No one knows what the so-called audience ceremony actually entails, or what kind of grand spectacle it is.

Players only know that the top ten players in the Ladder of Faith have the opportunity to be summoned by the gods and witness their true appearance on the first full year of the [Faith Game].

Therefore, the closer the time gets, the more frequently players pray for the trial. Players with low to mid-level scores know they have no hope and won't waste their energy at this time, but how could those top players who are just one step away from the finish line give up this opportunity to face the gods directly?

So they tried harder, and then became more and more disappointed.

Because even the most outstanding individuals are competing!

Even though some of the top ten players have already met with the gods, as one of the two most important leaderboards in the "Faith Game", no one would think that the audience with the Ladder of Audience would be as "ordinary" as a regular audience.

So during the three days Cheng Shi was away, the [Faith Game] was really lively.

However, all this excitement has nothing to do with the clown. You find it exciting, but I just find it noisy.

Cheng Shi really wanted to give himself some time to quietly sort out everything he had experienced, to do a review, and to lay a solid foundation for taking that unknown step into the future.

But some gods don't give him a chance at all; he can only be forced to move forward and drift with the tide, pushing open that door and arriving at the audience...

Um?

This doesn't seem to be the venue for the audience; it looks more like the backstage area.

Cheng Shi, who had been drawn here by the power of the void, narrowed his eyes and paused.

What lay before him was not a space resembling a meeting hall, but an endless void. Only before this void floated a layer of seemingly nonexistent, transparent curtain that appeared to be nonexistent but could actually be touched.

Behind that invisible and eerie curtain lies the true venue for the audience.

The venue was enormous; though it was called a venue, it was actually neither a field nor a piece of land.

Countless visible refracting threads pierced through the void, suspending countless enormous masks in the endless darkness.

Each thread is tied to a mask at a different angle, but the threads are so dense that they almost cover the entire void!

This scene is exactly the same as the masked wind chime that Cheng Shi saw before stepping through the door, except that the wind chime here is ridiculously large!

Each mask is an independent foothold. At this moment, six figures stand on different masks, looking at each other and observing their surroundings with trepidation and vigilance.

Their height decreased sequentially, just like their ranking on the Ladder of Audience, while the ten masked seats were like a spiral staircase winding around the center of the arena, except that no one occupied the top three seats or the bottom seat.

Cheng Shi silently watched everything before him, his eyelids twitching violently.

I guessed wrong.

This is the God of Joy! Even though he blindly rushed into the Gate of Destiny, he still ended up in the Place of Deception. Not only that, the Shadow Path that stepped into the Gate of Deception... also came here.

Cheng Shi never imagined that he would deeply understand what "different paths lead to the same destination" meant at this moment, as his deceitful benefactor had not given him a second choice.

The two doors He left wide open on the rooftop were clearly a joke!

"Ha, clown."

But I've gotten used to it.

Cheng Shi chuckled self-deprecatingly.

Fortunately, after the teasing comes the sweet reward. At least I didn't expect to appear in the audience hall like the others. But what does this curtain represent? Is it to let me hide behind the curtain and watch a good show?

Thinking this, Cheng Shi gradually moved closer to the curtain, quietly waiting for the "performance" to begin.

For the players inside the venue, their performance had already begun long ago.

Longjing was the first [Deception] believer to arrive at the venue. He knew that it would be difficult for him to surpass the Dragon King and Zhen Xin in the ranking on the ladder of audience, so he could only try to overtake them in terms of audience speed. So the moment the audience gate opened, he rushed in without hesitation.

Sure enough, he did it; he was the first person to arrive at the venue.

But that's not enough; it's not enough to show his piety. His personal piety is rather weak. If he could add some fun to his piety, he might receive more attention from the god of fun.

The more the God of Joy watches, the closer one gets to Him, and the greater one's contribution to the clown's various plans will be. He doesn't believe that his piety alone will not yield a single useful word from the God of Joy.

Having thought of this, Longjing suppressed his secret joy and secretly hid it away.

He hid beneath the highest masquerade platform, waiting to surprise Zhen Xin when she arrived and avenge his humiliation at the first clown gathering.

But he never expected that this wait would last until now.

Zhen Xin and Long Wang haven't arrived yet, nor has Cheng Shi. Instead, six swindlers have appeared on the field one after another.

The top con artists all knew each other, or at least had seen each other in various trials, so there was no greeting or familiarity between them, only wariness towards one another.

They understand their peers all too well, and they understand the art of making fun of others even more. Nobody wants to be the source of that fun in such an important setting.

In the past, if I was cheated by a colleague, I would just curse a few times and move on. But if I were cheated at a fraudulent audience...

Believe me, these fellow scammers will never let you get away with this.

Once the audience is over, you will become the greatest source of amusement in the world, at least for the time being!

Therefore, in order not to become the target of ridicule, every scammer is on high alert, trying to minimize their presence and avoid being attacked by the masses.

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