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.

in the Source

I can't believe

be

Evil God had killed the Yellow Thearch and the Divine Farmer. The Source World and its countless creatures

"The divine land, restore!"

"The Ruin Graveyard, restore!"

"The Other Shore, restore!"

"The chaos, restore!"

"The chaotic energy, restore!"

Chaos Ancient Gods, restore!" Zen brought

in the ecosystem of the world. Zen, however, saw no need to bring back the Burial Land, the downgrader,

recreating the bodies of the Primeval Lord of Heaven, the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, Ziya, the real Snake Goddess, the real Fuxi, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Zhurong, Gonggong, and the real Emperor Charm then infusing them with their energy souls. They materialized in the fairy

Zen proceeded to bring back Chiyou and the Nine Li race. Even

Ziya, for one, clearly remembered dying in the fourth-grade world. Now, he suddenly found himself in the fairy palace. Everyone was caught in a state of bewilderment. It took some time before it finally sank in, and for the joyful revelries to

was three days before Zen could hold a banquet

thousand people showed up

were Yasamin and Flamine, who busied themselves

banquet was held in the Bloom Divine

the various provinces traveled thousands of miles from across the Source World to attend. Nearly a hundred

years later, Zen had six new children, three boys and three

at peace for the next three

day, Zen was at the top of the Deep

stared thoughtfully at the gray soil before him, hands behind his

past thirty years, he had studied the gray soil closely. Based on his memories, Clarence had

any other human, had an

had created Mastema, but now he

between the

to freedom, it just

limits to what Zen and his loved ones could pursue. However, none of these pursuits made him

more time on the gray

search had proved futile

Zen sighed.

sat cross-legged in the air, hovering in deep thought

noticed a thin black crack