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.
"Are we back in the Source World?"
"Oh, my God! I can't believe it!"
"It must be a miracle!"
Zen had chosen to bring everything back to 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 existence as if nothing had changed.
"The divine land, restore!"
"The Ruin Graveyard, restore!"
"The Other Shore, restore!"
"The chaos, restore!"
"The chaotic energy, restore!"
"The six Chaos Ancient Gods, restore!" Zen brought everything back in quick succession.
He recognized that even the chaos and the chaotic energy 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 Spirit King. They were better off in oblivion.
Zen waved his hand, 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 palace.
Then Zen proceeded to bring back Chiyou and the Nine Li race. Even restoring people from different eras like that proved no difficulty for him.
People were shell-shocked upon resurrection. 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 begin.
It was three days before Zen could hold a banquet in the fairy palace.
Nearly a thousand people showed up to join the celebrations.
Among them were Yasamin and Flamine, who busied themselves all throughout dinner playing matchmaker for Zen.
Hence, three months later, a grand wedding banquet was held in the Bloom Divine Province of the Source World.
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