WHOOOOOOOOOOOOSH—BOOOOOOOOM!
The hundred-foot-wide pillar of pure golden light erupted from Pei Xuan’s crown at the fifty-mile core, raced straight up the vertical shaft of the Dry-Well Abyssal Elevator, passed right through the middle of the crashed Star-Fortress at the thirty-mile mark, and burst out of the original Sweet-Spring Spirit Well in the central historical courtyard of Dry-Well City!
Up on the surface of the Red-Sand Wastes, millions of citizens walking along the bustling streets, riding the Double-Decker Spirit-Buses, and eating hotpot in the open-air plazas stopped in their tracks and looked up at the sky.
As that golden beam punched ten thousand feet into the clouds above Dry-Well City, it didn’t fade away. Instead, it spread outward across the heavens like a gigantic golden umbrella, turning the sky over the entire Central Continent, the Southern Demon Lands, the Eastern Endless Sea, and the Northern Ice Wastes a brilliant, warm, shimmering gold!
High in the sky, golden clouds automatically formed into a ten-thousand-mile-wide auspicious vision: a giant Golden Well, a Steaming Iron Wok, a Spinning Golden Abacus, and a Black-Gold Brick hovering above a peaceful, bustling town!
Across all four continents and oceans, over a billion humans, wolf-kin, fox-folk, shark-men, mermaids, and frost-giants felt a warm, comforting heartbeat echo up through the soles of their shoes straight from the center of the earth.
