[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-foolish-game-of-the-gods":3,"chapter-foolish-game-of-the-gods-foolish-game-of-the-gods-chapter-193":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Foolish Game of the Gods",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},579514,829,"Chapter 193: Chain Reaction","foolish-game-of-the-gods-chapter-193",193,"\u003Cp>Zhen Yi felt like she had been tricked by the Blind One.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had managed to ditch everyone with a single truthful statement, but in the end, she still hadn’t found the so-called future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This infuriated her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what infuriated her even more was that her sister had also played a trick on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know what memory Zhen Xin had taken from her mind, but it left her with a nagging feeling that she had forgotten something incredibly important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to ask the Blind One for help figuring it out, but the Blind One had disappeared too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They always left her out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m clearly so adorable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when she matched into a trial filled entirely with her “friends,” she found their gazes toward her were not exactly friendly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, Baldy, what’s with that look?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miss me that much?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t tell me you’ve fallen for me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Baldy Uses Conditioner,” with her flowing hair, chuckled coldly. Instead of answering, she asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Was the fruit sweet?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhen Yi raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What fruit?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sweet what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What good drama did I miss?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Memory?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be the part of her memory her sister had taken?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless thoughts flashed through her mind. Even though she didn’t know what Baldy was talking about, she still played along with a cheerful grin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because that was Zhen Yi—she would never let anyone figure her out, and she would never let the conversation die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sweet! As sweet as our first encounter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the words left her lips, a wooden spear covered in long thorns whistled through the air from a distance, embedding itself straight into Zhen Yi’s chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caught off guard, Zhen Yi clutched her chest, coughing up blood, and cried pitifully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Baldy, don’t you love me anymore?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baldy Uses Conditioner closed her eyes and took several deep breaths, forcing down her irritation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She brushed off the small hand on her shoulder and turned to another Zhen Yi standing behind her, saying:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let me beat her up first. That way, I can go easy on her during the group beatdown later.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhen Yi’s small eyes were filled with immense confusion, but before she could ask anything, a meteor shower of light rained down from the sky, turning the entire plain she was standing on into scorched earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn you, I’ll show you ‘sweet’!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhen! Don’t run if you have the guts!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lie! Keep lying!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heehee~”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ignoring her disheveled appearance, Zhen Yi ran, her silver-bell-like laughter echoing behind her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Try harder! You’re almost catching me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ha, it’s still more fun with “friends”.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was really fun~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High above, in the distant void, within the pale Fishbone Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless noisy cheers echoed from below the hall, and countless sharp praises drifted through the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant skull seated on the bone throne had eyes glowing with green light, flickering incessantly since moments ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Lordship seemed quite pleased, and the bone servants of the Fishbone Palace looked equally happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason for their joy…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was naturally the new torrent of white bones cascading like a waterfall before the palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, in His palace, an external waterfall of bones had appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And all the skulls within this waterfall were offerings from His “employee.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, perhaps “offering” wasn’t quite the right word. It was more like repayment for a previous debt, along with the interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that the amount of interest was… rather substantial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason for all this wasn’t actually complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That employee had sent a bone servant to deliver a message, providing a precise time and void coordinate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, this audacious employee dared to ask his “boss” to personally retrieve the offerings owed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a demand, bordering on blasphemy, was something [Death] would normally ignore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when He thought of His employee’s Patron, thought of the unreasonable [Deceit] who only knew how to smash things, He reluctantly agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when His gaze fell upon that coordinate and that specific time, He realized just how massive a surprise His “always-in-debt” employee had prepared for Him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had actually offered the deaths of countless [Chaos] followers as a tribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But merely that, even if the number of offerings was vast, wouldn’t have made [Death] so delighted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, if these offerings were originally meant for [Oblivion], presented by [Oblivion]’s followers, and He had intercepted them…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it this way, even if His skull had no flesh, He could barely contain His grin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The conflict between faiths involved many aspects. Winning even a single exchange, no matter the aspect, was the greatest mockery to the opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant skull silently admired the fresh torrent of white bones, thinking again of the “part-time” offerer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly felt that bestowing His creation upon this employee seemed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not like a losing deal after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cheng. Shi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very. Good!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi finally returned to the familiar rooftop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When his “lovely” warehouse came into view, he let out a huge sigh of relief and collapsed onto the rooftop floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was tough. No previous trial had been as difficult as this one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hardest part wasn’t fighting against history or fate, but against those incredibly powerful teammates with their own hidden agendas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Low-rank trials focused more on cooperation; with insufficient strength, players could only overcome challenges by working together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But high-rank trials were different. With enough strength and confidence, everyone quietly pursued their own “path,” and this divergence of goals turned what should have been a relatively simple trial into an exceptionally difficult one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi mentally reviewed everything from the two trials, trying to find any clue related to compromising with [Fate].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought long and hard, but came up empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He realized that although “fate” had woven itself through the entire event in a subtle way, it had never compromised with anyone involved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Conjugated Whispering Tree bore no fruit, the grand scholar died with regrets, the fruit and petals “disappeared,” and the [Chaos] followers gained nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost no one managed to change their direction within the established historical fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This suffocating sense of despair made Cheng Shi understand even more clearly what “predetermined” meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be… that compromising with Him was fundamentally impossible?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this trial His way of telling him that begging a [God] for “forgiveness” was a fool’s errand?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fate, don’t be too cruel, okay?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lying on the ground, he looked up at the dazzling sun, wondering if [Fate] “shone” upon everyone in the world just as relentlessly, and perhaps the only way to avoid it was…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To hide in the shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Cheng Shi raised his hand to shield his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this simple action caused cold sweat to bead instantly on his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where’s my shadow?\u003C\u002Fp>",1121,"2026-05-30T16:17:59.407Z","2026-06-01T04:31:40.442Z",1,"novelbin.me","7b6c456829f043853e26ae2856213d6406314dd56cf77e2ab29cd9333648a4b2","foolish-game-of-the-gods-chapter-194","foolish-game-of-the-gods-chapter-192",1463,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffoolish-game-of-the-gods-cover.jpg"]