Apotheosis

Such a kind of odd thing was happening across the Source World.

Severed body parts lay scattered across the devastated area of the Bloom Divine Province. Some citizens were lucky enough to survive with limbs still attached, but they were broken, all the same.

Those who had lost limbs, however, didn't feel any pain. In fact, they found they could still control their severed body parts just like the hyena could.

An old man's body had been halved from the waist, but he could still feel his legs. When he controlled his legs to walk, he could see the severed limbs moving in the distance.

Cries of horror and confusion began to break out. "We must have been cursed!"

"How can we still be alive?"

The remaining creatures in the Source World wailed, aghast at their condition.

Whereas before, they could look to the Other Shore for the answers to some mysteries, this was completely unprecedented.

Meanwhile, the province where the Evil God was located had also been decimated by the needle, the black hall reduced to rubble.

When the huge needle fell down from above the Source World, its gargantuan size flattened the province evenly.

Most of the Holy Soul Realm warriors and Eternal Realm warriors in the black hall survived, however. They began to scramble out of the ruins.

Only one Holy Soul Realm warrior was killed and three were injured.

"The Source World has been destroyed, but we are still alive. Is it finally over?" a Holy Soul Realm warrior asked.

The Eternal Realm warrior next to him scoffed. "Dream on. In the past, at the end of a chaotic era, it wasn't the needle that killed people. The needle only broke the Source World. Now, we're actually in the chaos and no longer under any protection of the Source World. When that last thunder rolls again, we're doomed."

An air of gloom descended over them. He was correct. The Source World had been destroyed and could no longer protect them.

Just then, a Holy Soul Realm warrior not far away began sputtering loudly, "Look! What a strange phenomenon!"

He was one of the three injured Holy Soul Realm warriors. One of his arms had been severed and lay hundreds of feet away from him.

"What phenomenon?" an Eternal Realm wa

f the Source World!" Duran exclaimed.

"Because the Source World hasn't collapsed," the real Evil God said with a faint smile.

"How could you say that?" The Grandmaster of Heaven pointed at the horizon, where a huge crack merged desolately with the chaos.

"It is not what it seems," the Evil God said dismissively. "Watch."

The Evil God stretched out his hand.

With a flick of his wrist, pieces of the broken landscape began to move.

Pebbles gathered together until they reformed into boulders. Trees, mountains, rivers all returned smoothly to their original state.

Everything within a hundred miles were restored to their previous condition. The ruins had all disappeared. It was as if the needle had missed the area.

The Grandmaster of Heaven could hardly believe it. "How did you do that? That's astounding!" he gasped.

"I activated the Restriction Field as the needle shot towards the Source World. It can resist any hit, protecting everything therein," the Evil God replied.

"That's amazing!" Duran exclaimed.

"Doing so, I discovered something new about the Restriction Field," the Evil God went on, motioning to the distance. "After being hit by the needle, many fragments of the Source World erupted into the chaos. Those materials are still within the Restriction Field."

"What does that mean?" the Grandmaster of Heaven asked.

"It means that the further those fragments go, the bigger the Source World would be," the Evil God replied.