With the Six Gods surrendering their power, this meaningless war of the New Earth finally came to an end.
The worlds were still merging, but under Li Aoz's leadership, the Celestial Mountain Conference—now formed by eight Path Sovereigns rather than six—jointly controlled the shaping of order in the New Earth.
By Li Aoz's command, the divine race shed their porcelain skin and reincarnated as humans. Those who had already been deified were forcibly inducted into the Celestial Mountain Conference as members of the New World Joint Defense Department, serving the people of the world.
The New Earth was still nominally called Earth, but it had diverged greatly from the prototype of Earth Zero.
More magic, technology, races, and cultures From the Star Abyss gradually blended into Earth, and people's lives began to change.
Perhaps people had once only needed to dig silver mines in Mexico, but now they had to face the threats of all kinds of magical monsters. Militias and professional armies were too costly, so some genius came up with a bounty hunter brokerage platform that introduced capable supernatural beings—those unable to enter the military but more than sufficient for civilian work—to hunt monsters.
Gradually, those platforms grew larger and became standardized. Later, because "bounty hunter" sounded too unpleasant and too easily evoked the hunting of wanted criminals, while more and more fusion points appeared across Earth and hunting monsters felt like an adventure, they simply became known as the Adventurers' Guild.
With the arrival of the two new Paths, faith in Void and Illusory Dragon also spread across Earth. The original Six Gods could no longer dominate alone. The pie was only so large, and in their struggle for influence and faith, the once-united Six Gods began to fall into infighting.
Morphedria and Lai Anding both set