Chapter Summaries

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.

Bo Shuo watched two players fake a falling-out after exchanging hidden cards, then traded card information with Jiang Xiuyi. The roulette next selected Player 10, who exchanged cards with Bo Shuo, leaving Bo Shuo with an ID Badge and the Short-Sleeved Girl with his Blank Card.

• The roulette selected the Male High School Student at Number Five, who exchanged hidden cards with Number Six despite their apparent alliance.
• Bo Shuo saw through the pair’s staged argument and deduced that the Dark-skinned Man held an ID Badge while the Male High School Student held a Blank Card.
• Jiang Xiuyi used a shielding item to secretly tell Bo Shuo that he held an ID Badge and Bo Shuo held a Blank Card, and Bo Shuo confirmed the information.
• The roulette selected Player 10, who chose to exchange cards with Bo Shuo at Number 13.
• Bo Shuo received an ID Badge labeled Opera House Trainee Actor, while the Short-Sleeved Girl received Bo Shuo’s Blank Card.

As the card game neared its end, Number Nine drew the Blank Card from Ni Zi, while Ni Zi arranged for Bo Shuo to lose his ID Badge in the final exchange. Bo Shuo remained composed and asked how Ni Zi knew he would be chosen to switch cards, then hinted that he might survive.

• Player Three exchanged his card for the publicly known ID Badge of examinee Number Six, leaving himself vulnerable to receiving the Blank Card.
• With two minutes left, Number Nine challenged Ni Zi and exchanged cards with Number Twelve, drawing the Blank Card and realizing the others would not take it from him.
• After the silence restriction lifted, Bo Shuo asked Ni Zi why he seemed unsurprised, and Ni Zi discarded the Blank Card without concern.
• With ten seconds remaining, Ni Zi exchanged his card with Player 13, taking Bo Shuo's ID Badge and leaving Bo Shuo with the card on Ni Zi's table.
• Bo Shuo calmly asked how Ni Zi knew he would switch cards in the final round and suggested he might survive, while Ni Zi dismissed him.

After the card game killed nearly half the participants, the Opera House Supervisor arrived with mutilated former interns and ordered the six survivors to wear their Work Badges for an Audience-assigned Entry Assessment. The supervisor led the way to the Broadcast Hall, while Bo Shuo remained behind, studying his badge.

• Bo Shuo and five others survived the card game, which killed nearly half the participants.
• The Opera House Supervisor arrived and Jiang Xiuyi recognized his Work Badge, opening the lounge door for him.
• The supervisor unwrapped a bundle of mutilated NPCs and took their Opera House Intern Actor badges.
• The supervisor ordered the survivors to wear the badges and follow him to the Broadcast Hall for an Entry Assessment, warning that failed examinees ended up like their seniors.
• Jiang Xiuyi took a badge and prepared to leave, then noticed Bo Shuo had not moved and was staring at his own badge.

The Short-Sleeved Girl performed a brutal Lingchi act to satisfy the audience, but the Foreman allowed scoring to continue after the assessment ended. Her score fell below the passing mark, leaving her facing death as the audience mocked her.

• The Foreman selected the Short-Sleeved Girl to perform the first assessment while Bo Shuo and the other examinees watched from the audience seating.
• The audience chose Lingchi and pressured the Short-Sleeved Girl to cut herself as her score fell.
• The Short-Sleeved Girl cut her wrist repeatedly, causing her score to rise while the audience jeered and cheered.
• After the Foreman declared the assessment over, the score dropped from 70 to 59 as audience members continued grading.
• The Foreman gave the Short-Sleeved Girl five minutes to earn a passing score, but the audience wrote down 59 as the curtain fell.

The Male High School Student was chosen for the Drowning Game and panicked at the sight of a fish tank. Zhao Li revealed that they had once killed their teammates during a drowning assessment, only to face those teammates as Ghosts in a later round; Jiang Xiuyi suspected there was still more behind the student's fear.

• The Foreman selected the Male High School Student for the second assessment, the Drowning Game.
• The Male High School Student refused the task and collapsed in terror when a fish tank appeared above the stage.
• Bo Shuo identified Zhao Li as the student's teammate, and Zhao Li admitted they had faced a fish-tank stage in a past assessment.
• Zhao Li explained that he and the Male High School Student had killed members of their team to survive, then encountered their victims as Ghosts in a later round.
• Jiang Xiuyi said the Male High School Student's fear seemed too intense to be explained by that experience alone.