Foolish Game of the Chapter 602: I Didn't Break My Oath—I Fused

Among the peak players, a handful knew the secret behind Zhen Xin and Zhen Yi. The Blind One was one of them. The Dragon King was another.

He'd exchanged mories with Zhen Xin. When the forr Chosen of Deceit had told Li Jingming the truth about herself and her sister, the shock had been imnse. At the ti, he'd even assud that gaining a second faith in this ga required splitting into a separate personality.

Thankfully, a later audience with Deceit had clarified that it needn't go anywhere near that far. Zhen Xin and Zhen Yi had rely been a little experint the god had whipped up on a whim.

So when Cheng Shi said he'd fused Deceit and Fate, Li Jingming believed it imdiately. Not only because he knew Deceit had once intended to fuse with Fate, but because he knew sothing else... Fate had personally summoned Cheng Shi!

This was a fact attested to by many eyewitness accounts, and a truth Cheng Shi himself had admitted within the diocre Person Society.

This mysterious second deity of the Void—Fate—had never summoned even its own Chosen, yet had singled out a Fate Weaver with no ranking. That fact alone was enough to spark endless speculation.

Li Jingming's epiphany clicked into place. No wonder this Fate Weaver was so skilled at deception—he was a con artist to begin with.

But before Cheng Shi could respond, the Dragon King's brow creased slightly: "Hmm. The mory I gave doesn't seem valuable enough to match what you shared. Let

think about what else I should offer..."

"?" Cheng Shi blinked. He hadn't expected his gambit to yield a bonus.

Yes—gambit.

Cheng Shi wasn't genuinely playing the heart-to-heart ga. He had his own calculations.

First: the more peak players he encountered, the more inevitable it beca that his dual-faith identity would be exposed. No matter how seamlessly he acted, concealed, and disguised, he'd told too many lies. Those lies would eventually contradict each other.

When all those "landmines" finally detonated at once, no explanation would be believed.

So what he needed to do now was plant the endpoint of all those lies in the Dragon King's fertile soil of mory—letting mory's reputation anchor a single, authoritative "truth."

And that truth was: Cheng Shi had fused with the Void. Regardless of how he'd done it, the fact remained that he'd fused.

Later, when others learned of this through the Dragon King, his credibility would lend weight to the claim. Those scheming peak players would then review their own mories of Cheng Shi, match every inconsistency against the dual-faith explanation, and complete the logical self-persuasion on their own.

This was Cheng Shi's effort to cover his tracks.

The dual Void faith had been his trump card—a hidden ace he logically shouldn't reveal. But a trump card that's been shown too many tis ceases to be a trump card. It becos common knowledge.

In truth, Cheng Shi hadn't planned to reveal it this soon. He still hadn't found a replacent—a new hidden card to buy himself lying room.

But now he had one.

The unexpected Chaos fusion had dealt him a fresh ace. With that in his pocket, he could afford to push the Void dual-faith out into the open as a new identity marker.

This should have been done more subtly—his original plan was to have Mi Laozhang be the one to "reveal" it. Not because of friendship, but because Mi Laozhang already knew about his dual faith and was an honest man. People trusted honest n.

But "unfortunately," Cheng Shi had conned Mi Laozhang into joining Deceit—so the honest man had lost his honest label and was no longer credible.

So Cheng Shi had been searching for a new candidate. Running into the Dragon King this trial gave him a perfect target. And he was confident this secret could fetch sothing even bigger in return.

So he confessed.

Half-truthfully confessed.

But regardless—he hadn't actually lied, had he?

Cheng Shi smiled and waited for the Dragon King's response. And Li Jingming didn't disappoint. He revealed a secret of his own—a secret about faith.

"Cheng Shi, I'm sure you've noticed I still wield considerable mory power. Everyone's been curious about it, but I've never explained.

Today, given your honesty, I choose to exchange this mory of faith with you.

I didn't break my oath. I fused Deceit and mory."

"!!!"

Cheng Shi's eyes went wide with shock. Though this intelligence wasn't entirely fresh—the understanding had simply shifted.

Everyone had assud mory hadn't inflicted an oathbreaking curse on the Dragon King—had even left him so unusually strong oathbreaker talents. But now it turned out every guess had been wrong. He'd fused?

How could the Fun God possibly choose to fuse with mory?

What did this an? Had eons of faith opposition ended today?

Followers on both sides had been at each other's throats for ages—and the two gods sitting on their Divine Thrones had shaken hands?

But if the Fun God truly intended this, why had he issued a divine decree during a trial ordering his followers to harvest mory's followers?

And if opposing faiths could fuse, then how did Aph Ros...

Wait!

Who said Aph Ros didn't count as a fusion? Even if its faith was two sides of one coin rather than a true rger, having two faith powers in one body was, in a sense, already a form of fusion.

But that opposition had evolved into genuine fusion in the Dragon King's case!

So the Existence era had shown the early signs of fusion, while the Void era had fully resolved the problem of opposing-faith fusion?

Was this why the gods had agreed to sign the Convention?

Had the Fun God used this breakthrough to persuade the gods into the Convention?

Was this a truth discovered by Truth, or a change ushered in by the Void era?

Cheng Shi's brain was mush.

Li Jingming didn't know Cheng Shi was pondering such lofty matters. Sensing his shock, he assud Cheng Shi was wondering how opposing faiths could coexist, so he smiled:

"I don't know how he convinced my Benefactor. But the fact is, I fused two opposing faiths."

Cheng Shi's expression beca spectacularly complex. He'd assud he was the one ahead of the curve—but looking back, Li Jingming had left mory and joined Deceit several days before he had.

'So the Dragon King really had been the Dragon King all along!'

Li Jingming read the bewildernt and gently shook his head:

"I wasn't as lucky as you might think. The fusion was a long process—so long that I endured a great deal of ridicule under the Deceit banner. It's only recently that Deceit's power has started manifesting in .

I finally understand now that this is what fusion is."

'Right—Hong Lin also ntioned that Li Jingming had only recently started impersonating people. So his fusion really was recent—even after Hong Lin's!'

"But then... why did you co to Deceit? Shouldn't faith fusion keep you in your original faith?"

"I don't know. But I suspect it was one of the Fun God's conditions.

He does enjoy making people into entertainnt, doesn't he?"

'Yes! Absolutely yes—that's utterly irrefutable.' But still...

Cheng Shi furrowed his brow: "You don't know? Didn't he tell you anything when he summoned you?"

Li Jingming recalled the audience and shook his head with a bitter smile: "He said sothing—but it was the sa as saying nothing.

He asked : 'Do you want to fuse a second faith?'

I said: 'Yes.'

And then the audience ended. My faith inexplicably switched to Deceit, but I had no Deceit talents at first—only my original mory talents.

God knows I never imagined I'd be fusing with Deceit."

"..." 'Your conversation was surprisingly straightforward. How co the Fun God wasn't this easygoing when he summoned ?!'

But regardless, it felt like the Dragon King had been played by the Fun God.

Mi Laozhang seed to have been played into it too.

The god just loved playing people.

Cheng Shi was numb. He pursed his lips:

"Fine. Since you've been so generous, I can't be stingy either. Go ahead—ask your questions.

You've been interrogating

nonstop. Now it's your turn.

Dragon King, make the most of this. I know far more than you'd expect."