s subordinates and nearly killed Bai Ziheng.
• Bai Ziheng used a pale spherical item to detect disguises and ordered examinees to reveal their true appearances.
• Bo Shuo exchanged Emotion Points for a temporary concealment skill, and Sang Yu and Xu Ji Mo failed to find him in the crowd.

Bo Shuo faced Bai Ziheng after appearing beside Sang Yu and learned that examinees could not fight in Lost Paradise. Bai Ziheng bound Bo Shuo to a dangerous A+ exam, and Sang Yu retaliated by binding herself to Bai Ziheng for an A- exam.

• Bai Ziheng confronted Xu Ji Mo over his sudden change of attitude toward Bo Shuo, then spotted Sang Yu alive and was surprised she had escaped the faction match.
• Bo Shuo arrived, and Sang Yu moved behind him as he faced Bai Ziheng without fear after learning that fighting among examinees was forbidden.
• Bai Ziheng used a binding prop on Bo Shuo, drawing the A+ Opera House exam, which would open in three days.
• Sang Yu used her own binding prop on herself and Bai Ziheng, drawing the A- Cinema exam, which would open in five days.
• Bai Ziheng accused Sang Yu of recklessly risking her life, while she glared at him and held her dagger.

After the A-rank exam began, Bo Shuo entered an opera-house venue where he had to obtain an ID badge before the supervisor arrived. The chapter left him and the other examinees facing an urgent deadline to reach the lounge and secure identities.

• Xu Ji Mo offered Bo Shuo Flowing Light’s help against Dark Blade, but Bo Shuo left without acknowledging him, followed by Sang Yu.
• Bo Shuo returned to his villa, where 007 made him cram opera knowledge and practice for the upcoming exam.
• Bo Shuo entered the A-level exam venue and found himself dressed as an opera-house actor in a medieval theater.
• Bo Shuo noticed four lower-ranked examinees sneaking into the opera hall.
• The system ordered Bo Shuo to reach the lounge within ten minutes and obtain an ID badge within 1.5 hours, or face elimination.

Bo Shuo learned that the broadcast was watched by gods seeking God's Chosen, then discovered that other examinees in the Opera House had received an easier task and believed the venue was C-rank. He entered the dark first-floor corridor and reached a lounge filled with examinees of ranks closer to his own.

• 007 explained that examinees who reached B-rank could take the God's Chosen Trial and attract the gods' attention through a broadcast.
• Bo Shuo saw viewers recognize his ID and his perfect exam scores, then blocked the noisy comments.
• Bo Shuo questioned the group led by the long-haired woman and learned they had three hours to find their Identity Clues and obtain employment.
• Bo Shuo realized the group considered the venue C-rank, despite his own exam venue being A+, and an unidentified Excellency began watching the broadcast.
• Bo Shuo left the Performance Hall, crossed the candlelit corridor lined with Suffering Angels, and entered a lounge where C-rank-or-higher examinees had gathered.

Bo Suo and the other examinees studied one another as the card-trading game began, trying to identify who held an ID badge. Ni Zi abruptly dropped his timid act and publicly claimed he had drawn a blank card, leaving the others unsure whether to believe him.

• The examinees watched one another cautiously, and many focused on Bo Suo because his expression and presence were difficult to read.
• Bo Suo drew a blank card and examined the other players’ reactions to their cards.
• Jiang Xiuyi exchanged hidden information with the bald man beside her using what Bo Suo suspected was a shielding prop.
• Ni Zi struggled visibly, then stood and announced that he had a blank card.
• Ni Zi sat back down with an arrogant posture and challenged the others to believe him or not.