Chapter Summaries

Bo Shuo confronted Wen Yanqing and demanded the bones, exposing that Wen Yanqing had been hiding his true intentions. Wen Yanqing refused to hand over his two bones and revealed he was willing to let every team die when the Countdown ended.

• Bo Shuo tested Wen Yanqing by demanding that he hand over all the bones he had.
• Wen Yanqing studied Bo Shuo with unusual curiosity, making Bo Shuo prepare to fight.
• Wen Yanqing explained that Bo Shuo could win by keeping his 204 bones while everyone else died when the Countdown ended.
• Wen Yanqing refused to hand over his two bones, shocking the people who had trusted him.

Bo Shuo rejected Wen Yanqing’s expected approach and tried to figure out what his opponent wanted from the game. He concluded that Wen Yanqing was after the Demigod’s scattered skeleton, and suspected Wen Yanqing had noticed Bo Shuo’s first bone during the Find Anomaly stage.

• Bo Shuo decided not to follow Wen Yanqing’s method, reasoning that he needed to take an unexpected path to survive.
• Bo Shuo noted that he held most of the bones and that 20 minutes remained in the assessment.
• Bo Shuo taunted Wen Yanqing and guessed that he wanted either amusement or something to enhance his abilities.
• Bo Shuo felt the Black-Red Patterns on his wrist react to the bones and concluded that Wen Yanqing wanted the Demigod’s skeleton.
• Bo Shuo reasoned that Wen Yanqing had forced the game to gather the bones he could not obtain before, and had noticed Bo Shuo’s first bone during the Find Anomaly stage.

Bo Shuo fought Wen Yanqing inside the barrier while Meng Ran Nian urged Yu Zhou to use his Amplification Skill. Yu Zhou revealed that he was an Unlucky Person whose skill had never succeeded, leaving his team with little hope as Bo Shuo’s Puppet Silk was cut apart.

• Bo Shuo’s strength rose to A+ level, and he filled the barrier with Puppet Silk to attack Wen Yanqing.
• Wen Yanqing drew a pale-gold Long Sword and cut through Bo Shuo’s Puppet Silk while Meng Ran Nian watched from outside the barrier.
• Meng Ran Nian told Yu Zhou to amplify Bo Shuo, but Yu Zhou admitted his Amplification Skill had never succeeded.
• Yu Zhou confirmed he was an Unlucky Person who had never rolled the skill’s ninety percent success chance.
• Meng Ran Nian asked whether teams had really fought to recruit Yu Zhou, and Yu Zhou confirmed they had fought over him.

A mysterious presence began awakening in the Game Arena after Yu Zhou used an Amplification Skill, causing the Protective Shield to break and the candidates to panic. Wen Yanqing recognized the approaching aura as an existence he had once tried and failed to summon, leaving Bo Shuo to face the possibility that something above Demigod level was coming for him.

• A strange message appeared in Bo Shuo's view, and the Game Arena began shaking as the Protective Shield melted and shattered.
• Meng Ran Nian sensed a terrifying presence awakening, warned everyone to escape, and collapsed after spitting blood.
• Ni Zi asked Meng Ran Nian what was happening, and Meng Ran Nian explained that an indescribable existence was awakening and they could not leave the game.
• Yu Zhou suspected that his Amplification Skill had attracted the presence and regretted using it.
• Wen Yanqing sensed a familiar aura and told Bo Shuo that an existence he had never managed to summon was coming to see him.

As the exam venue began collapsing, Bo Shuo realized a Deity was approaching and tried to learn Wen Yanqing’s intentions while preparing to stay out of danger. He then confronted Ni Zi, calling him Xi Guici.

• Bo Shuo and 007 sensed a Deity approaching as the exam venue’s collapse intensified, and Bo Shuo decided to question Wen Yanqing for information.
• Wen Yanqing proposed that he and Bo Shuo cooperate to claim the God Corpse, believing Bo Shuo was a Demigod with the same goal.
• Bo Shuo kept his response guarded and secretly focused on Ni Zi amid the fleeing crowd and flying Space Shards.
• Bo Shuo told Ni Zi to stop acting and called him Xi Guici, leaving Yu Zhou and the others stunned.

Bo Shuo exposed Xi Guici’s disguise as Ni Zi while spatial rifts tore through the region, swallowing people without triggering death announcements. With all Three Factions present, Bo Shuo stayed calm and waited for a chance to exploit the chaos, while Xi Guici focused his unsettling attention on him.

• Bo Shuo tested his suspicion by attacking Ni Zi, and the response confirmed that Xi Guici was behind the disguise.
• Bo Shuo decided that Xi Guici’s exposure could help him act amid the three-way conflict and waited for the situation to develop.
• Spatial rifts spread across the region and swallowed people, but the Proctoring System announced no deaths.
• Bo Shuo told Xi Guici that his disguise had been too poorly acted, and Xi Guici reacted with excitement.
• Wen Yanqing asked who Xi Guici was, and Bo Shuo mocked him as another pretentious person like Wen Yanqing.

As the Shattered Exam Venue collapsed, Bo Shuo discovered a passage inside a Spatial Rift and entered it with Xi Guici and Wen Yanqing. After the venue was repaired, the mimetic form of the God of Truth appeared and gathered bones into his book.

• Bo Shuo refused to spend his Emotion Points and suspected the Spatial Rifts contained other spaces because the missing examinees had not received death broadcasts.
• Bo Shuo touched a Spatial Rift, which expanded into a passage, and Xi Guici questioned where he was going.
• Bo Shuo entered the passage, followed by Xi Guici and Wen Yanqing, as the remaining examinees were sucked into the rifts and the Exam Venue shattered.
• Qiu Qiu emerged from a Spatial Rift and said she had finished her task, while the Proctoring System began repairing the venue.
• The mimetic form of the God of Truth appeared on the restored ground and collected the floating bones into his book.

Bo Shuo found Ren Ai Orphanage in the darkness and was forced into a high-difficulty special exam venue. The chapter left him facing a faceless caregiver who welcomed him as the orphanage’s new teacher.

• Bo Shuo discovered the gate to Ren Ai Orphanage and wondered why Yi Rong had left traces there.
• A voice matching Bo Shuo’s told him to enter, but he refused to follow its command.
• A faceless caregiver emerged from the orphanage, and Bo Shuo could not identify her.
• The Proctoring System generated the Ren Ai Orphanage exam, assigned Bo Shuo the role of an intern teacher, and set a survival condition of 24 hours.
• The caregiver greeted Bo Shuo as the new teacher and called him inside to prepare the children for class.

Bo Shuo began his first day as a teacher in a strange classroom and recognized the human-looking boy Yi Rong as a possible clue to a dangerous god-level exam venue. The chapter left Bo Shuo wary of Yi Rong and the unexplained lack of danger, while the girl hesitated to answer him.

• The Middle-aged Woman introduced Bo Shuo to the children, told them to obey him, and left the classroom.
• Bo Shuo told the children to study on their own while he looked around the classroom.
• Bo Shuo noticed a human-looking boy drawing in the corner and learned from a girl that his name was Yi Rong.
• Bo Shuo suspected the classroom was a god-level exam venue and raised his guard, wondering why no danger had appeared yet.
• Bo Shuo noticed the girl hesitating in front of him.

Bo Shuo questioned Yi Rong about the portraits he was drawing and learned that Yi Rong insisted the faceless child in them was human. The chapter left Bo Shuo wondering who the child was as Yi Rong vowed to draw his features.

• Bo Shuo approached Yi Rong, whose drawings showed people without facial features.
• Yi Rong told Bo Shuo, "This is a human," and Bo Shuo noticed that most of the page depicted the same child.
• Bo Shuo challenged Yi Rong to explain how a faceless figure could be human.
• Yi Rong said he would draw the child's facial features and insisted that he was human.

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.