Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave

The chaos remained empty, save for the fairy palace and the black ship.

Restoring a secondary world was a simple matter for Zen, but he needed to maintain order and decide what to revive and what no longer needed to be revived.

"The Pear Hill!"

Splash!

Loose earth and rubble gathered back together into boulders and land forms.

Trees and plants sprouted from the soil and grew rapidly.

Buildings rose from the ground until entire cities were made whole again.

The human race, the Snake Goddess race, all manner of creatures, great and small, were resurrected in a flash.

The Pear Hill had been destroyed not by the downgrading, but because of the erosion of the Extreme Form energies and the invasion of the Troubled Creatures from the Burial Land.

The newly revived creatures were thus still so gripped by fear of the already vanquished Troubled Creatures that they just milled around warily.

Zen nodded to the Snake Goddess. "It's your turn," he said.

"Okay."

The Snake Goddess' eyes lit up. The Pear Hill meant everything to her. She had been devastated to see it destroyed. But now it had been revived, so had her zest for life.

Whoosh!

In a flash, the Snake Goddess stood on the jadeite platform.

"My dear people, the worst is over for the Pear Hill!"

The people in the Pear Hill were unaware of what had happened, but they began to realize that the Troubled Creatures had disappeared. The Snake Goddess' words were the final assurance to put them at ease.

What happened next still left them too dumbfounded to celebrate, however. "Source World, restore!"

Zen had revived the Source World. And the Pear Hill was returned to its original place in it!

The inhabitants of the Pear Hill gasped as a blue cover reappeared in the clear sky above them.

back in the

God! I can't believe

must be a

the way it was after the Evil God had killed the Yellow Thearch and the Divine Farmer. The Source World and its countless creatures now continued on with

"The divine land, restore!"

"The Ruin Graveyard, restore!"

"The Other Shore, restore!"

"The chaos, restore!"

"The chaotic energy, restore!"

Gods, restore!" Zen brought everything back

played an important role in the ecosystem of the world. Zen, however, saw no need to bring back the Burial Land, the downgrader, or the Snake

the real Fuxi, Eastern Emperor

Li race. Even restoring

palace. Everyone was caught in a state of bewilderment. It took some time before it finally sank in, and for the joyful revelries

was three days before Zen could hold a banquet

thousand people showed up to join

Flamine, who busied themselves all throughout dinner playing matchmaker for

banquet was held in the

provinces traveled thousands of miles from across the Source World to attend.

new

and completely at peace for the

day, Zen was at the top of the

the gray soil

had studied the gray soil closely.

other human, had an infinite desire for

had created Mastema, but

between the World

choice or challenge to freedom, it just started to feel like a

there had been no limits to what Zen and

the gray

proved futile

Zen sighed.

cross-legged in the air, hovering in deep thought over the gray

noticed a thin black crack