Chapter Summaries

Chen Xi rescued Cecilia from Todds, only to discover that Lin Yue and Cecilia had tricked her and that Cecilia was Agatha in disguise. With Agatha reborn at Fourth Rank peak and facing Todds, Chen Xi and Lin Yue regrouped and prepared to finish their plan.

• Chen Xi used her shadow armor to save Cecilia from Todds's lightning and fled toward the edge of his domain.
• Todds killed Cecilia with Heavenly Punishment, but her body transformed as Agatha returned to the world, ignoring his attacks.
• Chen Xi realized Lin Yue and Cecilia had deceived her, while Agatha revealed her Fourth Rank peak strength and confronted Todds.
• Chen Xi returned to Lin Yue, confronted her over the deception, and received a new Insight ability from the CG panel.
• Lin Yue told Chen Xi that the fish had taken the bait and urged her to help end the affair.

Chen Xi summoned Andres while preparing a new identity, but Agatha defeated Todds and was about to kill him when a mysterious Fifth-Rank woman appeared. The newcomer identified herself as Death, the Second Position of the Crow Brigade.

• Lin Yue said she could erase Todds's memories with Shadow Puppet, and Chen Xi summoned Andres.
• Chen Xi paused to devise a new appearance that would let her conceal her identity.
• Agatha overwhelmed Todds, who released his Ten Thousand Jun domain, but her Vermilion Flowers Everywhere domain dispelled his attack.
• Agatha prepared to kill the weakened Todds as she celebrated her impending rebirth.
• A pink-haired Fifth-Rank woman appeared, halted Agatha, and introduced herself as Death, the Second Position of the Crow Brigade.

Chen Xi, disguised as Death, drew Agatha into the Crow Brigade by promising her a chance to kill Chen Xi, then tested Agatha’s understanding of death on a mountain path. The chapter ended with Chen Xi tearing the Replica’s heart from its chest and telling Andres to bury all things.

• Chen Xi revealed the Crow Brigade to Agatha, who became eager to join after Chen Xi recognized her desire to kill her.
• Agatha tried to kill Todds, but Chen Xi stopped her with her domain and said his death should come through betrayal.
• Chen Xi left the Resting Forest with Agatha, who guessed that joining the Crow Brigade might require wiping out a town or an entire fief.
• Chen Xi summoned her Replica, declared Agatha’s understanding of death too shallow, and tore out the Replica’s heart.
• Chen Xi told Andres, "Bury all things, Andres."

Chen Xi killed Agatha by turning Andres's injuries into unhealable wounds and pinning her with [Lullaby]. After regrouping with Lin Yue and Gu Yu, Chen Xi chose to erase Todds's memories and planned to make Agatha's corpse look as if he had killed her.

• Chen Xi's abilities prevented Agatha from healing her chest wound, and Agatha panicked when draining life from the forest failed to save her.
• Chen Xi restrained Agatha with [Lullaby], snapped her neck, and revealed that she knew Agatha as Cecilia before Agatha died.
• Chen Xi found no Legend Husk, carried Agatha's corpse to her main body, and dismissed Andres.
• Gu Yu woke in the battered forest and joined Chen Xi and Lin Yue, who planned to alter Todds's memories before Duke Red Dragon's reinforcements arrived.
• Chen Xi decided against preserving Todds's memories to bolster the Crow Brigade's reputation and chose to erase them instead.
• Chen Xi asked Lin Yue to make Todds electrocute Agatha's corpse until it was charred, so his memory loss could be blamed on their battle.

Lin Yue and Chen Xi disguised the aftermath of the battle in the Resting Forest, making themselves and Gu Yu look like Todds’s victims before reinforcements arrived. Iseriel found them with Todds and took all three to the Duke’s Mansion for questioning.

• Lin Yue used Todds’s body to char Agatha’s corpse and erase memories of what happened after Ghost Shadow appeared.
• At Chen Xi’s request, Lin Yue shocked Chen Xi and Gu Yu to make them look like victims, though the lightning left Chen Xi’s hair frizzy.
• Chen Xi restored their faces, and Gu Yu carried Todds as the three left the Resting Forest pretending to be injured.
• Iseriel arrived on her Pegasus, found Todds unconscious beside Agatha’s charred corpse, and ordered the three strangers to surrender.
• Iseriel gave Todds a pill, bound the three with the Sin-Punishment Chain, and flew with them toward the Duke’s Mansion.

While confined at the Duke's Mansion, Gu Yu explained how her family had disowned her and recalled how Agatha had replaced Cecilia before being exposed and killed. After Lord Todds woke, a servant summoned Gu Yu, Chen Xi, and Lin Yue to meet him and Lady Iseriel.

• Chen Xi asked Gu Yu why the other Saintess candidates did not recognize her, and Gu Yu said her family had disowned her for being a First Rank Saintess.
• Gu Yu recounted how Agatha had impersonated Cecilia for years, then exposed herself by slaughtering a village and was killed by the Adjudicator.
• Chen Xi, Gu Yu, and Lin Yue continued playing flying chess, teasing one another over their rolls and accusations of cheating.
• Chen Xi checked the Crow Brigade's reputation and saw that its CG reward was still generating brigade members.
• A servant announced that Lord Todds had woken and asked the three women to meet him and Lady Iseriel in the reception room.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu were questioned by Iseriel about their identities and their connection to the Saintess candidates. Iseriel separated them to interrogate them with her truth-detecting ability, and Chen Xi endured its pain while disguising her answer as a wronged Black Moon native.

• Iseriel confirmed Gu Yu was a Saintess candidate but questioned Chen Xi and Lin Yue’s identities and claimed they might be spies.
• Todds tried to object to Iseriel’s suspicions, but she silenced him and asserted that she was in charge while Duke Red Dragon was away.
• Iseriel created separate barriers around the three and offered to reduce Chen Xi’s sentence if she revealed why she had approached the candidates.
• Chen Xi recognized Iseriel’s interrogation as a Prisoner’s Dilemma and endured the pain caused by her ability when she began to answer.
• Chen Xi used her Mask Ability to maintain her disguise and told Iseriel, with feigned indignation, that powerful people looked down on natives like her.

Iseriel consulted Gabriel and learned that Chen Xi and her companions were good people, so she apologized and offered Todds access to the Duke's vault. After the three settled into rooms at the Duke's Mansion, a mysterious golden-haired girl appeared and addressed Chen Xi as Death.

• Iseriel's Angel Heart reacted to Chen Xi and Lin Yue, prompting Gabriel to awaken and tell Iseriel not to pursue the matter.
• Gabriel assured Iseriel that Chen Xi and her companions had upright hearts, and Iseriel ended the interrogation and apologized.
• Iseriel confirmed that Todds and the others had defeated Agatha together and offered him entry to the Duke's vault as compensation.
• Iseriel and Todds arranged rooms for Chen Xi, Gu Yu, and Lin Yue in the Duke's Mansion ahead of the God-Chosen Trial.
• Chen Xi told Gu Yu and Lin Yue about the interrogation, then a golden-haired girl appeared and asked what Death was trying to do.

Gabriel confronted Chen Xi, believing she was Death and had returned to start a war, while Chen Xi insisted she wanted to live quietly. After Gabriel's Ever-Burning Eye confirmed Chen Xi was Death, Chen Xi claimed she had lost her memory.

• Gabriel appeared in Chen Xi's mansion and transformed the room into a fiery arena, then accused Chen Xi of being Death.
• Lin Yue donned her Shadow Armor Mask as Gu Yu sensed Gabriel's Tier 5 power, but Chen Xi stopped them from fighting and summoned Andres.
• Gabriel recognized Andres, learned she lacked consciousness, and introduced herself as a Seraph.
• Gabriel's Ever-Burning Eye flared when Chen Xi denied wanting to destroy the world, revealing that the denial was true.
• Chen Xi admitted she was Death, then asked Gabriel whether she would believe that she had lost her memory.

Chen Xi accepted that she was Death but had lost her memories, while Gabriel chose not to help restore them. On the morning of the God-Chosen Trial, Chen Xi and Lin Yue dealt with Eliza’s recruitment attempts before Lin Yue revealed a glowing bronze Badge.

• Gabriel sensed that Chen Xi had truly lost her memory, decided not to provoke her, and vanished from the mansion room.
• Chen Xi explained her conclusion to Gu Yu and Lin Yue, who teased her about seeming like a threat to the world.
• As the God-Chosen Trial approached on October 12, Chen Xi reviewed the factions led by Casper von Cameron and Eliza von Cameron.
• Eliza tried to recruit Chen Xi, but Chen Xi pretended to reject her by claiming her heart belonged to Gu Yu.
• Lin Yue entered Chen Xi’s room and conjured a bronze Badge that glowed with heat.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu entered the God-Chosen Trial, where Chen Xi awoke on a train with only sixteen other participants. A veteran named Lin Muyang revealed that the trial was cooperative and began warning the newcomers that the outside world's accounts of it were false.

• Chen Xi summoned her Badge, and Lin Yue and Gu Yu joined her as the three prepared for the God-Chosen Trial.
• The three were transported into the trial, where Chen Xi woke in a speeding train car among unconscious participants.
• Chen Xi learned from Lin Muyang that only seventeen people were in her group and that the first stage was nearly impossible with so few participants.
• As the other Chosen Ones woke, Lin Muyang silenced them and introduced himself as a veteran Tier 2 Transcendent.
• Lin Muyang warned the group that the God-Chosen Trial was a hell that devoured people and began explaining its hidden truth.

Lin Muyang revealed that God-Chosen Trial was actually the Cycle, which concealed deaths and trapped souls by altering memories across the world. Chen Xi saw the Cycle’s new status warning that a dead person’s soul would fall under God’s Trial.

• Lin Muyang told Chen Xi and the others that ninety percent of Chosen Ones died inside the Cycle, despite the world believing failed participants merely lost their memories.
• Lin Muyang explained that earlier Transcendents had tried to expose the Cycle, but even Grishis’s escape after reaching Peak Rank Six failed to bring help from the outside world.
• Lin Muyang revealed that the souls of those who died in the Cycle were remade into ordinary people, whose memories were erased when they died again.
• Chen Xi opened her status panel and saw the warning that death would put her soul under God’s Trial.

Chen Xi entered the God-Chosen Trial aboard the Phantom Thief Train, where Lin Muyang explained the team trial’s performance rules. After discovering two Cold Radiance Federation newcomers intended to cause trouble, Chen Xi killed them and prepared to investigate the trial so she could find Gu Yu.

• Chen Xi saw that a God-Chosen Trial had begun and reasoned that Lin Yue’s Regression power could withstand its cycles.
• A blood-red panel announced the Phantom Thief Train trial, and a woman in a red dress recognized it as a 2013 train disaster in the Sunlight Federation.
• Lin Muyang warned two hostile men from the Cold Radiance Federation that disrupting the team would get them killed, while Chen Xi backed him up.
• Lin Muyang explained that trial rewards depended on performance scores and that completing objectives well could raise the whole team’s rating.
• Chen Xi used Insight to detect the men’s hostile intentions, cut them down with water, and ground their bodies apart.

Lin Muyang explained the God-Chosen Trial’s rules, and Feng Hong identified the invaders behind the train incident. After asking about the minimum evaluation for killing all the invaders, Chen Xi gave the name Wu Xin and declared she would handle them herself as the combat countdown ended.

• Lin Muyang explained that trials recreated real-world events from before 2014 and outlined how evaluation ranks affected trial-takers.
• Feng Hong recalled the train incident and identified Qu Jinfeng and his Legend, Gas Cloud, as the source of the attack.
• Lin Muyang organized the Transcendents around a plan to kill the invaders, while Chen Xi considered the trial’s scoring system and hidden dangers.
• Chen Xi asked what rank the team could earn by killing all the invaders, introduced herself as Wu Xin, and said she would kill them herself.
• The combat-readiness countdown ended, and Chen Xi revealed her lower Third Rank aura and activated Domain Expansion: Rain Disaster.

Chen Xi defeated the five invaders in the God-Chosen Trial, earning an S+ rating before returning to the Rest Hall. She discovered that her Wish Power could now empower her CGs, chose to save it for later, and encountered the blonde girl, who asked whether to call her Wu Xin or Chen Xi.

• Chen Xi unleashed her water domain and killed the five invaders, completing both mission objectives with perfect performance.
• The trial ended, and Lin Muyang cried with relief as he realized he had finally escaped its repeated loops.
• Chen Xi returned to the Rest Hall and received an S+ performance rating, but the trial rewards were converted into Wish Power charge.
• Chen Xi learned she could empower her owned CGs with Wish Power and decided to wait before empowering Andres so she could continue acquiring CGs in the trial.
• Chen Xi left her exclusive room and met the blonde girl, who asked whether to call her Miss Wu Xin or Chen Xi.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue compared what they had learned about the God-Chosen Trial, including its ranks, dangers, and rules. Lin Yue gave Chen Xi a Mandarin Duck ring that would make them permanent teammates, and the chapter ended with Lin Yue declaring that they could only choose each other.

• Lin Yue revealed that she had marked Chen Xi with her Primordial Vampire ability, Hunt, and said she had done it to find Chen Xi if anything happened during the trial.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue exchanged information about the God-Chosen Trial, learning that three marks advanced a Badge rank and that trial-takers could be forced into a final trial after using all five trial slots.
• Chen Xi discovered that her S+ rating had earned her a second mark, making her a Lower First Rank Transcendent.
• Lin Yue said creatures killed in trials left no Legend Husks and explained that she had killed her fellow novices after a veteran incited them during a crisis.
• Lin Yue gave Chen Xi the Mandarin Duck ring, which would make them permanent teammates and ensure they entered the same trials together.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue discovered that the special Mandarin Duck binding would place them together in future trials and link their rooms, then returned to Chen Xi’s enlarged room to explore its permissions. After spending time together, Lin Yue offered to let Chen Xi enter her Inner World, and Chen Xi eagerly accepted.

• Chen Xi checked the Trial Panel and learned that the Mandarin Duck binding would send her and Lin Yue to the same Rest Hall and Trial, with 71 hours until the next Trial.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue entered Chen Xi’s room, found it empty despite Lin Yue’s preparations, and saw that new room permissions had appeared on the panel.
• Chen Xi explained the changes she had gained from eating the Person in the Play, and Lin Yue agreed that saving the ability for a critical moment would be best.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue rested together and became intimate before Lin Yue stopped their indulgence.
• Lin Yue suggested that Chen Xi enter her Inner World, and Chen Xi accepted, ready to challenge her defenses.

Chen Xi chose to walk with Lin Yue through her candy-filled Inner World, where Lin Yue promised to reveal an important secret once Chen Xi’s affection reached 100. They climbed Biscuit Mountain together and earned an affection increase, leaving Chen Xi eager to know what Lin Yue had murmured.

• Chen Xi returned to Lin Yue’s mental world, and Lin Yue explained she could make its time flow at the same rate as the outside world.
• Chen Xi chose to walk with Lin Yue, but Lin Yue changed the option’s wording and tempted Chen Xi to continue by promising a secret at 100 affection.
• Chen Xi took Lin Yue by the hand and led her toward Biscuit Mountain, though Lin Yue chose the destination and made the mountain shorter.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue climbed Biscuit Mountain together, and the Love Panel announced the completed achievement and an affection increase of 30.
• Lin Yue embraced Chen Xi at the summit and murmured something Chen Xi could not hear before suggesting they return.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue returned to the Trial Space, furnished their room, and discussed whether to challenge the God-Chosen Trial’s memory blockade. In the main hall, Lin Yue explained the Trial’s hidden time limits and left Chen Xi with the warning that older Transcendents could be trapped forever in the sunless world known as Eternal Sinking.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue recreated their Tianhai City home in their Exclusive Room before heading to the main hall.
• Chen Xi said she wanted to become a Savior and raise the Crow Brigade’s reputation, but Lin Yue warned that resisting the memory blockade could trigger the Trial’s protective measures.
• Lin Yue said they should grow stronger before confronting the God-Chosen Trial, and the two were transported to the bustling Trading Hall in main hall E23.
• Lin Yue explained that E23 held up to fifty thousand people, that the Trial replenished its population, and that trial takers only had three months of free time every ten years.
• Lin Yue revealed that only Transcendents who had not experienced their first three ten-year cycles could escape the cycle, while the rest faced Eternal Sinking.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue spent their remaining time before the second trial playing games in the Entertainment Hall, where they saw how worn down the other Transcendents had become from repeated reincarnations. When the countdown ended, they met Reincarnation in a void, who recognized them as Dominion and Time and offered to explain their nature.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue teleported to the Entertainment Hall and tried various games to pass the time before the trial.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue returned to their Exclusive Room as the countdown neared zero and were teleported away when it ended.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue appeared in an endless void, where a pale blue humanoid figure addressed them as Dominion and Time.
• Lin Yue asked whether the figure was the God-Chosen Trial or Reincarnation, and she identified herself as Reincarnation.
• Chen Xi questioned why Reincarnation had called her Dominion, and Reincarnation said she had not gained Insight into her own nature and offered to explain.