[{"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-259":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},579530,829,"Chapter 259: [Birth] Rank One: Eternal Sun","foolish-game-of-the-gods-chapter-259",259,"\u003Cp>The instant his faith toggled back to [Deceit], Cheng Shi's familiar [Deceit] chat channel returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same grand assembly of liars where not a single true word was spoken, where every trickster unleashed their wildest imagination with reckless abandon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only pity was that this channel had no target audience — it was all tricksters from top to bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi scrolled casually for a moment and noticed quite a few people still spamming \"Hail the return of the Dragon King.\" He couldn't help but grin, then pulled up the latest [Deceit] Ladder of Ascent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ladder of Ascent (Existence — Memory) \u002F (Void — Deceit)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. Li Jingming (Deceit) — 211\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. Oh No, This Is the Real Dragon King (Deceit) — 209\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Like A Dream (Memory) — 208\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4. 2 Points From Sweeping Gold-Silver-Bronze, Fuming (Deceit) — 206\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>6. Sir Lü Is Brave! (Deceit) — 202\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>43. True Heart (Deceit) — 179\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>57. I Never Lie (Deceit) — 169\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after he finished reading the latest rankings, the grin vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Huh?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Lü Jingming reclaimed the top spot?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'And he did it as a [Deceit] follower!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I thought \"Hail the Dragon King\" was just a meme. Turns out you actually went and did it?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Absolute legend!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond \"legend,\" Cheng Shi genuinely couldn't think of a second word for the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Running this fast on [Deceit]'s path — don't you worry your former patron [Memory] will off you?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Or are you an undercover agent too, just waiting for the day you bring that number-one seat back to [Memory]?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it led Cheng Shi right back to himself. After all, he'd walked even further down the oathbreaking road than Li Jingming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pot, meet kettle. Nothing to laugh about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But aside from the Dragon King situation, there was another noteworthy development: Zhen Xin's score had apparently bottomed out and begun climbing again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that regardless of whether the prophecy's target was that farce or Cheng Shi himself, the prophecy's shelf life had expired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could finally stop living on tenterhooks, worrying about Chosen Ones dropping in to cause trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhen Xin's score alone wasn't enough for full confirmation. So Cheng Shi frowned, opened the priest channel—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—And found it chattering away with almost zero useful information. Struck by inspiration, he switched back to [Fate], put on a mage mask, and sneaked into the mage channel to gather intel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, three minutes of browsing the mage channel yielded more actionable intelligence than three years in the trickster channel could ever produce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The veteran mages were discussing the Chosen Ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apparently, every Chosen One who'd previously dropped in score was climbing back up. In the past few days, several faiths' Chosen Ones had already reclaimed the number-one throne, once again demonstrating their prowess to all players:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Down when they wanted. Up when they wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ordinary players trailing behind them might as well have been playing an entirely different game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here's a summary of the Chosen One intel discussed earlier. As of now, the only faiths whose Chosen Ones haven't returned to their thrones are: all of [Life], [Corruption], [Time], and [Fate].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Chart attached)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note 1: The 'Chosen Ones' referenced here aren't simply whoever's currently first in each faith, but those who've held the top spot for longer than one-third of the Faith Game's total duration. Of course, the current first-place holders can also be called Chosen Ones — your call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note 2: Due to the [Memory] Chosen One's oathbreaking to [Deceit] and subsequent re-ascension, there's been some confusion, so these two faiths weren't included.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note 3: Data sourced from this channel. Records are searchable but shouldn't be taken as gospel. Judge for yourselves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi stared slack-jawed at the data table compiled by this helpful mage, heart brimming with emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'When has any other channel seen anything like this? This is practically pre-chewed food being spooned straight into your mouth.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Don't tell me all those selfless bros who used to share everything on public forums before the Faith Game descended... all picked mage?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more frightening — this wasn't the only organized data dump. Shares and analyses flooded past in a relentless torrent. Cheng Shi had to scroll way back through the chat history just to find the topics he cared about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'By comparison, the priest channel is a mess. Actually — aside from maybe the hunter channel — probably no channel can match the mage channel for its constant, rolling stream of pure [Truth].'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Adding supplementary data: [Birth]'s 'Infertility Specialist' has been stuck at number 10 for a while, seemingly sandbagging their score. The current top-ranked [Birth] follower has an interesting ID — 'Eternal Sun.' Any history buff should recognize that name. Looks like she's got ambitious plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Prosperity]'s 'Bald Guy Uses Rejoice' is still outside the top 50. Technically he doesn't meet the one-third threshold the previous poster mentioned, but [Prosperity] being [Prosperity], the Chosen One seat rotates. Tu Tou just sat in it the longest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Death]'s 'Cemetery Caretaker' had been climbing — reached around 20th at one point — but has slipped again these last two days. Currently at position 41.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi speed-scrolled through the messages. When the ID \"Eternal Sun\" appeared in the chat, he paused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That ID plus that ranking... could it be her?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hu Xuan?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi pulled out the Night Curtain Spring Whistle from his storage space, lost in thought, remembering the trial he'd shared with this would-be [Birth] envoy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Sure enough, in this world, it's the brave who embrace Divinity first.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Compared to her, I'm miles behind.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But things weren't bad as they stood. At least he hadn't heard of any Chosen One walking the path of Faith Coexistence yet. By that measure, he'd quietly pulled a tiny bit ahead of the curve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Praise [Deceit]! Praise [Fate]! Praise the great [Void]!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That said, while ordinary players could aggregate information, analyze, and speculate about the top-tier players' situations and the game's trends, they still lacked the first-hand intel that high-end players gained through personal experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Interestingly, that small elite group traded intel among themselves quite frequently — just never shared any of it with those below them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This created an enormous gap in critical intelligence and key historical knowledge between the absolute apex and everyone chasing them — an unbridgeable information divide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there was no way to close it. The only method was to push your own score higher, and then... join them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, they'd probably never share a word of this with low-ranking players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi continued scanning through the chat logs. After a good while, he could roughly confirm that the prophecy — the one that had sent every Chosen One plunging down the rankings in search of its subject — had truly ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The storm had passed. It looked like future trials wouldn't pit him against so many peak players anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this thought, Cheng Shi let out a long, heavy breath of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>",1162,"2026-05-30T16:17:59.408Z","2026-06-01T04:31:40.442Z",1,"novelbin.me","beddf9f2466143f221486a2cd59727fe51484c239d0788e42816f63680bbe2d7","foolish-game-of-the-gods-chapter-260","foolish-game-of-the-gods-chapter-258",1463,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffoolish-game-of-the-gods-cover.jpg"]